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The last few posts have gotten strange.
I think no matter where you are if you haven't ever left it seems like it sucks but then you leave and live in a few places and you start to realize that EVERY place you go will have something wrong with it. Now I have lived in Orlando, Tampa and Pensacola Fl, Tuscaloosa AL, Leesburg VA and now I reside 5 miles out side of DC. In no town other than the one I live in now have I ever gotten my car broken into or had a 12 mile drive take over an hour or had to dig my car out of two feet of snow. I am just ready to leave. I (hopefully) have an opportunity to move down there where is it a bit warmer, closer to my family with a lower cost of living and make more money. Now if I get there and after a while it is really awful then I can always move some where else, but for now I just wanted to know if there are (single) people who are gainfully employed in the area who actually like living there.
Things that would make me like an area are
Places to shop such as boutiques, department stores and nice malls.
A PUBLIX, because the groceries here don't even compare.
Parks for me to bring my dog to.
Rec leagues that will put you on a team if you dont happen to know any one.
Places with good food.
Organic, farmers market type places to get high quality foods.
Decent drinking establishments that do not cost 10 dollars to get into.
Also as stated before single (attractive) males age 25+
So....?
Just move to Birmingham, seriously. Huntsville is not the place for young singles unless you are engineer and/or looking to get married quick by a probably social inept but well off engineer. End this thread. The OP does not fit the demographic or taste and all the hip(ster) and cool people and things to do for young professionals or young people in general for Alabama are in Birmingham and to a lesser extent Mobile.
Just move to Birmingham, seriously. Huntsville is not the place for young singles unless you are engineer and/or looking to get married quick by a probably social inept but well off engineer. End this thread. The OP does not fit the demographic or taste and all the hip(ster) and cool people and things to do for young professionals or young people in general for Alabama are in Birmingham and to a lesser extent Mobile.
Good point. My girlfriend and I usually go to Chattanooga or Nashville for the weekend. Birmingham is icky and Memphis is too humid.
Huntsville DOES have some fauxhemians but we keep them cordoned off into an old abandoned factory in the middle of town. A doucheoisie mecca if you will.
Huntsville and the surrounding area is actually really cool if you're an outdoorsy person (and I'm talking about hiking, camping, mountain biking) and like to trek around in the woods for hours on end.
Huntsville and the surrounding area is actually really cool if you're an outdoorsy person (and I'm talking about hiking, camping, mountain biking) and like to trek around in the woods for hours on end.
Also playing with fire. Huntsville is also not far from Tennessee. So its not a long trip to go get a 40 and some lotto tickets.
Just move to Birmingham, seriously. Huntsville is not the place for young singles unless you are engineer and/or looking to get married quick by a probably social inept but well off engineer. End this thread.
Not exactly.
The OP is a single woman in her mid-20s. Most women wants to have her first child before the age 30, it takes 9 moths from the day of conception (and no, you can't speed up the process), then give it a year between marriage & pregnancy to live & get pregnant. Now we are back to the age of 28 as "critical path" to motherhood. We all know it takes a year to plan a wedding, so now she's back to an age of 27. So now she barely have less than 2 years to wooo & ahhh a "socially inept but well off engineer" to sweep him off his feet (and we all know how tough it is for an engineer to fall in love, since "love" is neither a quantifiable nor a qualifiable "element"). I'd say she better get to work, PRONTO ! ASAP!
Now there are many benefits of marrying a "socially inept but well off engineer". Most of housewives in this forum can testify the benefits. But let me start by highlight a few key bennies:
1) He draws a good salary, enough to keep you stay home with kids without worry about income, and more than enought to make up for his lack of personality.
2) You don't need to worry about him having an affair. Most women at his work place are far less attractive than you are anyway. Besides, if he has any spare time from your "honey-do" list, you'll be sure to find him either at the golf course or at the office on weekends.
3) He's highly competitive, which is a great weapon for you to make him do work that he doesn't want to. You'll simply look at him pitifully and say "never mind, I'll get Joe (next door neighbor) to help me [with this project], he is very smart !!!". Then prepare to step back and watch him jump to his feet, strap on his tool belt, and charge full steam ahead!
4) You'll have wonderful, brainy, smart children. Your only worry is to have enough bandwidth in the house for internet access, keep up with their intellectual discussions, graduate from college at age of 16, then PhD at age of 19. You don't need to worry them having sex and getting pregnant until they start to draw a salary.
The OP is a single woman in her mid-20s. Most women wants to have her first child before the age 30, it takes 9 moths from the day of conception (and no, you can't speed up the process), then give it a year between marriage & pregnancy to live & get pregnant. Now we are back to the age of 28 as "critical path" to motherhood. We all know it takes a year to plan a wedding, so now she's back to an age of 27. So now she barely have less than 2 years to wooo & ahhh a "socially inept but well off engineer" to sweep him off his feet (and we all know how tough it is for an engineer to fall in love, since "love" is neither a quantifiable nor a qualifiable "element"). I'd say she better get to work, PRONTO ! ASAP!
Now there are many benefits of marrying a "socially inept but well off engineer". Most of housewives in this forum can testify the benefits. But let me start by highlight a few key bennies:
1) He draws a good salary, enough to keep you stay home with kids without worry about income, and more than enought to make up for his lack of personality.
2) You don't need to worry about him having an affair. Most women at his work place are far less attractive than you are anyway. Besides, if he has any spare time from your "honey-do" list, you'll be sure to find him either at the golf course or at the office on weekends.
3) He's highly competitive, which is a great weapon for you to make him do work that he doesn't want to. You'll simply look at him pitifully and say "never mind, I'll get Joe (next door neighbor) to help me [with this project], he is very smart !!!". Then prepare to step back and watch him jump to his feet, strap on his tool belt, and charge full steam ahead!
4) You'll have wonderful, brainy, smart children. Your only worry is to have enough bandwidth in the house for internet access, keep up with their intellectual discussions, graduate from college at age of 16, then PhD at age of 19. You don't need to worry them having sex and getting pregnant until they start to draw a salary.
lol, I guess it aint so bad if you look at it this way. Engineers aren't usually "tom cats" until later in life so it wont take much to "whoo" them and get them to propose quickly as most of the young engineers probably have not been with more then two if any girlfriends/sexual partners before she comes along.
Please define "... good money...". A number would be nice.
Since you asked...
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Originally Posted by HB2HSV
Now there are many benefits of marrying a "socially inept but well off engineer".
1) He draws a good salary, enough to keep you stay home with kids without worry about income, .
So that should translate into 2x a salary? Say $70k for the "socially inept and dirt-poor engineer".
So that should translate into 2x a salary? Say $70k for the "socially inept and dirt-poor engineer".
Looking at salaries now, most engineers aren't going to come out making that much. They won't have a enough for two kids and a stay at home wife in big house in the suburbs until they hit about 30.
Looking at salaries now, most engineers aren't going to come out making that much. They won't have a enough for two kids and a stay at home wife in big house in the suburbs until they hit about 30.
The back-and-forth was in relation to HSV engineers' pay (govt.).
So that should translate into 2x a salary? Say $70k for the "socially inept and dirt-poor engineer".
Starting salary for a fresh out of college engineer, still with pimples on their faces, is in the mid-$60K range. They generally get good raises in the first few years of their careers, say 7~10%/yr. So I'd say they'll past the $70K mark rather quickly by their mid-20s and well into the $80K range in late 20s.
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