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- It smells, all the time.
- It smells all the time because it is a swamp.
- Everything is always muddy, because it is a swamp.
- It's +40 in the summer, also known as mosquito, and it's -40 in the winter.
- It has almost no services.
- It's expensive as fuck to live here (THANKS OIL INDUSTRY!)
- The town is almost entirely made up of rig pigs or mill workers.
- Did I mention the smell?
- The town has one large playground/park area for children. Children do not play here because our resident vagrant population (people who come in from dry reserves to drink) all hang out here. It's infuriating. The most disgusting was getting calls that there were some fucking in the slide on the hill in the park. The slide was removed shortly after.
- The town has a massive vagrant population (not homeless, they all have fucking homes) from the local reserves since this town is the only place in 100 Kms that sells alcohol.
- The town has a population of 3000. There are 8 liquor stores. There are 18 RCMP members stationed here. The national average is 1 RCMP member per 800 population. We have 1 per 166 people and we here still have more files on average than your average RCMP member. I had 300 files last year. The average nationally is 200. This town fucking sucks ass. It's one of the worst places in the "civilized" world.
- It smells all the time because it is a swamp.
- Everything is always muddy, because it is a swamp.
- It's +40 in the summer, also known as mosquito, and it's -40 in the winter.
- It has almost no services.
- It's expensive as fuck to live here (THANKS OIL INDUSTRY!)
- The town is almost entirely made up of rig pigs or mill workers.
- Did I mention the smell?
- The town has one large playground/park area for children. Children do not play here because our resident vagrant population (people who come in from dry reserves to drink) all hang out here. It's infuriating. The most disgusting was getting calls that there were some fucking in the slide on the hill in the park. The slide was removed shortly after.
- The town has a massive vagrant population (not homeless, they all have fucking homes) from the local reserves since this town is the only place in 100 Kms that sells alcohol.
- The town has a population of 3000. There are 8 liquor stores. There are 18 RCMP members stationed here. The national average is 1 RCMP member per 800 population. We have 1 per 166 people and we here still have more files on average than your average RCMP member. I had 300 files last year. The average nationally is 200. This town fucking sucks ass. It's one of the worst places in the "civilized" world.
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Philosopher B.
Oh yeah. Speaking of smells, it stinks like a giant asshole hereabouts in the summer. Farmer-types spreading shit on the fields and whatnot. It's especially bad on our street because of the fields behind the house. And of course there's always the cows nearby.
My mom used to say she loved the smell of cows. I always told her I was uncomfortable with the way she would smell the dairy air.
I don't think she ever got it.
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Philosopher B.
Lol!
I stayed a while in Stinkadena (Pasadena) TX. Lumber Mill, Tire Plant, and half of the refineries in America... Wow that place stunk.
In the summer, it smells like beautiful flowers! The beach is only 45 minutes away in any direction...!! I...I don't hate Hawaii..
I love Hamburg.It's the perfect city.
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I love where I live. It's a great city, especially compared to the small and dying town I grew up in.
The major flaw is the location, roughly 400km south of the polar circle (I'm north of North Ranger lol). While the weather is mild because we're close to the coast, the winters are stupidly long here.
The major flaw is the location, roughly 400km south of the polar circle (I'm north of North Ranger lol). While the weather is mild because we're close to the coast, the winters are stupidly long here.
I live just shy of the NWT border. Whereabouts are you?
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I live just shy of the NWT border. Whereabouts are you?[/QUOTE]
In the north of Sweden.
I actually love this about my city. Downtown is a pain in the ass to drive through, but it has that "unplanned" character to it.
Well the alcohol flows freely in Louisiana. You can buy just about anything in a grocery store. You can even buy daiquiris drive-thru (straw and all). After all, DUI (or DWI for you texans and new yorkers) is the state sport.[/QUOTE]
You can buy beer pretty much anywhere anytime here (except very early on Sundays or something), but anything over 6% alcohol has to get sold in liquor stores, which aren't open on Sunday. What's funny is that liquor stores can't sell anything that's under 6% alcohol, which includes mixers, food, gum, etc.
Well the alcohol flows freely in Louisiana. You can buy just about anything in a grocery store. You can even buy daiquiris drive-thru (straw and all). After all, DUI (or DWI for you texans and new yorkers) is the state sport.[/QUOTE]
You can buy beer pretty much anywhere anytime here (except very early on Sundays or something), but anything over 6% alcohol has to get sold in liquor stores, which aren't open on Sunday. What's funny is that liquor stores can't sell anything that's under 6% alcohol, which includes mixers, food, gum, etc.[/QUOTE]
What? So a liquor store can't sell beer? That's....fucking weird to me. Though, I guess the Canadian method of nothing alcoholic can be sold anywhere but a liquor store is probably just as fucked to Americans.
Well, you can buy beer that's over 6% at a liquor store (though it's almost never cold), so my original bitch wasn't completely accurate.
Well, I thought it was weird as all hell finding beer in a Wal*Mart in North Carolina when I was down there.
figmentPez
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- High Humidity
- Lots of restaurants that fail, change ownership, radically change recipes, etc. Sometimes it feels hard to find a non-chain restaurant to frequent because the local places are in a constant state of flux.
