Hey, that was pretty cool! The associate director of the environmental journalism program at Michigan State University left a comment on my last post! I fully intend to e-mail this guy and talk to him, so if you're reading this, David Poulson, expect a message from me shortly.
I love the social benefits of having a blog, but I never thought of it as a professional networking tool. Of course, it can't be exclusively that, because I do like to throw around the occasional cuss word every now and then. Right? Hell yes. Still, I'll take any help I can get in the career department at this point.
Anyway, my friend Jacob wrote yesterday about Find Your Spot, a website that asks you a bunch of questions about weather, cost of living, population size and stuff like that and then gives you a list of places that best fit your criteria. In light of our situation I checked it out, and it turns out the number one place for me in the United States is .... Little Rock, Arkansas? I've never been there so I really have no right to judge, but that seems wrong. I'm not sure how I'd feel about living in the same state that gave birth to Wal-Mart.
Portland, Oregon was number two, and while I've never been there either, I've heard it's one of the best places in the country to live, all things considered. I could maybe get down with Oregon. Incidentally, Jacob's been pressuring us to move there so he can convince his wife to move there too, then we can start a whole little colony of Georgians turned ... Oregonians. (Oregonites? Oregoners? Oregoonies? Ooh, I like that one.)
I have travel on the brain lately. Can you tell?
Anyway, we're headed to Georgia tomorrow for the FOURTH WEEKEND IN A ROW. Because gas is $3.50 a gallon and I'm made of money. Awesome.
Thursday, May 1, 2008
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At least there's good climbing in Ar-Kansas.
I had a friend who lived in Little Rock VERY briefly. She was supposed to be there for a year but really wasn't happy with the location. She's a northerner like me though. I think the overall culture shock might have been part of the issue.
From what I hear, Portland is amazing. And you might get to see Big Foot.
I'm sorry, that should have been Bigfoot (one word).
This might be my favorite title EVER!
Oregoonies? My new word of the day. I'm going to try and work it into casual conversation. I'll let you know how that works out.
Wow, Arkansas, eh? Just don't move to Oregon and start some weird rock climbing, beer making cult or anything, OK?
Speaking of Oregon, anyone remember Oregon Trail? I always ended up dying of starvation or something!
Sorry about the gas. When you get down here, it's more expensive. So fill up before you leave.
It's downhill all the way to Georgia. Just put in neutral and give it a nudge.
Apparently FindYourSpot.com is funded by the Crappy Places of America Tourism Board or something. Meaghan and I each took the quiz and got a long list of cities in Louisiana, Mississippi and West Virginia. Apparently we looove poverty.
I've never been to Arkansas. You should go just to prove it exists. Plus, if you move there with Mickey, the literacy rate of the whole state will probably raise by a percent.
Snap!
Dude, I totally got Little Rock, too. Want to move there together and start our blogging commune?
I took one of those quizzes one time and it gave me the EXACT SAME RESULTS. I'm willing to bet the results are based on which city's tourism commission ponies up the most money.
But that said, I have a crazy city crush on Portland. I have just the opposite on Little Rock.
Chris, my list was mostly entirely awesome places, but then it didn't return a single city south of Pennsylvania on the East coast or east of Colorado other than that.
It makes me worry what kind of person you are that you got those sorts of results.
A shout out for "Portland" coming. One of my best friends lives in Eugene (about 2 hours south) and when he got married we spent a week out there with 3-4 days in Portland.
Great city with a very cool area down by the Willamette River. As well, some nice "burb" areas near by as well.
Good luck-
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