I’m happy in the South. If I ever want to be depressed and miserable again I’ll just move back. Back to where everyone thinks their shit doesn’t smell and that everyone is out to get them. Back to where it’s WEIRD to say hi or to say a prayer for someone. Back to the cliques and the materialism. Back to a shit economy, with shit for jobs, skyrocketing housing, rich people who laugh at poor people and a governor who’s a virtue signaling karma whore to the very people who don’t give a single fuck about him.
Nah, I’m good. I’ll stay here.
EDIT: I want to thank every single one of you pedes who are commenting and telling me your stories. I want you to know that I have read every single comment thus far and I will continue to do so until my post dissolves into oblivion. My heart is touched. This move was big for me and it means a lot that I can give a platform to people who can share their thoughts and experiences. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!
You'll quickly learn that "smart" isn't black and white, and eloquence is really just midwit cover most of the time.
Sure, I'm probably one of the only people in my county that can do complex data analytics or even knows what a logistic regression is, but I can't build a porch, hang a backsplash even halfway straight, or fix my lawnmower deck worth half a damn. The world would be totally fucked if it was just people like me.
I teach fifth grade at an expensive private school out here in southern California. I have a college degree (in English so not completely useless), a teaching credential, and a graduate degree in education (COMPLETELY worthless). I am pretty handy and worked as a house painter, in restaurants, and light construction all through college.
One day, at the end of the day, a parents brand new Escalade wouldn't start in the pick up line. Not one person knew how to jumpstart a car except for me. As I was getting her car restarted the other helpless lefties acted as though I was performing magic. WTF?! Seriously? I have lots of stories where I did things I consider to be normal life skill things and these useless cretins stood in amazement.
Fixing stuff literally is magic now. It's really pathetic, and scary. I know grown ass men who can't use a hammer.
You know what's sexy to me? A woman with a leatherman in her purse. She gets shit done.
haha Female Pede here -- in the last 2 weeks I changed out the gearshift sub-assembly in my truck, and then did new plugs, coils, and wires on it. Runs like a top now. All by myself (with Youtube vids for reference!)
Ok I can jump-start a car lol. Maybe there's hope for me yet.
It's useless in California since they want all white people dead and only south of the border bean people to live there so they can have their wonderful communist utopia. Because whites are evil of course.
Even as a video game nerd with literally no mechanic skills, that shit makes me laugh xD.
Bingo. I have a science degree that I paid good money for, and do some complex things in my field making good money. But I’ve got childhood friends that never did well in school, never went to college, and they are some of the smartest people I know. Extremely intuitive when it comes to hands on things, fixing things, house things, car things, building things... and it truly blows me away.
That's because of the cookie cutter style education system these days, they try to make everyone learn the same things the same way; when in reality everyone is unique, learns differently and have their own inherent talents.
This is one hundred percent accurate. I’m not the sharpest nor am I the dullest tool in the tool shed but I work with what a I’ve got and respect that there are many kinds of talent. It takes it all to make it work.