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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.)
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.
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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2. Do you like the climate? Is it very humid or rainy or what? It gets disgustingly humid from mid-spring to mid-fall, but the temperatures don't go as insane as they do in the heat waves you get in the States. It's nice in the winter. Average year-round temperature is 82 degrees Farenheit. I like it, but I could do without the Gross Summer Heat and the whole hurricane dealie come August-October. We get a lot of rain in summer afternoons, and we have a dry season during Lent. (What can I say -- the Spanish settlers were Catholic.)
3. What are summmers like? Winters? Summer tends to be gross. Winter is placid. The year-round beach weather is sexy.
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? Hurricane season runs from June 1st through November 31st, but it's only Terribly Risky here from August through October. The harder hits we've gotten have knocked out the power on the entire island for at least 24 hours. Depending on where you live (ie, a city-type place or up on Mt. Bumfuck), your luck in that regard is sealed. Here, it alternates, 'cause we're in a cluster of houses that gets fucked over a lot.
Also, an unpublicized fact is that we're at high risk for earthquakes. Recently, a section of Mayaguez was declared a tsunami danger zone. I saw a sign posted the other day -- and I laughed, because I thought, "Wow, we're still alive how?"
5. Do you have public transportation? Is it expensive? Is it incompetent? Is it gross? I hear public transportation in the metro area (meaning San Juan and its neighboring cities) is nice (they have BUSES!), but it pretty much sucks elsewhere. It's probably a lot more expensive than it was when last I used it, which was... oh, maybe six years ago.
6. What do you like about where you live? Answering the question, "Where do you live?" It's a vacation spot. We're almost a state, but we're quite a ways away from that. You don't need a passport to travel here (at least, for now -- God only knows if that'll change), and a good chunk of the population speaks at least some English. Also, no sales tax in the vast majority of towns, and even where there is, it's only 1%.
7. What is lame about where you live? Be honest, you know in your heart it's lame. My town is a shithole with lots of noise, potholes in every gorram street, and a lot of general assholes. (Gimme points -- I used 'hole' in every descriptor. I win.)
8. Do you want to share an apartment with me? Not really, seeing how I don't want to live and work here in the first place. ;DYes, you can fel free to completely disregard this. XD;