you have to admit that joe biden does control global gas prices though
― Bruce Stingbean (Karl Malone), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:02 (two years ago) link
one of those "the worst person you know has a point" moments
― the cat needs to start paying for its own cbd (map), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link
At least the (mostly) educated white English-speakers of ILX are choosing places where they can be with those of their kind as opposed to colonizing / gentrifying?
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:31 (two years ago) link
New Zealand is colonised?!
― gyac, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:33 (two years ago) link
Like, it literally is? White people are the colonists there.
― gyac, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:34 (two years ago) link
Also certain other large countries
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:35 (two years ago) link
in conclusion, we should all live under the sea
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 21:49 (two years ago) link
i want somewhere that's quiet, has nice bars that aren't of the "loud trivia night/karaoke" type, but quiet places where you can sit outdoors and talk about your lives with friends while the sunsets, where there aren't "I DID THIS" stickers all over every gas pump and "TRUMP WON" posters visible, where there's beautiful street art on the corners, and concert venues that are loud as fuck and get obscure metal bands to show up.and weed is decriminalized.
― war mice (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:02 (two years ago) link
A bit of weed, a bit of colonialism..
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:16 (two years ago) link
Let's make lots of money.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:17 (two years ago) link
he's in Florida and talking about sitting outdoors so... canada would be a bit of a let down
― maf you one two (maffew12), Wednesday, 1 June 2022 23:18 (two years ago) link
You can't sit outdoors most of the year here in North Central Florida. It's either too hot and humid or too damply cool.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Thursday, 2 June 2022 00:58 (two years ago) link
a good year in most all of Canada we're talking 50 sit out nights
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 2 June 2022 01:03 (two years ago) link
*all the more populated parts of canada. adjusted to average for the geography we're talking 0.5
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 2 June 2022 01:04 (two years ago) link
I grew up near Buffalo on the Canadian border. The joke there was that Buffalo had two seasons, winter and the 4th of July. It wasn't really true, but warm summer nights were valued
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 June 2022 01:14 (two years ago) link
Florida's not quite but reaching the 'unbearable to be outside' phase. my mother got heat exhaustion just trying to see Paul McCartney last weekend, and this was as the sun was setting.
I feel like one of those cheap CVS misters is a required purchase here
― Gymnopédie Pablo (Neanderthal), Thursday, 2 June 2022 01:17 (two years ago) link
I read a version of that joke in a Jim Harrison book, describing the Upper Peninsula of Michigan as having two seasons, August and winter. He described sitting in a pickup truck with the engine running and the heat blasting to watch Fourth of July fireworks.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 2 June 2022 02:15 (two years ago) link
Florida's heat is still more manageable than DC or New Orleans if you're on the coast.
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 June 2022 02:37 (two years ago) link
My dad grew up in northern Wisconsin and his version was "ten months of winter and two months of tough sledding".
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 2 June 2022 03:02 (two years ago) link
Buffalo isn't so cold, though, because there's always a house on fire nearby.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 2 June 2022 03:12 (two years ago) link
not sure what that refers to tbh
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 June 2022 03:17 (two years ago) link
70s news broadcasts on WIVB and WKBW that seemed to be nothing but house fires in Tonawanda and Cheektowaga, night after night.
― Halfway there but for you, Thursday, 2 June 2022 03:21 (two years ago) link
I remember that being a thing in Detroit in the 70s - Devil's Night - but not in Tonawanda or Cheektowaga
we got hit really hard by the lake-effect winter snow coming from the west over Lake Erie
― Dan S, Thursday, 2 June 2022 03:29 (two years ago) link
This thread makes me think of Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates. The author treats the couple's plan to move to Paris as the embodiment of deluded wishing, but then he also treats a poorly-performed amateur play as a crushing humiliation. So to avoid extreme pessimism, perhaps stay away from this book while thinking of living elsewhere.
