what are some things you like/dislike about the city/town/village you live in?

[metmagic]

ok, this is really a venting thread in disguise :hmm

i'm just really mad at new york right now :angry: :( i hate that people have to work so effin hard to survive....that it's so hard to have and maintain a social life (cuz you're so busy working and when you're not working, you just wanna veg on your couch and not deal with anyone!)it's true!:(

and why do you have to work so hard? cuz the effin rents are so effin expensive! :angry: you kill yourself to work to keep your apt and pay the darn bills, i'm sick of it....

*sigh*.....someday i'll live in a place where the quality of life is better..... :sigh:

southern california maybe...... :sun:

[BPBlueSox]

Southern California? You'll probably have to pay more for rent there. (Unless you live in Compton or something)

[metmagic]

other than the above, i love living here :)

this is why:

unbelievable food selection (the best of everything!)
different cultures, different people, never boring
a million things to do anytime of the day or night
new yorkers are, to me, the most fascinating interesting colorful people in the world (and funny)
for the most part, people are open-minded (more than the rest of the country imo--i can die my hair fuchia & teal and do tarot-readings on the street and no one would care :D)
i'm not the weirdest person on the subway or bus :tongue:
shea stadium
you can WALK everywhere! :thumbsup: (i love this)
lots of cute boys
central park
coney island and the cyclone :cheer:

[metmagic]

dan, yeah i realize the rent is crazy..... but i was imagining maybe i could live on the beach and help run the Surf Diva school in san diego :bigsquare

[CitySkyline]

metmagic, if you don't mind my asking, whereabouts do you live? (I checked your profile and all I discovered is that you live in the loge section behind home plate! :D )

Do you live in Manhattan? If so, don't forget that the outer boroughs are cheaper... and Queens and Brooklyn have great neighborhoods and if you live close to Manhattan (like I do :) ), you can quickly go back-n-forth all you want! :)

I didn't mention the Bronx just cause I'm not that familiar with it... and besides, to get to mid-town from the Bronx is a bit of a haul... same with S.I.

OH, and to answer your question:

Love the City for...
1. Its energy
2. Its passion
3. HUNDREDS of things to do/see
4. Skyscrapers (I'm a big fan)
5. Walking distance to so much
6. If you include all the boroughs (which I do), have a GREAT variety of neighborhoods and different "moods", from noisey, grimey, concrete to quiet, grassy, peaceful...

Hate the City for...
1. Hard to find parking! For someone with a car, it's a pain (OK, I rarely use my car AND I do rent a garage, but if parking were easier, it's sometimes IS faster to just drive than take the subway!)
2. Yankee fans :D

I won't include the usual suspects on my Hate list (like the overcrowding) cause, frankly, that's part of the charm! People who hate the crowds really shouldn't be here! I grew up with the crowds, so they don't bother me! (even the tourists who crowd the sidewalks, since I know they're here to visit MY city! :thumbsup: )

[TXRangers]

How high is the rent there? I can rent you a bedroom in my new house!! I have 2000sf that are mine in less then 9 days!!

I just fainted! :eek: I still can't believe I am buying a house. :banana:

TXRangers :fro:

[Durango53]

I love room...... To go out and not have a someone right in your backyard. Living in the state that has the less people per square mile is great. I love the wide open space. To get in the car and after 5 minutes of driving you are away from everything and one. The mountains are my backyard, and the wide open parrie is my front yard. I can go out and coyote hunt or go to a minor league baseball game in the same day. Fresh air every day unless my boss is in the office then he can get some good smog going quick!!!!

When you have the Rocky Mountains in your back yard there is no way you want to get away from that!!!

[metmagic]

TX, congrats on your new house!!! :clap:


City, i actually live in brooklyn :) park slope to be exact, and i absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE my neighborhood...... i just think it is pricey to live anywhere in new york (incl. the boroughs)..... i'm just in a bad mood b/c i'm noticing now more than ever how stressful it is to live here (maybe it was my little spring training mini-vacation that started it :D) it just seems like everywhere else, people can easily have social lives or have time for themselves and their friends and it's not such a struggle.......for ex., at any given time, i can call a bunch of friends and invite them somewhere and more than likely, they will be working ("gotta work late tonight, this is due tomorrow...") or they're recovering from working late the night before, or any variation..... it's RARE when i can get a whole bunch of them together and all our schedules work out........ whereas i know in other places in the world, it is so EASY to go out with your friends, and people are around and not everyone is stressed out and working all the time.....

i've just started a new job at this law firm and it's the same thing...people are very nice here don't get me wrong (plus they're MET FANS! yesss!), but it's still the same thing: super hectic and busy and stressful...so who has energy for anything when work is done at the end of the day? i know my friends in california are so much more laid back, they do stuff after work, they have the enegy and the desire.... same with friends in chicago, florida and other places.... but here in new york it's WORKWORKWORK :(


i have to say, though, that i don't mind the crowds and the noise :) it's part of the charm to me.....

and i LOVE being outside when the NY city marathon is happening! that is THE BEST! you can totally feel the love in the city :sun:

[metmagic]

oh, and i agree about having-a-car-in-the-city and the parking hell one goes through :nut:

i have a car and the other day it just died on me....so naturally i needed to jumpstart it, but what a project it was to find someone who was around AND had a car AND jumper cables! :( ugh!! i had to get my boyfriend to come help me and he had to get the bass player from his band to come over after band rehearsal to help....it's a major freakin production over here!

i prefer public transportation and walking! :dog:

and of course, it sucks having to share the city with fans of that other team......

