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Are you in the Northern Hemisphere?

traffic-wise, i'm about 3 hours southwest of you. i was saying the weather in mason county is fallish lately, didn't get above 66F today, high humidity, overcast, sprinkly. feels like fall.

Near Portland, Oregon. Ok.

no, portland is 3+ hours south of ME where i'm at in mason county. it takes me about 3 hours to drive to seattle [last time i checked]. mason has its own weather compared to seattle.

Towards Shelton, I get it!

We'll all practically be neighbors by next year!

yay

Age:23

Location: England

Hobbies and Interests: cats, animals, trees, nature, walks, video games, biology

Why are you here? To meet new people like me

When were you diagnosed?(skip if you don't have a disorder): not officially diagnosed yet but very high chance of aspergers from tests done so far

Favorite subjects: biology and anything to do with cats

Year/Grade: starting first year university for the second time

Favorite music: any

Books: Tom's midnight Garden, jurassic Park, ravens biology, dinosaurs

TV shows/Movies: pretty little liars, River dale, vampire diaries, the OA, black mirror, orange is the new black, jurassic Park, salt, tomb raider

Instrument: none sadly though wanted to do piano and violin but too poor

Do you like sports? Yes! Cricket, badminton, baseball, rounders, netball etc etc loads!

Family: 2 sisters, 4 brothers (2 are half brothers)

Clothing: nothing fancy, or like punkish sometimes

How did you find this website? Google search

Job: petsitter

Plans for the future? Be an environment conservationist or work in a zoo

Any comments

Hello

I think you might be interested in the video I posted of myself.

We don't get below 70F at night until October.

I've only been to the PNW once, if Idaho counts as PNW. And even then, it was the area where it meets Montana and Wyoming. We were going from Jackson Hole to West Yellowstone, and the main route through the park was closed for the season, so we took the back way through Idaho.

I just wish the West Coast states would do something about the ungodly cost of living.

I've been to Tennessee several times. I liked it, it's better than Texas.

Yea you rite. Crackernooga, Tennessee is pushing over 100 days so far this year over 90F. I left New Orleans, and the acoutrememts of a worldy and cosmopolitan city with plenty of good jobs, for two reasons: leaving behind insufferable heat and the consant threat of losing everything to bad weather. After enduring this place for fourteen years, I have survived chronic smog and air pollution, three major droughts, two periods of local wildfires, and an EF4 tornado half a mile away from the house. On top of that, it's almost as hot and the job market here is totally abysmal.



Well.... It's subjective. In Georgia and Tennessee, land values and rent are somewhat below the national average (yet coming up recently due to inflation), but quality of life is more comprable to some third world countries (the UN literally said that about nearby parts of Alabama recently). We have average property taxes but extremely high income tax (30-35% with total household income around 65k) and very high sales tax (between 9.75% in TN and up to 15% in GA). I personally clear an average of under 20k (after gas, auto insurance, maintenance, car note, taxes on every dollar x3 sometimes), I have no healthcare WHATSOEVER. I have not had a checkup since I was 21 years old (I am 35 now) and recently paid $400 out of pocket to have my teeth cleaned for the first time since then (not poor enough for indigent dental or doctor care). Getting my wisdom teeth out cost me over $6000 dollars, and when I need antibiotics for sickness, I go to the emergency room. I have had to buy antibiotics from a pet store before when the actual perscriptions were well over 100 dollars. There is no viable public transportation option, so I have to drive everywhere, which isn't cheap.... In Oregon, there are good jobs for college graduates starting at 45k, and minimum wages are nearly fifteen dollars an hour. Health and dental care is readily available and based on income at a sliding scale. Gas is higher per gallon, but public transportation is available between suburbs and cities. Rent and land values are a bit higher than here, but there is lower income tax and NO sales tax. Quality of life is much better as well, as a result of more greenspace, less pollution, better wages, healthcare, and more affordable fresh food prices. I have spent a summer there... meat, dairy, fish, and produce are all cheaper than here (which makes sense given proximity to cattle country, international ports, fruit and vegetable farms in Cali and Oregon, interest in local farms, etc.). Thank the maker that my appendix burst when I was up there, I still owe medical bills down here for simple stuff, that four day hospital stay was free. The way that I see it, this is America in 2019, 'my name ain't exactly Rockefeller', I'm gonna struggle no matter where I live, but I should at least be able to enjoy it.



I could see that, but what part of Tennessee and what part of Texas (just curious)? They have a lot more in common than just about everywhere else. I enjoyed the Woodlands and San Antonio on past travels, but Tennessee is okay to visit too, just not for me to live here.

where?

I've been to all the major cities in TN. I have also been to the Great Smokies, Pigeon Forge, Dollywood, etc.

Aunt Blabby wouldn't understand the video I posted of myself, because he's not a Brit.

I have a major soft spot for Pigeon Forge, Gatlinberg, and Dollywood. Literally the only things I will miss about this entire area (beside my closest/only local friend). I usually get a season pass to Dollywood, though I only have a good four months of temperate weather to use it in each year. I prefer the culture and people of Memphis, Knoxville, Nashville as well... but between traffic, ease of commutes, and cost of living.... 'Chattavegas' beats them all yet still has all of the problems I've mentioned before (I blame radicalized white nationalist conservatism and a lack of organized labor for most of these) and the cronyism, nepotism and corruption in the tri state area exceeds that of New Orleans. All in all, I have found that the inflated cost of West Coast living is largely a myth, but if it keeps the PNW liberal/progressive, I have no objections to its perpetuation. New England, however, is such an expensive plave to live with even higher taxes and grocery prices to boot, I can see where the myth of the whole of the North being expensive came from. Furthermore, they have to use more heat for several months than we do down here, but those of us with seasonal allergies have to run air conditioning between nine and ten months of the year. Modern America and our higher levels of income inequality, to say nothing of the worst healthcare access in the developed world, make it an expensive place to live wherever we are, really.

He speaks English (et francois) though.... I'm pretty well versed in British history, culture, and vernacular, myself. Now I'm curious too!