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This is where I live. NSF56K
Loren Michael
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This thread is about where you live. Put pictures up. Discuss and compare with others. Where have you lived? What do you do where you live? What's it like there? Who lives there? Got roommates? Any cool shit nearby? Discuss that shit. And post pictures of it.
Show off your dorm, your house, your family, and your friends.
I live in Hangzhou, China. Pretty much the most gorgeous city in the world. I live in the international dorms at Zhejiang University:
Not much to see there, sadly. It's a pretty standard dorm. Gotta pay for utilities and shit, which is a pain in the ass, but it's China, so that's like an extra five dollars a month.
My campus is gorgeous. The university is in a valley, directly at the foot of some really nice mountains:
There's looking up from just inside the main gate. And that is a massive fucking statue of Mao. That's the library in the back.
Here's looking down from those same mountains at the same park:
Library is in the center. You can barely make out the Mao statue in front of it.
Last picture for this post, here's the park directly behind the library, at the foot of those same mountains:
As I said, fucking gorgeous. More to come, of course. Pardon the sparse OP, but there's a ton of stuff that can be covered in this place.
Show off your dorm, your house, your family, and your friends.
I live in Hangzhou, China. Pretty much the most gorgeous city in the world. I live in the international dorms at Zhejiang University:
Not much to see there, sadly. It's a pretty standard dorm. Gotta pay for utilities and shit, which is a pain in the ass, but it's China, so that's like an extra five dollars a month.
My campus is gorgeous. The university is in a valley, directly at the foot of some really nice mountains:
There's looking up from just inside the main gate. And that is a massive fucking statue of Mao. That's the library in the back.
Here's looking down from those same mountains at the same park:
Last picture for this post, here's the park directly behind the library, at the foot of those same mountains:
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edit - I'm a nerd with a nerd's room... just want to let you all know that I know this.
that is a damn beautiful campus.
My room is hyper-Spartan, though- super boring. Yours is pretty.
12 Reasons Why Our New Place Sucks Ass:
1. There's no shower curtain.
2. The fridge is not as cold as it should be and the freezer is the same temperature as the fridge.
3. Everywhere around here closes at 9 PM at best and 7:30 PM at worst.
4. Wednesdays through Fridays, the closest subway line doesn't run to Manhattan except during weird hours.
5. There's no stove, but rather a shitty hot plate, and no oven.
6. Things become mysteriously damp when no one is looking.
7. The ceiling in my room just sprung a leak.
8. There are a lot of bugs.
9. Sometimes stray cats try to climb through the window into my bedroom at night.
10. My bedroom doorknob is stuck in the "locked" position, so it can't actually close all the way. Blake [my roommate] just has a gaping hole instead of a doorknob.
11. People upstairs play bass and/or drums (badly) at inconvenient times.
12. My cell phone doesn't get reception down here. [Did I mention that we live in a basement?]
Addendum to #2: We've poked around inside the fridge and discovered that the temperature control knob inside the freezer isn't attached to anything! Awesome! Using dry milk instead of real milk rules!
Addendum to #7: My ceiling has sprung a leak again since I initially wrote this, this time while I wasn't home, soaking my floor and carpet!
Also, #13: Two days ago, at 6:30 in the morning, I was awakened by a flashlight shining in my face and the words "Police department!". It turns out the cops were looking for the girls who lived here before us! A wonderful way to start the day!
Aside: We're pretty sure our landlord is either renting out the place illegally or running some kind of underground Russian prostitution ring because we weren't asked to sign a lease and one time he told me not to open the door for anyone, even if they have a badge, almost as if he was expecting the police's eventual arrival. Apparently he told the cops that the girls moved back to Russia, which I don't believe for a second because I'm fairly sure I've heard their voices (they live in the other half of the basement) recently.
#14, somewhat related to #3: Bensonhurst is a fairly upscale Asian/Russian residential neighborhood, 35-45 minutes away from Manhattan so there is absolutely no nightlife to speak of, or really anything to do at all.
I'd take some pictures but my camera is out of batteries.
My roommate....well, he's a good friend of mine from high school and generally a nice guy and a fun kid, but sometimes more than a little annoying. Really, in many ways it's like living with a child. If you ask him to buy something, or do something, he'll do it (eventually), but he'll never think to do something by himself. For example I recently asked him to buy paper towels, and #1: It took him forever even though I reminded him every day, and when he finally did it was only because I was with him and we were passing the Rite Aid and I was like "Dude, go inside and buy some fucking paper towels", #2: I shouldn't have to ask. If you notice that we are out of paper towels, it should just come naturally to you that maybe you should go buy some more. Every time I notice that we need something (can opener, toaster, sugar, etc.), I have the good sense to go and buy it because that is what you do when you need something, but he will only do it if explicitly told to. I asked him to buy toilet paper like 5 days ago and he still hasn't. Does he just not care that we are out of toilet paper? What the hell is he thinking? I have no idea! I get the feeling that he still hasn't gotten over living his whole life with his family and having all the basic needs being taken care of by someone else, he doesn't get that his mom is not here anymore to do the dishes and restock the toilet paper, HE has to fucking do it sometimes, so really his only priorities are his own personal needs. Also he makes music, which is okay, but his voice is...uh...not the best, so sometimes it gets annoying to hear atonal falsetto moaning coming from the next room.