[metmagic]

durango, i would love to have the Rocky Mountains in my backyard!!



but i wonder....is it scary at night? does it get really dark?

[CitySkyline]

OK, metmagic, here's your answer: find new friends :D

Just kidding!

But just remember that not EVERYONE is like that (workworkwork). I've noticed that I tend to start losing interest in my friends when they keep telling me they're too busy. Eventually, I just shrug and move on to other friends who aren't too busy.

Guess I just don't want to give non-New Yorkers the wrong impression of NYC! Yes, this City can make someone work like a maniac. AND, I imagine the legal profession is really hectic. But, it's all (somewhat?) about life choices. Me, I prefer to take it somewhat easier... Then again, I'm lucky that with my job, that's an option! :)

[imgreat95]

i don;t think that there ius anything about living here that I don;t like. I can be in the city in 45 minutes.. I can be in the mountains in an hour... what more could a person want?

[rockin500]

things i like about chicago:

The food
All the things to do
Lake Michigan (and lincoln park)

Dislikes
Traffic
high rent
toooooo many people.

[PirateNut]

Things I like about OC:

1. It's clean and tidy and well landscaped mostly
2. I'm 30 minutes from the beach, 1.5 hours from the desert and 1 hour from the mountains.
3. All the bands come here to play (even the small ones)
4. I have a lot of friends and family here.
5. Plenty of free parking
6. Convenient for great shopping and restaurants.
7. Weatherwize you can plan anything.

Things I dislike:

1. It gets too hot in the summer
2. Air pollution
3. Selfish, rude and self absorbed people
4. Over crowding
5. Everything is expensive...rent, petrol, insurance and housing

I always talk about selling my condo, making some good money on it and leaving for the quiet life...I just never get around to it. Ahhhhhhh.

[metmagic]

OK, metmagic, here's your answer: find new friends :D

Just kidding!



it's not the friends though...cuz now I find myself being too tired to wanna do anything! :( it's just the pace around here.... but you're right, not everyone works like crazy and not every job is super hectic, but i think it is the norm here, at least compared to other places...



hmm maybe i should try living in the mountains :)

[cxlx]

I really really really love living here in Boston. I really didnt realize that til I tried to live in Vancouver for about 6 months (about 5 years ago). Its a small city with alot going on, well before 2 am that is. hehe Everything is public transportation accessible. And having a car isnt half as bad. Lots of diverse people. We got the Red Sox, the Celtics, the World Champion Patriots and oh yeah, the Bruins. Busy city but not crazy like NYC, however, Bostonians are alot more conservative. I dont think I can get away with "i can die my hair fuchia & teal and do tarot-readings on the street and no one would care". :D If I can say one thing that I hate about this city is the traffic situation. Construction is the main cause of that. Other than that, I cant think of a better place to live.

[BPBlueSox]

i don;t think that there ius anything about living here that I don;t like. I can be in the city in 45 minutes.. I can be in the mountains in an hour... what more could a person want?

What mountains, Shawn? :D

[imgreat95]

Dan, they do have mountains in the East, too. May not be the Rockies, but it is the best we've got. The highest point on I80 east of the missisippi happens to be right down the road from here.

[CitySkyline]

it's not the friends though...cuz now I find myself being too tired to wanna do anything! :( it's just the pace around here.... but you're right, not everyone works like crazy and not every job is super hectic, but i think it is the norm here, at least compared to other places...

hmm maybe i should try living in the mountains :)

Well, you may be tired, but isn't it nice to know that when you DO want to do something, it's "right there" (as opposed to a long drive or anything).

Sure, the mountains would be nice... be then when you want to go to Shea, or see a Broadway play, or check out the QM2 (hee hee)... you'd be stuck!

Anyway, just hang in there! :) It ain't that bad! (I hope! :) )

[Durango53]

durango, i would love to have the Rocky Mountains in my backyard!!



but i wonder....is it scary at night? does it get really dark?

