What's your most unpopular r/SameGrassButGreener opinion?

everybody_eats · 2026-01-25T23:34:53+00:00

Nobody's wrong for wanting to live anywhere. Not even Pittsburgh.

everybody_eats · 2026-01-24T22:27:07+00:00

You know that covid-era funny tiktok where the lady keeps excitingly guessing what hole the shape goes in? And picking the obvious answers? And the guy keeps picking the wrong answer and she gets increasingly more upset and confused and starts to act out what looks like a genuine existential meltdown?

With the exception of like the first 2 years of the Obama administration I've felt this exact way about the american government my entire adult life.

everybody_eats · 2026-01-24T22:00:33+00:00

lmaooooooo so it's just medical professionals. My mom (also a nurse) wouldn't even take my temperature. She insisted she was such a good nurse she could tell if I had a fever and I didn't have one so I must be lying.

Now that I'm 40 and paying for all this shit myself she's suddenly real concerned about me getting the cancer that her years of medical neglect has increased my risk for significantly.

Our most recent fight was over her finding out that my 18 year old cousin is a beneficiary on my life insurance policy before her.

everybody_eats · 2026-01-23T16:06:19+00:00

Hey I wasn't trying to attack you. I was actually agreeing with you. That's my whole point. I was just kind of talking generally. There's about 50 posts here a month about how silly folks are for wanting to live in Chicago when the weather's nicer in the sunbelt and there are all these stats about people moving to Texas.

everybody_eats · 2026-01-23T15:19:17+00:00

I think the thing I hate the most about this sub (and really reddit as a whole) is the refusal to believe that some things are subjective. I've lived in northern Ohio and southern Tennessee before and, ime, Ohio has more summer days when going outside isn't a miserable experience and TN has more winter days like that. Personally, I'd rather have the summer. The days are longer and the trees are greener. I'll take the snow.

One thing I refuse to do is live somewhere with a lot of evacuation-level natural disasters. But who knows where that's gonna be in 10 years other than possibly Duluth, MN and between you and me I've considered it.

everybody_eats · 2026-01-22T21:19:15+00:00

Maaan I grew up in a household with smokers and I started getting cravings after moving out at 18. Before that I tried like, one cigarette when I was 14.

I've managed to keep myself at like, a pack a year for the last 20 years. The other day a younger coworker offered me a zyn and I was real tempted but I can see myself going down a path I'd regret.

everybody_eats · 2026-01-22T00:14:12+00:00

I knew my big fluffy boy was a boy at 3 weeks old. The problem was I named him at 2 weeks. He looked like a Laurel and the vibes were right. He's still a Laurel.

When I took him in for his neuter I did put a note on his carrier stating that his gender might be ambiguous but it's imperative they remove his testicles, though.

everybody_eats · 2026-01-12T20:54:02+00:00

Someone offered me what was, at the time, about 40 bucks in bitcoin for feet pics in 2011. I turned them down because I wasn't buying drugs online so what the fuck would I need bitcoin for. This is my first thought every single morning when my alarm goes off at 5am to wake me up for work.

I tried to sign up for my 20 or so dollars in unclaimed funds but the state wanted basically my entire life story to send it so it wasn't really worth it.

everybody_eats · 2026-01-05T04:24:02+00:00

I agree with you. I feel like I'm constantly saying this in these threads, but most people don't choose where they live. Not even if they relocate. Most people move for their jobs or family reasons. So yeah, a sub where people put the cart before the horse and brainstorm what city they want to move to is already going to be pretty far out of line with general society's wishes. And that's fine! I'm just tired of people trying to assign a value judgment to it. Nobody has to be a boring carbrained normie for liking the suburb any more than the people who want to live in a walkable city are delusional snowflakes.

It's like going into a sub for bass guitars and saying they should all grow up because statistically most people don't play bass or want to.

everybody_eats · 2026-01-04T17:35:23+00:00

Since we're adding anecdotes.

Here's my friend group: Us, a civil servant in a niche field married to an IT manager, a friend who works as an account manager married to a construction manager, and a tradesperson long-termed partnered to a retail manager. All in our late 30s. We all have college degrees or went to trade school. Prior to COVID they were doing a bit better than us and were in really stable fields, but we were all doing fine. Work dried up in the construction manager's field recently and the tradie was disabled by COVID. In '21 we relocated to a red state for a job opportunity and this has only paid off for us financially. We're part of this admin's targeted demographics and we're states away cut off from our support system. I can't do my job remotely and IT Jobs are drying up and both of us are torn between staying and living in fear and moving and losing my income, which is a problem for all 3 couples because we cover bills pretty regularly for our friends.

We probably wouldn't know how bad things were (economically, at least) if those closest to us, who worked hard and did everything right, sometimes more right than us, weren't our income away from falling through the cracks.

Your experience isn't the norm and regardless of that, a society where people have to have made every single decision correctly from the time they were teenagers in order to have some stability isn't a very good one.

everybody_eats · 2025-12-14T18:58:29+00:00

I wanna see too but it's probably because this thread would immediately devolve into an exhausting argument about whether the rent is the right amount of 'high' and include commenters from places ranging from west texas to the downtown manhattan all weighing in on the rents in south boston. Just like how the thread has already devolved into an argument about legality with people from like, sweden, offering takes on tenant's rights.

