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Terminal Boardumb => Non-Music Shit => Topic started by: SinglesGoingSteady on November 13, 2006, 09:49:31 PM
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had to mastermind/talk a group of loser friends into moving en mass to a bigger city? I'm talking (just daydreaming) about moving to NYC with some people, but of course, alot of the folks I know are 20-something losers who still live at home. I'm assuming moving up there with A.) a band or B.) a girlfriend usually spells disaster, but maybe talking a few folks into just going there for a year wouldnt be too hard. Less drama...
Anybody ever have to talk people into this? I'd be sort of taking the reins if I did it...which im not good at.
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To hell with your friends. Do whatever you want, and you'll eventually meet others who do the same. If they want, your friends will follow, but it's not imperative.
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yeah, fukk your friends. let em OD in some hick shithole in five years while your gettin´that high class booty in NY drinkin´ champagne.
do it now, or regret later
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ditch 'em, your friends will always be there if you wanna go back.. you shouldn't let 'em stop you from doing what you wanna do/go where you wanna go
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I think my post was too vague: I don't give a fuck about my "friends", I'm just asking anybody who's ever moved to a bigger city how they did it. Didja go up with a group of home town losers? Or is it easier to just try to find an open spot in some shithole apt. and go up alone?
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i moved to nyc by myself (joe came about 5 months later after we got married). i had a really hard time making friends. i got a small room on w 22nd street. it was pretty terrible but only 310 a month. it's a cold, expensive city, but if you have a warm coat and a good job you'll be fine. i stayed for exactly 2 years, and i'm happy to be back in tennessee!!
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RJ, you should move them all to Triverz.
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Or how bout' Kwaunee?
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I moved to NYC with two other friends from home. I couldn't imagine doing it any other way. So far every person in my apartment that's lived there that I don't know previously has turned out to be kind of a tard. My first roommate Ana who I sort of knew but not that well turned out to be a fucking psycho and now the new replacement is starting to be a snoody prick. I never have any problems with my friends at all. We all get along and generally never get sick of one another. It'd be nice if I could eventually find a 3rd roommate that wasn't a shithead. Of course the 3rd roommate I have now is phenomenally better than Ana. So I'm thankful for that at least.
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Didn't work out well for me. I tried moving down to New Orleans with a girlfriend. I was just gonna ditch the band I was in. They decided we should all move down there. So, instead I ditched the girl (?!?!?!?!?!). Spent a couple of weeks down there with five guys living out of a van, subsisting on potatos and beer. Only two of us tried earning money, and both of us are leaving for tour in the morning. Ended up running home with our tail between our legs after burning every bridge in town. It wasn't so much humbling experience as it was a soul shattering one.
Like Poortenga says "Rule number one: don't trust a motherfucker. Rule number two: everyone is a motherfucker."
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I was worried about my friends with the whole money situation at first because no one really had a job for a long long long long long time but they finally got their shit straight and have decent jobs. It was Hell when that one girl lived with us. She got fired from the job her DAD gave her within ONE month. If she was a normal employee and not Daddy's little girl she easily would have been fired the first week. She decided she needed a vacation within the first week. Most worthless human being on the planet.
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Most worthless human being on the planet.
Something I learned from living with people: they're all worthless.
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Most worthless human being on the planet.
Something I learned from living with people: they're all worthless.
Yeah, for the most part. You just have to find the ones that are the least worthless out of the bunch hehe.
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After graduating high school I moved to Phoenix by myself and didn't know a single individual out there. I spent 3.5 years there and made about 2 friends outside of the people I worked with delivering pizza 40 to 50 hours a week. During that time and a the first year of my move back to good 'o Wisconsin I had roomates and ended up hating all of them eventually. In Arizona I fought a roomate and was pushed through a glass sliding door among other things that night. When I moved back I messed around with my roomates girlfriend/ex-girlfriend/dumb bitch and caused a problem with that. His name is Lee Gitter. He's an idiot and a pussy. I already knocked him around once. For roughly the last two years I have lived on my own and I can't suggest anything better than that. Yeah, sometimes you find yourself talking to yourself but as long as you don't answer yourself you should be okay. If you don't want anyone around (in my case, this is more so than not) then it makes it easy. I wouldn't mind living with some girlfriend... at least there are some advantages to that.
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I wouldn't mind living with some girlfriend... at least there are some advantages to that.
I recommend a fleshlight.
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Everyone is gonna have radically different experiences. I couldnt imagine moving anywhere with a mob of friends - too damn stressful. Plus most of my good friends live miles away from me so I am already cool with that. I have also cultivated friends in any place I would want to live and since I am not one that needs to be around people all the time, I could move to a place and have my social needs met by seeing others once or twice a week. Then again, I am probably a million years older than you, which is why I realize that my experience is not what will fit you. My advice is if you want to move, move. Dont worry about lining things up to make it easy. It isnt going to be easy however you do it. Of course there are sensible things to do like visit the place you are moving to, cultivate some contacts, find out which neighborhoods are safe, have enough money to get you through three or four months, etc. Those are all things that you can do yourself. If you can get someone to go with you, great, thought then your fate is bound to theirs. If you go it alone, great. Be prepared to move back home, so it is probably not a good idea to scream FUCK YOU ALL and start punching people at your going away party. Don't be too worried about failure. Not "making it" is not failure. Not being able to hack it is not failure. Keeping yourself from doing it because of phantom What Ifs and fear is failing before you even start. Make common sense plans and do it. Also be prepared to be burnt on NYC in about 2 years.
