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This is a thread for telling everyone about where you live. What do I mean about telling people where you live?
Well, don't write a list of where you live like some sort of geographical fuckin' Linnaeus taxonomy. Pick a location where you live: your country? Your state? Your city? Your neighborhood? Your school? Your house even? Write about it. Be creative. Talk about the culture, the history, the food, the people, the architecture, the music! Embellish! Have fun! Draw pictures! Make a YouTube video! Call up David Lynch and have him do some sort of fucked up dream within a dream sequence where a physical embodiment of your city is brutally murdered to Joy Division. I don't care, just be interesting!
Tell me, goddammit, where do you live?
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USA.
Just kidding, will update tonight or tomorrow depending on how much time I have left after this paper...
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Most people on this forum know where other people live. We even had a map once....where was that anyway?
My city...my city is a shining utopia on the outskirts of the ruins of progress. I live a mere two miles away from one of the worst places in the country to live, a place that was once celebrated for it's mechanics and music.
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I live in Corruption City USA (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rod_Blagojevich). I (http://www.siskorea.org/) move (http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/city.html?n=53) around (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~zhuxj/astro/html/confluence.html) a (http://www.mirabar.com/Mirabar/home.html) lot (http://www.overheardinnewyork.com).
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I live in a place that has been designated Alger Man Club, or AMC for short. It is located on MANLEY ROAD, naturally.
Basically, we just hang out in the woods being hermits, make fires, swing on rope swings, drive motorcycles, party, smoke weed, play video games, and watch Netflix. there's a piano and a banjo in there somewhere, too. Our phone is a duck.
also, we might be getting a puppy soon.
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(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4123/4915171427_df675b7604_m.jpg)
I live in a new house in an old neighbourhood right across the water from a pretty, gritty city.
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4141/4759329181_e32dc0423b_m.jpg)
We're so close that I leave home at 8:20, I catch a bus to get to work by 8:30. I'm always late anyway. I blame the buses.
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4120/4915171415_732576eb20_m.jpg)
I spend 5 days a week in a tall, tall building surrounded by other tall, tall buildings and with the rush of commuters and tourists along every footpath.
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4093/4760112454_1a5bd3fc0e_m.jpg)
It's kind of a relief to get home to my rickety tree-lined street.
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4080/4760117176_c62cd80619_m.jpg)
Across the road from our house, where I catch the bus in the mornings, is a huge old abandoned power station. It looks amazing. Every day I try and figure out how to get in there without getting caught, every night I am terrified by its danger and loneliness...
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4122/4760118040_8dfc87cae5_m.jpg)
and wonder what it would be like to climb one of those chimneys, what it would be like to fall from one.
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4093/4915781262_7598f85478_m.jpg)
On the weekends we go for long walks to undiscovered streets, houses old and new, all beautiful no matter their state.
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4117/4759964146_e90ee199c2_m.jpg)
Sometimes we venture a little further.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3302/4574624718_1d184f5820_m.jpg)
Sometimes I miss my hometown, all grass and cows and long-limbed eucalypts. But I can still find green places here. I just have to look.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3410/3645734733_c88777b5ca_m.jpg)
In the end I love my adopted home, with all of its beautiful grandeur...
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3322/3201383314_1cae92eee3_m.jpg)
... quirky surprises...
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3493/3464497869_a2cbc8c016_m.jpg)
...and so many exciting secrets.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3229/2944419270_011926cebe_m.jpg)
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Wait dude I thought that was like a summer thing? Now I'm double jealous because you live there all the time? (edit: this a response to SWM, Lunch was too fast)
Behind my flat is Greyfrairs Kirkyard which is the graveyard where Greyfrairs' Bobby sat on his owner's grave until he died waiting for his owner to come back. This story inspired the saddest Futurama (or even TV) episode of all time. It's also the graveyard where Burke & Hare dug up bodies to sell to the medical school of the University before they started killing people to make sure the bodies were 'extra fresh'.
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I live in a place that has all the beach but none of the ocean. We have snow capped mountains and blistering heat sometimes in the same day. Rattlesnakes and Rabbits are abundant, shade is not. Very quiet town yet 10min drive away is the deadliest city in the world.
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I will go take photos of where I live after I have finished doing my cleaning. It may be a while.
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Middle Earth
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I live in a nice house in a quiet neighborhood. The rent is a little high but I like it. I've only lived here a couple of months, but I'm starting to settle in. Doesn't quite register as "home" yet and I'm not sure why.
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I live on campus at what is probably the easiest school to get into in the whole state, if not New England as a whole. It's pretty here, though. We have a pond, and it's up in the mountains, so the views are really nice. It's also in the middle of nowhere, so it's generally pretty safe to just... get up at 3am and take a walk around campus and not really worry about anything happening, and you get a lot of chances to see wildlife at night, and there aren't that many people, so it's not crowded at all. I love it, really.
Also, I have the best suitemates on the planet, so that's pretty rad.
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I'm from Florida. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQYs_CDATl0)
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I'm from Albion, NY. Aside from the people who live here, the place is a tiny, strangely cultured town. Like - I live across the street from an opera house which is a coffee-shop downstairs run by an opera singer, there's always string quartets or classical guitars that have literally toured the world coming to town (I met Pavarotti's guitarist, he's a great guy and I'm pretty good friends with his sister!), and there's two art galleries. The architecture is really beautiful, just a bunch of old buildings. It has incredible potential to be such an awesome little town on the Erie Canal, like it could be a great college town, except there's a far better college town ten miles away that gets most of the good people and businesses and this place gets the leftovers, it feels like. That's downtown anyways.
The rest of the place is just really, really country. Literally, miles of cornfield and/or soyfields, apple orchards, grapes, forest, creeks and hills...it's actually a really beautiful place (except for the minor detail that there's a LOT of swampland and thus a LOT of mosquitoes) and I can't think of anywhere I'd rather be in summer than where my father's house is. He owns this 200-year-old farmhouse that needs repairs and he's too broke/inept to fix it up. It has like...six bedrooms, a living room and bathroom upstairs, and three bedrooms, two kitchens, two living rooms, a bathroom, a pantry/converted into laundry-room and a sun room which is mostly windows downstairs. I can't wait to fix it up someday proper, because it's such a gorgeous house and I don't want to see it fall apart.
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River Phoenix came here looking for his mother, but got rolled and kidnapped in this one arthouse film I saw. It's kind of in the middle of a desert between nowhere and one of the greatest cultural meccas on earth.
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Florida. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQYs_CDATl0)
That video seemed to last so very much longer than one minute and fifty-nine seconds.
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i live where these come from,
(http://c.imagehost.org/0415/angora_rabbit-00.jpg)
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I live in the same city as Lunchy, it's one of my favourite cities when the state government isn't shitting it up for the rest of us.
My place is in the Eastern suburbs, the cool thing about is that I've got the Tasman directly to the east and the city to the west. Next time you're at the Opera house, wave towards the Gap - on the remote chance that I'm looking over there with binoculars I'll wave to you.
I don't usually go to the city as much as I used to since last Summer 'cause I got accepted into UNSW (yay!) and not UoS (boo!). If I want to go shopping or out I usually stay in the Bondi-Randwick-Kensington area. There's a lot here to like from the coffe cart on the library lawn to Booked Out and the Ritz.
Most beaches are just a quick bus trip away, so I can easily get Clovelly, Coogee or Tama in no time at all. I usually avoid Bondi beach cause it's always full of tourists and everything is marked up by 1000% or something like that. I don't surf but I should take it up.
I'll post pics of the view later when there actually is a view. It's spectacular.
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I live in a house built out of treebones. There are three battlefields of commercial purposes in a walking distance of five minutes. Despite that, our place is rather calm. The only threat are some felids. Five days a week I ride on an electrified mechanical snake to a place of higher learning. There I explore the logical and physical fantasies of earlier minds.
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I live in a punk house with a bunch of hippies.
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I live in this shithole town that apparently has a fair amount of history (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Runcorn).
We have a castle
(http://i56.tinypic.com/160zq7k.jpg)
it was built in the 1070s and slighted (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slighting) in 1646 by the Roundheads (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roundheads) because some idiot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earl_Rivers) thought he was better than the common people.