I eat my breakfast looking out my back doors and see the snow topped mountains that takes me about 10 minutes to drive to if I want. I go up there and walk my dogs on trails in the summer and sometimes you can come across a Bull Elk. Some people have ran across a mountain lion and a black bear. I have to have a dog no matter what where I live or the deer will eat my grass and flowers. A mountain lion was around where I live a couple of years ago so I sleep with my gun all the time hoping it would come in my sight. It was spotted hanging out mostly around a school so that was why it was a hunted guy. I just dont feel like I belong in a big city. I lived in Spokane WA for my last year in the Military and it had about 100,000 people in it and I was a fish out of water. It was funny I would be going down the highway in my big old ford truck and people would look up and see this big white ford truck with a gun rack in the back and a rope hanging off of it with Wyoming plates and some crazy looking guy with a cowboy hat at the wheel and it was like the parting of the red sea.... I had clear roads ahead.... Ever see the movie the Cowboy Way? That is me in a big city. I want to come to NY and Boston and the east coast to hang out and see some sights but it will be different to me.... That is what scares me is all the people and so much city and not enough room to move around.

But it can get dark here but it is so cool on a full moon because you can see good and going cow tipping on a full moon night is something to live for!!!!

But there are no lights out in the middle of the place around here so it does get dark. But most people from big cities dont like the wide open that scares them more....

(P.S. To all that never have and do go cow tipping in the future. Scout the area first and know it because if you get ahold of a bull or a mean cow you will have to run and you want to know where you are going to get to) TRUST ME ON THAT!!!

[Bumms]

I live in New York City too, and hate the fact that I'm paying lots of rent for a studio apartment with paper thin walls, where I spend my evenings listening to the bass resonation of my next door neighbor's supersonic television and the pounding of his big stonking feet. And it's not just him - the previous tennant was worse. I hear the front buzzer buzz open each time someone is buzzed in. I hear the front door slam (and I'm in the back of the building!). I hear people stomping up the stairs. I have no privacy, no quiet, no peace. I cannot read a book, I cannot concentrate on writing. I miss having a car, I miss having more closets, a bedroom, a livingroom, a place to eat, a set of trees out my window, and a view of the sky, they sun and various celestial things. The city has sucked out all kindness in me, all compassion, all ambition.

Interesting this should come up. Because I'm actually planning on moving soon - probably back to the suburbs of Westchester where I belong. I do believe I've had enough!!!!!

There's my vent, and I'm not exagerating. After years of this - I just can't used to it - and I don't want to spend a truck load of money on rent in a building where it might be quieter - but the rent is astronomical.

[metmagic]

wow durango....what you're describing is the farthest thing from the reality i live in :eek: it sounds like a movie to me! :D


my parents are from the islands in the southeast pacific and i remember when i was little it would get SCARY DARK there at night...it used to freak me out! so i do get pretty scared of the dark when there aren't alot of people around...... that's one thing i like about living in the city...strangely enough, with all the people & the lights, i feel safer here :)

[CitySkyline]

I guess these posts just show how everyone prefers different things.

That description by Durango sounds really interesting... but just for a visit! :) No way I'd ever feel comfortable living in such an area. Heck, just this Saturday, I was way out in NJ to visit a sister and her family... she's got 9 acres of land with a nice big house and a nice big pool. Very peaceful... but not my thing at all! As I drove through the narrow winding roads through the trees, I had two thoughts: 1. What a nice view! 2. Ugh, I could never live here! Where are all the people?!

[metmagic]

i know what you mean City....the mountains sound wonderful to me Durango, but i don't think i'd be comfortable sleeping with a gun and expecting a mountain lion to maybe show up in my bed! :eek: eek!


i love new york city and i adore brooklyn.... i just wish i had a million dollars, then i'd be happy :)

[rockin500]

i'd be happy with a million bucks here in the city!

[CitySkyline]

i know what you mean City....

Ha ha, it just hit me as I read your shortened name for me (which I don't mind, btw :) ) that with a name like "CitySkyline", it's pretty obvious that I'm a city guy! :D

[metmagic]

LOL you're right! i JUST noticed it :rotf:

[Durango53]

I dont sleep with a gun that could be a bad thing to do. But there is one close all the time. Also I am very careful with them also. The Bullets are never in the same room and when I get the money I am going to get a nice gun safe for them. But aways handy for when that unwanted cridder comes into your yard....

Also one thing I love about my city. It is way to big for me about 55,000 but I can get from one side of town to the other in about 15 minutes and I get to go home for lunch and such when ever I want. In fact I went home and took a pic from my backyard.... It lost some of the detail from getting shrunk and I am standing down so the mountains look a bit smaller than they are.

[metmagic]

omg!! that is amazing!! (i can see the picture perfectly)

[Durango53]

Ya spring time in the Rockies. There was some snow about two days ago. Just a bit and now nice and green... And you can tell where my dogs pee all the time. Let them and out they make it to the grass and pee and kill all my grass right there around my patio..... The lilacs are getting ready to bloom and the trees are getting there buds. Love spring and fall in the Rockies....

[Liter22]

Geez I don't know how anybody can live on a ranch or on a farm or in the Subarbs. I've been in Central Islip over here in LI for 7 almost 8 years. I MISS PEOPLE! REAL PEOPLE! NOT WALKING CORPS! I'm kinda glad that we moved out here from Brooklyn, I cant really picture my self at my age over there now. I have 1 acer for a back yard and gettin a one of the best educations a kid could get over here. My littel hell in the Island aint that bad.

