Midwest vs. Big City Life

[Young Steve]

I think I'm pulling a Nanne Tepper this winter. Shit is brutal. I've never wanted to just get hit by a bus and have it all be over with once and for all more than this winter. If this is all there is to life, who needs it?

[coolestdude]

All places except San Francisco fuckin suck

really?!  I can't think of a worse place to live. all the dirty hippies in tye dye & the disgusting crusty punks, & don't get me started on the gays! just kidding about the gays.   there's a few good bands & some really great places to eat, but ohter than that sf sucks!

[Young Steve]

SF was pretty disappointing the three days or so I was there. Maybe I'd like it more if I was there longer though. The main bummer was that BART is nowhere near as comprehensive and kick ass as I'd imagined it to be.

The only US city I've ever considered living in is NYC, but they have winters too so fuck 'em.

[Swampy]

Little Steven, ever consider that the Midwest might not be the problem and it is YOU who is the problem?  Maybe, just maybe, you have a problem with your own self-identity and can't cope with your surroundings, thus you try to create an alternate reality in which you are and always have been living in Japan? Yet you haven't quite gotten there yet on any permanent basis and you keep coming back to Minne-focking-sota...  Hmmm...

[Young Steve]

It's not an either/or situation. I haven't found a way to live yet that suits me, but living in the Midwest makes me so depressed I can't even think of any solutions.

I love living in Japan, but the only job I'm qualified to do there right now is work as an English teaching monkey, which was a horribly degrading experience. There's no fantasy involved where Japan is this perfect world or anything, I just honestly find myself much happier and at home when I'm there than when I'm truly "at home." Also, I have a lot more friends there than here, I find it easier to relate to them than people here, my girlfriend is there, etc.

My main problem in life is that I can't stand being just another shlub and anything I do that makes me feel like such is intolerable. That's why - pardon the melodrama - I'd honestly rather die than do about 99% of jobs out there. I mean if I'm going to hate the vast majority of my life spent at work, what's the point? I don't know what suits me in terms of a career, but I know perfectly well what doesn't. I liked working as a teacher alright, but the pay is terrible and at my core I really desire wealth and comfort. I'd hate to live an inauthentic life of tedium as a lawyer or something in order to achieve that though.

So yeah, I don't know what the fuck to do with my life. Thanks for calling me out on that one there. Super penetrating analysis. But living here only makes it worse.

[Swampy]

I don't necessarilly know what I'm doing with my life, but I'm totally fine with living in Wisconsin for the rest of it.  If you gotta move to Japan, then find a way to do it permenantly, so we don't have to read about it here.  Cause' you know if I read about it here, I'm just gonna talk shit about you...

[baker]

whoever has malort.

[Slack]

It's not an either/or situation. I haven't found a way to live yet that suits me, but living in the Midwest makes me so depressed I can't even think of any solutions.

I love living in Japan, but the only job I'm qualified to do there right now is work as an English teaching monkey, which was a horribly degrading experience. There's no fantasy involved where Japan is this perfect world or anything, I just honestly find myself much happier and at home when I'm there than when I'm truly "at home." Also, I have a lot more friends there than here, I find it easier to relate to them than people here, my girlfriend is there, etc.

My main problem in life is that I can't stand being just another shlub and anything I do that makes me feel like such is intolerable. That's why - pardon the melodrama - I'd honestly rather die than do about 99% of jobs out there. I mean if I'm going to hate the vast majority of my life spent at work, what's the point? I don't know what suits me in terms of a career, but I know perfectly well what doesn't. I liked working as a teacher alright, but the pay is terrible and at my core I really desire wealth and comfort. I'd hate to live an inauthentic life of tedium as a lawyer or something in order to achieve that though.

So yeah, I don't know what the fuck to do with my life. Thanks for calling me out on that one there. Super penetrating analysis. But living here only makes it worse.

As an ex-Minnesotan (as much as I hate to), I gotta say that it's probably the worst place in the Midwest (outside of somewhere like Nebraska, if that counts). Coldest winters, worst music scene, way more pretentious, straight-laced, and dorky than Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, etc.... have you ever lived in other states in the region?

And I don't know how old you are, but if you're pushing 30 and aren't on your way to "wealth and comfort" by this point, it's probably time to put that dream to rest, unless you're from old money or don't mind earning your living through drug dealing or something else illegal...

[bradx]

the winters are rough but the summers are perfect up here.  i like the huge changes from season to season.  i lived in big cities and i lived in florida and it wasnt that great. 

[Young Steve]

It's not an either/or situation. I haven't found a way to live yet that suits me, but living in the Midwest makes me so depressed I can't even think of any solutions.

I love living in Japan, but the only job I'm qualified to do there right now is work as an English teaching monkey, which was a horribly degrading experience. There's no fantasy involved where Japan is this perfect world or anything, I just honestly find myself much happier and at home when I'm there than when I'm truly "at home." Also, I have a lot more friends there than here, I find it easier to relate to them than people here, my girlfriend is there, etc.

My main problem in life is that I can't stand being just another shlub and anything I do that makes me feel like such is intolerable. That's why - pardon the melodrama - I'd honestly rather die than do about 99% of jobs out there. I mean if I'm going to hate the vast majority of my life spent at work, what's the point? I don't know what suits me in terms of a career, but I know perfectly well what doesn't. I liked working as a teacher alright, but the pay is terrible and at my core I really desire wealth and comfort. I'd hate to live an inauthentic life of tedium as a lawyer or something in order to achieve that though.

So yeah, I don't know what the fuck to do with my life. Thanks for calling me out on that one there. Super penetrating analysis. But living here only makes it worse.

As an ex-Minnesotan (as much as I hate to), I gotta say that it's probably the worst place in the Midwest (outside of somewhere like Nebraska, if that counts). Coldest winters, worst music scene, way more pretentious, straight-laced, and dorky than Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio, etc.... have you ever lived in other states in the region?

And I don't know how old you are, but if you're pushing 30 and aren't on your way to "wealth and comfort" by this point, it's probably time to put that dream to rest, unless you're from old money or don't mind earning your living through drug dealing or something else illegal...

I dunno. My uncle was broke his whole life until his mid-forties but then he became wealthy writing western novels. That's kind of like hitting the lottery, but whatever. It's still not to late to become upper middle class, which I'd settle for. I've got no interest in just scraping by another ten years though.

I've never lived anywhere else in the USA but Minnesota but I've been to plenty of other places and they all sucked.

[dusty medical]

I've never lived anywhere else in the USA but Minnesota but I've been to plenty of other places and they all sucked.

yes, they all sucked. All of them. Just happened to suck while you were spending time there...

ever consider that it is YOU who is the problem?

[Young Steve]

Thanks. Whenever I get down on myself it's always helpful to be reminded that there are fat, ugly pieces of shit like yourself out there who are chronically assholes. I remember when I met you in person, you looked like a fat, stoned fozzy bear. I'd hate me too if I looked like you.

[dusty medical]

I have nothing to do with you hating yourself... but you know, whatever gets you through the night.

[dusty medical]

PS Wakka Wakka Wakka!

[Wabash Trash]

Hey Fozzy pass the wind!