New Zealand is indeed quite expensive, only Australia exceeds it, but then wages in Aus are far better and it is better run for the most part

Internet is perfectly adequate - I get 50Mb here and I'm on a bottom tier plan. Its only way out in the country or in remote areas that it is still slow

The active shooter situation was a consequence of a repeat domestic violence offender getting a sentence of home detention complete with a work exemption when they should have had a lengthy prison term. The governement here has a policy of reducing the prison population by one third which they have succeeded in doing, and the outcome has been a huge increase in crime, particularly violent crime.

Take this as a warning. If a political party ever makes a promise like this.... do NOT vote for them

Damn. How is it living in Las Vegas? I was there for tourism like in 2015 or so. Can't imagine people actually living there.

Yes, Germany is nice. Very progressive and open minded :)

People are generally friendly in glasgow, plenty of wanna be gangsters but theyre usually friendly in their own way too. Dont think you would get any hassle in glasgow, we like to have a laugh.

gay people dont really get too much hassle up here in my experience, plenty of gay bars and as mentioned, we like to have a laugh.

Yh glasgow air isnt too fresh but the further you go in to highlands the better, some truly stunning places, shame about the deforestation tho, makes some of the hills look bare

It could always be worse, though I wouldn’t choose to live here if it weren’t for my boyfriend. As a kid, I used to dream of leaving the South for good. And I managed to pull it off by getting a job at a company in Silicon Valley just before the pandemic.

But dating in that part of the US is hard if you’re a techie who’s not a queer Communist poly furry, so I became open to long-distance dating. To be clear, my values and beliefs are radically leftist when compared to the value system that the government and religious authorities (basically the same thing in TN, lol) try to cram down kids’ throats. But I’ve endured enough brainwashing attempts to be extremely skeptical of any belief system that claims that it’s the one true way and all other beliefs/systems are <insert absolutist hyperbolic ways of saying “bad” here>.