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Do you like where you live? (pg. 3)
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| Lagrangian |
Best:
Austin, Texas.
Chicago, Illinois
New York City (3-4 months)
San Sebastian, Basque Country, Navarra
Barcelona, Catalunya.
Worst:
Miami, Florida.
Miami is a supermassive hole surrounded by third world islanders and south American mestizzos & mulatos who DO NOT SPEAK ENGLISH, ARE RUDE, DO NOT CARE FOR AMERICAN VALUES. SEND THEM HOME.
I found Love and a place I can call home in Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach. Miami made me a NAZI, clean that place up. I still have business there but for the most part People in Miami HAVE NO WORK ETHIC. |
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| meriter |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lagrangian
Chicago, Illinois
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let me guess, north side? |
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| Lagrangian |
WHERE I WANT TO LIVE:
Somewhere in ENGLAND, U.K And Victoria, British Columbia,
We have many friends who are quite happy in both places, but I want to go to the North of England, because of my English Heritage (hint: Sheep), and yeah I can see myself living in the Basque country again, enjoying the company of my cousins and what not, but god it gets VERY BORING AND PLAIN. |
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| Intellekshual |
I forgot to mention Morocco, probably because it feels like another lifetime altogether. I grew up there until I was 18 years of age.
I don't know if it was good or bad, it just.. was. Some great times and some horrible times. It certainly shaped who I am today, for better or worse. I couldn't go back there to live now, for sure. I am too much of a Atheist for a Muslim country, no matter how "moderate" Morocco is compared to other Muslim countries. An "infidel" like myself, specially one as vocal and nonchalant as myself, would have a terrible time or worse, get killed. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
> I was born on Tinker AFB in Oklahoma. My earliest memories were in a small house, watching scorpions in the doorways kill one another because they were trapped in proximity, and with arms. I watched a man in the vacant lot across from us, on his ATV, being sucked into a tornado. :stongue:
> I lived in/near Anchorage, Alaska. We had a very narrow, 3 story apartment. I recall looking across our vista and seeing the "sleeping lady"- a series of hills that when the mist was right (it often was), appeared as a sleeping woman laying on her side. It was very magical. My dad entertained me by eating cat food.
> I grew up in California. It was perhaps a magical and halcyon place in 1991, but it has changed so very much. We were still in Iraq then, yes? Storms of Industry and all the Intel entailed. Moving along.
> Ohio is a great place if you loved the smell of dead leaves, dried rivers, gnarled trees and the verdant dance of seasons amid an abyssmal winter. Someone once took a gigantic, inexplicable in our condo basement. How? Why? Ohio. It's a terrible place if you love people, and/or doing something with your life.
> South Dakota is very much the same. We lived in a 120+ year old house, with bum heating. Our basement flooded in the summer, and gave way to a coal pit fit for Buffalo Bill. I once found a salamander in it that was over a foot long. You don't even know.
> Las Vegas, Nevada. Wow, what a wasteland. Dust everywhere, ruddy, speckled humanoids with only a taste for the antique, living out the life of indulgence that baby boomers warned them of, a desert of finances, and the oasis of dreams constantly out of their reach, bleeding them of their vitality. The pinnacle of human contempt, as the siphon extends its addictive funnel.
> England. Oh, England. I lived on RAF Lakenheath- the surrounding villages are probably . Lakenheath itself is , Brandon is quaint and as worthy of ignorance as they might exhibit, Mildenhall has both an excellent Chinese and an Indian restaurant (England!), and Cambridge is the loveliest place to walkabout, perhaps the worst to dine finely. Find a kebab vendor and go about your day. There is much to see, and much to read from my experience in the most arcane and selcouth of book and curio stores there. Lovely city and lovely people, Cambridge, provided you live in a neighbourhood within distance of the college. Otherwise investment of the highest insurance is likely warranted.
> Colorado. Not many outside of Colorado know of our microbreweries, whose craft exceeds few. Our weather is more sunshine than anything else (it helps being so elevated) and our people are of likely expectancy due to it. It's hard to breath the first few weeks, but once you get acclimatize, our sprawl becomes a part of you to take for granted. Ever are there pines and Aspens- we boast perhaps one of the largest living organisms in the world in debt to it. The winters are rarely harsh, and herald a frantic pace of blue skies and summer heat amid frigid lows and howling gales, to temper the season. The inhabitants (in the metro area) are of a midwestern ilk, exposed to the niceties of the western coast and its spices, wrought with the precipitation of productive wild industry - forest fires and snow removal do our proles good, and so lay the groundwork for the Chick-Fil-A Porsche calibre of suburban investor to spend and fare in fertility. Except for the high schools and movie theatres. Stay far from those. |
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| Lagrangian |
| quote: | Originally posted by meriter
let me guess, north side? |
Lincoln Park first, then on the Swedish neighborhood by Boystown, but I really wasn't out (well, I was closeted, but not out) |
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| LAdazeNYnights |
| quote: | Originally posted by kamil
Why Vienna? |
I'm Austrian, and most of my family is located in Innsbruck. That's too...rural for me, but Vienna is in Austria at least, and a few of my cousins do a lot of business there. I've also really loved the city when I've visited. Plus I met this chick there and we still keep in regular contact :p
As for Zurich - I think that would be awesome if I decide to go to grad school (as I'm interested in env. econ and the Uni's there have really strong programs in that field). But even just living there would be cool because I know it's an awesome place and I'd see my dad more than I do now as he's in the area at least once a month on business. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by LAdazeNYnights
I'm Austrian |
You what!? :eek: |
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| Sushipunk |
Hal, apart from being remarkably eloquent, and an excellent read, this made me crack up:
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Someone once took a gigantic, inexplicable in our condo basement. How? Why? Ohio. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
My two leading theories:
a) disgruntled neighbour who didn't like my dad's assessment of his awful mixtapes.
2) Escaped chimp. Honestly, the amount of bat exotic animal owners in Ohio is well documented. It's a sad thing, but seriously. You should have seen this . I must express a distinct relief in my 6-year old self in the fact that this turd was much larger than my young intestines could possibly forego. It looked like a giraffe snuck into our basement and had a weeks' worth of backed up Acacia. It wasn't me this time! Wahoo!
Ohio. |
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| srussell0018 |
Best: Dublin, Ireland
Worst: here |
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| Alex |
I've lived in Montreal my whole life. I will probably stay here until Quebec separates from Canada :p
I've spent some time in Maine, USA and London, UK. Both very nice places if I had the money to just retire. |
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