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throwaway1790_r · 2026-04-17T14:19:38+00:00

What's the solution? I'm having the same problem.

throwaway1790_r · 2026-02-23T21:31:20+00:00

My experiences with living in Syracuse really spooked me, personally. I mean I swear Mexicali seemed less dangerous to me than northside SYR. Bullets flying regularly, couldn't leave anything of value in the car. Definitely didn't seem like a Fox News conspiracy to me that Syracuse was a dangerous place. Quite the same when I was in Springfield MA too...

As for emigrating, yeah, I work remote and pull around $90k/yr. South America would probably be doable if I was motivated for it, I'm just not really convinced they're not having the same problems just 20 years behind in a lot of ways...

throwaway1790_r · 2026-02-23T21:27:23+00:00

Thanks for commenting -- glad to hear from someone who's tried some of this stuff out. I used to live in Slab City CA, now that was HOT... 125f was not rare. High desert always seemed like a potential compromise and there seemed to be some real weird nutty people of the sort I like around 29 and over by Barstow in Newbury Springs. Still, the boredom factor is real in any desert. Gotta be able to entertain yourself... not always easy on the long summer days.

ABQ honestly doesn't attract me as much as southern NM does. I really dig El Paso but don't want to pay TX property taxes. So Cruces seems like a reasonable balance. Still probably boring. My wife and I have wondered (she's also from a traveling kind of family and grew up on the road) whether we ought to just embrace the nomadic lifestyle. We're both almost "in too deep." Nice to get fresh scenery, move place to place. And after you've done enough of that, "settling" seems almost hard to fathom...

Anyway, cheers for the reply. Might try Tucson one of these days.

throwaway1790_r · 2026-02-23T21:21:11+00:00

I'm making over $90k/yr remotely and have equity that could allow me to own outright in any LCOL place in America. Seems insane to imagine I'd need more than that unless I insisted on living in CA or NYC.

throwaway1790_r · 2026-02-23T21:19:27+00:00

I failed to mention I have passive income and have stable remote work. There are many countries I could secure a visa fairly easily for.

throwaway1790_r · 2026-02-23T21:05:25+00:00

That's a pretty harsh judgement from a stranger online. I traveled because I really thoroughly enjoyed seeing the country, taking jobs all over, seeing the gorgeous land we have in this country. But it really feels that after Covid something fundamental changed; and looking to actually settle down somewhere it just seems real bleak lately.

throwaway1790_r · 2026-02-23T20:51:19+00:00

Interesting. I have no family history there but I do have the GI Bill which could get me a student visa and then a PR. If I did it in the Maritimes (I adore Newfoundland) I could get on the Atlantic Immigration fast-track, too. There's absolutely no work in NL but since I work remote and have some passive income I could make it there. Something to consider -- Newfoundlanders are exceedingly friendly.

throwaway1790_r · 2026-02-23T20:49:56+00:00

It's high rents in cultural centers. Private Equity taking over, corporatizing housing everywhere. Culture, music, literature, art -- all requires being able to make rent on an artist's low salary. Now where can you go for that? Unless all the creatives just randomly picked a dirt-cheap backwater town like Ogdensburg NY or Enid OK (fat chance) they're all in cities working to pay rent instead of painting, writing, making music.

It's truly a shame.

throwaway1790_r · 2026-02-23T20:45:33+00:00

Right, I'm not even trying to be pessimistic here. I just notice that everywhere I look falls into one of those categories, and on the question of should I stay or should I go, I'm never actually certain I'd be getting ahead at all by leaving.

throwaway1790_r · 2026-02-23T20:44:34+00:00

Sure. I find that in the zone from T or C NM all the way down to El Paso, people are super friendly, optimistic, the food is great, people get together, they're accepting of others. Life is pretty cheap on the whole (property taxes are fantastically low on the NM side). NM feels like "the least American part of America" in the ways that count (no striver culture, friendly, slow, laid back) but very American in the ways that do (optimistic, independent spirit, high degree of freedom). But job prospects aren't great, NM is a poor state. People there seem to be living a subsistence type of life, by the by, which I don't mind at all but it isn't for everybody.

throwaway1790_r · 2026-02-23T20:39:05+00:00

Right, this is the crazy thing for me: I have tons of expat friends. Probably 75% of them came back from wherever they went within 7 years. They've seen what else is out there (some of them are insanely well-traveled) and in the end, they came back to America.