[Durango53]

I dont want to be around people. I get so fustrated with them so very quick. I love being able to go out and have a good talk with your horse. I wish I could have seen the west before people was here so you could ride forever without seeing a thing but wide open space and no fence. I dont want to hear what the people next door are doing.

[Liter22]

Simple pleasures in life are normally the best types of pleasure. I know when I'm older I'm goin back to brooklyn as long as I can afford it. Lookin at some of the people pass and knowing they all have some story to em, I find it all intresting extreamly intresting.

[BPBlueSox]

I agree with Durango. My favorite thing to do around here is drive like ten miles, and be in the middle of nowhere. Just me and nature. The way it's supposed to be. :D

Things look nice up there Durango...I take it you guys are getting quite a bit of moisture? We have around here...everything is quite green for this time of year...

[Piazza'sbabe]

I like:
Living by the water. It's so much fun in the summer with all the bars and restaurants. I love being around boats and everything nautical.
I like being able to be at the beach in 10 minutes (if the bridge isn't raised to let a boat through).
I like that I'm a 35 minute train ride to Penn Station. And who doesn't love the nightlife in NYC?
The beautiful parks we have.

I don't like:
The traffic. Too many cars, not enough road.
Over developing. Everything seems on top of each other lately.
The taxes. We are so over taxed.



And Cyn, my niece was recently visiting friends in San Diego. The price of housing is AS BAD if not worse than NY and she almost had a heart attack when they went for gas. For a midsize car to fill up was almost $40!!!! :eek:

For example as much as I LOVE LOVE Las Vegas because well if you know me you'd know I ADORE everything bright and glittery and exciting where anythign goes. And they say NY is the city that doesn't sleep?? BULL. Las Vegas NEVER sleeps. And as beautiful a desert sunrise is.... I could never live there.

[Kiwideus]

There are several things that I love Western North Carolina:
1- The mountains (Smokies, Grandfather, Blue Ridge, etc.)
2- Outdoor activities
3- 4 seasons
4- golf courses
5- Log cabins
6 - Farms

Things I dislike:
1- towns and roads getting packed
2- too many old ppl from Florida staying there during summers
3 - Bible Belt
4- 8 to 9 hours from the beach :(

[PopTop]

There are really only three things that I miss about living in a city such as the Houston area where I grew up and spent about 30 of my years:

1) Almost my entire side of the family is still in the Houston area, so it sucks that I don't see my parents and all of my sisters as much as I would like to (baby sis just moved to Anchorage, a long way from anywhere).

2) No MLB teams to go see on a moment's notice.

3) Good mom and pop Chinese/Thai restaurants ... Really miss all the great Asian food we could get in Houston.


As for what I do like, pretty much everything that Durango has said already, minus the big mountains ... Wish we had some, but all we have are big hills.

I love all the critters we have running around, just got through throwing some corn out to our deer, and I do believe Mamacita is going to throw twins in about a month, she is soooooooooo effing fat right now.

I love having a vegetable garden that is larger than the backyard I used to have at our house in Sugar Land.

My paw-in-law's 26-footer is in a slip on Canyon Lake about 4 minutes from my house.

Small town life, small town prices.

All the bands I see for free at Gruene Hall (http://www.gruenehall.com/) which is about 20 minutes from the house and just around the corner from the golf course where I work.

All the trees.

July 4th Parade in Startzville, Comal County Fair in September, Wurstfest in October.

Driving 40 minutes to the Devil's Backbone Tavern on Saturday afternoons and hanging with real bikers for a couple of beers and a few games of shuffleboard.

Tubing on the Guadelupe and taking Sunday morning walks with Patty on top of the dam that holds back Canyon Lake.

Rudy's BBQ :drool:

About 400% less humidty than Houston!

Living 1,080 feet above sea level instead of about three inches above sea level.

Sitting in my workshop at night listening to a minor league baseball game.

Actually being able to see millions of stars without city lights getting in the way (It get's real dark here as well, Magic).

Only having to make a 45-minute drive over to Comfort and going fishing with my old college roommate.

No traffic! :clap:

When you do see a car on one of the little Farm-to-Market roads, the driver waves at you whether they know you or not.

Going to the feed store or the lumber yard for your supplies instead of places like Home Depot.

Having campfires at night in my "backyard" :cool:

And about a gazillion other things.

[metsfan001]

Personally, I [heart] NY!

[metmagic]

wow PopTop that sounds wonderful :sigh: probably just what my soul needs right about now.....

:sigh:

[Baseball Guru]

[B]Things I dislike:
2- too many old ppl from Florida staying there during summers
:(


lol.... Funny thing is that we get all your old people down here in the winter so it evens out;)

[Sheafaithful]

Like:
that 7 train a, subways, except the R train.
Parks: Prospect/Central.
Mets games.

