The way that I'm going to make NL's codeplatform entirely pink, to compensate for having to de-pink my house 🥲🌸

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@yngmar

[randomgeek@masto.hackers.town]

@Gina I moved from Seattle, in the rainy cloudy green US Pacific Northwest, to Tucson in the the sunny dry yet surprisingly green US Southwest.

I miss the conveniences, but I love the sun and relative quiet.

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@h3artbl33d sure! I love looking at houses, lol.

[ij@nerdculture.de]

@Gina I have no idea about the prices there, but the houses are not that large either. It were 2-person bungalows first and then another floor was added later, but I fear it's not cheap either because of the near-by plassen...

[sturmsucht@mastodon.social]

@Gina moving out of the city was the best thing I did for the last 10 years

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@sturmsucht I wanna move too, but not to a rijtjeshuis

[chasalin@mastodon.chasalin.nl]

@Gina @h3artbl33d lots of really nice houses in Groningen for less than 500k

[sturmsucht@mastodon.social]

@Gina those always remind me of Vivarium.

Vivarium (2019)

A young woman and her fiancé are in search of the perfect starter home. After following a mysterious real estate agent to a new housing development, the couple finds themselves trapped in a maze of identical houses and forced to raise an otherworldly child.

(letterboxd.com)

[darkasvim@fosstodon.org]

@Gina
Having to currently live under said climate, I totally understand. I'm cautiously optimistic that things are going to get better next election cycle. Idaho is beautiful county. That is where I'm actually looking to build my retirement "hermit cabin" as my ex wife calls it.

[legit_spaghetti@mastodo.neoliber.al]

@Gina There may come a day when you'll have to choose between working a job you love and living in a place where you feel alive. Maybe that day is already here, but ultimately only you will know when it's time. When that day arrives, my only piece of advice is, think of "Ten years in the future Gina" and consider what she'd want Today Gina to do.

[randomgeek@masto.hackers.town]

@Gina (I also miss the paychecks, but we got priced out of Seattle and then out of the neighboring area. From what I understand most of my former tech cohort in the PNW is struggling with staying sufficiently employed to afford life)

[humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world]

@Legit_Spaghetti @Gina And as an aside, do not accept "foreigner contracts" where the conditions are illegally worse than local hires even if you are EU

[gina@fosstodon.org]

"Okay, but why not just rent somewhere else in the Netherlands?"

I'm not joking when I say that there are no rentals in NL. There are a few other 2k shoebox apartments, but that's it. This is mostly due to disastrous housing policies by the previous governments and decades of barely building new housing.

To anecdotally add insult to injury, my current landlord is a pension fund. The Netherlands is a boomers paradise.

[interpipes@thx.gg]

@Gina I feel this. Not sure I'd recommend moving to the UK generally given the state of our relations with the EU but I love where we live in London. We are surrounded by so much green and then it's just 25 minutes to Liverpool Street station on the overground. You can walk for something like 12 miles out from where we live through woods and plains here and cross maybe 5 roads in that time.

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@chasalin @h3artbl33d bruh if I'm going to move that far I'd rather live on the Waddeneilanden.

[h3artbl33d@exquisite.social]

@chasalin @Gina

Yeah, Groningen is nice too - if you are outside of the "drill area" - as well as the hyperscaler datacenter (was it Microslop in Groningen too?)

[h3artbl33d@exquisite.social]

@Gina @chasalin

Hahahahaha You made me laugh out loud.

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@Darkasvim it's a gorgeous state. Ironically I barely saw any potatoes!

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@Legit_Spaghetti that's literally my dilemma currently 🥲

[gina@fosstodon.org]

@randomgeek it's crazy that people being priced out is happening everywhere rn. I wonder how things will look like 10 years from now.