B'ah, I haven't lived in any multitude of places as exotic as some listed here. Most of my life has been spent living in Vancouver, with its (mostly) agreeable weather, lovely scenery, multi-cultural environment...

Oh heck, I'll take it.

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I've only ever lived in the neighbourhood I live in now, and I absolutely love it. I live just outside of Streetsville in Mississauga.

Now, Missi has some definite cons:

-It's a boring city that's just starting to build a real downtown core.
-As such, you need a car to get anywhere fun.
-There are very few people out and about, so there's not as many fun random encounters.

Pros, however:

- The specific neighbourhood I live in has a LONG series of paved bike paths that are absolutely awesome, and that I take for granted. Just a walk around the "lakes" in my neighbourhood make for great dates, or just killing time with some friends.

- Mississauga has had the same mayor for over 30 years (or something) and she isn't dead yet. She gets 90+% of the vote and she doesn't even need guns or anything to threaten us to vote for her. I enjoy the fact that for my entire life, my municipal politics have been mostly free of the rhetoric and ridiculous arguments of ALL other areas of politics, because our mayor has always said "This is why I'm doing it, and if you don't like it, don't vote for me."

- My neighbourhood is safe. I can walk around anywhere I want at any time of the day or night, and I'm 99.9% certain that I won't be fucked with, although one time a drunk guy asked me if he was wearing my shirt.

- I'm close enough to Toronto that I can go downtown whenever I want, but far enough away that I don't need to deal with any of the bullshit of actually living in a huge, dense metro area.

- Likewise, I'm right between two major highways that allow me to get anywhere in the greater metropolitan area within 30 minutes. Incredibly convenient for visiting my friends who live throughout the GTA.

- Because the downtown core is just starting to fill in and intensify, I know that I have a future here in the city I've grown up in, though I'll probably travel a bit within the next few years just to experience some different living conditions.

- But the number 1 reason that I love living in Mississauga... I don't live in Brampton.

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Originally posted by Lira Loved the three days I spent there

Yeah, I'm spending a week there next month. I've only ever dipped my toe in London, but along with New York it's the one city that has ever genuinely felt like a city. Just standing in the street at 8pm and hearing the ambient roar of traffic and life, the atmosphere is electric.

I'm definitely getting bored of this place - I've been having recurring dreams where I emmigrate to America and my life is fantastic. The thing is, as someone who spent the first 18 years of their life in the same house, I'm not particularly accustomed to uprooting myself constantly. When I moved to Leeds I knew nobody and it took me a long time to get settled here, so the prospect of leaving all my friends and job behind again just because I'm not entirely satisfied with my city's liveliness seems like something of a rash move.

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I can sort of relate to that. I was born here and, except for a brief period when I was a kid, I've lived here for my whole life, and moved just twice (once to the same neighbourhood ). Although I (believe I) can get used to other cities quite easily, and I felt pretty much at home after just a couple of weeks in Nagoya for example, I'm still here... so I guess it tells something about me not really being fond of moving house

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Originally posted by srussell0018 Best: Dublin, Ireland Worst: here

That is --
"Best: Dublin
Worst: the city i live. where my girlfriend lives also."

Best: Few months (during summer 2002) in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.
Worst: Övertorneå, Sweden
Now: Helsinki, Finland

Best: Los Angeles (granted, I moved here specifically because I like it)

Worst: Mississippi. Worst state in America, hands down.

I plan to live in other places eventually, but right now I'm enjoying the palm trees, ocean, perpetual summer, and ridiculous amount of parties.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk At least last time you Brits got pissed off, we got punk music out of it. This time, it'll probably just end up being embers breaks

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Originally posted by Spam - My neighbourhood is safe. I can walk around anywhere I want at any time of the day or night, and I'm 99.9% certain that I won't be fucked with

This is also something that I'll give big props to Brisbane for - It's very safe here. Ok, there are a few parts of Bris that you probably wouldn't want to stroll through on your own at midnight, and the Valley/City precincts can be pretty... colourful on weekends, but they're fairly heavily policed during those times anyway.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J Just standing in the street at 8pm and hearing the ambient roar of traffic and life, the atmosphere is electric.

Yeah, I felt the same when I first got there. It got old reeeaaalllly quick Obviously, different people prefer different things, but I just felt suffocated by the place. There's just nowhere you can go, at all, where there aren't people. Lots and lots of people. I guess I just need a bit of space from time to time, not sitting in my own room or something.

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Weather- generally very temperate. Close to the ocean so its always a little bit warmer than out west. Food- probably the worlds best. People, depends, its a varied melting pot, like most big cities each district has its own peculiar culture and people.
The traffic is literally crazy! Add to the fact most Australians are appalling when it comes to road manners... however, Sydney drivers are some of the more courteous out of the lot. Which is a worry as they're not very good.

Other places, many countries (40+) so I'm not really going to cover the ones where I spent a week or month.