- Long travel time to get anywhere. (15 minutes to the nearest grocery store, 30 minutes to a movie theater, etc.)
- High Humidity
- Lots of restaurants that fail, change ownership, radically change recipes, etc. Sometimes it feels hard to find a non-chain restaurant to frequent because the local places are in a constant state of flux.
- Long travel time to get anywhere. (15 minutes to the nearest grocery store, 30 minutes to a movie theater, etc.)
Sometimes I wonder if we are in the same town.
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Kitty Sinatra
That's what I'm saying.The Metropolitain. Heck, all the damn highways. It's pathetic.
Other than that, my city fucken rocks...
Although I believe I'm the only one in Ontario who doesn't like your liquor laws. It seemed like I was always hitting a place where I had to order food when all I wanted was a drink, and a place that only served booze when what I wanted was a meal.
So, in my home city of Edmonton, the liquor laws require any establishment serving alcohol also must serve food. There's a bar that's well known (locally anyway) for having the hundred dollar hot dog. It's the smallest, most pathetic weiner possible on a stale bun for a hundred bucks. They technically serve food.
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Kitty Sinatra
Oh yeah. Ontario's the same. Every place that serves booze has to serve food, too. But this works out fine.
What really annoyed me about Montreal is that there are places that serve booze where you must order food.
What really annoyed me about Montreal is that there are places that serve booze where you must order food.
Not a whole lot really. It's a college town, so in the summer or during spring break it's a ghost town, almost. There's not a whole lot to do I guess, especially if you don't like bars. There's also a huge greek life population so going out can kind of an adventure because you don't know when you'll run into a drunk frat boy with something to prove.
Luckily for me I like going to the bars and beating the shit out of me would just make whoever did it look pathetic, so I don't have much to worry about.
Luckily for me I like going to the bars and beating the shit out of me would just make whoever did it look pathetic, so I don't have much to worry about.
The ever growing congestion, set to go off the charts once the new freeway is completed and dumps into here.
Lack of affordable housing.
The contrast between the newer and older parts of town. The city has no identity.
This stupid thing
Lack of affordable housing.
The contrast between the newer and older parts of town. The city has no identity.
This stupid thing
I don't recall any laws for that. Looks like you got bamboozled.
Heck, in some places, if you time it JUST RIGHT, you can get a free buffet... while you watch naked chicks dancing a few feet away. On Thursday they serve focaccia sammiches... you know where I'll be!
Online, telling people they take too long in combat and that they should have their actions planned out ahead of time?
The subway is filled with assholes. The people who ride it everyday are assholes who don't fucking make room when they have a couple empty feet next to them, the guys who work the stations are assholes because they don't do shit to help you out when you have a problem, the tourists who get on for their "new york city experience" are assholes don't have a fucking clue that people on the subway don't like being randomly talked to, and the MTA are the greatest assholes of them - they'll blow a surplus of cash on vapor-developments instead of cleaning and maintaining the subway, and then come crying for a handout of public money while also hiking the fares to make up for all the money they lost doing fucking nothing.
Also, New York City politicians are the most corrupt fuckwads in the country. Except for New York State politicians, who are really the most corrupt fuckwads in the country. Except for New Jersey politicians.
Also, New York City politicians are the most corrupt fuckwads in the country. Except for New York State politicians, who are really the most corrupt fuckwads in the country. Except for New Jersey politicians.
I would not be able to deal. For example, the girl who I've been dating ... I met her through a random conversation on the bus. She was a complete stranger to me when we got on the vehcile, and now a dozen plus months later I'm spending obscene amounts of money to take her fancy places.
I would not be able to deal. For example, the girl who I've been dating ... I met her through a random conversation on the bus. She was a complete stranger to me when we got on the vehcile, and now a dozen plus months later I'm spending obscene amounts of money to take her fancy places.[/QUOTE]
Dude, why? You already know she's down for public transportation.
I would not be able to deal. For example, the girl who I've been dating ... I met her through a random conversation on the bus. She was a complete stranger to me when we got on the vehcile, and now a dozen plus months later I'm spending obscene amounts of money to take her fancy places.[/QUOTE]
Dude, why? You already know she's down for public transportation.[/QUOTE]
I was more being foolish, to be honest. So far we've done a movie, gone out to supper (which is actually the only 'fancy' thing we've done). We're going to a ball this weekend, which I guess is fancy. But beyond that it's basically been DVDs at home, and coffee dates.
No donut shops.
Well sure, you can get *donuts* from the grocery stores or bakeries, but there is not a single donut shop of the Dunkin, Tim Hortons, or Winchells variety anywhere to be found. Not for a minimum of 30 miles. For a college town with national championship aspirations, that is flat out unacceptable.
Well sure, you can get *donuts* from the grocery stores or bakeries, but there is not a single donut shop of the Dunkin, Tim Hortons, or Winchells variety anywhere to be found. Not for a minimum of 30 miles. For a college town with national championship aspirations, that is flat out unacceptable.
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