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qooqie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Depends on where you live. My community really sucks (Terre Haute, Indiana), but I do a lot of regional exploration. You don’t have to travel all that far, maybe a day at most, to find new and interesting things.

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  • kill_dash_nine@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Does Terre Haute still have that smell? Been a while since I’ve been there but when my wife was in school at ISU, I distinctly remember that funk of the wind was blowing right.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thankfully, no. The paper plant closed down. Instead we now have a performance space that hosted Ted Nugent a couple of months ago. And we’re getting a casino for some reason.

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      • db2@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Instead we now have a performance space that hosted Ted Nugent a couple of months ago.

        My condolences. But at least it wasn’t Trump, gotta find that silver lining where you can.

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      • dutchkimble@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Just out of curiosity, do you know the name of the paper mill?

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  • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I almost moved to Terrible Hole for a while … I still wound up in Indiana, though, so I guess it was moot.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Depends on where in Indiana. We grew up in Bloomington and have many friends there and it’s a decent town overall, even though it’s in Indiana, so we’d love to move there. We can’t afford a house there, but it’s a nice dream.

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      • SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Shit, prices there are skyrocketing, aren’t they. Are they trying to catch up with Seattle?

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  • SeducingCamel@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ahh terrible haute

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  • rayyyy@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Depends on you. My community sucks but I enjoy gardening, grafting, hiking, hunting for delicious mushrooms, bird watching, boating and building stuff. Not to mention flying and fishing.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I don’t really like most of that, but I do like exploring diverse cultures. And I can do that if I just drive a little. Which is a hell of a lot cheaper than backpacking through Europe.

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• ClaireDeLuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s all well and good, but my community would probably kill me eventually so…I’ll stick to not talking to them.

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  • ITypeWithMyDick@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Woman/minority/not-christian in a conservitive area?

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    • ClaireDeLuna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Transfem atheist in the south so yes yes and yes

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• TigrisMorte@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Found the dude not in a red state!

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  • qooqie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    True, I’m also in a really diverse city within the blue state so I have access to so many cultures within my region. I can go to open events at a mosque or even at events hosted by the local synagogue or local Pakistanis or local Indians or local Chinese. So many cultures, it’s really nice and I’m very lucky.

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  • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Sure, but even in Texas, you can drive to either Mexico or a bluer state within a day and experience more culture. And Alaska has all the indigenous culture to explore.

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    • imPastaSyndrome@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yeah if you drove for 8 hours

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Faster than flying to Europe.

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• Buffaloaf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Idk, I live in a small town and I’m kinda tired of my community.

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  • qooqie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I suppose that is something to consider. Find a city you love and can see yourself calling home for a very long time

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• PatFussy@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  They also only ever go to Europe. Nobody that wants profound life changing experiences goes to Europe other than to put it on as a badge of honor that they did.

  If you want a life changing experience, get a minimum wage job.

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  • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Nah, SEA is the new hotness for “life change” tourism

    Still pretty up and coming though since the infrastructure isn’t as well built out and foreign language accomodation isn’t as present outside of the already touristy areas, but when has the reality of a situation ever stopped a trust fund baby before?

    I think there’s still validity to globe trotting though, living international experiences will genuinely lead to better matured people, and serves as a pretty solid means of cultural diffusion, especially music and cuisine.

    As for minimum wage work, I think that’s best handled by adopting those laws Aus did specifically criminalizing karen tantrums.

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  • LucyLastic@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Protip: Live in Europe and you don’t even need to go anywhere :-)

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• psud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s interesting to look up the tourist things in your local area and do a day trip around home - perhaps I’m spoilt though, living in a federal capital with plenty of national things

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