I love where I live because....
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I love South Carolina. Sorry you don't GS. What part do you live in? Between the Upstate, Midlands and the Low Country the area can change so much.
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nufan
ahh crime and boasting what a wacky pair
I love where I live because...
I can walk to the beach
It's not where I grew up
The whales are hot
Public transit actually gets me to work
I can step over bums and not care and not feel bad about it
I love where I live because...
I can walk to the beach
It's not where I grew up
The whales are hot
Public transit actually gets me to work
I can step over bums and not care and not feel bad about it
Midlands, Lexington to be exact.
Edit: and yeah, everyone I speak to that lives around here, hates it. People who live upstate and in the low country generally seem to like it. Seems the further you get from Columbia, the less it sucks.
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Philosopher B.
I love Jersey because ... wait, lemme think a minute ...
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Midlands, Lexington to be exact.
Edit: and yeah, everyone I speak to that lives around here, hates it. People who live upstate and in the low country generally seem to like it. Seems the further you get from Columbia, the less it sucks.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I grew up around GS. Lived there from birth to 18. I didn't care much for it. The land can be beautiful, but the people.... insular, close-minded, and lacking all of that mythical Southern hospitality.
I really liked Nashville when I visited about 6 or 7 years ago. It didn't feel like a city, if that makes any sense.[/QUOTE]
A friend of mine interviewed for a job at Vanderbilt a few years ago and we hung out at the bar/restaurant/shopping area nearby. She accepted the job and moved a here a few months later and we took her downtown to celebrate. She got a huge WTF look on her face when we got amidst the skyline buildings and all the neon of lower Broadway. She had thought the little district near campus was downtown. :lol:
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Wasabi Poptart
Honestly, I never thought I'd miss my hometown in southern NJ but I do. It was small, in the woods, I was related to almost everyone (queue the banjo music), and full of backwards rednecks, but I would love to live there again one day.
Midlands, Lexington to be exact.
Edit: and yeah, everyone I speak to that lives around here, hates it. People who live upstate and in the low country generally seem to like it. Seems the further you get from Columbia, the less it sucks.[/QUOTE]Bingo. I grew up in Columbia (Northeast specifically) and couldn't wait to get out of there. The bookends of the state seem to have much better scenery and things to do than the Midlands. You should spend a weekend or two in Greenville There's a good chance you'd enjoy it.
... I can drive for 10 minutes and be in a National Forest, have decently safe schools for my daughter, never too much on the extremes of weather (with the exception of heat, buy hey, I can deal with 100f summers for mild winters) and it's close enough to metro areas to get to them, but not so close that they bother me.
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Zumbo Prime
I can drive a minute and a half and be in wine country.
Oh, I get to see cows, horses and wild deer nearly every day. That just does something to settle me down.
Whereas it gets Pojodan all excited.
*insert blushing Elvis.
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LordRavage
I love New York city because it is never boring.
I hate New York city because it is never boring.
I hate New York city because it is never boring.
I do not. Oakville is a stinktown. I'm only here because of school.
This town has my college in it, but it is by no means a college town. Its a town of yuppies, and was built very much with yuppies in mind. Tanning beds and nail salons, and pretty much nothing else.
Luckily my program is busy enough that I don't get driven insane by the envirnoment, as I spend 90% of my time chained to my desk in the studio anyway!
This town has my college in it, but it is by no means a college town. Its a town of yuppies, and was built very much with yuppies in mind. Tanning beds and nail salons, and pretty much nothing else.
Luckily my program is busy enough that I don't get driven insane by the envirnoment, as I spend 90% of my time chained to my desk in the studio anyway!
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.....we've got lots of wineries. There's over 30 just in Niagra. Sometimes South Park's jokes don't make any sense at all to me.
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Deschain
Guns everywhere. And it is hot.
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I enjoy Raleigh because it's a good deal warmer (15F warmer on average during Fall, Winter and Spring) than my previous homes in NY, and I hate snow. Unlike Shannow, I wanted to LEAVE Upstate NY because of the snow. I grew up in an area that got 120" of snow per year... Raleigh averages 7.5" per year.
My area is also a newly-developed upper-middle class neighborhood, with a bunch of stores and restaurants and such within a 5-minute drive. The convenience is great.
However, I find the road system where I live to suck balls. In NY, all of the stop lights were "smart lights," in which they could sense when a car is in a certain lane at the intersection, and change the lights when needed to make traffic flow more smoothly. The lights also communicated with each other to keep traffic flowing. If Raleigh had this technology installed, a 20-minute trip would only take about 12-14 minutes. The timing of the lights SUCKS.
Out of the places I've lived so far, I think Albany, NY is still my favorite. Colder and snowier than Raleigh, but I just felt more at ease and comfortable in the NY lifestyle.
My area is also a newly-developed upper-middle class neighborhood, with a bunch of stores and restaurants and such within a 5-minute drive. The convenience is great.
However, I find the road system where I live to suck balls. In NY, all of the stop lights were "smart lights," in which they could sense when a car is in a certain lane at the intersection, and change the lights when needed to make traffic flow more smoothly. The lights also communicated with each other to keep traffic flowing. If Raleigh had this technology installed, a 20-minute trip would only take about 12-14 minutes. The timing of the lights SUCKS.
Out of the places I've lived so far, I think Albany, NY is still my favorite. Colder and snowier than Raleigh, but I just felt more at ease and comfortable in the NY lifestyle.
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Shadazz
It's not usually 42 degrees Celsius (107 Fahrenheit) like today. If it was like this often, I'd be dead.
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Twitch
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Dave
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Wow! But it's a dry heat? I keep forgetting it's your summer down there. How cold does it get during your winters?
I'm surprised Raleigh isn't a "smarter city" yet considering IBM's presence in the area
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redapples
I live in a World Heritage site too.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Lanark you can see my house in the photo at the top of the page. I live on the Clyde with a nature reserve on my doorstep. Safe for kids, small school (60 kids 4 in my daughters year), close to a town and less than a hour to two major cities (and two more minor ones). We have 10 houses on our street so there is a nice community feel to it. When the gutters got damaged by the thawing snow a few of us helped put em back up. That kinda thing never happened when I lived in the cities.
Hawaii....
Dave
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I don't know whether to cry because you are in Hawaii or laugh because of the cost of living you endure.
Unless you are on base and get free room, board AND COLA. Then I'm crying again.
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Shadazz
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.
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