Yes but there is no bar for them and no way to install a bar, because the shower/tub is in the corner of a fairly large bathroom.
I think we need some pictures of this.
You can see the city:
For context, here's how the view works (ie really well) and the spot where pretty much where every electrical appliance in the house lives.
The TV is bigger now! It's nice having a really small house because though it gets messy quick, it takes fifteen minutes to tidy up and getting it looking like one of those bedroom booths at ikea.
The location is perfect. It's on the train line, at the intersection of two major bus lines, and the suburb itself is quiet enough to always feel peaceful, yet it's overstuffed with awesome restaurants and a handful of good pubs. My girlfriend and I both walk 20 minutes down the road to work in North Sydney, which is a huge business centre but otherwise completely lifeless.
It is pretty nicely located, though. Here's a NYE shot I took from my girlfriend's office:
I've enjoyed living here as much as anywhere else, which is a cool thing because I lived in Vancouver too and that was gorgeous. Sydney's a great city, I think it's really big enough that you're always a bit of a stranger and there's always new things to discover, yet the climate and landscape is unique enough to really give it's own homely feel whatever part of it you explore.
I've never heard them referred to as anything other than mountains. But, I'll take some more pictures next time I hike them.
Here's one more, looking down the other side. Those are classmates from America, and one of my Korean friends.
Nah, NYC is great. Over the summer I was subletting in a great place in Bushwick, which is up in north Brooklyn, in a brand new apartment like 5 minutes away from Williamsburg, so there was a lot of nightlife and stuff to do. Of course, we had one roommate who we didn't really know and who was kind of creepy and antisocial and didn't like us a lot, and I was splitting a room with my current roommate so all his annoyances were even more annoying, and we didn't have internet, so it wasn't perfect, but the point is not all places in NYC are the craptacular shitfest we live in now.
We were kind of in a rush to find a new place before the summer ended, so we ended up grabbing the first cheap place we could find. If we were smart and started looking earlier we could have ended up somewhere decent, and it's also hard to find a good, cheap place with 2 bedrooms. 3 bedrooms is much easier, so we'll be getting a new place with another friend in tow by December.
Pics not taken by me, but nicked from GIS.
I live just near the beach, but I never go to the beach in summer, because:
The rest of the time the beach is nearly empty:
I live about 10 mins walk from Kamakura, which is very olde worlde:
I get irritated with people who come live in Tokyo for a year and go home complaining the whole country is a concrete jungle.
You people made me tidy my room, damn you :P photos to follow, i r teh hungry.
anyway, here is my apartment.
and the rest
that fridge is not big enough for three people, damnit
fear my tiny teevee! the balcony is rad to sit out and chill on.
living room is on the left, the rest of the living room, aka bedroom number three, on the right. I'm coming to realise that this place is slightly ghetto, but whatever. I'm pretty comfy here.
i don't really have many recent shots of town, but I found a few fun things in my photobucket
the performing arts center
the casino at night. pretty lights!
neat sculptures on george street
Gotta love Salem...the only town on Earth that celebrates Halloween more than Christmas.
IOS Game Center ID: Isotope-X
*cough*Akron*cough*
We have too many books. Not included in this shot, he two full height bookcases in the other room that are reserved for academic books, and the boxes and boxes of dodgy crime fiction that belong to Cesca's mother.
That's my shitty dorm, lolz
I will maybe take pictures of things later.
The bell tower tolls every hour and sometimes plays songs. My dorm is one of those cross shaped buildings in the distance - newly renovated.
Looking down Buchanan st:
Nelson Mandela Place and St. George's Tron. The church is right smack bang in the middle of the main shopping street in Glasgow, and it's a little weird sometimes to see the Minister and the congregation outside the church in their Sunday best, amid all the weekend shoppers.
About halfway down Buchanan st. I cut through onto Royal Exchange square, which has the Gallery of Modern Art in the middle of it, and is usually populated with Goths and Emo kids hanging around behind Borders, which backs onto the square.