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I find it rather difficult to talk to someone who isn't sick of NYC, yet they'll probably never ever ever leave.
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it is probably not a good idea to scream FUCK YOU ALL and start punching people at your going away party.
Hey, it worked great for us... errr..... uhhhh....
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I am not one that needs to be around people all the time, I could move to a place and have my social needs met by seeing others once or twice a week. Then again, I am probably a million years older than you, which is why I realize that my experience is not what will fit you.
I don't think that's a matter of age; it's a matter of personality. I'm half your age and don't concern myself with seeing my friends more than once a week tops. Granted, I don't have a large friend circle but even if I did I probably wouldn't find myself reaching for them more than just often enough to know they're there. Although, there are a couple that I'm not too sure the whereabouts of.... (John?)
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I wouldn't mind living with some girlfriend... at least there are some advantages to that.
I've tried that several times over the years, and let me tell you - for every advantage there are a bevy of disadvantages.
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Most common side effect of living with a woman = becoming a bitch.
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Yeah, that's when advantages work until they become disadvantages, then you get rid of the disadvantage.
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Eric's right. Fuck your friends. If they really wanted to leave, they would have done so. Just go wherever you wanna go and I'm sure in no time, you'll have a whole new set of cooler friends than the ones you had.
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Would you be my friend?
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I want to live alone.
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I'm moving out to Utah by myself in two weeks. Oy.
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His name is Lee Gitter. He's an idiot and a pussy. I already knocked him around once.
Is/was he a streetpunk dude? I remember that name. Wasn't he in some terrible band?
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I think he's a rockabilly now. He was in The Rogues. He used to call himself Lee Gutter I bellieve.
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I think he's a rockabilly now. He was in The Rogues. He used to call himself Lee Gutter I bellieve.
Yeah, that's who I was thinking about. I guess the whole rockabilly fashion is a pretty natural progression.
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His name is Lee Gitter. He's an idiot and a pussy. I already knocked him around once.
Is/was he a streetpunk dude? I remember that name. Wasn't he in some terrible band?
Yeah, he use to be ska, then streetpunk now rockabilly. I lived with him for a year when I first moved back cause I needed a place to stay and he had a room open so I moved in with him. He spent his days working and nights locked in his room with the lights out. He has herpies of the mouth and they would flame up really bad sometimes. He kept making up new names for his disease to pawn it off as something else.
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He has herpies of the mouth and they would flame up really bad sometimes.
DUDE! And you fucked his girlfriend? HAHAHAHAHAHA!
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He has herpies of the mouth and they would flame up really bad sometimes.
DUDE! And you fucked his girlfriend? HAHAHAHAHAHA!
oooh burn!
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Holy shit!!! What were you thinking? It was that hairdresser chick, right? Cute, but not worth the herps!
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That was way before he introduced his hurplips to me. I should be safe. I bet he got the herps from his ex-ex-hippy girlfriend I met one time. She was a pale (go figure) redhead and I remember smelling the odor from her body and thinking, "that shit is fucked up". The hairdresser on the other hand was clean as they come.
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Someone lookin "clean" doesn't mean they're not burning.
Dude, you got the hairpiece now, only a matter of time til the outbreak.
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This is like one of the safe sex videos we had to watch in eighth grade health class.
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HAH! It's been over two years now. Don't worry, Im still lookin for some and I won't stop till I get em.
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Well Josh, do you remember that one night...well I didn't use a rubber. I just figured you knew and liked it that way. Sorry.
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That was your dick? Hmm, I thought it was your finger.
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"He kept making up new names for his disease to pawn it off as something else."
Besides "herpes" and "cold sores", what else can you possibly call that?
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Also be prepared to be burnt on NYC in about 2 years.
so true
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Also be prepared to be burnt on NYC in about 2 years.
so true
I've got about 1 year and 8 months to go till I can officially be burnt out on NYC.
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well i think you get burned out faster, but you're so broke from living in nyc that it takes you awhile to save up to move.
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Uh oh...I'm already broke.
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how much you gotta pay reant for your flat in new york?? how big?
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when i left in dec 2004 i was paying 1365 for 1000 sq ft loft in bushwick. i felt like i was getting a pretty good deal. i was sharing it with my husband, but i usually had to cover most of the rent myself.
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But now you have a rad record collection thanks to all the money i wasted on that-Joe T
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when i left in dec 2004 i was paying 1365 for 1000 sq ft loft in bushwick. i felt like i was getting a pretty good deal. i was sharing it with my husband, but i usually had to cover most of the rent myself.
Heeey
What part of Bushwick?
I'm on Knickerbocker...
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345 eldert....it's like a block from the halsey stop on the L....pretty far out!
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345 eldert....it's like a block from the halsey stop on the L....pretty far out!
hahaha
Well, not that far for me. The Halsey stop is just one stop past where I have to get off for my apartment. I get off on Wycoff & Myrtle.
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i'm on knickerbocker too, but off the morgan ave stop. i actually like this area. and the rent is pretty decent. theres also an awesome salvadorian restaurant nearby. great food and supercheap.
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These are insightfull observations. I really want to move to the Scum Apple. I have a feeling it will turn out like a bad deleted scene from "Midnight Cowboy", but whatever. Just for a year or something. Then crawl back down to Florida on a bus and die.