Sam

So you go out, try to make a name for yourself building a career that will ultimately make you a bucket of money that will inevitably set you up for your dream lifestyle. This leads you from one shitty hole to another, further afield from the things that you really enjoy about life. At some point, mid-career, you realize you live in a city you don't love, in an apartment far from the beach, just trying to make sense of a missive from some guy with a golden opportunity. You have it in your head that if you can just pay a few more dues, you will be right where you need to be.

Sam is smarter than that. Here is a guy who had the ken to see that he was living in the belly of paradise, near peeling waves and good breakfasts and groves of avocados, and that to maintain this idyllic reality, he didn't need to pay his dues to anything other than the locale itself, not some shadowy dream of international success. Working as a property manager he got to know the area, figuring the ins and outs to make it all work. He bought a condo early, knowing he could parlay that into a house later. He bought a little local business as a side note that integrates him into the community even more. And there he is, in Santa Barbara, raising a family on a foundation of dues paid to the right cause.

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