What's it like where you live?

[A BigCup of Tea]

Well here is the lovely view outside my bedroom window, taken last Saturday morning:

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But in all seriousness, I love where I live (Bath, UK). It can get a bit hilly going into the city centre but pretty much everything I need is at the top of the hill. This also makes cycling to the university really easy, as it's only a couple of miles and basically flat. It can get a bit expensive eating out/drinking but I never do that. What you're left with is a beautiful world heritage site surrounded by some of the nicest countryside in the UK.

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Ahh in this first picture we have your local wildlife..the local chav as you can see it feeds on a mix of relentless and beer (can't really tell) and most likely cigarettes, the wear caps with the hood of there jumpers up to scare people from getting to close, beware as you approach as you may get stabbed or "shanked" as they call it, in ones or twos they are pretty harmless but in a group are deadly!

well i live in aylesbury and it's terrible, this is how the high street typically goes off licencek betting shop, little casino,random food shop,betting shop,cafe,phone shop,cafe and betting shope there are other shops but it's mosty these and hundereds of pubs and the majority of the population are scum!

 

[Mithcha]

Live in Thornton Heath (oh it sounds so pleasant and idyllic) pronounced locally as Fort Neath South London, Croydon North. Or Sarf London if you're feeling local. Never forget the day I had to spell Thornton Heath to somebody in Coventry - first time I realised I, and presumable most others in Croydon North, have a distinct accent.

Croydon itself was hit pretty hard by the riots, I think it was one of the worst hit with a local landmark, Reeves Corner, being burnt down by some useless ****. Could see the smoke from my house and the local high street was wrecked to boot.
General consensus was however that most of the people rioting were bussed in from elsewhere and weren't local, a view I share.

People in Croydon have a great pride for the area, at least in my view, more so if they support the local football club, Crystal Palace, who's slogan is South London and Proud and who have their stadium less then 10 minutes from my house.

I can't speak for South Croydon (we're a big borough) but Croydon North effectively has all the problems of an inner city borough condensed into a much smaller area, which is no surprise as we're barely a stones throw from inner London, if I step outside my house and cross the street I'm in inner London essentially. Croydon had a reputation for a long time as being a shithole, coining terms such as the Croydon Facelift, infamous for it's chav culture and I believe dupstep originated here, as well as contributions to grime. I think it's undeserved though, it's an area that is large and diverse, putting it into a box and calling the entire area shit is grossly unfair.

Croydon's essentially a city without city status, so yeah. I'd say Croydon is a nice place overall, it's a city in a city - take from that what you will.

 

[Dimitriov]

Where I live?

Spoiler: It's nice.

No, but seriously, Victoria's a very beautiful area, which is something that quite a few people seem to know already. So just for fun I'll also point out that for a small city we have fairly disturbing homelessness and drug abuse problems. Yay.

I've worked at downtown convenience stores for the last 6 years so I'll admit to having something of a bias. Honestly our damn city is too nice and the weather is too temperate (I think it was the only city in Canada that had zero snow last year). So it feels like many of the homeless people from the rest of the country just slowly end up here or in Vancouver.

Also our municipal government seems to be fairly corrupt or at least disturbingly secretive for what is supposedly a democratically elected body...

Although, honestly, it really is a lovely city for the most part.

And here's the nice stuff! (picture time):

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Spoiler: Beacon Hill Park

Spoiler: The Legislature Buildings (The Provincial Parliament)

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It genuinely surprises me how many tourists seem to come here to see it.

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Spoiler: Our version of Winter

Spoiler: View of the Olympic Mountains in Washington State across the water

Spoiler: The Island slightly north of Victoria

 

[schrodinger]

I'm pretty much jealous of everyone in this thread, especially those who live more in the north.
Where I'm at is on a peninsula in a peninsula of the insane state of Florida. Not much going on the west coast, it's pretty much just full of retirees crowding our boring beaches, and the occasional redneck driving by in a convertible pickup truck. The weather is pretty much the same, disgustingly humid, hot, with the erratic rainstorm in between. Pretty much the more exciting activities is on the East coast, just gotta drive through downtown Orlampa to get there. I guess if you want to visit a tiny Greece then you can mosey onto Tarpon Springs and get some sponges. Yep, sponges.

