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Hey you, where do you live?
BrittanyMarie:
fargo has a few parts to it. downtown is the awesome place where you can see a show, gig, fight, and all your friends. it's being gentrified right now, so some people who remember it from back in the day are still scared of it, but mostly now it is all hipsters and metal kids. the downtowners and the city call it the downtown renaissance but i mean really yeah it is gentrification. unfortunately, it is also very cliquey. i never used to think it was but i think that's just because i am a weird person who sorta fits in anywhere there's booze. there are some local bands who everyone thinks are good, and it's hard to get in the door if you're a new band or just play different music at certain venues unless you have a former member of a broken up local band from the ralph's days. that's probably true of every scene though, huh?
i live in the shitty commercial part of town near the mall. it sucks, but it was the only place i could get a one bedroom i could afford with a dishwasher. i fuckin' hate dishes. it's also close to where i work, which is a call center for a bank. it doesn't suck so much as my last call center at a bank job because i just talk to bankers instead of customers so they are tons less likely to cuss me out or waste my time. there are a lot of call center jobs here actually, mcdonalds has a tech support thinger, eharmony has their customer service here, and then the two banks. i'm sure there are more.
my boyfriend lives in a part of moorhead (i sleep there a lot) in a neighborhood that is well known in the area (hey here is a news article from a year ago about a riot). but hey, his rent is $130/month. recently there was a murder. in a town that is also known for very low crime rates, this was a big deal to the people. if a fargo/moorheadian were to ask him where he lives and he says near romkey park, chances are they will be like "...oh. are you ok?" moorhead has a history of racial tension, not only with this incident.
my mommy lives on a cute ranch near where chuck klosterman is from and it has her husband's mom, cows, horses, kitties, and doggies. the closest bar is the best bar in the entire world!!! the bartender is apparently like 199 years old, has no teeth and doesn't card you if you drink old man beer like i do. they have planks over the dirt floor and the roof is curved in. it looks like a dive bar in the middle of nowhere from a movie, but it is real! and fantastic. i saw a fox and a coyote today too.
(i didn't take that picture; that is just what it looks like in winter--looking down a gravel road)
Kugai:
That pic reminds me of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmCUYG2xuHI
:-D
Liz:
I also live in Fargo. See Brittany's post for general information.
As for my neighborhood- I live in North Fargo, which is more the older part of town, and my area is full of the cutest cute little houses and tree lined streets and there is an ice cream truck that comes through every few weeks! I lived downtown previously and it was fun, but I like living in a house in a quieter part of town too. Also there is a dishwasher and a washer/dryer in this house. And it has a backyard. With grapes.
Here is my cute adorable house!
sean:
so right now, i live in this place called shepherdstown, WV. it more or less looks like this.
basically, it is a tiny little town in wv that so happens to have a university in it. i go to the school, which honestly is a pretty shitty institution. they have a pretty alright music program though, so it works. i live on campus, in this shithole of a building.
its an apartment complex, and me and my roommates have set ours up pretty nicely though so its pretty alright. now there are some pretty neat things about shepherdstown, despite the fact that its in west virginia. for one, 95% of the town smokes pot. even the old people. for example, the old dude who owns the coffee shop in town smokes a lot of pot. he's an asshole though. this is his coffee shop though, which is pretty alright. it looks like this:
they make pretty good coffee, and im best frands with one of the baristas (who is so fucking cute oh my god) that i can get free drinks and just sit outside and drink coffee and smoke cigarettes, which is pretty cool. there is also a pretty cool wall in shepherdstown, it looks like this:
there are really really free markets here sometimes (because at least 95% of the town population that is under 30 years old is a radical leftist of some sort), which are pretty cool cause i can usually find bad record covers to hang up on my wall. also i found two shirts there at the last one, which ruled. anyway, there is also a really cool restaurant called the blue moon. they make the tastiest food. they also do pretty rad open mic nights and shows but recently some fuckface was drinking underage there and got caught drunk driving and told the police she was drinking at the blue moon so all their shows are 21+ now for the time being. stupid motherfucker. anyway, that is basically the jist of shepherdstown, going to school, drinking coffee, getting drunk, smoking pot by the potomac river (oh yeah its also like two seconds outside of md, which is pretty neat), and all sorts of other bullshit hipster/hippie bullshit.
sean:
oh yeah and i am basically the town hipster, its pretty neat.
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