[Other] Pitch me your city!
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Dave
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Omaha is surprising to everyone who visits. You hear Omaha and you think either "shithole" or "old west". You'd be wrong. It's a vibrant and LGBTQ friend city. The last bar gig I had was doing comedy before a drag show. No, I was not one of the drag participants.
The unemployment rate here as well as the cost of living are some of the best in the country. Yeah, it's midwest so you get some weather, but nothing different than you'd get anywhere else like Michigan or Wisconsin. It's actually a pretty cool place, even if the bars do close at 2 am....
The unemployment rate here as well as the cost of living are some of the best in the country. Yeah, it's midwest so you get some weather, but nothing different than you'd get anywhere else like Michigan or Wisconsin. It's actually a pretty cool place, even if the bars do close at 2 am....
Raleigh, NC. Smack dab in the middle of a purple state. Weather is alright. We can get some hot summers with high humidity, but it snows maybe twice a year. Less than 3 hours to the Ocean, little over 3 hours to the mountains. Several comic shops, but one in particular that I would recommend. Cost of living is pretty low, not the lowest in the state, but not the highest either. If you want something more hipster, there's always Durham. It's like old and new Brooklyn sharing a space.
I forgot to tack on...and also Kalamazoo.
Basically it's really weird here in the western half of MI, since it's one of the strongest bastions of Conservatism while simultaneously being a hotbed of hipster and bohemian lifestyles.
--Patrick
Hang out with me north of San Francisco, before it gets real expensive. A friend says this part of CA has two seasons, summer and not-yet-summer (when it might rain). You get sun (and can still be cold) and redwood trees. If you have a car, you'll be within driving distance of SF or wine country (might take several years to recover) and can drive from the ocean to the mountains in the same day.
That sounds like a blast honestly.If you moved to Colorado, you could help me and my daughter figure out all the cosplay things we aren't great at, and we could all hang out in costume! (I know you have no interest in kids of your own, but my daughter is pretty nice around people that aren't me)
Since one of his kids is my outsourced child, that feels a little taboo... BUT, I could go say hi at the very least.
I’d offer my city, but it fails at all the criteria you’re looking for, and probably a whole bunch of unspoken criteria. But nearby Ann Arbor is a pretty nice place, very friendly in all the ways you’d need it to be, college town (university of Michigan, aka wolverines), and even hosts a few smaller fan conventions every year. Lots of job and education (washtenaw community college and eastern Michigan university are a bus ride away) opportunities, close to Detroit if you really need a big city, but pretty low cost of living compared to cities with similar amenities elsewhere. It’s also got at least one fitness company if you want to stay in that industry (nustep), but as a semi-warm tech-bed there’s lots of opportunities of various kinds for people at any level of education.Since one of his kids is my outsourced child, that feels a little taboo... BUT, I could go say hi at the very least.
Your outsourced child made me pretty mad tonight, but he is such a sweetheart and still asked for song and prayer despite his and my anger at each other.
I had to make up a song to appease him, and he and his also-angry-but-for-another-unrelated-reason brother we’re both giggling by the time I left.
Man, it makes my heart ache thinking about how short a time I really have with them before they’ll leave. I can only hope to lay enough foundation that they’ll want to have a relationship with us when they’re older, regardless of how much our respective paths might diverge. My oldest is graduating high school this year, about the same time we have #10.
Love is hard.
If that doesn’t sell you on southeast michigan, I don’t know what will!
Just for the heck of it, here's my "pitch" for currently working but not my living city: Nashville, Tennessee.
The housing market in Nashville is a bit strange (they're saying it might have a bubble burst soon), but the surrounding suburbs look decent.
Nashville has the entire music thing for it (music row includes country (of course) but also has others), sports (Tennessee Titans, Nashville Predators, Nashville Sounds (minor league baseball), Nashville SC (soccer), racing (Nashville Fairgrounds), and were just awarded a new MLS team (starting around 2020)), has several historic battlefields from the Civil War in the area, and much more. Vanderbuilt University is here as well as many other colleges.
Jobs are pretty good - Franklin (suburb on the south side) has around a 2% unemployment rate and Nashville itself is one of the faster growing economies in the nation. The entire metropolitan area population in 2015 was 1.83 million.
Weather is good - not much in the way of snow (maybe an inch or two in a month) and if it does occur, it usually is gone within 24 hours as the temps are usually higher than freezing - summer average is around 90 degrees F.
Tennessee does not collect state income tax on wages. However, it does collect taxes on stocks and interest and has a 7% sales tax rate.
