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See I love urban environments. You can see people and hear people, but none of them ever expect you to actually interact with them. It's awesome!
...also there is significantly less driveway shoveling than when one lives in a house in the country. Country driveways are usually basically roads. >.<
Agreed on all counts.
Also urban houses typically have less grass to mow. I HATED mowing the lawn when I lived in rural/suburban settings. So much so that when I bought my house in the city I had the grass removed from my (tiny, tiny) yard so I could put in a flower garden. I never have to mow the lawn again! :)
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See I love urban environments. You can see people and hear people, but none of them ever expect you to actually interact with them. It's awesome!
...also there is significantly less driveway shoveling than when one lives in a house in the country. Country driveways are usually basically roads. >.<
There is significantly less shoveling in Houston too. It's awesome. :)
My parents' driveway was so looooong - and when we moved out, THEN they got a snow blower!
::grumbles::
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See I love urban environments. You can see people and hear people, but none of them ever expect you to actually interact with them. It's awesome!'Cept I like the quiet <_<
And the SPACE!!! Urban zones are too crowded >_<
I find the same is true for me, but learned it far too late in life, and am stuck in the suburbs on the outskirt of the 7th or 8th largest city in the country.
I don't like crowds. I don't like physical contact. However, I don't like driving half an hour to get to any point of interest. So suburb's a good compromise. It gives me urban convenience without the hassle of people.
I don't like crowds. I don't like physical contact. However, I don't like driving half an hour to get to any point of interest. So suburb's a good compromise. It gives me urban convenience without the hassle of people.
That's where I am now. I'm essentially a (sub)urban hermit, and have no real desire to deal with people.
I could stand a bigger yard though, and further-away neighbors. Since I have a riding mower I don't mind the extra time and distance. Could see why it would be an issue without one though.
I don't go anywhere but work enough for driving to be an issue >_>
See I love urban environments. You can see people and hear people, but none of them ever expect you to actually interact with them. It's awesome!
...also there is significantly less driveway shoveling than when one lives in a house in the country. Country driveways are usually basically roads. >.<
There is significantly less shoveling in Houston too. It's awesome. :)
My parents' driveway was so looooong - and when we moved out, THEN they got a snow blower!
::grumbles::
To quote my favorite ever Calvin and Hobbes comic (context being Calvin complaining about having to shovel the driveway) "Why is it every time I build character he saves a couple hundred bucks?"
It was even better a few years ago when we lived in a house in the suburbs and owned a snowblower...that I couldn't use because of my stupid ear problems. And I would be at home by myself every single friggin time it snowed that year. I shoveled that driveway by hand more times than I care to think about. Of course now that we're in an apartment and no more shoveling driveways, we had the least snow of ever. Stupid weather. It's out to get me, I just know it. :P
Not that it helps that I'm basically allergic to outside...
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See I love urban environments. You can see people and hear people, but none of them ever expect you to actually interact with them. It's awesome!
Living in Houston has made me too outgoing for the Northeast, I think. Houston is a very polite and friendly city, we say "hi" to strangers we pass in the street and stuff like that. People in NYC and Boston looked at me like I grew a second head when I'd do that. But, you know, I'm froody enough to sport the extra cranium.
I live in a suburban community, but surrounded by a rural location and fortunate to have quick freeway access.
But I've done this for 9 years now. I actually want to come back to the city so it's not so far of a drive or a walk to fraternize the nightlife I'm growing to enjoy not far from the North Campus to Brewery District in Columbus.
Once I'm working and find a way to either rent or sell this place, I'm out of here.
See I love urban environments. You can see people and hear people, but none of them ever expect you to actually interact with them. It's awesome!Living in Houston has made me too outgoing for the Northeast, I think. Houston is a very polite and friendly city, we say "hi" to strangers we pass in the street and stuff like that. People in NYC and Boston looked at me like I grew a second head when I'd do that. But, you know, I'm froody enough to sport the extra cranium.
Yeah, I know the feeling, from the opposite direction anyway. Growing up in Texas nearly everyone you passed in a public setting would call to you and some even would chase after you if you didn't respond. I learned that happens less if you walk looking at the ground or reading something, bumping into things be damned >_>
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I live in a village of 3000 at the border of a town of 10.000, the city (Frankfurt, 700.000) is half a hour drive away
I drive every day 40 minutes to work, I can't live in a city, I tried, 5 minutes to work but I missed my village, the green and the quite
I live in a village of 3000
That's almost precisely the size of my hometown. Maybe give or take a couple hundred. =D
I don't like crowds. I don't like physical contact. However, I don't like driving half an hour to get to any point of interest. So suburb's a good compromise. It gives me urban convenience without the hassle of people.That's where I am now. I'm essentially a (sub)urban hermit, and have no real desire to deal with people.
