{"id":2177,"date":"2015-11-27T14:57:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-27T19:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/?p=2177"},"modified":"2015-11-27T14:57:12","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T19:57:12","slug":"twenty-seven-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2015\/11\/27\/twenty-seven-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Twenty-seven"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

What places hold particular allure for you; where might you like to live?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Writing in the middle of the night, because I fell asleep during the Packers-Bears game, and am now wide awake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(And also still uncomfortable from overeating today….)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This prompt is kind of related to yesterday\u2019s; I think Detroit has a lot of potential. I think the same of many of the \u201crustbelt\u201d cities \u2013 Baltimore, Cleveland, Kansas City, St. Louis, Boston, Philadelphia, Twin Cities, Milwaukee, Buffalo, some of the NYC boroughs outside Manhattan. (Aside: I still, and probably never will, understand why Cleveland and Milwaukee don\u2019t have NHL teams. Not that I have the least bit of interest in hockey, but it seems like those would be two places that are natural hockey towns.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yes, that includes Brooklyn, even though I can\u2019t grow a hipster beard or manbun. Hell, I\u2019d even consider something in northern Jersey if the right job presented itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Almost universally, these places are known as being cold. When I was younger, that\u2019d have bothered me more. I really don\u2019t notice it as much anymore, though. I notice cold a lot less than I notice heat. Yes, this is directly-related to the MS, but…. My mother is very concerned about me being under-dressed in cold weather, still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, hypothermia seems less likely than passing out because I can\u2019t breathe in the heat. I\u2019m also very much intrigued by cities that are good for living without a car. That I can\u2019t drive anymore has a lot to do with that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So, notables….<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I find Southwest DC interesting for some reason. https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Southwest,_Washington,_D.C<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s also gentrification going on in Southeast. I\u2019d still probably not want to live in Anacostia, but you never know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I do like Arlington and Alexandria, Virginia. If I manage to score a DC gig before my wife finishes school, that\u2019s probably where I\u2019d look to live until she can come join me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I mentioned NYC. Maybe I\u2019ve got an idealized vision, but I know at least I could get around without a car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can get most places when I\u2019m in Norfolk. When I\u2019m at my mother\u2019s, where I stay when I\u2019m working, OTOH, I\u2019m nearly a recluse. I can\u2019t go anywhere. sigh<\/em> Even when I\u2019m home on the weekends, though, I don\u2019t have a lot of energy to get around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think I might be settling down again, so I\u2019m going to cut this off now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have to get up in a few hours to go get another flu shot. When I got the first one, it was the first day I got Tysabri. Something about immunosuppressants killing a vaccine\u2019s effectiveness. Go figure.
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What places hold particular allure for you; where might you like to live? Writing in the middle of the night, because I fell asleep during the Packers-Bears game, and am now wide awake. (And also still uncomfortable from overeating today….) This prompt is kind of related to yesterday\u2019s; I think Detroit has a lot of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-journal-writers-month"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}