hi all, i started a new business in the far north of sweden, on the border line of the artic circle.
just thought i would share my business with any one interested. if you have any thoughts or comments that would be appreciated. if you want to follow me my youtube chanel is veg city sweden.
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I (36m) started OLD for the first time ever last summer. When I started I didn't know what I wanted and went on a lot of dates. After that I started getting picky about what I liked and wanted and now I think I may have gone too far in that sense. I am an agnostic liberal guy living in a rural area that is 90% Christian conservatives. There is a metro area an hour away from where I live where there are many more people I'm interested in, and I don't mind driving. Even then I have had women tell me they feel guilty about how far I have to drive, if they'll even consider dating someone that far away, and also it would be nice to find someone closer.
What do you guys think? I'm concerned I may have taken traits I've liked from women I've dated and am picturing this ideal woman that doesn't exist. At the same time, religion and politics are usually a good indicator of values. I'm torn between loosening up my requirements to give more people a chance or sticking with what I've found I like and accepting that I will likely continue to go on long periods between dating people. It's been 3 months since my last first date and it's starting to get to me.
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As much as I wish moving were an option, I have split custody of my kids and am stuck here unless my ex also agrees to move. All of her family lives here and she loves her job so I don't see it happening anytime soon.
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Considering the middle ground option of moving to a suburb this summer and just commuting more. My house is currently an hour from the city center and the suburb is only 30 minutes but would still be a reasonable commute for everything I need. Had a trip to Europe planned this summer but that money would probably be better spent improving my living situation than just a week of traveling.
I am looking for games that have a similar feel to games like: Manhunt (1 and 2), Condemned, Silent Hill, Max Payne (1 and 2), some missions of Hitman 3: Contracts (like "The Meat King's Party"), F.E.A.R. 1, even Alan Wake and SWAT 4 go for that aesthetic. I hope you know what I mean. Dark alleys, abandoned buildings, serial killer on the loose, underground parties, pouring rain, violence etc.
So is there any interesting game that sets you in similar dark streets and buildings that you probably wouldn't want walking in the evening irl ? Preferably, I would like it to be less focused on the supernatural and more on the serial killer / snuff film aesthetics.
For people who are immersed in gun culture, someone walking around with an AR-15 is as American as apple pie.
But for a growing part of the country, the image of a rifleman walking through a supermarket or a protest brings mass shootings to mind.
The law tends to be pretty clear on the point that unless you’re actively breaking the law, carrying a gun doesn’t allow people to treat you as an aggressor for reasons of self-defence. You can’t point a gun at someone just for walking into Walmart carrying three legal guns and an ammo belt.
Legal realities aside, though, wide swathes of the country have come to see open carry as an imminent threat of violence. And people are inevitably going to respond in kind.
This feels like a recipe for an escalatory spiral of violence. How sustainable is a legal framework that allows it?
I'm new to the area but i love this sort of things, has anyone heard or experienced anything you would consider paranormal in katy or the surrounding areas??haunted roads? Bridge crossing, apparitions or UFOs? I know it sounds silly but I can't be the only one interested!
If I can get a full time remote job I might be able to move closer to the burbs of a major metropolitan city. In my hometown there are rentals for under 800 for a micro basement apartment but I need to get out of the area in hopes to buy, theres almost no chance to buy here. What cities have similar pricing in the most popular areas in the US?
Should taxes paid by urban Albertans be used to help pay for services provided in rural areas? If we are going to talk about equalization, why should it only be at the federal level?
Planning a road trip for this summer with a couple of friends and the discussion of who would drive when came up. Two friends immediately refused to drive anywhere near a large city or on urban highways because it "freaks them out"
I grew up right outside of a city and almost as soon as I could drive I was going out on the highway but those two grew up in rural/exurban areas so maybe it's different.
Is this a common feeling among people outside of large cities or is this just weird.
In the regions of blue states outside the major prio restriction urban centers, NY, Boston, Philly, LA, Basy area, Portland, Seattle, Chicago, Madison, DC, 2Twin Cities, Detroit and Baltimore, what is the current situation when it comes to how the towns and smaller cities are functioning?
In regions such as Northern Cali, upstate NY, Western and Northern MI, Western PA and similar regions, how is the situation with businesses, schools, offices, theatres, venues, parks and public gatherings of various kinds? Are they currently going to extremes and reverting back to early 2020 with attempting to move away from restrictions? Or have the sentiments of their local cultures, which sre freqwuently more similar to that of rural red states than big citied in their state, led them to become more resistant to roll back freedoms?
And if anyone here is good at digital art & wants to help out that would be really cool.
If so, do you think I can get into a heavy unit in a rural area (Wisconsin or Minnesota or Illinois) with just good scores (90 pcsm, 3.7 gpa, good recs and 98 PFA)? Thank you
So much of this has been trial and error with my pup. We live on a super busy main road, and lots of dogs live on the street as well, so longer walks from home are out of the question - too many bad run-ins in the past. Here are my top spots:
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Large, open parks (with strict leash laws) are ideal, but my pup also gets highly anxious in the car, so it often depends on how the car ride goes 🤷🏻♀️ we live 10-15 mins from a large state park, and most people go on the trails with their dogs - but there’s a large grassy area that we just walk circles around and do some LAT training.
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Recently discovered a neighborhood a few mins’ drive that’s totally ideal! Quieter (kinda like a suburb within a city), lots of cars parked on the street so we can easily hide behind some cars if needed, most streets run straight so we have a long line of vision, and very easy to run across the street or go to a side street if needed. Bonus, since it’s so close we can also work on being comfortable in the car 😊 we might have to go check out more random neighborhoods like this!
I have kind of a split work schedule most days and work 8-10/11, then 2/3-6/7. So mid-day walks work best for us. I’ve tried to do super early morning walks when it’s dark, but those have been tough because he seems more anxious at night and I can’t see as far to check if there are other dogs.
When I was a kid in the 80’s, the only thing more dangerous than quicksand was the purported drug dealer hanging outside the local middle school trying to “get all of us hooked on drugs”. grew up in an upper class suburb, but none of this makes sense as an adult even if it was in an urban area. Why would a dealer want kids as customers with no income and lots of risk? Am I the only one who remembers this hysteria? Im guessing Nancy Reagan has a part in this or was it something else?
Edit: no offense to anyone younger, but if you were not in middle school in the 80’s (or 90’s), please don’t give you’re two cents because of what you have seen in movies or heard from someone. Again, no offense and I’m not looking to start an argument, just looking for a certain perspective in time from those who lived it and remember it.
Did Japanese cities like Tokyo and Osaka have massive in-migration and slums during industrialization? Was the crime rate ? Was child labor widespread in factories? Were disease outbreaks common? Or were the processes/results of industrialization in the urban setting different in Japan?
