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Swaye

creepycoug said:

doogie said:

My oldest started a new position at a Big software co. in Feb. He manages a large highly visible project with teams of engineers. Hasn’t been to the office once.

He’s recently begun shopping for waterfront homes in more remote areas reflecting what he calls the new norm.

This could be a boon for places like Montana and Idaho. A lot of people, yours truly included, love it there (assuming you can flee for the winter), but even with Boise, there isn't enough commerce in that region. You move to Montana and whatever gig you had going folds for whatever reason then you are fucked unless you want to open the 10,000th fly fishing store. We? have manufacturing facilities over there and some regional HQ shit. All of the people in the office jobs have always angled for a spot in Seattle even though they'd be upside down housing-wise. It was because of the economic risk of losing their job with us and being incapable of replacing it.

That won't matter in a world where people are all over the place.

So much this. Only reason I am still tethered to Northern Virginia at all is jobs jobs jobs. If we move closer to the point of working from anywhere, all bets are off. West Virginia or Utah here I cum! Live where the taxes are low, government is low, Jeeping and hunting are high, and work wherever remotely? Sign me the fuck up.

UW_Doog_Bot

Swaye said:

creepycoug said:

doogie said:

My oldest started a new position at a Big software co. in Feb. He manages a large highly visible project with teams of engineers. Hasn’t been to the office once.

He’s recently begun shopping for waterfront homes in more remote areas reflecting what he calls the new norm.

This could be a boon for places like Montana and Idaho. A lot of people, yours truly included, love it there (assuming you can flee for the winter), but even with Boise, there isn't enough commerce in that region. You move to Montana and whatever gig you had going folds for whatever reason then you are fucked unless you want to open the 10,000th fly fishing store. We? have manufacturing facilities over there and some regional HQ shit. All of the people in the office jobs have always angled for a spot in Seattle even though they'd be upside down housing-wise. It was because of the economic risk of losing their job with us and being incapable of replacing it.

That won't matter in a world where people are all over the place.

So much this. Only reason I am still tethered to Northern Virginia at all is jobs jobs jobs. If we move closer to the point of working from anywhere, all bets are off. West Virginia or Utah here I cum! Live where the taxes are low, government is low, Jeeping and hunting are high, and work wherever remotely? Sign me the fuck up.

Utah has too many fucking mormons and they have their own pet nanny state laws. Over the border into Arizona or Wyoming instead.

YellowSnow

UW_Doog_Bot said:

Swaye said:

creepycoug said:

doogie said:

My oldest started a new position at a Big software co. in Feb. He manages a large highly visible project with teams of engineers. Hasn’t been to the office once.

He’s recently begun shopping for waterfront homes in more remote areas reflecting what he calls the new norm.

This could be a boon for places like Montana and Idaho. A lot of people, yours truly included, love it there (assuming you can flee for the winter), but even with Boise, there isn't enough commerce in that region. You move to Montana and whatever gig you had going folds for whatever reason then you are fucked unless you want to open the 10,000th fly fishing store. We? have manufacturing facilities over there and some regional HQ shit. All of the people in the office jobs have always angled for a spot in Seattle even though they'd be upside down housing-wise. It was because of the economic risk of losing their job with us and being incapable of replacing it.

That won't matter in a world where people are all over the place.

So much this. Only reason I am still tethered to Northern Virginia at all is jobs jobs jobs. If we move closer to the point of working from anywhere, all bets are off. West Virginia or Utah here I cum! Live where the taxes are low, government is low, Jeeping and hunting are high, and work wherever remotely? Sign me the fuck up.

Utah has too many fucking mormons and they have their own pet nanny state laws. Over the border into Arizona or Wyoming instead.

Utah has some good spots that are less mormony. But WY or MY is @Swaye cuntry.

RaceBannon

South Dakota

For 6 to 9 months

biak1

The last thing Montana and Wyoming need is more fags like us and Kanye moving there. Don't be that Californian guy.

Doog_de_Jour

biak1 said:

The last thing Montana and Wyoming need is more fags like us and Kanye moving there. Don't be that Californian guy.

It’s a rite of passage. You’re not a real US state until everything’s been ruined by Californian transplants.

YellowSnow

biak1 said:

The last thing Montana and Wyoming need is more fags like us and Kanye moving there. Don't be that Californian guy.

I was a Utah fag so they let me into
WY no problem.

PurpleThrobber

RaceBannon said:

YellowSnow said:

RaceBannon said:

creepycoug said:

1to392831weretaken said:

I think this whole take-it-to-the-Tug circle jerk ignores that most of these jobs don't need to happen remotely OR in person. The jobs will eventually go away full-stop. I'm telling my kids to skip college and become plumbers. Algorithms and robots aren't going to be fixing Jack Buttcrack's shoddy work from the 80s anytime soon.

The world has been wishing away lawyers since the beginning of tim.

And, here the Creep stands. I'm not worried, particularly given my tim horizon.

As for the kids, skipping college wasn't an option unless they wanted to go it alone. After college, they can do whatever in the fuck they want, including plumbing.

This I will say about a lot of the trades: be careful which one your choose, and try to become the boss asap, because your body will give out on you. The Russian (ok, Race, Ukranian) who has done all my tile installation hung up his knee pads in his 30s because of a bad back.

I got a job as a beginning carpet layer simply because that was who gave me the job in the strip mall of small shops on Mottman road. Yes actually working is harder than shit on your body. Took two years for me to get sent to Seattle to run the shop up there and the rest is history. Less time than a degree and got paid while learning. It is the best way to learn an business inside out and my ability to understand the field and the office has always been my edge

Guys start out pounding drywall and end up with their own construction company. America baby

Carpet laying pays mor than Aptos house husbanding.

From a financial standpoint Aptos way out kicked me in marriage. I married for love. I have to work lol

But your sex life isn't contingent on th

YellowSnow said:

biak1 said:

The last thing Montana and Wyoming need is more fags like us and Kanye moving there. Don't be that Californian guy.

I was a Utah fag so they let me into
WY no problem.

Both the Throbber’s parents were WY natives.

Not the @Swaye kind of native.

UW_Doog_Bot

biak1 said:

The last thing Montana and Wyoming need is more fags like us and Kanye moving there. Don't be that Californian guy.

My family is from Wyoming on my mom's side. My grandma still lives there. It's part of why I'm not Cali Charmin soft. @Swaye would be fine.

Californians will never ruin Wyoming from moving there because the weather will kill dumb fucks. They call it "winter kill".

doogie

Swaye said:

None of this helps me as a male hooker.

So, you’re finally getting sex again?