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Soul Dentist posted:Atlanta is actually worse I think. Not from there but I've driven all these places and hoo boy I'd take DC or *shudder* Boston over Atlanta as a driving city My dad lived in Georgia for the last decade and I hated driving through Atlanta to get to his place a lot more than here in Chicago. The traffic didn't seem as consistent as Chicago's but even when the roads were moving it felt like everyone there was always willing to die to get where they're going 1 car length faster.
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SerthVarnee posted:Sweden is nice this time of year. Everyone speaks English here, you can quite literally spend your entire life in Sweden without speaking a lick of Swedish and get by just fine (Getting a job at a non multi-national is a different matter though).
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Dum Cumpster posted:My dad lived in Georgia for the last decade and I hated driving through Atlanta to get to his place a lot more than here in Chicago. The traffic didn't seem as consistent as Chicago's but even when the roads were moving it felt like everyone there was always willing to die to get where they're going 1 car length faster. A few months of it taking 30 minutes to go a mile will quickly have you wanting to ride the fury road shiny and chrome.
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Chicago traffic is not as bad as advertised, but so many highways and interstates converge there that people just have to bitch about it. I'd rather be launched into the sun in a Tesla than drive in Atlanta again, though. But I also refuse to set foot in Florida again, so maybe it's a persisting anti-southern thing I've got going.
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My in-laws live in GA. My wife won’t drive any of the interstates when we visit. An entire metro area completely dependent on a car to get anywhere, seemingly in love with car culture, and completely hosed by it simultaneously.
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Defenestrategy posted:A few months of it taking 30 minutes to go a mile will quickly have you wanting to ride the fury road shiny and chrome. I certainly felt more comfortable the last few times I drove down there with my V8 and not in a rental car the size of my engine. Also I probably just know how/when to avoid the poo poo up here better.
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Thwomp posted:My in-laws live in GA. My wife won’t drive any of the interstates when we visit. As an Atlantian, its pretty bad but not much worse than anywhere else I've driven in the country.
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LtCol J. Krusinski posted:Yeah I can’t afford English speaking Europe, presumably. Malta isn't a bad option. efb
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Thwomp posted:My in-laws live in GA. My wife won’t drive any of the interstates when we visit. The rural outlying areas arguably worse. He was outside Gainesville and after totaling both his cars and being unable to get his rear end anywhere to buy another the finally realized "maybe I SHOULD finally move back up by my kid/grandkids?"
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CommieGIR posted:As an Atlantian, its pretty bad but not much worse than anywhere else I've driven in the country. Atlanta seems comparable to Denver, honestly, until you account for heat, humidity, and southern hospitality brought out by heat and humidity and being packed on a highway like sardines in a can.
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idk I went bay area to hawaii to LA so anywhere that isn't those spots is like, way chill to me. just go live in the places with the most horrific traffic and get desensitized* hth *don't do this
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Mmmm. No thanks. Y'all can have the city poo poo. A traffic jam out here is two semis going the same direction on US 160 doing 5mph under the limit. Definitely lots of road shrapnel out here though, I'll be paying for the warranty on my next set of tires. So many loving nails out here in the high desert.