We also have an old monastery
(http://i54.tinypic.com/z3m07.jpg)
it was built in 1134 and dissolved in 1536; now it is a museum.
Now the houses look like this
(http://i53.tinypic.com/25gtrt1.jpg)
and the area is pretty poor.
We too have a chemical plant
(http://i56.tinypic.com/296p2rb.jpg)
however, this one is still active and the pollution is horrid.
So there you have it, it's fucking grim up north.
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I live in what is appropriately described as a glorified box amidst people who I don't really know at all. But my dorm is one of the most centrally located on campus, and is close to the music building and student center, two places where I spend a lot of time.
I want to study abroad next year because sometimes I feel like I've spent too much time in one spot and I need to go live somewhere new for a bit to appreciate what I've got where I am now.
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i live where these come from,
(http://c.imagehost.org/0415/angora_rabbit-00.jpg)
Hoth?
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I live in a place that looks like this in the wet seasons...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/NvrTooMuchPython/IMG_0053-1.jpg)
...and this in the dry ones.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/NvrTooMuchPython/IMG_0013.jpg)
I'm pretty near this place (clickable),
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/NvrTooMuchPython/IMG_0029-1.jpg) (http://www.hearstcastle.org/)
about four hours from this place (clickable),
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/NvrTooMuchPython/IMG_0012-1.jpg) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Gate_Bridge)
and three hours from here (clickable).
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/NvrTooMuchPython/IMG_0003-2.jpg) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pershing_Square_(Los_Angeles))
Honestly, though I've lived in LA and spent a lot of time in San Francisco, I think I greatly prefer the central coast. It is a place of transcendent beauty,
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/NvrTooMuchPython/IMG_1245.jpg)
where horses are kept,
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/NvrTooMuchPython/IMG_0027-2.jpg)
where pelicans take off,
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/NvrTooMuchPython/IMG_0015-1.jpg)
and crabs, er, you know...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/NvrTooMuchPython/IMG_0028-1.jpg)
and sometimes, even in the sadder, dirtier places, beauty weasels its way in.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v321/NvrTooMuchPython/IMG_0009-2.jpg)
(all photos my own)
Also, bonus video! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgbAbkfUnRg) (sorry for the terrible sound)
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I live on a busy street in an old building. There's lots of people that walk and drive by, some serenely walking their dogs, other blaring whatever disco or rap they happen to be into that day. (We definitely dance to car radios.) There are plenty of shops and restaurants along our street and also several buskers and artists who will draw your portrait. The little theater has all the popular independent films, maybe a mainstream film, and also Rocky Horror. Saturday nights always draw the most diverse crowds. Passersby always get to smell the different scents of the businesses - curry, incense, popcorn, wine. It's a little piece of bliss wrapped in the noise of people and cars.
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AHHHHH
AHHHHH
I... what? Was this directed at me?
(Is Tommy afraid of all crustaceans, not just isopods?)
(On second thought, maybe I shouldn't post pictures of fucking crabs on the internet.)
(Nah, totally worth it.)
(That's a picture made for sharing.)
(Haha. Sharing crabs.)
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(http://www.changingworld.com/catalog/images/V-007.jpg)
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WHO TOLD YOU THAT
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That dude on the street corner?
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Hey guys, I'm from New Mexico!
Where is New Mexico?
It's right here:
(http://pretentiousgamer.com/etc/nuevo.png)
What is New Mexico?
Well, unlike some states like New York, New Jersey, or New Georgia, New Mexico was once a mighty big part of Old Mexico. Then some asshole went to war with Mexico and kicked some ass and in response, Mexico gave a big ass chunk of itself to the US in the form of the New Mexico Territory:
(http://pretentiousgamer.com/etc/2009_11_11.jpg)
That big green part marked Arizona is actually New Mexico too. That's the best map I can find, but it's from the Civil War and the big green part is the part the Confederates took over and named Arizona before they were defeated at Glorieta Pass and were kicked the fuck out of New Mexico again. Congratulations you fucktards to the west of me on your achievement in history! (I think the little dude in the corner is not actually a place in Texas, but some Arizonan cock.)
Anyway, over time white people started filtering into the area. A bunch of dudes and their billion wives followed Brigham Young to Utah and that was given to them to shut them up. A bunch of people realized Colorado was tits and set up shop there. I don't know what Arizona's deal was, fuck 'em.
In 1912, New Mexico finally decided to become the 47th state and 'lo there is New Mexico. (Arizona followed suit a month later so there's no 47 star flags. Fuck 'em.)
Okay so what's New Mexico like?
Well, first of all, there's a bunch of hispanic people here. Shit-tons. In fact, it has the largest hispanic population per capita in the country and non-hispanic white people are a minority! 1) It's actually pretty rad, because, having lived here forever and been to the rest of the country, it is one of the least racist places I have ever seen. 2) If you call them Mexicans they will fuck your shit up.
Also, we have great fucking food. New Mexican food is unique in American cuisine and Mexican cuisine for a number of reasons.
(http://pretentiousgamer.com/etc/IMG_7232hatchchiles400width.jpg)
1) Green chile. The official name of this stuff is an Anaheim pepper, New Mexico cultivar. No one in this state knows that because it is 'green chile'. It can be eaten battered, filled with cheddar, and fried; it can be chopped up and put on basically any food you can think of: burgers, hot dogs, pizza, ice cream, beer, whatever; it can be cooked into a sauce and used to smother your food in it; it can be dried and crushed and turned into a red sauce known, creatively, as red chile which has radically different flavors and is equally delicious. It is the best condiment/food on Earth. The official state question is "Red or green?" because it is the first thing you're asked when ordering New Mexican food.
2) Native American tribes. Unlike the rest of the country, our Native Americans still live here and have influenced our cuisine. As a result, we have shit like sopaipillas/fry bread which are just fried up pieces of fluffy dough all tasty crispy then you smother it in honey or fill it with beans and chicken or carne adovada and it's fucking great. (Wait, carne adovada? Yeah, another fucking delicious New Mexican thing where you just cook pork in aforementioned red chile forever and then it's all delicious and spicy and falling apart and fuck it's good.)
Two is a number.
Also, it's called the Land of Enchantment. That's a big fucking claim. It falls kinda short because I can't get a bag of infinite holding or anything, but it is awfully pretty. Here. Have some scenery.
(http://pretentiousgamer.com/etc/2292100-Shiprock_Mountain-Shiprock.jpg)
(http://pretentiousgamer.com/etc/MMt_by_Oct2003.jpg)
(http://pretentiousgamer.com/etc/taos-gorge.jpg)
(http://pretentiousgamer.com/etc/wheeler1.jpg)
I live in a fucking rad place.
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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 (http://hpr1.com/feature/article/11_years_after_the_riot_revisiting_racial_tension/)). 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.
(http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/01/emptied-north-dakota/img/04_01.665.jpg)
(i didn't take that picture; that is just what it looks like in winter--looking down a gravel road)
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That pic reminds me of this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmCUYG2xuHI
:-D
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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!
(http://greatquarterhorses.com/IMG_3856.JPG)
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so right now, i live in this place called shepherdstown, WV. it more or less looks like this.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2398/2254243875_db7eb3bc91.jpg)
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.
(http://www.shepherd.edu/rloweb/images/Maple/Maple%20Exterior.jpg)
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:
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/228/482036660_9a84bb81cb.jpg?v=0)
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:
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2483/3647933862_c6de29e0ba.jpg)
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.
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oh yeah and i am basically the town hipster, its pretty neat.
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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!!
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curry incense, popcorn wine.
This is how I read that and was intrigued on both accounts.
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WV
Dude, where on the West Virginia Howdy are you? I have never even heard of Shepherdstown.
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I live in Fort Collins, Colorado.
(http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/4301/coloradoref2001.jpg)
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 (http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/14518-hidden-lands/) and Dovekins (http://www.myspace.com/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?
(http://www.fcgov.com/visitor/galleries/foco/slide_0.jpg)
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.
(http://www.fcgov.com/visitor/galleries/foco/slide_33.jpg)
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I live in Wisconsin, dere hey.
