Cities

[queerbychoice]

The huge glaring problem with FindYourSpot.com is that it only suggests American cities. I'm not sure that I really want to live in any American cities. But here's what it suggested.

1. Portland, Oregon
Population: 1,163,000 | Average Home Price: $182,000 | Precipitation: 36" | Snow: 5"
2. Providence, Rhode Island
Population: 650,000 | Average Home Price: $128,000 | Precipitation: 48" | Snow: 32"
3. New Orleans, Louisiana
Population: 1,310,000 | Average Home Price: $105,000 | Precipitation: 57" | Snow: 0"
4. New Haven, Connecticut
Population: 523,000 | Average Home Price: $198,000 | Precipitation: 43" | Snow: 30"
5. Hartford, Connecticut
Population: 825,000 | Average Home Price: $155,000 | Precipitation: 41" | Snow: 42"

Actually, the main thing I learned from answering these questions is that it doesn't much matter where I live. I never go outside or do anything sociable anyway.

Comments

[redrider.livejournal.com]

He certainly notes its faults (including some things that you named as its advantages - he's quite irritated with the conservatism of the so-called queer community there) but all in all, he seems to like it enough that he doesn't plan to move.

It does definitely feel like a very traditioanlly gay male kind of place. I knew some people there who were trying to start some queer/gender agitative stuff (and that's what I was trying to do in starting a drag king performance group there), but I can definitely understand your friend's critique + wish I'd met him when I was there.

And, about this:
And then, of course, the entire U.S. suffers from lots of economic disparity, fucked up race politics and police corruption.
I by no means intended to suggest that those things don't exist elsewhere, I just think that in my experience (as someone who's lived most of her life in the homogenous midwest), I got a quick wake-up call when I moved there. It was as if many things that I knew to be true (but hadn't +seen+ or watched in action because of their naturalization all over the U.S.) were suddenly very visible + present in my daily life. Which can be both a good thing + a difficult thing.


And, of course, my evaluation is also biased as I don't drink or drug, and so missed out/elected to refrain from a big part of the New Orleans experience.