Lately I've been getting frustrated at the amount of regional sniping that's been going on in D&D that's based on stereotypes or political events. To help people remember that every place sucks for some reason or another, I'm asking everyone to comment on (at least) one thing that sucks about the city or state/province that they live in.
I'll begin: In Georgia, there are no alcohol sales on Sunday...except in bars and restaurants. This means that the state believes that it is better for me to drink at a bar and then drive home than to be able to buy a 6-pack at the store and drink at home. Polling shows an overwhelming majority in favor of allowing Sunday sales, but a strange coalition of Evangelicals, bar owners, and (wait for it...) liquor store owners (who don't feel like paying their employees 7 days/week) have managed to convince the Legislature and Governor that the apocalypse will come to Georgia if stores are allowed to sell alcohol on Sunday.
Now it's your turn - what sucks about where you live?
Other than that (and the crappy job market) I'm pretty happy with it.
Liquor stores also aren't open on sunday here, but if you really need to go to a liquor store on sunday you are either a drunk or a college student or both, and either way I'm not too fussed that you can't buy a bottle of HRD.
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Well, I live in California and we're pretty close to needing a bailout from the Federal Government as I understand it. I'm sure others could come up with many more reasons why California is not such a good place to live right now (y'know, aside from the always high living costs of houses).
I live in London, Ontario and our transit system sucks. Sundays have the bus times cut down to 30 minutes between buses at the earliest with an hour wait at the longest and bus times always end by midnight (earlier on sundays) making late night anything a pain in the ass.
Add on that the bus drivers are jerks who will gladly ignore you if you're waiting at a stop and are either early or very late and it just plain sucks.
Colorado Springs, Pueblo, the South East corner(man that place is a shit hole). Oh and Coors. Screw Coors. And where I live in in Colorado can be called Littlefun instead of Littleton.
I live in a tourist beach town in California, just south of San Francisco.
Jobs are impossible to find and the cheapest possible rent for a tiny hole in the wall in a house you share with 4-6 people is like $450 a month. From May till October, the tourists show up and all the roads are perpetually clogged with traffic.
Lately I've been getting frustrated at the amount of regional sniping that's been going on in D&D that's based on stereotypes or political events. To help people remember that every place sucks for some reason or another, I'm asking everyone to comment on (at least) one thing that sucks about the city or state/province that they live in.
I'll begin: In Georgia, there are no alcohol sales on Sunday...except in bars and restaurants. This means that the state believes that it is better for me to drink at a bar and then drive home than to be able to buy a 6-pack at the store and drink at home. Polling shows an overwhelming majority in favor of allowing Sunday sales, but a strange coalition of Evangelicals, bar owners, and (wait for it...) liquor store owners (who don't feel like paying their employees 7 days/week) have managed to convince the Legislature and Governor that the apocalypse will come to Georgia if stores are allowed to sell alcohol on Sunday.
Now it's your turn - what sucks about where you live?
I'll do your "can't sell alcohol on Sundays" and raise you "I live in a dry county". This means you can ONLY buy alcohol in bars (of which there seem to be plenty) or just over the county line every day of the week.
Also, I live in East Texas. Tyler, to be specific. I don't think I need to say anything further but Henroid will probably stop by to do so.
EDIT: Actually, I will say this. Tyler is a leading retirement area and, at the same time, has a growing college community. And traffic sucks.
I live in London, Ontario and our transit system sucks. Sundays have the bus times cut down to 30 minutes between buses at the earliest with an hour wait at the longest and bus times always end by midnight (earlier on sundays) making late night anything a pain in the ass.
Add on that the bus drivers are jerks who will gladly ignore you if you're waiting at a stop and are either early or very late and it just plain sucks.
Next.
