Where can I live where no one has tattoos?

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Anonymous wrote:Price range up to $1.2M.

Either six feet under or the moon. Certainly not in my neighborhood where people have tattoos and you don't have enough money for a house.

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I am one of the people who still struggle to understand why people want to get something so permanent. I can buy the argument that a small discreet tattoo can be a meaningful symbol of something. But when people are now sporting so many tattoos of the most random things ever like a carrot or a coffee cup, that is where I start losing understanding. And while I can respect the artistry of a high quality tattoo, it is also staggering how many bad tattoos there are out there.

I can't help but wonder if this tattoo phenomena is symbolism of something deeply unhappy or dissatisfied with modern culture that they have to clutch onto tattoos as having something meaningful that they can't find elsewhere.

+1. I can understand people who get one small, meaningful tattoo that can be covered by clothes. Not my thing but I get it. But the people whose arms and legs are covered in tattoos and they can't be hidden by clothes/out there for all the world to see and they aren't rock stars? I seriously don't understand it. Why?

Here’s the thing, you don’t need to understand it. Don’t like tattoos? Then don’t get one.

And we'll openly wonder why people are so silly to cover themselves with the most garish and *unremovable* things ever. But fools are out there to be entertainment for the wise.

You sound insufferable.

Is that the best response you can come up with? Which means you don't have a decent rebuttal to the point that tattoos are ridiculous.

People have every right to cover themselves with as many tattoos as possible. I also have every right to point fingers at them and laugh and think what a schmuck.

I must say I am amused after watching the young and beautiful tattoo themselves when they privately believed they would always be young and beautiful but are now turning old and fat and their tattoos look like someone beat them up with a baseball bat. There really is nothing as awful and ugly as tattoos on older people.

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I am one of the people who still struggle to understand why people want to get something so permanent. I can buy the argument that a small discreet tattoo can be a meaningful symbol of something. But when people are now sporting so many tattoos of the most random things ever like a carrot or a coffee cup, that is where I start losing understanding. And while I can respect the artistry of a high quality tattoo, it is also staggering how many bad tattoos there are out there.

I can't help but wonder if this tattoo phenomena is symbolism of something deeply unhappy or dissatisfied with modern culture that they have to clutch onto tattoos as having something meaningful that they can't find elsewhere.

+1. I can understand people who get one small, meaningful tattoo that can be covered by clothes. Not my thing but I get it. But the people whose arms and legs are covered in tattoos and they can't be hidden by clothes/out there for all the world to see and they aren't rock stars? I seriously don't understand it. Why?

Here’s the thing, you don’t need to understand it. Don’t like tattoos? Then don’t get one.

And we'll openly wonder why people are so silly to cover themselves with the most garish and *unremovable* things ever. But fools are out there to be entertainment for the wise.

You sound insufferable.

Is that the best response you can come up with? Which means you don't have a decent rebuttal to the point that tattoos are ridiculous.

People have every right to cover themselves with as many tattoos as possible. I also have every right to point fingers at them and laugh and think what a schmuck.

I must say I am amused after watching the young and beautiful tattoo themselves when they privately believed they would always be young and beautiful but are now turning old and fat and their tattoos look like someone beat them up with a baseball bat. There really is nothing as awful and ugly as tattoos on older people.

NP here. That people who said you sound insufferable is spot on. You sound like someone with low self esteem who was never the cute on, pretty one, etc, and now get all of your joy from being a nasty old hag. This has nothing to do with tattoos, and everything to do with your horrid personality.

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I suspect OP is referring to full sleeves and neck and face tattoos, not the small rose or dancing bear GenX'ers got on their ankle or foot to be edgy in college.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect OP is referring to full sleeves and neck and face tattoos, not the small rose or dancing bear GenX'ers got on their ankle or foot to be edgy in college.

Which is also stupid and trashy.

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Anonymous wrote:I suspect OP is referring to full sleeves and neck and face tattoos, not the small rose or dancing bear GenX'ers got on their ankle or foot to be edgy in college.

Agree that the small tattoos are trashy.

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Anonymous wrote:GA poster here, it’s like the middle class is more into the preppy golf look. Again, not saying it’s impossible, but people aren’t too edgy in how they dress.

Look for places where people dress up a bit. Golf wear, Lily Pulitzer patterns, tennis skirts.

Oh god, I’d take tattoos every day of the week over “golf wear.”

But "golf wear" can be taken off and replaced. Tattoos (especially large ones) grow old with you and start to sag badly as your skin stretches, gets thinner, wrinkles, and sags.

Sure, but being the kind of person who dresses in "golf wear" is forever.

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Anonymous wrote:Okay, TLDR. Just avoid 21409. I have a few and I like my tattoos.

Lmao I was just thinking about how Broadneck is a highly coveted area, yet it has too many people with tattoos for OP to consider. Many of those people live in multi-million dollar waterfront homes. The Baltimore metro is nothing like the LinkedIn metro area (DC metro area).

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I am one of the people who still struggle to understand why people want to get something so permanent. I can buy the argument that a small discreet tattoo can be a meaningful symbol of something. But when people are now sporting so many tattoos of the most random things ever like a carrot or a coffee cup, that is where I start losing understanding. And while I can respect the artistry of a high quality tattoo, it is also staggering how many bad tattoos there are out there.

