You mention that moving to a rural area would be an “all-in” dynamic, but Berkeley feels more that way to me than most places.
It’s so far-left / woke here that I feel my only option is to hang out with rationalists. It doesn’t really feel like I have social options outside of the rationality community that aren’t a version of “hold your tongue and fake agree with everything that’s said.”
I’ve lived in a lot of places, and there DO exist places with much weaker / nonexistent cancel culture. Blue cities in red states are usually this way.
(I’ve found the Berkely university culture, the startup-founder culture, and the programmer culture pretty good alternatives that made me feel less locked-in, though I never ended up exploring super far in any of those directions, so some chance I would change my mind if I were to go more all-in on another community)
You mention that moving to a rural area would be an “all-in” dynamic, but Berkeley feels more that way to me than most places.
It’s so far-left / woke here that I feel my only option is to hang out with rationalists. It doesn’t really feel like I have social options outside of the rationality community that aren’t a version of “hold your tongue and fake agree with everything that’s said.”
I’ve lived in a lot of places, and there DO exist places with much weaker / nonexistent cancel culture. Blue cities in red states are usually this way.
(I’ve found the Berkely university culture, the startup-founder culture, and the programmer culture pretty good alternatives that made me feel less locked-in, though I never ended up exploring super far in any of those directions, so some chance I would change my mind if I were to go more all-in on another community)
I’m too old to really mesh with university culture, and don’t code which makes programmer/startup culture not a good fit either.
(I would also argue that woke culture is taking over coastal programmer culture too, anyways)