I'm currently touring homes for sale in Bel Air and Beverly Hills. I wouldn't actually live either place, even if I could afford it. I don't even like to go as far as the 101/405 interchange, but it's fun to look at the houses.
I'm gay, so leaving California isn't really an option. I'm just looking for fun. Anyway, I bought a house up in Ventura County about 20 years ago, and I'm pretty well settled.
I sympathize, though. We moved to California in the 90s, to Santa Barbara, and bought a place there just before real estate went insane there. We only owned it 3 years, but sold it for twice what we'd paid (after a lot of DIY fixup). Sank that into the current house, and I couldn't afford to buy this place today. My mortgage payment is half what we'd pay in rent for a smaller place.
@johnettesnuggs@ScottSoCal@theautisticcoach@actuallyautistic It's a balancing of concerns, the financial windfall vs. living among fascist shitbags. We'll be in a blue urban enclave, though. ("Blue", because although they vote Democratic, I wouldn't suggest most of the people there are actually left of center - but with a healthy number of notable exceptions.)
@synkr3tyk@ScottSoCal@theautisticcoach@actuallyautistic Little Rock and Fayetteville are very blue. The rest of our state is super MAGAt Christofacist…I hate living here. If I didn’t have elderly relatives to take care of, I really think I would sell everything and move.
@theautisticcoach@actuallyautistic I'm listening to the Andy Serkis narration of Lord of the Rings trilogy. Just started The Two Towers yesterday. I love Seriks' reading - he's amazing with all the different voices he does. I'm still not recovered from the burnout enough to be able to read for pleasure, so it's really nice to have the audiobooks as a way to connect with my oldest autistic interest.
@theautisticcoach The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett. I haven't read most of the proceeding books so I'm a little lost. (But it's for a buddy read.)
@theautisticcoach@actuallyautistic finished the second Percy Jackson book, started the third. Also finished Neurotribes. Been listening to the Deep Space 9 audiobook A Stitch in Time, narrated by Andrew Robinson himself. Plus a bunch of the Real Ghost Stories podcast, which I listen to with the boyfriend.
@theautisticcoach@actuallyautistic Yesterday I finished What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman. Today I read More Than a Glitch: Confronting Race, Gender, and Ability Bias in Tech by Meredith Broussard. And since I'm in the U.S. and this weekend continues tomorrow, tomorrow I'm planning on reading an advance copy of American Vikings: How the Norse Sailed into the Lands and Imaginations of America by Martyn Whittock.
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