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Because I saw myself becoming the stereotypical parisian. I was stressed, angry, overworked, insomniac, and a social alcoholic. One day i was walking down the stairs in a busy metro station and a guy (suit, tie,€50 haircut) growled at me because i was in his way. Not grumbled, growled. Like a dog. I decided i didn't want to become this man. A month later i was packing up.
I'm currently living in Paris, renting a pretty huge apartment in the 15eme with 2 roommates, but I'll be moving soon into a new apartment I bought myself in banlieue. If given the opportunity I'd have preferred staying in Paris but it's way too expensive to buy anything here (like 10k€/sqm...).
I was born in the suburbs of Paris, childhood was cool but once you reach puberty and go to high-school, you'll start to see that you have a lot of stuff that you can do (bars, activities,...) you also have to deal with the reality that you'll most likely won't be able to live close to your work, and that means a mean travel time of 1h morning and then 1h evening, meaning you'll end up doing little of your free time if you account for doing groceries and food (which felt important to me, I wanted to avoid takeout and stuff like that as much as possible)

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That plus the fact that the comute is pretty much lost time, I wasn't doing anything useful in the train or by driving the car, and couldn't go to work by bike which would have alleviated some of the downsides cause at least I would be getting some activity.
I've spent my entire life moving among different rural suburban areas. I was born in Acton, CA, moved to Flagstaff, AZ, had spent a couple years in rural Ohio, and currently live in a town about an hour outside of Pittsburgh, PA. I've never spent longer than a couple hotel nights in a major city despite visiting many as a kid. Now that I'm less than a year away from graduating college, I'd really like some honest insight.

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Because the truth is I'm completely tired of driving 25 minutes to reach a restaurant, store, or anything more exciting than a gas station. I'm also tired of run-away, aggressive pets, hostile people, ignorance, bug infestations, and the overall subtle hostility that living out here is. For almost half a decade now I've been nurturing this idea of living in an apartment somewhere deep inside a city. To be able to walk anywhere in a two two mile radius and find things, even if not necessarily everything, I'd want, and to have the ability to train ride to the locations farther away. All the while being surrounded by the pinnacle of human civilization; it honestly sounds like a dream.
So to me moving out of the parisian ambiance was a goal that I don't regret achieving one bit, but this is mostly true to my needs and I can see why some people would want to live there, it was just not for me.

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First, we would have to start with the infinitesimal singularity, Big Bang theory and the process of cosmic inflation. Theories of parallel universes are based on quantum mechanics. Multiple states of existence for particles existing simultaneously or a wave function which encapsulates all possibilities. With that said, it is important to note that only one may be observable. An outcome is observed when the wave function collapses into a singular reality. This means that alternate universes (if they exist) are separate and as far as we can surmise, unable to intersect. If we do exist in another reality (a notion which I wouldn't discount), how would we be able to confirm it? The current consensus is that the universe began at a finite point. From one perspective, this could mean that alternative versions of us are likely to exist but we will be unaware of them while we remain "trapped" in one. Will death permit us to "escape" and explore other realities? Interestingly enough, cessation of life as we know it may be another riddle tied to quantum physics, specifically in the theory of biocentrism. In other words, our universe (perhaps others?) exists due to our consciousness of it. We have been conditioned to accept death but the reality of it may exist only in the mind. In the double-slit experiment, scientists have observed that the behavior of particles can be altered by a person's perception of them. As particles pass through a multi-holed barrier, they appear to travel through a single slit. However, when they are not observed, they move through the holes like waves. The experiment has challenged our established impressions of time, space and perception. We could also go down the rabbit hole of frequencies. As Nikola Tesla observed, the key is to understanding them. While true, a frequency is only one aspect of harmonics and multidimensional in nature. Assuming the universe is hypertorus (four-dimensional torus), you would expect that existence could be possible on any point of a single plane simultaneously and you'd be correct. But why can't this be accomplished in practice? Because the hypertorus dimensional structure is maintained through its own internal harmonics. Discover a way to disrupt them and you could place yourself anywhere. I believe that Tesla understood how this opens the possibility of being able to "slip" from one universe or dimension to another. It has been argued that the material realm is based on this structure. Therefore, if a harmonic disruption can or does happen instantaneously and without any regard to what we understand of Newtonian physics, light may not be the fastest "mechanism" in the material realm and all properties could be considered as products of their own harmonic structures. Alter the harmonics and you change the properties. From that point, who knows what may be possible. if a parallel universe exists, we mustn't be beside ourselves when we ponder such extraordinary possibilities.

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When I was growing up, we'd wake up to a stocking on our beds that we could open as soon as we woke up. Which had lil stocking filler gifts etc in from santa. And then we would get ready for church. We'd go pick up my nonna, and go to the Christmas Mass that morning. Then go back home after and mum would start cooking the Christmas meal. We'd have music playing and we'd open the gifts that were under the tree from mum and dad, any other gifts from family members sent to us. And also more gifts from santa haha (obviously all by mum and dad but we saw them as seperate because we didn't know any different haha). Then we'd have the Christmas meal, and relax, or play games etc :). Usually my older siblings would travel down and spend it with us, or come down on the boxing day to spend it with us. And we'd have more gift exchanges.

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My dad was also a part time DJ so every Christmas was party time to the max haha. Lights, lazers, bubble machines, you name it haha. And then again on new years :). I have many lovely memories at Christmas growing up.

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