Dislike:
Yanks
R Train
the 3 girls to 1 guy ratio.
Drivers that cut in at the last minute.
City buses

Cynthia that is tootrue about city people working way too hard and taking their work so seriously. My friend Eric (Berekely boy :) ) keeps telling me that things are so laid back there and how bosses are different. He keeps reminding me that it would be a good change of pace. *sigh*

[Kiwideus]

lol.... Funny thing is that we get all your old people down here in the winter so it evens out;)

Fair enough lol :cool:

[Chisox73]

What I like;

I can walk to the grocery store,the convienent store,gas station,the video store and Applebee's from my house.

It's only a 25 minute drive to downtown Chicago.

I'm only 5 minutes from work.

I can walk to get lottery tickets in 2 states. :)

Great parks!

Schoop's Hamburgers! :drool:

Dislikes;

With Interstate 80/94 torn up until 2007,and US 41 ripped up this summer,All the spillover traffic comes near my street,making a simple 5 minute drive turn into a nightmare.

[Rockin Robin]

I can definitely appreciate the country, the mountains, and nothingness. But I could only take it for short periods of time! I just could not live anywhere but Long Island or one of the boroughs.

I'm just a hop, skip and a jump to The City. Beautiful beaches all around. Yes it's ridiculously expensive and yes the traffic makes me want to jump out of my skin and go poastal, but I just could not live anywhere else.

When I was out of work, I actually did some interviewing in South Florida so I could be near my parents......but then reality set in!


Now the actually town I live in, on the other hand, is a culinary wasteland and there's not even a decent supermarket......

[~*TiGeRs f@N*~]

The main thing that I dislike about home, believe it or not is the people... I love people usually, but lately people have just been getting on my very last nerve.

What I like, are my friends and family being so close to me.

[LesPaul]

I can't say I truly love Nebraska, but hey, "Its the Good Life". I kind of have the best of both worlds, mountains while I am away at college and the wonderful sand hills in the summer. In moist springs nothin beats driving through the sandhills, you see like maybe a dozen vehicles to maybe 3 dozen on a busy day so its pretty much you and the open road through the flowering and green rolling sand hills. On the flip side, during dry seasons or the winter when there is no snow cover it makes for a damn boring drive.

After staying in big cities off and on I do not think I could ever stand living in a big city because I value fresh air way too much. I had to drive through downtown Denver traffic earlier this year and I wanted to die. Don't know how you city folk can handle that nonsense :cool:

I would say a town around 60,000 would be ideal, just because they usually have enough conveniences to keep a person happy and they are not too crowded but I do not think I will ever be able to stand living on anything smaller than a 4 acre lot.

Also, living in the city would depress me, you can't see the stars and you can't see the thunderstorms rolling in across the plains or sit on the back steps at night and watch lightning strike all across the horizon or fight all the crazy mosquitoes to stare up at the night sky for hours simply to check out the endless universe :cool:

[LesPaul]

when i was younger my mother had taken my bro and i out fishing for the day at a nearby lake. the fish would not bite, even the little ones that you can normally catch on a bare hook. before long, a cop came through with lights on and intercom blaring, "The park is closing due to a tornado warning." About that time a guy down the shoreline from us said, "Come check this out!" My bro and i ran down to a gap in the trees behind us and saw a massive funnel heading our way. It was so weird because it seemed all was calm, no sounds could be heard, and everything was peaceful yet one of the most destructive things in nature was coming. Needless to say my mom was not to excited about letting us drool over it too long and we left in time to see it touching the ground about 8 miles away. When we got to higher ground about 10 miles away, we stopped and admired all the funnels dropping down (no major damage was done and no one killed) and we saw about 8 within a 15 minute span. When we got back to our house we could still see funnels dropping and rising for the next hour. We saw one huge one drop down and tear into some stuff for about a minute then it was gone. About 5 years before this, a tornado hit a town 20 miles away and being the plains are so flat you could see it plain as day. It was like a clear glass tube hoovering above the ground then bam! instant black as it hit. Nothing comes close to a tornado adrenaline rush and I am hoping this summer can quench my hunger. it may be this addiction that keeps me in the midwest forever :D

[BPBlueSox]

Also, living in the city would depress me, you can't see the stars and you can't see the thunderstorms rolling in across the plains or sit on the back steps at night and watch lightning strike all across the horizon or fight all the crazy mosquitoes to stare up at the night sky for hours simply to check out the endless universe :cool:

My absolute favorite reason about living here. Live ten minutes from downtown of a big city...and ten minutes from nothingness...and ten minutes from the Rocky Mountains. You can't beat it.

