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seriously dude, DC.

It sucks but it's no fucking boston.

Yeah, I know! The fact that my brother lives there is a HUGE plus.

xpost Well, what with global warming, that should be, like, 2012 at the latest.

Chicago is cool, but OMG I have never been so freaking cold as standing outside the Aquarium there two days after Xmas. Way too much wind, way too many people in line.

and no imprimatur of center-of-the-universeness like NYC or SF causing a constant overabundance of labor and undersupply of housing

just so everyone knows, due to my business situation, i will live in this city until i die

also, i love it here and never want to leave, but it is more fun to just decide there IS NO CHOICE

chicago is a windswept freezing shithole, but it does have better public transportation than we do

no offense chicagogogoeans

John OTM. We don't want to make the kids change schools, so even leaving Northfield is sort of impossible now. And A. will NOT consider a different job no matter how stressed he is by it.

But yeah, it would be nice to be *able* to have a choice about it.

We should all just move to a random city and make it awesome.

John might "live in this city" until he dies, but it does remain a possibility that a crowd with pitchforks will drive him away.

So there's always hope for change.

Dan... can it be a warmer city? But also in a state that is not insane politically. Like... uh... can we take over a Hawaiian island?

AND WE SHALL CALL THAT CITY HSTNGS, MN xxpost

GOD JOHN, ARE YOU NUTS?!

bermuda is already awesome.

We should all just move to a random city and make it awesome.

this is how liberal yuppies keep turning perfectly nice small towns like jackson hole into asshole traps, isn't it?

the road to hell etc

ugh, thanks for throwing buckets of flies into my Cheerios guys

liberal yes... I'm trying to imagine John's rxn to being called a "yuppie"

xpost DANIEL, I'M INNOCENT!!!

i suppose it would be bad form for me to start a bunch of duplicate primaries threads with identical names just to throw people off the scent, huh?

xpost hahaha well yes i might take offense

Sometimes the truth hurts.

Uh-oh.

Oh that's right, John is urban and a professional who runs his own business, BUT HE'S NOT THAT YOUNG ANYMORE, IS HE??????????????????

(I expect to be banned by the time I get home.)

Daniel you are kind of evil, which is why I adore you.

John, I'm really resisting making comments about "professional," but only because I haven't seen Eclipse in a million years, so I don't really know what I'm on about. SO HARD TO RESIST THOUGH

(ok leaving the office now, see you guys in 3 days)

You know what, though, John DOES have a nice suit and tie now... hmmmmm.

I am proud of the term "asshole traps"

Okay, bye Dan.

If John lets you stay, we have SISTERS OF MERCY day to look forward to! (see, I'm petitioning on Dan's behalf to keep the peace here)

dan i am now an U_UPIE

That sounds obscene.

I missed something.

(Then again I've been busy. Best way to get through a bleak mood -- have a lot of work to put down and out of the way. Which it is, brilliantly. YAY WONDERFUL ME!)

Yay Ned! I'm glad you've cheered up some.

Well I'll cheer up more when I'm going home. Which is shortly.

Have a great night, Ned.

MANY XPOSTS i'm serious about the school thing - nothing could make me go back. but i'm not adverse to learning/training - i'll be taking classes at the san fran centre for the book. i just hate university. BUT if i told my 20yr old self i would be moving to the US to live i wouldn't have believed it; i thought i'd always live in wellington.

ayo it's a CENTER not a "centre"

i've already had this discussion with jordan I AM NOT CHANGING THE WAY I SPELL

I am currently ignoring the Mormons at my door.

I'd rather have Mormons at my door than Jehovah's Witnesses, but on the whole I heartily approve of you ignoring them.

bump bump bump

my friend's dad used to polish his guns only when the jehovahs/mormons came to visit, and he would also strip to underpants. then he would ask them serious questions about their faith until they became uncomfortable enough to leave of hteir own accord

remy, i didn't remember us being friends back in the day

So Remy, what about the ones who stayed?

xpost Oh, like a Jehovah's Witness could find your parents' house, John.

(otherwise entirely believable, though)

i didn't ever hear that part of the story, ned. the tales i heard ended with my friend's mom coming home and seeing missionaries running out of the driveway as fast as their legs could manage

My brother told the one Jehovah's Witness who came out to our house that his name was NATAS.

one time some jehovah's witnesses knocked at my door just seconds after i had put on some beautiful elegant white silk lounging pyjamas which had been given to me that morning by an older woman who'd got them in paris on her honeymoon years before, so i opened the door, raised one eyebrow and drawled 'yes?' and they blushed and stammered and said 'it doesn't matter' and ran away, they thought i was a painted jezebel.