I comment a lot on stories having to do with state governments and legislation or regions of the country. It got me wondering how many people I’m accidentally disparaging when I don’t mean everyone in said state or region is terrible. So… Please be as specific or obtuse as your privacy filter requires. I’ll start:

I’m in the Bay Area, specifically Oakland. Despite Bay Area hate from some posters, I think it’s great. How about you?

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    1•1 month ago

    Call it Champaign-Urbana.

    I am juuuust outside the MSA, without doxxing myself too badly.

    Chicago is accessible, if I plan around a few hrs drive or an Amtrak that’s not crazy far.

    We are collectively mostly left-leaning though the UIUC students prob skew that to some degree. We landed here because it was a reasonably affordable place, close enough to something else to be feasible for holidays, and also close enough to a major ish city that not WFH would be on the table, maybe.

    Got here via south central PA, New England, and marrying a girl from Kettlecorn, KS who missed the flatlands.

    I miss the mountains, but I’m also sane and honest with myself - the local bouldering place is as close as I’m getting to a mountain, at my age.

    That makes me sad, having hiked up plenty of mountains back before I fell off the “fitness cliff”…