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So where would you move?
Austin
15% (2 votes)
Anchorage
23% (3 votes)
Miami
0% (0 votes)
Chicago
23% (3 votes)
Providence
15% (2 votes)
San Fransicso
15% (2 votes)
Los Angeles
8% (1 vote)
Total votes: 13
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The Deal
So, I'm leaving Portland. I'm going to load a moving truck, stop off at the parents' house for a week long vacation, and then pick a city. I've got friends in these cities who have encouraged me to take their hospitality and relocate there. I'm leaning towards one of them, so this is an unscientific poll, but the opinions of my peers intrigue me. I will let everyone know where I end up and when. I will arrive in my new home before Halloween. Thanks for your kindness and encouragement.
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Sorry about the double comment....slow connection + repeated clicking = idiocy.
Good Luck, Ace!!!
Good Luck, Ace!!!
thank you
thanks for the kind words. I know that I will be fine in any of these cities. My biggest concern is the U-Haul journey---its been about 20 months since I've operated a 4-wheel motor vehicle (I'm a scooter dude these days). I used to drive a truck for a living, but I really don't relish the thought of 5 days of 65+mph highway driving all alone with rusty skills.
I chose San Francisco
West Coast. Urban. Near the outdoors. My preferred climate. I don't know if I could tolerate all the preciousness and smugness. I don't know if I could afford it. But I'd be willing to find out.
preciousness and smugness?
My friend, I live in Portland. I don't know if there is a place with more preciousness and smugness. I mean, Seattle and SF, yeah....but there attitude is based upon living in an actual city, not a hipster town with a self inflated sense of importance. But hey, we got Johnny Marr to live here, so Portland must be the vanguard of America...right? right? Yeah, me neither.
I went with Anchorage
I went with Anchorage because the skiing is likely to be a hell of a lot better, the climate is more appealing, and it isn't full of Communists.
The A-K
The former other half of Soylent Gringo is a current Alaskan--this season he's up in Dutch Harbor, building a runway of some sort. He's got a pad in Anchorage and he can hook me up with one of those silly "$55K for 6 months of working 84 hours a week" jobs. The downside is that I'd have to live out a winter in Alaska to get in line for the job. I'm from New England, which means I'm no stranger to winter, (and if i rightly assume, you are in an even frostier locale), but he's warned me that aside from video games, DvD rentals, and seamy bars full of angry men, there isn't much to do up there. Call me an effete urban brat (go ahead, I pretty much am), but I'm not quite emotionally prepared to be bored all the time...yet.
The poll option that I've left off is Chapel Hill, due to my still pending reconciliation with the former and future Ms. Fantastik--she's from NC and would love to relocate there (and I wouldn't terribly mind), but since we've been splitsville for 7 months and have yet to fully reunite, I don't see moving there without her. On a happier note, she is encouraging me to go to Austin, and she let slip that if I go there, she will aim in that direction as well. Hooray!
Providence
Relatively inexpensive, though becoming less so, chock full of cool arty types (and Communists), and I never felt in any way threatened or in danger walking the streets there at any time of night or day. The nearby beaches are great, which you can reach by ferry, and it's about an hour from Boston, 3 hours from NYC.
The problem with Providence
I like Providence, but I can see a couple downsides:
1. It is only about 25 miles from my hometown, which makes the unannounced drop by visit from the parents a scary reality--and they are the type to do so.
2. I'm lucky enough to have avoided the thick chowd accent, and as we know, it is even worse in RI than in Boston. I may stab my own eardrums out after just a week there.
On the plus side, Sox and Pats news would rule my television. I know that I can get my fix on the Internet, but aside from paying hundreds of dollars a month for super-duper cable tv, I can't get NESN out here. I miss the Rem-dog.
Well, I initially went with
Well, I initially went with Anchorage, without knowing a damned thing about it. But... you know... maybe just perhaps you might find something to like in Los Angeles. I hate to advocate for my hometown but honestly, this place is so fucking large that you can probably find a lot of good as well as a lot of bad.
People hate LA, but... I dunno. It can be a pretty fuckin' cool place.
I will admit that it can be hard to find the cool parts. But I'm here to help. In the meantime, hey, why not go to Alaska and work your dick off to make a boatload of money?
I'm no expert...
... but wouldn't you think LA would have more opportunities for a hustler?
moderation is the key
If I work my dick off this year, my future career as a gigolo is over.
Well...
That depends, I think.
I chose Providence because
I chose Providence because that's where ~I~ would move to. It's close to some of my family (in CT) and I love the area, nature-wise. Truth be told I'd prefer Lyme CT, if I could afford it.
If I had to choose where YOU would move, I'd suggest LA, based on what you're looking for (better weather, more options for jobs and entertainment, less precious) but it's expensive to be sure. Austin, on the other hand, isn't, but it's in Texas and there's just no way around that.
OMG L.A.
this is what I get for not visiting Predicate (as opposed to #predicate) for like...two months.
I said "San Francisco" 'cause I already live in L.A., and because SF really /is/ great, from my [relatively limited] time there. Also the weather is nice. On the other hand, hippies.
Much of L.A. is stupid expensive - or just stupid - but on the whole, I'm fairly content with it, having moved here absolutely blindly from New Orleans six years ago. "Blindly" meaning never lived here before, never even visited, and not knowing anyone.
Anyway, we're having halloween festivities at my place, in case you happen to be in the neighborhood, so to speak. You have to be free the weekend before, and you have to be down dressing up like a robot dressed up as a [pirate/cowboy/ballerina/fireman/whatever] because we're doing a Group Humiliation Outing saturday night.
Cheers to wherever you end up, and get back in the damn IRC channel, fool.