Home is in a different timezone + I rent a non-furnished place. That’s really the issue with renting furnished, you can’t easily move.
You mean that renting furnished makes it easier to move right?
Yeah, I miswrote!
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#222To hijack this thread, has anyone moved places in the same city to decrease their rent? In SF right now rents are taking a pretty big dip and I’m thinking about moving apartment.
I just signed a lease with my roommate down the street from my current place, similar amenities in downtown Chicago. Old: 915 sqft, 2 bd, 1.5 ba, $3000/month, $300 / mo parking. New: 1400 sqft, 2 bd, 2ba, $2800/month, free parking. Our current place made us an offer at $2650 a month due to decreased demand.
Wow. Must be a nice place. I used to live in a super nice 1br for 1300/month in Chicago 4y ago.
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It definitely exists. Living in an Austin suburb now with most all of those features. It was even more so as a kid in Utah, but it was much more intertwined with the locally dominant religious group, so would be harder to replicate more generally.
I should have said, I doubt it exists for non-religious people. America's well known for its cults.
Religious flamewar is not allowed here. Please don't post it.
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Close to 40 here. Have these experiences, you'll regret it later if you don't. There will be plenty of solitude later.
I've actually had a ton of these the past few years in the city. Of course more dates are always welcome. Figure maybe 1 year of living clean and reducing the stimuli in the late 20s could be good.
Yes for sure, it's not up to me to tell you how to live. You do you. And sure, don't date if you don't feel like it.
But don't isolate. Your 20s are the "last" period where its easy to make friends. After that people have a more settled life, have children, have more responsibilities, move away. So just don't postpone meeting interesting people.
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Just wanted to touch on some of what you said, as I took a year to recoup from burnout in a fairly small-sized town... Saving money, and having "time" are great, but at least for me the people in small towns live very different lives. The pace is slow and it's easy to become complacent. Compounding that is by not following the pace of life there, you're going against the grain and it will cause friction in your life.…
I get what both you and GP are saying, but isn't there some middle ground? I was thinking of something along the same lines and was fearing pretty much the points you have raised. However, I'm currently living in Paris, France. So in this particular situation, instead of moving to some small town in the middle of nowhere, I could move to some town in the suburbs. That would be far enough for it to be much quieter and…
I've been trying to find a middle ground myself, but haven't yet... I dare to dream. At least in the US, 100km doesn't generally get you a ton of meaningful savings from urban areas especially like SF or NY where their suburbs/sprawl extends for probably twice that range. Where it really gets me is on those days where you somehow just work late and lose track of time, it's 11:00 p.m. and there's literally nothing open not even a grocery store. Or you need something, but it's over three hours of driving one-way or a week via an online retailer (prime, for example, is only two days in dense urban areas).
I also live in a pretty progressive bubble here in the states that makes me particular hard to re-home somewhere. I won't live places where my tax dollars fund unfettered fuckery (like that going on in Arizona, Texas, Florida, etc).
I've been thinking maybe there are some small/mid-sized cities with somewhat busy regional airports so cheap flights in/out are possible. Long drives just wear one down after a while and start to change how one behaves, it's weird and subtle. Flights are almost always easier/faster than driving and give you some time back since you can, if you want to, do something on the plane.
Maybe other folks don't feel it as much, but all those subtle things that slow you down really add up over time. With covid altering our lives for the foreseeable future, perhaps isolation seems more reasonable or acceptable now (making it easier to just focus)... I'd say give it a try, and if you figure out a good process for it, please let me know :)