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Swag  ·  4050 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What is your guilty pleasure?

Yea, I have a group of friends who are all relatively ambitious and wanting to do something special before they get older. It seems like people who share similar goals tend to attract to each other. I have a hard time understanding people who want to stay in their suburb hometowns and never go anywhere else. I live in a suburb of a relatively major city that most people would say has been on the decline since the 40's and it sucks pretty bad.. While the suburbs are still pretty good there is almost nothing to do here. It gets annoying when people ask you what local company you are going to work at when you graduate and you tell them you're planning on moving away. This causes them questions how it is even feasible to move away, "how can you move away?? don't you have family here??". I usually just say yea and then people call me selfish haha. I just don't understand how someone could be content with lives knowing that they haven't experienced more than one or two towns in their whole life.





Jazombie  ·  4050 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I completely agree. Most of my life was spent moving from state to state and constantly changing schools until HS...which, funny enough was the smallest school I ever attended. I think my class was about 125. They never seemed to ask why, and most secretly wished they would too...but the subject of moving was always met with a 'Haha, yeah right. You'll be working at (insert factory name) like the rest of us.' Thanks guys.

Kafke  ·  4050 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yea, I get that all the time. Everyone wonders why I want to move pretty much all the way to the other side of the world. And I question back, why do they want to stay put?

Luckily, most people I meet at my university all have aspirations and want to do big things.

Swag  ·  4050 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yea I go to the nearest state university so most people plan on staying put, but it's not too bad.