I'm eventually going to have to leave Boston forever.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

So, some reasons she's given thus far are she hates the snow, and shoveling, she hates relying on public transportation to get to work, she hates the cost of living, the people here are rude and unfriendly, the weather in general.

Tampa.

I'm not fucking joking, I'm not saying this is a biased manner because it's where I grew up, but you WILL find work there, and it doesn't snow. Did you see my post?

I don't think the kind of biology in Tampa is the kind of biology Twid is planning on doing.

He was looking for ideas, and I gave him one, that's it.

Right, it's just that botanical gardens, zoos, and aquariums are a completely different field. Botany and zoology both fall under the general heading of "biology" as well, but are a very different skill set.

[Ben Shapiro]

Houston, Texas preferably in the North Side.

Cities outside of North Houston.
Cypress (very diverse Blue Collar),Tomball (Blue Collar), Spring (Blue Collar country/rock crowd), or The Woodlands (posh/rich suburban area). If she's serious about living in a less noisey place than you guys should check out Conroe.

Cities outside of West Houston.
Katy (Snowbirds live here)

These are the cities, or parts I feel you might feel at ease, and won't stick out as much, or less likely to feel jaded.

Why Houston? It's everything your GF wants, and also it's home to some of the best cancer centers in the world here downtown great for you guys with Science majors.

4th largest city demands you to drive 24/7. Our public transit is a joke.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Houston, Texas preferably in the North Side.

Cities outside of North Houston.
Cypress (very diverse Blue Collar),Tomball (Blue Collar), Spring (Blue Collar country/rock crowd), or The Woodlands (posh/rich suburban area). If she's serious about living in a less noisey place than you guys should check out Conroe.

Cities outside of West Houston.
Katy (Snowbirds live here)

These are the cities, or parts I feel you might feel at ease, and won't stick out as much, or less likely to feel jaded.

Why Houston? It's everything your GF wants, and also it's home to some of the best cancer centers in the world here downtown great for you guys with Science majors.

4th largest city demands you to drive 24/7. Our public transit is a joke.

The problem with Texas is with me. Not because it's Texas, but that Texas is far away from both Boston and Ireland. Also, I really hate heat. I don't think I could do it.

[Ben Shapiro]

Fair enough.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

So, over the past couple of days I became ok with the prospect. And today I was excited about it because I now have the opportunity to apply for a NASA job or something (at Goddard, for example). I told Villager about it and she was like or we could stay in Massachusetts. Just not Boston. I thought my head was going to explode. I'm just going to leave it alone for a bit. 

[Ben Shapiro]

DERP forgot about NASA!!

HAHAHAHHAAHA. Poor Twid.

[Eater of Clowns]

MOVE TO NEW BEDFORD

EVERYONE IS REALLY HAPPY AND BEAUTIFUL

[Aucoq]

So, over the past couple of days I became ok with the prospect. And today I was excited about it because I now have the opportunity to apply for a NASA job or something (at Goddard, for example). I told Villager about it and she was like or we could stay in Massachusetts. Just not Boston. I thought my head was going to explode. I'm just going to leave it alone for a bit. 

[Nephew Twiddleton]

DERP forgot about NASA!!

HAHAHAHHAAHA. Poor Twid.

I did too. I had been looking into it because Northeastern has a lab run jointly with NASA, but it's engineering projects, so I was like, meh, no NASA job for me then. I mean, that would be the tits. Working for NASA I'd be like, I'll research whatever the hell biology you want me to.

I was like, GODFUCKINGDAMMITWOMAN.

Then she was like, "but if we stay in MA and you're an academic, you'd probably have to work in Boston anyway."

I was willing to commute to Boston from Rhode Island or New Hampshire. But living expenses she said. Shitty weather she said.

So, over the past couple of days I became ok with the prospect. And today I was excited about it because I now have the opportunity to apply for a NASA job or something (at Goddard, for example). I told Villager about it and she was like or we could stay in Massachusetts. Just not Boston. I thought my head was going to explode. I'm just going to leave it alone for a bit. 

I want to know what thing clicked in her head to make her go, "meh, the Bay State's not so bad afterall, just fuck the capital and its bordering cities"

Was it going to Chicago? Was it my willingness to do something that I really really didn't want to do that she was like, eh... I should compromise a bit here....

I have no clue. None.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

MOVE TO NEW BEDFORD

EVERYONE IS REALLY HAPPY AND BEAUTIFUL

It's Massachusetts!

[LMNO]

May I make a suggestion?  It may be difficult, but I'd be really interested in seeing what happens if Villager takes a month or two to actually live in a place other than Boston, seeing how she hates this city, but has never lived anywhere else.  Especially because she hates Boston for completely ephemeral reasons (the most specific being "I fucking hate it here").

[Nephew Twiddleton]

May I make a suggestion?  It may be difficult, but I'd be really interested in seeing what happens if Villager takes a month or two to actually live in a place other than Boston, seeing how she hates this city, but has never lived anywhere else.  Especially because she hates Boston for completely ephemeral reasons (the most specific being "I fucking hate it here").

She may end up living in other parts of MA sooner than later anyway depending on how her roommate situation works out over the next year.

As it is, I basically see her on the weekends anyway, so as long as that's not interfered with, I'm cool with it. If it were a completely different place, she'd obviously have to have employment ready and an exit strategy. That would suck, but I'd see if we could work it so that we at least saw each other every other weekend.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

But that was a thought that crossed my mind, too. I used to spend about two months in Ireland at a time when I was younger and I had no idea how people tolerated it. The answer is having a car, obviously, but dad's town is still about a 2-3 hour drive to Galway City because there's no such thing as a straight road or flat ground there.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

Ok, so I double checked. That's the Bus Eireann routes. Direct driving is about an hour and a quarter, providing lack of sheep in the road. I've never driven a car over there.

[Ben Shapiro]

TEXAS ! TEXAS ! TEXAS!