And that's about all I need to say. God's Country, aina?
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I live for 3/4 of the year in a beautiful city full of bicycles, Japanese tourists and intense, pale people who talk about astrophysics and the status of women in 11th century Ireland and aren't joking.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3296/3079331485_ab1a28233f.jpg)
This is the building I live in, although I face onto the courtyard behind the part you can see. It was built in the Queen Anne style and every part of the college is accessible indoors, so that the Victorian ladies at the time wouldn't have to get their skirts wet crossing the gardens.
(http://www.reggie.net/photos/england/cambridgeshire/cambridge/newnham_college/gardens/10024654_herbaceous_border_flower_autumn_newnham_college_cambridge-600.jpg)
Which look like this.
Sometimes I get a bit choked up thinking about the fact that I live here, and that however long I live and however far away I end up moving, this will still be somewhere I can come back to and feel part of. There's this chain of amazing women stretching back to 1871, all supporting each other and battling against the odds so that people like me could sit in an adorable little room with a pile of books and build themselves a future that is more free and more promising than those 19th century women could have imagined. Especially at this time of year, when a whole flood of new girls are arriving and I just have to walk down a corridor to see how everyone else feels the same way as I do - that just by coming here, and being a part of the college, you are immediately linked. Right at this moment there's a crowd of people in the entranceway waiting to welcome people in and answer any questions, show them to their rooms, give them their keys and make them feel as at home as we all do now.
I expect it's the same in every college and every uni, but I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.
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hey katie shepherdstown wv is right here (http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Shepherdstown,+WV&sll=38.597626,-80.454903&sspn=4.575663,10.821533&gl=us&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Shepherdstown,+Jefferson,+West+Virginia&ll=39.240763,-79.562988&spn=4.534549,10.821533&z=7), in the eastern panhandle. its just barely in wv, you can see maryland from campus.
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Yeesh, close to Frederick and Harper's Ferry, not much out that way.
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My home, last February, after the valentine's day blizzard (17 inches of snow in 2 days)
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4025/4566318985_490b178bd1.jpg)
The house was in the same family for 98 years before we got it at an auction. I've been trying to restore it bit by bit over the last 12 years I've owned it, but in that time my wife's become disabled, one of my children came down with cancer and is also disabled, I've had to take on a second job to support everyone, and I'm pretty much resigned to just keeping the place from falling in on itself.
And I'm failing at that. The kitchen ceiling collapsed two winters ago, and the hole's been patched, but still hasn't been finished. The bathroom floor's rotting (seriously, who puts hardwood floors in a bathroom?), and the garage (an old stable) needs a new roof. Last year.
We live in the foothills of the Allegheny mountains in PA, in a fair sized city who's sole reason for existance was the railroad. When that collapsed, the city fell on hard times, and will probably never recover. I love it here. So much history, artful decay, and attempted rennaisance to make it interesting no matter where you are. And once you leave the city, you're in the middle of rural PA, surrounded by beautiful mountains.
If only I didn't have to leave...
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Hey you, where do you live?
Fuck man, I dunno.
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All I'm going to say is that Tyler once called my town quaint, and he was not being nice.
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cambridge
It's not even 1/.2 of the year though?
But, yeah, I live there too now, but in this building:
(http://www.e-architect.co.uk/images/jpgs/cambridge/churchill_college_cambridge_101.jpg)
Other Side (http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/home_tc.jpg)
I didn't want to go to an old college.
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I stay for the short vacations too, and then during summer last year I spent an extra month here renting in the suburbs, and then went off other places with uni people. Basically I am at or with uni all year round!
ETA: is living there like living in a glass box? I always feel like I am looking in on everyone's life when I go past, it must feel weird.
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curry incense, popcorn wine.
This is how I read that and was intrigued on both accounts.
That would be quite a combination!
And since people are posting photos of their universities, here's where I go to school:
(http://www.uc.edu/virtualtour/images/virtualtour.jpg)
We have an odd assortment of both classic and contemporary buildings.
(http://cache.boston.com/resize/bonzai-fba/Globe_Photo/2007/11/15/1195180108_4297/539w.jpg)
Some of them, though, are actually quite neat and are made by famous architects, such as Michael Graves.
(http://www.galinsky.com/buildings/cincinnatiengineering/gravesCin1.jpg)
And Peter Eisenman.
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/101/299725184_0a66f0acfb.jpg)
(http://www.uc.edu/virtualtour/images/ld/DAAPCafe-DAAPCA1.jpg)
And we have an awesome, olympic sized pool...
(http://graphics.fansonly.com/photos/schools/cinn/sports/c-swim/auto_gallery/532441.jpeg)
...in this building. (The large windows you see in the front is the aquatic center. The big grey part is a dorm and between is the rest of the rec center.)
(http://www.uc.edu/virtualtour/images/qt/RecNight17.jpg)
So yeah, that's where I spend a lot of my time.
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(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r309/van_donk_III/Picture1-1.png)
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where i am from is this shitty town called bakersfield and if you are from california then you know shit's nasty. republican as fuck (the extra-frightening kind), big brown and sprawling, it's stuck halfway in between becoming an actual metropolis and the agricultural/oil smalltown it has been for a couple centuries. the suburban areas are okay, there's million-dollar-home neighborhoods next to the upper-middle-class and then there's the really really impoverished areas where you risk getting shot.
yeah it's generally a really stifling place but honestly i do miss it, for the food. has a lot of good local food and a LOT of favorite fast food chains. here in santa cruz, where i am now, all i get is goddamn taco bell and mcdonald's. i love them both but i need my variety. bakersfield also had a lot of targets and walmarts. they built this fancy park called river walk and they meant to instate fancy higher-end shops to make it a really nice place to go but instead they scrapped that and just built a giant target instead. i don't understand.
and i like bakersfield because it's not a big city. i mean if i want even shittier traffic and more smog and urban landscapes then i have LA a hundred miles away for that. i like how there are random oil pumps wherever the liquid gold resides. i like the open spaces of farmland, even though these keep diminishing due to the inexplicable need for more housing developments. which are terrible, by the way, because they're just boxes now; they used to have local developers build the neighborhoods and they were all nice and varied. now you fire up google maps satellite view and it's just like wtf what are all these squares of shades of gray.
as a delinquent bored teenager who had literally nothing to do but meander and maybe smoke pot (bakersfield--where everyone just bakes in a field) there were certain areas that were fun to visit on excursions of random driving. like this overexposed picture of a tree on the outskirts of the suburbs:
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs363.snc4/44622_488836606561_502796561_6788944_5730003_n.jpg)
in the wintertime it can get pretty cool, here are some tanks filled with crude oil nearby previous tree:
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs218.snc3/22567_218055582586_671552586_3607133_1774558_n.jpg)
and here are my friends exploring some farmland (while it was still green!)
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs218.snc3/22567_218055842586_671552586_3607161_2810860_n.jpg)
but despite all this complaining, bakersfield is pretty unique in its location; it is surrounded by mountains, though you often can't see them as they are obscured by the intense smog. but after a good rain or a good wind storm when the sky turns actually blue, it's pretty nice to look around. and on the opposite outskirts there is this neat park called hart park where you can witness the raging killer kern river (whose water flow is controlled by the city and so sometimes we have a river and sometimes we don't. depends on the amount of rain/snowmelt). here is my friend at said park!:
(http://i113.photobucket.com/albums/n217/rageaholicdove/DSC_0584.jpg)
and in the winter time we get this shit called "tule fog" and it's super foggy and the schools have to call "fog delays" which sounds ridiculous to other people but they are in all earnestness entirely necessary. shit gets real. (though such dangerous driving conditions didn't stop me from taking a picture while going 55mph anyway):
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs640.snc3/32123_395599372586_671552586_4644222_6028010_n.jpg)
i live in santa cruz now. it's a laidback beach town, not really a college town since most of the undergrads live on campus. it's... okay. definitely more picturesque
(http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/00/18/51/bb/ucsc-campus.jpg)
i don't know where this is but a lot of places look like that, except browner because it's not rainy season yet
the campus of UCSC is set on this hill of forest and to be honest it is pretty annoying, i mean everyone is like "oh what a beautiful campus" as it's all winding through tall-as-fuck redwoods and shit but i hate it and i'm sick of walking, although i am appreciative of the forced exercise as well as the ability to actually breathe an air that isn't filled with a billion particulates, and you have to take the bus everywhere which is fine because it's an efficient public transportation system but i suppose i can't shake some of the right-winged influences that plagued me growing up so goddamn it i want my fucking car, it's an acura therefore made by honda therefore its emissions are just fucking fine.
anyway, you should come visit me! either location.