Here have some sand

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Though i recommend going tubing down rainbow river, a fresh water river basically untouched and unknown to tourist. Suckas~

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[Johnny Impact]

Rolling hills, lots of trees, very rural, the nearest actual city is 200 miles away, summer is short enough that the brutal heat only lasts a couple weeks, winter is a bit too long, very low crime (I can leave my laptop on the passenger seat with my doors unlocked and it STILL doesn't get stolen, did that by accident once), it's out on the fringe meaning the rest of the country gets everything 10-20 years before we do, very quiet, it's in America so "old" is 200 years at most, we don't have any of those marvelous ancient stone buildings I see in people's pictures, lots of tourists in the summer, we used to be 99% pasty white but we are filling up with Somali immigrants, income here is lower than the national average, lots of national parks, rough rocky coast on the Atlantic (too cold for swimming this far north).

 

[SuperBio]

I live in Tucson Az, its nice and hot here. Unlike a lot of people though having lived for almost all my life without air conditioning I am very much enjoy 80 plus temps. If its under 75 I actually feel a bit cold. I can't stand the cold. People in Tucson will actually where jackets if its under 75 too so I assume its not just me. Other than that I would say that living right in town is pretty crappy but on the edges of town its pretty nice. Desert is nice it doesn't rain for months at a time and when it does rain its all at once and trees fly left and right. The nice thing about the desert isn't really the heat but the lack of air moisture. 4% humidity is a pretty good idea of what its like in the fall. I should also mention that Arizonan deserts don't have sand, at least down south. Sad part, internet service here is terrible beyond imagining. Right now where I live I can only get 1.5mbs down luckily wireless moved in and we might get 6.5mbs compared to the rest of the U.S by a city basis internet in Tucson is shit. Other than that I would say if you don't like 75-80 degrees almost year round other than the three winter months stay as far away as possible.

 

[Zaeseled]

Some people would say that Iniö is a peaceful safe haven if you want to relax. I'd say it's a boring place where there's nothing fun to do.
We are a small island community in the Finnish archipelago with barely over 200 all-year residents. The nature here is really beautiful and our old-timey lifestyle appearently fascinates a lot of people which is why we're such a popular holiday place. When I said old-timey I really meant that, there are houses here that don't have any kind of electricity and have have to row for an hour or so just to get to the store.
If you want a quiet place to rest at, welcome. If you're looking for an easy job where you're just waiting for your pension to start without doing your work, fuck off. We don't want your freeloading ass here.

 

[MrMixelPixel]

I've resided all my life in Sin City! (Las Vegas) And it aint too bad over here.

Spoiler: We've got castles and pyramids and eiffel towers! Oh my.

We have an impressively high drop out and crime rate. Hey! Less educated folk means less job competition AM I RIGHT? It also gets pretty ridiculously hot here. I think we reached around 118 degrees Fahrenheit this Summer?

In addition, we have billboard upon billboard just covered with naked women. I'll let you, the reader, decide if that is awesome or kind of disgusting. We even have a few with naked men on them! SEX!

Speaking of sex, just out of town I think we have brothels? And sci-fi ones that

Spoiler: This is a news article about a brothel. Nothing even remotely bad in it... But you've been warned all the same

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2078148/Nevada-brothel-owner-open-Sci-Fi-themed-hooker-house-men-want-bed-women-world.html

We even welcome straight people!

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However, for those of you who don't like not graduating, crime, gambling, mini eiffel towers, and LOT'S of sex (good lord), there's still hope! I for one dislike all of those things listed, except mini eiffelt towers. It has plenty of rural areas that are generally friendly communities with plenty of conveniences. That's the part I like!

