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28 May 2018, 7:50 pm
It's a big country so move someplace with a better economy and cheaper housing. I still have younger relatives around the country that leave the nest in thier late teens and make it.
Not interested.
This is home. This is where my friends and family are. Those of us who stay accept the financial concessions we have to make in order to be here. There’s a reason this place is so expensive, and not just because our gov’t turns a blind eye to money laundering or our proximity to China. This is the most desirable place to live in the entire country. Rainforest, mountains, ocean etc. Nowhere else in the country, or on the planet, compares. I’d rather rent from my parents here than live in a boring ugly place w/o the geo-enviro amenities this place provides. There are some things money can’t buy.
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29 May 2018, 12:07 am
Still not the same. Plus it’s currently within Trump’s America, so I won’t be spending any time or money there. I haven’t crossed the border since December 2016.
But at least the Seattle area is nice and green. Whenever I’ve returned from a road trip farther South, it always starts to feel like home when the trees start getting bigger and greener near Seattle.
The drive through the Cascades to Leavenworth & back is nice, though.
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29 May 2018, 1:43 pm
Another part of Washington I've seen that's absolutely gorgeous is taking the ferry over to the San Juans on a bright sunny Summer day.. I spent the afternoon on Orcas Island, sort of by accident, as I didn't realize I was going to an island until I crossed the border and turned on my GPS! All I knew was that when I looked it up online it said the bike shop I was going to buy a used mountain bike from was like ~45km away.. I crossed the border and my GPS said drive 175km to Port Angeles and catch a ferry.. I figured even if I had to pay $150 for the ferry (It's approx $100 each way with a car here now I think - which is why I never go to Vancouver Island.) it would still be worth it.. pleasant surprise was that it was only like $20usd AND you only pay one way! Orcas Island is an awesome little spot & I can see why VERY RICH Microsoft & Boeing people have vacation properties there.
Not sure I've seen much of Eastern Washington.. except for maybe a road trip when my brother went to a summer program for gifted kids at Eastern Washington University and we drove through what was a freshly burnt forrest fire - this was back in the late 1980's.
I also accidentally crossed the American border on a seadoo ~10 years ago when I rented one in Osoyoos (40C weather at a desert resort town in BC) and ripped it across the lake at a little over 100kmh. 
I didn't realize I'd crossed the border until I was a few hundred yards passed the border marker and quickly turned around.
Washington miiiiight be the best looking state in the USA - but then again, I haven't been to all of them, and haven't been to either of the freak states: Alaska & Hawaii.
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If you're "man" enough to drop a baby in a woman then you need to be "man" enough to take care of it. Which means going out, working for a living and doing what you need to do as an adult. If you don't wanna take care of kids then you shouldn't have them, and if you don't realize that all it takes is one time then you shouldn't be having sex then.
Also the way you commented that makes you sound like you don't even know where children come from at all ... An erection and an orgasm you say??? Ever heard of protection, or "pulling out"??? Sure beats the crap out of jizzing inside a woman and having a chance of being on the hook 9 months later for a possible 18 years of your life. That child support order is real bruhh.
I comprehend this. You comprehend this. What is this guy's IQ & functioning level? Maybe neither is high enough to get this and make proper decisions. Or maybe he just did it like countless intelligent men who then end up having their girlfriend's take a plan B pill or get an abortion. Anyways, just because he could get his dick up & blow a load doesn't mean he's bright enough to have considered what might happen in terms of pregnancy etc. You're making a lot of assumptions about the guy.. when clearly from even one short video clip interview it's very obvious he has mental health issues and it wouldn't surprise me one bit if those issues include impulse control issues that extend to sexual activity.Well I guess that can't be helped but I do feel bad for the woman though because many people seem to be making fun of her saying that she got knocked up by a "waste of flesh". I think a lot of guys don't take enough responsibility for sexual activity and leave it on the women to either get an abortion or take birth control/plan B. Its like "dude, you don't know how to pull out or use a rubber???". I guess that's neither here nor there though. The guy could be bipolar or something and many bipolar people have tendencies towards hyper sexuality for some reason.
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01 Jun 2018, 3:42 pm
^ There ya go. He has one official diagnosis & may have other afflictions. This was VERY apparent in a less than 1 minute video clip interview I watched, and so I agree with those who said it's entirely inappropriate for journalists to destroy this guy in an interview.
Maybe his parents aren't the type to accept his diagnosis as a reason he can't work & function in life. They're not obligated to. They're not obligated to financially pay for his existence, either. Sounds like they'll all be better off if he's collecting disability (or working, or some combination.) and living in his own space.
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01 Jun 2018, 4:29 pm
The Autism issue is moot, since it's a self-diagnosis.
Maybe they can't afford to pay for him? Maybe he's extremely difficult to be around and don't like him? Maybe they don't believe that mental health afflictions can in fact impair someone to the point that they're unable to work & provide for themselves? Maybe they don't like that he refuses to treat his paranoid schizophrenia so that he can work and function in life? Doesn't really matter, he's a 30 year old man and his parents don't want him living in their home, so, he has to move.
IF he is on the Autism spectrum, it's not moot because it's a self-diagnosis. Are his symptoms somehow non-existent unless someone with letters after their name writes it down on a piece of paper?
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It's a craptastic situation all around. On the one hand, the son is old enough to live on his own.
On the other hand, the son has schizophrenia, and may be completely unable to live on his own.
On the gripping hand, the house belongs to the parents, and the judge has already ordered the eviction.
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01 Jun 2018, 6:11 pm
The Autism issue is moot, since it's a self-diagnosis.
Irrelevent to the bigger issues but thinking you are autistic and self diagnosis are not necessarily the same thing. The self diagnosed are certain enough of it to think of themselves as autistic.
Yeah.. or to Know, because we're autistic, not stupid.
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