I posted here just yesterday asking about the chances of successfully finding a place to live in the US on $1000 or so a month income. My job is online so I can live kinda anywhere. When I asked the question I thought I was pretty much doomed to a life of squalor, but now it seems I can even rent a house with that amount of income plus some savings that I'm steadily accumulating. Still have so many questions though because due to being a total recluse all my life I don't really understand the world at all beyond reading stuff and tons of assumptions.
I honestly don't get what the hell one of these places that isn't "seeing a lot of economic activity" would be like. People say to avoid the "hubs of economic activity," so what is it like living in a place that is not one of those? I am a shut-in from California, these kinda super NIMBY neighborhoods are all I know. I have no realistic image in my head of what it'd be like any other place. This is like the bubble to end all bubbles, I have absolutely zero perspective.
Also I smoke a lot of weed but don't have the luxury of choosing a place just because weed is more accessible there. It's really hitting me that anywhere besides California it's kind of a pain to buy weed, that is truly tragic that most of the world lives in such a way.
Anyway if anyone's still reading or you skipped ahead to this I'd appreciate suggestions on locations that are low crime + low rent. Like in a reddit thread I was reading someone suggested Atlanta, isn't that basically the hood? I live in a place where I accidentally left my car door open while it was parked outside on the curb and didn't notice for like a day and a half, and nothing had been taken. I have a cat so I can't have burglars coming in and the cat getting out while they're busy stealing my TV, that is like the worst thing that could happen in life.
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[–] siliconvilla [S] ago (edited ago)
I've been looking at mainly Reno on those apartment finder sites and have a feeling I'll end up there. I think Texas would be too much of a change, I'd never fit in. But I went to Reno like 10 years ago and it felt like just a kinda shabbier version of California, not too terrible. (Is this the whole Californian asshole thing you're referring to?)