sincere | Moving on out?

It's come time for me to be a Responsible Adult (briefly) and think about my future beyond the release of FFXII. The simple fact of the matter is that after this December, I will have a master's degree and need a Real Job, and I think I'd like to... keep moving. Boston is lovely but I want to try other places too.

But I don't know where. Help me decide!

1. Where do you live?

2. Do you like the climate? Is it very humid or rainy or what?

3. What are summmers like? Winters?

4. Do you have hazardous weather, IE, every year for three months your trailer park is torn up by tornadoes and then you go on TV and cry about it?

5. Do you have public transportation? Is it expensive? Is it incompetent? Is it gross?

6. What do you like about where you live?

7. What is lame about where you live? Be honest, you know in your heart it's lame.

~~8. Do you want to share an apartment with me?~~

Oh, and while I have you all here. Anyone familiar with Sovereign or Citizen's Bank, please tell me about your experiences and whether or not you recommend them. I'm looking for banks that don't suck like HSBC does. (...if you could also tell me if you don't have these banks in your area? That'd be great. I'd hate to get Sovereign on high recommendations only to move to a new city and discover there aren't any there. Like what happened with HSBC.)

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1. Seattle!
2. I love the climate, because it rarely gets too hot and it never snows. Okay, yes, it does rain a lot, but probably not as much as you think.
3. Summers are generally sunny but cool - for the past few weeks it's not gotten much above 80F. Winters it rains and is mild.
4. We have the occasional ice storm in the winter. But it's not too bad.
5. Public transportation is decent and getting better (they've just passed a ballot measure to improve it.)
6. We have good coffee (it's not all starbucks), many wifi hotspots, the weather is mild, there are many awesome people, and we have ferries and a water taxi.
7. Hills. There are a lot of hills. And sometimes if you're going down a hill in a bus or something it looks like you're going straight down and you wonder WHY THE HELL DID THE CITY PLANNERS BUILD ON ALL THESE GODDAMN HILLS WTF?

That weather sounds too good to be true -- cool summers and mild winters? ♥ Does it get very humid?

I feel your pain on the hills. I live on a steep one now and it's kind of crazy. On the plus side, hmm, maybe public transportation will feel like a roller coaster! Whee!

Seattle seems like a decent prospect -- a quick Craigslist search turns up a lot of nicely-priced apartments.

Not generally humid, no. We also have Pike Place Market (which is good for cheap food shopping if you avoid all the tourist dreck). People drive like idiots here, but then, they do that in Boston or so I've heard. :-D

Boston drivers are ridiculous -- but then again, so are the roads they have to work with. Since there are about four active road names that just get reused (hence the intersection of Tremont St. and Tremont St.) and the roads were actually paved along the trails that cattle took when they went to graze at the commons... and let me tell you, cows are also not good drivers. (But probably better than Bostonians. And Floridians.)

I'd try to pimp out where I live- Wisconsin- but that'd just fail XD "Extremely hot summers! Extremely cold winters! Oh yeah, and tornadoes!"

But anyway, just so you know, when my family was in Seattle, it was awesome because it has the lowest allergy-levels of the continental USA. So- the air there? Is awesome.

You seem to like the idea of Seattle, so I thought I'd toss that in ^___^

I should also mention that we have Uwajimaya, which is the best giganto-Japanese-pan-Asian supermarket ever. (Well, at least 'outside Japan or possibly San Francisco'.) I have no idea what half the stuff IS, but ... I could drag you along with me!
(And also our public library is full of awesome.)

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