189th day sober. Here it is Sunday and I'm up before noon, amazing. I had Ebay things set up to list last night but didn't list them because before I knew it it was 11PM and I was tired.
Something has happened, in that at least according to Craig's List, the gold standard of online ads, Tel Aviv has gotten really expensive. Like San Jose expensive. The whole idea of retiring was to leave here where it's so damned expensive to somewhere nicer but if prices have gone that far up, I dunno. I was telling Ken the other day about how when I was in Colorado Springs it was possible to find a room to rent for $200 or so all over town. You'd not get a place that cheap now - it's California expensive in some of the most cockamamie places these days.
Hawaii remains cheaper than here with the added positive of my sheer on-the-ground knowledge from having grown up there. Rents are half what they are here, and food's at least 1/3 cheaper. Plus I know where everything is.
With the virus, what someone called the "first-world coat of paint" has come off of the US and thus I know places like New Orleans, or Asheville SC or Austin, TX are out-out-out. I'm just barely out of the way of the violent inbred hicks as it is here in the Bay Area. And if I stay here, not only is it the most expensive option but ... I'll never have any friends because no one does here - friends get in the way of commerce.
Amazingly, there's more Jewish stuff in Hawaii than there is here. They have a few Kosher markets where there's exactly one here and it's far away enough to ensure I'll never go to it, and if the disproportionate number of nice people I knew growing up who were Jewish are any guide, I could do no wrong converting even if all I do is retreat back to Hawaii.
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