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My girlfriend and I have lived together for about 5 or 6 years. Dunno, I'm not the type that keeps count, and we're solid enough that we don't have to worry about numbers. About a month ago, she and her best friend set out on a sisters road trip, and I stayed behind to take care of the dogs. She's looking for a new place to live because she's sick of Seattle.
Round trip total will be around 5000 miles over the month, and every place that I was hoping would resonate with her has fallen through. Here's a middle finger to Austin, Texas. You had one job. Maybe it sucks now, I dunno.
Unfortunately her favorite place was my hometown, Birmingham. Middle finger to my old friends that I set up to host them. Y'all had one job.
She's also a former forester with a bunch of degrees, so she's also loving some bumfuck nowhere spots. I don't know if I'm down with homesteading. She's a Seattle lifer, so I get wanting to get out. She gets home tonight and I've missed her, but fuck if it doesn't feel like there's a massive storm brewing.
- Life’s short, just do it!********
- I’m not entirely following. What happened in Birmingham and what did your friends do? Why is it her favorite and why is that an issue?monospaced
- If the sentence stopped at “bumfuck”, I would have been so scared. I wanted to be a forester growing up near Santa Cruzfuturefood
- @mono They showed her southern hospitality and she is under the impression that it's a charming, hidden gem of the south.garbage
- lol, gotchamonospaced
- I fucking hate Alabama and she now seems dead set on moving there.garbage
- @future Yeah she's a registered forester and used to do some really.. insane work that I can't discuss for NDA reasons. Now she wants to move to Alabama.garbage
- I never really do personal rants on here, but I'm fucking stressed out. She's in full uproot mode and I don't think I can do it.garbage
- If there really is a disconnect, perhaps she isn't recognizing the stress in you, or you aren't being forthright with your feelings about it.cannonball1978
- Maybe she's got some ideas about what might be a good place for kids to grow up... Maybe Birmingham? you turned out alright.monNom
- I don't know anything about your situation, but having been in the position of picking a new place to raise ours, I could only imagine places I'd been beforemonNom
- Just saying, there might be some unspoken/unrecognize... underlying motivations behind this big move.monNom
- Oh I've been very vocal about it. We're healthy and open with each other. It's just.. I hate my hometown as much as she hates hers.garbage
- @monNom Ha, I appreciate it. We're actually both antinatalists, so kids are not part of the equation. Ugh I'm gonna end up in the south though.garbage
- Life’s short, just do it!