The transit system in Atlanta has been doing the same things. In addition to reducing schedules, they named the train line that goes to the Asian section of the city the "Yellow Line" (previously it was just the Doraville branch of the North Line, or Northeast Line sometimes). It's now called the "Gold Line"
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I live in Garden Grove, S. CA. It's quaint I guess and maintains somewhat of a small-town feel despite being in Orange County. Disneyland's pretty near by but all the hookers in town are ugly. So I guess that sucks.
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Don't get me wrong. Columbus itself is a great place; lived there for 4 years.
But ~30 minutes outside the city is like a complete reversal in affluence. Unfortunately, I need to live out here so that I'm not an hour each way from work (which is even further from Cbus).
I guess the only good part is that I can get to Columbus in ~30 minutes.
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In Pennsylvania all liquor is controlled and sold by the state from special stores with huge markups.
Also, beer is only sold in bulk and at a very limited number of locations, which is so, so stupid it's mindboggling.
Don't get me wrong. Columbus itself is a great place; lived there for 4 years.
But ~30 minutes outside the city is like a complete reversal in affluence. Unfortunately, I need to live out here so that I'm not an hour each way from work (which is even further from Cbus).
I guess the only good part is that I can get to Columbus in ~30 minutes.
My best friend from college works for Honda in Marysville, and he's in the same situation as you.
I live in Iowa. Traveling is no fun because all your states are dirtier, poorer, dumber, more crowded, and more crime ridden then ours is. We can enunciate, something which seems to be lost on the rest of you.
We're not a state of racist people, it's just that for some reason nobody really wants to move to a state that's 97% white and calls INS at the first sign of illegals.
Don't get me wrong. Columbus itself is a great place; lived there for 4 years.
But ~30 minutes outside the city is like a complete reversal in affluence. Unfortunately, I need to live out here so that I'm not an hour each way from work (which is even further from Cbus).
I guess the only good part is that I can get to Columbus in ~30 minutes.
My best friend from college works for Honda in Marysville, and he's in the same situation as you.
I might know this person...
Edit: actually, sane people working IN Marysville for Honda live in Dublin, which is Columbus (and thus awesome). I work one of the smaller facilities 30 minutes out of Marysville.
There's basically a 100% chance that you will be murdered if you live there.
edit: We also just ditched the mayor for corruption, and the city is broke and canceling services as quick as possible. It would be tougher to come up with good things.
Philadelphia PA: Recently rated America's ugliest major city. Also one of the most violent and broke, which is too bad because every time the mayor squabbles with city council about money he threatens to lay off police officers, fire fighters, and library staff.
Georgia: it sucks pretty bad. Not uniformly, but in a lot of places. Suburban sprawl is pretty horrible for where pretty much 80 to 90% of the state's residents live, myself included, and our mass transit system is practically nonexistent. I don't mind the blue laws restricting alcohol sales, but that's because I live in a big drinking town.
Coincidentally, I also live in a big football town, which is a goddamn huge problem between August and the end of November. It's my own fault for coming here, I know, but every time there's a home game, towns literally shut down. People make deliberate traffic.
Thankfully, I'm sure that's just something local to where I live.
Also, allergy season is goddamn horrible. Again, specific issue.
With that in mind, while it sucks, it could suck much, much worse.
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edited June 2010
I live in Edmonton, AB.
We have issues with urban sprawl, poor public transit, leading all Canadian cities in domestic violence and divorce, high rental prices (despite the economic slowdown), general high costs of living, did I mention urban sprawl, poor city planning (see our Anthony Henday Fuck Up Ring Road), a horrible hockey team and a complete disregard to the high number of homeless in our city core.
But, hey, at least we're not Regina. Or Winnipeg.
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edited June 2010
Gatineau, québec is a pretty good town overall
Positive : Low unemployement, low crime, plenty of trees, low pollution, low cost of living
NEgative : Kinda boring, congestion on the rise
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DC- a city that combines Southern efficiency with Northern charm.
I hear really good things about DC.
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I've never been to DC, but I hear you can drive from DC to Baltimore and basically get the impression you never left a major city.
