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In reply to the discussion: It would be nice if the far left, for once, did some introspection. [View all]Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)My wife loves NYC, at least to visit.
I spent a good chunk of my 20s living in downtown Chicago, so I'm not exactly unfamiliar with the appeal of urban excitement. When I still drank (maybe that's why I never shut up about weed- it's pretty much the only vice I still have, and an infrequent one at that) I certainly liked the idea of bars open until 5 am on the weekends.
But we're not exactly wood shacks and half-moon outhouses here, either. Probably the biggest infrastructure disappointment we had locally was when Google Fiber declined to start offering gigabit internet services here a couple years ago. That, and eventually we're gonna need that new I-5 bridge.
...having lived several different places including up and down some of the most beautiful parts of California, this spot beats them all, in my humble opinion.
For what it's worth, I don't "find you objectionable". I do think the energies expressed in this thread would probably be more effective directed elsewhere, but even that may be me chastising my younger self for all the "fuck Ralph Nader" threads I participated in 13 years ago, that didn't accomplish anything except bringing my own blood pressure up.
I get it, but ... well, we're all gonna do what we're gonna do, I guess.