 

[ShipofFools]

I live in a small town in the Dutch province of Zeeland, called Goes.
It's build in a drained swamp, and has multiple restaurant, a coffeeshop, a headshop and a brothel.

I really like it here.

 

[EHKOS]

Welcome to Flushing, MI. Where it's so boring and safe I take my walks at 3 A.M. every day. There's nothing to do and it's a bit upper class so the people are boring and snobby.

The one thing we have going for it is Halo Burger though. Local Flint franchise, great onion rings and mayo slathered burgers. Oh and Wing Garden, home of the greatest chicken fried rice I've ever eaten and a cranky old chinese woman named Ping. If she's grumpy to you that means she likes you though.

 

[Ravesy]

I live in Cardiff, Wales.

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I like to joke about how crap it is, but to be honest its a great place to live. There's a population of around 350,000 people, of all different nationalities.

There's literally hundreds of different bars and restaurants covering pretty much every countries food you could think of, all within walking distance.

We have 3 multi screen cinemas, a few different arenas for gigs and shows and loads of shopping centers. Oh and Tourchwood...

Cardiff Castle is pretty cool, and always has things going on in it, even Jousting a couple of times a year which is great to watch.

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Our local football team has just been promoted to the Premier league and we also have the millennium stadium, as the Welsh do love our rugby .

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One downside is that being Wales the weather is usually rubbish though...

Other Pictures:

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And finally, the Welsh flag is a damn dragon, i mean come on, if that isn't cool i don't know what is!

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[wooty]

Pretty shit really. I feel like I'm the only English person in my town right now, everyone else is either Polish, Latvian or chav.

Uhh, ehh, sorry about that one. If you don't mind asking, I am really interested in your opinion about our immigrants over there.

To be honest, I'm not that bothered by it. I'm quite good friends with my Latvian workmates, we go out, we have a laugh, we get on very well. If people feel the need to move around to find work and look for a better life, then thats cool with me. If the situation ever came where I felt the need to move to another country for work, I just hope they are as welcoming to me as I have been to them.

Of course not everyone here shares the same view as me, but I just ignore them. We're all here to do the best we can and get on with life.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

I won't put where I live, but I am near Chicago, and we're nothing special. Just alot of damn corn everywhere. And druggies. But I'm sure those are everywhere, right?

 

[gagagaga]

A little town in the middle of Nova Scotia, Canada. We've got mostly weirdos, old people, and druggies. There's a Native reservation of the outskirts, with lots of crime and poverty and things like that. On the other hand, we've got the biggest high school in the province, and possibly in the entire Maritime region? I swear to god though, most of the people there are greasy motherfuckers. So, eh. Not a horrible place to grow up, but I sure as hell am getting the fuck out of here once I get out of high school.

 

[LightningFast]

I live in Toronto.

... I love it here! Then again, I live right near the Yonge subway like, which pretty much means I can get to most places in the Downtown area with a couple bucks. It's nice, despite the awful traffic and occasional homeless dude.

Oh yeah, and our mayor may or may not smoke crack, but considering I do stand-up in my spare time, I'm okay with it.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

A rural florida town that wanted to be a city and tried very hard but ultimately failed and is in the death throes. The county is the worst in unemployment in the entire state and rivaling some in the nation and suffers from outdated educational lines drawn back in the 60's. In otherwords not the best place to raise kids or support a family.

 

[Master_of_Oldskool]

Northwest Pennsylvania, specifically lovely Venango County, where the weather is always wet and usually ungodly hot (although in the winter it occasionally deigns to get ungodly cold) and the rednecks are as thick on the ground as bloody topsoil. Also, there's a meth problem. We've got a fair-sized community of Chinese immigrants, which gives the whites someone to harass of a boring afternoon, as well as a single, solitary family of Indians whose son went to my school for a single year, during which no-one called him anything other than "towelhead" or "sand-n***er" (not usually averse to swearing, but I'll go ahead and censor the racial slur, shall I?). Liberal opinions are... frowned upon. Lastly, it's worth noting that aside from the dubious "excitement" that the above offers, there's pretty much nothing for me and my friends to do around here. Local events are mostly geared toward the geriatric and/or violently fundamentalist Christians, and good book/game/hobby shops are completely nonexistent. Basically, it's "get high and watch Fight Club for the 30th time" or "stare into space."

