++ ATOT official NEF thread part IV ++

[alfa147x]

My tactic to win her over:
Become her friend (we were nearly best friends during hs)
then win her parents over. They fucking love/d me. Yes sir/ yes ma'am type stuff. Plus talking about politics and money. Yeah that was easy.
That was about it. Fucking awesome. Took 2 years though... Oh well. Never did date her.

She wanted me to visit her when I lived in Atlanta.

I don't cheat. Did take her out for a meal...

 

[Locut0s]

Correct. I'm potentially going to be 24, or even 25, at graduation, with 65-80k debt (just redid the numbers)... but that doesn't really stop it, just means I need to have a net to handle expenses when moving.

Which would you rather. Be in your position graduate at 25 with 65-80k in debt. Or be in mine. Graduate at ~34 with a small surplus? Assuming of course you don't get any of my other baggage.

 

[alfa147x]

That was my game plan for almost any parent sheltered girl.

 

[MotF Bane]

Okay, let's keep going then.

So, I want less snow. Sunlight and warm temperatures is nice. 75 F and bright cloudcover forever would be perfect. 80 is pushing high, clouds are nice to cut glare. 70 is fine too. I would rather 60 than 90.

Basically, anything south, or anything on the west coast, will deal with the snow issue.

The Gulf Coast and Texas are too hot. 80 F in November? Holy crap, November should be like 50.

 

[MotF Bane]

Which would you rather. Be in your position graduate at 25 with 65-80k in debt. Or be in mine. Graduate at ~34 with a small surplus? Assuming of course you don't get any of my other baggage.

Mine. No offense. Money is only money, time is finite.

 

[MotF Bane]

That was my game plan for almost any parent sheltered girl.

That was not really the problem I had.

Hell, her parents were fine with me. I was so polite nobody's parents didn't like me.

 

[MotF Bane]

Sorry, that was a double negative. My, that slipped out easily.

I was so polite that everyone's parents liked me.

 

[Locut0s]

Mine. No offense. Money is only money, time is finite.

No offence taken. I'd sell my soul to be in your position. Heck I'd sell my soul to be a LOT of people.

Not that I believe in souls.

 

[MotF Bane]

So no, the parents were not the issue.

 

[Locut0s]

Okay, let's keep going then.

So, I want less snow. Sunlight and warm temperatures is nice. 75 F and bright cloudcover forever would be perfect. 80 is pushing high, clouds are nice to cut glare. 70 is fine too. I would rather 60 than 90.

Basically, anything south, or anything on the west coast, will deal with the snow issue.

The Gulf Coast and Texas are too hot. 80 F in November? Holy crap, November should be like 50.

Usually your career dictates all.

 

[MotF Bane]

No offence taken. I'd sell my soul to be in your position. Heck I'd sell my soul to be a LOT of people.

Not that I believe in souls.

Your edit is lulz.

To the rest, I'm not quite sure what to say to that.

 

[Locut0s]

Your edit is lulz.

To the rest, I'm not quite sure what to say to that.

How about you would too in my place?

 

[MotF Bane]

Usually your career dictates all.

Well, the theory is that I'll have a BS in EE... so I'll have something for employment opportunities.

You're right of course, and there we come back to "shitty local school", where trying to leave the general area, they won't recognize the name, so it won't help me.

I mean, nobody more than a hundred miles away knows the name.

 

[MotF Bane]

How about you would too in my place?

True, very true.

 

[MotF Bane]

But since I'm circling the country... anywhere from DC to Maine, Buffalo to Providence... would just put me back into MA/NH.

South of DC means, well, the South, and that doesn't interest me. Except the Gulf Coast and Texas are, in some areas and ways, better, but the temperature gets too high.

Arizona, NM, et cetera, are all burned out wastelands.

WEST COAST!

 

[MotF Bane]

Oh right, the center of the country... yeah, no thanks.

 

[MotF Bane]

So that leaves California, Oregon, and Washington. Nicely temperate environments, courtesy of the Pacific Ocean, lots of ocean, courtesy of the Pacific Ocean (I love water).

 

[Locut0s]

If I could pick any place on earth to live. I think I'd pick The Maldives. :awe: Don't think I'd care that much what kind of income I had so long as I could make an OK living there.

 

[MotF Bane]

Politically, Oregon and Washington probably would be better for me than Massachusetts, but California is... eeecchhh.

 

[MotF Bane]

If I could pick any place on earth to live. I think I'd pick The Maldives. :awe: Don't think I'd care that much what kind of income I had so long as I could make an OK living there.

Ah, tropical islands. So nice.

 

[MotF Bane]

Weather wise, somewhere between SF and OR would be pretty much perfect.

SF has way too many people crammed into a tiny area, worse than Boston/Boston Metro. Plus the politics of that little area make the rest of CA look sane (to me).

Yes, I'm not discussing politics, I'm simply listing out my impression of the area politics as compared to what I would want.

 

[MotF Bane]

South of SF is LA and SD; SD would likely be too hot, and LA is just an expensive mess.

Oh yeah, SF is super super expensive too.

North of SF, CA becomes pretty abandoned it seems? I don't know much about CA besides those big three cities.

Note: San Jose is part of SF to me. I know, I know...

 

[MotF Bane]

And that's it, up to Oregon and Washington.

HI VANCOUVER!

 

[MotF Bane]

For somebody who loves the scenery, the mountains, the greenery, and the lakes of New Hampshire, I suspect that these northwestern states would fit very nicely. They trade off the politics of NH for lively cities with many people.

 

[MotF Bane]

Okay, I'm going to bed, I'll torment myself more tomorrow. :awe: