“Where to live next year” decision is turning out to be NP-hard. Wife and I are gleefully vetoing each other’s ideas and getting nowhere. “Too snowy” “Too dry” “I need a decent airport” “Need a Whole Foods” ... Megacities: unsustainably overpriced Schelling points from hell.
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Another thing single people don’t appreciate (going by responses) is that the couple version of the problem is an entirely different problem. Qualitatively different.
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The only thing more fraught than giving people city advice is giving them dating advice probably. Career advice is less fraught, coming in at #3. Wonder why there aren’t “city match” sites the way there are dating, marriage, and job sites.
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Probably because there’s no meaningful counterparty to the match.
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We wanted to live <15 minutes from my wife’s family and walking distance to a train narrowed it down to 2 towns and three housing developments. Made negotiating hard (no BATNA) but searching was a breeze.
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As opposed to friends of our without geographic constraints who looked at houses in about 30 different towns.
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I think u inhale the opinions of those around you. What opinions do u want to hold more of? Portland: chill lifestyle > *
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Good point. Though in my case it’s more about people passing through than living there. I tend to have 90% social interactions with people passing through.
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It’s not a constraint satisfaction problem. It is a narrative extension problem with a set of constraints.