The cars are there to promote some company that lets you rent "fantasy cars" for the weekend. In addition to the red Shelby Cobra you can se in the first photo, they had a Ferrari 308B, an Alfa Romeo Spyder (which is the silver one obscured by people), a Rolls Royce, and this:
From there, I wander down Ingram street, which doesn't lend itself to good photos because of the volume of traffic, and half the buildings on it are obscured by scaffolding at the moment. It's undergoing a bit of redevelopment, and there's talk of pedestrianising it all the way back to Royal Exchange square, which would be kind of cool. There's still some interesting stuff on it though. It's home to The Italian Centre, where the really expensive fashion shops situate themselves, they usually have to make use of the old buildings though, since they're listed and can't be altered externally, like this one, which used to be a bank:
On the left of this photo is the side of The Italian centre. You can't see it in this photo, but Armani have a big store on the other side of the outdoor seating for the Baby Grand. The two buildings in the background linked by the Arches are the Glasgow City Council offices and City Chambers
Across the road from there, (taken from the same place, just facing the opposite way) is what was formerly Glasgow Sheriff Court, now extremely expensive flats. The Lower ground floors are occupied by the Scottish National Ballet, and the ground level floors are more ridiculously expensive shops, the one on the corner facing the camera is Bang and Olufsen.
My local coffee shop. I got offered a job working in there before I knew that's where it was going to be. It's pretty cool, the interior was designed by Architecture graduates from Glasgow School of Art.
Just off Ingram street, the BBC Scottish National Symphony Orchestra are based in the City Halls. They have this engraved into the pavement outside the stage door, which I've always liked:
And finally, just down the road there is the building I live in. It used to be a telephone exchange in the days when exchanges had to be filled with people manually connecting calls on huge plug-boards, which is probably why my ceilings are about ten feet above the floor.
Anywho, I, too, live in a basement apartment in Brooklyn. However, I'm in Williamsburg, so at least I have a night life. If you like hipsters, that is. My apartment is pretty shitty, and is probably being rented illegally, but since I've moved in with my friend, I do my best to keep it looking as nice as possible. He's a slob and I'm not, so the initial two weeks of cleanup were pretty intense. It looks okay now, if by okay you mean moderately livable. The only real glaring issue is the bathroom, which is atrocious.
The previous tenant painted the bathtub.
Yeah. What the hell. I started restoring the bathroom the weekend. At this point, most of the place just needs a new coat of paint.
It's convenient, because I go to school in downtown Brooklyn. It's also nice because Union Square is 10 minutes away. Randall's Island, however, is not 10 minutes away. I have to walk across the Triborough. Curse you, Arcade Fire, for putting me in such a position.
Proper like pictures
That's right off the town of Como, at one end of the lake, I live far up in that direction in the middle of the lake.
That's right off Bellagio, at a lakeside beach bar I've spent many summer nights at.
Villa Ballbianello, bit famous because George Lucas used it for Episode II. Had great funs kayacking up to that water wall at the bottom (it's a mooring entrance to the villa), and seeing how long we could get away with diving off the top before the curators told us to beat it.
Pictures from the mountains
Wanted some of the mountains & wilderness roundabout, and this lass had some superb ones. You get the idea, it's very Lord of the Rings.
Penultimate picture shows the centre of the lake, and Bellagio near where the house is. That last one, she's taking from a place called Rifugio Martinez, halfway up Monte San Primo (the first picture is the top of S.Primo); bizarre thing is, I regularly go running over that ridge she has in the foreground when I'm there, I live 3 miles off the right of the picture. That's the base of the Alps & Switzerland you can see in the distance.
My grainy colourless InstaCam pictures, taken in winter when it was a bit grey.
Views from the balcony.
Back of house (front, depending how you look at it) with garden and bits.
House itself.
I live in Omaha.
This place is so great they decided to name a beach after it.
If you do a google image search you will always get the same picture. Because it's probably the most presentable portion of the city.
My wife and I live apart during the school year, because the only job (in her profession) she could find was 100 miles from my university. So come Monday I shall amaze you with beautiful pictures of the Montana State University campus as taken by me, and next weekend you shall see pictures of mcdermott-North, where my wife resides during the week, as well as probably some shots of our state's humble Capitol (which we live just outside of).
And seriously, I shall show you bitches what mountains look like. My university sits smack-dab in the middle of a cheesy '80s beer commercial.
I just laughed my ass of.
And seriously, I have an actual pack (herd? who cares) of antelope just fucking chillin' right behind my house right now. It's actually kinda cool.
Madam, is that Maus wrapped in plastic?
should it be?
I might be getting a digital camera soonish, so I'll post pics of the Royal Military College of Australia. Its like a prison, but they have more rights than officer cadets. We live in a prettier place though!
You can fucking SEE my house from the wiki page! I dunno, I thought it was awesome.
pics
Edge of the Earth
After a storm (they get pretty intense)
I also work in Sydney, as does my dad