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svelteParticipant[quote=spdrun]When you’re 15 min from the beach and 45 min from the mountains, why would you even care to bother with a “stinkation” in your back yard? That would be like going to Paris and spending the whole time in your hotel.
[/quote]Then the suburbs are not for you. No need to piss on other people’s choices.
You are becoming more and more a troll every day.
svelteParticipant[quote=spdrun]A normal person sleeps 7 hr at least.
24 – 7 = 17
17 – 9 (for work and lunch) = 8
8 – 2 (for commuting) = 6
6 – 1 (for getting ready) = 5
5 – 1.5 (for other meals) = 3.5Not much left in the day for yourself and to enjoy those wide open spaces, is there?[/quote]
My commute is 25 minutes, not 1 hour (though I would do 1 hour for the right job).
Believe it or not, you *are* affected by noise/congestion even while you are eating, getting ready for work, and sleeping – I have lived in areas where car alarms, sirens, and noisy neighbors woke me up at all hours of the night.
And you have conveniently left off weekends.
svelteParticipant[quote=barnaby33]
Third if you take a minute and think about how much time commuting takes from you, posters here being ok with an hour commute 1 way! Holy titty fucking christ! Thats around 10 hours a week spent driving. You’ll never get those back and they aren’t optional. Will the bigger space, for the few hours you get to enjoy it, be worth it?
[/quote]In a word, yes! I personally enjoy (a) automobiles, and (b) time to myself. I don’t have to be around someone every frickin’ minute (and worry about people who do).
I get much, much more stressed out if I don’t have personal space around my homestead. Shared walls (and the noise that comes with that), lack of parking, sirens, airplanes, questionable characters walking in front of my abode all raise my blood pressure to unacceptable levels. If that’s your cup of tea fine. But it will never be mine.
A little personal time in the cabin of my car is alright by me. Kind of like a zen space on wheels.
In my case, I think 30 min is optimal but I can tolerate up to an hour before I call uncle.
And even if you live in the city core, chances are your commute is at least 15 min and it’s probably longer. So what one really needs to evaluate is the delta – not the total trip – when choosing between locations.
October 20, 2012 at 10:25 PM in reply to: OT: What do you say to your toddler that asks you about politics? #752941svelteParticipantDon’t blame me. I voted for Bill and Opus.
svelteParticipantI too have a very limited set of sites I visit. But a few of them may interest you.
News
http://www.businessweek.com/
http://www.businessinsider.com/
http://www.10news.com/Auto Stuff
http://www.autoblog.com/
http://jalopnik.com/
http://bringatrailer.com/
http://www.thestreetpeep.com/Just For Fun
http://thechive.com/
http://www.ilovebacon.com/
http://www.the7msnranch.com/
http://girlsdrawingirls.blogspot.com/
http://jeffhayesfinearts.blogspot.com/
http://boingboing.net/svelteParticipantJust tell’em you’ve got a big deck and you’re not afraid to use it. That’ll keep’em quiet.
svelteParticipantOh for Christ’s sake….leave the poor guy alone!
He said he doesn’t believe there is a god. That makes him an ATHEIST.
But he also admits he doesn’t know. That makes him also an AGNOSTIC.
Which makes him an Atheist Agnostic….just as he described himself!
svelteParticipantDaniel 12:2 “And many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, Some to everlasting life, Some to shame and everlasting contempt.”
svelteParticipant[quote=bearishgurl]
Essbee, my bad … I did not consult a map. I just consulted a more recent Thomas Guide…[/quote]They still make those things?
I thought they would all be in museums by now. We cleared them out of our cars years ago.
svelteParticipantWell, we are biased here since we did buy in San Marcos and I’ll tell you our reasoning:
– Access to SD, LA and Riverside county job markets (as The-Shoveler points out)
– Shorter drive from up north (before we moved to SM and lived further south, we would drive home from LA or other areas further north and invariably say “you know if we lived along the 78, we’d be home now!!”)
– Closeness to the coast (I think because 78 bends northward, most ppl don’t realize SM is only 10 miles from the coast…which is perfect for us! Not too close, not too far)
– Bang for the buck (yes, we enjoy living in a bigger house)
– Great school district (debated infinitum on this site)
– Suburban feel (we hate feeling boxed in, and we definitely feel relaxed in the SM area)Yes, future gas prices and commute distance are a concern for sure, but if push ever comes to shove we can both easily get to our jobs using public transportation. The Sprinter followed by The Coaster or Express bus will get you to a wide variety of job sites.
On top of that, more and more jobs are becoming work-from-home (thank you internet!) and ours are about to turn that way too. So our commute could be going to zero anyway, no matter where we live.
And the 15 express lanes? Heaven on earth! We can now get to anywhere north of 8 – during rush hour – in about 1.5 minutes per mile. You can do the math for your situation.
Finally, after many years of driving I can tell you our threshold is about a 1 hour commute one way. That’s where it gets painful. But 30 minutes? I can do that easy and actually enjoy it if traffic is moving. It gives me a buffer zone to think about my upcoming day (going in) or family things coming home.
October 20, 2012 at 8:03 AM in reply to: OT: What do you say to your toddler that asks you about politics? #752902svelteParticipantI think you did a good job flu.
I don’t remember the topic coming up too much in our house, but I’m sure I let them know that I evaluate each candidate on their own merits, not by which party they belong to.
It’s getting harder and harder in the current political climate to find a candidate who doesn’t stick to the party line like glue, though.
I’m leaving more and more fields on my ballot blank.
svelteParticipantIt is really easy to figure out what side of the political fence someone sits on by whom they nitpick to death. It is especially easy in this thread.
I found it amusing when the Dems nitpicked Bush over his Katrina reaction. I’m finding it equally amusing now that the Reps are nitpicking Obama to death over Libya.
Sometimes I wonder if there is anybody out there at all who can be truly objective.
svelteParticipant[quote=CDMA ENG]
At the end of the day I would rather there be a Santa Claus then a god though…
CE[/quote]God is just a Santa Clause for adults.
Think about it.
We say to kids: “Be good, and Santa will give you lots of toys!”
We say to adults: “Be good, and we’ll give you eternal life in heaven!”
svelteParticipant[quote=Allan from Fallbrook]
I got booted from the tour of the Mormon church in La Jolla after asking if you got to name your own planet or not. Apparently that was considered very offensive, for some reason. I was genuinely curious, actually.[/quote]I was best man at a wedding, standing in the back room with the best man and pastor looking through a little window at the crowd in the pews.
The pastor saw two men in black pants, white shirts, and black ties. “Are those Mormons?? Who invited Mormons to the wedding?” he said, visibly angry. “Uh, I did” said the groom. There was dead silence.
He probably would have kicked me out had I chimed in that I’m a non-believer.
We were at a dance club a few weeks ago, midnight on a Sat night, when a man we didn’t know came up and started talking to us. After about 5 minutes, he said “hey, there’s this great church just a couple minutes away you should go to…” I injected “well, we’re Atheists”. The look on his face was priceless. His mouth, still open and frozen mid-sentence, didn’t know what to say. He looked at us as if we were Satan.
It’s amazing how many religions are intolerant of other views.
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