askchapo

The area I live in is somewhat a typical college town minus the culture that comes with living in a mid size college town. Most people here are either transplants from smaller cities that think this is a big city, transplants from bigger cities that rave about the cost of living, thereby driving up the cost for the rest of us, or people that were born here and are stuck here because if you're not in the military or a techbro government contractor, there are no opportunities.

I wish I could say the place was pretty, as some sort of saving grace, but most of the natural areas have been bulldozed to make way for "luxury" apartments starting at the "wow incredible cost of living" price of $1900 for 500sqft. All I can think of when I see rent prices nowadays is just not knowing that me working at a grocery store making $9hr and paying $325 for a 1br apt back in 2012 was as good as it was gonna get.

I don't like where I live and have always felt like an outcast here. Made a few friends but all of them have since moved. I am kinda stuck here for the time being since I exhausted all of my employment options and finally gave in and became a techbro. Took some 6 months certification that didn't prepare me in the slightest for anything I would end up doing, bullshitted my way into an interview, bullshitted my way through the interview, and pretended like I knew what I was doing. Here I am with a decent remote job with generic techbro coworkers that see me as an oddity because my employment background is mainly blue color physical labor/service industry, and yeah.. Idk, it's fine I guess. It isn't exciting and I basically have to use chatgpt to explain to me how to do my job, but I guess I'll get there. No real passion for this but it pays the bills, takes care of my partner and I. This city is a black hole though and I respect and envy those that are able to escape it