So I'm going to move soon.

[Randolf]

My thread on RPG.net detailing some of my experiences can be found right here.

So yeah, I'm getting the fuck out of here. My current destination is Washington DC, which I hear from some people is not a bad place to live. My only choice for transportation over that kind of distance is Amtrak, but the nearest station is still maybe thirty or forty miles away depending on the town.

I cannot even begin to tell you all the horror stories I've got about living in Montegut, Louisiana-- I could try, but no words can convey it with any justice. You'd have to see it to know what I mean. At least one fellow I came across on RPG.net described where I am now as "Deliverance" territory, which is actually a pretty good basis from which to infer the rest. They're gonna fight to keep me here-- they already have-- so any words of encouragement you guys can offer me towards galvanizing my resolve are much appreciated.

There's a shitload of obstacles besides, the main one being not having any reliable means of getting from place to place (no car, and nobody we can ask for a ride who won't try to get out of it or rob us), which incidentally is about to get our utilities cut off for nonpayment (I tried to find some way to pay my bills online, but we have such a shit bank the only way to contact them on their website is to pass through a Captcha system with a broken link for an image). We're also almost out of food; the concoction I made out of expired mac-and-cheese and three-year-old chili powder has caused me more intestinal grief than you want to hear about.

Tomorrow, I'm going to walk the five miles or so to my uncle's house and see if he can give us a ride into town so we can cash our $1,200 pile of almost-expired paychecks and buy some damn comestibles and household necessities. Like a suitcase. For me. Once I sort out a few other issues and I get my stuff in order, I'm getting a ticket to DC and kissing this cesspool of a town goodbye.

On second thought, I'll just blow the kiss from the train window.

[R. Daniel 01]

Don't fully understand whats happening. Who's moving, you or your family? And... job? Uncashed paychecks? Wuh?

[Yuko-san]

I didn't even know you had a job Randolf.

And Washington D.C. might not be the best choice. If you want a more quiet life but with all the basic ammonites then maybe you should move into a small farming community, even in those there are still suburbs. Hell I live in one, and I feel safe and happy here.

BTW it's Wilmore KY, look it up. We have a crime rate of less then one percent, and we have 3000 people in this town. I'm not saying move here, but if you want a quieter and happier life then look for someplace like this. Small town with all the basics but a Walmart and a bookstore, and the only thing I wish this place had was a bookstore.

[R. Daniel 01]

No, Yuko, I wasn't implying that Randolf had a job. I was stutteringly asking if he had one. He didn't specify if he was going alone or not.

Also DC is notoriously poor and rough in some places. On the other hand, that means low rent.

[Randolf]

Some clarifications:

1. I do not have a job. My mother does. I had one before, but she and I were both only being paid one paycheck, and I was spending just about the whole day doing nothing, occasionally having to bear witness to things I really didn't want to.

2. We have no car, and our bank is about 20 miles away. Thus, said paychecks piled up with no place to cash them.

To bring things up to date, all the checks were cashed today, and my mother got her picture ID at last.

Yeah, I hear DC is poor. Frankly, if you have a better suggestion, I'm open. I'm looking for an urban place with easy access to goods and services on foot or by public transit. And where people generally aren't ignorant rednecks who hate brown-skinned people, have warped political views and think I have a pretty mouth.

[Char Aznable]

I always suggest St. Louis, MO. I was raised here, and know the place well. And I can get to everything I need without having to go too terribly far. I used to walk to work, grocery store, and the costume shop...And the FYE (entertainment store that bought Suncoast). Didn't really need to go anywhere else...and I walked to the zoo too (which is one of the few free ones left). The park that it's in has all kinds of stuff in it to do, most of it free (except the skating rink and maybe a couple of other things).

[Sharpshooter005]

I've only been to D.C. like..twice, so I have no idea which are the "You'll get stabbed" areas.

The last time, which was the end of october, a bunch of us were wandering around trying to find a place to eat/where the hell the metro station was in regards to this, we stopped outside a firehouse and somebody went in to ask...and the firehouse was seemingly empty. A firehouse in a major city being empty seems somewhat odd to me so just based on that I probably wouldn't recommend D.C.

a small farming community

If you end up looking for one of these, Adams County PA is close to D.C...or..close ish its within an hour or so driving distance.

