A person describes moving to San Francisco and feeling genuinely valued for the first time. He argues that different places offer different realities, and that choosing where to live shapes who you become and how others treat you.
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Take your— take, take agency over the fact that the world is large enough to have more than one reality baked within it. Choose one that appreciates and has more gratitude and is able to extract itself from the context it happened to be born into. So I thought that that was it though. I thought— I told myself this world is not a place for me because it doesn't value me. It wasn't until I moved to San Francisco that I realized that, oh, there's a, there's a different way of being. There's a different culture and community and different level of appreciation for the people that do decide that they're going to go into the void and say, why? Why this way?