I love where I live because....

[Dave]

It's not usually 42 degrees Celsius (107 Fahrenheit) like today. If it was like this often, I'd be dead.

Wow! But it's a dry heat? I keep forgetting it's your summer down there. How cold does it get during your winters?[/QUOTE]

Pretty much, there's absolutely no humidity whatsoever. There's a lot of people in hospital right now from heatstroke.
Uhh, right where I live about 3 degrees, 37.4 for you. Not too bad. It doesn't snow here though, never ever seen snow in my life. [/QUOTE]

I've never seen Australia so we're even.

 

[Docseverin]

Cry Dave cry. I found an apartment for $1200 and my BAH is $1700 Plus my base pay and $500 COLA. Soon to be re-added to that amount will be my Hazardous duty pay and hostile fire pay!

 

[JCM]

Brasilia - Besides Sao Paolo, its the only place where I can get an iPhone or PS3 for less than R$1,900 (thats like a thousand %^$# dollars, blame our import tax)

 

[Dave]

Cry Dave cry. I found an apartment for $1200 and my BAH is $1700 Plus my base pay and $500 COLA. Soon to be re-added to that amount will be my Hazardous duty pay and hostile fire pay!

Wow! Not bad, dude! $1700 BAH for Hawaii, huh? Hope you're not in Maui as in 2010 that actually goes DOWN to $1548 as an E-5 with no dependents. Honolulu stays about the same.

Good for you, man. I'm glad my taxes are going to something worthy for a change.

 

[Wasabi Poptart]

Honestly, it almost makes me glad my husband will probably be deployed at least once while we're in HI. I hate having him gone, but the money is sweet. And at least this time around he shouldn't be put on mefloquine so I won't get phone calls from a crazed paranoid insomniac.

 

[Krisken]

Hm. I love where I live because it has all 4 seasons. Winter is rightly cold. Summer is hot. Spring is wet and green. Fall is gorgeous with the hills being covered with golds and oranges, broken by the green of pines. Glaciers left the area hilly.

Most of all, I notice the smells. Summer here smells like no where else. A sweetness in the air from the pine trees and other plants can not be matched.

Anywho, that is some of why I love Wisconsin. Not for everyone, but it's home to me.

 

[CynicismKills]

It's not usually 42 degrees Celsius (107 Fahrenheit) like today. If it was like this often, I'd be dead.

Wow! But it's a dry heat? I keep forgetting it's your summer down there. How cold does it get during your winters?[/QUOTE]

Pretty much, there's absolutely no humidity whatsoever. There's a lot of people in hospital right now from heatstroke.
Uhh, right where I live about 3 degrees, 37.4 for you. Not too bad. It doesn't snow here though, never ever seen snow in my life. [/QUOTE]

I can relate, I lived an hour north of San Diego in California. SD was hot, but Murrieta gets to 105+ F in the summer, totally dry heat. It's in a basin too, so we get these lovely Santa Ana winds which are also hot.

As for Atlanta (which is where I am now), it's alright. I don't know a lot of people since 90% of the folks working at the deli don't speak a lot of English and I'm not in school, but the weather has been nice this week I guess. 60ish F and overcast. There's a good selection of pubs, at least.

 

[makare]

True to my word, I wrote about why I love South Dakota. However, I blogged it to save space.

http://blog.thestateofconfusion.us/?p=53

 

[Cajungal]

Hm. I love where I live because it has all 4 seasons..

You're lucky. Our seasons are hot and wet, unbearably hot and wet, slightly less hot and rainy, and traffic accidents due to people panicking over ice

 

[Charlie Don't Surf]

Austin is awesome. We have movie theaters where you can drink cocktails with dedicated ushers that have never failed to eject people before they cause a problem. We have bats. Huge college town. It's gonna be 75 today in January. No natural disasters (except halloween on 6th street). The least-Texas city in the whole Southwest. An awesome live music scene (that I don't participate in enough), and ridiculously awesome food. Right in the middle of the shitty big cities of Texas, if you just have to visit somewhere with over a million people.

 

[Chazwozel]

Austin is awesome. We have movie theaters where you can drink cocktails with dedicated ushers that have never failed to eject people before they cause a problem. We have bats. Huge college town. It's gonna be 75 today in January. No natural disasters (except halloween on 6th street). The least-Texas city in the whole Southwest. An awesome live music scene (that I don't participate in enough), and ridiculously awesome food. Right in the middle of the shitty big cities of Texas, if you just have to visit somewhere with over a million people.

Wow I would not imagine Austin to be like that at all. <making a note to visit>

 

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Oh yeah. When I lived in TX, I called austin "the little blue island in the middle of a big red sea".

 

[Jake]

Austin is indeed awesome, but it really would be like moving to an island in the middle of nowhere.

 

[sixpackshaker]

And San Antonio is just around the corner. It's a great town to have a party, but I would not want to live there.