I don't want to come off as a jerk... (Destiny)

by cheapLEY , Wednesday, September 09, 2015, 00:03 (3601 days ago) @ Leviathan

Oh yeah, there's nothing like that here, either (I mean of course! If I said we had mountains and oceans in Kansas City, I hope you wouldn't believe that :P), and that's why I've been trying to gain the ability to move somewhere beautiful in the Pacific Northwest for the last few years. I'm pretty tired of these landscapes at this point.

I've lived in Illinois, Missouri, Northern California, and briefly Texas and Delaware. While in California, I visited family in Spokane, WA, and Portland, OR. The Pacific Northwest is the most beautiful place I've ever been, both visually and climatically. I love rain and fall-type temperatures, so that obviously biases me to that area, but it's just so nice. I've never been much a beach person, but the dramatic cliffs of the Pacific Northwest beaches are really incredible.

I'm in a suburb just north of Kansas City right now. Downtown is a 10 minute drive. But I lived in Columbia for four years while I attended college there (and I was just there a couple of weekends ago for a wedding). I like some of downtown Columbia (when thirty fraternities aren't converging on the bars) and some of the parks around town. While I enjoyed a lot of my art teachers, I think most of my college experience was pretty poor so Columbia is associated with a lot of mixed feelings.

I do really enjoy Columbia, but it's mainly nostalgia. I hated college (did a year a Culver-Stockton, then transferred to Mizzou, where I did three semesters and dropped out to join the Air Force), but my time in college was amazingly fun, so Columbia holds a lot of my best memories.

As an aside, I'd be interested in hearing about your college experience. I was attending for graphic design, but abandoned it for multiple reason (the main one being that I realized I wasn't really sorted for that sort of career; sitting (or standing, whatever) at a desk all day would drive me crazy. I much more suited to labor intensive jobs, turning wrenches). But also, I felt like the way college is designed really turned me off to the whole experience, with all the irrelevant mandatory credits and just the way they find every excuse to suck money out of you. I'm surprised I went for as long as I did, actually.

I'm actually not too familiar with Kansas City; I never made my way there very often. Every now and then for concerts, but that's really it. I was there a few weekends ago, though, for the Oddball Comedy Tour thing with Aziz Ansari and Amy Schumer, which was absolutely incredible.