I can't help but wonder if this tattoo phenomena is symbolism of something deeply unhappy or dissatisfied with modern culture that they have to clutch onto tattoos as having something meaningful that they can't find elsewhere.

+1. I can understand people who get one small, meaningful tattoo that can be covered by clothes. Not my thing but I get it. But the people whose arms and legs are covered in tattoos and they can't be hidden by clothes/out there for all the world to see and they aren't rock stars? I seriously don't understand it. Why?

Here’s the thing, you don’t need to understand it. Don’t like tattoos? Then don’t get one.

And we'll openly wonder why people are so silly to cover themselves with the most garish and *unremovable* things ever. But fools are out there to be entertainment for the wise.

And we'll openly wonder how far the stick must go up your butt for you to be that hysterical over what other people do to their bodies.

Oh no they're garish! Oh no, they're permanent! Oh no, we don't care!

Do some of them look dumb? Yep! Do we regret some of them? Probably! Are we so stuck up and full of ourselves that we can't enjoy putting something silly on our bodies or laugh at the dumb mistakes we made? Absolutely not!

It must be exhausting and miserable going through life being as self-conscious and fearful of what others think as you are.

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Anonymous wrote:Price range up to $1.2M.

Not Richmond. Everyone has tattoos there.

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I am one of the people who still struggle to understand why people want to get something so permanent. I can buy the argument that a small discreet tattoo can be a meaningful symbol of something. But when people are now sporting so many tattoos of the most random things ever like a carrot or a coffee cup, that is where I start losing understanding. And while I can respect the artistry of a high quality tattoo, it is also staggering how many bad tattoos there are out there.

I can't help but wonder if this tattoo phenomena is symbolism of something deeply unhappy or dissatisfied with modern culture that they have to clutch onto tattoos as having something meaningful that they can't find elsewhere.

+1. I can understand people who get one small, meaningful tattoo that can be covered by clothes. Not my thing but I get it. But the people whose arms and legs are covered in tattoos and they can't be hidden by clothes/out there for all the world to see and they aren't rock stars? I seriously don't understand it. Why?

Here’s the thing, you don’t need to understand it. Don’t like tattoos? Then don’t get one.

And we'll openly wonder why people are so silly to cover themselves with the most garish and *unremovable* things ever. But fools are out there to be entertainment for the wise.

And we'll openly wonder how far the stick must go up your butt for you to be that hysterical over what other people do to their bodies.

Oh no they're garish! Oh no, they're permanent! Oh no, we don't care!

Do some of them look dumb? Yep! Do we regret some of them? Probably! Are we so stuck up and full of ourselves that we can't enjoy putting something silly on our bodies or laugh at the dumb mistakes we made? Absolutely not!

It must be exhausting and miserable going through life being as self-conscious and fearful of what others think as you are.

Who is fearful? Some tattoos are ok, I guess, but certainly the large, colorful, visible ones are trashy and are obvious signs of poor judgment and bad taste. And yes, we judge.

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People that try to fit into a certain clique often end up doing this. Ever wonder why so many basketball and football players have tattoos all over? It’s part of the culture of the groups, there’s peer pressure to fit in and look like everyone else. The ones with enough self confidence don’t care about superficial body markings like tattoos.

For regular folks, their environment influences their decisions. That’s why it’s so important to be selective in who you spend your time with.

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Anonymous wrote:People that try to fit into a certain clique often end up doing this. Ever wonder why so many basketball and football players have tattoos all over? It’s part of the culture of the groups, there’s peer pressure to fit in and look like everyone else. The ones with enough self confidence don’t care about superficial body markings like tattoos.

For regular folks, their environment influences their decisions. That’s why it’s so important to be selective in who you spend your time with.

The stupidity and amateur psychology in this thread is amazing.

The takeaway from this dumbass:
- it takes self confidence to resist getting a tattoo
- pick your friends carefully, otherwise you'll end up with a tattoo

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Anonymous wrote:People that try to fit into a certain clique often end up doing this. Ever wonder why so many basketball and football players have tattoos all over? It’s part of the culture of the groups, there’s peer pressure to fit in and look like everyone else. The ones with enough self confidence don’t care about superficial body markings like tattoos.

For regular folks, their environment influences their decisions. That’s why it’s so important to be selective in who you spend your time with.

The stupidity and amateur psychology in this thread is amazing.

The takeaway from this dumbass:
- it takes self confidence to resist getting a tattoo
- pick your friends carefully, otherwise you'll end up with a tattoo

You seem really defensive. I don't think PP's comments are off base. People get tattoos because of cultural influences, and that people generally are affected by their cultural surroundings. If you think that people who get covered in tattoos generally lack good judgment, why wouldn't you want to avoid living around them?

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Anonymous wrote:How old are you, lol? I'm Gen X, upper middle, and half the people I know have a tattoo. I only know boomers with this attitude towards tattoos: my DH's friend's wife, age 70, said this to me when I got mine: "Aren't you afraid someone will think you got it in prison?!?" If she'd been wearing pearls, she would have clutched them.

It's definitely a minority, but but in my DC neighborhood there are plenty of nice, neighborly, law-abiding, well educated, and professionally successful parents with tattoos.