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Neskah:
LUNCH!! Damn it you made me tear up and I've just put on mascara!

I miss Sydney sooooo much!!! New Zealand is nice, beautiful even when it can stop raining for 5 goddamn minutes.... but I mean Sydney is my HOME and always will be.

Damnit I wanna go home!!

Zingoleb:

--- Quote from: Linds on 30 Sep 2010, 14:52 ---curry incense, popcorn wine.

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This is how I read that and was intrigued on both accounts.

calenlass:

--- Quote from: sean on 01 Oct 2010, 12:22 ---WV

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Dude, where on the West Virginia Howdy are you? I have never even heard of Shepherdstown.

KvP:
I live in Fort Collins, Colorado.


Basically the state is roughly bisected by the Rockies (with slightly more mountain side than plains side). Fort Collins is one of a number of cities located along the "Front Range" of the mountains on the East side - If you go about two miles to the West of my apartment you start getting into the foothills. Ecologically it's an interesting place, especially where the foothills become the mountains, but I digress. The weather is mostly unpredictable but generally pretty pleasant - we've noticed a lot warmer temperatures since I was a kid, and those with any knowledge of the state of the mountain ecology don't really doubt global warming. Our pine forests are being rapidly destroyed by an infestation of beetles that can only be killed off by a frost period of several consecutive days, a phenomenon that we haven't experienced in a few years' time (the demise of the forests have made a boon for collectors / users of rare woods - a pine killed by beetles takes on a striking blue color). Aside from the occasional blizzard in the Winter months we don't experience a lot of inclement weather - our position close to the mountains causes air masses to "jump" us as they roll off thems, and severe Summer thunderstorms tend to hit Greeley, the city across the Interstate a few miles to the East that no one likes, pretty hard, and we're left alone. Summers here are often breathtaking. Winters are cold, but not nearly as nightmarish as the northern states'. The worst part of it is that we have very low humidity out here, which means the cold has a bite to it, and your skin will chap easily.

In 2006 Money Magazine listed this city as the #1 best place to live in the US. It is a pretty awesome town, both if you're an old looking to retire (though Loveland, where I grew up, is just to the South of here and is much quieter) or if you're a young person who doesn't mind a bit more isolation than you'd find in a city. If you can find a good job out here, a good single-bedroom apartment costs you about $700/month, which for this location is jack-shit nothing. Costs even less if you've got roommates. We're a good hour and a half north of Denver and Boulder, which are hipper towns to live in but much more expensive. One disadvantage is that good bands that aren't big enough to tour arenas but not small enough to tour in hipster bars sometimes don't make it out here - but we do have Red Rocks to the South, and as long as we have that we get what we need. I'm big into electronic music and honestly CO really sucks in that regard (the only towns in the US that really don't are LA, San Fran, Chicago, and New York, with some outliers like Baltimore and Philly).

In terms of culture, well, it all kind of revolves around CSU. We're a Land Grant school with a bit of a party reputation - the College avenue corridor alongside campus had the highest DUI arrest rate in the nation, at least for awhile, and frats / sororities are pretty active, though they're easy to ignore. We've got a decent amount of creative types and a modest but healthy music scene - recent acts to come out of Fort Collins to find some measure of wider success have been Candy Claws and Dovekins, though the mastermind behind the latter is an ex of my best friend and a serious, serious asshole.

Random trivia - Apparently the "Main Street" at Disneyland is modeled after Old Town Fort Collins, which, to be honest, is a really beautiful clutch of city blocks. Around December they festoon the entire place with Christmas lights and it's amazing.

If I'm not miserable and in debt and stuck somewhere when I get older, I'm coming back here, no question about it.

This is the view from East to West. I don't go up into the mountains nearly as much as I should, because I'm enchanted whenever I do. But heights and wide spaces just freak me the fuck out, see?


Closer by and just as pretty is the reservoir. If you look on the right side of the foothills up on that last picture you can see where they dammed to create it. There are a lot of neat trails around there... I always seem to get into them when it starts getting cold outside. We will probably be taking Dovey and Sam out there on Sunday.

jwhouk:
I live in Wisconsin, dere hey.

And that's about all I need to say. God's Country, aina?

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