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[emchy]

why does it feel like everyone else moves so much easier than me
just found out that a friend is moving to ohio for the summer
i want to move and have adventures and come back
it feels like an impossible dream
am i really so stuck or does it just feel that way right now?

how the hell do people have the money to move around so much? i barely have the money for coffee

or am i just too old in my head for adventures anymore? i feel about a hundred today and nothing feels very possible

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[redshrike.livejournal.com]

i understand this feeling, very very.

the hoptoad and i have lived in the same flat for ten years. it wasn't because we meant to; it just happens. rezendi, one of the people i'm closest to in the whole world, recently signed the longest lease of his life—16 months—and is freaked out by the thought of living in one place for so long. and he's traveling now and he'll still be traveling off and on during that lease; he can't not. i have been studying him since i met him, trying to understand how he does—is—this. (i still can't explain it, though i think i am closer to comprehension.)

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

yeah - i usually switch apartments every 1.5 years. coming up on 2.5 at this one and its very strange

ten years in the bay area for me too. it just feels like i should be moving more. yet everytime i am ready to leave, fate has stepped in and made me really really really love to be here.

right now i think i might just need a travelling vacation

Some people have massive lines of credit.

[bucky-sinister.livejournal.com]

They carry balances, the companies up their lines, they add more and more on. You'd be surprised...I met guys in the dotcom days that were making 70K plus and were leveraged beyond belief. A 2 grand mortgage, $500 car payments, insurance, student loans, and gold card balances like you wouldn't believe. They were so far in the hole, it was unbelievable.

On a smaller scale, people we know making $12-$15 per hour can easily get into a payment situation where their cc company will own them forever.

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Re: Some people have massive lines of credit.

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

by that token, i think discover owns my ass...

here's to trying to plan and save for adventures without it sending all us artists down the financial rabbit hole

there is talk of a tour in the fall, i have gotten so far as to figure out how much i have to save... hopefully i will get there...

Re: Some people have massive lines of credit.

[borggrrl.livejournal.com]

*sigh* Yeah. I have three credit cards and over $17k in debt between the three of them. Always pay the bills on time, but when I tried to get a debt consolidation loan last summer Wells Fargo turned me down. Fuckers. (Of course, the credit card companies aren't complaining and, in fact, keep upping my limits.)

I'm cut two of the cards up over a year ago and am only using one of them right now and as little as possible. Unfortunately, when you have an unemployeed partner then an unexpected move and then a cat with a mysterious ear problem, it sometimes becomes necessary to break out the plastic more than one would like to.

[cindymonkey.livejournal.com]

yes sadly life does make the plastic very attractive sometimes...

imagine, six years ago i had no debt - none at all. now it's at about 10K. sigh.

Re: Some people have massive lines of credit.

[black-pearl-10.livejournal.com]

Yup, what he said.
It's basically what's paying for all my soccer travel this year.