I could stand a bigger yard though, and further-away neighbors. Since I have a riding mower I don't mind the extra time and distance. Could see why it would be an issue without one though.
I don't go anywhere but work enough for driving to be an issue >_>
Who said anything about wanting to interact with people? I'm talking bookstores and game shops. =P
I am fine in largely populated spaces as long as I can close my door and hide.
I do however hate city driving.
Same here. Been in 4 accidents so far!
Who said anything about wanting to interact with people? I'm talking bookstores and game shops. =P
Sadly I haven't done either of those since I moved -_-
I live in a village of 3000 at the border of a town of 10.000, the city (Frankfurt, 700.000) is half a hour drive away
I drive every day 40 minutes to work, I can't live in a city, I tried, 5 minutes to work but I missed my village, the green and the quite
I really wanted to show up brooklyn while to were here. It's a great mix of city and greenery, I would have loved an outsiders perspective.
AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
raksin fraksin CFOs and their power complexes
I live in a village of 3000 at the border of a town of 10.000, the city (Frankfurt, 700.000) is half a hour drive away
I drive every day 40 minutes to work, I can't live in a city, I tried, 5 minutes to work but I missed my village, the green and the quite
I really wanted to show up brooklyn while you two were here. It's a great mix of city and greenery, I would have loved an outsiders perspective.
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AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
raksin fraksin CFOs and their power complexes
I certainly hope this has nothing to do with your planned vacation. Formerly planned vacation.
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Same here. Been in 4 accidents so far!I am fine in largely populated spaces as long as I can close my door and hide.
I do however hate city driving.
I rear-ended an older couple once. My S-10 got a messed up grill, their Mazda something-erother truck got a dent in the fender.
It was mild, but I have made sure not to let it happen again.
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I certainly hope this has nothing to do with your planned vacation. Formerly planned vacation.AAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!
raksin fraksin CFOs and their power complexes
So far it's not. *knock on myself*
Skillz I must learn/improve -
1. Back watching
2. Landmine avoidance
3. Issue dancing
4. Hot button awareness
5. Wearing of kevlar undergarments
6. Responsibilty ducking (is probably impossible, but heck, why not)
7. Vaguery as a 2nd language
8. Word Smithing
You know, basic management skillz
Skillz I must learn/improve -
1. Back watching
2. Landmine avoidance
3. Issue dancing
4. Hot button awareness
5. Wearing of kevlar undergarments
6. Responsibilty ducking (is probably impossible, but heck, why not)
7. Vaguery as a 2nd language
8. Word SmithingYou know, basic management skillz
For kicks I decided to take this test on myself...
1. *looks at abysmal perception score* Yeaaaaah about that...
2. see 1
3. Too blunt
4. Too blunt
5. O.o
6. Uh... dunno on this one
7. Too Blunt
8. Too Blunt
Good luck out there >_>
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Skillz I must learn/improve -
1. Back watching
2. Landmine avoidance
3. Issue dancing
4. Hot button awareness
5. Wearing of kevlar undergarments
6. Responsibilty ducking (is probably impossible, but heck, why not)
7. Vaguery as a 2nd language
8. Word SmithingYou know, basic management skillz
For kicks I decided to take this test on myself...
1. *looks at abysmal perception score* Yeaaaaah about that...
2. see 1
3. Too blunt
4. Too blunt
5. O.o
6. Uh... dunno on this one
7. Too Blunt
8. Too BluntGood luck out there >_>
I think the most frustrating result of this is that I can't get stuff done that needs doing!
I don't have AC, I don't drive, I am not taking any meds (beyond ocassional paracetamol for weather-related headaches), I am not dating (albeit lastly a friend told me that his friend asked about me - she met me once, half a year ago in pub), I have never been in NYC and you made over 300 posts about that strange things just because I hadn't logged in the morning instead coming now, in the evening :P
At lest today is not so hot as it was yesterday. Except the rain brought me a headache - I should guess that it will be raining yesterday when I felt my head throbbing.
Ouch! Sorry to hear about your troubles, Drejk. Hopefully things get better sooner than later.
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I'll just say that after growing up in a small rural town, then 8 years of living in a Phoenix suburb, I've come to the realization that I really don't like urban environments and leave it at that. =)Well crap, now I know I'll never go.I had a Midwesterner's trepadation about visting NYC (and actually California too, which I had understood to be an overcrowded hellhole with no water, subject to constant earthquakes and fires, and chock full of immoral behavior - all of which was confirmed, but that's neither here nor there), but found that I enjoyed visiting the city for the first time a year or so ago. I wouldn't want to live there, but being in NYC made me appreciate the power and scope of the empire I inhabit. The city felt like an enormous clockwork organism, with all these abstract movements of capital and resources made real by the constant flurry of humans and machines operating at all hours.
