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I would like to live someplace prettier, and maybe smaller and more accessible. But not a small town, maybe a smaller city? Doesn't have to be the US, but needs to be temperate climate, good food, and a large body of water nearby.
Waves welcomingly from 300 miles south.
I would consider living in PDX or London. While there are people I love very much in the L.A. area, the sun and heat make it not a possibility.
Fuck fuck fuck, this weekend is going to get fired. The person who was going to be hosting/cooking my birthday dinner badly threw out his back, so new plans have to be figured.
That's a minor annoyance. The weekend is REALLY getting fired because a dear friend of mine just admitted that their partner is physically abusive, so there are a group of us working on getting them out of there.
No one else gets to have a crisis, okay? Please?
My ready answer is Tucson -- I like the desert, and the desert heat, and culturally there's a lot of compatible cool stuff going on there. But I also liked Vermont a whole lot the times I've been up there, so if you wave a wand and give me fundage, I'll spend winter/spring in AZ and summer/fall in VT.
Waves welcomingly from 300 miles south.
Right now I'm kinda working within the constraints of "anywhere my office has a location with jobs I actually want to do." I'm not sure where I'd end up if was all pie in the sky and didn't need to make monies.
Melbourne is actually pretty damn close to my ideal. There are good reasons it keeps topping livability lists. If I didn't have to work in the city, maybe I'd move out to the Dandenongs so we'd have more wildlife nearby.
There's also Canberra, but right now it's overly fraught with family drama.
If money was no object, I'd split my time between SF and Toronto. Near water, diverse culture, theater & film opportunities, excellent food, and near family.
M & I have a pipe dream of opening up a Mexican place in TO, drawing heavily on our connections here. He says we'd make a mint.
Rassenfrassen CSC upgrades messing up my computer. Try to replicate timed out, erased post...
Right now I'm kinda working within the constraints of "anywhere my office has a location with jobs I actually want to do." I'm not sure where I'd end up if was all pie in the sky and didn't need to make monies.
Rather more than 300 miles away, but you'd certainly be welcome! And while I don't believe we have a branch of your particular Evil Empire, we do have several other EE's between Downtown, North County, and Sorrento Valley, etc.
Boston's the city I like the most, but I'd have to give up on the idea of driving and probably live in a studio apartment smaller than my current bedroom to make ends meet. Also, the distance from family would really suck.
The essay turned out to be an essay for the Advanced Placement English test, if I understood it right. The student is Nepali, so she was struggling with the grammar on top of the usual mistakes young writers make. Nothing wrong with her ideas or the structure of her arguments, though. She seemed to think I'd been helpful (all that workshopping and betaing fan fiction may have taught me something) and asked if I was going to be available most Fridays, so I think I passed.