[Cyberlibrarian]

I live on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The home of little-known but beautiful Carl Schurz Park, Gracie Mansion, LOTS of major league baseball players and Sex & the City (And no, my life does NOT resemble theirs. Not anymore anyway... ;) )

What I love about my neighborhood is that, within 5 minutes, I can walk to several Chinese restaurants, a couple of Thai restaurants, a Vietnamese restaurant, several Japanese restaurants, an Indian restaurant, a bunch of Mexican restaurants, a Greek restaurant... And they all deliver if I don't feel like walking. My apartment is a 10-minute walk from the subway, and I pass 3 movie theaters. I am a 20-minute walk from the Museum of the City of New York, a 15-minute walk from the Metropolitan Museum, and even less from the Guggenheim. A short bus ride takes me to the Museum of Natural History, the Hayden Planetarium and the New-York Historical Society. A slightly longer ride gets me to Lincoln Center. I am near Central Park.

I can walk down the street and see famous people. I've seen Al Leiter hailing a cab and I've seen him at Starbucks. I saw former Met Darryl Hamilton in the supermarket, and another former Met, Mark Guthrie, heading out to "the office." Jay Payton lived in that same building, which is only a few hundred feet from mine. I live near where David Wells got his teeth knocked out. The NY Rangers (boo!) hang out at a bar down the block from me. A good friend of mine lives in the same building where Chili Davis, Rick Reed and John Olerud lived when they were here (I don't know who's there now).

What do I dislike? As with City Skyline, there are waaaaaaay too many Yankee fans for my liking. Roger Clemens used to live around here, and I know that Jason Giambi still does live around here, but I've been lucky enough to have missed them both. I do know someone who saw Derek Jeter at our local Barnes & Noble (no, you didn't read this wrong; he was not in the section with the books -- he was at the Starbucks).

I hate the cold, the fact that snow turns into disgusting slop in only a few minutes. I hate that, in the summer, the air often stinks of garbage and dogs' urine. I hate stupid tourists who stop dead at the top of escalators (and just outside of revolving doors) and stand there to discuss where they're going next. Besides being inconsiderate, it's dangerous!

I'm also tired of being surrounded by liberals. Liberals who call me and the people I agree with horrible things and of course it's OK to do so because, after all, they're better than I am. :hmm:

I am probably going to leave in a few years; give myself a 50th birthday present and move to Sarasota where there are plenty of Republicans (Katherine Harris is their Congresswoman) and it's WARM.

[Durango53]

Things look nice up there Durango...I take it you guys are getting quite a bit of moisture? We have around here...everything is quite green for this time of year...
It is green where people watered last year. And green on the mountain. We have got just enough snow to keep lawns and such green. It is a very scary time here again this year. It looks like you guys are doing a bit better this year and than us. I hope we pull out of it soon. I will go across the street today and take some pics of the praire and you will see how dry it is.

Pop one thing you forgot about the good of living in TX is the women :naughty: :naughty: :naughty: . I have never been in such a place but I cant take the heat that you guys have down there!!!! I got to have a winter.....

I think the Denver area would be the most perfect place to live. What a great place but there are a few million people that think the same so that is way to many for me. But the weather is perfect all the time it seems and so nice in the summer and winter. You are in the heart of the Rockies where they are the grandest (except for the Grand Tetons!!!! :) ) But all those people.

Wyoming is great but we have to deal with the wind. It is a wind like I cant put into words. You walk out and it will suck the air out of your lungs. It is because we are so high up and the winter jet stream passes right over us so in the winter time it goes though us..... Dan would be able to back me up on this. Quotes from people when they first move to Wyoming " Its ok I am use to the wind it blows all the time where we are from" Quotes from the same person after going though a winter in Wyoming "You are right that wind is nothing like I have ever been in ever, I dont think anyone can ever get used to that"

People from Wyoming dont understand how a hurricane can do so much damage because that is the kind of wind we much go though every winter for 6 months....

[Durango53]

About that time a guy down the shoreline from us said, "Come check this out!" My bro and i ran down to a gap in the trees behind us and saw a massive funnel heading our way. It was so weird because it seemed all was calm, no sounds could be heard, and everything was peaceful yet one of the most destructive things in nature was coming.
Yes the great and very funny Twister. It has taken a pig barn from my grandparents place and sent it about a mile down the road but left all the pigs pened up inside and left the barn just fine next to the pig barn. They are so neat but so very deadly.

Funny as much as Twisters are so deadly I do to miss them we just dont have them here like we did back home do we Les???? Dan might be able to help us out here but people here have told me that Twisters dont go up or down mountains so that is why we dont have them.... Any truth to that Dan or is that a old tail?

[metmagic]

i am just so amazed at how different we all are....but we're all brought together by our common passion: baseball :)

[Baseball Guru]

i am just so amazed at how different we all are..:)


Oh, you are different all right :nut:


heehee:luvkiss:

[metmagic]

:bigsquare

yep, that's right :tongue: that's the benefit about living here in this wacky city, other weirdos like me :nut: :banana:

[Sagebrush]

moving from Greenwich Village to Boca Raton....it's like going from a cultural Mecca to a cultural...well, to a cultural Boca Raton.

