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Sociology > Depression |
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"Khalid Rahim" |
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07 Sep 2003 01:44:49 PM |
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Feeling lonely and sad---my whole family has moved to the other coast |
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am nearing middle age and am still unmarried and geographically
unhappy living on this coast, though i am compelled to b/c i couldn't
find a job on my preferred coast. A couple years ago, I drove across
the country in a cloud of bitterness that still has not lifted, b/c I
had to work.
Now my retired parents and my siblings (the last one just moved) all
live on the other coast, where they are enjoying the beneficient
weather and scenery that I adored. I was in college and graduate
school there for a very long time, but being shy and maladept at
self-promotion, I could not play the greasy, networking game of
scoring a job that would keep on that coast.
Now, besides being friendless and furiously discontented at the
ugliness, crowding, and shitty climate of this coast, I have no
immediate family within 2,000 miles. And no job to catapult me to the
coast where i deserve to live.
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| User: "Khalid Rahim" |
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| Title: Re: Feeling lonely and sad---my whole family has moved to the other coast |
14 Sep 2003 06:09:35 PM |
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scribble <scribble@nospam.com> wrote in message >
I guess my point is this: I don't for an instant mean to denigrate
your depression. But I can't help but wonder if there's a lot more
going on here than simply location and weather.
yeah there is something going on, resentment that i got a huge amount
of education (with very hard work) and couldn't find a thing on that
side of the country. call it a sense of entitlement, but there you
have it.
i admire your guts in moving jobless to a desired place, but i always
thought there should have been more of a welcome mat out there.
rather than being forced to load up my used oldsmobile and having to
drive to an area i detest.
now, to make things even worse, that car is lost to an accident. i
dread moving back to that side, b/c i vividly remember arriving here
to be plunged into job seeking while my bank acct dwindled. not
something i want to repeat.
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