shit, I kinda want to avoid the whole sprawl thing, but do want the whole hotbed of activity thing. Thinking about Austin also, but not still super open to ideas. Totally fine staying in colder areas or moving southward.
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Behndy wrote:i don't like people with "talent" and "skills" that don't feel the need to cover their inadequacies under good time happy sounds.
i think the value of taking off for the other side of the fence is overrated. you may be able to access new opportunities, but you also lose a lot in the way of contacts, musical associates, support systems, etc. When i left Chicago and moved to California i lost a huge network of players that i used to call on for two-weeks-and-out band projects and have never been able to create a similar thing anywhere else.
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dubkitty wrote:i think the value of taking off for the other side of the fence is overrated. you may be able to access new opportunities, but you also lose a lot in the way of contacts, musical associates, support systems, etc. When i left Chicago and moved to California i lost a huge network of players that i used to call on for two-weeks-and-out band projects and have never been able to create a similar thing anywhere else.
I hear ya but in my case this doesn't really apply I feel like right now I'm surrounded by close minded musicians/artists. It's overrated to a point, but I need to shake my life upside down Been playing it safe for way too long
Dear people from Atlanta or people thinking about moving to Atlanta,
Atlanta sucks.
Sincerely,
The rest of Georgia
Seriously, though. I've been through Atlanta a few times. I wouldn't want to live there. The traffic is terrible. The drivers are terrible (no mandatory driver education until 2007!) so insurance rates are high. The people who are born and raised there tend to be stupid (GA is 47th in the nation in SATs-- suck it South Carolina!). The rents are high.
You don't have to worry about accents, though. Nobody is from Atlanta. You do get used to the locals' accents, and unless you make a conscious decision to reject the southern accent (like I have), you will pick up the lazy southern speech habits. My sister has an accent (15+ years in the south), my brother is getting one (4 years here), and my sister-in-law is even getting one (1 year here). My wife and I have been here for 11 years. We still sound like we're from the Chicago burbs.
dubkitty wrote:i think the value of taking off for the other side of the fence is overrated. you may be able to access new opportunities, but you also lose a lot in the way of contacts, musical associates, support systems, etc.
This is true for me as well. But it never stopped me from wanting to know what's out there. I move, on average, every three years. I tipically cut most ties, sell everything I can, and set off.
dubkitty wrote:i think the value of taking off for the other side of the fence is overrated. you may be able to access new opportunities, but you also lose a lot in the way of contacts, musical associates, support systems, etc. When i left Chicago and moved to California i lost a huge network of players that i used to call on for two-weeks-and-out band projects and have never been able to create a similar thing anywhere else.
Good thing I really don't have those ties to begin with.
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Behndy wrote:i don't like people with "talent" and "skills" that don't feel the need to cover their inadequacies under good time happy sounds.
Achtane wrote:Literally every plant and animal in Australia will fuck you up with some kinda crazy-ass neurotoxin. Go there if you wanna man up like Simba. I just hope your village doesn't get raided by the bands of warrior-spiders. You see a man-sized eight-legged monstrosity on horseback, you run into the forest mighty quick.
No way man, you don't run into the forest, that is where the giant poison-spitting snakes hide and wait.
Minneapolis is awesome, but only for five months out the year. The music scene is good though. Everyone is in a band, and some of them are even good.
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My sister went to Georgia Tech, and anytime I visited her there, I hated Atalanta. And I almost got into a fight with a homeless guy while I was there for her graduation. I'm glad that whole thing went no further because he had his hand behind his back like he had a knife tucked back there.
Another time we got lost driving around in Atlanta, and we didn't want to stop anywhere because there were people milling around aimlessly in the dark all over the place like the zombie apocalypse.
In fact, Atlanta has put me off of the idea of big cities all together, unless some future experience in some other city gives me reason to feel differently.
Achtane wrote:Literally every plant and animal in Australia will fuck you up with some kinda crazy-ass neurotoxin. Go there if you wanna man up like Simba. I just hope your village doesn't get raided by the bands of warrior-spiders. You see a man-sized eight-legged monstrosity on horseback, you run into the forest mighty quick.
No way man, you don't run into the forest, that is where the giant poison-spitting snakes hide and wait.
Minneapolis is awesome, but only for five months out the year. The music scene is good though. Everyone is in a band, and some of them are even good.
I actually did go to school in Minneapolis for like three years. I lived on/east of the UofM campus so I was far from anything cool, but it was bad ass being a few blocks from a bus line(the 16) that went through practically anything awesome.
Yeah, so twin cities fucking rule. I say "twin cities" cause I went to two cool things in St. Paul, Flugtag and Beck/MGMT. Also, lots of roadies with my friends from St. Paul around that city.
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Behndy wrote:i don't like people with "talent" and "skills" that don't feel the need to cover their inadequacies under good time happy sounds.
