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[delicatemarwood]

Fall in Marquette

[beerselfie]

#Repost @mittenbeerchick ・・・ When your laundry room sink overflows and wasps start invading your sun porch you just say “screw it! I’m drinking a beer!” @blackrocksbrewery among the rocks in my backyard...🍻 This is a light and refreshing brew, crisp and clean with only a mild bitterness on the back end. In short: it’s delightfully crushable. Happy Tuesday everyone! #mittenbeerchick #michiganbeer #upbeer #blackrocksbrewery #marquettemi #greatlakesbeer #classicpilsner #drinkmichigan #drinkingawaymyproblems #daydrinking #tipsytuesday #reprumdrinkbeer #krakenrum #dayoffvibes #girlswhobeer #ladieswhodrinkcraftbeer

[michiganpast]

Storm waves passing the Marquette Lighthouse

#NationalLighthouseDay

Source: UW Superior Library via UW Digital Collections

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[delicatemarwood]

Summer in Marquette

[weirddoctorteeth]

If you’re ever in Marquette, toke a stop by this place. #marquettemichigan #marquette #marquettemi #firestation #firestationmarquette #firestationcannabisco #localbusiness #stimuluscheck #stimulus #locallyowned #yooper #upness #legalcannabis (at Marquette, Michigan) https://www.instagram.com/p/CNAKGjpsqei/?igshid=tdpsv18p37cx

[austinpanda]

A(nother) word on poverty

It should be stated that one of the big reasons we want to leave Austin, Texas and move to Anywhere, Other Than Here that doesn’t get talked about much, and tends to get buried among the positive reasons is: financial. I want to dedicate some thought to this. Remember, you don’t actually have to listen to me complain, so cease doing so if you like!

We can’t afford to live here any longer, and that fact tends to produce anger and resentment. When I moved here I got a decent one bedroom apartment for about $450 a month. We now live in a lousy one bedroom apartment and it’s close to $1,000. Even with two of us, it’s tough. And still, the apartments keep getting lousier, and the rent keeps increasing.

I went to the store on Wednesday. The first thing I got was toilet paper, cost about $7.50. Then I got come cat treats, which I buy in the larger container because it’s ultimately less expensive, and it was about $7.50. At that point I realized I’d spent $15.00--which is about how much pay I take home for each hour I work--for TWO things, and I hadn’t got any people food yet.

I’ve heard the local NPR station interview a musician who’d been in Austin forever. It was his musical home town. He was locally prominent, although I can’t remember his name. He was being interviewed because, despite his success, he was having to move out of Austin because it was too expensive for him to live here any longer. Here’s a guy whose music actually helped grow the city, and now the city was gentrifying him out.

It’s difficult to convey all the things that suck about being (I assume) lower-middle class. It means, once you budget your necessities, and your weekly Sunday breakfast at Torchy’s Tacos, you know, to have something to look forward to, so life isn’t completely work/sleep/repeat...then the remaining budget you have for fun optional things is zero. Allow me to stress that number, because it’s important: ZERO. This is an inherently shitty state of being.

Let’s say you wanted to pay to fly us up to visit your cabin. Free trip, right? Well, no, still have to be able to buy a few meals. And unless we’re total dicks, we want to (at least) buy one restaurant meal for our hosts, or a modest gift of some kind. Bottle of wine, something. So, how much money can we spend on that stuff? Zero. But wait, we could feed ourselves! We could bring up a suitcase full of granola bars. Well, we still have to buy the granola bars, the budget for which is holding steady at zero, plus...you go there with a suitcase full of granola bars, and you just sit in your host’s dining area, while they eat their home-cooked meal, and you eat your granola bars? That’s just going to make everyone cry.

That’s what it comes down to, though: if someone offers me something nice, and I have to reply with, “Well, yes! I’d love to have you pay for my trip. But only if you buy me a bunch of other shit, too” feels ungrateful and unkind.

And if it were still possible, yes, it would be awesome, but then you must still deal with, “What’s the point? Yes, experiences are great, but I’m still coming home to a slow motion 24/7 panic attack.” At the risk of sounding self-pitying, the “post-vacation letdown” can go from mild melancholy to something truly unpleasant, when the trip you take back to normal has to go that far down. And I haven’t even mentioned all the other obvious drawbacks to ONLY being able to pay the bills. What happens if your check engine light comes on?

Don’t be sad, though! Look, shiny thing!

So, to tie all this back to our desire to move to Marquette, Michigan, we’ve seen lousy apartments in Marquette for $500 per month. We’ve seen actual non-lousy dwellings (apartments, manufactured homes, actual houses) for $650 per month. We’re thinking that, in addition to the other benefits of moving, we might actually be able to cover our bills, with a bit left over. This, I suppose, is one of the core elements of this whole grand experiment. Will this improve our quality of life? Will we be able to cover the bills, and still have enough for other, non-regular expenses? Will this enable us to live with less worry? Will this open up new travel and entertainment possibilities? Will we be able to live lives that we don’t regret so frequently?

It occurs to me, the financial aspect is only one of a hundred things that can go dramatically right or wrong. And there’s no way to know if this move will improve our quality o’ life, until after we do it.

Good luck to us both, and no pressure.

[hizokucycles]

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[austinpanda]

There Were Certainly More Professional Ways of Doing This, But What the Hell

Dear Ma'am or Sir:

I’m writing to you because my husband and I are considering moving to Marquette. We live in Austin, Texas, now. It’s growing too hot, too crowded, and too expensive to live here any longer. We looked all over choose a new home, and after rejecting a few cities in Washington and in Maine, we decided on Marquette, Michigan, on the advice of a friend who lives in Ypsilanti. Every time we see pictures or read about Marquette, we fall in love with it a little more. Small town, affordable living, dog sledding through downtown...we’re sold.

We’re a couple of fairly quiet, thoughtful fellows. In his spare time, he makes music with instruments and his computer, and I attract hummingbirds and photograph them. We’re both ex-English majors, so we’re great with our native language. We know computers and can type fast. We’d very much like to move to Marquette--no later than next April--and start circulating some cash flow.

Problem is, if we decide to move there, we’re going to move there whether we have employment arranged in advance or not. So why not start working on that now? That said, I should advise you, I’m not asking you for work. Don’t get me wrong. If you have something for which I’m suitable, I’ll take it.

The husband and I are looking for data entry jobs, or anything that can be done sitting. Repetitive tasks, even relatively simple repetitive tasks, are ideal for him and me. He has a minor speech impediment, and I have ankles that don’t work. So he needs a job that doesn’t involve doing customer service over the phone, and I just need something I can sit down for. Perhaps one or both of us should learn how zambonis work.

So if you have any idea where what local employers might find us usable, I’d appreciate it greatly if you email back with ideas. Any information will undoubtedly be valuable, and be put to good use. If you have nothing, thank you anyway for reading this far, and enjoy the fall foliage!

Yours,

Rick Weidmann