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Agreed, there is something unique about church. Maybe the spiritual and emotional aspect is too intertwined to separate. It is very easy to confuse emotions (i.e. feeling good about something) with spirituality when the two are very different.

Like most things in life: You must be motivated by a need or really enjoy it. As you, sport do neither for me. As you get older working out will be more of a need and you find a good group of workout buddies and maybe a friend or two.

I dont know of any place of worship (christianity in particular) that is unwelcome to atheists.

unitarians simply take the parts they like from every religion to form another.

There is no 'more church' if your an atheist. Social aspects of church are no different than that of a sports club, etc...

Church is foremost for worship and social second, third, etc...

Some people are not particularly social at church and thats ok. What makes them happy is fulfilling a spiritual need.

A park nearby has installed workout equipment along the trails. Basic outdoor swing-set type stuff but a real bummer when you want to enjoy natural scenery. Most parts of the trail are concrete slabs now instead of dirt...

I disagree people want less privacy. I certainly want more places to walk and exercise but not more people. Its a-shame some parks look like outdoor gyms. Keep it clean, safe and natural.

Food in other countries is so much better and cheaper. We stayed in Mexico for a few months (not saying I want to live there) and food was all organic and dollars. A bag of about 15 avocados cost $1-$2 dollars. In the US that will buy you maybe one avocado.

Dozen eggs = $5-$8 Bag of apples = $5

We have some food allergies such as sensitive to gluten (wife is celiac).

Two things broken in US (that are pain points for us now) - food cost and healthcare. I pay about $800 month for healthcare that is essentially a safety net for an accident ($5K deductible). I am not sure why universal healthcare is not viewed the same as public schools. Many people dont have children but still pay taxes for schools and education. I would probably pay less than $800/month in extra taxes for healthcare.

This is so true and absolutely correct. The issue though is not gathering our data (progress) its comparing it against they're engineering drawing etc.. that are constantly changing on a file share that we never know about.

You want it geo-referenced? Good luck.. so you end up putting a bunch of people on the team working for them to get decent data which bloats your budget and then you look bad to client.

I should also mention, we dont eat out / order in food. our budget is probably not much higher than most once you factor in the restaurant/takeout/food delivery budget.

Any furniture we buy we always leave it out in the sun as long as possible to off-gas (release toxins) then leave it in the garage for a few weeks to further loose that new 'furniture' smell of chemical.

Its insane. I always hear that level of chemical is so low it has no negative effect on a person. But you add up all the low levels of toxic chemicals and they add up to something significant! Pesticides, detergents, personal products such as perfumes, hair dye, make-up.. oh gosh. The list goes on. People are drenching themselves in chemicals then take pills to mask the effects.

And its expensive to avoid these things, my family of three spend about 2K per month on food alone trying to eat healthy. Nothing extravagant, fruits, vegetables, and organic when it matters. Sure we could live on $400 with highly processed or fast food... but you feel terrible afterword. The longer you stay away from them the more sensitive you are to toxic food.

There must be a better way. I work on a project that does lidar scanning now to track construction progress and its a beast. Keeping up with the latest data is a huge problem (and this is not a tech problem, its a people problem). Issues are raised that are not really issues and so forth due to ever changing data in a project.

Image scanning is a stepping stone to true project tracking which I am hoping to work on next! Wish I could say more.