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If you redid your mid 20s (1 Viewer)
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Apple Jack
Footballguy
Lived in Durango and SF. Not sure I would write it any differently.
ProstheticRGK
Footballguy
All of them. If i redid my mid 20s, my first thing that popped into my head was more travel.
rockaction
Footballguy
Depends on affordability, really.
NY or San Diego if you could afford it.
Philly or D.C. if you couldn't.
But I'm an ignoramus about D.C. these days. It might be in the upper stratosphere as non-affordable.
NY or San Diego if you could afford it.
Philly or D.C. if you couldn't.
But I'm an ignoramus about D.C. these days. It might be in the upper stratosphere as non-affordable.
Northern Voice
Footballguy
My initial reactions are Munich and Montreal. I might miss baseball too much in the summer though.
5-ish Finkle
Footballguy
Seattle, for career(and it was still relatively affordable then). "Southern California That Isn't Los Angeles" for weather/chicks/proximity to a bunch of cool stuff.
Probably wouldn't have considered living abroad back then. If I did? Perth. Or Vienna.
Probably wouldn't have considered living abroad back then. If I did? Perth. Or Vienna.
Inside the Beltway is expensive (Hell, a lot of "outside the Beltway" isn't exactly cheap either, as far as that goes). Not 100% sure what it was like when I was in my mid-20s, but I expect it was still pretty costly.
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pantherclub
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At 25 I was working for Duke Energy working in Charlotte making $75000. I should have accepted that job in DC making slightly less but I chose the money. Bad mistake. In hindsight I should have gone to DC or at the very least instead of partying my ### off bought a ton of rentals in the area and be set for life right now. Live and learn
This for me...and where I would be best suited to advance my career. After that, it would somewhere preferably warm. And with casinos nearby so I can gamble all my money away.
skol asylum
Footballguy
Interviewed with the CIA right before graduating college as they were hiring accountants and logistics people at the time. Would have been an interesting life having moved to Langley around 1997 or so and being part of that organization during 9-11, even in a small role.
Captain Cranks
Footballguy
I wouldn't have married my first wife.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
rockaction
Footballguy
You could have at my age until everyone figured out the beaches and weather. Then it was over.
Ilov80s
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kutta
Footballguy
Agreed. I didn’t make my first trip to NYC until I was in my 40’s. I was a bartender back then - I would have moved to Manhattan and tended bar there.
Long Ball Larry
Footballguy
serious question. is this a bosox45 alias?
pantherclub
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DallasDMac
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MAC_32
Footballguy
We appreciate this continued ignorance from the outside - helps keep the riff raff out.
But as a 20 somethinger, what could he/she afford there? Maybe a 200 sq foot apartment....with 2 other roommates?
E Street Brat
Footballguy
LA. but only because of the music.
kutta
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wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Reno.
Small town which, because of the casinos, is open 24/7 for trouble. Perfect climate for an easterner cuz you got all four seasons but none of em too severe (you can visit 14 ft of snow in literally 15 minutes while getting less than a foot total each year in town). Job market so-so, but cheap living. And it is the best town in America to get out of. Burning man desert stuff, Pyramid Lake (a tiny leftover sea with its own monster), top-notch flyfishing in the E Walker River and other runoff cricks, Tahoe (Emerald Bay, nude beaches, Shakespeare on the Lake, night life, great closer for dates that begin in Reno), Yosemite and tremendous find your own slices o' heaven an hour away in the Sierras, 4 hrs over the hump to San Francisco, and $40 Vegas flights running day & night.
Small town which, because of the casinos, is open 24/7 for trouble. Perfect climate for an easterner cuz you got all four seasons but none of em too severe (you can visit 14 ft of snow in literally 15 minutes while getting less than a foot total each year in town). Job market so-so, but cheap living. And it is the best town in America to get out of. Burning man desert stuff, Pyramid Lake (a tiny leftover sea with its own monster), top-notch flyfishing in the E Walker River and other runoff cricks, Tahoe (Emerald Bay, nude beaches, Shakespeare on the Lake, night life, great closer for dates that begin in Reno), Yosemite and tremendous find your own slices o' heaven an hour away in the Sierras, 4 hrs over the hump to San Francisco, and $40 Vegas flights running day & night.
