I don't know about Ian but I've never lived among creatives,
  except for a too short experience at Hampshire College in
  Amherst in 1990-91. A number of my classmates ended up moving to
  the same area you are in, including Seattle and other creative
  venues in Oregon and some parts of California.

  Had I gone that route, I'd likely have been swept up within
  quite a number of movements through the years. But I live in
  Naples Florida now, in a woodsy part at that, and before that,
  Suburban NJ - 7 miles as the crow flies from 9-11. [I saw one
  tower standing and the other one just a plume of smoke from the
  7th story of my parking garage of my workplace (Schering-Plough)
  that day.

  I was supposed to be in building 5 for Unix training from Sept
  10-15th but begged my boss's boss to get me OUT OF IT because it
  was a WASTE of a week's worth of my time, when I was in the
  middle of a project. [I was a Systems Analyst or something - I
  dunno what they called it - I was their Excel/VBA guru].

  I'm glad I wasn't there because I probably would've had to walk
  that ridiculous bridge back home, and I'm really bad about not
  bringing enough snacks with me. I don't think I would've died
  but it's likely I'd have some coughing problems or something and
  major PTSD to this day.

  Anyway... there's a rooster crowing and I always found myself on
  the outside-looking-in to various exciting creative movements
  and in a way, it's been a huge bonus. Being removed from it
  directly, lets me see the societies as societies rather than
  being a part-of. When I *do* join societies online, I do so from
  an analytical and psychological point of view and try to find
  the holes in their thinking... because people in groups that
  agree with each other frequently are _always_ misisng
  _something_... often something plain-as-day to outsiders but
  invisible to insiders.

  It's lonely sometimes,, as it makes me contrarian in the end,
  but avoiding excessive agreement while remaining as much of a
  nice guy as I can, I think has been fruitful to the
  ever-changing, ongoing nature of my outlook on... stuff.

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