ratbones

I have no solutions and I sort of wish you had magically offered me one, but -- commiseration and hugs, anyway. This is a big part of why I'm not working in science or getting another degree at present. (Hour-long commutes are a possible alternative here, but that would suck for a bunch of obvious reasons.) I actually liked my apartment when I lived in a big city, it was very quiet and felt brilliantly isolating, but I barely ever went outside voluntarily except going to and from class, which was, uh, probably not the healthiest thing.