Whats it like where you live?

[Time_Attack]

Having so many threads asking what a certain area is like is rather pointless. Lets just have one big thread about it. You can say what its like where you are, comment on a location or ask about a location. Simple...

For me personaly, I live in Illinois. Its flat, boring, hot, and if you dont drive a mustang or a mitsubishi you're gay. We have terribly odd weather. I've seen days that it was snowing with the sun out and it actually only snowed once or twice last winter but didnt stick and it was about 70F the whole season. It was pouring rain the other day and still over 80 and just yesterday it was about 100. Another issue is that we have far to many indians. Not to be racist (no one can drive right here) but they just do it worse.

 

[ferrari_chris]

See my post in the New Zealand thread.

Linkage.

 

[McLaren]

Plano, 1 of Collin County's few wealthy cities. Basically, when it comes to cars, we've got the bases covered with Ferrari, Audi/Porsche, Mercedes, Dodge, Lexus, and Toyota. We have Classic BMW coming and Boardwalk supposedly moving Lamborghini Dallas closer.
The majority of cars like to be mid-sized SUVs to luxury sedans. Many BMWs, Lexus', and Mercedes-Benzs.

The stores are basically all expensive crap. The restaurants are over-priced, and the local mall is home to $400 jeans you'll only wear 4 times.

We've had a few stars from here like Troy Aikman, Lance Armstrong, Steve Harvey, and my favorite, Kristin Holt.
And according to wikipedia, we have JCPenny's, Frito Lay, and Cinemark Theater's HQs here.

The education is average. We've had some suicides and heroin problems. As the wiki article states, Taylor Hooton did commit suicide in '03 and was the talk for a while.

Our biggest event is probably the Hot Air Balloon festival. Southfork Ranch (The home where the show Dallas is based) doesn't seem to be as popular as it was in the past. We also have the DART railway that people love to hitch free rides on (I'm guilty of this). Oh yes, and Billy Bob's.
Terrific place for concerts.

I think a surprising thing is we're 30 minutes from the heart of Dallas, yet all it's attractions are pretty close. Being so a 30 minute drive, Dallas is the prime center for fun for us.

Plus, since you're from Illinois, according to the Wiki, there's a Plano in your state.

 

[dougiemeats]

I see you're from Illinois too. Depending on where in Illinois you're from, you might be able to relate to my description from the other thread. Link

 

[CDailey]

I'm from Florida. We have 2 seasons and they are called Hot and Hotter. The hot season takes place from about October - Janurary while Hotter occupies the other months. Florida is probably the only place in the US where you would enjoy going to the beach on Christmas day. We have awesome beaches and beautiful women. Normally all the really cool cars stay in the richer parts of the state like Orlando (complete with Ferrari/Maseratti dealership), Miami, and the Tampa/Sarasota area. There is a Ford GT (modified too!) in my city of Jacksonville, though. The roadwork in Florida is endless, especially in Jacksonville. Jacksonville is the biggest city in the US land-wise. Florida is hot, beautiful, and a blast to live in.

 

[dbartucci]

. Another issue is that we have far to many indians. Not to be racist (no one can drive right here) but they just do it worse.

Do you mean people from India, or Native Americans?

 

[Pink_the_Floyd]

Too enjoyable to tell

 

[ExigeEvan]

I live in Birchgrove, Swansea, Wales.

This same location, though, leaves Swansea exposed to rain-bearing winds from the Atlantic: figures from the Met Office make Swansea the wettest city in Britain[3].

 

[Law93]

i live in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. its great here. its never really too cold or too hot, its always just right. its also very easy to get around. our transportation system is very effective, and traffic isn't very really as bad as traffic if Los Angeles. theres also great outdoor spots all over the place 👍 VAN-CITY!!!!

 

[Omnis]

I'm from Florida. We have 2 seasons and they are called Hot and Hotter. The hot season takes place from about October - Janurary while Hotter occupies the other months. Florida is probably the only place in the US where you would enjoy going to the beach on Christmas day. We have awesome beaches and beautiful women. Normally all the really cool cars stay in the richer parts of the state like Orlando (complete with Ferrari/Maseratti dealership), Miami, and the Tampa/Sarasota area. There is a Ford GT (modified too!) in my city of Jacksonville, though. The roadwork in Florida is endless, especially in Jacksonville. Jacksonville is the biggest city in the US land-wise. Florida is hot, beautiful, and a blast to live in.

Wrong. You live in North Florida, and, if that's your opinion of it, I'm moving there straight away.

