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artificialcounterintelligence · 5 years ago

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An update on me

Sorry to interrupt your doomscrolling with more doom to scroll through but circumstance is forcing me to post an update I really didn't want to burden anybody's mind with, especially not with all the everything that's going on.

To ensure I don't bury the lede here - I'm going to be homeless as of November 14th.

I'm going to avoid naming or tagging anybody as I don't really want anybody's business out there but my own.

In a move some might fairly regard as "colossally stupid," I elected to move back to Arizona with a friend of mine in December of last year. This friend of mine is who I moved in with earlier that same year; the one with the emotionally and physically abusive husband who at one point barricaded us in the apartment by blocking the only exit with a sofa so we couldn't go to the police. Since his suicide, she had gone on to a more stable situation with the father of her second child, and they both agreed to help me get set up in Phoenix.

We got our first confirmed coronavirus case a few minutes away less than six weeks after I flew over, which ruined practically all those plans.

Furthermore, shortly after I moved in it became apparent that her boyfriend actually wasn't okay with me living with them at all. Accusations of adultery and criticisms regarding household contribution became commonplace, and eventually escalated to arguments that in one circumstance had him growling like a literal animal and making passive threats. I was told once the schism began to form that he had a history of assaulting his roommates. This man is over 6' tall, ex-military, armed, and has confessed to having anger management issues that he has promised (and since failed) to get help for.

On the bright side, as of the end of the current lease they will be going their separate ways. However, she will not be in a position to assist me any longer because the pandemic has drilled through her savings and she will be on a single income supporting two kids.

I wasn't without any escape plans, but coronavirus and coincidence have frustrated those. Final inspection on the apartment is November 14th, and I can no longer be living here when it is conducted.

From least to most likely in terms of plans that were in motion:

1) Uruguay: Yeah, this was quite seriously on the table, but our nonexistent coronavirus response has made even getting a now useless American passport a titanic effort. Even if I went the asylum route it would incur a two week forced quarantine on my would-be hosts, whom have already had the disease themselves and have gone through that mess already. Socialized healthcare would have been nice, though.

2) Back home in South Florida: A friend of mine was in a situation where he was also going to be needing a place to live along the same timeframe, and for a while my primary plan was to get a job where he works and just sort of start everything over. However, that friend has since decided to shop for a house while living with his father instead of going in on another rental. This kind of broke my heart because it would have allowed me to move back home, but I understand he is doing what's best for him. I'm still holding out hope once he closes on a home I can get moved in with him because he's a good dude and an old reliable friend.

3) Michigan: There was some miscommunication here on my part, but I have a friend in Michigan who owns a home with some spare space, but she was under the impression I had no interest in living there. She has discovered since buying her home that it needs a new roof, and that she can't front any cost of me moving up there or staying there for a long time.

So that's where I am currently. What is now likely to happen is that come the 14th I will be checking in to a shelter here in the Phoenix area, either one that fosters pets or my friend here can possibly take care of Robo for me in the meantime. I will no longer be on the phone plan at this time and will not have service.

I don't expect anyone to have any miracle opportunity that I can take advantage of with less than ten days on the clock, but I also won't know unless I ask, so this is my Hail Mary pass.

If you can at all help financially, paypal.me/plutocracy

Take care of yourself, first and foremost.

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