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You'll never catch me that easily you dirty

As far as living nice, I've said this before: yeah, we do alright in the rat race. After years of floundering, I landed a super secure job (which I hate), my wife had a good job as well (but she was canned - and of course she hates being out of work), I have a house, no real debt, a couple of old cars that get me weird looks because I have no desire to buy a status symbol. Typical suburban life with atypical people.

Some years ago I had to move clear across the country to get "here". I was an ultra lib at the time so I was full of hope and to be honest, I did it. Y'know, the thing: clawed my way up despite basically being street trash. Anyhow, the stark reality started to set in 10 or so years ago, right as my politics started to change: every step up was two steps back.

I'll explain. Making it fucking sucks. I have no friends. I'm now forced to hang out with either PMCs or go clear across town to be with average people who I naturally now have nothing in common with. My politics also preemptively make me a pariah to anyone who gets to know me.

Basically, the atomization is real. And is now complete. The only people who care about me are my wife and kid. All my hobbies are basically exercises in keeping my brain occupied from being lonely. It sucks.

Don't move to Texas if you can avoid it.

i hate everything about it. too hot, the people too mean, segregated as hell, theres like no good vietnamese food, no good public colleges with grad programs I like, conservative hellhole, tourist trap, thats gonna sink.

Lib area in a Lib city in a red state. All my neighbors have perfect lawns.

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I hate the area I'm in. Conservative, rural hell. Not even actually empty and nature-filled rural, but non-crop farms (mostly cattle and horses from what I've seen) and then a lot of swamps and marshes and the occasional attempt at little suburb-type developments. I've been biking and going around a lot of the backroads around here lately and seeing so many big, moderately expensive houses hiding out here. Had no idea so many rich people were out here in their petit-mansions (not any McMansions, yet). Fucking impossible making new friends or meeting women unless you're active in town. I miss living in the city a lot.

I cannot complain about the location, but a lot of the people in it are the textbook definition of gammon.

Plus: lots of woods everywhere, lots of trees, I absolutely adore all the green.

Minus: car centric hellscape, no sidewalks, no public transport, nothing even remotely within walking distance. I have to drive to get literally anywhere.

If there were somewhere that had sidewalks, stuff within walking distance, some public transport, the same amount of green, and was actually affordable, I'd be in heaven.

It is beautiful here, but lonely. Without a car, your yard is like an island you are stranded on. At least it is a nice one.

It's fine where I live (30°26′59″N 84°16′57″W).

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

Live in the middle of nowhere in South Africa. In general I have a love - hate relationship with the country. It's a beautiful country with great weather and great people if you go looking for them, but inequality is the worst in the world, people are struggling, crime is really bad, the government is very corrupt and there aren't many jobs available with unemployment being super high.

As for the specific area, I live in next to a field and main road. The field burns itself at least once a year, and the road is a narrow piece of crap that is crumbling. But otherwise it's pretty nice. Can't complain, have everything I need. Just wish I lived closer to my irl friends.

Not great. Terrible public transportation, not walkable, barely bikeable, housing is expensive, restaurants are expensive and mostly bad. We do have some nice parks and trails. The vibe is off, even mixture of rich libs and conservatives who make no secret of hating the homeless and rich libs who pretend not to hate the homeless. We also have libertarians. The vehicles are too damned tall. Oh it's hot

No i live in the apex of car brained infrastructure and it’s increasingly becoming a flip flop between sweltering 113 degree summers and freezes we are completely unequipped to handle, the only saving grace is we have a lot of immigrants from all over so there’s a lot of good food options

It's fine if you stay away from the desert.

I'm in a medium density walkable neighbourhood for the first time and it's awesome. There's too much pollution but it's pretty great anyway.

Suburban lowcountry SC, being in this place has the same vibes of the grainy music box tunes from the fnaf 3 secret minigames

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i liked it a lot more 10 years ago, but it's alright compared to a lot of places. it's about 1,000 km from where i grew up, which is a chud occupied shithole undergoing climate apocalypse. i like the climate here much better. a medium-small city with a large state university, so the infrastructure for walking and biking actually exists in some places and is only sort of terrible. right at the tail end of this being a LCOL area i lucked into a deal and bought the dumpiest little baby house in a nice, quiet neighborhood with like trees and parks and streams and shit.

people from the region think this city has major traffic and crime problems, but where i am from had real crime problems and deadly shootings in traffic so this place feels like a hallmark movie. the housing market has been tight for decades but since AirBNB and other STRs came to town, it's become a recognizable crisis. prices for houses and rents are going up like crazy (2 years after i bought my place, it was appraised at a level i could not afford and interest rates were twice as high... i make the median income for my postal administrative unit) so i expect desperation to climb as well and maybe have some parts of get a little bit weirder. there has been and continues to be a lot of internal displacement in this region, so people coming from some dead town to find work here and make a go of it. the labor market is also relatively tight here, with very low unemployment.

there's a lot to like about it, but i want to move even further away from the equator. not just for climate stuff, but the institutions here have been heading in the wrong direction for a while and it seems like some capital formation(s) finally noticed there's a lot of assets to strip here, so they're working hand in hand to convert everything i like about this place into a pile of cash and put it in an overseas account.

Lived around Chicago my whole life. Not a suburbs fan, but I'm a city lifer most likely. My partner and I will probably plant our roots here once we tie the knot. Our place is OK, some hexbears have seen it. Running out of space for records, but that's not a bad problem to have. There's still enough room for the corgi to run and play a little bit inside though, so that's good. Lanlord is about as ok as a landlord can be, rent isn't insane for this area. No real complaints except for this or that around the apartment like window or faucet quirks and stuff.

It's got its ups and downs. I always wanted to leave the Midwest if for even a few years, but something about climate trends has me obsessed with sticking around the Great Lakes.