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I live in a country called The Netherlands.
The Netherlands is a country that is, compared to the USA, so small that, if you should unfold your roadmap of the USA in, say, approximately where I live, the bit showing Seattle would get wet because it would be in the North Sea (west of us), and the part of the map with Maine on it would extend into Germany (which is east of us).
South of us is Belgium, which is notorious for its beer and its inability to form a decent government.
The Netherlands is also very flat (you probably saw that coming). Our highest "mountain" is 321 meters (a little under 1000 feet).
The inhabitants of the Netherlands are called Dutch (no, the Duct are not from Denmark, that's the Danes).
Sometimes people call this country "Holland". While this is generally accepted, it's also wrong. Same thing (but in reverse) about us sometimes calling the USA "America".
And yes, Amsterdam (which may ring a bell with a few more people than The Netherlands would) is our capital. I do not live in Amsterdam. I don't want to live there, and I cannot afford it (Amsterdam is, like, say, London, extremely expensive).
The Netherlands is the most densely populated country of Europe - sixteen and a half million people on a surface just a bit larger than, say, Maryland.
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You sound kind of bitter about this.
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You forgot to mention how everyone in Amsterdam smokes pot and has sex with hookers.
I mean, when they're not tending their tulips.
which are terrible, by the way, because they're just boxes now; they used to have local developers build the neighborhoods and they were all nice and varied. now you fire up google maps satellite view and it's just like wtf what are all these squares of shades of gray.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_2lGkEU4X
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I was in Amsterdam for three days and on two separate occasions men attempted to buy me. I mean, that is not normal.
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To be fair, your outfits do scream "hooker."
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It's true. I should stop wearing red PVC hot pants really.
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You sound kind of bitter about this.
Not quite... merely ironic ;)
But I'm perfectly happy to be here. Nothing to be terribly excited about, just... no extremes here - climate is moderate, no volcanoes or fault lines to bother about, no danger of flooding, just gentle moderation.
Plus, my grandchildren live here, so this is The Place To Be.
Funny, this. We could probably tolerate living further away from our children (like, in England or Scotland*, which we both would love), but I would *hate* to live within driving distance from our grandchildren.
*) I mean, seriously. It was a conscious decision of me and my wife to be married in Scotland (and no, NOT in Gretna Green!), and it's among the best things we've ever done.
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You forgot to mention how everyone in Amsterdam smokes pot and has sex with hookers.
I did not mean to mention that, because I just *knew* that this would be common knowlegde lore.
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Grandchildren?
I thought Paul was the only one on here old enough to have grandkids. Damn,...sir.
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I was in Amsterdam for three days and on two separate occasions men attempted to buy me. I mean, that is not normal.
Far as I can tell, at least three out of these two occasions it must have been foreigners having presumptions about Amsterdam.
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Grandchildren?
I thought Paul was the only one on here old enough to have grandkids. Damn,...sir.
Who's Paul?
Hehheh. Three, in fact. Wait another two weeks and it'll be four, in fact. And much to my own surprise, I am still hovering in anticipation.
Even so. Since my grandchildren don't 'sir' me, there's no need for you to do so. :D
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Paul is pwhodges on here. A pretty cool dude, if I do say so.
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Pee Doubya Hodges, yes. I see who you mean. Oh yeah, he's cool. I'd be
happy honoured to be in his league.
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I seem to remember that when I started, all the "old" people on here were about the age I am now.
WHERE DO YOU GO, TIME?
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I seem to remember that when I started, all the "old" people on here were about the age I am now.
WHERE DO YOU GO, TIME?
I really resent that, child.
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(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_kHrG2y-ZEuw/R8G_FKJU-yI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/o-zmGv9wg9E/S269/040228-1127-16_std.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/PostboxManchesterSurvivedIRA1996Bomb20051020_CopyrightKaihsuTai.jpg/220px-PostboxManchesterSurvivedIRA1996Bomb20051020_CopyrightKaihsuTai.jpg)
(http://farm1.static.flickr.com/49/116320147_1ecc943ea6_z.jpg?zz=1)
A Postbox that survived terrorism
(http://caguas.mc.man.ac.uk/assets/images/lincoln-1.jpg)
Abraham Lincoln!
(http://codinghorror.typepad.com/.a/6a0120a85dcdae970b0120a86df495970b-pi)
Alan Turing!
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3164/3064890410_1d3f886c86_z.jpg?zz=1)
Spider Crab!
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3428/3356955948_077fe05541_z.jpg)
Magical Buses!
(http://static.guim.co.uk/Guardian/travel/gallery/2008/aug/14/1/rusholme-8364.jpg)
Good Eats!
(http://www.lookingatbuildings.org.uk/typo3temp/pics/M_e72f9febb8.jpg)
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d7/Hacienda-300.jpg)
Factories!
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I did not realize we had so many West Coast USA'ers on here. I thought I was alone...
I live here
(http://i650.photobucket.com/albums/uu230/SirJuggles/d5f994a5.jpg)
Which is nice because of...
(http://www.wegoplaces.com/user%20interface/Images/Itinerary%20Item%20Images/USA/CA/Santa_Barbara/Best4/USA_CA_Santa_Barbara_1.jpg)
and the fact that I get to go to school...
(http://abigaileiland.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/ucsb-santa-barbara.jpg)
Unfortunately I am a poor college student so I have to live
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2499/4072609521_67053c8acb_z.jpg)
(that house is down the street)
which is a place full of loud drunk people who think "personal responsibility" is what you have parents for.
Also,
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3069/3029336438_de1a179995_z.jpg)
happens quite a lot.
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Oh man, SirJuggles, I feel you re: the living-on-a-Central-Coast-party-street thing. SLO and Santa Barbara are pretty similar in that regard, from what I understand. I lived for two years in an apartment building that was primarily rented by a fraternity. It was at the intersection where not one (http://sloblogs.thetribunenews.com/slovault/2009/04/30/poly-royal-riot-1990/) (est. 1,000 people), but two (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Luis_Obispo_Mardi_Gras_controversy) (est. 5,000 people) huge fucking riots happened. Very drunk strangers vomited on our doorstep, peed in our plants, and stumbled into our apartment confused about once a weekend.
Was so glad to move, finally.
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My UCSB buddy wants me to come down to IV for Halloween.
I'm so glad that it's basically impossible for me to get there that weekend because oh god
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How are they not arrested for that kind of thing? I don't think I've ever heard of places like that in this country, is it just because there's so much America that statstically the chances are good for any type of person?
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I seem to remember that when I started, all the "old" people on here were about the age I am now.
WHERE DO YOU GO, TIME?
I really resent that, child.
Preds fans don't count.
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How are they not arrested for that kind of thing? I don't think I've ever heard of places like that in this country, is it just because there's so much America that statstically the chances are good for any type of person?
People did get arrested. We had partiers arrested right outside our bedroom window at least twice. The threat of arrest just doesn't stop people from partying.
I'm not so familiar with Santa Barbara law, but here, at least, the police + quiet retirement town community are in constant battle with the student partying community. They're often increasing restrictions on parties (e.g. they introduced in April an "unruly gathering ordinance" that allows them to fine the host of a party where shit like that is going down $700 for a first offense and $1000 per offense for repeated offenses; I moved to a much quieter part of town shortly thereafter, so I'm not sure how effective it was).
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So I am from here, originally:
(http://pics4.city-data.com/cpicv/vfiles9598.jpg)
(San Jose, CA)
Moved here:
(http://mercedcahomes.com/images/merced-ca.jpg)
(Merced, CA)
to go to here:
(http://www.ucmerced.edu/virtualtour/images/content/VT1.jpg)
(University of California, Merced)
For a few months, I lived here!