South Florida sucks. My Dad's car just got stolen, and, 6 months ago, someone came to his door and put a gun in his face. He lives near the beach, too; the "rich" area. Ft. Lauderdale police suck. Everything is ridiculously expensive. People can't even afford to buy houses here. Everything is bought using interest-only financing. The economy is running only on margin and face-value. There is no such thing as reserves, and nobody can afford to save. Basically, South(east) Florida is like a modern-day cyberpunk dystopia story. It's so material. The worst part, though, is the majority of the people here. It's really a shame that the people have become the downfall of the land. According to everyone I know that has lived in South Florida (family, friends) for a large portion of time, this is indeed the case. In the 70's, South Florida was freakin' awesome, the police were like gestapo (NOBODY got away with crime, a contribution to the lack of it.), most of the people were honest, hard-working folks. Now, there are lots of unemployed welfare-abusers, people are incredibly impatient and stupid, there is always paranoia instead of trust, and, from a social and economic standpoint, it's just not an ideal place to live anymore.

Where I live indeed has its good features, but, I'm becoming more and more afraid that it's just not worth it to remain.

 

[Ram-Rod]

Hot as hot can be.

 

[socomplayer2]

i live in nw jersey. im in about the middle and about 10 miles from the shore (not like its very nice) but i like it here it relativley flat, crowded, some bad areas here and there around my town but nothing to crazy( but some shootings) but my general neighbor hood is very suburban.

a neat side note... i live rite by where the sopranos do there show and on the intro of the show i know all the land marks

 

[livemusic]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blumenau

 

[Nissan_Racer]

Minnesota, right now its hot and humid, in about 3 months it will be colder than a witches tit. The only cool thing we have here is the mall of america, and it gets boring really quick. "Minnesota nice" seemed to stop a couple years ago now people are arse holes. Wisconsin is 10 min away and I can buy fireworks pretty much year round, but if you get cought you will get in trouble.

 

[Talentless]

I don't interact with the outside world enough to know. Doing so could effect my delusion.

Did you know that in my area, animals poop solid gold? Incredible, huh?

 

[240^drift]

I'll take credit to starting the initial "Whats it like to live ____?" Thread lol.
Ya america is cool, but some things to the economy suck, like the schools, laws, and the president.

 

[Cosmic]

Pretty nice, except from the stupid immigrants.

 

[McLaren]

Hot as hot can be.

You live in the Sahara Desert? D*mn....

 

[kranzx]

i live in south east asia, Malaysia to be exact. you probably heard of it because we've got an F1 circuit at Sepang. well, its about 2 hours drive from where i'm living so i have never been there. we never seen snow.... it's hot sun through out the year with heavy downpour around Aug to Sep, and Nov untill Dec.

we have variety of food, and they're cheap, where fast foods (McD and stuffs) are about 2 times more expensive. food places open until very late. some even 24 hours. nice beaches here as you would probably seen them on our tourism ads. island such as langkawi, pulau pangkor are nice place to spend holiday but me too, never been there

cars over here are pathetic. we have an import tax of 150-300% on foreign cars so majority of us drive rubbish. proton for instant. the old models were based on mitsubishi lancers, eternal and cyborgs so if you're willing to spend money (~10k), you can get an engine transplant and it fits perfectly. whether the chasis can cope with it well that's another story. on average, middle-class earner make about 3k permonth. thats about 800 bucks. a local made family saloon, such as proton priced at 50k. no hope of getting one without finance with interest. i guess most people make 3k a month in the states but with 50k, you can get yourself 5.0L american muscle. evos and subarus are priced at 280k here. (USD 77k)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia

 

[DuckRacer]

Hot as hot can be.

O RLY?

Houston, TX = 90º

Phoenix, AZ = 115º

You don't know the heat like I do.

And really, Phoenix is your definition of hell. If you think hell is a place that has great golf, then that's what it is. If you think hell is a place where you bake in an oven, then that's what it is.

Personally, I'm getting the hell out of here and move to CO. 👍

 

[dougiemeats]

Pretty nice, except from the stupid immigrants.

Oh, and I assume your ancestors were never immigrants to the United States?

 

[Cosmic]

Oh, and I assume your ancestors were never immigrants to the United States?

Ummm...I live in Sweden.

 

[dougiemeats]

Hahaha I just got pwned.

 

[Holdenhsvgtsr]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamilton,_South_Lanarkshire
where i live exactly in hamilton

 

[HondaRacer]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irvine,_California

Also, refer to my signature, but change Japan to Irvine.

 

[Dave A]

What is it like where I live?

I'll get the negatices out the way first and start with cars and people, and finish on a happy note. First off, Porsches, bloody Porsches everywhere, and cocks drive Porsches . No but really, Didsbury is home to a lot of yuppies, or students that are £20k in debt pretending to be yuppies because they're doing a degree in the air guitar or some balls like that. Actually I'm not being fair, theres a lot of sudents doing sciences, law and mathematics that I've met. Science is the big one at Manchester university from what I've gathered speaking to the (female) students I've met down the road in Fallowfeld on many a night out (this is a couple of years ago btw, I'd get a kick in the groin for chatting up a female fresher these days).

Manchester University on Oxford Road.


A typical example of where the yuppies go, this is a place called Est Est Est in didsbury village.

And the not so yuppy people go to Fallowfield just the other side of Withington. Places like the Revolution.

Just next to where I work almost is Chorlton, where I play Snooker, and theres Chorlton water park where you can go for a stroll, a bit of canoeing or fishing.

