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My friends who worked there say that the job was great but living in a remote science outpost made dating unbelievably difficult

by rcpt 4y ago

kbarros 4y ago
The town of Los Alamos is beautiful, but it's small. It can be a great place if you already a have family that enjoys outdoors activities. Many people prefer to commute from Santa Fe (45 min drive with mountain views, negligible traffic). Certain groups allow a flexible hybrid home/office working mode. https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2020-09-22/the-healthiest-county-in-america-los-alamos-new-mexico https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/...
- neltnerb 4y ago
  I was only a guest scientist at LBL, but LBL is practically in Berkeley. But yeah, generally I assume this is true, though you may just find that you need a car and that if you have one it's not so bad. For instance, NREL (where I was also briefly a guest scientist) is in an incredibly gorgeous area near Golden which isn't super small but everything is still very spread out and it'd take a while to walk anywhere for sure. I guess it also depends on your definition of "middle of nowhere" I suppose. Golden is hardly Oakland, but I am pretty sure I could find people to date as long as I included Denver... and if you have a car in Colorado you will find that Denver is considered close to a lot of things you might not at first consider it close to. It's only an hour drive from Boulder (where I lived and drove to NREL as needed).
  - worthless-trash 4y ago
    Guest Scientist makes you sound like a celebrity, that kinda tickles a part of my brain that makes me smile.
    - neltnerb 4y ago
      In this case it just meant I was being paid by someone else and convinced them to let me do stuff on their campus. But glad it made your smile ;-)
screwturner68 4y ago
If you are talking about Los Alamos you can commute in from Santa Fe, it wasn't bad, about 45 minuets each way. In my opinion it's kind of expensive for being in the middle of nowhere, you don't get much bang for your buck house-wise. Social wise I couldn't imagine living in LA for an extended period of time if I were single.
- gautamcgoel 4y ago
  Took me a moment to realize that you meant LA = Los Alamos, not LA = Los Angeles :)
closeparen 4y ago
You’d think there would be plenty of pretty young Russian and Chinese women looking to meet handsome American nuclear scientists.
- stevespang 4y ago
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My friends who worked there say that the job was great but living in a remote science outpost made dating unbelievably difficult

by rcpt 4y ago

My friends who worked there say that the job was great but living in a remote science outpost made dating unbelievably difficult

kbarros 4y ago

The town of Los Alamos is beautiful, but it's small. It can be a great place if you already a have family that enjoys outdoors activities. Many people prefer to commute from Santa Fe (45 min drive with mountain views, negligible traffic). Certain groups allow a flexible hybrid home/office working mode. https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/2020-09-22/the-healthiest-county-in-america-los-alamos-new-mexico https://www.usnews.com/news/healthiest-communities/articles/...

neltnerb 4y ago
I was only a guest scientist at LBL, but LBL is practically in Berkeley. But yeah, generally I assume this is true, though you may just find that you need a car and that if you have one it's not so bad. For instance, NREL (where I was also briefly a guest scientist) is in an incredibly gorgeous area near Golden which isn't super small but everything is still very spread out and it'd take a while to walk anywhere for sure. I guess it also depends on your definition of "middle of nowhere" I suppose. Golden is hardly Oakland, but I am pretty sure I could find people to date as long as I included Denver... and if you have a car in Colorado you will find that Denver is considered close to a lot of things you might not at first consider it close to. It's only an hour drive from Boulder (where I lived and drove to NREL as needed).
- worthless-trash 4y ago
  Guest Scientist makes you sound like a celebrity, that kinda tickles a part of my brain that makes me smile.
  - neltnerb 4y ago
    In this case it just meant I was being paid by someone else and convinced them to let me do stuff on their campus. But glad it made your smile ;-)

screwturner68 4y ago

If you are talking about Los Alamos you can commute in from Santa Fe, it wasn't bad, about 45 minuets each way. In my opinion it's kind of expensive for being in the middle of nowhere, you don't get much bang for your buck house-wise. Social wise I couldn't imagine living in LA for an extended period of time if I were single.

gautamcgoel 4y ago
Took me a moment to realize that you meant LA = Los Alamos, not LA = Los Angeles :)

closeparen 4y ago

You’d think there would be plenty of pretty young Russian and Chinese women looking to meet handsome American nuclear scientists.

stevespang 4y ago
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