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I use a row of political compass to judge a place's drivers where one axis is MILD -- AGGRO and the other axis is IDIOT -- SKILLED. Like in Kentucky, drivers aren't very skilled or tactical, but they're also pretty mild and okay with just kinda going with the flow. In NYC drivers are aggressive, but it's like watching a ballet and bumper to bumper traffic can move 60 mph on the FDR. I love this, personally. Then there's Connecticut or Atlanta drivers, who will do anything to move one car length forward, but have no idea what the dimensions of their vehicle are and are also doing their nails and jacking off at the same time. Atlanta moves the Overton window towards AGGRO IDIOT
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psydude posted:Depends on where you were, maybe? I was staying at a hotel right in downtown Seattle that was a block away from a pretty large open-air drug market and there were a lot of people smoking fentanyl, shooting up heroin, etc. in broad daylight. But I also went to my buddy's house up in Ballard and there were tents all along the sidewalk in a few areas, so it's more widespread than just downtown. A lot of Downtown is in rough shape, especially since the pandemic started and most people started working from home. Locals are way more likely to do stuff in one of the neighborhoods, like Ballard that you visited. You'll see people living in tents in various other parts of the city, until a solution for affordable housing is found I don't think any US city is going to improve too much anytime soon. WA offers me a majority of the things that would have motivated me to move to somewhere in Europe. I've always lived in the city in WA, so I've never had to deal with highway traffic on a daily basis here so honestly that doesn't even come to mind when I think about living around a big(ish) city. I'm pretty lucky that I can easily use Seattle's light rail to get around from where I live. The natural scenery here in WA is so unbelievably beautiful that I could be having an awful day and getting a view of Mount Rainier, the Cascades, the Olympics, or the Puget Sound will drastically improve my mood.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Atlanta seems comparable to Denver, honestly, until you account for heat, humidity, and southern hospitality brought out by heat and humidity and being packed on a highway like sardines in a can. Yeah, I hate the heat and humidity, but housing is more affordable than Denver 
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Notahippie posted:Roz from Well There's Your Problem had a good take on Twitter - aside from the general gently caress the bosses standpoint, the issue about overruling a strike is that nobody wants to take the job because the conditions are so poo poo, and if they don't fix how poo poo the conditions are then there's not going to be anybody to replace the rail workers who are aging out and retiring. He gives the railways about 5 years to unfuck the situation and build a pipeline of new trainees before it collapses. I'm curious about this as well as I would expect my union to support them if they do. If they get any traction with the teamsters and Longshore, since this could easily happen to them as well, it would be very interesting. Their industry has the same problem mine does, noone wants to do a poo poo job when work from home is a thing and the money and stress is just not worth it. Theres a huge skills and interest in doing poo poo jobs gap in the labor force as a whole with the boomers finally retiring. Edit: I'm assuming a railroad strike brings in the TTD which would be big. lightpole fucked around with this message at 23:03 on Nov 29, 2022 |
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A.o.D. posted:Malta isn't a bad option. Eeh. Malta has catastrophic air quality, a corruption problem that would make Italy blush, bad schools, private health care is a must if you actually use it, non-functional masstransit, very high density outside Gozo, the highest car ownership in Europe and correspondingly bad traffic, etc. But it is cheap. Not as cheap as it used to be, and the economy is apparently turning bad now after the boom years, but still cheaper than most. One of my childhood friends lives there and we exchange complaints now and again. Everywhere has its sides, but Malta always looked more like a rich man's city-state/playground than most places to me. Even in spite of the language barrier I'd bet on Italy or Spain for life quality before Malta. Then there's the rest of the Med including Greece and Croatia, and Portugal if we're talking about comparable cheapness
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CommieGIR posted:Yeah, I hate the heat and humidity, but housing is more affordable than Denver Denver being expensive is why I went to the Springs. Then the Springs got stupid expensive so now I'm out in the middle of nowhere. Even a shithole studio is $1k/mo in the Springs now. When I moved there it was more like $550-600/mo for a shithole studio, in 2016. But it's nice out here. Quiet. Dark. I don't regret moving here, I just wish the local weed shops were cheaper (easily 2-4x the prices of Pueblo for no good reason besides captive customers).
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ThisIsJohnWayne posted:Everywhere has its sides, but Malta always looked more like a rich man's city-state/playground than most places to me. Even in spite of the language barrier I'd bet on Italy or Spain for life quality before Malta. Then there's the rest of the Med including Greece and Croatia, and Portugal if we're talking about comparable cheapness Agreed. If I were to recommend a place for an American to move to, it would probably be Valencia or somewhere in Portugal. Both are culturally similar to the US in their approach to life (this poo poo matters long term - my "honeymoon's over" moment was being screamed at by a German for recycling mein Glas am Sonntag), and many Americans already speak some Spanish. Portuguese is kind of like if Spanish were horribly mispronounced, but I think most folks could figure it out. Spain's got a great healthcare system and the best rail system in Europe (I love pointing this out to my German friends). And of course the food is great. psydude fucked around with this message at 23:06 on Nov 29, 2022 |
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Oathkeepers trial verdicts are in and should be coming out shortly. E: Rhodes and Meggs guilty, other three not guilty. CRUSTY MINGE fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Nov 29, 2022 |
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Denver being expensive is why I went to the Springs. Then the Springs got stupid expensive so now I'm out in the middle of nowhere. Even a shithole studio is $1k/mo in the Springs now. When I moved there it was more like $550-600/mo for a shithole studio, in 2016. Yeah its hard to beat a 3600 sq/ft house with plenty of garage space and room for my cars/lab. But I would move back west in a heartbeat, miss being up near Cheyenne. https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/oath-keeper-stewart-rhodes-found-guilty-seditious-conspiracy-1234638450/ Get wreckt, Rhodes. CommieGIR fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Nov 29, 2022 |
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Yeah but you can beat the utility bills. Southern 2x4 uninsulated construction is fine about 6 months of the year, but those summer highs and winter lows sting more when the bill comes. I hated that about Memphis. Cold snap would roll in and my combined utility bill would skyrocket.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Mmmm. No thanks. Y'all can have the city poo poo. A traffic jam out here is two semis going the same direction on US 160 doing 5mph under the limit. No kidding, I literally got a flat just on the other side of the border in Kansas on 160 when I was driving cross-county earlier this year. Turned out to be part of a loving car key.
