What's new
By:
USCHO Fan Forum

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

  • The USCHO Fan Forum has migrated to a new plaform, xenForo. Most of the function of the forum should work in familiar ways. Please note that you can switch between light and dark modes by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right of the main menu bar. We are hoping that this new platform will prove to be faster and more reliable. Please feel free to explore its features.

The States: Where We Wish Texas Would Secede Already

Status
Not open for further replies.
I kick myself for not going to school in Boston. But if I had, I's have been broke, and flunked out in three months. Boston, at the turn of the 80's? I'd have been out every night to The Rat or the Paradise, or The Orpheum, or elsewhere, seeing bands like The Clash, U2, Talking Heads, and every other band of the post-punk era.
 
dxmnkd316 said:
My theory is that no city can be both fun to visit and live in. Which is significantly inflicted by my distaste for living in large cities. And there is almost certainly an age component. The older you get, the more this theory becomes true.
Click to expand...

Bangkok and I'm not remotely joking. I would not have said that 25 years ago but they have done some very keen things to improve livability:

1. Built a sky-train and a subway and they've nearly finished building a new state of the art transit hub. There are dozens of other projects ongoing that make travel to outer regions even better. To go from our house in Bangkok to my in-laws' condo in Rayong used to take 4 hours - it's now closer to 2 and that's just one example.
2. Built a new airport and now having to 2 intl hubs makes flying easier
3. Moved many government jobs to non-centralized locations
4. Started an anti-litter campaign several years back and the results have been phenomenal
5. The addition of traffic cameras has reduced accidents which used to be a significant problem
6. The 'red light' district b.s. is barely a blip. It's highly centralized and you'll never know it exists if you don't seek it out
7. This is a bad thing for some but the hostel area has been greatly reduced and is now very regulated
8. Also this is bad in some ways but street vending is now more regulated and far less prevalent
9. From a fun perspective there's really nothing you can't do

Let's face it there's still 10 million people (at least) in Bangkok and it's not perfect but they've made great strides and we are going to spend much of our retirement time in Bangkok and other parts of Thailand.
 
The Sicatoka said:
To me NYC is like the zoo: Fun to visit and see all the unique critters but wouldn't want to live there.
Click to expand...

I think I would've liked to live in NYC for a few years in my 20s (not permanently), just to say I did it, but the cost of living there is so insane that I never seriously entertained the idea.

OTOH, San Francisco is a hole and you couldn't pay me to live there. Chinatown is fun though.

dxmnkd316 said:
My theory is that no city can be both fun to visit and live in.
Click to expand...

Many are neither. Work sent me to Oklahoma City for a week a few years back and I felt myself die a little bit each day.
 
Last edited:
dxmnkd316 said:
My theory is that no city can be both fun to visit and live in. Which is significantly inflicted by my distaste for living in large cities. And there is almost certainly an age component. The older you get, the more this theory becomes true.

NYC: Amazing to visit. You'd have to put a gun to my head to live there.
Twin Cities: Great place to live. Buuuut not exactly a tourist destination.

There can be cities where neither are true. Most cities fall into that category.
Click to expand...

My two cents on living in cities like NYC or London or Paris. I think you need to "live" in your neighborhood, not the city as a whole. In other words, if your home happens to be in the West Village of NYC, then the "city" in which you live is the West Village of NYC. That's what you get to know. That's where you "live." If you then happen to find yourself in say Brooklyn, you're visiting it no different than if you were visiting it from Minnesota.

I think if you do that, you can successfully live in a large metropolitan area, and still treat other parts of it as a tourist destination.
 
SJHovey said:
My two cents on living in cities like NYC or London or Paris. I think you need to "live" in your neighborhood, not the city as a whole. In other words, if your home happens to be in the West Village of NYC, then the "city" in which you live is the West Village of NYC. That's what you get to know. That's where you "live." If you then happen to find yourself in say Brooklyn, you're visiting it no different than if you were visiting it from Minnesota.

I think if you do that, you can successfully live in a large metropolitan area, and still treat other parts of it as a tourist destination.
Click to expand...

Oh this is definitely how living in big cities works. Even when you go to other parts you only go to little islands in those parts.

The average lifetime resident of NYC walks on at most 5% of its streets in her whole lifetime.

There is a guy who is actually photographing every block in NYC and I think he's already into like the 17th year of the project and he's done less than 20% of the city.
 
SJHovey said:
My two cents on living in cities like NYC or London or Paris. I think you need to "live" in your neighborhood, not the city as a whole. In other words, if your home happens to be in the West Village of NYC, then the "city" in which you live is the West Village of NYC. That's what you get to know. That's where you "live." If you then happen to find yourself in say Brooklyn, you're visiting it no different than if you were visiting it from Minnesota.

I think if you do that, you can successfully live in a large metropolitan area, and still treat other parts of it as a tourist destination.
Click to expand...

I definitely think there's truth to that.
 
SJHovey said:
My two cents on living in cities like NYC or London or Paris. I think you need to "live" in your neighborhood, not the city as a whole. In other words, if your home happens to be in the West Village of NYC, then the "city" in which you live is the West Village of NYC. That's what you get to know. That's where you "live." If you then happen to find yourself in say Brooklyn, you're visiting it no different than if you were visiting it from Minnesota.

I think if you do that, you can successfully live in a large metropolitan area, and still treat other parts of it as a tourist destination.
Click to expand...

I “lived in” the west village and barely ventured out above 14th street unless I had a compelling reason but ...it’s still nyc .
 
One of the gqp finest is on tape getting out of his truck, and taking an axe to George Floyd square
 
Deutsche Gopher Fan said:
I “lived in” the west village and barely ventured out above 14th street unless I had a compelling reason but ...it’s still nyc .
Click to expand...

Yes, but that's like saying I live in Virginia but ... it's still the US.

It is. But not much of it. Hell, I don't even live in much of Virginia.
 
Kepler said:
There is no way that is correct. It means the data is massaged in some way, like 97% of teachers in the tard states are excluded as "teachers aides" or something.
Click to expand...

It's almost certainly true, but you guys missed a basic fact. The pay figures are official, public pay. A cop in Alabama might officially make $25,000, but that doesn't count the unofficial money.
 
Never heard of her.

Other candidates who have filed statements of organization to run as Republicans for governor include:
  • Ralph Rebandt, an Oakland County pastor who filed a statement of organization March 29
  • Ryan Kelley, an Ottawa County real estate agent who has called for the arrest of Whitmer and other government officials and attended the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6
  • Bob Scott, a Livingston County evangelist and substitute teacher who opposes mask requirements and other pandemic orders
  • Austin Chenge, a Grand Rapids entrepreneur and U.S. Army veteran who labels Whitmer a dictator
Click to expand...

As you can see, the MIGQP is really scraping the barrel for candidates at the moment.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top