The downside of living where you live

[Heinleinites]

There's a college near the town I live in, so you get your college kids being generally useless around here. The weather's turning nice again, which means they'll find something to protest sooner or later, which is annoying. Some of the hunting regulations I could do without, but you can still smoke in bars here, so that's good.

Like I've said to other people on here, if that's the worst I've got to complain about, I've got it pretty good.

[Katganistan]

My bedroom is about ten feet from a light rail track.

[Cabra West]

My bedroom is about ten feet from a light rail track.

Oh, that is bad...

[Grainne Ni Malley]

My bedroom is about ten feet from a light rail track.

Oh, that is awful. I would go out of my mind!

[Ifreann]

It's one of those things that doesn't affect me, but that I still think we should do better. Like gay marriage, or high heels.

Well, the Civil Partnership Bill is on its way, so that would be the first step nearly complete.
And I'm sure the Irish will manage high heels eventually. I think if they weren't so ambitious about utterly ridiculous heights, it would be far easier for most...

Progress.

[Manganibia]

Hills, vandals, evangelical Christians, a lost generation.

[Tunizcha]

I live right next to railroad tracks. Not only that, the neighborhood I live in is expensive and boring as hell.

[Ekanae]

The main issue with my town is that it is horrendously boring. The center of town consists of a convenience store, an awful cafe, an eye glass store, and a pizza place. Oh, and a post office and a few churches.

Which is, I suppose, better than a crime-filled and filthy town - but I do occasionally wish that there were something more interesting to occupy me.

[JuNii]

The downside...

1) everything has to be shipped in.
2) at the mercy of two airlines for interisland flights. no ferry, nothing else.
3) our main (if not our only) source of income is tourism. we lost our agriculture due to mismanagement and so now we're totally dependent on others

[JuNii]

The main issue with my town is that it is horrendously boring. The center of town consists of a convenience store, an awful cafe, an eye glass store, and a pizza place. Oh, and a post office and a few churches.

Which is, I suppose, better than a crime-filled and filthy town - but I do occasionally wish that there were something more interesting to occupy me.

did your 24 hour convenience store close at 10 pm? ours did.

[Ekanae]

The main issue with my town is that it is horrendously boring. The center of town consists of a convenience store, an awful cafe, an eye glass store, and a pizza place. Oh, and a post office and a few churches.

Which is, I suppose, better than a crime-filled and filthy town - but I do occasionally wish that there were something more interesting to occupy me.

did your 24 hour convenience store close at 10 pm? ours did.

Not sure. It just opened last week, after the first one moved out somewhere around ten years ago. They'd been trying to get someone else to move in for years, but no one really wanted to.

I wouldn't be surprised if it does close at 10, thought.

[Grainne Ni Malley]

I live right next to railroad tracks. Not only that, the neighborhood I live in is expensive and boring as hell.

An expensive neighborhood next to railroad tracks? Why, that defies every movie cliche.

[Wilgrove]

The only major downside I can see is that I live in the Southern Baptist Bible Belt and sometimes people will witness to me and try to "save me". More than once I'd find those Chick Tracts in the bathroom of my business. Yea thanks alot asshole, you just gave me something else to clean up.

[Katganistan]

My bedroom is about ten feet from a light rail track.

Oh, that is bad...

Oh, that is awful. I would go out of my mind!

It's not as bad as you think... when I was a baby, my parents' apartment was on the same level as an elevated train track -- it only took me about a weekend to get used to it at this apartment. I sleep right through it without a problem.

[The Parthians]

Hmm, as for DC. Winters are too cold, summers are too hot, rent is too expensive, crime is too bad, and traffic is obscene at all times of day. Then all the bars close at 2...

[Grainne Ni Malley]

It's not as bad as you think... when I was a baby, my parents' apartment was on the same level as an elevated train track -- it only took me about a weekend to get used to it at this apartment. I sleep right through it without a problem.

True. I guess it depends on what you get used to. I visited a friend with my son when he was still an infant. They lived near railroad tracks and yet found it extremely difficult to sleep through my son's cooing.

[Picklepoo]

Living anywhere near rochester sucks. Its so cold!!!

[Alevuss]

My bedroom is about ten feet from a light rail track.

Before I moved, outside my bedroom window, my neighbour had three lights facing it. That was two years ago. Now there's twelve.

[The REZ Gang]

Well besides the weather being shit, i live around a bunch of mormons that try and force their beliefs and views on me, the town i am in has a wal-mart that closes at eleven. Most stories are closed on sunday because they are run by Mormons, and if anyone you know sees you going to buy stuff on a sunday you get in trouble with them. And the town is surrounded by farmers of all kinds, so the town smells like the shit of many different animals all the time.

[Geilinor]

The only problems in the Seattle area are the rainy weather and horrible traffic

[El-Yonder]

The whole country is boring and smelly. I feel like I'm living in the stone ages, but at least the internet and electricity and such works. There are no sorts of recreation whatsoever other than this huge trampoline near a roundabout and this place called Magicland, but I might as well exclude magicland because entering those gates is basically signing your own death wish, which results in my going brain-dead because of my slaving over the computer all day.



*Sigh*

[JuNii]

I live right next to railroad tracks. Not only that, the neighborhood I live in is expensive and boring as hell.

An expensive neighborhood next to railroad tracks? Why, that defies every movie cliche.

expensive does not mean "high quality". alot of neighborhoods here are 'expensive' but not high quality.

[Katganistan]

It's not as bad as you think... when I was a baby, my parents' apartment was on the same level as an elevated train track -- it only took me about a weekend to get used to it at this apartment. I sleep right through it without a problem.

True. I guess it depends on what you get used to. I visited a friend with my son when he was still an infant. They lived near railroad tracks and yet found it extremely difficult to sleep through my son's cooing.

Heh. When my parents and I moved from the apartment to their house, away from the trains, when I was a teen, my brother and I had a hard time sleeping because it was too quiet.

[Natapoc]

The whole country is boring and smelly. I feel like I'm living in the stone ages, but at least the internet and electricity and such works. There are no sorts of recreation whatsoever other than this huge trampoline near a roundabout and this place called Magicland, but I might as well exclude magicland because entering those gates is basically signing your own death wish, which results in my going brain-dead because of my slaving over the computer all day.



*Sigh*

What country do you live in?

[Katganistan]

My bedroom is about ten feet from a light rail track.

Before I moved, outside my bedroom window, my neighbour had three lights facing it. That was two years ago. Now there's twelve.

BB gun?
Maybe blackout curtains.