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Defenestrategy posted:Alright, I'm gonna run up in here and present a story and a question about this. It's actually a whole massive orchestrated propaganda/influence campaign, the primary thrust of which began when Sinclair Broadcast Group bought most Seattle-area TV and radio news operations in 2013-2014 when they started buying up local news operations around the country en masse, seemingly in preparation for the 2015 election cycle: Wikipedia posted:A 2019 study in the American Political Science Review found that "stations bought by Sinclair reduce coverage of local politics, increase national coverage and move the ideological tone of coverage in a conservative direction relative to other stations operating in the same market." The company has been criticized by journalists and media analysts for requiring its stations to broadcast packaged video segments and its news anchors to read prepared scripts that contain pro-Trump editorial content, including warnings about purported "fake news" in mainstream media, while Trump has tweeted support for watching Sinclair over CNN and NBC. In 2019, local television station KOMO produced a documentary entitled “Seattle is Dying,” laying out a narrative arguing that an escalating homeless crisis was responsible for the downfall of the city’s downtown core. The "Seattle Is Dying" catchphrase and narrative was rapidly adopted and recycled throughout conservative media. There is a significant increase in homelessness, but it's mostly the product of the 2008 financial crisis and the massive surge in rent after every tech nerd in America moved here to work. . SPD also deliberately echoes the language from this report in their media statements and is very happy to be quoted in Seattle Is Dying narratives. However, crime is actually down, by the numbers. Needless to say, the George Floyd protests in summer 2020 were painted as symbols not of a revitalized civil rights movement pushing back against police abuse of power, but of further indicators that Seattle is an "anarchist jurisdiction" where the rule of law no longer holds sway.  It's really very nice here, but the effects of rampant inequality are only getting worse the higher the cost of living gets, and the Seattle Is Dying narrative is doing a lot of work on behalf of real estate developers and property owners as they fight attempts to house actual homeless people. It's all horribly cynical. On the upside... you know who the streets aren't safe for? This guy: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/seattle-police-respond-to-viral-video-of-man-wearing-swastika-getting-punched/ Kesper North fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Nov 30, 2022 |
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https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1597718768083521536 SUCK MY DICK YOU FUCKMAN
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Kesper North posted:It's really very nice here, but the effects of rampant inequality are only getting worse the higher the cost of living gets, and the Seattle Is Dying narrative is doing a lot of work on behalf of real estate developers and property owners as they fight attempts to house actual homeless people. It's all horribly cynical. I get what you're saying WRT conservative propaganda, but I don't know how anyone can look at the homelessness issue in Seattle, SF, LA, or DC and come to the conclusion that things are nice. Blaming it on Sinclair seems like an attempt by the wealthy liberals in those cities to dismiss the fact that they contributed to the insane property market that drove these people to homelessness. For as "progressive" as those regions pretend to be, they seem awfully opposed to adopting the kind of "housing first" policies that have worked in SLC and Finland.
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I interviewed with Klondike Gold Rush NHP in Seattle earlier this year, and the interviewer actually asked if I'd be comfortable dealing with homeless people (since apparently there's a ton of homeless people that hang out around that area) which was... a thing.
