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For anyone curious, the game dev is Jason Rohrer: https://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/simpleLife.html https://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohr
by gyomu 1y ago
For anyone curious, the game dev is Jason Rohrer:
https://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/simpleLife.html https://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/simpleLife.h...
Things have changed since:
"In October of 2011, we moved from Las Cruces, NM to Davis, CA. Along with all the good things listed below about Las Cruces came bad things. Vicious dogs loose on the streets (one bit my wife while biking) and in parks (I came close to getting myself shot during a confrontation with a dog owner). Crime (the little old lady next door got burgled twice in one year, once at 3 in the afternoon through her front door). After living in extremely cheap places for 8 years, I came to realize that these places are extremely cheap for a reason (because people don't want to live there if they can avoid it)."
- decimalenough 1y agoZillow says the average house in Davis costs $890k. Looks like they've pretty much given up on the "life cheaply" thing.
- gyomu 1y agoThe main page of his website now says New Hampshire https://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/ https://hcsoftware.sourceforge.net/jason-rohrer/
- npodbielski 1y ago[flagged]
- ryandrake 1y agoReminds me of that past HN story [1] about that guy who moved to the least expensive rural town he could find to start a cheap business, and had nothing but trouble. Between burglary after burglary, locals that hate his guts, local government stopping him from doing anything, and just the general shittiness and malaise of living in a depressed town. The guy kept doubling down, too, buying property after property and ended up owning 75 or so properties, while his problems kept multiplying. 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39802157 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39802157