All in all, I'm glad I went - it changed my perception of NYC from "that self-important over-exposed sludge pit" to "that self-important over-exposed sludge pit with the heart of an empire beating within."
Was never real big on Phoenix or Tuscon, but I miss Arizona.
I certainly miss the weather. I lived in Tempe for the vast majority of the time I was there, spent three months in Mesa and four in Chandler.
My brother and sister-in-law live in Yuma, which is probably where I'd move to if I ever decided to go back. The job market out there is still wretched though, hence me being in TN.
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Hey! Somebody out there was talking about getting married -- I have to share a bit of wisdom for those that might hear and profit.
Ship your engagement ring and wedding dress to a friend's house across state lines to avoid sales tax. You'll save HUNDREDS.
If you can, ask the jeweler when you buy engagement and wedding bands if you'll save any money paying in cash. You'll likely save hundreds just from what the card takes and they pass on to you.
Parley the money you save into the honeymoon.
LOL!
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my wife is opposed to diamonds on ethical grounds.
I think my wife's wedding ring was under $300.
Her hatred of diamonds really worked out.
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Pffft. Why get a diamond ring when you can get one of these, dawg.
Or, just don't get married.
I cannot argue with this logic.
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I certainly miss the weather. I lived in Tempe for the vast majority of the time I was there, spent three months in Mesa and four in Chandler.
My brother and sister-in-law live in Yuma, which is probably where I'd move to if I ever decided to go back. The job market out there is still wretched though, hence me being in TN.
Yeah, jobs is why I stuck in Texas. I grew up in Winslow.
Hope one day to move back and live in Prescott. Really beautiful around there.
I don't read nearly as much or as fast as you all type! ;P
The one good thing about Katrina was that I ended up moving from New Orleans to Lafayette. I now live in a college town which is only called a city by it's inhabitants. ;)
It is big enough to have everything I need nearby, (Mall, Box stores, comic shops, movie theaters, decent restaurants, etc) but small enough I only have to drive 10 minutes to get to work.
I do have a decent sized yard. But I find that I don't mind mowing it NEARLY as much since it's actually MINE. (I always hated renting.)
;)
And I find that no matter WHERE you live, every other driver but you is either crazy or suicidal. Just sayin'.
ON the plus side, (/sarcasm) On the many speedy trips between work, home and the Doctors today, my truck's clutch went kablooie. I can only hope that it doesn't cost me an arm AND a leg to get it fixed. ;P
So I was feeling pretty rotten about my weight loss today and how slow it has been going. Felt really fat and awful. Then a hideous looking man, in a wheelchair with fatrolls almost over lapping the arms of said wheelchair went by. I guess I'm not that fat in comparison.
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my wife is opposed to diamonds on ethical grounds.I think my wife's wedding ring was under $300.
Her hatred of diamonds really worked out.
Ugh, yeah, don't get the diamond thing. If you really nead a boring clear stone for some reason, go cubic zicronia. Prettier, cheaper, and you won't have to freak out about wearing it in public and something happening.
Heh. Thanks TOZ. I'm not so much 'new' as I am 'insinuating my way into FaWtL by following my friends'!
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So I was feeling pretty rotten about my weight loss today and how slow it has been going. Felt really fat and awful. Then a hideous looking man, in a wheelchair with fatrolls almost over lapping the arms of said wheelchair went by. I guess I'm not that fat in comparison.
I say, keep it in perspective and do it for the right reasons (health, not vanity). It is never worth beating yourself up over.
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I don't read nearly as much or as fast as you all type! ;P
The one good thing about Katrina was that I ended up moving from New Orleans to Lafayette. I now live in a college town which is only called a city by it's inhabitants. ;)
It is big enough to have everything I need nearby, (Mall, Box stores, comic shops, movie theaters, decent restaurants, etc) but small enough I only have to drive 10 minutes to get to work.
I do have a decent sized yard. But I find that I don't mind mowing it NEARLY as much since it's actually MINE. (I always hated renting.)
;)And I find that no matter WHERE you live, every other driver but you is either crazy or suicidal. Just sayin'.
ON the plus side, (/sarcasm) On the many speedy trips between work, home and the Doctors today, my truck's clutch went kablooie. I can only hope that it doesn't cost me an arm AND a leg to get it fixed. ;P
Geaux Ragin' Cajuns. It is too a city. If you can get Poor boys there its a city.;-)