Capetown, where I was born and lived until I was 4 wasn't real great in the apartheid era, especially when you're of mixed race heritage, so I was sent to England. Post-apartheid when visiting family there over the years doesn't seem to have improved much, in fact it was worse!
That's not to say there are some decent areas but its too much of a diametric extreme to ever like.

Devon, people rip on t'west, but its actually really beautiful and couldn't have wanted a nicer place to grow up a couple of dozen k's out of Plymouth. Something about it being almost eternal in that people have lived and farmed there for 10's of 1000's of years is like looking back in time. Whenever I was sad I did like to think back to the family property there, it was a happy time...

Then I ended up in Bathurst in western NSW to be 'raised' by family here. Alternating back to Sydney to a boarding school for uppity young ladies. Frozen/Insanely hot/insanely boring -> Temperate/boring.
My formative years where mostly boring, which is probably why by the time I was 17, ditched high school, was going to become a pilot!
But the best laid plans meant I also had to get money to become a pilot so I alternated between tafe, beauty therapy work, selling cosmetics and making instructors really wonder how much they where getting paid for this crap.

Zimbabwe, only because my mother lived there, so I had to visit. By the time of 1999-2001 I was alternating between Sydney, Paris, NY, Johannesburg and this patch of dirt they grew maize and tobacco in.
I think the events there as they nationalised everything probably shaped my attitude to such extreme degrees that quite a large amount of what people would call 'compassion' died in Africa. There is a very dark spectre to the human psyche which lives with me ever since and has not made me a better person.

New York, there's a lot to hate about the place if you take it for what it is at face value as being an overgrown chunk of materialistic self-importance. But I actually like it because there's a lot of success and not a lot of complete failure if you're pretty cluey about making a dollar! Paris is actually a lot like it as well except the people are rude, closed minded and it smells like an open air urinal. Which is a bit of a shame really as Paris looks better than NY.

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Originally posted by kamil I live in Toronto. I'm starting to hate it.... reasons: 1) Canada is regulationland. 2am cut off for alcohol at clubs and 3am being thrown out? And law makers are surprised why so many cops are needed for all the drunk assholes out on the streets when theyre sent out like dogs ALL AT THE SAME TIME? 2) Toronto women are cold and career focused. Try talking to them at a club and more often than not you'll face the Female Torontonian Bitch Shield. God forbid you date a girl in Toronto, and it will feel like an interview. 3) The weather is extremes of both, its either really fucking cold or hot and humid as hell. A number of years ago it hit -47 once and summers can feel like +50. 4) People are very nice in general, just not when youre trying to pick up a girl, lol. I blame the guys too though, theres too many douchebags in this city. 5) Traffic in Toronto is a fucking nightmare. It was never this bad 6 years ago but in such a short amount of time its gotten out of hand. Public transportation, as in the subway, badly needs to be expanded as there are only two lines. 6) Food in Canada in general is chemical filled crap. Fruits and vegetables dont taste like they should. But in terms of restaurants Toronto is pretty good, but especially awesome if you like asian cuisine seeing how there are so many asians here.

LOL I just moved to Toronto or as some people like to call it, the New York of Canada, but before I have time to settle in and get used to it, I'll be going on vacation. It can't be that bad...met some really nice people so far. I guess we'll see how it goes. Maybe you'll see my personality change over time and turn into a total douchebag due to living here LOL.

I'm definitely in the pro New York camp. The six months I lived there for my internship was probably the happiest time of my life, despite not knowing a single soul and not having any money (work paid for my subway card, which REALLY helped). Everything people seemingly despise about the place (the dirt, the noise, the crowds, the stress etc.) was something that I just found all the more intriguing and energizing, and no matter how many hours I spent walking up and down avenues and sitting in subway cars, it just didn't bother me at all. I was too excited about the music I was about to hear, the clubs I was about to go to, the museums I was about to visit, the fascinating people all around me and the energy such a vibrant city transfers to a kid who grew up in a small, safe and decidedly white middle/upper class city. Blue Note, Le Poisson Rouge, Santos Party House, MoMa, Spanish Harlem, Amy Ruth's, Graffiti Hall of Fame, Hangawi, Momofuku, real fucking dim sum, bucket drummers, Central Park musicians showing off...sigh. Take me back. I won't mind living on cans of tuna and apples in a tiny shoebox for a while.





Anyway, despite NY setting the bar ridiculously high, I'm still oddly content here in Southampton. The place isn't all that pretty (the coastline in particular is a massive industrial eyesore, and I absolutely hate those cliched rows of Victorian houses that look like the start of nearly every outdoor Monty Python sketch), and the people here generally aren't my type, but it has a lot of the things that make life comfy for me: decent clubs with some good nights from time to time, a nice alternative cinema, several martial arts clubs, easy escapes into nature when required, pubs and bars catering to whatever your favourite tipple might be etc. Can't complain really, although I don't see myself living here for too long. And for fuck's sake, can I have at least ONE WEEK of continuous summer before it goes back to dull autumn grey again, the way it is 90% of the year anyway?

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