Singlespeed & Fixed Gear - SF FIXERS (semi bike unrelated)

should i pack my bike up, leave brooklyn, and move to SF for a girl?

would i need to add a brake for those hills or what?!?

your thoughts.
mc

If you're a left-winger, you'll do fine in SF...

Seeing as how I am familiar with all the circumstances of both your life and hers, I would highly recomend that you consult the "magic 8-ball". The 8-ball will give you all the answers that you need with an accuracy rate much higher than any you could hope to achieve on a forum of individuals that for all you know could be one step removed from being committed to an asylum.
;) Best of luck on your decision, I know those decisiond can be tough.

Originally posted by The Fixer
If you're a left-winger, you'll do fine in SF...

hmmm.. i am a vegetarian.

mc

Originally posted by MKRG
Seeing as how I am familiar with all the circumstances of both your life and hers, I would highly recomend that you consult the "magic 8-ball". The 8-ball will give you all the answers that you need with an accuracy rate much higher than any you could hope to achieve on a forum of individuals that for all you know could be one step removed from being committed to an asylum.
;) Best of luck on your decision, I know those decisiond can be tough.

hey, wait a minute, you're not from SF.

mc

It isn't the hills that will kill you it's the drivers.

Why in the world would you move for a person that you are not married to??

Unless your life is needing a change make the move for different reasons not for another person....

http://www.mattelgames.com/magic8/flash_index.asp

i just did it. went from boston to berkeley with my GF. i've been here for a month now, i have no friends, i have no job, and i'm out of money and my bills are piling up. the fog makes me depressed, and all the old hippies piss me off. the freeway infuriates me to no end along with the way people give directions here it's always "take this freeway to this exit, then change over to this other freeway to go in this direction...blah blah blah."

but other than that it's very nice weather and if you'll be in the city you should have no trouble finding friends or a job, and you know, if you're really into this girl, then it shouldn't matter if you're jobless for longer than you thought and still haven't met anyone worth talking to.

maybe i'm just picky...

Originally posted by Dude
It isn't the hills that will kill you it's the drivers.

Why in the world would you move for a person that you are not married to??

Unless your life is needing a change make the move for different reasons not for another person....

http://www.mattelgames.com/magic8/flash_index.asp


well, i kind of simplified the whole thing. but, i am a firm believer that change is good... AND.. i don't know if i can take another NYC winter!

also, i think NYC drivers are the most ruthless, are they not?

mc

Originally posted by mcutt
hmmm.. i am a vegetarian.

mc You'll fit in just fine in SF.......most vegetarians I know are liberals.........or are HK's. Good luck with your girlfriend!....... :)
But watch out!.......we're gonna have Arnie as Govenor starting next week!

I moved to freaking Houston for a girl (who I married etc.) so a move to SF would be like trip to the garden of eden in my book. Gotta ask youself what's more improtant, the days in NY or the nights in SF. :D

Originally posted by OneTinSloth
i just did it. went from boston to berkeley with my GF. i've been here for a month now, i have no friends, i have no job, and i'm out of money and my bills are piling up. the fog makes me depressed, and all the old hippies piss me off. the freeway infuriates me to no end along with the way people give directions here it's always "take this freeway to this exit, then change over to this other freeway to go in this direction...blah blah blah."

but other than that it's very nice weather and if you'll be in the city you should have no trouble finding friends or a job, and you know, if you're really into this girl, then it shouldn't matter if you're jobless for longer than you thought and still haven't met anyone worth talking to.

maybe i'm just picky...


SLOTH..

that's exactly the type of feedback i was looking for..

thanks.
mc

Originally posted by mcutt
SLOTH..

that's exactly the type of feedback i was looking for..

thanks.
mc


are you being sarcastic?

i didn't want to sound like a whiney brat, but...you know, it sucks to leave all your friends behind and move to a new place where you don't know anyone except your significant other. it has been hard lately, but i don't really know what i'd do without my girlfriend...leaving has crossed my mind serveral times, but...i don't know where i'd go, or what i'd do without her. there are good things about the bay area, i'm just lonely i guess, and there aren't very many job opportunities out there right now.

