I'm tired of living in my current city (KCMO) and really want to move somewhere else but I have no idea what sounds cool. I am lucky enough to be in a very in demand healthcare field that I can find a job in pretty much anywhere in the US sooooo what places have you enjoyed living in? Which ones suck and should be avoided?

  • grey_wolf_whenever [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    New York City here, Manhattan even

    If youre a well paid software dev, its great. Its got the best public transportation in the country, the food is unimaginable, and despite what people think the people here can be really nice. I have loads of pleasant interactions all the time. If you like art, movies, or music all of that is here in buckets, youll be entertained.

    The bad is, well, the obvious, is that its expensive but more so than that its a police state. Cops, this weekend, threw a guy out of the subway because he asked them to wear a mask, which is of course minor compared to the executions theyve been known to give out. The police union is the strongest force in town, they can threaten the mayors daughter and get a "thank you, brave heroes" for it. Also the city feels lonely these days, but that could just be me, being me.

    • purr [undecided]
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      3 years ago

      i still cant believe that bill deblasio didnt say anything about the police union leaking his daughter's mugshot / intake information....like talk about spineless. You'd at least think the soul sucking politcian people would look out for their family, whose security they presumably sold their soul for

        • purr [undecided]
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          3 years ago

          yeah but deblasio has been pissing off the police union for years, he definitely bows down to them but, i'd at least think he wouldnt feel out of place receiving their vitrol. at the very least his daughter should have sued.

          as someone who vaguely knew his daughter growing up (we're the same age and she was known as a huge stoner who would randomly add people in our age group who went to nyc public schools on social media under the name trippy hippy ), i kinda suspect that deblasio didnt go after the police union because him and his daughter as estranged as fuck, at least that was the vibe i got from her social media/ from some of our mutual friends.

          although i do think her primary addy on her intake sheet listed gracie mansion so who knowwwsss!

          but chiara wouldnt be the first estranged activist kid and if ella emhoff can pout her way through bushwick, then so can she

          edit: lol heres an article about chiara's social media stuff, seems like i wasnt the only one https://pagesix.com/2014/10/06/chiara-de-blasio-deletes-trippy-hippie-instagram-account/