Yeah I think you bring up a valid point, where if it was easier to find lists of good/best public schools (and “actual” public, not ones that you only get in via testing etc), it would probably be best to go down the list and note which ones are in walkable neighborhoods that aren’t just tiny/mega isolated in a very car centric city.

I have wondered if (and I haven’t checked the actual price) if the “cheat code” so to speak is certain Boston suburbs or like Evanston IL, where they are really a city neighborhood in all but name but because they aren’t a part of the city school system they are much better like typical suburbs tend to be in the US.

I know NotJustBikes did a thing about how in the Netherlands kids are much more independent compared to Ottawa at least.

That’s funny as my partner and I were just watching videos about that out of curiosity , but I do not have this condition.

thank you for this comment, it really helps and I think for now I’ll continue to use it until (if) I have a visceral negative reaction to something there

Oh my partner is really bad, they will pause a movie/show etc we are watching to go “ok so I’m confused, who’s bad and who’s good?” I honestly blame the fact that their taste in entertainment is self-admitted “trash”, like I’ve made the joke/response of “so you know a lot of more clever/prestige media often has a lot of shades of grey, where no one is clear cut good or bad”

I think I might actually have Long COVID…I’ve had it 3 times, and each time has been extremely mild (like the most mild colds I’ve ever had), but at some point I realized I seem to have “lost a step” mentally…basically if I’m telling a story/giving a point etc that is multiple sentences long, I almost always have to stop because I lose my train of thought/can’t think of a word for second, and this never happened before. It’s relatively benign (and I’m 32 and in great physical shape) but I definitely have just noticed I’m a little slower…I also every couple of months have a day/afternoon where I’m just like “I need to lay on the couch, thinking hurts” which again never happened before…unless all this stuff is quasi-expected to happen in your 30s, kinda like the extreme beginning signs of aging.