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AH's avatar

Katie's quip about folx like TL only encountering the working class through Uber Eats was spot on comedy gold.

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Thomas Paine's avatar

Part of my Joker origin story as I moved from smug city dwelling liberal to southern-based heterodox independent was seeing one of the NYT's first "pandemic safety" listicles. A top item was something like "stay home 24/7 - have food and essentials delivered to you, don't go out". I read that and thought, "wait, who's delivering THAT stuff then?" And then a bunch of stuff started to make way more sense.

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John Bingham's avatar

It was somewhat unintentional that my career also took me from being a Washingtonian in early 2020 to traveling through the South, and clearly where you live has an extraordinary amount of influence on what your experience of the COVID era was.

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Thomas Paine's avatar

Oh totally. I also voted with my feet in a way - I purposely moved from a place that was monomaniacally obsessed with preventing death even at the expense of all that makes life worth living to a place that was wide open. But I think where you spent that time does truly affect your recollection of it regardless.

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John Bingham's avatar

I wasn't in the most open job market due to the way medical training is structured, but now that I did have more of a choice I ended up in the foothills of Appalachia, and I definitely did not consider any of the major cities that have gone insane.

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Thomas Paine's avatar

Completely understand. I needed to be within a certain radius of corporate HQ locations which limited me to certain cities...but I could stack rank the cities by craziness and choose the southernmost/sanest and avoid the madness carnivals that were the coastal cities.

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cointel heux's avatar

I was like hmmm Appalachia and then saw "major cities that have gone insane" so definitely not Asheville. Fun fact: they just installed a $50,000 dollar public toilet to help with the homeless shitting on the street. Guess how well that's going...

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John Bingham's avatar

I like Asheville, but that is the sort of problem I would expect Asheville to have.

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cointel heux's avatar

Ditto haha

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cointel heux's avatar

500k, not 50. Haha it's so much worse.

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Martin Blank's avatar

The advice was for the elect, erhm I mean NT readers, not those dirty plebs!

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Near Hell Hole's avatar

Not like she's going to make her own avocado toast.

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TFYFWYA's avatar

It's probably true, and yet, on this Lorenz's opinion is identical to every working class person I know

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