MAC_32
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This is really it - lots of different places this can be accomplished. Start drinking early, so the bad decisions are hopefully over and done with by this age. And don't get tied down with anyone unless it's of the literal sense because at this stage in life the options are limitless. Then just navigate these few years without anyone dying before considering settling down.
I've lived in California all my life. I'm currently about 20 minutes from the beach. The taxes are outrageous and congestion is getting worse (the magnitude of recent wildfires is also quite troubling).
It's funny how so many people want to move to California for the weather and beaches, but a quiet ranch somewhere sounds good to me.
Jayrod
Footballguy
The only thing I would change about that time would be my career path. I would have started officiating basketball and football then and gotten into general construction.
I don't regret any part of marrying my wife at 22 or living in St Louis and then moving back to Springfield, MO.
I don't regret any part of marrying my wife at 22 or living in St Louis and then moving back to Springfield, MO.
fightingillini
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Would have lived in actual city of CHI as opposed to the suburbs. I was pretty centrally located to so many friends being in Arlington Hts IL, but I always had so much fun going to the city that I should have lived there for a few years.
If I can go back and live in any city in the US.....it would be San Diego.
If I can go back and live in any city in the US.....it would be San Diego.
fightingillini
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I first moved to CLT in 2005 when I was 35. At that time, I would never recommend CLT to a 25 year old. Good place for me to work, go back to Fort Mill SC and raise my family.
Times have changed there, now Charlotte is a great place for a young person to work and have a great time. Weather is solid year round (except it does get really hot and humid in the summer), and the COL is much lower than other major cities in the east.
General Malaise
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At 23, I packed everything I owned into a '91 Acura Integra and drove to Portland, Oregon. I didn't know a single person who lived there. It wasn't easy at first, but I've now lived here longer than I've lived anywhere else - 22 years and counting. There other cities I really like, but for me, this is my home now. Relatively safe, gorgeous and lots of fun to be had.
Ditkaless Wonders
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The Twin Cities was pretty sweet. Good music scene back in the 80's, and I am not talking Prince although I have no problem with him its just that the blues scene was better. The demographics for the 20 to 30 year old aqe cohort were 65% female or a 2 to 1 ratio. These woman were college educated, fitness freaks and mostly tall Nordic blondes. It was a paradise for a guy.
General Malaise
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Leroy Hoard
Footballguy
I would have moved to Reno. I'm not saying exactly why, but it involves a gun and someone leaving us.
Ditkaless Wonders
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General Malaise
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pantherclub
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The Dreaded Marco
Footballguy
I spent my mid-20's, from 1989 to 1994 in Seattle. I don't think I'd change that.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
MAC_32
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Binky The Doormat
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Sullie
Footballguy
I wouldn't do anything different, I moved to Cincinnati from a really tiny town. For me, Cincinnati seemed big at that time, looking back on it, it's not a big city but that's fine. Honestly, I was 4.5 hours from home, no-one knew me and I had fun there. I'll be honest, I was in college, I was broke so (to me) I was so focused on getting my degree and getting a job, it wouldn't have mattered where I lived at that time.
Even after I graduated and got my first job I was saddled with student loan debt, car loan, apartment, etc. I don't know that a change of cities would have made a hell of a lot of difference to me. I was just happy to get out of that dead end, one horse town I grew up in to be quite honest. It wasn't that it was horrible or anything, it's just that I hated that everyone knew everyone's business in a town of 2,500 or 3,000 people.
Even after I graduated and got my first job I was saddled with student loan debt, car loan, apartment, etc. I don't know that a change of cities would have made a hell of a lot of difference to me. I was just happy to get out of that dead end, one horse town I grew up in to be quite honest. It wasn't that it was horrible or anything, it's just that I hated that everyone knew everyone's business in a town of 2,500 or 3,000 people.
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Henry Ford
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New Orleans. I was right the first time.
