what's it like around where you live?
 

around here, it's pretty quiet, but they're building more and more and slowly enlarging small towns and our cities like Raleigh. my grandma worked at a tobacco warehouse and i spent a lot of time around there when i was little, and nothing smells as good as a tobacco warehouse before auctions. but back in the old days, the school system revolved around the tobacco seasons, like school would come back labor day i think, because all the kids were working on their respective farms or helping out, when now, i tried to get a job over the summer working on a tobacco farm, and they wont hire because summer vacation is only 2.5 months and all the mexicans are working at the farms so who needs a highschooler who wont be there as long? anyway, what's it like where you live?

one of the fastest growing cities in north america. in the middle of a huge economic boom due to the oil industry. no houses for sale, and prices have doubled in a year, not enough labour. shit jobs like mcdonalds pay $10 starting because of the lack of workers. beautiful 30 degrees, CFL season and NHL is just around the corner.

i have pictures of a bunch of abandoned buildings i broke into. thats pretty much Rochester for ya

Hot. Lots of water. Construction. Pretty much it.

3 universities, so tons of students. pretty much the whitest city in canada. growing fast due to location between toronto and ottawa.

Middle sized town, I live on a shitty street, with shitty people with shitty attitudes. but anyway, the rest of the town isnt that bad. Lived here all my life.

you have no idea.... annoy:

How it was when I drove through there.

small rich town surrounded by 3 bad areas including the Bronx. not really much to do except hang out.

pittsburgh is kind of dirty and a smaller sized city filled with people that cant figure out whether to cop an east coast attitude or succumb to their mid-western redneck tendencies. however, for all that there is to complain about, pittsburgh has an inviting and pleasant feeling to it, the nightlife is great as there are 3 big colleges (pitt, carnegie mellon and duquesne), and the city can be beautiful on the rare occasion that its nice out.

philly is different, the weather is usually a lot nicer, the city sprawls out a lot farther and the suburbs are filled with rich assholes. during the summer, going to the jersey shore is the weekend routine, youll never see an ass in pgh as sexy as the ones in philly, the weed is better also. the people are a mix between jews or rich wasps, filthy yard apes and vile jersey trash, so they arent much better.

the classic suburbia with a good school system and houses that are beginning to cost way more than they should. there is nothing for teenagers to do around here, so they either bike or skate and loiter around parking lots. lots of drugs and alcohol around my town too, but i dont touch that shit. cranford was voted one of the top 100 towns to live in NJ, but I dont think thats saying much.

small town (if you consider 62,000 small),in the middle of a huge economic boom. House prices have doubled in a year, not enough labour. Shit jobs like mcdonalds pay $10 starting because of the lack of workers. real estate market booming, literitly thousands of houses being built, hot as fuck, (42 yesterday), lots of fuckin homeless people that coming up from Kelowna because they actualy did something about them. But i gotta World class ski resort like 20 minutes and lots of awesome beaches just down the road.

I fucking love Denver. Pretty big city, but not too big...but its about 4 mil.
Downtown scene is awesome, and off to the west you can see the fucking mountains. Lot of history here... plus weve got the best fucking hockey team. (well they used to be before Bourque retired.)

Ottawa =

- approx. 1.5 mil (surrounding communities included)
- government town
- ethnically diverse
- mostly bilingual (French/English)
- awesome regular season hockey team
- great nightlife (believe it or not)
- clean, except for a few spots (Vanier, I'm looking at you)
- cold as fuck winters with medium snowfall.
- summers are hot as balls (+30C most of June - August)

hot as fuck this past weekend when it reached a bit past 100 F. rolling blackouts, forest fires and traffic jams are rampant over here. houses are way overpriced over here. still, i'd rather live here than anywhere else. i love my job, they pay me well, and the Fall semester starts in a few weeks. it rained yesterday morning but the air was still hot oOo: alot of new cookie cutter homes are being built in the neighboring cities of fullerton, la habra and anaheim hills. A/C's are the hot item being sold everywhere and all the small 5500 BTU units are being sold before i step my foot into the stores.

nice

Denver sucks, Aurora even worse. It's dry in the summer and dryer in the winter, and my hands pour out pints of blood all season long.

Some parts are OK, but theres no interesting neighborhoods like in SanFran (where I used to live for a long whiel) , and most of the city consists of yuppies, who can be seen 24/7 jogging down 6th avenue.

But Denver > Aurora anyday. Auroras split up into the North and South, where one side is totally mexican and the other totally white. I kinda live in the baseline between the two, more towards the south, but still in enough to be central of the two.

And there's no Jack in the Box in Colorado, wtf is that.

It's hot, sometimes humid oOo: , ummm pretty much like everything else.. eek: Just think of orlando FL, only without so many tourists..

there's no way denver is 4 mill.

http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0763098.html

according to that it's 557,917. You were probably including suburbs, but i still doubt it's anywhere near 4 mill. including suburbs.

crazy canadian, where in bc are you?

headup, I assume you are talking about lower merion? The wealthiest suburb/county in PA? I have my cousins living in it and when we go there to visit; I always hang out with my cousins and their friends - who are daughters/sons to some of the wealthiest people in America. Its kind of daunting even if my father does make alot of money...I live in Baldwinsville NY; one of the wealthiersuburbs of syracuse and of couse with all small towns, there is nothing to do and drinking and drugs are prevalent.

So when I say i live in a small town, i mean, there is like 4k people here, and the town size is a square mile.

Not 62k people. that isnt small oOo:

Calgary is the cleanest city in Canada. Only because it's all whites. Their Chinatown is the cleanest one I've seen from either San Fran, Toronto etc.

I live in what is supposedly the safest city in the United States based on crime:population ratio.

