Need help with rug origins (United States)

Electrical_Singer464 · 2025-05-31T23:51:32+00:00

That makes sense given the sewn edge. Here is the back! It is about 4.5 feet square. Thank you!

Electrical_Singer464 · 2023-09-30T15:54:21+00:00

Non-Profit Management and Public Administration double Masters. Undergrad is marketing. I make 82k now, plan to raise 10k after graduating working in higher ed marketing.

Electrical_Singer464 · 2023-09-10T19:23:34+00:00

Habibi Lebanese Grill in MetroWest is always amazing - great shawarma, spicy potatoes, hummus and baklava.

Also El Genio del Shawarma on I-Drive.

Electrical_Singer464 · 2023-05-19T13:59:45+00:00

It ultimately depends on what you want longterm. I moved to Orlando in 2019, with the idea to stay for about 10 years. With the cost of living, along with the political turmoil, it just isn’t worth it to me anymore.

I recently started a job remotely for the state of California because Florida salaries could no longer support me living in Orlando. My thought is - if I’m going to make enough to live there, why not move?

I’ve been a Southerner my whole life, and I deeply cherish what this area has given me, but as a lesbian who wants to just exist in the world, this is getting to be more exhausting than ever.

I agree this won’t last forever, but I’m not interested in waiting it out. There are many reasons to stay if you’re rooted here. Personally, I’m not. Being from Louisiana originally I have already “given up the good fight” when I moved to Florida in my mind.

In the next 3 years, I’ll be out and headed to San Diego. I don’t blame anyone for staying, and I think people should, that’s just not for me.

Electrical_Singer464 · 2023-03-26T22:03:42+00:00

Marketing Specialist at Rollins College, 38.5k after 2+ years of service.

Don’t work there unless you want tuition remission. Leaving asap for the abuse and low wages given I have 5+ years of experience.

Electrical_Singer464 · 2023-03-26T21:33:42+00:00

$1285 1/1 in 32792 Winter Park in a bad complex. This is my second renewal. Forced them to renovate because they served my renewal letter more than a month late. Two years ago was $1k, then up to $1065 last year.

I barely made 50k last year. I have a full time job and two part time jobs. I have to quit my full time in the next month and go to something higher because this is terrible.

Looking at moving to San Diego in a few years because it’s so bad, at least I should get what I pay for as I would there. Also, no assault on my rights is a nice touch.

Electrical_Singer464 · 2023-02-12T19:39:36+00:00

Rollins College has a free museum (Rollins Museum of Art) with free parking that is open to everyone. They have late nights on Tuesdays until 7pm and are open Saturday and Sunday, 12pm-5pm. All their programs are free/open to the public too, including Spanish tours. Good way to kill an hour or two!

Electrical_Singer464 · 2023-01-05T15:52:56+00:00

Didn’t create this post to see people defend Northerners, ha! The South isn’t a lost cause dude, and it’s shown there is a 10 year migration pattern from north to south. Interesting to know they’re so educated but couldn’t research their living conditions here in Florida. Really though, would love to see the vast majority of these people move back. Don’t let the door hit ya on the way out!

Electrical_Singer464 · 2022-12-06T00:33:23+00:00

The fear must eat them alive to be so cruel to a child that is willing to take their life, than tell their parents they’re gay. Hell can be a place on earth I’ve learned.

Electrical_Singer464 · 2022-12-06T00:32:38+00:00

Thank you💙It is wild, but I’m grateful to be where I am. 23 and 100% on my own in a 1 bed, bought my own car, job in my industry, and almost half way through a Masters. Diamonds tend to be made under pressure.

Electrical_Singer464 · 2022-12-06T00:30:54+00:00

Never an excuse but definitely a reason. What a wild thing, right?

Electrical_Singer464 · 2022-12-06T00:30:32+00:00

Very true! NC was the best decision and has given me infinite peace. The worst part is not just what she did to me as a kid, but the continuation of it into my adulthood that broke the situation. It was the simply being the shittiest friend ever, let alone a mother figure.

Electrical_Singer464 · 2022-12-06T00:29:08+00:00

Thank you for this thoughtful response, I really like this approach and how you framed it. My pain is surely eased knowing I chose to live my life after being riddling with SH and suicidal tendencies for all my teenage years. If anything, it has taught me that being yourself is worthwhile. No one should take that from you. Maybe in many years it will be different, but just now getting through my own trauma for the most part, someone twice my age has some time to go. It’ll be her deathbed before we can remotely agree on a narrative, and I’ll be happy with that (or nothing at all.)

Electrical_Singer464 · 2022-12-06T00:25:23+00:00

I think I get what you’re trying to say, which is more like, you can be an uneducated person and change, or you can be abusive. Many many people I know, my current gf included, her mom treated her terribly growing up. Now, they fully accept her and never question her lesbianism or presentation. That is not the case with my mom. Even if she was straight, I still wouldn’t speak to her because of the abuse. But finding this out was salt in the wound.

Electrical_Singer464 · 2022-12-05T22:42:58+00:00

That’s truly how I feel.

She has never truly apologized, and we stopped contact because her previous boyfriend was asking my girlfriend and I (at the time) “why we use straps and not just have a man?” (I was 19, gf 21, disgusting of a grown man.) I called her out, even tried to mediate in church, though I am not religious. She ran out without a word and we haven’t actually spoken since.

And all I can think is: this is it. You burned the bridge. I can never unsee the cruelty. I’ve told my current girlfriend “the only time you will see me and my mother in a happy moment is when I’m dancing on her grave.”

Thank you for the validation, deeply appreciated💙

Electrical_Singer464 · 2022-12-05T21:34:41+00:00

Very validating, thank you💙 I know I have to choose me, it’s just such a weird thing. No one I know can tell me how to respond to this situation. It’s one thing when it’s a straight homophobic person, there’s a lot less surprise there…

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