de0rbit wrote:
Your rent will probably go farther.

Wait. Are you going to Northern California? Maybe not, then.

Aww
I'm moving in with a boy so my money isn't moving much in either direction I think.

I'm totally using this opportunity to learn how to drive so I can visit Disneyland.

Magic Forests wrote:
I'm leaving behind my fantastic pole instructor to live in the Bay Area.

I'm totally using this opportunity to learn how to drive so I can visit Disneyland.

Disneyland is about 400 miles from the Bay Area. That's about a 6 hour drive without traffic.

Anastacia Nikolaeva wrote:
I still sometimes regret moving to NYC instead of SF. I love the Bay area. I love the progressive culture, the yoga scene, the ocean, mountains, the redwoods. I'm sure you'll be able to find a new dance scene. Might not be the same, but that doesn't mean that you won't like it. There are tons of super creative folk out there, too!

I agree. It's way better in every way.

I want off the east coast so much it's not even funny. After you've built a life somewhere though, it's easier said than done.

Magic Forests wrote:
There are like no dance studios that match the calibre of those in NYC.

I'm leaving behind my fantastic pole instructor to live in the Bay Area. What are some nice things about the West Coast that I can look forward to?

1. Fast food heaven: Sonic, Jack in the Box, In-N-Out... I've never been to any of these places!
2. Walmart?
3. SFO has a yoga room
4. Lots of sex people live in San Francisco

Cost of living will be about the same unfortunately
Much better sushi
A more consistant climate,you won't have to deal with suffocating heat like Ny or any stupidly cold days and do snow..pretty much the same climate year round

Koryn Locke wrote:

I agree. It's way better in every way.

I want off the east coast so much it's not even funny. After you've built a life somewhere though, it's easier said than done.

I love New York. If I were to leave it, it wouldn't be to stay in the US. But sometimes I do pine for the Bay area. It just has a different feel to it. I miss it.

Unfortunately, SF is much farther from Europe. A huge advantage to the East Coast for me is the relative ease of getting to Germany where my family lives.

Magic Forests wrote:
There are like no dance studios that match the calibre of those in NYC.

I'm leaving behind my fantastic pole instructor to live in the Bay Area. What are some nice things about the West Coast that I can look forward to?

1. Fast food heaven: Sonic, Jack in the Box, In-N-Out... I've never been to any of these places!
2. Walmart?
3. SFO has a yoga room
4. Lots of sex people live in San Francisco

oh please.

Damon Banner wrote:
a beach you can actually swim in/on

To be fair, NYC has some great beaches.

Anastacia Nikolaeva wrote:

To be fair, NYC has some great beaches.

I've been to your alleged beaches!

Damon Banner wrote:

I've been to your alleged beaches!

I bet they were the wrong beaches! Though, Sandy did ruin my favorite hipster beach.

Anastacia Nikolaeva wrote:
To be fair, NYC has some great beaches.

Which beaches are you referring to?

Damon Banner wrote:
foodie haven. 
arts culture
a beach you can actually swim in/on
no snow.
a little more progressive

I don't see how no snow is a good thing.
It's the best thing to walk along the shop windows to see all the pretty things while there's snow falling and everything is beautiful and perfect except the frozen toes and red noses.

Magic Forests wrote:

Anastacia Nikolaeva wrote:
To be fair, NYC has some great beaches.

Which beaches are you referring to?

I really liked Fort Tilden last summer. Younger crowd, no kids. Female toplessness. It was a pretty neat beach. But the hurricane wiped out a lot of the dunes and part of the beach is closed now. No toplessness

Magic Forests wrote:
I don't see how no snow is a good thing.

It's the best thing to walk along the shop windows to see all the pretty things while there's snow falling and everything is beautiful and perfect except the frozen toes and red noses.

The great thing about SF is that you don't have to travel very far north to get snow, and not too far south to get sun.

Anastacia Nikolaeva wrote:
I really liked Fort Tilden last summer. Younger crowd, no kids. Female toplessness. It was a pretty neat beach. But the hurricane wiped out a lot of the dunes and part of the beach is closed now. No toplessness

I've never been there! Is it far?

You could always take your top off.

Magic Forests wrote:

Which beaches are you referring to?


