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[wombat]

I am beginning to think that Inev loves all the cities.

[theinevitable]

Not to badmouth my favorite city, but when your antecedents are Charlotte NC and St Louis MO anything with grit AND jobs seems pretty amazing.

But yeah, I am charmed by all kinds of cities, as long as they have nice old buildings. Also, hearing that I could pay around half of Brooklyn rent and still be a 3 dollar, 15-20 minute train ride from Manhattan is pretty appealing.

[wombat]

You can't fool me, you loved St Louis too.

[theinevitable]

I do, but I think I will focus on cities that are close to lots of jobs for the foreseeable future.

[pmcd9]

Yeah, I think the key part was the available jobs part.

[theinevitable]

You can complain about it being cold in our house, I guess.
You can say you want to save money and that we should turn the heat down, I guess.

But doing both... I don't think you can do both.

(can you not do anything to fix your roommate troubles, and then complain about your roomate complaining? uh oh. I may have backed myself into a corner on this one.)

Also important: putting insulation up on the windows will save us money on heat. But it won't make the house "warmer" if the thermostat is still set to the same temperature.

I am in a class this semester with a professor I had last year. He is mis-remembering who I am in a really specific way. I guess I can't 100% attribute this to my appearance or demographics or whatever, but people in my program are very consistent about assuming I am a quantitative/data person. This has also come up in job interviews.

[theinevitable]

got that (unpaid) job through the spring with my safety-pinned suit #####. Yes!

[wombat]

I keep thinking of posting something about how I'm too overwhelmed to have anything interesting to post lately but am thankful at least that the board hasn't crashed. But that would jinx it, wouldn't it?

[jaydub]

[theinevitable]

This should not be surprising, but I am realizing St Louis architecture/interior design (?) is deep in my brain now. I am looking at apartments in other cities where I might want to look for jobs, and they all just strike me as truly UGLY. Even the cities that people I know call "cute" are full of  seemingly nothing but ugly apartments that cost 2-3 times what St Louis apartments do.

Or I can live in Brooklyn, and pay 4-5 times as much for a tiny shared apartment. Brutal.

All of my friends in New York live in apartments that I think are cute, so either I'm looking at the wrong websites or they are paying way more than I think. Maybe both.

My sense is that my program has a good reputation in the northeast and is less known elsewhere, so right now I'm looking at Philly, New York, and Pittsburgh. And then cities I have friends in-- Baltimore, St Louis, Chicago.

OK, Philly has some pretty good apartments.

[wombat]

I vote for Baltimore!

For the love of God don't move to Brooklyn. This whole Brooklyn business needs to, like, deescalate. It was so nice when Brooklyn was just a normal place.

[theinevitable]

Oh, I left out part of this calculation: New York is the only city where I have seen ANY urban planning job listings relevant to my interests or skills.

Is it better or worse if I move to Queens?

I don't think Brooklyn is deescalating anytime soon. Brace yourself, I might live there.

[wombat]

I get the idea that  Queens is already the next Brooklyn. How's the Bronx doing these days? Still unfashionable? Or be really radical - how about Staten Island?

[theinevitable]

I thought living in the Bronx should obviously come next until I took the subway to the top of Inwood from downtown. So. Slow. I may have taken a silly route, but still. I have not yet set foot in the Bronx, that should change soon.

I am also pretty interested in Jersey City. But it seems like rents there are going nuts, too.

And OOH, I forgot Nashville! Added.

[theinevitable]

This lady I had a crush on in college just sent me a really silly chain email. I guess it's flattering that I was one of the first 10 people she thought of, even though I have only seen her three times in the last 7 years?

Or maybe she has become a recluse and has not made any new friends.