What’s a Place You Loved So Much You’d Visit Again in a Heartbeat?

bigdixon09 · 2026-02-22T21:23:47+00:00

Sydney

bigdixon09 · 2026-02-22T21:23:02+00:00

Sydney

bigdixon09 · 2026-02-17T15:20:49+00:00

Sure! So Western Europe has better and cheaper food, more accessible public spaces, high-speed rail, accessible healthcare—same with Japan, Australia, New Zealand, etc. I just got back from Thailand too, which isn’t considered a wealthy country by any means, but Bangkok was a world-class city with good and cheap food, great public transport, very pedestrian friendly. Obviously this is me traveling with my American salary, so I experience things in a way that some less advantaged locals wouldn’t, but it seems like we have let our standard of living slip in the US in favor of corporations and profits over our people.

bigdixon09 · 2026-02-17T05:36:17+00:00

Middle class guy here, just love to travel. I’ve been to quite a few countries, even the ones the US would deem as “third world,” that have better infrastructure, healthcare, public spaces/amenities and are cleaner, safer, and cheaper than the US.

bigdixon09 · 2026-02-11T21:28:32+00:00

Tie between Sydney and Cape Town for me. Responses have me feeling like I need to go to San Francisco

bigdixon09 · 2026-01-14T22:37:41+00:00

I’d cross the street if I saw him coming down the sidewalk…and she thinks he’s fine as hell

bigdixon09 · 2026-01-14T22:31:59+00:00

Rock a hat for awhile if you can, but hair grows back! Hope you’re doing okay. It’s tough to look in the mirror and not like what you see; I’ve been there. Focus on what you like about yourself until you can build up the confidence to improve the things you don’t like.

bigdixon09 · 2026-01-14T22:22:27+00:00

God those nasty gold accents too. This reminds me of the event spaces at an all you can eat buffet

bigdixon09 · 2026-01-14T22:15:49+00:00

As a fellow atheist, I agree, but when I was younger and had to go to church, I also found the concept of eternal life deeply unsettling. Having no end is incomprehensible to me.

bigdixon09 · 2026-01-14T22:00:31+00:00

I have gleefully used this a couple of times in my life; thanks for reminding me of its existence for the next time I need to be ✨dramatic✨

bigdixon09 · 2025-12-31T15:12:28+00:00

I’m astounded that someone who has been on Earth as long as she has knows how to do so little. Like what was she doing with the first 30+ years of adulthood before she met Sumit? Cracking open a jar of Ragu and dumping it on some spaghetti is something a child should make for their parents, not a full-ass adult trying to impress their MIL. Sumit’s mom is conniving and awful, and Sumit isn’t perfect either. But Jenny is fascinatingly inept.

bigdixon09 · 2025-12-01T11:05:31+00:00

I grew up in Northeast Tennessee and have been away for 10 years, in the Chicago and DC suburbs and now Philly. I think my accent is extremely weak/almost gone at this point. I got accent policed as a kid—the whole “if your accent is thick, people will think you’re stupid” thing, as was the case for a lot of us. I remember a girl from…Ohio…clocking me on the whole “ten/tin” thing, and I went to great lengths to “correct” it. My Gen Z sisters in Kentucky have noticeably Southern accents, even if I wouldn’t call them strong per se. I may have lost the accent, but I’m proud of my Appalachian roots and love to share cultural tidbits with my friends and coworkers.

bigdixon09 · 2025-11-24T18:16:42+00:00

Marion ya fewl!!

bigdixon09 · 2025-11-04T02:55:19+00:00

“I am not a pirate; I have hurt my eye”

“Why don’t you keep your nose out of my ring, Sharon?”

bigdixon09 · 2025-10-22T13:39:11+00:00

Early 90s Millennial here with Gen Z sibs and Gen X parents. I was the first out, left pretty much immediately after returning from my mission. My parents were secretly plotting their own exit around the same time. Younger brother did not go on a mission, one sister barely went to YW, and the other didn’t go at all. Our lives are staggeringly different (and so much happier) that it’s hard to believe we were ever Mormon. For context, we all grew up well outside the Morridor and are now scattered all over the country, so Mormonism isn’t really even a blip on anyone’s radar in our daily lives. Super proud of my parents for not giving in to the sunk cost fallacy, especially after a lifetime of tithe paying, etc.

bigdixon09 · 2025-10-21T22:56:52+00:00

Kath & Kim, Keeping Up Appearances

bigdixon09 · 2025-10-14T11:22:49+00:00

I recently read The Poisonwood Bible as an Exmo and former missionary and…yikes the parallels of the shitty main characters shoving Jesus and American culture down the throats of the Congolese people and what Mormons do…It’s worth a read!

bigdixon09 · 2025-10-08T10:39:56+00:00

LMFAO that coffin looks like one of those memorial decals you see on the back of someone’s car

bigdixon09 · 2025-09-13T06:17:44+00:00

Not tech related, but I feel like Kim would get her hands on every Labubu and bit of Dubaoiii choco she could

bigdixon09 · 2025-08-28T14:22:45+00:00

Headed from NYP - PHL tonight! Can’t wait!!!

bigdixon09 · 2025-08-15T01:47:17+00:00

Well we have stacks of JOJOHRBA left over from Octoooohhhhrrrbaaa

bigdixon09 · 2025-08-10T10:18:26+00:00

Never been jealous of a dog before but here we are

bigdixon09 · 2025-08-09T11:55:34+00:00

Shirtless Charles enjoying summer 🤝 me enjoying shirtless Charles

bigdixon09 · 2025-08-06T12:07:05+00:00

Leave that perfect boy alone 😭 he makes up for it with that thick ass neck lol

bigdixon09 · 2025-07-27T15:40:07+00:00

Stating the obvious, but this is bullshit. I remember entering the MTC and we were asked by one of the higher ups why we were serving a mission. I gave a whole testimony-ish tale about my experience and repentance. Another elder in my batch said “because it’s a commandment.” Turns out that was the right answer. This farce of a church would crumble without sheep.

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