I don't see how no snow is a good thing.
It's the best thing to walk along the shop windows to see all the pretty things while there's snow falling and everything is beautiful and perfect except the frozen toes and red noses.

snow is fucking cold!

if having like a snot shell crusting over your nostril so you can't breath, is your thing, you probably won't like living out here.  But if you are sane....

Damon Banner wrote:
snow is fucking cold!

if having like a snot shell crusting over your nostril so you can't breath, is your thing, you probably won't like living out here.  But if you are sane....

I liked the coke thing better.

Magic Forests wrote:

I liked the coke thing better.

THE other white powder ?

scrymettet wrote:
THE other white powder ?

Magic Forests wrote:

I've never been there! Is it far?

You could always take your top off.

It's the lack of topless unity...

Tilden is on the west side of Rockaway. If you don't drive, you have to take the 2/5 train all the way south, then take the q35 bus.

Magic Forests wrote:

Lol!

Damon Banner wrote:

snow is fucking cold!

if having like a snot shell crusting over your nostril so you can't breath, is your thing, you probably won't like living out here.  But if you are sane....

You can drive to snow in CA

Especially in Northern Ca. I lived in Ventura county and had to call my ex once because I got snowed in on Frazier Mountain. It was about 2 hours away.

He didn't believe me.

-JAY- wrote:
Vegas is 8 hours away.

Paolo said he'll take me to Vegas when I turn 21! Is it more fun when there's drinking involved?

PASS THE BABY BUNNIES AROUND

Magic Forests wrote:

Paolo said he'll take me to Vegas when I turn 21! Is it more fun when there's drinking involved?

PASS THE BABY BUNNIES AROUND

It's more fun if you have a lot of money to blow on...everything.

Erin Holmes wrote:
It's more fun if you have a lot of money to blow on...everything.

heh... trudat.

Lumatic wrote:

heh... trudat.

my hubby and I got broke just going to the grocery store not even close to being able to afford dinner anywhere on or near the strip

Erin Holmes wrote:
my hubby and I got broke just going to the grocery store not even close to being able to afford dinner anywhere on or near the strip

Yep.  I went once with a girl I was seeing at a time when I wasn't very liquid.  I don't care for Vegas but she wanted to go, and go in style.  The Venetian, ffs.  I wound up having to pay her back the money she fronted for my expenses on her credit card after the trip.  I wasn't going to not repay her so I insisted, of course, but it was embarrassing.

I wound up making the last few payments after we broke up. 

Lumatic wrote:
Yep.  I went once with a girl I was seeing at a time when I wasn't very liquid.  I don't care for Vegas but she wanted to go, and go in style.  The Venetian, ffs.  I wound up having to pay her back the money she fronted for my expenses on her credit card after the trip.  I wasn't going to not repay her so I insisted, of course, but it was embarrassing.

I wound up making the last few payments after we broke up. 

Ouch! Was it really that expensive?

I don't really know what I'd do in Vegas except see Cirque du Soleil and go to the Pole Expo. I'm not much of a gambler.

Magic Forests wrote:
Ouch! Was it really that expensive?

I don't really know what I'd do in Vegas except see Cirque du Soleil and go to the Pole Expo. I'm not much of a gambler.

I don't think it's that expensive.  There are some things that might be pricy (like seeing shows and going to restaurarants owned by famous people), but over all, it isn't that expensive.

just buy your liquor off the strip.

Damon Banner wrote:

I don't think it's that expensive.  There are some things that might be pricy (like seeing shows and going to restaurarants owned by famous people), but over all, it isn't that expensive.

just buy your liquor off the strip.

Yeah, not really that expensive.  A couple of hundred, but that was more than I had at the time.  So expensive for me, and therefore not as much fun as it might have been.

Lumatic wrote:

Yeah, not really that expensive.  A couple of hundred, but that was more than I had at the time.  So expensive for me, and therefore not as much fun as it might have been.

Definitely expensive for an e4's salary

Erin Holmes wrote:

Definitely expensive for an e4's salary

I guess ya gotta be an officer to gamble in Babylon. 

P I X I E wrote:
If I was to move to the US, California would be my #1 choice.

My house is the #1 destination for MM members coming to Cali.

Paolo Diavolo wrote:

My house is the #1 destination for MM members coming to Cali.

Paolo Diavolo wrote:
My house is the #1 destination for MM members coming to Cali.

They just haven't met me yet.

Oh snap!