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If yes, where would you move to?

If no, why not?

I ask this as someone who has moved around a lot (5 states) for better working opportunities. I often hear people say they wish they could leave their current city/state/country, but money is often (understandably) an issue.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I wouldn't move to a different state.

I would move to a different area in the state.

In general, I like where I live. However, when I moved here about 5 years ago, it was a peaceful quiet area. my back yard was a couple acres of minimally touched nature (little cluster of trees, massive green field of mice, spiders, gophers, grasshoppers, and the occasional deer).

I loved it. Then the city decided to turn half of that field into a community center whose entire side facing my house was glass, leaving me to feel like a zoo exhibit.

That wasn't good enough though.

The city claimed the remainder of the field, bulldozed and chemically treated it, and put in annex parking for the community center right up against my fence. Mind you, my backyard is TINY. Maybe 40x20 ft. Slightly more than you would expect from an apartment. They literally paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

In between the annex parking and the community center, they put in a playground. Now my once peaceful, zen, soul charging slice of heaven is constant mobs of screeching children and idling cars during the day and rotating groups of 16-23 year olds drinking, doing drugs, selling drugs, and all around loudly and aggressively delinquenting by night.

If I could, I would just like to live somewhere quiet and private again.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (3 children)

Why does it seem like the US is highly allergic to underground or multi story parking?
Is it that exotic?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

And maintenance.

Portland is full of parking structures. And they are crumbling.

It's low key terrifying to park in them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

Don't see this issue happening in Germany? Maybe some parts of the US should use the materials used for parking garages what they use for skyscrapers instead of cardboard /s.

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