― Halfway there but for you, Wednesday, 1 June 2022 03:02 (yesterday) link
ha, that's hilarious. i hadn't heard of that book til now, but it basically sounds like paris syndrome: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_syndrome
― Punster McPunisher, Thursday, 2 June 2022 03:33 (two years ago) link
Finland:
it's either dark all the time or light all the timeeverything just seems to work perfectlydeath metal is normcoreeven the tiniest apartment has a sauna and you will see everyone you know fully nakedthe most popular flavour for any foodstuff is salted licoriceeveryone is surprisingly open and friendly, in a quiet reserved sort of way, but all of them carry big knives
― Portrait Of A Dissolvi Ng Drea M (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, May 30, 2022 4:07 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
i can't tell if you like or dislike those things, but all that sounds awesome to me
― Punster McPunisher, Thursday, 2 June 2022 03:35 (two years ago) link
Also: rampant alcoholism, I gather.
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Thursday, 2 June 2022 03:44 (two years ago) link
not even in the top 10
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/alcoholism-by-country
― Punster McPunisher, Thursday, 2 June 2022 03:51 (two years ago) link
"If you could pack up and move your whole life, where would you go? "
1971
― The Artist formerly known as Earlnash, Thursday, 2 June 2022 04:53 (two years ago) link
Odd that some countries with reputations for alcoholism, like Ireland and Iceland, rate much lower than South Korea or Latvia. Doesn't mean that alcoholism isn't a problem there, but that reputations are not a very good yardstick.
― more difficult than I look (Aimless), Thursday, 2 June 2022 05:15 (two years ago) link
― gyac, Wednesday, June 1, 2022 2:33 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― gyac, Wednesday, June 1, 2022 2:34 PM (yesterday)
yeah, you're right ... but they'd be the 2nd, 3rd, whatever wave? Does that make it better? Do you feel like it's worse than being the first white boots on the ground? What if they're American, and are coming from another country where white people were the colonizers?
― sarahell, Thursday, 2 June 2022 09:06 (two years ago) link
What?
― gyac, Thursday, 2 June 2022 09:50 (two years ago) link
I guess sarahell is saying they wouldn't be doing a new colonisation. In essence, moving to NZ for a white American is just the same as moving somewhere else in the US - they are colonised lands but for generations have been majority of white-European heritage.
The original statement: At least the (mostly) educated white English-speakers of ILX are choosing places where they can be with those of their kind as opposed to colonizing / gentrifying?
I mean, this is entirely flawed, but it seems to suggest that moving to a pre-colonised place is somehow morally better than moving to another country that isn't predominantly white-European? The fear of being a new coloniser seems to be more heavy than the fear of perpetuating colonisation, not to mention the fear of becoming some sort of weird ethno-bubble?
― emil.y, Thursday, 2 June 2022 12:17 (two years ago) link
Well who would choose to be an outsider long term? Many of us are for whatever reason.. but the question is where would you go settle in if money is no object
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 2 June 2022 12:26 (two years ago) link
Oh yeah, I'm not talking about the practical reasons anyone might have for their choice, and personally I'm absolutely not judging anyone for their choices! However, the statement that seems to have caught attention very much seems to be concerned with the morality of the moves people might make. As though there's a wider guiding principle that people should take into consideration. I feel like it's reasonable to pick up on that and question it.
― emil.y, Thursday, 2 June 2022 12:32 (two years ago) link
itt people seeking their tribe
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 2 June 2022 12:36 (two years ago) link
my dreams of moving somewhere else are predicated on going somewhere to be an alien
― hello duckness my old friend (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 June 2022 12:37 (two years ago) link
i probably would've made a pretty good Fin
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 2 June 2022 12:37 (two years ago) link
xp I've done it, it can be a great time. But it's rare to want to stay like that
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 2 June 2022 12:38 (two years ago) link
am i wrong in thinking the question isn't talking about a few year jaunt?