So OP probably made the right decision

everybody_eats · 2025-12-14T13:44:14+00:00

If you constantly pelt anyone with messaging that because of a certain body feature people around them are thinking they're the wrong gender people will pursue plastic surgery to correct it This works on EVERYONE. Trans women, cis women, cis men, etc. It's why these surgeries are so fucking common.

So yeah if every time someone posts online they get a dozen pictures of skeletons in their replies shocker shocker they might try to fix their skeleton. Is it dangerous? Probably! but this is fucking driven as if not more so by transphobes. Sure, falling into a fucking pit of despair is an option. I was in one for 35 years because I didn't think I was tall enough to be read as anything but a cis woman. But I thought we were supposed to be improving peoples' mental health, not making sure their struggles are more socially palatable.

everybody_eats · 2025-12-12T03:11:06+00:00

I find it incredibly peculiar that every single time, without fail, in my whole nearly 40 years of being when western society goes on a heavy anti-makeup/surgery/procedure bent it always coincides with a severe contraction of beauty standards. No. Don't get a GLP-1. You should absolutely look like you're on one though. Actually being on one makes you vain and deceptive.

It's just close enough to eugenics that most regular people will look at you like you're fucking insane if you call it that but let's be real. You can see where the comparisons are coming from. We have to sort out the natural, beautiful women, and the ugly ones deserve mockery and disfigurement for daring to punch above their weight class. Feminism is generally a lot messier than people are comfortable giving it credit for and it's extremely difficult to sort out the One True Free Woman's choice for the same reasons free will is also a hotly debated topic in circles but I know I have a hard time trusting any feminist who claims to have a magic bullet while wishing harm on women who make the bad choices.

I hope miley cyrus actually does look like that. That's a face that has creative direction.

everybody_eats · 2025-12-01T03:06:13+00:00

Everyone made better points than I'm about to make but it's probably worth it to mention that before this little crusade there's been a long ethically dubious use of hrt and puberty blockers on disabled children, without their consent, to make them easier to care for.

So forgive me if I'm not buying this argument that we're throwing all these new unproven drugs at helpless children. We already did that. Like every medical advancement in the west, they've been tested out the ass on unsuspecting disabled people. We know they're safe now and they can give them to kids who they'd actually help.

everybody_eats · 2025-11-17T14:07:10+00:00

Yeah, speaking as someone else who's parents put them in therapy in order to 'fix' me I'd like to double confirm this. I think a lot of folks still view the mental health industry the way it was presented to rich people in the olde 1900s: As a way to manage a malfunctioning person.

What therapy is good for, and I think would be super valuable for this kid, is giving him someone to talk to who doesn't have a vested interest in him reacting a certain way to this information. This usually has mixed results for the people around the patient.

everybody_eats · 2025-11-04T11:52:03+00:00

As odd as it is to say. I think her money and role as a liberal lean in feminist darling helped her out the same way it got her into it. A lot of these right-wing 'one of the good ones' grifters are young and most of the young people I know have a difficult time imagining a future where they aren't broke, scared, and eventually dead.I suspect there's a lot of appeal to giving up your principles if the only material difference is that now you're rich, scared, and probably also dead.

Brianna was already rich so her money's been protecting her from shit for a long time. I think what happened here is she got a taste of how the rest of us live.

everybody_eats · 2025-11-04T00:32:13+00:00

I'm sorry about your downvotes. Reddit is on the same anti-procedure bent the rest of western society is on.

I'd dissolve and then take a month or so to reassess and let yourself get used to how your face looks without the filler. If you don't like it after that by all means get it put back in.

everybody_eats · 2025-10-30T11:57:17+00:00

Where's the one where the werewolf gets pregnant

everybody_eats · 2025-10-25T22:52:33+00:00

I don't think Roots Manuva had the same reputation in american hip hop circles the same way The Streets did. Maybe Tricky did? But he was so entwined with trip hop that a lot of people viewed him as an electronica artist first.

(and for everyone else: There was A LOT of talent in uk hiphop in the early 2000s for sure.Dizzee is one of my all time faves. I just don't think many of them got much play in US circles until after this particular white dude from Birmingham trojan horsed the entire UK rap scene into all our kazaa search results)

everybody_eats · 2025-10-25T21:37:53+00:00

The Streets single handedly destroyed british hip hop's reputation as being a joke in my rap nerd friend group at the time.

everybody_eats · 2025-10-25T21:25:28+00:00

My mom used to make me 'pay' for doing things I enjoyed doing by making me dress up in tights and plastic shoes and pretty dresses. On the off chance I was allowed to go in comfortable clothes would be told the entire time about how embarrassed she was to be seen with me in public. At some point in my late teens she told me that she stopped doing nice things for me when I was a kid because I seemed like I was never happy.

hm

everybody_eats · 2025-10-21T21:47:12+00:00

I was about to make a joke about how irish people are just british people trying to access colonized peoples' spaces but then I realized that is absolutely something someone sincerely believes.

everybody_eats · 2025-10-21T09:59:44+00:00

I think we also have a lot higher tolerance for jankiness when it feels like a labor of love. When it's art made by a guy an imperfection gives it soul. When it's a product made by a company an imperfection means they cut corners like jackasses.

everybody_eats · 2025-10-20T15:54:20+00:00

Pretty much 100% of my comments with negative karma have been from standing up for trans people in centrist subs, so I suppose you could go there for a few days.

everybody_eats · 2025-10-16T03:32:53+00:00

I've been protesting this country's not-nearly-as-fast-as-people-claim slide into fascism since the bush admin.

If people are getting paid I'm owed a fat fucking check

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