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Oh man I feel so sorry for my artist friends who were forced out and can never move home again. One of them is slowly succumbing to depression due to ending up
by egypturnash 7y ago
Oh man I feel so sorry for my artist friends who were forced out and can never move home again. One of them is slowly succumbing to depression due to ending up in Seattle and I really hope he can figure out how to get out of there before the winter blahs drive him to suicide.
- pram 7y agoWow, Seattle! A punishment worse than death!
- cortesoft 7y agoIt isn't about the location, it is about being away from your family, your friends, and your community. That matters to some people.
- garmaine 7y agoAlso 10 consecutive months of drab, gray skies and constant rain.
- loeg 7y agoEleven months! Don't move here.
- DonHopkins 7y agoYou'd be more convincing if you said "Don't move there."
- autokad 7y agofor some reason, 50 degrees feels more like 35
- johntash 7y agoThis sounds perfect.
- egypturnash 7y agoGrey and rainy forever is really bad for people prone to seasonal depression. Rents following the same path that SF took for similar reasons don’t help either, it is no longer the affordable place for art scenes to flourish that it was in the grunge era. I lived there for several years and got out, and it’s really nice to be living somewhere I know I won’t spend half the year with a little voice in the back of my head suggesting suicide as the solution to every other problem because I am tragically low on sunlight and vitamin D even with a 2’ square sun lamp and lots of pills, and I see the symptoms of the same shit in the friend I’m talking about who ended up there after SF’s insane rents pushed him out.
- magic_beans 7y agoHe should consider large doses of vitamin D, for a start.
- egypturnash 7y agoHe has. So did I when I was living there. It helps but it is by no means providing everything that Seattle lacks, in my experience of most of a decade living there with a body optimized for warmer climates.