Fair point. The fixed comment was meant to approximate spinning...

I live in Northern PA, so yes. I actually prefer smaller towns and cities, and where I am now there’s a good community feel, but people are overwhelmingly white and conservative. Like, you can be having a nice conversation with someone and then they start spouting Obama conspiracy theories.

Next year will be year 20 for me in Minneapolis and I have to say that it is much MUCH more progressive than the southern-ish place I am from, which is a great thing. However, the seemingly non stop freeze/snow/ice/wind (today sucks! Tried to go to dog park just now and the freezing wind literally blew me over) and…

Yet, suggest one buys a fixed gear bike (with brake!) for $250, and ride that they say nay nay...

...no?

Agreed. Blurg.

I know! I am firmly in the camp of its impolite to talk about politics or religious around a group of other people. But now that someone made their own views very loudly and publicly known.. it kinda makes me go hmmmmm..

I’m in St. Pete, Florida which is a fabulous haven of weird and progressive. Most of Floriduh’s ragingly weird news stories come from two counties north of here, and the people and city of St. Pete freaking ROCK! Food, theater, museums, volunteerism, activism, farmer’s markets, outdoorsy active stuff, and it is…

Try Minneapolis! Yes we get lots of cold and snow but overall pretty liberal (we need to work on issues of racial equity though.) Also Des Moines is not too bad.

My husband finished grad school and we had to move where there are jobs. Boo.

Thanks.

I live in a fairly conservative place, but then I discovered the musical theatre crowd and I haven't looked back. :D Maybe your people are just in hiding?

Oh there are plenty of hipsters and ‘actual’ individuals in the city itself. It’s currently booming with tech and startups, and the awesome mayor Sly James doesn’t put up with bs. It’s hard to meet those people unless you’re in one of the colleges or working in the city itself though. I’ve been volunteering my…

There’s a reason I don’t venture outside the city of Atlanta very much. And hey, at least OUR corrupt governor, Nathan Deal, vetoed our shitty religious liberty bill. But only because we have a thriving TV/movie industry and Disney/Marvel said they’d go elsewhere if it passed!

Yes and I even live in a pretty liberal place. But I moved here from Ithaca, NY. I wish I could move back every single day.

It's hard. I'm pretty progressive in my views and not everyone is welcoming to them. That's why I talk to you guys. :)

I really do. I haven’t made any friends since I left my fundie church, and social anxiety hasn’t helped. I’m happy I found my husband, who is an engineer and into a lot of different things. We both really want friends to share our interests and learn things with. Of course, friends that like drinking and snark would…

I felt like that before I started grad school, because I was living in my rural, conservative New Jersey hometown that made the place I lived in Texas during undergrad seem super liberal (it was Houston, so not that surprising, but still, I didn’t think I’d have to go to Texas to find liberals). Now I’m in New York…

Adele would be completely jealous if she saw your photos. You are totally gorgeous!

Yay beauty thread! :D I tried a cut crease for the first time ever last weekend. For some reason it’s never dawned on me to try it before, but I’m obsessed with late ‘60s-style makeup (nude lips + heavy eye makeup and falsies) and wanted it to look authentic. It was harder than I thought it would be but I was really…