What city do you live in ?

thanks New Yorkers, I'd love to live there at some point in my life. it's interesting hearing about it from people who know.

Seoul

I've been here 2 years, thinking about going to grad school here for 2+ more years. Love the city, it's 2nd biggest in the world according to some measures, around 11million people in the city itself.

Pros: Amazingly cheap and efficient public transportation. I can get pretty much anywhere in the city in 30 minutes, for about $1. Taxis are well cheap and non-sketchy too.

No fat people. No loud people. No sloppy people. No openly rude people. (obviously in a city this big there are exceptions, but they are truly exceptions)

People are generally polite and friendly, but not as robotically reserved as the Japanese.

The most beautiful women in the world. I've been around; Stockholm, New York, London, Tokyo, Berlin, Rome, but I think Seoul's got em all beat for simple average hotness of each girl that you see on the street. The haters will point to Korea being the plastic surgery capital of the world, but...

Amazing food. Meat sizzling in the center of the table. Restaurant filled with people screaming and laughing and drinking. A sense of community you don't get in western-style restaurants. Almost like a big cookout on a camping trip.

Cons:

Art/music scenes are in the primordial stages. This is nothing like Tokyo or New York or London. Seoul was a pile of rubble 60 years ago, and Seoulites were uneducated farmers. Give it another decade or two, and things will get interesting.

Korean cinema is the one exception. As a whole, probably the most interesting in the world right now. Kim Ki-duk, Park Chan-wook, and others.

Foreign food is generally expensive and sub-par. Want a good sandwich in Seoul? Good Italian? You're out of luck. They have mastered the burger though.

The city, people excepted, is fairly ugly. As mentioned before, the city has been built in the past 60 years, so that means a lot of hideous 60s-70s architecture, and a whole lot of plain steel or cement boxes.

Culturally/historically, this is certainly no European or even American city. Everything here is new.

No marijuana.

racine, wisconsin

5th largest in wi. between milwaukee and chicago.

total shithole.

i lived here from 1989 to 2002, then moved away for 8 years and for some reason decided to move back. i do not know why. there's not a lot to do that doesnt involve driving to either milwaukee or chicago. worst job situation in wi.

i guess it has improved a LOT since when i was a kid. the last mayor made some changes that started the ball rolling for turning downtown into a place that people wanted to go, but that all got stalled when he was caught trying to have sex with a 14 year old boy.

bhaha (no, that's not where i'm living, was replying to above)

San Francisco.

I love it to bits.

I might go to NYC or Europe next [berlin, if I had the choice].

the worst thing about racine is that i used to live in madison

why did i leave

  On 6/17/2011 at 8:14 PM, baph said:

  On 6/17/2011 at 7:42 PM, Dropp said:

  On 6/17/2011 at 7:35 PM, Boxus said:

Palm Springs, California.

 

not a city. a living ghost town. really, it's an awful place.

 

(ESPECIALLY IN THE SUMMER)

 

Just googled it. And it looks like paradise on earth, it can't be that awful.

 

Look, look! It's the token person who lives in a resort town and wants to bitch about it!

fuck you, fuck resort towns, fuck palm trees, and fuck 120 degree heat. i'll bitch about this place as long as i'm here because it's a pile of shit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Txltmsm5Bmo

Rage Against The Machine = Angsty real talk. >:[

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDncFg5tSEc

DMX = sad real talk :(

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I live in Brøndby in Denmark.

It's a little boring suburban town, mostly known for the its soccer team, who's one of the biggest in the country, which means there's loads of no-brain soccer idiots running around. I live in the east area which luckily is the most quiet of them all, but I don't have to go far if I want to seek trouble.

I should be moving to the capitol, Copenhagen, by august-september and I honestly can't wait. I've always considered myself one to live in the city, I just adore the atmosphere and liveliness of it all. The constant noise of cars and voices outside does have a soothing factor to it. Though I will miss the quiet nights here in this piece of suburbia where the only things to sooth me down at night is the sound of the occasional train passing by just next to the building.

Crystal Lake Illinois It Is The Greatest PLace in all of AMERICA and probably the whoel world

  On 6/17/2011 at 11:57 PM, KY said:

  On 6/17/2011 at 11:13 PM, Charles Nelson Reilly said:

hamden, CT. little podunk town north of new haven. dunno what there is in new haven except lots of crime and good pizza. soon i'll be moving near princeton, NJ and i expect to be there for quite a while.

