Mad Man
Your lord and master
Of course I'm happy where I am, who would love being trapped inside a demonic box?
Do you like where you live?
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Bugfatty300
Buddha Squirrel
Loud music at all hours
No running water
No telephone
Crappy expensive 1 MB internet
Four TV channels
Wood burning water heater for shower
I have to buy, prepare and cook food myself (most of the time)
I actually do like it here.
No running water
No telephone
Crappy expensive 1 MB internet
Four TV channels
Wood burning water heater for shower
I have to buy, prepare and cook food myself (most of the time)
I actually do like it here.
madviking
north american scum
oh god why.
Aleksey_aka_al
Smiley
Skwink
FRIIIIIIIIIITZ
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You might like Seattle.
Earth: Pretty cool
Western Hemisphere: At least we're not the Eastern Hemisphere
North America: Is best America
United States: USA #1
Illinois: neat
Chicago: OH HELL YEAH
North Shore: pretty neato
My house: comfy
My room: clean and spacious
My chair: sucks balls, it doesn't rock
Western Hemisphere: At least we're not the Eastern Hemisphere
North America: Is best America
United States: USA #1
Illinois: neat
Chicago: OH HELL YEAH
North Shore: pretty neato
My house: comfy
My room: clean and spacious
My chair: sucks balls, it doesn't rock
I LOVE living in Chicago. I live in the near west side of the city, which is a great place for somebody like me...young and on a budget. If my salary significantly increased (or I got married), I'd likely move to a different neighborhood...but for now, it's my favorite place I've ever lived.
Affordable (for a US big city) rents, dynamic neighborhood, still pretty safe, close to the subway, good ethnic food...less than a 30 min train ride to my work, friends, church and girlfriend? What else could I want?
Affordable (for a US big city) rents, dynamic neighborhood, still pretty safe, close to the subway, good ethnic food...less than a 30 min train ride to my work, friends, church and girlfriend? What else could I want?
I'm in a somewhat crappy Midwestern town now. It isn't a big deal - I've lived in a number of such places for most of my life, and I dislike large cities. I think I'd rather live in an interesting college town (e.g. Madison, Urbana, Iowa City, etc) but for now I'm content with where I am.
ParkCungHee
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Long Island is, as I've mentioned before, pretty freaking awesome. I wish I could afford to actually live here, but I guess I'm going to Missouri instead 
Hygro
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Except that cities intrinsically reduce the environmental impact per person. So while a person in the country may be more emotionally cognizant of the environment, the person in the country is harming the environment more simply by choosing to live in the country. Hunters/trappers and other subsistence occupations notwithstanding.
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Living in Berkeley is pretty awesome. We're spoiled here. It's t-shirt weather during the day right now and it's December. In November we even had t-shirt weather... even in the wind... at night
We still complain that our weather sucks simply because it's not LA, and our houses aren't insulated enough. The air quality here used to be amazing but with the rise of manufacturing across the Pacific we've had a 50%+ increase in air pollution in the Bay Area (that's not counting the increases in shipping etc) so it passed the tipping point of awesome air quality. It's still better here than anywhere on the East Coast or Midwest.There are more Nobel Laureates per capita here than anyone else in the world. The kind of thinking that happens in Berkeley tends to become mainstream 20 years down the road. Access to San Francisco. Access to Silicon Valley. Access to the State Capitol. Access to the Sierra Nevadas, beaches, forests, everything.
People here tend to be warm and friendly. Not in a Southern, cook-you-dinner kind of way, but in Northern Californian, give-you-the-time-of-day kind of way. I'm fortunate to have been born here, to have grown up here, to have the values that incubate here, and to go to school here.
ParkCungHee
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Still not as good as a Long Island Dude-Lets-Go-Drinking-and-play-horse-shoes-in-the-street kind of way.
dIZZyBlIZZy
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I spent too much time moving around until 2004. Now living in southern TN and may not move anymore. Halfway between Nashville and Huntsville, cheap homes (2200 sqft 4 bedroom on 2¼ acres for $102k). The only downside is 49.6 miles to work. That can be exhausting after a 10-12 hour shift.
Integral
Can't you hear it?
You are living the dream my friend. Keep it up.
To expand a bit on Boston: there are 50+ colleges and universities in the area. There are no fewer than eight PhD program in Economics in town, of which four are in the top-30 (MIT, H, BU, BC). The intellectual environment is one-of-a-kind; the only places comparable would be Chicago (UofC+NWU) and NYC (Columbia+NYU). There is a great deal of cross-fertilization across the eight departments. BU and BC host joint seminars each semester in micro theory and macroeconomics; Harvard and MIT have joint seminars, and students are essentially free to move across schools once they get to the research stage.
It's the single best place in the world to be a graduate student in economics.
As to my specific location...I wish I were a bit closer in to the city. I currently live about a fifteen-minute walk from the outer edge of the subway system. A tad closer (2 miles?) to the city core would be nice and I intend to re-optimize my living space next academic year.
The food/bar/music scene in my precise location leaves a bit to be desired but see above, that will change next year.
Medical facilities in town are world-class. Mass General Hospital and MEEI have been wonderful to me.
I really couldn't wish for a better place to live and work. Winter may be cold and bitter but that's a small price to pay.
I was forced to cut many ties to come up here. So far that has not been a bad decision on net.
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
250mbit internet and mountains.
Real forests, fresh air, ocean, lakes, no disgusting big city...
Renner
Warlord
Not really; 1.5mbit internet, need I say more?
Maniacal
the green Napoleon
1.5 megabit = 0.1875 megabyte
That isn't very good. The cable I have (which is definitely not the fasted available) gives me about 1 megabyte per second download speeds (I assume it is a 7.5 megabit cable package, it is my landlord's).
That isn't very good. The cable I have (which is definitely not the fasted available) gives me about 1 megabyte per second download speeds (I assume it is a 7.5 megabit cable package, it is my landlord's).
Renner
Warlord
Yeah it is just terrible, although I did hear that fibreop might be coming this way in 2012.
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