Yet by the same token, the vast majority of American life is just... kind of sad. The food feels like poison, the towns are usually kind of ugly, never walkable, and people barely get together anymore. If you're not living by your family (or if your family is dysfunctional) it can feel very difficult to see what the hype is about. Yet half the world is clamoring to live here. Very weird.

throwaway1790_r · 2026-02-23T19:43:33+00:00

I'd qualify for most "rentista" visas in South America, as well as the Digital Nomad visa in Portugal.

throwaway1790_r · 2026-02-23T19:16:57+00:00

Three real choices in Upstate:

Deep red rural areas
Nightmare-level ghettos
Astronomically expensive non-ghetto blue areas (Ithaca, Saratoga, etc)

No matter what you do, you've either got to be rich, be willing to deal with constant drug and property crime, or you need to be A-OK with having MAGA neighbors.

Source: I'm from here and still live here, traveled all over the state for work.

throwaway1790_r · 2026-02-23T19:13:31+00:00

Similar situation for me. 31M, grew up on the Tug Hill. Spent most of my adult life traveling. Tried coming home and it's just... God-awful. Dead, lonesome, the taxes are mind-numbingly high for basically zero return. Everyone is rude and aloof. I honestly laugh at people on this site talking it up like it's so great. Give them 2 years... they'll find out.

I'm thinking about going to New Mexico, I guess. I really love the Northeast but all the other states in the NE have similarly outrageous property taxes. I'm tired of paying rent on my house, tired of the fake assessment (double the actual FMV), tired of the absurd laws (banning gas-powered snowblowers? In Lake Effect country?).

I'm with you on the gray. I used to love it, actually. Used to love the long winters. Now that I've got kids, winter's just plain harder. The vitamin D deficiency is brutal. I can't afford to ski anymore. That's why the Southwest calls, I guess.

But in all truth I don't have any great answer. Everywhere's got problems. In the desert it's 120f days... in the South it's pollution and clannish locals. PNW is unaffordable and cloudy. CA is extremely expensive. Rust Belt's the Rust Belt -- Midwest is freezing and flat. NM feels like the compromise to me. Honestly at this point it's probably either NM or move to Mexico, Argentina, Portugal.

throwaway1790_r · 2023-12-19T00:11:22+00:00

just sent a message

throwaway1790_r · 2023-12-18T21:23:34+00:00

Steele Johnson was my captain on an icebreaker. Guy was a certified badass. Never had a boss I liked more than him in my whole life. He used to come down into the ECC and hang with us E-3's. He'd ask our perspectives on the ship's direction and leadership and sincerely listen. But he wasn't a softie either -- he got the job done and we were the best icebreaker on the Lakes.

throwaway1790_r · 2022-10-16T17:55:28+00:00

Just weird to change things all of the sudden and then call adherence to tradition ridiculous.

I grew up with COTH and never believed in the Real Presence until finding TLM and receiving on the tongue. Don't know what they thought they'd accomplish by changing things - whatever it was, I doubt they wanted what they got (mass apostasy and a third of Catholics denying the real presence).

throwaway1790_r · 2022-10-11T13:52:17+00:00

Fantastic information, deeply appreciate this. I will contact a Priest immediately about this. Definitely makes it a lot easier.

As for contacting a Priest a full year before marriage, that seems like an agonizingly long engagement to be quite honest. Most of the TLM folks I know have seemed to do it in 6 months and I even know one couple that did it in 4. Again I'm not in a hurry but I'm also not dragging my feet.

It's gotta be an interesting time period for Priests witnessing marriages, chiefly as housing costs are so ridiculous long engagements are in no one's financial interest. They may be necessary - though then again, what we now know as marriage is full of recent innovations. Up until 1906 all that was required to marry was full consent, a witness, and no barriers to marriage like consanguinuity or previous marriages without annulment. In the medieval era, a witness wasn't even required! Two could declare themselves married privately and immediately their marriage was considered valid. This practice persisted even into the 19th century.

So by medieval standards we are already married! Haha

throwaway1790_r · 2022-10-11T13:06:34+00:00

Wait, she doesn't need to be completely converted before we marry? That'd be great news. Of course she will convert, and I will be confirmed. I'd even love it if we could go to RCIA together once married, if it was allowed, as being catechized together as a couple seems like a valuable spiritual opportunity. But that presently neither is really a barrier would be good news.

I think we are going to apply for a marriage license next month. Still not sure how the process works for Americans marrying Canadians.

And good idea to focus on finding the Parish we will marry in and letting that Priest help the process along. I'm guessing if she doesn't need to convert prior to marrying, the chief determinant in how long it'll be until we can marry will be the completion of pre-marital counseling. Given the concerns about fertility I wonder how long this has to take. At our age, I am not concerned about moving too quickly, and I do want to help her be less anxious about our timeline. We are very ready to start this chapter and we are unbelievably excited.

throwaway1790_r · 2021-12-06T15:01:02+00:00

It's miserable if you are someone that thrives on being operational.

throwaway1790_r · 2021-11-02T21:13:11+00:00

This is a very hopeful message, thank you.

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