TL,DR: It's a shithole.

 

[Kaendris]

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I have to say, that place looks like it would fun to explore around mid afternoon. I love the lights and color variations of the city v. countryside.

Looks like fantastic fun. Plus, you have a Castle and a damn Dragon Flag. Amazing!!!!

 

[DeltaEdge]

I live in Michigan, the mitten state! I've lived in several places though. I was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, then moved to Troy Michigan at about 3 months old, then moved to Auburn hills at 10 years old, then stayed in Valencia, California with my mother who moved there for few summers, and eventually moved to California, however, we had moved to Saugus by the point that I had actually moved in with her. Then I moved back to Michigan to live with my dad again after I finished the 11th grade, and lived in the infamous Detroit for a year, which sucked horribly, and was by far the worst place I had ever lived(The home itself was nice, as were some of the surrounding homes, but there were a lot of shitty people in the area, not just within a few blocks). Now, I am attending Eastern Michigan University living on campus, so I now live in Ypsilanti, and my parents have moved once more to Belleville, which has been much better than where we had been before. Somewhat country, with a few farms, and what not(I had the misfortune of having to ride by a decaying horse to and from work every day during the summer on my bike). As for Ypsilanti, the campus of my school itself is quite nice, but there are a lot of cruddy looking areas too, almost like my school drained the life out of them, but there are some nice parts to like the downtown areas. And, it's only 10-15 minutes from my parent's house, so that's very convenient for me.
/End life story

 

[Madman123456]

If you where to throw a giant dart in between the german cities frankfurt and cologne you might hit me, so i'd ask you to refrain from doing that...
Fairly rural area here, it's cold and rainy now but we had a warm summer, we'll have about half a meter of snow i guess.

We have half decent internet speeds here, up to 20 megabit. Some public transportation is there but it's not reliable enough to get to work with so you need to have your own vehicle to get to work or anywhere really.

Two stores of supermarket chains are here so i can get cheap food within walking distance and if want some nice meat i'll go to my neighbor who is a butcher. I get eggs from another neighbor, who has hens, geese, two donkeys and a goat.

Energy is fairly expensive so we went trough something recently where people rediscovered firewood. My sister and brother in law loaned me some money recently so that i wouldn't have to be cheap with a new car so i can get one that can pull a decent sized trailer with firewood, ten of which will get them through winter nice and warm in their badly insulated house which was build in the 1870s, possibly; documents where lost in WW2. You can see damages of the war everywhere if you look hard enough.

Regarding the War's aftermath, in the "townhall" building in the cellar i found some old shit, among that a few postmarks with address of the mayor's office from of which someone had carved out the swastika.
We also have little monument with the names of the german soldiers from our little town who died in the world wars. No motivational sentence under the names or declaration of how we miss them or something, just the names.
You have to be very careful with that topic in our country; you'd do best if you stay very far away from it.
Actually, if i where to run for any office my opinion about dealing with the war, in that we have still have to deal with some things about it could damage my career.

Back to nicer things: We have forests. A lot of them. The town here has air clean enough to be deemed to be "health resort" worthy under our laws, despite many people blasting out carbon oxides from their firewood and despite everyone needing a car to get anywhere.
Regarding the car, i paid about 1500? for my license. License law has been severely upgraded just as i was in school for the license and now i got 6 licenses to be able to drive the same contraptions i'd be able to drive under old license law.
I have a license for the car, i have a license for small trucks up to 7.5 tonnes, i have a license for small tractors, a license for a trailer for my car, a license for a trailer for the small truck and license for a moped.

European laws are weird.


If you'll excuse me, i will have some breakfast, consisting of black bread with "Blutwurst" (sausage made from blood) and coffee.