Looking for a new city

[martin manning]

There's a shot in the video clip on the Mt. Baker Ridge park site that looks similar, so I guess that's how it looks. I like Seattle too.

[Reeltarded]

Awful looking place, not to mention that YOU HAVE A UFO. I saw Mars Attacks. I know how this ends.

Copious yodeling.

[LeftyStrat]

As much as I love Seattle, I would also agree with several suggestions of others; Austin and Nashville would probably provide plenty of work for a luthier.

Seattle is not for everyone. I've had a couple of friends from the south move here. Well, one guy was originally from NJ, but went to school in Atlanta, and lived in New Mexico before coming here. They're both still here and love it.

I've known a lot of people from CA that moved back after a year or two of living in Seattle. I guess if you've grown up with year-round sunshine, you may have difficulties with our winters. I also knew a guy originally from South Africa that loved the heat, and thought Seattle summers were too mild. He lives in DC now.

But some facts about all the "rain" in Seattle. New York city has a higher average rainfall than Seattle.

I doesn't really "rain" so much as just be grey and overcast with a slight drizzle in the winter. The joke in Seattle is only tourists have umbrellas. I don't own one. It can get windy, so a waterproof hoody will better serve you.

Summers are clear with little humidity. You learn when the sun is shining, you need to get out and enjoy it.

Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie recently moved to LA and complained he wasn't getting anything done, because his instinct after living in the NW was to get outside every time the sun was shining.

For me the thing about living in Atlanta, as well as other places in the south, was it seemed there was one week in the spring or fall when it was sunny and pleasant. Otherwise it was humid and hot as hell, or too cold.

That one week is what Seattle is like three months out of the year.
None of the houses here have or need air conditioning. I've never used the AC in my car.

[LeftyStrat]

Awful looking place, not to mention that YOU HAVE A UFO. I saw Mars Attacks. I know how this ends.

Copious yodeling.

Hey, I have a Slim Whitman CD. We're safe.

Actually, back in the day, we'd put that on to empty the bar at closing.

The bartenders would stand on the bar lip syncing and squeezing that part of the anatomy that supposedly controls the pitch of your voice.

[Reeltarded]

I like clouds. I don't really like heat as much as freeze, but I think I need to go explore Austin. More people say it's a great place for me. It seems like my skills all around could be useful there. I know the music scene isn't as transient as many of the other good places.

Seattle is beautiful. Can you move the mountains to Austin? I dunno. That would be a plus for me, a big one. Flatter land can't be so majestic.

[LeftyStrat]

I like clouds. I don't really like heat as much as freeze, but I think I need to go explore Austin. More people say it's a great place for me. It seems like my skills all around could be useful there. I know the music scene isn't as transient as many of the other good places.

Seattle is beautiful. Can you move the mountains to Austin? I dunno. That would be a plus for me, a big one. Flatter land can't be so majestic.

The most important thing is just to jump into a bigger pond. I know the debate as to whether it is better to be a big fish in a small pond, or a small fish in a bigger pond, but the only way to become a bigger fish is to leave the place you've outgrown.

I'll leave you with two of my favorite quotes:

"It's better to regret something you have done, than to regret something you haven't done." - Gibby Haynes

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” ― Hunter S. Thompson

[Gibsonman63]

It sounds like a road trip is in order. I am sure there's a few of us that could put you up for a couple of days and show you around. Just remember Mark Twain's expression about guests and fish.

[Reeltarded]

Oh I make a terrible guest, and a worse spokesmodel for any funeral home.

I grew up on a carnival.

[LeftyStrat]

Oh I make a terrible guest, and a worse spokesmodel for any funeral home.

I grew up on a carnival.

That's why I didn't invite you to my house. But there is a bed and breakfast across the street from my house for $40 a night, run by a milf with big boobs. She might be a little leathery, but not as bad as the woman wearing Jim Morrison's pants:

http://cheezpictureisunrelated.files.wo ... 788410.jpg

[Reeltarded]

... this is the end..

[LeftyStrat]

... this is the end..

Come on baby take a chance tonight...

The lizard's old and its skin is cold.

[Reeltarded]

Ewww.

[Cliff Schecht]

Austin is a great place is you do anything involving music. I lived there about 15 years (grew up there, I'm only 25 ) before moving to this oversized town (Lubbock). You can go see a great show any night and easily make connections to musicians needing instrument repairs and such. Lots of great shops all over the place too, any of the South Lamar shops are always a blast to peruse through.

[Colossal]

+1 more for Houston Miles (but not for the scenery here). Sorry to hear about your troubles. Gibsonman, seems you and I are in the same neck of the woods!

If I could pick anywhere to move to in the US, just pack up, move, and plug in with a job waiting for me...it'd be Portland OR. That was a great place to live.

[crbowman]

I've lived in Austin since 1980 and love it here. It's not as cool as it used to be before everybody decided to move here (popular bumper sticker here says "Welcome to Austin, now go home!") but it still beats just about anyplace else I've been.
There are some very talented luthiers here, but they get top dollar and they stay busy. You can't throw a rock in this town without hitting a VERY good guitarist. Then again, you can't throw a rock in this town without an environmental group forming to try and convince you to put the rock back, and then trying to pass legislation to keep you from ever hurling said rock again.
Not that I'm against that kind of thing (I like rocks as much as the next guy) but it gets kind of humorous sometimes.