“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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Loop linking macro cities threadhttps://twitter.com/vgr/status/1226388443694948355?s=21 …
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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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Iterated voluntary prisoner’s dilemma
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It’s very privileged to be able to choose( I have had this privilege). I think you are approaching it in a good way though. Constrained narrative building.
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if it’s a narrative problem, why where are you two in your hero’s journey? Is tension rising or falling?
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It’s not a hero’s journey, it’s le Guin Carrier bag story
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Be part of the mass migration of families leaving LA for Portland
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Is this n<10 personal friends anecdotal evidence or a real thing?
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pretty hard. fleeing from 2nd order effects of a potential pandemic was a critical aligning force for bf and me...
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It’s not a constraint satisfaction problem. It is a narrative extension problem with a set of constraints.