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I'm pretty much the same in this regard. I am indifferent as to a prospective mate's location.

Tim

As for the Professor, he has turned down $150,000 a year as a working Geologist, to teach for $43,000?

As for real estate, prices are projected to decline 15%-20% per year on the west coast, at least through 2009. The word is bubble, and we have been there before. Considering that most own less than 5% of the house, many will just walk away.

Housing is the scandel that followed the Savings and Loan scandel. Stay tuned for reports.

As for the woman in your life, she will hunt you down and there is nothing you can do about it, they are sneeky. A man picks a wife like a cow picks a farmer.

The War Babies are working two jobs and socking it away for retirement. 40,000,000 will retire in the next ten years. They are followed by the baby bust generation, so you will all have four jobs.

It was something the same with the WWII generation, they held the good jobs, and we outnumbered them three to one, we got by. Now 20,000,000 are going to replace 40,000,000. Your lifetime employment prospects are great.

Plod along, get as much education as you can, and watch.

There is no one to buy the houses, the Baby Bust are few in number, and do not have the earnings. Home prices will adjust to the new market. Those with good educations will get great jobs, and their pick of housing, twice the house for half the price. Think about that, do you really want a $2000 a month utility bill? Quality will replace size in the future. A small house in a good neighborhood, is a better choice.

All of the demographics for your future look great. Just suffer through being a college student, living in a cultural wasteland, and you will really enjoy your future. Some woman will see you enjoying life, and you know they cannot stand that. She has the Hunting License, you will be bagged.

Till then, WP is offers you the world.

Actually, he was a chemistry professor.

Tim

Everything Inventor said is true and the chemistry professor could be doing far more than teaching.

And the woman you are looking for will find you when you least expect it and have stopped actively looking. Take care of what you need to do to get where you want to be.

You mean by the time I graduate, Seattle could be affordable?

Tim

I suppose it depends on what your definition of affordable is and the what the lifestyle you want looks like. But as far the housing market is concerned, it is already settling here in Alberta and we've just gone through some of the sharpest rises in North America. It is expected to decline slightly, as is the housing market in most of North America.

Why are you so set on living in Seattle? I would think as a geologist you could live in many different places. Why limit yourself to just one possibility?

I've felt just that Tim.

About this same time last year I thought I had everything going well for me. I liked my job, I was doing great in college, I had some people that I sort of could think of as friends, I had a girl in my life!
I had a plan for school and something to work towards... I thought it could be the start of my life turning around and me being like a normal person.

But it all fell apart. My GF dumped me. Those friends disappeared. I couldn't face up to the requirements for what i wanted to do. Anxiety and depression took me and I dropped out of school. Again.
I think I've been miserable since then and only recently starting to feel okay with going back to college again. I still have no idea what to do in school though.

I want to move away from my town to someplace nicer and affordable, so living prices is something I understand the worry about too. My town has gotten so expensive with rents over the past ten years that I don't even consider trying for anything here. I look at outlying towns and check their rates which usually better.

Hope things get better for you.

I chose Seattle because it is liberal, and probably has a large Aspie community.

I have only come across a few liberal, South Park-loving Aspie women, and they were nearly all either (a) not looking for a relationship, (b) already in one, (c) asexual, or (d) lesbian or bisexual.

As far as location goes, I am willing to do something long-distance. I am in the Wichita Falls, Texas/Lawton, Oklahoma area, and there is nothing as far as AS support groups go. The nearest one is in Fort Worth, over 100 miles away.

I know that the guy is supposed to make the first move, and that is what I have been doing. And in the rare instance there is a single Aspie woman who I might be interested in, I maybe get a few e-mails/private messages from them, then I never hear from them again.

Tim

Maybe you should cast a wider net if you've had such little luck, and there are other liberal places other than Seattle. As Blessedmom said, I think you are doing yourself a disservice by limiting yourself to one place.

Just out of curiosity, why are you basing your future relationships on South Park?

Due to South Park's content (foul language, certain themes, etc.), I view it as a "certificate of liberalism" for anyone who watches it. The content would surely offend someone who is socially conservative.

Tim

I get what you're saying, but I don't know, wouldn't that more accurately be a certificate of libertarianism? Just because someone enjoys a somewhat crude cartoon doesn't necessarily mean they're just as liberal on other issues, especially considering that Matt Stone views himself as more conservative than liberal. And what if they're not fond of it because they simply do not find it entertaining?

I have just always associated conservatives with "family values" issues, and wanting things to be the way they were 50 years ago (I do feel that it is possible to mix family values and progressivism, plus family values means different things to different people). I side with the liberals mainly on the economy and free speech. Religion is not a factor regarding South Park, ever since the Scientologists had their tirade after "Trapped in the Closet". Prior to that, I feared ostracism by evangelicals due to me watching South Park. I am Lutheran, one of the more liberal denominations.

Tim

Yeah, that's the thing with family values, the entire concept is just one big subjective variable. I understand what you're saying, I feel the same way.

If I dropped the South Park requirement, and just looked for a socially/politically liberal Aspie woman, my odds wouldn't improve that much.

Tim

Why not just drop all requirements, hang out with people, and see who you get along with?