What were you up to in 2007?

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I was in my early 20s and had the best times of my life. I just moved out of my parents' home and lived in a place with a friend. Since I was one of the first to do so, our place was a very big hangout for other friends. I had a real job that I just started in 2006 but didn't care much about it like I sadly do today (still at the same place). I discovered what I love, which was music and beer. We went on half country road trips to hit up breweries and bring home the best beer we couldn't get back home. I went to concerts in NY weekly, and around this time, I had a record 180 concerts in 1 year. Had the time of my life just hanging out doing everything I wanted to.

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Recording an EP, going to lots of concerts, writing for a couple of magazines, working at a coffee shop, drinking too much, living in a little studio apartment, binding books with salvaged leather from roadside furniture.

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I did eventually lose the house because of the 2008 crash

I would be interested about the mechanisms behind that, as I only observed it from afar out of Europe.

I then had the impression that for existing houses it was mainly a problem for the banks?

Didn't know that owners like you also were directly affected.

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It turned out really well because my band mate and I produced all songs in a fairly short amount of time and thus the style of each song went well with all the others. It was more indie, too. The next album was released via a well known label and they kept pestering us with changes they wanted us to do. It felt too mainstream for me to be happy with the result.

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I was around 10 so I was probably playing games like Crash Bandicoot and Need for Speed on my PS2 and playing at the parks around town

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Wow, 2007 must have been a really special year for you, if it let to total amnesia...

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Long enough ago that everything blurs together but would have celebrated a third wedding anniversary. This year was 21.

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I was coming into my own as an adult.

I'd been in an adult job for a couple of years and I bought a car and started renting my own place. I was able to travel a lot in those days and life was more interesting and affordable, as the 2008 crash hadn't yet occurred and most third spaces were still around and thriving.

It felt like we all had a good future ahead for the most part.

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All within about a month, early summer:

working at a startup
got married
honeymoon (visited 2 new countries)
moved into a new job-role
first IPO

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Sort of complex. House values went down so people lost the ability to get credit and a lot of folks lost their ability to sustain their lifestyles. Spending went down. People lost jobs. It was a big downward spiral.

People were unable to move to seek better opportunities because they were underwater on house loans. Ultimately, banks were affected because their customers were hurting.

Edit: oh and I forgot variable rate mortgages. As the economy got worse, payments went up. And this primarily affected folks who could barely make their payments as it was.

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Still vaguely optimistic I'd graduate from uni some day in the near future and find work as a translator for English and Japanese. (I only stopped trying to graduate 10 years later and I have been paid a lifetime total of 150 euros for translations.)

I was also able to sleep 8 hours most nights. Those truly were the days.

On the upside, I hadn't yet discovered Doctor Who which two years later would, depending on who you ask, either greatly improve my life (quote me) or make me an obsessed weirdo (quote the husband).

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I graduated highschool in 2007.

I was burning CDs off of mp3' I downloaded, someone taught me how to use IRC (internet relay chat). I had a lot of NoFx, and was really getting into Punk music from the 90s. I spent a lot of time downloading/seeding music. I had an old computer I can still visualize.

Internet dating was brand new, and I dipped my toe in. We would have parties with 10-15 people, and played beer pong with beer in the cups, not water, I learned kings cup, and shortly after refused to play it.. but we also played cards a lot, five card stud/draw and Rummy. My group loved card games, we'd play Bullshit and Spoons while wasting late into the night.

For a time, I was going with some buddies Friday nights to the capital city, where they'd have car races, and then we'd be chased away by cops. Not my scene, but it was sort of fun.

Weed wasn't legal and obtaining it was not difficult but more expensive. I paid $60 for an 1/8 for the good stuff, $40 an 1/8 for the shit stuff. Today, there is no shit stuff, least I haven't seen it in over a decade. We made a giant bong out of a water cooler jug, that summer, attaching hoses and gas mask pieces. It took a half to fill the bowl on it, and when we woke up the next morning, the chamber still jad smoke. Ten people, and we couldn't clear it. We used to have "smoking apparatus" competitions. We'd set 20 mins, and you can only use what was in the house to make something to smoke out of. Then see what people came up with.

We'd go swimming and (lol a lot a weed, we were always trying to find place to smoke the more interesting the better) we'd stick joints and lighters into dry empty bottles and swim with it out to the docks at midnight and smoke under moonlight. One time, my brothers friend was on the junior police force or something, and we were at the lake after hours, and he rolled up and hit is siren he had intalled in his geo. We buried the blunt in the sand only to find out it was him. Aye those days.

One night we stayed up and played the longest game of mario party of all time. Nearly 18 hours of mario party, on an old game cube. We set the turn limit to max and just didnt sleep.

But we we're always hanging out with folks. I was a social reject and still had good people always around. There are no pictures really and definitely no videos from that time, only memories. We didn't bring phones with us out to the dock, we didn't post about our adventures. I had a lot of fun. We did some cringe shit, I remember telling my brother's friend, who I wasn't physically attracted to, that I wanted to fuck his mind, like I think back, like girl, what are you doing, and laugh. So much cringe shit, but it didn't matter, and tbf, I meant it in that moment. We often spoke about existential stuff and discussed weird philosophy of 18 year olds trying to find their place and values. I read old books. I still read 100 year old books. We talked about ideas, a lot, while stoned.

Went to college shortly after, got a job, learned my tolerance with alcohol, and yeah.

2007 was an interesting year for sure, I'm only sharing what I did in my free time, which was hang out with buddies, with no cares.

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Back in those days I only went to bars that had live music, or a pool table. More like ~2010 for me but still. Live bands at the bar was tits.

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I got engaged 🥰

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I was an incredibly awkward high school student in 2007. Coincidentally, I think that's the year I really got into alcohol...

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I think I won most improved in Drama Club? I know I won something. I was in primary school.

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Backpacked through Europe for a couple of weeks.

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That would've about been the year that I dropped out of college and quit my job to play world of warcraft every waking hour of my life

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