“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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We are both in our 40s and completely suck at basic adulting
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There are only 3 American stories. 1. Never moved away from Smalltown 2. Sustainably living in Charismatic Bigcity, having moved from Smalltown 3. Crashed out of Charismatic Bigcity to Different Smalltown that exists as a living critique of the former
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Varun gets it, A city is not a candidate until I understand what continuation it represents. It’s a narrative extension problem. The constraint satisfaction part is merely the legible bit so it’s easy to get caught up in that. https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1226565741081591808?s=21 …https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1226565741081591808 …
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The city you live in is a *powerful* predictor and embodiment of the story you’re enacting, especially in the context of the series that came before. If you don’t have a good narrative justification for why you’re moving there, you won’t last long (unless you get trapped there)
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Well, then, the question really is, do you *need* to last long? I have come to embrace that I'll live circumstantially any number of places. Once I abandoned the idea of living anywhere purposefully for a long time (eg, 2+ years), I relaxed.
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Been doing that for 22 years and starting to get tired. I’d like to last 8 years in the next place.
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It’s not a constraint satisfaction problem. It is a narrative extension problem with a set of constraints.