(http://www.lorisarvendu.force9.co.uk/GlasgowBox1.jpg)
(Glasgow, UK)
Hopefully by May of next year, I'll be here!
(http://www.destination360.com/north-america/us/illinois/images/s/illinois-chicago.jpg)
(Chicago, IL)
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Well, im living in dutchland as well, more specifially, we live here:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4106/5073000468_dbaa3a9c96.jpg)
(Just the lower bit)
This is where im typing this post:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4150/5072399651_c1512612de.jpg)
This is where we make foods:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4124/5072996122_17045cd9fb.jpg)
This is where we sleep:
(http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4090/5072393369_d84c271c74.jpg)
This is a lot of junk i have to clear out of our basement before i can use the basement as a pot plantation uhm, sm dungeon uhm warhammer play room thing where there is also cold beer:
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs690.snc4/63019_1598343327627_1507323046_1537487_938797_n.jpg)
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Erik, is that wallpaper in the bedroom or did you stencil it? Badass!
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My UCSB buddy wants me to come down to IV for Halloween.
I'm so glad that it's basically impossible for me to get there that weekend because oh god
Yeah... I did the halloween thing my freshman year, and I don't ever need to do it again. I'm actually going home over halloween weekend so I don't have to deal with it.
For those who don't know, Isla Vista (the student ghetto next to UC Santa Barbara) halloween is kind of legendary. People come from out-of-state just to get plastered and walk around half naked. The city has to spend thousands on public safety for that one night. I don't know the exact numbers, but commonly accepted knowledge is that for around 48 hours Isla Vista becomes the most densely populated square mile west of the Mississippi.
How are they not arrested for that kind of thing? I don't think I've ever heard of places like that in this country, is it just because there's so much America that statstically the chances are good for any type of person?
People did get arrested. We had partiers arrested right outside our bedroom window at least twice. The threat of arrest just doesn't stop people from partying.
Same here. They just passed a thing called the "social host ordinance", which allows the police to come into your house if they even see more than 5 people there, and all kinds of crazy fines and stuff. Most people responded with "fuck tha police" and continue to party anyways.
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Shane, its wallpaper, and hellish to get right. Looks awesome when it matches up though :D
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Well, im living in dutchland as well, more specifially, we live here:
The Hague! I was born there, lived there for... what? 33 years.
Where in The Hague is that?
Erik, is that wallpaper in the bedroom or did you stencil it? Badass!
They call it "The Tandoori Room". :lol:
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Wow, ground-level windows without bars on them? Unheard of!!
I've spent too much time in the city.
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I have that exact same kitchen cabinet front.
I'm not saying it's a high five moment, just, you know ...
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Wow, ground-level windows without bars on them? Unheard of!!
I've spent too much time in the city.
My friend from Sydney who was staying with me on the weekend couldn't believe it when she went into the front room, where she was sleeping, after we'd been sitting at the other end of the house for several hours, and found that the window onto the street was wide open because I'd needed to air the room out.
Lunchy maybe you just need to get the hell out of Sydney.
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One day, Harry, one day.
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Wow, ground-level windows without bars on them? Unheard of!!
First thought: "... wha... bars? Mars bars?
Second thought: "omg she means... STEEL bars!"
OK, Sydney's off the list of places I want to be then.
(I have to admit we're at the other side of the spectrum. Our front door is always open when we're home, and we regularly forget to lock our cars when they're on the driveway.)
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I grew up in a small town where that was the case, and my boyfriend lives way out of town where it's also safe enough. It's just the past few years I've lived in inner-city suburbs where bars are a necessary evil. People get quite creative with them though. I've seen some really pretty ones.
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That may be true (about the pretty ones), but it's the underlying idea that makes me cringe.
On a more practical note, it would also limit the number of exit paths in case, say, your house would be, say, on fire.
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I live in north Texas, around Ft.Worth, in that area that's eventually going to be swallowed up and become a megacity. Things tend to explode alot. It really seems like were auditioning for a part in Chernobyl 2: The Radiation Strikes Back.
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I lived in South Africa for a while. There were bars on all the windows. There was a security door that we switched on whenever we went to sleep. It was metal and separated us from the rest of the house, where we switched on the night alarm every night. We had barbed wire on our walls which were 3 meters high. We had a gate with a buzzer that was solid metal and yeah.
We lived in a pretty low security house.
I have friends who had all that and also lived in a gated community with security guards that patrolled the walls and stuff.
Edit: holy shit I have over 2000 posts I probably need to slow down or something.
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Sometimes I toy with the idea of moving to Melbourne, because there are a lot of things I don't like about Sydney, and Melbourne looks like a lovely place to live.
But then I realise that I would have to support Melbourne Heart or Victory :( :( :( I'm not in the habit of supporting child-rapists!
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That may be true (about the pretty ones), but it's the underlying idea that makes me cringe.
On a more practical note, it would also limit the number of exit paths in case, say, your house would be, say, on fire.
The last place I lived had them. You could open them by pulling a handle on the floor.
This wasn't much comfort, though - the windows couldn't be opened more than an inch unless you and a screwdriver and a couple of minutes to spare.
The place I'm living now is much safer, though. No bars on the windows. to prevent your escape. But that's only really because there's not anywhere to escape to. My window opens onto a roof that is far too steep to risk climbing unless I was trapped inside my flaming bedroom.
Student accommodation: because who cares if we burn?
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Ah, my girlfriend wished to share where she lives (and where I spend the majority of my time when I'm at home)
(http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee199/SignaLight/017-1-1.jpg)
That's me. She went on a (photo)shooting-spree.
(http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee199/SignaLight/018-1-1.jpg)
We stole that sign off a real-estate sign a few years ago. It was too perfect to resist.
(http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee199/SignaLight/019-1.jpg)
She has a thing for vintage signs. Which is actually pretty cool.
(http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee199/SignaLight/020-1.jpg)
Look internet! You're in her room!
(http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee199/SignaLight/021-1-1.jpg)
She also insisted on showing off her robot. And awesome mini-chandelier.
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Sometimes I toy with the idea of moving to Melbourne, because there are a lot of things I don't like about Sydney, and Melbourne looks like a lovely place to live.
But then I realise that I would have to support Melbourne Heart or Victory :( :( :( I'm not in the habit of supporting child-rapists!
Nah you'll find there are plenty of Sydney supporters up here. True story: I'd been living in Melbourne for literally years before I knowingly met my first born-and-bred Melbournian.
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Is it too late to post in this thread? I hope not, because I just got a new camera and want to show you the beautiful city of Glasgow, seen from a Norwegian art student and recent inhabitant's point of view!
Yes, I know a lot of people don't think Glasgow is much too look at, and surely, compared to, say, the incredibly picturesque Edinburgh which has tons of parks, lovely houses, hills and even a castle, Glasgow can look a bit bleak. However, even though this city still has very noticable traces of the not so aesthetically pleasing industrial era and its downfall, you can find a lot of gems wandering about. For example, the famous Mackintosh building (by the Art Nouveau architect, designer and painter Charles Rennie Mackintosh (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Rennie_Macintosh)) which is the heart of the Glasgow School of Art campus:
(http://www.architecture.com/HowWeBuiltBritain/Images/Scotland/MackintoshTurnOfCentury/Glasgow%20School%20of%20Art%20exterior_530x691.jpg)
(I am lucky enough to be able to spend a good chunk of my time in this building since my studio is on the first floor.)
This is the library, with all original early 20th century Mackintosh furniture still intact:
(http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/umacj/1/trowles-peter-69/XML/trowles4.jpg)
There are also a ton of small parks and green squares scattered around, and even though this tiny little seating area might not qualify as a park or a square I'm going to show it here anyway, since it's a nice looking place and I pass it every day on my way to and from school:
(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e263/blooper663/IMG_0065.jpg?1287934993)
Continue walking two minutes west, and you get to my building. It's the tallest building in the area with a bistro, dairy, bar (although it hasn't been open for weeks), pizza place, chapel and two hairdressers just around the corner. I mentioned it's the tallest building in the area, right? This is my bedroom view:
(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e263/blooper663/IMG_0060.jpg?1287936233)
(The tall-ish building sticking up slightly to the left of the middle there is the design department of my school, straight across from the Mackintosh building, so that's how far I walk every day.)
