This LA adventure is probably the last chapter of my premium mediocre neourban core living adventure. 10 years of this, barring a small 18 month suburban break in Vegas in 2011-12. Time to go domestic cozy.
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Peg it to a premium mediocre brand that only works in fancy yet affordable exurbs

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Maybe an SAT score to median income ratio?
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i've been working through what i want a 'day in the life' of me to be, in very practical terms, over a long time period. not abstractions, rather: 'i want to walk on a long private wooded trail after eating a dinner of homegown food'. find the place to accommodate those needs.
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another way to think about this might be around habits. a home is habit headquarters. what types of habits do you have, do you wish you had, do you wish you could change or remove? how might the particulars of a place enhance or detract from your ideal set of rituals?
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For a long time, I used access to coffee quality as the baseline indicator of where I would live
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The luxury of simple criteria when young
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American metropolies, especially LA, are pretty hostile to human life forms. Any place designed on a bit more human scale will make you feel better.
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I feel fine, just not wealthy enough to keep feeling fine at LA or even Seattle rates for any length of time

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One criteria you could use is to see what city's peripheral neighborhoods allow you easy access (<15 min walk) to the grocery store, coffee shop, library, restaurants, and entertainment, while also having easy access to downtown when needed.
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I thought "coastal" in USA means either "hurricane land soon to be flooded" or "earthquake zone soon to be flooded".
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The middle is “this is so horribly depressing I wish there was a flood”
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