Ms. ArmoredThirteen

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Cake day: December 8th, 2024

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  • Ms. ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ziptoComic Strips@lemmy.worldDad?
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    13 hours ago

    His brother just died, the kid is currently at mom’s place, this is the first day in over a month he’s had a free moment between working overtime and going to his kid’s soccer games. Give the guy a break he goes back to work tomorrow because boss said “When my brother died it didn’t stop me from working if you aren’t here you’re fired”







  • Keeping in mind I’ve only visited 1-2 towns from each place

    • Sweden, Stockholm and Visby: The language is gorgeous sounding I like listening to people talk. I like how everyone walks in the street. People are very nice. I had a sense of belonging like I had already been living there so that’s a good sign for moving.
    • Estonia, Tallinn: Holy shit I got to walk on a real castle wall. There’s a meshing of modern and medieval architecture that works stunningly it’s so amazing. Rich history everywhere.
    • Latvia, Riga: Grafitti game is on point. The art nouveau is incredible but I preferred the castles tbh. There is a very palpable tension between Latvian and Russian that put me on edge. Like if I said thank you in Latvian some people would get upset at me, but if I said thank you in Russian other people would correct me “this is LATVIA”. I bring this up as a favorite because it reminds me that visiting for a few days doesn’t mean I understand the area.
    • Netherlands, Amsterdam and The Hague: To get off the plane and out of Amsterdam skipping it entirely was super easy. New Years in The Hague was unreal like nothing I’ve ever seen. Indonesian food is very good here too. Everyone here bikes, transit flows well, the trolleys are fun to watch. I question how many people fall into the river that has almost no guardrails anywhere.
    • Sweden again, soon I’m flying north to play in the snow and work my way back to Stockholm. No reports yet but I love cold and snow so I suspect I’ll be happy there too.

    I’m going to try and swing getting there on a student visa. I need to save enough to pay for housing and tuition, I’m guessing about $30k should get me there if I also find a part time job while at school. My Swedish is incredibly basic so far but I’m getting decent at reading. A lot of it is close enough to English I can kinda get the gist of text within known contexts. Listening to it though is still well beyond me, it sounds like actual elvish it’s wild to me. I want to learn it so much though I want to be able to speak such a pretty language






  • I consider $100k to be minimum wage in Seattle. It was just enough to not be constantly money stressed as long as I was living modestly. I could see doctors, invest in hobbies, have choices in food, build savings/retirement. Could not eat out every day, buy a house any time soon, or impulse buy particularly expensive stuff. Any time I made less than $100k here I felt like I was always two steps behind, at about that salary my life stopped focusing on scraping by. I make more now and I feel like I’m actually thriving here. Still quite a difference in what I’d consider to be middle class though like there’s no way I can get a house here and I’d for sure be much worse off if I had kids