u/AmericannPsycho

I'm probably going to be moving to South Dakota to the Yankton area, within the next week or two. my main concern is weather, climate and driving conditions. have a AWD Mercedes and a f150 (4wd) which are probably the best options to drive in that type of climate from what I read. I also have a C8 corvette which is a RWD sports car which here in Arkansas I drive it basically all the time except when there is the occasional snowfall. I won't be in SD all year but a large majority of it with a occasional break to return home to AR. I would like to drive my C8 quite a bit in SD but I'm afraid that may not be possible and I might need to leave it in AR at my house in storage. Just asking for some advice and answers.

For the last 2 weeks I have been removing all digital distractions from my phone and laptop. I have deleted all social media and entertainment from my phone, and dropped my screen time from 3 hours a day to no more than 30-40 minutes a day on mostly phone calls, random search's and photos i need to take. The only social media I currently still have is Instagram that I don't even check anymore, facebook for selling on marketplace, and reddit for whatever, and all of those are strictly on my laptop. I even got rid of all my subscriptions which was just Spotify for an mp3 player and r/myzuno and for youtube i use the clients Greyjay & Freetube, and only use youtube in any capacity on my laptop.

Although with my success I have one issue, reddit. Since I don't anything else to occupy my free time except for reading, I have been spending more timing wasting on reddit. Although eventually I believe I can fix this problem through journaling and hobbies.

This is mostly irrelevant but i have been on the subreddit r/degoogle and have been successful with almost removing all google sites, data, accounts, except for Gmail, which i want to entirely switch to Protonmail eventually. I recommend removing google from your online activity for privacy, but this process might be extreme or hard for some.

This is also irrelevant but I am 19, and for people my age they will find it hard to delete social media as I have done, but in my experience it's rewarding. Sure some friends will stop contacting you but give them your phone number, it's a simple way of communicating. This experience made me realize who really would contact me and who wouldn't because they didn't care about me.