A lot of cryonicists say they don't like living in Phoenix, and I've known a few who've cycled through a sojourn in Phoenix and then moved elsewhere.
Well, somebody must love Phoenix; how did it become the nation's fifth most populous city?
In fact, I could see moving to Phoenix myself in a few years as the immediate post-Creekside stage of my life. I've even joined the Inventors' Association of Arizona ($125 a year), which holds meetings in Phoenix, with the goal of cultivating contacts with creative technical thinkers to see if they can help with cryonicists' goals. (They don't have to "believe in" cryonics, or want to sign up for it. I'd just like to know if I could find inventive problem solvers in Arizona's inventor community who would find cryonics' technical problems intriguing enough to work on. Has any other cryonicist tried this yet, in any city?) I don't know when I can ever attend the meetings, however, living as I do out in the sticks near Prescott.
I'd also like to move back to a city, after spending nearly 20 years in rural areas, to meet single aftermarket women in their 30's who don't smoke, don't have kids, don't drink much alcohol, don't have STD's, don't have a crystal meth addiction, don't have a bunch of notches on their bedposts and don't have debts they want some man to pay; but who do have good health, good teeth, a decent job, health insurance, a positive net worth and realistic expectations about men for their age. I'd have to educate them about the importance of cryonics in my life.
I'd prefer to find a woman like that in the cryonics community already, of course. But given cryonics' demographics, most single straight guys in cryonics have to seek female companions exogamously. Though I know of a male cryonicist who recently lucked out within the tribe, so to speak. He's reduced the single female population in cryonics to N - 1, leaving a situation of extreme scarcity even scarcer.
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