Time to move

[forsyth]

I can feel things changing. In me, and in life. It's past time I was moving on, I think. I've led too boring (or, if you want, sheltered) a life, and there's nothing to do around here and nobody to do it with. I need to move. Somewhere urban enough to have sidewalks. I've got several places I'm considering, but I'm open to suggestions. But I need to go somewhere with people, and with things to do. Even if I don't do them as much as I should. What else are you supposed to do when you need to go get munchies at 3AM? In the country, nothing.

Honestly, one of the things, in retrospect that I think my parents did that annoys me was move. Not so much the matter of moving at all, more to do with the fact we moved from a nice developed area, with other people, and friends, and places to go nearby, to a subdivision in the country, then we moved again to the total country. Even if I wasn't my socially maladjusted self and wanted to do things with people, that doesn't make it possible.

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Comments

[evilcarp.livejournal.com]

I forget, what area do you live in now?

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

Virginia, about two hours from DC. Outside "Northern Virginia" and right on the borderlands into "Cow Country".

[evilcarp.livejournal.com]

If you don't want to go too far, I think you should live in New York. Some people make it sound like it's difficult living there, but if you're willing to work hard and live moderately, then it's not difficult. And it's not nearly as scary as paranoid people like to think it is. The subway system is great and I almost cried when I had to leave it behind when I visited last September (Seattle has crappy transit in comparison, and we're supposed to be good).

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

It's interesting you suggested that, since several of the online "best city to live" things I was looking at, that let you punch in what you're looking for, kept popping up New York in the top ten. Along with Boston, Seattle, San Francisco, and DC. And several places up in upstate NY near where my parents grew up. And some places where I've gone "Hey, I know somebody who lives there!"

[evilcarp.livejournal.com]

I can definately agree with New York, Seattle and San Diego, but I don't know much about Boston or DC. Though I have been told by my friends that DC has a really good gay community.

[forsythferret.livejournal.com]

DC (and by DC, I mean the DC Metro area, which stretches almost to Baltimore on one side and to about 30 miles from where I live on the other) does have many nice things, but it's expensive as all get-out to live in.

Plus, I want to actually, y'know, travel when I move, not just move twenty miles or so. But I don't live in the actual DC area, like I said, I live outside it.

The presence or absence of DC's gay areas I can't comment on, as a) I haven't been into DC in almost two years, and b) I can't say I've ever had reason to look.