Sounds like boulder co
Sounds like boulder co
Debates like these and things like Money’s “Best Places to Live,” are the kinds of car wreck I just can’t look away from (and I can look away from an actual car wreck).
No one place is going to appeal to all, even when it has seemingly every possible amenity. I’ve spent a good amount of time in Cali, Jersey, various New England locations, the Midwest, and even Hawaii.
I think most will agree that, if you’re well off financially, any of these places becomes instantly more alluring but it all comes down to what you enjoy or have been socialized to enjoy (and these are not inherently different things).
I can see the magic and appeal of NYC but I desire a type of periodic quietude that the all five boroughs lack. An early 2000s Queens might have been the closest to providing something that a person like me would seek.
This also gets at the notion that we are monochromatic beings that always exist in one medium and I don’t think that’s realistic. I love routine and can get “comfortable” anywhere, but I need to shake things up from time to time.
At the end of the day it’s worth recognizing that some of us are in an era of unprecedented luxury, whereby we are shopping for so many ideal data points in our lives that it can be paradoxically more difficult to achieve happiness. The notion that so many aspects of one’s life can be controlled doesn’t bode well for the time or moment something cannot be.
With that I recommend London or a near suburb, as well as a wheelbarrow full of gold a la Scrooge McDuck.
I do well here in Cali, but I’m moving to Nevada simply to avoid the ever increasing taxes. Taxes that go to feeding and breeding the nation’s largest welfare class (CA has 37% of the nation’s welfare cases and the number is rising), the rest of the dollars go to funding the massive pensions that most public sector workers receive (Calpers is imploding). I’ll be able to visit CA when I want without funding any of these pigs feeding at the public trough.
Deadpool wrote:
Debates like these and things like Money’s “Best Places to Live,” are the kinds of car wreck I just can’t look away from (and I can look away from an actual car wreck).
No one place is going to appeal to all, even when it has seemingly every possible amenity. I’ve spent a good amount of time in Cali, Jersey, various New England locations, the Midwest, and even Hawaii.
I think most will agree that, if you’re well off financially, any of these places becomes instantly more alluring but it all comes down to what you enjoy or have been socialized to enjoy (and these are not inherently different things).
I can see the magic and appeal of NYC but I desire a type of periodic quietude that the all five boroughs lack. An early 2000s Queens might have been the closest to providing something that a person like me would seek.
This also gets at the notion that we are monochromatic beings that always exist in one medium and I don’t think that’s realistic. I love routine and can get “comfortable” anywhere, but I need to shake things up from time to time.
At the end of the day it’s worth recognizing that some of us are in an era of unprecedented luxury, whereby we are shopping for so many ideal data points in our lives that it can be paradoxically more difficult to achieve happiness. The notion that so many aspects of one’s life can be controlled doesn’t bode well for the time or moment something cannot be.
With that I recommend London or a near suburb, as well as a wheelbarrow full of gold a la Scrooge McDuck.
Nice little treatise. I would actually say that Hoboken is very underrated for NYC. There aren't any huge parks, but some nice areas. Super close to Manhattan regular. And there are some really nice places that won't break the bank (in NYC world). And if you have a car you can be out and driving in minutes, as opposed to the hellhole of driving through most of NYC.
Deadpool wrote:
Debates like these and things like Money’s “Best Places to Live,” are the kinds of car wreck I just can’t look away from (and I can look away from an actual car wreck).
No one place is going to appeal to all, even when it has seemingly every possible amenity. I’ve spent a good amount of time in Cali, Jersey, various New England locations, the Midwest, and even Hawaii.
I think most will agree that, if you’re well off financially, any of these places becomes instantly more alluring but it all comes down to what you enjoy or have been socialized to enjoy (and these are not inherently different things).
I can see the magic and appeal of NYC but I desire a type of periodic quietude that the all five boroughs lack. An early 2000s Queens might have been the closest to providing something that a person like me would seek.
This also gets at the notion that we are monochromatic beings that always exist in one medium and I don’t think that’s realistic. I love routine and can get “comfortable” anywhere, but I need to shake things up from time to time.
At the end of the day it’s worth recognizing that some of us are in an era of unprecedented luxury, whereby we are shopping for so many ideal data points in our lives that it can be paradoxically more difficult to achieve happiness. The notion that so many aspects of one’s life can be controlled doesn’t bode well for the time or moment something cannot be.
With that I recommend London or a near suburb, as well as a wheelbarrow full of gold a la Scrooge McDuck.
I generally don't like NYC, but there are still some super quiet areas of Queens. Places that are much closer to the suburbs than they are to city life.
Yeah, stay out.