This is my bedroom:
(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e263/blooper663/IMG_0063.jpg?1287936521)
(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e263/blooper663/IMG_0059.jpg?1287936772)
See that grey jacket hanging over my chair? If you go even further west away from my flat, you'll get to the West End, more specifically the Great Western road and Byres road, where there are tons of amazing vintage clothing shops, second hand book shops, cafes, wine specialists, organic food stores and much more good stuff scattered around. I got the grey jacket (amongst numerous other things) for about half of what it would have cost me back in Norway I'm sure. Like most students here I spend a lot of my free time in this area of the city, the University of Glasgow is really close by as well. This is a cafe I tried for the first time today, on Byres road:
(http://i41.photobucket.com/albums/e263/blooper663/IMG_0053-1.jpg?1287937778)
(A pretty decent place, but I found another cafe yesterday where I had the best coffee I've had my entire life. I think I'll stick to that one!)
So yeah, I've lived in Glasgow for almost two months now, and I'm in love with the place already. Of course I miss Norway and Oslo a little bit, but I'm really happy with my choice of home away from home, and I can't wait to see what the four years here will be like!
(...Oh, and Jens: feel free to show mom these pictures, especually the ones of my room and how tidy it is, thanks.)
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Edit: holy shit I have over 2000 posts I probably need to slow down or something.
ha ha I am laughing so hard I'm crying
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I come from the Isle of Wight.
It is a landmass of about 200 square miles situated just off the south coast of Great Britain. I think it is like the fifth or sixth largest island in the British Isles. According to some racist graffiti I once sprayed over in a Ryde bus-stop, “IT’S THE ISLE OF WHITE NOT THE ISLE OF BLACKS”. Actually ‘Wight’ is an old English word that means ‘people’; there are not many coloured people on the Isle of Wight, but that is less to do with racism and more to do with the fact that they are not stupid enough to move there. It is not the Isle of Wights as in Barrow-Wights, though that would be bad ass. The Romans called it Vectis, and the posh name for a native is a Vectian. There was a Vectis Independence Party in the 70’s but that was apparently an excuse for a bunch of local folk musicians to write stupid songs about stabbing the English with pitchforks and wear rosettes and get drunk a lot, not that anyone on the Isle of Wight has ever particularly needed an excuse to do any of these things.
Here is a psychogeographical map I have prepared in MS paint which shows how people on the Isle of Wight perceive the rest of the world:
(http://image.bayimg.com/maaeeaadb.jpg)
But what are grockles and overlanders you ask? Well, Isle of Wight dialect divides the entirety of humanity into a distinct caste system, from best to worst:
Caulkheads: those who were born on the Isle of Wight, or in the strictest sense had both their parents born on the Isle of Wight. I am a caulkhead, and receive a free clay jar of scrumpy and a garlic clove on Whitsunday in acknowledgement of this fact.
Islanders: Those resident for a long time on the Island, or, if you hold to the strictest definition of caulkhead, those who were born on the Island but whose parents weren’t. Vectian taxonomy recognises the existence of no other islands, and never has. Thomas Hardy remarked as far back as the 18th century that “They call it The Island as if there were no other”. We still do.
Overlanders: People from other places who live on the Isle of Wight. Outsiders. Treated with suspicion and denied the best seats at witch burnings and the highest ranks of freemasonry.
Grockles: ‘Grockle’ roughly tanslates as ‘tourist’, but with an added depth of infinite burning hatred. Grockles come over to the island and gawk at people, and we sell them expensive ice cream and let them make a mess on our piers.
HISTORY:
The Isle of Wight was once a pretty big fucking deal. Queen Victoria loved the fuck out of the place and built a goddamn palace here where she sat crying and eating chocolates for like thirty years after Prince Albert died. Her presence and general assortments of nice beaches and bracing sea air attracted the cream of 19th century wankers. Tennyson wanked at length about the Isle of Wight, and we named a fucking heath after him. Julia Margaret Cameron took many pictures of wankers here, Karl Marx came to Ventnor for a brief wank, and Dickens wanked out much of David Copperfield there also. Marconi set up the world’s first radio station here, before moving out because of all the wankers.
Oh yeah and before all that happened Charles I was imprisoned here by the Roundheads and the French invaded a couple of times and we personally kicked the shit out of them. But no one gives a shit.
More recently, The Isle of Wight was an unlikely centre of shipbuilding, aircraft manufacture, and general high-tech. The British space program was based here briefly in the fifties, The hovecraft was invented here, BAE and Siemens had factories manufacturing radar and electronic warfare equipment. Then everyone realised that the Isle of Wight was a fucking stupid place to do such things, and decamped en mass, leaving us with an economy that relies entirely on tourism and farming garlic. Seriously, garlic. We are fucking nuts about garlic. We have a two day cultural festival dedicated entirely to garlic. Would you like some garlic? Garlic ice cream? Garlic beer? Have some fucking garlic you grockle cunts!
*ahem*
GEOGRAPHY
The Isle of Wight is an Island, which means it is surrounded by the sea. This is where rich yachtie cunts employ local sailors to drive their ghastly sunseekers around whilst they swig gin and bray like fucked up donkeys. In the middle of this sea is the Island, which is mostly made out of chalk and sheep shit. Major towns:
Ryde: Used to be rough as fuck when I was a teenager. I saw a dude get thrown through a shop window, and a thirty man street fight involving chains and baseball bats in Ryde. It is the place I first had sex in a public toilet and the place I was first beaten up. Now a depressingly safe place to drink.
Newport: Where I live. Basically just a standard town. There is some really, really insanely ugly architecture from the 60’s that miraculously is always like one centimetre out of shot in every single photograph on the Isle of Wight Tourism website.
Sandown/Shanklin/Ventnor/Freshwater: The four towns on the ‘back o’ the wight’ (the south coast). Hellholes. This is probably where all the violence is now happening but the bus services are so shit I never bother going down to find out.
Yarmouth: The population of Yarmouth is kept naturally small by surrounding salt marshes and severe genetic deformities caused by rampant incest. Everything west of here is Deliverance country. They still have red telephone boxes out this way simply because BT has forgotten they exist.
Bembridge: Bembridge is like an elephant graveyard, but for terrifying old women. They come here to knit and die.
Niton: Has a population of 2000 but only gets four buses a day because the entire bus system is designed to give grockles nice coastal views.
Seaview: Not a real town, whatever lies they may tell you.
Godshill: Twee as fuck. More tea-rooms than shops, more coach parks than car parks. Not making this up at all, look at the fucking place:
(http://www.isleofwightholidays4all.co.uk/images/Godshill_church-cottages-2.jpg)
CULTURE:
The culture of the Isle of Wight is predicated around four major activities:
1: Drinking
2: Music festivals
3: More drinking
4: Legal-high induced suicide
CONCLUSION:
MORE CIDERRRRR
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Khar, I just derived great enjoyment out of reading that post, and out of reading the litany of wankers to my girlfriend and a crowd of strangers
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I live in the intellectual wasteland of Boise, Idaho. It's an interesting microcosm of all things American. We have threatened natural splendor, an amazing amount of fat white racists who hate and fear the illegal immigrants that they employ and exploit, among the lowest in per-student education spending and Guns, guns, guns, guns.
Can I come live with any of you europeans? Please help me escape.