 

pittsburgh has been by far my favorite place i've lived. city is just the right size, with plenty to do and all that. nice scenery and decent seasons (all four of them, which i like). i'd love to move back some day.

aw man, you are fucking spot on re: new haven pizza, and i've been in brooklyn for like, two years now. i never went to sally's or pepe's (only visited CT once, and drove through on a separate occasion), but my girlfriend took me to dayton pizzeria to get the white clam pie. goddamn, watmmers.

pizza redefined.

 

big on pittsburgh too—would always visit, primarily mckee's rocks, as my great aunt lives there. that area in particular has the most intriguing ghost town vibe, it's amazing. and downtown pittsburgh is pretty sweet as well.

pepe's is outstanding. always a line outside the place. haven't tried sally's yet.

pittsburgh does have a nice vibe like that, maybe i like that aspect because i grew up near youngstown OH which became even more of a ghost town after the steel industry left.

  On 6/18/2011 at 5:17 AM, Al Hounos said:

Adopt me, Al Hounos!

  On 6/18/2011 at 12:45 PM, Hasselbalch said:

I live in Brøndby in Denmark.

It's a little boring suburban town, mostly known for the its soccer team, who's one of the biggest in the country, which means there's loads of no-brain soccer idiots running around.

Brøndby isn't the only area with Brøndby fans you know.. I have to deal with them on a daily basis as well, lol.

  On 6/18/2011 at 2:35 PM, Dropp said:

  On 6/18/2011 at 12:45 PM, Hasselbalch said:

I live in Brøndby in Denmark.

It's a little boring suburban town, mostly known for the its soccer team, who's one of the biggest in the country, which means there's loads of no-brain soccer idiots running around.

 

Brøndby isn't the only area with Brøndby fans you know.. I have to deal with them on a daily basis as well, lol.

I know, but it has a large part of them. When I was around 7-9 years old my dad made me wear a shirt with the logo of FC København (pretty much Brøndby's biggest rival), I said that I'd get teased and pushed around if I showed up with such a shirt, but he told me it was nonsense and send me off to school. Heck, I didn't even make it to my classroom before I was harassed and actually beat up by some hardcore Brøndby kids a few years older than me.

THAT's how horrible soccer culture is here in Denmark.

Well.. You're father kind of sounds like a troll, for making you do something like that. Of course that was going to happen if you live in Brøndby.

You Should try and meet some of the jyske Brøndby fans I know. They're are not really violent or anything, but they are just really really dumb as fuck. I've never understood how you can support a club from Copenhagen, when you're from Jylland. But that's another discussion.

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  On 6/17/2011 at 9:36 PM, Wall Bird said:

 

 

As a result of the widespread public drunkenness, Boston has prohibitive liquor laws that make it illegal for stores to sell booze after 11 PM. Fuck that. If you look up at the clock to find that it's 10:55 you'd better pray to God that you've got some backup in the fridge. Otherwise you're fucked.

 

 

Welcome to Canada when for the most part you have to go to a liquor store before 11pm to get your booze.

I live in Oxford.

Its always busy.

Its always full of slowly walking groups of tourists having educational tours.

It has a really crap selection of nightclubs.

Its dead in the summer when there are no students around.

Its crap for shopping.

But

Its full of beautiful architecture and inner city trees / greenery

Has many awesome (free!) museums and galleries.

It has an amazing selection of what I would call proper pubs - great real ale and food selections.

It has a great underground music scene of bands and djs

In summary: I love it. I grew up around here too.

Madison, SD... it's a decent sized college town, and it's got all the essential things and some good people here. But I'm from Minneapolis and I kinda miss the big city at times.... Sioux Falls is 45 minutes away

  On 6/18/2011 at 7:56 AM, disparaissant said:

the worst thing about racine is that i used to live in madison

 

 

why did i leave

Madison is a cool town. I go there a couple times a year. I always make a point to go to Earwax Records, The Soap Opera and a few other spots.

Antwerp, Belgium. Not too bad, but can be very boring. No music scene and us Belgians are a pretty distant folk.

Everyone in this thread go and add their location to the member map. That would be really awesome even tho i know it won't happen. And the people that claim to live in chad and easter island and greenland please move their markers. Which won't happen either.

A man can dream tho.

London: exciting, expensive, frustrating, exhilarating.

  On 6/18/2011 at 6:04 PM, essines said:

  On 6/17/2011 at 9:36 PM, Wall Bird said:

 

 

As a result of the widespread public drunkenness, Boston has prohibitive liquor laws that make it illegal for stores to sell booze after 11 PM. Fuck that. If you look up at the clock to find that it's 10:55 you'd better pray to God that you've got some backup in the fridge. Otherwise you're fucked.

 

 

Welcome to Canada when for the most part you have to go to a liquor store before 11pm to get your booze.

Same with queensland. Also our booze is taxed like hell. Even more so when sold in bars.