My neighbors have gone from hipsters to SUV-driving hedge-fund-managers :(

[Baseball Guru]

moving from Greenwich Village to Boca Raton....it's like going from a cultural Mecca to a cultural...well, to a cultural Boca Raton.

My neighbors have gone from hipsters to SUV-driving hedge-fund-managers :(


So you're in Boca now??

[Panzram]

I live in Sterling Heights, Michigan where I began. I've lived in a handful of other states. I liked Los Angeles the best but it was way too expensive. Sterling Heights, as well as every other place in Michigan is just blah. Overlooking the crappy weather I just don't like how industrial and commercial it is. I would much rather live in Tuscany.

[Kiwideus]

I live in Sterling Heights, Michigan where I began. I've lived in a handful of other states. I liked Los Angeles the best but it was way too expensive. Sterling Heights, as well as every other place in Michigan is just blah. Overlooking the crappy weather I just don't like how industrial and commercial it is. I would much rather live in Tuscany.

Tuscany in Italy??

[Panzram]

No, Tuscany, Iowa. :tongue: Yes, Italy.

[Cyberlibrarian]

I've lived in Grenoble, France. It's industrial, but there are mountains, it rarely snows in the valley, and tons of culture because of the University.

But it's still not New York.

[Jade Sabre]

what i hate about brooklyn...PRICES OF RENT, HAIR MAINTANCE, AND EVERY OTHER DAMN THING! :(

[Baseball Guru]

Farin, you know that I will be in Brooklyn on Wed??

Hangin with Cyn and Nan... Going to the Mets game Wed night:jump:

[Jade Sabre]

didn't know that actually...just can't stay away from brooklyn, huh?

[rockin500]

what i hate about brooklyn...PRICES OF RENT, HAIR MAINTANCE, AND EVERY OTHER DAMN THING!

isnt there anything about it you like?

[Baseball Guru]

didn't know that actually...just can't stay away from brooklyn, huh?


Guess not:notme:

I just love all the Addicts who hang out there:D

[Jade Sabre]

isnt there anything about it you like?


i LOVE everything else! best hair stylists, best food, best forms of transportion, best accent, best sports teams, and most important... best people ;) :thumbsup:

[Jade Sabre]

oooh... i see where you may have gotten the impression i don't like anything... my bad *embarrassed* i meant the high prices of every other damn thing in ny. what u pay here, u could buy 10 of the same things anywhere else :(

[Durango53]

best accent,
I love to hear a east coast accent

[Jade Sabre]

some southern accents are so cute/sexy, but i just love the brooklyn accent :)

[rockin500]

i know what you mean about costs farin. chicago is the same way. lol

[PopTop]

what u pay here, u could buy 10 of the same things anywhere else :(

One of my bro-in-law's just bought a 60' x 90' lot next to his for $500 (about an eighth of an acre). You can get acreage around here for anthing from about $3,000 to $8,000 an acre, depending on all sorts of things (utilites, well or city water, views, hillside, lots of oaks and less cedar, etc) ... I'm assuming real estate is a bit higher in Manhattan, Chicago and Los Angeles :notme:

[1984Tigers]

What I like about Atlanta...uhhh...It's fairly cheap...lots of civil war history...within 6hr drive to mountains and ocean...nice weather

What I don't like about Atlanta...EVERYTHING ELSE

[metmagic]

What I like about Atlanta...uhhh...It's fairly cheap...lots of civil war history...within 6hr drive to mountains and ocean...nice weather

What I don't like about Atlanta...EVERYTHING ELSE

can you be more specific? :D (seriously, i'd love to know.... i always thought atlanta was a pleasant city)except for that team they got;)

[Kiwideus]

Atlanta is ok, I only go there for 6 Flags, thats all :D
It is a big city and great job opporunity there. I have heard many people moving there because of jobs.

[Piazza'sbabe]

I love to hear a east coast accent

You know there is this guy from some Hospital in the Mid-Atlantic region (I forget where) WHO LOVES MT ACCENT :notme: Everytime he calls my job and I answer the phone. I personally can't stand it, I can't stand the way people talk around here. Myself included. The way the language is butchered. I hate the guys who speak like they think they were an extra in "Goodfellas". I HATE IT!
But depends where on the East Coast you are calling.
Massachusett people has a different accent.
Philadelphia has a different accent.
People in NJ have a different accent.

I speak to people from all over the country so I get to hear different accents. I have to admit and no offense to people from the mid-west but the nasally twange of people who call from the Minnesota area really grates me.
I LOVE talking to the guys down in New Orleans, their downhome accents and local euphuisms slay me. :lol:

[Nymet31]

I actually like living on long island. 30 minutes from the beach, an hour from the city. I like the fact that you know people where ever you go. It's safe for the most part and there are a million places to shop.

I hate the traffic
The humid summers
stupid drivers.

The prices for houses are insane. When we bought our house it was $250,000, it now could go for over $500,000. The house down the block from us just sold for $745,000!! That is just nuts!!!