Don't even know why I'm mentioning that.
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London - there are always loads of people everywhere. Right now it is 945PM in my small tourist suburb, it is raining and it is Monday night. If I go out onto the street nearby I shall be able to see at least a hundred people (possibly a lot more) if I look a block either way
Goose Creek SC. 30 minutes outside Charleston. I hate this place more than any place I have ever been. There is almost nothing to do. Charleston's nightlife is terrible and don't let anybody ever try and convince you otherwise. Also, I live in a swamp. Fuck that.
Edit: To give you an example of how much I hate this place I enjoyed living in Phoenix more.
DC though awesome is full of politicians and crazies. Man when I was there I heard at least 3 to 4 crazy people ranting on their "soap box." I do love the place though.
It's cold and we have the world's weirdest assortment of politicians.
You also have more ren-faires and sci-fi/anime/costume conventions per capita then any other place on Earth.
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Man, Minnesota is full of geeks.
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DC- a city that combines Southern efficiency with Northern charm.
I hear really good things about DC.
Naw, I'm joking, I like it here. And I'm a Republican in a city that votes 90% Democrat. People in DC are up on politics more than anywhere else in the country, but we don't take it personally.
DC itself is a "barbell city," though. You can live here if you make a lot of money or if you have a low income (and therefore qualify for things like affordable housing). It's tougher to live here if you're in the middle. The District has slowly but surely been getting richer and more white (and Asian) and less black. Gentrification is pretty much an unstoppable force around here.
If you're young and single, it's a pretty awesome place to live because there are a ton of people in the same boat.
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Beyond that: crime rates are problematic, winters aren't fun, worms eat our beautiful trees, mosquitos eat us, there are terrible potholes everywhere, and traffic lights seem designed to interrupt the flow of vehicles as much as possible.
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Western Isles of Scotland. There's pretty much nothing to do here 9 months of the year and it's a bitch to get around but those three months of drinking in the summer are so, so good.
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Pretty much the only bad part is that if you go too far in any direction you end up in Texas. Although they do have good BBQ out there.
Austin has fucking awful public transportation. We've even got a damn train system now, only instead of it running all around downtown it links the (affluent, car riddled) burbs with some sections of downtown that are too far away form 6th street to be convenient. Governor Perry lives in Austin, and he's a complete douchebag. Driving downtown is basically taking your life into your own hands.
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EDIT: Oh, and Colorado Springs is a military town, so we get more than our share of military fuckheads.
It rains a lot here I guess.
Other than that (and the crappy job market) I'm pretty happy with it.
Liquor stores also aren't open on sunday here, but if you really need to go to a liquor store on sunday you are either a drunk or a college student or both, and either way I'm not too fussed that you can't buy a bottle of HRD.
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I live in London, Ontario and our transit system sucks. Sundays have the bus times cut down to 30 minutes between buses at the earliest with an hour wait at the longest and bus times always end by midnight (earlier on sundays) making late night anything a pain in the ass.
Add on that the bus drivers are jerks who will gladly ignore you if you're waiting at a stop and are either early or very late and it just plain sucks.
Next.
Jobs are impossible to find and the cheapest possible rent for a tiny hole in the wall in a house you share with 4-6 people is like $450 a month. From May till October, the tourists show up and all the roads are perpetually clogged with traffic.
Gets hot as fuck, too.
I'll do your "can't sell alcohol on Sundays" and raise you "I live in a dry county". This means you can ONLY buy alcohol in bars (of which there seem to be plenty) or just over the county line every day of the week.
Also, I live in East Texas. Tyler, to be specific. I don't think I need to say anything further but Henroid will probably stop by to do so.
EDIT: Actually, I will say this. Tyler is a leading retirement area and, at the same time, has a growing college community. And traffic sucks.
