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My roommate has updated his faebook picture to a map of New Jersey covered in MS-Paint flames. He's lashing out creatively.

Living in New Jersey was not his idea, so I can't blame him. Although it's nice and quiet, clean, and very safe, it's a bitch to get into the city when you want. He wants to get a new job and move to the city in two months.

I can't say I blame him for hating New Jersey. He works across the street at one place where all the high schoolers hang out. Of course you'll hate a place if it keeps you in weekends while you take shit from kids that were just like us in high school.

I like my apartment, though. I like my super, my monthly rent, the lack of roaches, the whole thing. Sure, the commute is a bitch, but the commute is always a bitch. I'd have to live in Hell's Kitchen to get an apartment within walking distance. But then I'd be more likely to be stabbed than on a NJ transit bus.

I don't want my roommate to be unhappy, but i don't want him moving out before I can afford anything better than a shithole rat's nest in Brooklyn on the corner of Kill Whitey and Stab Whitey.

I like being out of the way and free from all the madness of the city. I'm still a smalltown kid who likes being able to drive to a grocery store and drive back with my groceries instead of hauling them in some weird contraption for 20 blocks. I like trees and houses. I like peace and quiet.

Maybe there is some nice place in Astoria.