the happiness, excitement, and general contentedness thread

[D.o.S.]

Love the Somerville/Cambridge area. Still spend a lot of time there, lots of friends, etc. Would absolutely not move back.

I liked Philly the last time I was there, but that was brief and purposeful and brief.

[Strange Tales]

Shit were you that close to me? Damn.

Man you guys are really shitting on the place though as a place to live. I unno, it was nice there and my tinder game was on fire.

[D.o.S.]

Yeah dude I live like two hours away. I think if I was forced to move back to any kind of major metropolitan area I would pick Cambridge before a lot of other places, but a lot of the fondness I have for it is wrapped up in friends and scenes that aren't in the same place that they were at the time.

A few weeks ago, for example, I was off my tits standing outside a bar in Allston at like 2 am, having to get back to Cambridge, wondering where I was and where everyone was and what on earth I was going to do about a place to crash and all that*... and I got nothing short of exhausted at the thought. That's mostly the sort of thing that I remember that area for, and it was super rad, but it's not really where I'm at these days.



*and I wound up paying $6.25 for the entire weekend and meeting some very nice new friends alongside my very near and dear old ones, all told it was an awesome experience.

[Strange Tales]

That area is sort of what I'm looking for in a metropolitan area. It's right next to the city, but the area itself doesn't totally feel like a city if you dig what I'm saying. But according to my friend Somerville is starting to get blasted by rent raises as well right now, so fuck me and everything else. It almost seems impossible to move out of suburbs altogether to any area with the way rent prices are going.

Next time I'm up there I'll drop you a PM before I go up and I'll see if we can hang!

[neonblack]

Am I wrong for wanting to live in Providence? I feel like all my artsy noisy spooky dreams will come true. And low gun violence. Always a plus.

[popvulture]

it was nice there and my tinder game was on fire.

[Chankgeez]

yeah, don't listen to me.

I have a different perspective.

Maybe it's because casecandy and I are old?

[neonblack]

I don't think casecandy is old...

[Chankgeez]

yeah, but casecandy does.

[D.o.S.]

rude and uncouth.

[imJonWain]

Nah Providence is Rad, move there! I like it a lot although it's changing similar to Boston area in some parts (west side) but they still have plenty of crime there, no worries! It's just no one can afford guns so they stab you with stolen sharpened screwdrivers and steal your stuff.

I live in Medford next town north/east from Somerville. Somerville went from dirt cheap to insane quite fast but if you know the area and don't need to be in a "hip spot" , meaning you don't mind a 15 minute walk, you can do alright.

[Eivind August]

Rewatching Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job, and somehow it's even better this run through.

[UglyCasanova]

Got an A in my class on nineteenth-century novels. Wrote about desillusion in Honoré de Balzac's Le Père Goriot and Amalie Skram's Constance Ring in the light of Franco Moretti's theory on the Bildungsroman. Yes, it was very interesting...

PSYCHED!

Also, turning in my final paper of the year in 24 hours. FUCK YEAH!

[Eivind August]

Good on you, dude!

[Disarm D'arcy]

Headshot UC!

But, truth be told, did you actually read a Balzac novel to the end?