[ SECRET POST #4239 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4239 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[2018 Chinese tv-drama Guardian]


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03.
[Amy Adams in Sharp Objects]


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[Martian]


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05.
[Castle Rock]


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06.
[The Girl Next Door & Watching the Detectives]


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07.
[Criminal Minds]







Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 35 secrets from Secret Submission Post #607.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
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Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

Re: FS Confessional

[(Anonymous)]

I only make ~18k a year, not counting employer-provided health insurance, but I keep fantasizing about quitting my job, selling my inherited house, and moving to northern California—where there are damn few jobs and it’s impossible to get around without a car. I don’t drive and I love my job. I think I’m just terrified of all the work I need to do on the falling-down house.

Re: FS Confessional

[greghousesgf]

I live in the SF bay area and you can get around without a car in most of it.

Re: FS Confessional

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT—I was looking at places in Gualala and Point Arena, where if you want to go to someplace with a Costco or more than a 1 screen movie theater it’s half a day’s drive. Gualala doesn’t have a movie theater or a library.

Re: FS Confessional

[greghousesgf]

oh, those are very small towns and much further away from SF. I live in Oakland.

Re: FS Confessional

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT—yeah, I know they’re tiny, but it’s where I spent summers as a kid visiting family friends, and I’m from soCal, where water from the sky seems like a myth for 8 months of the year, so I idealize it a lot.

My mom’s friend raised her daughter in a cabin inland from there, with no electricity, phone, or hot water—the cold water was gravity-fed from a tarp-lined pond up the hill that had frogs in it, and every couple summers we’d help dig a new outhouse hole and move the outhouse. And my mom’s friend’s kid lives in Chicago now, because her dream getaway was bright lights, big city.

I grew up surrounded by party animal college students who rented all the neighboring houses, partied until 2 am, and used the outside wall of my bedroom as a urinal. “Hey guys, I’m marking my territory, ha ha!” We moved when I was twelve to the house I inherited last year.

It’s two blocks from five gazillion bars, built in 1947, none of the additions are to code, it’s not insured, and the termites are fighting me for it. My mom had another bathroom put in, but it’s plumbed into the cleanout. There’s a quasi-legal granny flat with a decade old beehive in one wall. All the major appliances and the kitchen sink need replacing. And I need to refinish the wood floors, repaint everything inside and out, replace a couple windows, and scrape off the popcorn ceiling in the poorly-done garage conversion.

Re: FS Confessional

[(Anonymous)]

Isn't Northern California on fire right now? With the authorities saying that's going to be the new normal due to global warming?

Re: FS Confessional

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT—I’m looking at places along highway 1 north of Santa Rosa, which have escaped so far. *knock wood*

Re: FS Confessional

[(Anonymous)]

I have family in Santa Rosa and sort-of family in Healdsburg and while it's gorgeous, you definitely need a car to get around and the general region didn't exactly escape unscathed from fires last autumn.

/loving it here in less-flammable southeastern Wisconsin

Re: FS Confessional

[(Anonymous)]

NAYRT and OT, but if you were going on vacation to Wisconsin, where would you go? Asking for a friend...

Re: FS Confessional

[(Anonymous)]

Hmm, I've never actually been on a vacation in Wisconsin, but I have traveled around the state for work. Door County is a popular vacation destination and it's pretty country. I also really like the Driftless Area in the southwestern part of the state. Frank Lloyd Wright's Taliesin is down that way and I've been wanting to visit that place for a long time.

Re: FS Confessional

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. I live in NorCal, we're currently experiencing the worst wildfire season in recorded history and it's only going to get worse. :(

Re: FS Confessional

[(Anonymous)]

What is it that particularly attracts you to northern California? Is there a way to replicate those experiences where you are?

Re: FS Confessional

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT—more than 10-15 inches (in a good year) of rain a year, redwoods, fog, family friends who still live up there, land is cheaper...

I’m down to 2 blood relatives, one in Phoenix, where much as I love him I’d rather saw off my head than move, and one nearby who I’d be sad to see less often. If I could make coastal southern California have the same climate as coastal northern California I totally would.

I’m used to most of the state catching fire every few years anyway; we’re hardly exempt down here. It’s just subdivisions and chaparral and oak and piñon pine woods burning instead of fir and redwoods and vineyards.

I’m on a 7,500 square foot lot and not much of it is house, but I was salivating over a 160 acre lot that included bluffs overlooking the ocean and a couple of springs. And then there was a 17 acre parcel with 2 springs and a bit of beach and the option of buying the adjacent 8 acre parcel with a 3 bedroom, 2 bath house with guest house.

I want an orchard and a huge garden and goats and a cow and alpacas and maybe a horse. My neighbors freak out about my legal chickens and they may not be thrilled when I finish my MLIS and reward myself with (also legal) goats, but here I can only have a pair. I want a herd. If I wanted to buy the same amount of land and house down here I’d be looking at $4 million+.

The 160 undeveloped acres was $995k and the house and beach lots combined were $1.5 million. It’s an insane amount of money, but despite my inherited house being ready to fall down, the house across the street from me on the same size lot went for $1.5 million two years ago. Only thing aside from my job and one relative keeping me from selling and splitting is that if I left I could never afford to move back.