Yes but what about the Epstein files?

This guy RFPs for the DoD

Oh for sure Europe is maybe worse in this regard. I’m in the south of Europe now but have relatives in Paris and the cold gloom is not something I would like to live with every day. At least along the Mediterranean it’s mostly sunny for the short, cold days of winter!

I grew up there, but spent a long time in Colorado and have a place in northern NM. The snow, cold, all fine all doable, but it’s the dark overcast that gets you.

Depending on the region it’s a lot more interesting economically- lots of small businesses, plenty of summer activities. It’s getting expensive though, for what it offers. I think few people move to New England from outside new England though (except for the important cities). You will certainly get some funny looks when you tell people you moved from Arizona.

I would personally move to a town with a lively population but not a big city. Think Burlington Vermont or Binghamton NY or great Barrington Mass. Definitely different and if you can settle in there probably a better life!

This book has helped me understand:

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/T/bo27509064.html

American who did a road trip through Germany for the first time about a month ago (I’m based in France).

It’s great. Great roads, great food, great beer, friendly people, cheaper prices. German seems extremely hard but almost everyone I ran into spoke good English. Grocery stores had interesting products but seemed maybe a bit on the expensive side compared to France. It’s highly regional, so my feedback applies to Baden-Württemberg only. My understanding is that each state is pretty different. In some way, it felt a little like being in an extremely nice part of the US in some alternate reality where gore won in 2000 and built bicycle infrastructure and public transport and fixed the infrastructure.

I’m not who you are responding to, but I’m in the same position.

Interest rate on house mortgage is around 2%, currently looking to invest in an apartment in Europe. The current rates are ~4% here, so it makes more sense to keep the cheap money from the house mortgage than to trade it for more expensive money.

The big blue and purple states should already be doing this. The only reason we have GOP majorities in congress is because of GOP state level gerrymandering. Do not forget that the GOP is and has been representing a minority.

Gerrymander until the nationwide congressional delegation matches the actual party line votes of the population, if you want to be fair about it.

Sounds like France. There’s a whole industry of people charging a months rent or more just to make a few phone calls and assemble some basic documents. Not easy to rent a place by any means, but these providers do not offer a good value because they are not actually real estate agents.

Which one did you get?

My company added grammarly onto all our laptops which cannot be permanently disabled. So I have a grammarly suggester widget floating over everything I do on the laptop. I just accept all suggestions no matter how dumb and inappropriate and put garbage in slack conversations, code reviews, etc.

This is why I preemptively destroy the hotel room.