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Places
It's time once again to play the "where should Ben live" game.
I and the Girl are considering living in three different places, from this winter to next fall (after that we'll, if we're still a "we," be headed to whatever school will have her.) We're looking at living in Boston, SF Bay Area, or London. What's going on is that she's doing grad school preperations and studying for the Foreign Service Exam, and I'm (hopefully) working and continuing to run my publishing company. So job availability, etc, is a good thing. London is advantageous as she has an aunt that lives there, who would put her up, but probably not me.
Anyway, I know that there are people who've lived in all these places, and do presently, so ... convince me where to go! I've lived in the Boston area and Bay Area before, but never been to England. Why does one place rock more than another?
I and the Girl are considering living in three different places, from this winter to next fall (after that we'll, if we're still a "we," be headed to whatever school will have her.) We're looking at living in Boston, SF Bay Area, or London. What's going on is that she's doing grad school preperations and studying for the Foreign Service Exam, and I'm (hopefully) working and continuing to run my publishing company. So job availability, etc, is a good thing. London is advantageous as she has an aunt that lives there, who would put her up, but probably not me.
Anyway, I know that there are people who've lived in all these places, and do presently, so ... convince me where to go! I've lived in the Boston area and Bay Area before, but never been to England. Why does one place rock more than another?
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London, whilst expensive is affordable if you both have jobs. If one of you has a good job then it should be easily within your price range. Similar housing can be priced very differently in different areas so you have to hunt around a bit. Generally South and East are cheaper than North or West for example.
I'm not sure why getting a phone should be so hard. I'd have thought good credit history and a credit card would be enough.
In the last few weeks, I've been to a talk on Victorian Sexuality (given by the pornographer who wrote the flavour text for the Dying Earth rpg), seen early Kandisky at the Tate, my wife went to a Tarot conference and she's going to see the Scissor Sisters at a not so secret fancy dress only gig next month. And there are plenty of gamers.