And then theres Sale water park a bit further down the road, just a bigger version of Chorlton water park.

And ofcourse the home of the Red Devils, the thater of dreams.

And then theres the Trafford center shopping center.

This is an area in the center of Manchester called "The Triangle" in exchange square. They put up a huge screen here where a lot of people gather to watch main sport events and such.

This is the Manchester wheel.

This is the page for the local Lamborghini dealership.
http://www.lamborghini.co.uk/?section=dealers&dealer=manchester&sub_section=sales
Tis is the page for the local Ferrari delaer.
http://www.carpages.co.uk/go.asp?session=9@5@117612@731808@3645
And the Bauer and Millet showroom some people may have heared me mention from time to time in the auto forums.
http://www.bauer-millett.com/controller.php
We also have dealers for Jaguar, BMW, Maserati, Vovlo, Audi and many more nearby.

It's bloody expensive living in West Didsbury (which is south Manchester), though the area itself is nice. House prices for a typical 4 bedroom two floor house start at around £200,000 ($370,000 USD) going upto and over £800,000 ($1.5mil USD).

This picture is taken from literally just around the corner from my house.

From top left: The black and white building is a local party building. This is Palatine road, one of the major bus routes in Europe. This is a cross roads, if you couldn't tell. And thaqt building on the corner is my local bank, theres a restaurante next to it and a small Blockbusters next to that.

This is part of Disbury village.

This is the Seimens building, where Siemens do a lot of technical research aparently, it's right over the road from where I work.

And where I work.

I can't find a newer picture than that , but anyway there s a business estate and a pub there now. Oh no, hang on, this is where I work.

So, pubs, we have a lot of pubs in Didsbury. Over 20 of the them. It's a good place to find a pub to suit you, be it loud and busy or calm and relaxed.

The best pub imo is one called "The Didsbury", it's located on the South side of Didsbury village just on the main road, it's a big enough pub to be busy but not to seem like it, your never stuck for room at the bar and there's always room to move about. The prices are decent as well, for Didsbury. Other than that, theres the Metropolitan, which is nearer but a lot more expensive, it's the main local pub where the local soap stars go, and over TV personalities that live in the area.

And the Red Lion, which I haven't been to for a while, but it's nice for a meal.

There's a few parks in and around Didsbury, there's 6 parks in Didsbury and another 4 or 5 in the immediately surrounding suburbs.
Thes are part of Fletcher Moss park in Didsbury.

So there are nice places to go and just get away from the streets and people and noise when you just want a quite walk with the missues.

This is the local library.

The entrance to a small gardens called Parsonage gardens.

Some pics of Didsbury village itself.

Theres three local Golf courses.
Didsbury Golf club.

Withington Golf club.

And another one I can't recall the name of, nor care to search for right now.

All in all, I like living here, it's a nice place,a bit busy at times, the pictures don't reflect how busy Didsbury gets. But all in all it offeres a lot of things I want from the area I live it.

and to top it all off, a Google earth map of the area with some places marked out.

 

[standard235]

Ummm. Hot.

I'm in Illinois. Washington, Illinois. 61571

It kinda sucks, but oh well. I have a race on the 5th and it's supposed to be miserable that day. And the race is at 1PM. Perfect..

 

[McLaren]

Looks nice where you live live4speed.

No skyscrapers and the type of weather I actually like every so often.

 

[Dave A]

Thanks, it is nice, it's just an expensive area to live it that's the main problem. Theres a couple of skyscraper in Manchester city center, but I do literally mean a couple.

 

[RICHARDO]

I'm from Florida. We have 2 seasons and they are called Hot and Hotter. The hot season takes place from about October - Janurary while Hotter occupies the other months. Florida is probably the only place in the US where you would enjoy going to the beach on Christmas day. We have awesome beaches and beautiful women. Normally all the really cool cars stay in the richer parts of the state like Orlando (complete with Ferrari/Maseratti dealership), Miami, and the Tampa/Sarasota area. There is a Ford GT (modified too!) in my city of Jacksonville, though. The roadwork in Florida is endless, especially in Jacksonville. Jacksonville is the biggest city in the US land-wise. Florida is hot, beautiful, and a blast to live in.

Dude, our winters can get pretty damn cold down here. (It can drop into the 20's on some nights ) And where I live, Clermont, is not exactly a tourist hot spot. (Though everybody is moving here, I fear the redneck population will start to dwindle.) But you're right on all other accounts, except the beautiful women part. Sure Miami and Daytona and West Palm Beach are crammed with hot (and I mean hot ) women, but finding a non-repulsive and sane girl here is like finding gold in your excrement. (sorry for the bad euphamism)

But one thing we do have here are good driving roads, nice, empty, curvy roads that you can enjoy to the fullest extent. And we also have good schools. (but we have the stupidest people running the council) Our food intake isn't exactly healty though, with a fast-food chain on just about every corner, (And most people I know don't cook, so they end up eating that crap every night. ) but I guess thats America for you.