My point is whatever you do, do not move into the borough of Gettysburg. If you're even five feet across the line of their jurisdiction, whatever, but believe me they're the most incompetent and corrupt governance that I think I've ever heard of (and I know corruption, I grew up for almost two decades in New Jersey, and every day I miss that because at least their corruption made SENSE)

[Hobo]

What I know about DC from having spent most of my life in a suburb of it:
Anacostia is the "get-stabbed" part.
Dupont Circle is the gay neighborhood.
Museums that aren't Smithsonian aren't free.
Wandering Chinatown isn't always a bad idea.

[Randolf]

What about Grand Haven, MI? That's the other place I've been considering-- after talking about DC for a while, enough people seem to have a low opinion of it that maybe this other town would be an improvement.

I looked it up on Google Maps; damned if there isn't a police station, library, two banks, an ATM, an insurance company, grocery store and a beauty parlor within a block of each other. And there's a park that's bigger than... any other park I've seen. Gives a pretty prosperous impression so far.

[Sharpshooter005]

Heads up: the thread you linked to is apparently unreadable without resignation

[Randolf]

Heads up: the thread you linked to is apparently unreadable without resignation

Damn... forgot Tangency's not open to guests. Ah, well, it's mostly whining. And some stories about how my ex-boss told my mother to make him a sandwich and hours on hours of racist talk about murdering the president and the Hispanic cable man and finally me wandering around in their attic trying to escape from the bigotry and festering inter-family distrust below.

And how there's a broken sewer pipe under my window, we haven't had hot water for 17 years, haven't had an overhead light in my room for 11, and I once went without food for ten days (and before that for seven days, and before that again for four). And a bunch of other reasons why Louisiana sucks ass and Montegut should be struck by a comet, which I'll spare you since it's probably nothing you don't already know.

[R. Daniel 01]

And yet you have Internet. Get your priorities straight, man. The forum and we will still be here--fucking move already. Get out of there. I'm sorry to get all explicit but damn. Consider it tough love. Shit.

[Randolf]

I'm not the one that wears the pants in this family, I'm afraid, so I don't exactly get to set priorities (plus, good luck finding anybody in fifty miles willing and able to actually fix a buried sewer line). But that's mostly because I'm kinda sorta codependent on my mother and never actually grew the balls to act independently. Recent experiences are changing this, however.

Also, your explicitness is appreciated. I need to haul my ass out of here and fast, but there's so many loose ends to tie up first-- getting all my shit in order, planning, finding a place to stay when I get there and convincing somebody to give me a lift to the train station when the time comes. Not to mention that for all my suffering in this place, it's the home I've had for every one of my soon-to-be 24 years; the longest I've ever been away from it was three weeks in squalid hurricane shelters during Gustav and Ike in '08. It might be crap, but it's all I've ever really known as far as a home.

I have someone I'm talking to online about making arrangements for this; it might just be bald sentimentality, but I'll probably stick around for the holidays and be out by the New Year.

Disclaimer: I am well aware of how pansy I'm being and expect no sympathy.

[IslamISMONOTHEISM]

  Hope life becomes better.

 My brothers and sisters say we might move there also,
 maybe instead to Seattle.  

 "Wishing you were somehow here again;wishing you were somehow  near.
 Sometimes it seemed,if I just dreamed, somehow you would be here."



This poem isn't really correct, but i remember reading something like that from some biology text
    and thought it felt right to put it here , as best as I can remember.
It comes from some Play I fergot the name of    


____________________________________________________
                             
Wait now i remember its called the Phantom of the Opera,ACT II, Scene 5
      by Christine Daae

 It was raining ... ahhhhh ... how i miss my younger days
 and *sigh* i am only 16
 if it feels this bad at this age...
 I wonder how it feels for those who are well beyond their 50's and 60's
    nigh death .... nigh sans eyes sans feet sans hands sans mind sans all sans none sans sans 

[Randolf]

Hope life becomes better.

 My brothers and sisters say we might move there also,
 maybe instead to Seattle.  

 "Wishing you were somehow here again;wishing you were somehow  near.
 Sometimes it seemed,if I just dreamed, somehow you would be here."



This poem isn't really correct, but i remember reading something like that from some biology text
    and thought it felt right to put it here , as best as I can remember.
It comes from some Play I fergot the name of    


____________________________________________________
                             
Wait now i remember its called the Phantom of the Opera,ACT II, Scene 5
      by Christine Daae

 It was raining ... ahhhhh ... how i miss my younger days
 and *sigh* i am only 16
 if it feels this bad at this age...
 I wonder how it feels for those who are well beyond their 50's and 60's
    nigh death .... nigh sans eyes sans feet sans hands sans mind sans all sans none sans sans 

So long, Mono, and thanks for all the lulz.

Ka-Banned.