10.) baby names
09.) your mortgage
08.) your rent
07.) your commute
06.) how you can’t imagine living anywhere else other than the City
05.) an extremely detailed description of your highly-technical job
04.) baby names
03.) your mortgage
02.) how could anyone live in the South Bay?
01.) why haven’t I thought about moving to the City?
Hmmm, we’re thinking Francesca Heer Williams for a girl and Aidan Veer Williams for a boy. Our mortgage is going to be twice our rent. I love my commute and I cannot imagine living in the City. My job’s pretty simple, though learning to deal with how the Government works is troubling. I forgot how we spelled Francesca but there should be a z in it. I am scared of our mortgage. The South Bay could be cool, but I wouldn’t live there. Don’t move to the City.
Ok, now I won’t tell you all this at a party :-P
Smack! It went that well, ah?
I’ll print out the list and hang it on the wall for my party :) I am guilty of #2 myself, I am sure.
Oh dear.
At least we don’t have a mortgage and can see some of the charms of Mt. View.
:)
o – it was fun. I was just amused/annoyed by some of the conversation topics that kept coming up.
In general, I find the City/South Bay discussion especially annoying.
OMG, I was laughing just reading the title of that post.
Ha! Great list. You may know this already, but 6, 7, and 8 are the only topics of small talk at parties in NYC. So, yeah… you may want to avoid living here (unless you live in the suburbs, and why would you want to do that?!).
I met up with some college friends a few weeks ago and we all sat down and started talking about student loans and mortgages and things and then we sort of looked around and said, “Wow. When did we get old?”
Sylvie – where do the Heer and Veer come from? You’re not having babies now, are you?
haha no. My mother’s name is Veerender – meaning God of the Braves; and Veer means Brave. My dad’s first name is Hira which means diamond and Heer is a derivative of that and also is a Punjabi version of Juliet.
this sounds familiar….
How about a compromise? Is it ok for me to just shorten these things say “Number 6, blah blah, Number 1″ when I run into you at CHI? I don’t want to offend but at the same time I won’t be able to shut up about living in the city.
Haha, Noor, I feel your pain. The main topic of conversation around here is 1) Who’s engaged 2) When others will be engaged 3) How the proposal should be accomplished and 4) Why aren’t the single ones worried about not being engaged.
To borrow a line from my childhood, Gag me with a spoon.
Yes, people can be snobby about stuff. But, without a concerted conscious effort, I think we’re all guilty of this. I even find myself doing it out here in the hinterlands of New York. Of course I think that where I live (in what passes for ‘the city’ out here, aka Rochester) is better than where certain other people live, aka ‘the suburbs.’ Being from the Bay Area I can attest to the fact that the city is pretty awesome, but there are great things about all places, even Mtn. View! ;)