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Crying Costas Wants to Disappear with $3000

from Tough Love · #3

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Answering a tweet asking where to vanish and start over with only $3,000, Tim advises picking cities with low cost of living and low unemployment like Houston or Vegas, and riffs on cutting off friends and family entirely to reinvent yourself.

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  • 43:57Someone named Crying Costas asks how to drop everyone and disappear overnight with $3000.
  • 44:24Tim explains how to actually cut people off: stop talking to them, and they'll get the message within months.
  • 45:24Best places to disappear — small cities have too much nosiness, big cities are anonymity but expensive.
  • 46:32Tim advocates for reinvention and moving, saying he'd leave New York instantly if he weren't doing comedy.
  • 46:51He's pro-grifter and pro-disappearing-to-town-with-three-grand — suggests researching cost of living and employment rates.
  • 47:12Specific city recommendations: Vegas off the Strip, Charleston, Houston with its 2-3% unemployment rate and strong economy.
  • 48:01Tim suspects Crying Costas may have stolen the three grand from a work credit line to fund the escape.
  • 48:24Even if it's a fake Twitter account, the question is legitimate — people should disappear, ditch friends, get themselves together.
  • 48:39His final advice: leave everyone, go away, get yourself together, then reach back out when successful or don't.
  • 48:57Listener thanks Tim for his podcast and calls him a great philosopher despite his modest demeanor.
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Houston, TexasLas VegasPhoenixLev PoliakovMinneapolisCharleston, South CarolinaCrystal CostasNew YorkClevelandFreeport New York

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