― maf you one two (maffew12), Thursday, 2 June 2022 12:40 (two years ago) link
NV, one of my more feasible dreams of moving is actually to Hull. Pretty much entirely b/c it's one of the only places I could maybe afford to buy a place to live. Also, Spiders.
― emil.y, Thursday, 2 June 2022 12:40 (two years ago) link
I once registered with a mutual exchange council home swap site and was looking for somewhere by the sea, even places with bad reps like Grismby or Filey but there weren't many wanting to move my way. Then I found someone with family in my area and willing to swap this way on the Isle of Man and their description of the house made it sound amazing, it had a sea facing back garden and apparently you could see the Milky Way on a clear night. But I felt like I'd end up getting murdered or chased into the sea with pitchforks and turned it down.
― calzino, Thursday, 2 June 2022 12:56 (two years ago) link
i fear Spiders is not what it was
― hello duckness my old friend (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 2 June 2022 13:03 (two years ago) link
Weren't they still birching people on the Isle of Man until ludicrously recently?
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 June 2022 13:08 (two years ago) link
that wouldn't surprise me
― calzino, Thursday, 2 June 2022 13:09 (two years ago) link
Not that recently but recently enough:
The Isle of Man (a small island between Britain and Ireland with its own legal system as a British Crown dependency) caused a good deal of controversy by continuing to birch young offenders until 1976.
― Doodles Diamond (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 June 2022 13:09 (two years ago) link
I guess sarahell is saying they wouldn't be doing a new colonisation. In essence, moving to NZ for a white American is just the same as moving somewhere else in the US - they are colonised lands but for generations have been majority of white-European heritage. The original statement: _At least the (mostly) educated white English-speakers of ILX are choosing places where they can be with those of their kind as opposed to colonizing / gentrifying?_I mean, this is entirely flawed, but it seems to suggest that moving to a pre-colonised place is somehow morally better than moving to another country that isn't predominantly white-European? The fear of being a new coloniser seems to be more heavy than the fear of perpetuating colonisation, not to mention the fear of becoming some sort of weird ethno-bubble?
― gyac, Thursday, 2 June 2022 13:17 (two years ago) link
My argument is don’t call NZ a white country in the sense its indigenous people are white - unlike, idk Ireland, where we actually are - and then say that moving there is to be with fellow elite people and it’s not colonising. I’m not sure modern day Māori much care about the motives of white westerners pricing them out or what wave of colonialism we’re splitting hairs on, you know?
― gyac, Thursday, 2 June 2022 13:23 (two years ago) link
fellow white, lol, thanks autocorrect
I love my house and immediate neighborhood, like an approximately one-square-mile area that has my preferred bars and shops and whatnot.
However, it would be nice if it were mounted on gigantic rails and could be moved to approximately the latitude of Savannah, Georgia in February. Then slide it to approximately to the latitude of Freeport, Maine in August. Perhaps do this gradually, so that it's pretty much always late spring or early autumn. Every couple of years it might be fun to have it transferred to a huge barge and towed to the vicinity of Aruba, or Cap D'Antibes, or Venice.
Or, alternatively, just keep it on a barge and move it lazily up and down the US east coast, near enough to run day excursions to art museums in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Washington, etc.
― I am just a squirrel in the world (Ye Mad Puffin), Thursday, 2 June 2022 13:33 (two years ago) link
gyac, I agree with what you're saying. I was just trying to expand on the point that I thought was being made and pick it apart a little. The picking apart wasn't really directed at a specific argument, just my thoughts on the questions brought up.
More thoughts: I do think that the morality of moving isn't all that simple - I believe in open borders, free travel and the broadening of cultural horizons, but is that extricable from the history of colonialism and current structures of privilege? Can I say "culture should be shared" when I come from a country that is notorious for stealing and stifling it?
I guess maybe I should move this to another thread, though, if it seems a bit heavy on this one?
― emil.y, Thursday, 2 June 2022 14:09 (two years ago) link