Originally posted by OneTinSloth
are you being sarcastic?

i didn't want to sound like a whiney brat, but...you know, it sucks to leave all your friends behind and move to a new place where you don't know anyone except your significant other. it has been hard lately, but i don't really know what i'd do without my girlfriend...leaving has crossed my mind serveral times, but...i don't know where i'd go, or what i'd do without her. there are good things about the bay area, i'm just lonely i guess, and there aren't very many job opportunities out there right now.

not at all............! you answered my question fully, from someone who has been through what I am considering. hmm, my sincerity is being doubted.

mc

oh...and as far as brakes are concerned...umm..i don't have one, but i've only been to the city a couple times on my bike so far, and the hills in berkeley aren't so bad...if i was going to be doing a lot of riding in SF, i'd put a brake on just to be safe.

i love san francisco a lot granted i live in bizzerkeley right now for school. but i heard new york is equally as cool from my friends going to school there. personally, i think change is a good thing and was happy to move away for college. but finding a job is something that scared me into staying at school another year since all my friends graduating with business/engineering degrees can't find anything. i think i'll just enjoy the school life as much as i can for now.

mcutt,

Change is good for some people.. What I am saying is make the move for you not her. What if you move and you like it in SF and she doesn't then what?? What if you get to SF and she finds someone else or you find someone else??

I have a friend that moved to Boston for school.. She then stayed in Boston because she met this guy and fell in love with him. After a few years he got a job offer in the Bay Area and asked her to move. She left her job and moved for him, to support him and help him launch his career. Two months later he left her saying things just didn't work like he wanted. A year and a half later she is still in the B.A. looking for work and burning a hole in her savings.....


Measure twice, cut once!! :eek:

Go, try it. Take a chance now before properness and situation prevents you from living a little closer to the edge of life. SF is a special place, and you'll gain some untangible insights to the world there. Even if it doesn't work out: the memories gained are worlds apart from holding back and saying "I thought it out and made the best...".

Take a chance. Live life.

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Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded. But trust me, in 20 years, you'll look back at photos of yourself and recall in a way you can't grasp now how much possibility lay before you and how fabulous you really looked. You are not as fat as you imagine.

Don't worry about the future. Or worry, but know that worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation by chewing bubble gum. The real troubles in your life are apt to be things that never crossed your worried mind, the kind that blindside you at 4 pm on some idle Tuesday.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Sing.

Don't be reckless with other people's hearts. Don't put up with people who are reckless with yours.

Floss.

Don't waste your time on jealousy. Sometimes you're ahead, sometimes you're behind. The race is long and, in the end, it's only with yourself.

Remember compliments you receive. Forget the insults. If you succeed in doing this, tell me how.

Keep your old love letters.

Throw away your old bank statements.

Stretch.

Don't feel guilty if you don't know what you want to do with your life. The most interesting people I know didn't know at 22 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don't.

Get plenty of calcium.

Be kind to your knees. You'll miss them when they're gone.

Maybe you'll marry, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll have children, maybe you won't. Maybe you'll divorce at 40, maybe you'll dance the funky chicken on your 75th wedding anniversary. Whatever you do, don't congratulate yourself too much, or berate yourself either. Your choices are half chance. So are everybody else's.

Enjoy your body. Use it every way you can. Don't be afraid of it or of what other people think of it. It's the greatest instrument you'll ever own.

Dance, even if you have nowhere to do it but your living room.

Read the directions, even if you don't follow them.

Do not read beauty magazines they will only make you feel ugly.

Get to know your parents. You never know when they'll be gone for good.

Be nice to your siblings. They're your best link to your past and the people most likely to stick with you in the future.

Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. Work hard to bridge the gaps in geography and lifestyle, because the older you get, the more you need the people who knew you whenyou were young.

Live in New York City once, but leave before it makes you hard. Live in Northern California once, but leave before it makes you soft.

Travel.

Accept certain inalienable truths: Prices will rise. Politicians will philander. You, too, will get old. And when you do, you'll fantasize that when you were young, prices were reasonable, politicians were noble, and children respected their elders.

Respect your elders.

Don't expect anyone else to support you. Maybe you have a trust fund. Maybe you'll have a wealthy spouse. But you never know when either one might run out.

Don't mess too much with your hair or by the time you're 40 it will look 85.

Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it's worth.

But trust me on the sunscreen."

"keep your old love letters."

heh...

*sigh*