The transit system in Atlanta has been doing the same things. In addition to reducing schedules, they named the train line that goes to the Asian section of the city the "Yellow Line" (previously it was just the Doraville branch of the North Line, or Northeast Line sometimes). It's now called the "Gold Line"
Don't get me wrong. Columbus itself is a great place; lived there for 4 years.
But ~30 minutes outside the city is like a complete reversal in affluence. Unfortunately, I need to live out here so that I'm not an hour each way from work (which is even further from Cbus).
I guess the only good part is that I can get to Columbus in ~30 minutes.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
Also, beer is only sold in bulk and at a very limited number of locations, which is so, so stupid it's mindboggling.
Single women are endangered and nearing extinction. Can't remember the last time I met a girl who wasn't in a relationship.
My best friend from college works for Honda in Marysville, and he's in the same situation as you.
We're not a state of racist people, it's just that for some reason nobody really wants to move to a state that's 97% white and calls INS at the first sign of illegals.
Your state's reluctance to sell Yuengling in large quantities to us baffles me and my current state of residence.
I might know this person...
Edit: actually, sane people working IN Marysville for Honda live in Dublin, which is Columbus (and thus awesome). I work one of the smaller facilities 30 minutes out of Marysville.
Let 'em eat fucking pineapples!
There's basically a 100% chance that you will be murdered if you live there.
edit: We also just ditched the mayor for corruption, and the city is broke and canceling services as quick as possible. It would be tougher to come up with good things.
Maybe they are just lying to you.
Falmouth, UK: English food. 'Nuff said.
There's always good and bad about any place you live in the world I think.
Exactly. That's the point I'm trying to make here :P
Coincidentally, I also live in a big football town, which is a goddamn huge problem between August and the end of November. It's my own fault for coming here, I know, but every time there's a home game, towns literally shut down. People make deliberate traffic.
Thankfully, I'm sure that's just something local to where I live.
Also, allergy season is goddamn horrible. Again, specific issue.
With that in mind, while it sucks, it could suck much, much worse.
We have issues with urban sprawl, poor public transit, leading all Canadian cities in domestic violence and divorce, high rental prices (despite the economic slowdown), general high costs of living, did I mention urban sprawl, poor city planning (see our Anthony Henday Fuck Up Ring Road), a horrible hockey team and a complete disregard to the high number of homeless in our city core.
But, hey, at least we're not Regina. Or Winnipeg.
Positive : Low unemployement, low crime, plenty of trees, low pollution, low cost of living
NEgative : Kinda boring, congestion on the rise
The winters suck because it's damned cold (-30 to -40 with windchill) and the summers suck because of the damned humidity (+30 to +40 with humidity).
Damn lakes.
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It's cold and we have the world's weirdest assortment of politicians.
I hear really good things about DC.
Don't even know why I'm mentioning that.
Edit: To give you an example of how much I hate this place I enjoyed living in Phoenix more.
Pretty much the only bad part is that if you go too far in any direction you end up in Texas. Although they do have good BBQ out there.
You also have more ren-faires and sci-fi/anime/costume conventions per capita then any other place on Earth.
DC itself is a "barbell city," though. You can live here if you make a lot of money or if you have a low income (and therefore qualify for things like affordable housing). It's tougher to live here if you're in the middle. The District has slowly but surely been getting richer and more white (and Asian) and less black. Gentrification is pretty much an unstoppable force around here.
If you're young and single, it's a pretty awesome place to live because there are a ton of people in the same boat.
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I hate Winnipeg
Beyond that: crime rates are problematic, winters aren't fun, worms eat our beautiful trees, mosquitos eat us, there are terrible potholes everywhere, and traffic lights seem designed to interrupt the flow of vehicles as much as possible.
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Austin has fucking awful public transportation. We've even got a damn train system now, only instead of it running all around downtown it links the (affluent, car riddled) burbs with some sections of downtown that are too far away form 6th street to be convenient. Governor Perry lives in Austin, and he's a complete douchebag. Driving downtown is basically taking your life into your own hands.
Other than that, though, Austin's pretty great.