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I live where I was born in an English suburb. It was a prosperous market town 400 years ago, it's gone down-hill a bit since then :/ that's continental drift for you ;)
No really though, the centre's seen better days but it's surrounded by excellent countryside
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/80/258902829_a18270bded.jpg (http://farm1.static.flickr.com/80/258902829_a18270bded.jpg)
http://www.berkshirehistory.com/churches/images/wokingham_allsaints.jpg (http://www.berkshirehistory.com/churches/images/wokingham_allsaints.jpg)
http://cache.virtualtourist.com/1033053-Beautiful_Bracknell_forest-Bracknell.jpg (http://cache.virtualtourist.com/1033053-Beautiful_Bracknell_forest-Bracknell.jpg)
http://m.gmgrd.co.uk/sbres/780.$plit/C_67_article_2053941_body_articleblock_0_bodyimage.jpg?09%2F07%2F2009%2011%3A17%3A53%3A688 (http://m.gmgrd.co.uk/sbres/780.$plit/C_67_article_2053941_body_articleblock_0_bodyimage.jpg?09%2F07%2F2009%2011%3A17%3A53%3A688)
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/04/08/040885_5a48e005.jpg (http://s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/04/08/040885_5a48e005.jpg)
http://www.keepbritaintidy.org/GreenFlag/ImgLibrary/Lily_Hill_Park_Bracknell_01_2206.JPG (http://www.keepbritaintidy.org/GreenFlag/ImgLibrary/Lily_Hill_Park_Bracknell_01_2206.JPG)
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I'd heard Bracknell was pretty rough?
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I live in wokingham which is just next to bracknell. wokingham's not so bad but you heard right about bracknell, the toddlers there have smoker's coughs and mean stares
it's amazing how different two places can be when they're only a mile apart
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I heard that there are certain pubs in Bracknell where if you do not support the right football team, aren't white, bald and haven't been drinking there for twenty five years literally the only way to leave is in an ambulance, via the window.
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Hahah, that's a bit of an exaggeration, it's not that bad. It's not like it's up north or anything
That said I was once chased out of bracknell by the bracknell massive
It was basically a gang of about 30 children armed with bricks
I certainly wouldn't go there unless I had to
30 years ago it was a quaint village, then the town planners decided to turn it into a London commuter town, so it's basically a cockney Ghetto
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I take offence to that. The North isn't that rough!
That said, one of my friends got in a fight in a chippie in Wakefield - he got punched in the face so hard his jaw shattered (and had to have a metal rod put through it to keep his face from being wonky,) and he didn't even fall over.
He's honestly not even particularily tough. On the other hand, he has set himself on fire on multiple occassions as a party trick, so it might just be that he's a bit too thick for pain to work properly.
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I live in the Gosforth area of Newcastle upon Tyne:
http://uk.maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=55.009361&lon=-1.62031&zoom=14&q1=Gosforth%2C%20Newcastle%20upon%20Tyne (http://uk.maps.yahoo.com/#mvt=m&lat=55.009361&lon=-1.62031&zoom=14&q1=Gosforth%2C%20Newcastle%20upon%20Tyne)
It's close to the city (about 10 minutes by metro, southbound) and we have our own High Street (marked by Yahoo Maps). Whilst our High Street is reasonable, the city centre as a lot more shops and bigger shopping centres. Sainsbury's, a supermaket chain, lives in the shopping centre on the High Street. Gosforth High Street doesn't have any clothes shops (outside of charity shops) nor does it have dedicated electronics shops (though the two supermarkets (see this paragraph and below) sell some).
To the immediate south of Gosforth we have Jemond (the posh part of the city) and we bordered by by Kenton, Fawdon and Benton (some of the cheaper areas of the city).
Church Road links the High Street to South Gosforth Metro Station. Regent Centre Metro Station is on the High Street. There are offices at Regent Centre, a largish Asda[1] the opposite side of the High Street. Close to Regent Centre there is Gosforth Library and Gosforth Swimming pool.
Gosforth feels like a self-contained town until you find the houses don't stop when you go from one area to the next.
Here's a link to the Nexus (the people who run the metro (http://www.nexus.org.uk/metro). The link to the map is on the right hand side (on top of the photograph).
And here's an image of South Gosforth Metro Station:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/24759744@N02/3240472167/ (http://www.flickr.com/photos/24759744@N02/3240472167/)
[1] The chain was bought by Walmart a few years ago and experts say their businesses are "a good fit".
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Sweden at the moment, moved here about a year ago. But I've lived most of my life in worlds northernmost town, Hammerfest, in Norway. Its at 70 degrees north. :-P
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I live in Hove, which is one part of the city of Brighton & Hove. It is the supposedly quieter, more respectable, tidier part of Brighton & Hove. The upshot of this is that there are more rich people and more Tory MPs. However it is very pretty and Hove cricket ground is the next road over from me. So, on hot summer days when reclining upon my balcony I can hear the genteel sound of cricket on the air.
Here are the beach huts:
(http://bp1.blogger.com/_gSSM01brUHQ/R3yL_j4tv4I/AAAAAAAAA5M/6Xp-O9rzw2I/s400/Hove-Beach-Huts.jpg)
Here is the beach:
(http://www.hovecivicsociety.org/images/Hove-seafront450.jpg)
Here is Hove park:
(http://homepages.pavilion.co.uk/nmarchant/hove101l.jpg)
And here is the miniature railway in said park:
(http://homepages.pavilion.co.uk/nmarchant/hove117l.jpg)
It is quite a nice place to live. However in an effort to kickstart my stalling career I am moving to East London in June.
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That said I was once chased out of bracknell by the bracknell massive
It was basically a gang of about 30 children armed with bricks
More like Bricknell, am I right?
:mrgreen:
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On the other hand, he has set himself on fire on multiple occassions
Wait, Darryl actually hangs out with people?
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(Who's Darryl?)
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I hung out with Darrly! Jens and I bought him a fire extinguisher.
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He showed up at Jon's birthday party in about 17 different t-shirts.
And over Skype.
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I'm starting to feel a bit left out now. I'm not cool enough to know anyone on this board by name. :-(
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It's less to do with coolness and more to do with whether or not you were here when there was a big spate of "what is your real name?" discussions, and whether you've met anyone. It's much easier to meet people who are in your own country, and Darrly and I happened to live in the same county for a while!
ETA: Wait. You seem to live in the same county. Yeah, you're right, you're just not cool enough :p
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Boy howdy, this is a new low.
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I am (not really) beginning to wonder if Darrly is the same person as Darryl !
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I think it is probably an evil twin sort of situation.
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Is your name Julian?
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Darrly just can't spell his own name.
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Darrly has a goatee and wears leather trousers.
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I am beginning to think that Darryl only comes out in the month of May and hibernates for the rest of the year.
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nah, he just left the forum. he still shows up in meebo and on facebook though.
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I live in Hove, which is one part of the city of Brighton & Hove.
I live in Brighton, which is the other part of the city of Brighton & Hove.
It is pretty similar, though we have more hippies and fewer tories - the area I live in voted in the UK's only Green Party MP in the last election, which was more of a token victory but made a lot of the residents feel quite pleased with themselves.
We have regular protests about Stuff and Things, and we have the annual zombie walk this Saturday (just after the March against Cuts, in which lots of people will get together to shout about the embarrassment that is our current government). The zombie walk often leads to headlines such as this:
(http://i1080.photobucket.com/albums/j322/muffichka/images.jpg)
We have two piers, but one of them used to get burned down quite a lot. At the moment, it is a shell of a pier which ends up in lots of pictures because it's cool.
(http://i1080.photobucket.com/albums/j322/muffichka/pier.jpg)
However, some over-funded idealist has been given the go-ahead to tear the rest of it down and replace it with something which is best described as monument to penetrative encounters (sorry). Seriously. It is going to be a giant pole which will have a big doughnut full of tourists sliding up and down it. Brighton and Hove Council think that this will generate lots of money for the city as residents and tourists alike will be queueing up to ride the magic doughnut on a stick. Brighton and Hove Council are not always on the money when it comes to ideas.
We have loads of bars and clubs, but with all the financial mess of late, a lot of these have been shut down. We lost a benchmark toilet circuit venue this year (The Freebutt) despite lots of protests (this is a recurring theme - they happen all the time and make roughly no difference but they're pretty good as far as social events go).
However, we still have enough to go round, even if they are getting a lot less adventurous with the stuff they put on. The club I am playing at tomorrow is right on the seafront and looks like this:
(http://i1080.photobucket.com/albums/j322/muffichka/LifeclubBrighton.jpg)
As with most large built up areas, there is one part of town that should be avoided at all costs past about 7pm. It is called West Street, and every Friday and Saturday night, a riot van parks at the top of the road and waits for the drunks to come out of the bars and clubs and pick fights with strangers. There is often blood or glass or vomit on the street the following day. West Street doesn't deserve a picture.
