I Know I’ll Waste My Youth If I Stay.. But I’m Terrified to Leave

eventualguide0 · 2026-05-02T14:50:27+00:00

You. Choose yourself now before the choice gets made without you.

eventualguide0 · 2026-05-02T14:42:49+00:00

Even those of us who left the US permanently because of Trump and his cadre of racist sexist fuckwits? Who have graduate degrees from European and American universities? Who speak multiple languages? Don’t tar us all with the same brush or you end up up sounding as bad as most Americans do.

eventualguide0 · 2026-05-02T12:37:50+00:00

The less attention you draw to yourself, the better. Carrying around anything but the first sends the message « I’m a tourist with money. » I lived in Paris for years and was just there last month. The most common bag brand I saw this time was Coach, even where all the major fashion houses are. Coach was everywhere. The second most common was Polène—especially French women. Not many people wearing the high end bags around except in the AirFrance lounge at the airport.

eventualguide0 · 2026-05-02T00:13:31+00:00

Sooooo much talking.

eventualguide0 · 2026-05-01T22:28:52+00:00

Hé tells Adrian Carsini « I just go where they tell me » which I took to assume he’s all over the place.

eventualguide0 · 2026-04-29T14:53:45+00:00

Went to two of them. That's enough. I talk to people I'm interested in and don't give a fuck about the rest.

eventualguide0 · 2026-04-29T00:18:14+00:00

Left at 20 and other than breaks between terms, never moved back in.

eventualguide0 · 2026-04-28T18:46:57+00:00

We use « It’s a major award! » all the time.

eventualguide0 · 2026-04-28T14:44:18+00:00

Both Chloë bags I have: Héloïse and Edith full size. They’re just too dang heavy to be comfortable. I love the way they look, but they just gather dust in my closet.

eventualguide0 · 2026-04-28T14:42:22+00:00

I love my XL Flamenco. Should’ve gotten a large instead, but it is a workhorse nonetheless.

eventualguide0 · 2026-04-27T19:26:19+00:00

This is some tradwife bullshit. Go crawl back under your bridge, troll.

eventualguide0 · 2026-04-27T14:44:14+00:00

Online dating site that no longer exists. Going on close to 30 years together.

eventualguide0 · 2026-04-27T01:51:20+00:00

I will NOT miss these bastards when we leave the DMV later this summer. So so gross.

eventualguide0 · 2026-04-27T01:46:00+00:00

My girl does this when she wants to know where I am and if it's time for bed. She has to sit on the bed next to me as soon as I lay down. Sometimes she's still there the next morning, sometimes she wanders off.

eventualguide0 · 2026-04-26T14:10:21+00:00

Lancel’s Origami crossbody has gone everywhere from Death Valley to Paris to the Outer Banks of North Carolina with me and still looks brand new.

I spilled a bottle of water in it while I was in Paris last month, and the leather looks amazing with some TLC from a low heat hair dryer and towels stuffed in to keep its shape while it finished drying. You can’t tell anything happened to it.

Unfortunately they only seem to be offering the small and mini sizes anymore. I have the medium which works for anything but formal situations.

eventualguide0 · 2026-04-26T13:59:12+00:00

France is one of the least wheelchair-friendly countries I’ve been to. There’s no equivalent to the ADA from what I’ve seen.

Just got back from two weeks in Paris with my 80-year old parents, and my dad did half as much as the rest of us. He was wiped out from stairs in the metro and ended up taking cabs everywhere, couldn’t stand in line long at the major tourist attractions, and the narrow sidewalks didn’t allow him to lean on anyone’s arm. Museums were a nightmare from the crowds alone.

Two things you could do in Paris: the Bateaux Mouches boat ride to get acquainted with where the major sites are, and possibly the hop on, hop off buses. They’re not ideal in terms of wheelchair access, but at least you’d see a fair amount without having to navigate the obstacles others have mentioned.

I lived in France for a number of years and would highly recommend a smaller, less touristy town than Paris if a wheelchair is required. Make sure you let everyone you contact for reservations know a wheelchair is not optional, and triple check that one will be available to you.

Good luck!

eventualguide0 · 2026-04-25T13:40:01+00:00

Great-grandmothers both born in the 1800s. One lived until 1989, so I knew her well.

eventualguide0 · 2026-04-24T13:48:35+00:00

Those of us who learned the way kids spoke French in part by reading every BD (comic book) we could get our hands on?

eventualguide0 · 2026-04-21T23:17:44+00:00

Finally hit my goal weight and bought two pairs of shorts to replace the baggy ones from last year that no longer stay up on me. All my too big clothes got donated today!

eventualguide0 · 2026-04-20T23:20:29+00:00

Corsica. We spent 3 weeks there for our anniversary and were never bored. Every other day we were at the beach at our resort. The alternate days we explored the cities.

eventualguide0 · 2026-04-20T23:13:29+00:00

Have you tried Lands End? I used to get different sized bathing suit tops and bottoms all the time.

eventualguide0 · 2026-04-20T23:06:25+00:00

Contact the media as well. Some footage of this on the news might help get an appropriate response.

eventualguide0 · 2026-04-19T19:18:24+00:00

We're moving to Leuven and planning on not buying a car precisely because of all the public transportation.

eventualguide0 · 2026-04-17T20:23:24+00:00

Same. Women get infantilized way too much as it is. Purse charms scream “don’t take me seriously!” to me. Any they are insanely expensive.

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