Everyone is really really rich but a few of us are middle class (That's me), and most kids here drive Escalades, GTO's, or G35's.

The girls are REALLY fucking hot. But so are the guys, so I haven't had the chance to mingle it up with the upper class women due to competition.

Everyone here has smoked weed at least once in their life, even the top of our class asian kid. A lot of kids drink but they stick to themselves.

A lot of people here can't drive very well, and they can be very impatient. I'm late to school 10 times a year mabye because of accidents just on the small intersection outside my neighborhood alone.

Rofl, I've been to Thousand Oaks, that's one of the richest towns in California. There is no middle class.

yeah including the metro area

[quote="Doctor Duffy":f41f1]Rofl, I've been to Thousand Oaks, that's one of the richest towns in California. There is no middle class.[/quote:f41f1]

Obviously you've never been to Skyline Drive. oOo:

Family friends used to live there, it's really nice with all the hills and stuff, but its so rich, being outside LA and all, its unbuleebable

I used to live in Marin Point, probably THE richest town in California. I lived in the "mountains", it was super nice, I mean, I didnt realize it at the time, but it was probably the nicest place I've ever lived in my life.

Pittsburgh - A city stuck with a stigma of being a dirty town. Pittsburgh has been cleaned up and is actually a very beatiful town. We are slowly growing out of our slump with people saying our town has improved a lot. We've been getting great PR from out-of-towners from last years Bassmaster Classic and the MLB All-Star game this year. We are considered a small big city because there are not many people living in town; however, there is not much room to live in the city. The suburbs are beyond packed and some people are moving out of their old suburb home just to move out even farther from the bustle.

Well I live in Manchester. The biggest growing city in England. Full of shops, bars and clubs. One of the best nightlife spots in the UK.

gun shots , my ass got shot

Brampton

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That about sums it up.

anyways...we're part of the best area in the world...the Greater toronto Area...our population is like...almost 400,000 now...Toronto itself is around 3 million. We get no tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis, floods, earthquakes, hell even no blizzards anymore. We are like...in terms of nature...Gods perfect haven. Parks and Recreation is definally above average...it is what brampton excels at...though it was better when less people lived here...before the paki takeover.

Everything else i go to toronto for...sport teams...nightlife (kills ottawa...but it's toronto...all the best shit has to be here...only montreal can compare in canada anyways)

oh ya...we have government housing for the blacks and tyhats where all the violence usually happens with the wannabe crips and bloods.

I've been to Toronto a couple of times and it was alright. The thing that drove me insane was the crippling traffic! It took forever to get anywhere.

I s'pose you get used to that after a while.

Oh and... Montreal > Toronto

Easily.

Ditto.

I lol'd at the pic of brampton with apu then "that pretty much sums it up"

Vernon (just north of Kelowna)


And according to wikipedia:

DENVER

Population
City (2005) 557,917
Density 1,405/km² (3,639/sq mi)
Metro 2,330,146

it's ok. It has everything your average city has including restaurants, movies theathre, shopping malls, outlets, fitness centers and everything. Pretty diverse here and i love that part because where i moved from there were only one group of ppl that were there and that shit gets very old after a while. One needs to see other groups of people in the area from time to time. Not much violence but the people are somewhat unfriendly especially when speaking to them "hi are you? reply........."

[url:3355b]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auckland[/url:3355b]

I live smack-dab in the middle of Central Auckland - Auckland's population is over 1.2 million, making it by far the largest city in New Zealand, with approaching one third of the country's entire population.

I like where I live....It's relatively nice, crime isn't too bad - It's frequently rated as one of the best cities to live in the world in heaps of those top 100s...

One thing I've always liked about Auckland is that its one of the only cities in the world that is bicoastal. If you're a surfer, this is your city. You get to choose from East Coast or West Coast.

A few interesting facts...

[quote:3355b]Auckland straddles the volcanoes of the Auckland Volcanic Field. The 50 volcanic vents in the field take the form of cones, lakes, lagoons, islands and depressions, and several have produced extensive lava flows. Most of the cones have been partly or completely quarried away. The volcanoes are all individually extinct although the volcanic field itself is merely dormant.[/quote:3355b]

[quote:3355b]Auckland serves as a home to many cultures. The majority of inhabitants claim European — predominantly British — descent, but substantial Māori, Pacific Islander and Asian communities exist as well. Auckland has the largest Polynesian population of any city in the world. A large proportion of the population is also made up of people of Asian origin (mainly East Asian and South Asian). This is due to New Zealand's world-leading level of immigration, which flows primarily into Auckland. Ethnic groups from all corners of the world have a presence in Auckland, making it by far the country's most cosmopolitan city. It is estimated that over 14 people from other countries immigrate to Auckland every day.[/quote:3355b]

I live in an area that is full of somalis, indians, asians and pacific islanders....In a few of the schools i've been to in my life I've been the minority which I'm glad about because I feel I now have a greater acceptance of, and an interest in, other cultures.

Apparently, according to wikipedia - These are Auckland's sister cities..:

* Los Angeles, United States
* Brisbane, Australia
* Guangzhou, the People's Republic of China
* Fukuoka, Japan
* Busan, South Korea

...L.A I agree with, mainly because of the way both cities spreadout.

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8d/Auk_city_night.jpg[/img]

LOL.

beautiful at night! and to think, i once called that a "terrorists hangout".

sry tripp, i was ignorant then but now im FREEEEEEEEE

lol?

There aren't many terrorists here. I can't see it as the best place to launch an attack from, unless it was to Australia, but then Indonesia would be a far better place to attack from....We're just way too isolated.

L.A. is shite.



Frederiskburg ftw, we are 1 hour from Richmond and DC. Looks like any other place in the North East. And its boring with no coast, only mountains an hour west. The beach is 2 hours east.