So what cities (other than the obvious NYC and LA) are the best for quality hobby options?
I'm tired of living in a state with high taxes and nothing to really offer for it. Everything just feels needlessly expensive here, ,the taxes are terrible, the streets destroy your fucking tires going down mainstreet at 20mph bumper to bumper in snow.
I can't even say rent is cheap in Buffalo anymore compared to other places you can rent whole houses WITH off street parking and a basement and things not all being from the 70's with a grungy tile bathroom compared to anywhere else.(Seriously, I've got friends in the middle of the country spending less on a whole 4 bedroom house with space for what a 2 bedroom apartment costs here in an area where its safe to go to your car at night but you're still going to have homeless people and beggars stumbling around on your porch at 3am trying to take your shit)
The between life and the pandemic killing all my industries and us swinging rolling over into winter and the darkness and the whole not much for choices in hobby options I'd even consider paying 100$ to over most dating app matches..what are good cities? (even before covid)
Wheres the secret places with the hot trim that doesn't have dentures and look like your friends 65 yearold mom who smokes 5 packs of newports a day?
Anybody know how first hand anything about the scene is out towards Seattle or Denver or anywhere out west not in California?
If Buffalo /Rochester had stayed cheap shitholes, I'd be all about it. But more and more it's like the place forgot it was a shithole and thought more things should just start charging higher prices without the jobs really giving people any more money or having any justification to do so or offering any new perks/benefits.
The only perk I can see to this area anymore is winter comes along and keeps us from having homeless addict tent cities and (generally) makes this an undesirable area for that element, but we still have plenty of home burglary and auto break ins and everything else.
Wheres a better place for a low-key degenerate that's sick of having so much of the little money he does make gobbled up by taxes and bullshit for so little? but not so middle of nowhere fucksville you've gotta drive 2 hours out for anything worth while?
TLDR:where the fuck are you creeps planning on retiring to? (I'm not retiring I just don't see Buffalo as a great place to try and -make- a life at this point and I'm tired of hearing about how BUFFALO ON THE COME UP. They've been saying that since my parents were kids.