[1984Tigers]

Atlanta is ok, I only go there for 6 Flags, thats all :D
It is a big city and great job opporunity there. I have heard many people moving there because of jobs.


That's pretty much it. Everybody moves here for jobs. Then they make a bunch of money, get some good experience under their belt, then go back north, or wherever they are from, after a couple years.

I haven't been to Six Flags yet. If you come down here to do something like that, I would suggest checking out Stone Mountain, that place is pretty awesome.

[1984Tigers]

can you be more specific? :D (seriously, i'd love to know.... i always thought atlanta was a pleasant city)except for that team they got;)

Don't get me wrong, Atlanta is a great place to visit.
In the traditional sense it's not that bad a place to live, there are plenty of jobs, there are nice areas to raise a family, things to do, etc.

But it just doesn't have that feel. There's nothing unique here, nothing different...It's like everyone is just here to make a bunch of money and then leave as soon as they can. Nobody really considers it their "hometown". Neighborhoods, suburbs, etc. literally change overnight. Even people who stay here are constantly moving around. And it's like you have two types of people here, 1/2 don't speak english, and the other half have more money than brains. I don't think people here are really rude, they are just ignorant. Plus the food ROYALLY SUCKS!!! It's amazing, you would think with all the people here from N.Y., Chicago, Philly, Cali, etc. there would be tons of good places to eat. But there isn't. You can't find a good hot dog, pizza, or even bbq here. Supposedly Southern BBQ is supposed to be SO GOOD, but whatever it is they have around Atlanta SUCKS! ATL BBQ tastes like something you would buy at the grocery store, slap some Masterpiece sauce on and cook. Nothing special or good about it! Not too mention the street system is HORRIBLE...EVERY street is named the same. There will be 10 streets with the same name with a slight variation to each, so getting around can be a nightmare.

I compare it to Detroit. You look at the realities and Detroit is a SH*THOLE! No jobs, VERY HIGH CRIME, rundown, etc. But if your from Detroit you love it, and you'll punch anyone, not from Detroit, in the face if they say something bad about Detroit. Because it's just like a bond being from there. There are certain things you grew up with, and memories you have of the place. Not too mention there are some really good places to eat there. Most people from Detroit, no matter where they end up, will root for the Tigers, Lions, Red Wings, the rest of their lives (same as people from NY, ChiTown, Philly, even LA). People don't have that same attitude here. I've been to 2 Braves games this year, opening day vs. the Mets, and a game against the Cubs. I swear both games fans supporting the opposing team outnumbered Braves fans 2-to-1.

I guess it's just the way I am, but I just don't like it. It's like Atlanta is just a midway point for people wanting to move onto bigger and better things. They have no connection to the area, and you can tell. If you like the suburbia, SUV driving soccer mom, bland kind of lifestyle then Atlanta is perfect.

[metmagic]

great analysis 1984! :clap: you painted a very detailed picture, THANKS! (i'm kinda doing my own little research on all the different cities in the US)

i completely understand what you mean. when i was a kid, my family lived in this dump of a city but i LOVED it and the people were REAL. THEN they made a little money and when i was a teenager, they moved to Pretentious Town, which i couldn't stand and i hated the people. but everything on the outside looked great.

i've visited atlanta ONCE a couple years ago. i thought it was just me when i noticed the food sucked ;):D even the ice tea (which they seem to have alot of!) was kinda blah ....beautiful area though....

[Kiwideus]

i've visited atlanta ONCE a couple years ago. i thought it was just me when i noticed the food sucked ;):D even the ice tea (which they seem to have alot of!) was kinda blah ....beautiful area though....

ohhhh, Iced tea!! loved it!!
Northerners tend to have hot tea (Earl Grey) or something like that?
:notme:

[metmagic]

in general, i'd say northerners are more COFFEE people.....

like this guy ---> :coffee

:D


i didn't realize they were so big on iced tea......now is the tea supposed to be sweet? cuz it wasn't sweet at all, but i noticed people put gobs of sugar in it..... it was interesting how everywhere we went, it was iced tea iced tea iced tea...definitely not like that in the northeast

[Cyberlibrarian]

I love NY dearly, but I really think I'll be leaving in a few years.

Too expensive. Too cold. Too crowded.

I want to go somewhere else while I'm still young enough to find a good job and a nice place to live.

[Durango53]

in general, i'd say northerners are more COFFEE people.....

like this guy ---> :coffee

:D


i didn't realize they were so big on iced tea......now is the tea supposed to be sweet? cuz it wasn't sweet at all, but i noticed people put gobs of sugar in it..... it was interesting how everywhere we went, it was iced tea iced tea iced tea...definitely not like that in the northeast

I drink a ton of tea in the summer. I make sun tea all the time and always have a huge glass with me. But also I hate suger in my tea. That tastes so bad....:barf: But ice tea is a huge drink around here also.