BahRamYou
20hr ago
I think it's partly inevitable when you've got a lame duck president, especially one 79 years old like Trump. He's not going to be on the ballot anymore, and his time in power is limited, so there's no reason any individual member of the party should look to him for leadership anymore. Trump is just focused on getting through the next 3 years, but a congressman or young activist still has decades of political career ahead of them.
BahRamYou
3d ago
Well, I can't speak to your relationship overall. But as a "city guy" myself, I feel sympathetic to your partner's concerns. Living in an American suburb is just a very different lifestyle from being in a city. A "quarter mile to the bus stop" pretty quickly turns into "1 hour to do anything" when you consider the limited bus service.
Its also just a different culture. Suburbs tend to focus on the home. People live at home, do everything at home, and it's just a totally different vibe.
And yeah, career. It's fine if you're risky settled in one job. If she thinks she might change jobs in the future, what is she going to do in your area?
I know you don't like moving, and i sympathize. But what about keeping your current place, and just renting a place near her for the weekends? Yeah i know that's a huge waste of money etc. But its worth a shot, right?
Yeah, I agree with you. I read Nick Bostrom's book about the Anthropic Principle. He comes up with something like 12 different versions of it, which all depend on hair-splitting pedantic differences in how you phrase things. It made me think that maybe human language just isn't capable of expressing this level of detail- you really need something more like computer code or logical symbols. You don't get these sort of paradoxes in computer programs because you can just run them and see what happens.
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