#206

Calgary is the only city outside the UK I’ve been in 2020. Even by Canadian standards it’s pretty dull, and not helped by the fact that it can be insanely cold. It was -19 the first morning I was there, but it had been minus fucking 38 a few days before.

On the plus side it’s close to Banff which may be the most beautiful place on earth.

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#207

Vancouver is great but the cost of living is staggering. My cousin owns a poky bungalow which is worth the equivalent of 1.5 million pounds.

#208

serial emigrator here and its going to happen again several times minimum in my life, pretty much for sure

starting to think about it now and think one of the more interesting bits of west africa might be the next step

hoping to live in marseille or around that bit of europe at some stage, if i can swing it. western europe in general is the nicest corner of the world, for my tastes, and i get on better with french culture than eg italy or spain

definitely can’t swing it without some serious life changes but vancouver and the pacific northwest in the us in general sounds like a special place

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#209

ps get rid of all the australian men, except the hippies, and replace them with people from everywhere else, and then i’ll take melbourne

#210

20th century copycats don’t count

#211

Still available :ring: if anyone wants that sweet, sweet :maple_leaf: visa

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#212

Dinner?

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#213

Hi twentynine you have really nice eyes. Has anyone told you that? Lovely eyes.

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#214

the us really does have some of this stuff down, the luxuries i mean

#215

Do you have Wegmans by you? I would move just for Wegmans.

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#216

not close enough for it to be worth going there. don’t think i’ve been in one actually

it has a load of negative consequences for sure, but the massive houses that people seem to have even in cities are hard to even dream of in the uk. seen this fairly centrally in austin, detroit, even compton was a bit like that (sort of)

nyc is not included in the above

#217

Want to move

But lazy

Tricky

#218

Yeah property is crazy in general. My wife grew up in a small town near Rochester NY, her parents house was a four bed colonial style, two-car garage, big plot of land, in a beautiful suburban neighbourhood, in one of the best school districts in the state, and when they sold it a few years ago it went for a fraction of what our two-bed flat in zone 2 cost.

Of course, that would mean living in Rochester NY, which is fine, but I’m not sure what exactly we’d do there. I love Boston, but property there is about as insane as London and NY. No easy answers. Glad we got having kids out of the way here though, that’s saved a lot of cash.

#219

yeah its mad. and kind of brilliant as well. would love to have that option of going to live in these cheap upstate towns with a load of land when you’re done with the city thing. was in ithaca recently, and hudson too, all of that could be class at a certain point in your life, if you could swing it

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#220
  1. Israel, Jerusalem
  2. Yes
  3. It’s possible
  4. Hope not. Getting sick of this shit
#221

The Finger Lakes are a lovely part of the world.

#222

i guess this is for religious reasons or something related? one of my favourite cities, if you can even use that kind of terminology for a special place like that

#223

Canada or New Zealand. Throw me in any small, quiet, affordable town that’s close to nature and isn’t due for a devastating earthquake. Maybe somewhere in Nova Scotia or New Brunswick?

Vancouver is too expensive and with The Big One overdue I’d like to leave the PNW in general. Quebec City is beautiful but I don’t speak French. Banff would be wonderful if I weren’t afraid of grizzlies.

Definitely - even before the pandemic I’d lost all confidence in the US’s future and started spending too much time looking into Canada’s points system. The chance of moving to New Zealand is the ONLY situation I’d ever consider getting on a plane for, especially now given their pandemic response vs. ours.

On the other hand, it also seems like an overwhelmingly stressful pain and may just be a daydream.

This would be a problem unless my wife got hired somewhere. I’m mad at myself for not having tried to get in when I had an in demand technical career.

The pandemic response the US has had makes me feel like staying here is insane, even post-pandemic (if we ever get there, but our government seems to be actively trying to kill us). It feels like we’re all lying to ourselves that everything is going to be ok. After the initial stress of the move, I think I’d feel much more comfortable elsewhere.

#224

Lived out there for religious reasons, getting in contact with my ‘inner Jew’, but no, I just love it. In terms of religious history, yes it’s unparalleled, yet I love the overall frenetic vibe of the city, especially the old town, the diversity, the vibrant cafe and restaurant scene and the food scene in general. Just everything. What a city. Other than Naples (could not live there), I’ve never been to a city that is so alive.

#225

yeah, right. i mean the city itself overall is a good’un, from what i saw, but the old city was magic

it is a place i would be able to work fairly easily and have thought about it a lot as a next step, but in my line of work it would be doing humanitarian stuff, and other people doing the same thing tell me that its weird living between those two worlds. seems like a downside but still very tempted. hits the spot in that mixture of cultural interest, not too spic and span, but also not a total mess of a place like karachi or somewhere. and not boring.