Somewhat more sane...

[azurelunatic]

...and headed out to lunch in an hour. Whee! Allergies suck, though. Something must have come into bloom last night. Bleah.

My top spots to live, according to http://www.findyourspot.com ...

Portland, Oregon
Baltimore, MD
Eugene, OR
Little Rock, Arkansas
Charleston, WV
Frederick, MD
Corvallis, OR
Salem, OR
Honolulu, HI
Sacramento, CA
New Orleans, LA
Washington, DC
Medford, OR
Albuquerque, NM
San Francisco, CA
Las Vegas, Nevada
San Jose, CA
Gaithersburg, MD
Providence, RI
Santa Cruz, CA
Hartford, Connecticut
Annapolis, MD
New Haven, Connecticut
Alexandria, LA

Reading a post in polyamory that really disturbed me. Woman has friends w/benefits scenario, and he's disallowed her from spending time with any male friends. She's feeling neglected by him, and wants other friendships to give her the love, happiness, etc., that he won't/can't, but he's having none of this. ...Evidently, from the comments posted there, I'm not the only one triggering off. Eeeks. Humans...

Comments

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

Portland is not bad....though it's getting a tad sprawled out. Too many suburbs and smallish towns around it.
Corvallis is cool......though I am bias'd because I was born there :-)


I did this test a good year ago or so. My #1 town was somewhere in Maine, but I ruled it out because I won't live east of the missippi(and even just west is pushing it)
My #2 town on the other hand......wouldn't be a far move at all, since I already live there :-)

[azurelunatic]

I don't mind sprawled-out cities.

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

By sprawled out I mean 2 hour one-way commutes and if I recall very little of a public transit system.

[azurelunatic]

Ow. Now that's getting a little silly.

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

Part of what the problem is is that there is a TON of little bedroom towns all around it where LOTS of people live and and then drive in, and those bedroom towns tend to be the only places people can afford to live.

Then again, I have never lived there and am going on what I've heard/read/been told by relatives that live there.

no public transit?

[boojum.livejournal.com]

I thought Portland (Oregon, right?) had both buses and a fairly decent light rail system. Is this just that I'm comparing it to my current home city, LA?

Re: no public transit?

[crisavec.livejournal.com]

It does...but I was more refering to all the tiny bedroom communities that have sprouted up around portland due to the fairly strict zoneing and growth regs that the city has put on Portland to keep it from skyrocketing into a nightmare. Is not a lot of transit from those towns if I recall.

But see my post to Azz.....I could be talking out my ass