Never say never...

[beetrix]

Things I swore I'd never do and later did:

1) Eat Lobster (even though I only eat one out of the shell a year)
2) Pump my own gas (necessity ended a five year streak...believe it!)
3) Become and English Major (I really went back on that one and got a Masters in English)
4) Sleep with D again (though we don't have to worry about it in the future,

Comments

[bumblebaker]

amen sistuh.

[beetrix]

What have you sworn you would never do but did it anyway?

I think this should be a question everyone asks themselves or to prospective employees and mates.

[helloreplace]

Live in San Francisco
Live in California (anywhere)

[beetrix]

very interesting....

Why were you so sure you wouldn't and what made you change your mind?

[helloreplace]

I was sure I wouldn't live here because CA has always had a super screwed up govt. and the most invasive anti-privacy legislation - it's got the white shoe liberal sickness of over legislating the compromise of personal freedoms. i'm not even a libretarian, i'm pretty much a democrat (albeit a very liberal one) but CA has the most restrictive speech, thought, and identification laws in the country. [ ex , plus it's a death penalty state. (when i moved to NY, NY was not.)

SF - I never liked it. It was dirtier by a lot than NYC, the people couldn't seem to get anything done in a reasonable amount of time and aside from the people i knew already - there were a lot of jerks. social communities were narrow channels, there is incredibly low tolerance for behavior outside the local norm (and norm is really different here than anywhere else, yes, but try to leave the group opinion pool here just once and see what happens..._)

[beetrix]

All good reasons to be hesitant... but there you are in a dirty, low tolerance city in a death penalty state. Something powerful must have changed your mind.