The only thing I'm not overly fond of (so far) is the traffic can really suck during rush hour(s) - if I didn't have traffic to deal with, my current drive from western Kentucky to a southern suburb would be 1.25 hours - my normal morning and night commute runs from 1.5 to 2 hours one way. Because of this, when my lease is up at the end of June, I'm going to be moving to this area to hopefully cut that down a metric ton, so it'll be "my city" at that point.
The housing market in Nashville is a bit strange (they're saying it might have a bubble burst soon), but the surrounding suburbs look decent.
Nashville has the entire music thing for it (music row includes country (of course) but also has others), sports (Tennessee Titans, Nashville Predators, Nashville Sounds (minor league baseball), Nashville SC (soccer), racing (Nashville Fairgrounds), and were just awarded a new MLS team (starting around 2020)), has several historic battlefields from the Civil War in the area, and much more. Vanderbuilt University is here as well as many other colleges.
Jobs are pretty good - Franklin (suburb on the south side) has around a 2% unemployment rate and Nashville itself is one of the faster growing economies in the nation. The entire metropolitan area population in 2015 was 1.83 million.
Weather is good - not much in the way of snow (maybe an inch or two in a month) and if it does occur, it usually is gone within 24 hours as the temps are usually higher than freezing - summer average is around 90 degrees F.
Tennessee does not collect state income tax on wages. However, it does collect taxes on stocks and interest and has a 7% sales tax rate.
The only thing I'm not overly fond of (so far) is the traffic can really suck during rush hour(s) - if I didn't have traffic to deal with, my current drive from western Kentucky to a southern suburb would be 1.25 hours - my normal morning and night commute runs from 1.5 to 2 hours one way. Because of this, when my lease is up at the end of June, I'm going to be moving to this area to hopefully cut that down a metric ton, so it'll be "my city" at that point.
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I am truly sorry, but I do NOT agree with this. It does get downright cold there in January and February. There is constant issues with ice (mostly how it freezes the trees and power lines) during the winter. And during the summer it gets hot and humid.
If it weren't for those factors, I'd be telling y'all about my new place in Music City next month.
Sounds like there were two people. An arsonist and a stabber.
Ah, I read it as a predator who set fires in order to stab people.
I didn't realize it was a team-up.
--Patrick
Columbia, SC!
Not only do we have sweltering hot & humid summers, winters that frequently never get below 60 degrees, and blatant racism, but also TONS OF HOMOPHOBIA!
South Carolina! "Y'all ain't from 'round here is ya?"
Yeah, it's fucking great here.
Not only do we have sweltering hot & humid summers, winters that frequently never get below 60 degrees, and blatant racism, but also TONS OF HOMOPHOBIA!
South Carolina! "Y'all ain't from 'round here is ya?"
Yeah, it's fucking great here.
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Dont try to hide it just because you're embarrassed. You do mustard-based BBQ sauce. Heathens.Columbia, SC!
Not only do we have sweltering hot & humid summers, winters that frequently never get above 60 degrees, and blatant racism, but also TONS OF HOMOPHOBIA!
South Carolina! "Y'all ain't from 'round here is ya?"
Yeah, it's fucking great here.
I can help out. It's close enough for weekend getaways to Toronto, and we've got great reasons for Kags to come, including a massive Gay Pride festival.If that doesn’t sell you on southeast michigan, I don’t know what will!
We moved down here for the weather in the area - we were in cheesehead land ourselves, so the temps are quite a bit better (esp for my wife).
You're more than welcome to disagree - we're on the internet aren't we?
There are two primary reasons why it's AZ and not TN for me: family and ice. I's gots family in the AZ; I have tons of friends in TN, but very little family. And the ice part clinched it, especially after that one little time I found out how fun it was to drive around Murfreesboro with an inch of slush on the road.
Lake Jackson, tx we have a lot of trees, close to the beach, and more parks per people then anywhere else In Texas
I was born in Texas, that stuff is not BBQ.
Tasty is tasty. While you guys argue, I'm eating your share.
I didn't say it wasn't good, just that it is not BBQ. They need to call it something else, like Pork Hash or something.Tasty is tasty. While you guys argue, I'm eating your share.
Real Barbecue is beef or pork with a spicy ketchup-based sauce.
No, vinegar-based sauce is not BBQ either, only ketchup. For anyone who doesn't believe, go to Applebee's or Chili's or any other mass market restaurant and ask them for barbecue. You will get ribs or a brisket with a ketchup-based sauce. Just make sure you then go find some run-down looking hole in the wall place to get the really good barbecue.