Sports reporter wanted to cover Va.Tech

So now we're COMPLETELY off the rails. You said if you took this job, you'd be better off living 45 minutes away so that you wouldn't be recognized in public.

Now we're talking about elementary school teachers doing shots at a TGI Friday's?

 

Sorry to get us back on topic, but I was under the impression Blacksburg was a fairly cheap place to live. Compared to Charlottesville, Richmond or Fairfax, at least. I'm not a fan of small towns. I think living in Blacksburg is the biggest downside to this job. And I've lived in Blacksburg before. It's nice as college towns go.

I, too, am glad to see this job is being posted. I wasn't sure it was going to happen. Whoever gets it will be a stud.

 

Unless there's some sort of morals clause in the teacher's contract, I don't see the issue. If parents are so sheltered that they don't understand how a legal adult can partake in the legal substance alcohol, then there's not much you can do for them. If said teacher does 10 shots of Jager and gets busted for public intoxication or DUI, that's another matter entirely, but that's going to be the case for anyone in any job.

 

YOU WILL TAUNT 93DEVIL FOR HIS OPINION WHETHER YOU WANT TO OR NOT, BUSTER

A Craigslist search indicates that housing costs are a little cheaper than Richmond, but not markedly so. And I'm assuming most of the cheaper places are around the college itself and populated mostly by college kids. Otherwise, the rents aren't that far off from Richmond or Norfolk and more expensive than Lynchburg or Danville. Much cheaper than DC, but what in Virginia isn't?

 

Alexandria?

 

I think you should use your mini-celebrity status and hire a driver to take you around Blacksburg. Then you can do shots safely behind the privacy of tinted windows.

Either that, or just hire some goons. One can be your protection, while the other can be your food taster.

 

MG already has a great reporter who's been churning out quality VT copy for years. This opening very easily could be, and perhaps should be, handled internally.

 

If you're talking about the god-like creature that is Nathan Warters, I agree.

 

Which may be the way this one goes.

 

That wouldn't surprise me in the least.

 

We True Virginians™ consider everything north of the Cracker Barrel at the Massaponax exit off I-95 to be the sovereign state of DC

 

I thought it was the state of NoVa.