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psydude posted:I get what you're saying WRT conservative propaganda, but I don't know how anyone can look at the homelessness issue in Seattle, SF, LA, or DC and come to the conclusion that things are nice. "Nice" is relative. "Nice" as compared to another major city such as LA or NYC (where I have also lived). psydude posted:Blaming it on Sinclair seems like an attempt by the wealthy liberals in those cities to dismiss the fact that they contributed to the insane property market that drove these people to homelessness. For as "progressive" as those regions pretend to be, they seem awfully opposed to adopting the kind of "housing first" policies that have worked in SLC and Finland. Er... that's what I said. my own post posted:There is a significant increase in homelessness, but it's mostly the product of the 2008 financial crisis and the massive surge in rent after every tech nerd in America moved here to work. You can I hope appreciate the fact that there's a big feedback cycle between wealthy liberals who have watched KOMO since the 70s and continuing to watch their regular news program because they neither know nor care that it has changed ownership and become a mouthpiece. That does have massive knock-on effects in how they perceive both the problem and any potential solutions. It's not that "liberals are blaming it on Sinclair" - by and large, liberals don't know or care that their favorite news source turned into a propaganda engine for the hard right, but they sure as hell have been influenced by it. It's literally liberal concern-trolling as a strategy, designed to appeal to centrists. They bought it because it was packaged for them very very nicely, and as you say they have no desire to examine these issues more deeply lest they feel the slightest hint of shame. This is one of the local housing-first organizations this narrative has targeted. https://crosscut.com/2019/09/after-15-years-seattles-radical-experiment-no-barrier-housing-still-saving-lives There are a lot of progressives here, but by and large, we are not owners of property. However, it's nice because there are, at least a lot of other progressives to collaborate with in failing to change things! Kesper North fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Nov 30, 2022 |
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psydude posted:Agreed. If I were to recommend a place for an American to move to, it would probably be Valencia or somewhere in Portugal. Both are culturally similar to the US in their approach to life (this poo poo matters long term - my "honeymoon's over" moment was being screamed at by a German for recycling mein Glas am Sonntag), and many Americans already speak some Spanish. Portuguese is kind of like if Spanish were horribly mispronounced, but I think most folks could figure it out. One of the best insights into German culture I've ever read went something like this: Germans don't judge things in terms of good or bad, the judge them in terms of correct and incorrect.
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CRUSTY MINGE posted:Mmmm. No thanks. Y'all can have the city poo poo. A traffic jam out here is two semis going the same direction on US 160 doing 5mph under the limit. What if instead I could offer you an hour on a train in close physical contact with everyone Put me in a mixed use high density urban whatever over my dead body
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Stultus Maximus posted:https://twitter.com/ryanjreilly/status/1597718768083521536 GET SOME UNCLE BILLY
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Tiny Timbs posted:What if instead I could offer you an hour on a train in close physical contact with everyone The solution here is to run trains often enough that everyone has room to manspread
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Kesper North posted:The solution here is to run trains often enough that everyone has room to manspread WMATA voice: "What if, instead, the trains caught on fire constantly"
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psydude posted:I get what you're saying WRT conservative propaganda, but I don't know how anyone can look at the homelessness issue in Seattle, SF, LA, or DC and come to the conclusion that things are nice. Blaming it on Sinclair seems like an attempt by the wealthy liberals in those cities to dismiss the fact that they contributed to the insane property market that drove these people to homelessness. For as "progressive" as those regions pretend to be, they seem awfully opposed to adopting the kind of "housing first" policies that have worked in SLC and Finland. SLC? I only know of one SLC off the top of my head and I couldn't imagine them having such a policy but I've been surprised before
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Kesper North posted:There are a lot of progressives here, but by and large, we are not owners of property. However, it's nice because there are, at least a lot of other progressives to collaborate with in failing to change things! It's definitely nice, or there wouldn't be so many people moving here. It's also not perfect, but there is no place on Earth that is. The people are one of the reasons I enjoy living here. I can talk about progressive issues here and they aren't considered controversial opinions to have. We absolutely don't have a solution for every problem we're facing but by and large WA is at least trying, which is more than most places in America can say. Coming from the South it almost seems like a different country out here.
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The food is great if you can deal with eating dinner from 10 PM until the wee hours.
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Mustang posted:It's definitely nice, or there wouldn't be so many people moving here. It's also not perfect, but there is no place on Earth that is. Yeah, nailed it. This. Milo and POTUS posted:SLC? I only know of one SLC off the top of my head and I couldn't imagine them having such a policy but I've been surprised before I was shocked too, but it's real: https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2021/11/16/utahs-housing-first-model/ Kesper North fucked around with this message at 01:03 on Nov 30, 2022 |
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shameful dp
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Kesper North posted:shameful dp no such thing 
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A.o.D. posted:One of the best insights into German culture I've ever read went something like this: Alles muss in ordnung zu sein. The exclamation point is silent
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