Mostly, though, the Brighton + Hove area is awesome because of the beach. And the road I live on is also awesome as it has this at the bottom of it (but it is sadly not always covered in snow):
(http://i1080.photobucket.com/albums/j322/muffichka/bandstand.jpg)
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I used to live in Brighton, foolishly I left :(
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I live in Canberra, Australia. It's pretty nice except for the fact that it's not. I like when I visit the bigger, or smaller, so long as they're better, places. Sydney, Melbourne, the coast, Albury etc...
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Northside or southside?
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Southside. Tuggers. I noticed you went to Bundah in another thread. Where you at? I've got some friends that went/go there now.
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I've been in Melbourne since 2004. All my Canberra friends moved here so I followed them. I grew up in Yarralumla (my parents bought into the suburb in the 70s when nobody wanted to live there and the houses weren't worth anything.)
I can understand why you'd be sick of living in Tuggeranong.
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Eh, to be fair I spend more time in Queanbeyan, seeing as that's where I used to live, and nearly all my friends live. But Tuggers is just lame. Civic and Woden are alright.
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are... are those real names of places?! australia is blowing my mind right now!
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Ask Jodie where she lives (or used to live? Can't remember. Anyway it sounds like a marshmallow treat.)
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She lives in Toowoomba! I can't remember where she used to live, though. My favourite name of an Australian town is Galaganbone.
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Hammerfest :)
With Aurora Borealis
(http://www.farmgirlfollies.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/hammerfest.jpg)
We also have a great Liquid Natural Gas resource right outside the city. Sometimes they burn off excess materials, making a huge flame which lights up the whole city for a few weeks. Its really nice when you walk home drunk in the middle of the night, as we have the dark months up there, where we don't have any sun at all for a few months. (and likewise, we have the midnight sun in summer.)
(http://www.thewe.cc/thewei/_/images_3/permafrost/hammerfest.jpe)
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are... are those real names of places?! australia is blowing my mind right now!
"Tuggers" is a typically Australian shortening of the name Tuggeranong (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuggeranong). As for the others, two of my favourite things about Canberra are that (A) the inhabitants still insist on calling the nominal city centre "Civic" even though local governments keep trying to get people to call it the City; and (B) yes, one of Canberra's town centres is called, for absolutely no apparent reason, Woden. (It's nowhere near as awesome as a place named after a Norse god ought to be.)
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Ah yes, Tuggeranong, that common name for towns.
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There's also Indooroopilly, Wooloomaloo, Parramatta, Bulli, Woolongong, Turramurra, Tamarama, Coogee, Dubbo and Wodonga.
There's less interesting place names like Ashfield, Summer Hill and Strathfield.
There's places named after British locations (obivously), like Penrith or Kensington.
There's also middle of nowhere towns with American names like Las Vegas, Houston and oddly, Toronto (a town with one street and a run down petrol station.
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Toronto is actually a relatively large suburb on Lake Macquarie.
My favourite is driving past Beverly Hills on the freeway up the coast.
The majority of these weird names are the traditional Aboriginal names for them, so it's not so weird I guess?
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So far I dislike anywhere in Australia that isn't Sydney. Specifically the inner-west region. Even more specifically Newtown/Enmore.
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Toronto is actually a relatively large suburb on Lake Macquarie.
My favourite is driving past Beverly Hills on the freeway up the coast.
The majority of these weird names are the traditional Aboriginal names for them, so it's not so weird I guess?
Thanks for making us all sound like racist douchebags.
Also as a sidenote, Ingelise and I confirmed our position as horrible city-people by spending a large part of the drive down to Melbourne mocking the town names of basically everywhere we passed.
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It's okay, Tommy, I think I know more about American geography and history than I do Australia. It's because we get it rammed into our eyeballs and earholes through popular culture.
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I liked everywhere I went in Australia. Although I don't think Ive seen as many bugs in my life as at the hotel in Alice Springs :laugh: Port Douglas was pretty nice, and Sydney was awesome except for a sadist waiter serving me vegemite for breakfast and declaring it "yummy". My tiny trust was betrayed.
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There's also Indooroopilly, Wooloomaloo, Parramatta, Bulli, Woolongong, Turramurra, Tamarama, Coogee, Dubbo and Wodonga.
There's less interesting place names like Ashfield, Summer Hill and Strathfield.
There's places named after British locations (obivously), like Penrith or Kensington.
There's also middle of nowhere towns with American names like Las Vegas, Houston and oddly, Toronto (a town with one street and a run down petrol station.
To be fair I only know of Paramatta, Woolongong, Coogee, Dubbo, Wodonga, Strathfield and Penrith out of those.
You know, we really do have some funny names.
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Also, Canadian (usually Inuit or other First Nations-derived) place names are as, if not more, funny that Australian place names. There's Kamloops, Mississauga, Shuswaps, Medicine Hat, Flin Flon, Banff, Wawa, Okotoks, hell even Ottawa is a pretty funny name when you think about it.
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I have a feeling Banff is also in Scotland.
Yeah, just looked it up - it's named after the Banff in Scotland, the director of the Canadian Pacific Railway named it after his birthplace. How sweet.
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I'll make a good post on this when I have more time.
But seriously, Nova Scotia rocks silly names
Tatamagouche
Pugwash
Merigomish Harbour
Shubenacadie
Wagmatcook
Whycocomagh
Pomquet and Afton
Wildcat
Guysborough
Pockwock
Pembroke
Passchendaele
Cheticamp
Miramichi
Musquodoboit Harbour
Nictaux
Yankeetown
Fauxburg
Weymouth
Like, come on, these are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. Do you know how unfair it is to grow up in this province and try and be 6 years old and list town names?
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Pembroke and Weymouth are old family names and a seaside town, respectively, here. It is really odd how names get used over and over across the world.
Also Passchendaele is a famous duplicate.
Moral: humans are not great at coming up with new names.
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I was really proud (no, I don't know why either) when I found out that Perth, Western Australia is the page Wikipedia goes to first when you type just "Perth" into the search bar. There's also Perth in Scotland, Perth in New Jersey, and
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/hs396.ash2/67416_462672532528_741252528_5638833_3183748_n.jpg)
Perth in Ontario!
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One time when I went to the US I went to Schenectady. Come on.
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We are pretty bad at naming things. On the drive down to Melbourne we crossed a lot of creeks all of which had names. Most of them were "8 Mile Creek", "One Mile Creek", Four Mile Creek etc...
GET IT TOGETHER PEOPLE!
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New Jersey also has a Perth Amboy, Dovey.
Ben, I'm about an hour away from Schenectady. A lot of Upstate New York has towns that came out of Dutch ancestry. See also: Watervliet, Ganesvoort, Fishkill.
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That was the one I was referring to, it just made it easier to have them all as Perths. I think .
EDIT: All the Perths (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perth)
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We are pretty bad at naming things. On the drive down to Melbourne we crossed a lot of creeks all of which had names. Most of them were "8 Mile Creek", "One Mile Creek", Four Mile Creek etc...
I remember when I caught a train in Russia it passed through a whole lot of places which basically just seemed to be stops named after their distance in kilometres from St. Petersburg.
Earlier on that same trip I had the pleasure of travelling on a train through Middelfart, Denmark. ("Fart" means "passage" in Nordic languages - well Danish and Swedish anyway, in my experience, so I'd assume they've got the same word or a similar word in Norwegian - and Middelfart is a town in central Denmark that's pretty much unavoidable if you're travelling along the east/west corridor in that country.)
I think my favourite place name, though, is Westward Ho! (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westward_Ho!). Yes, the exclamation mark is part of the name. I like to think that if they were naming the place nowadays, it'd be called something like Let's Go West, Fuck Yeah!
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Me on the beach at Westward Ho!
(http://cassland.org/images/pwh2008.jpg)
Eek! that tummy - no wonder I had a heart attack...