What's it like where you live?

Gerudo Flygon

Gerudo Flygon

Now, for this thread, you don't specifically have to say where you live, just what it's like. What the weather is like, the people, the schools, celebrations, etc.

I live in So.Cal, and it's not the surfer dream some of you may be thinking. For starters, I may live an hour and a half from the beach, but I rarely go there, and I hate all that sand. The weather's pretty dry, and it can get really hot in the summer, but it's pretty decent in the fall and spring. The scenery is pretty nice, especially the mountains and fields nearby. I live in a pretty rural area, there's a horse farm or two nearby, and plenty of wheat fields. The schools are o.k, they don't get too much money but they're not horrible. People around here for the most part are pretty nice, we're pretty simple people, so there's not much to say. As for holidays and such, we just decorate houses for Christmas and Halloween, and on the 4th of July we have a carnival of sorts at a big park nearby. There's lots of food, sports, and of course, fireworks. We also have a little Boy Scouts parade nearby a few ours before the fireworks, but it's just Fireman and boy scouts in the back of trucks and stuff with people throwing candy to the boy scouts as they pass.
 
I'm in potato land. Yes. It's pretty nice here. Don't go thinking we have nice summers though, we've been getting 90 degree and higher summers the last couple years. In the winter it's decently cold so I end up having a blanket around my arms like a poncho at home. The people here I've met are pretty nice, but of course there are bad apples. Most I've met are religious, and I'm not, but they don't seem to mind. The homeschool community is bigger than you would think here. I am one of them. Although technically not because private school. We also have Science Olympiad and it was a lot of fun getting to meet other science interested homeschoolers for my team. We also got 2nd place for Division B, a FIRST FOR A HOMESCHOOL TEAM so Idaho pride! At New Years Eve we have the potato drop where a giant potato replica is dropped like the ball in New York. I've never went but it's supposed to be fun.

Also where I live there was a little candy store and it was amazing. So many imported chocolates, candies from the 90s/80s/whatever that made parents nostalgic, it was great. The place went out of business though so there goes my dreams of riding my bike down there to get candy. There's also an arcade and frozen yugurt, which is my goal this summer to actually ride my bike there.
 
HelenTheHero said:
I'm in potato land. Yes. It's pretty nice here. Don't go thinking we have nice summers though, we've been getting 90 degree and higher summers the last couple years. In the winter it's decently cold so I end up having a blanket around my arms like a poncho at home. The people here I've met are pretty nice, but of course there are bad apples. Most I've met are religious, and I'm not, but they don't seem to mind. The homeschool community is bigger than you would think here. I am one of them. Although technically not because private school. We also have Science Olympiad and it was a lot of fun getting to meet other science interested homeschoolers for my team. We also got 2nd place for Division B, a FIRST FOR A HOMESCHOOL TEAM so Idaho pride! At New Years Eve we have the potato drop where a giant potato replica is dropped like the ball in New York. I've never went but it's supposed to be fun.

Also where I live there was a little candy store and it was amazing. So many imported chocolates, candies from the 90s/80s/whatever that made parents nostalgic, it was great. The place went out of business though so there goes my dreams of riding my bike down there to get candy. There's also an arcade and frozen yugurt, which is my goal this summer to actually ride my bike there.
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Sounds fun ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°). I'd love to have an arcade where I live, we have a roller rink nearby and a Movie Theater coming in, like, 2022.
 
I live in a small town in the north-east of Italy. I'll start saying that it looks nothing like the stereotypical image of small Italian towns. It's a very quiet town, with new-ish buildings, green areas and little traffic. It is mostly surrounded by countryside.

What I like the most is that despite being a quite country town, you don't feel left outside of the civilized world. You have shops, malls and whatever you need for daily life, schools, most basic services, good 4G mobile coverage. There is an airport literally 5 minutes away from my place which is also convenient. The sea is a 15 minutes bike ride away (albeit it's no Miami Beach), in the same time you can reach relaxing green hills, and mountains are one hour of highway away. The night life isn't the best, but I've never been one for night life anyway.

I'm not a sporty guy, but I enjoy hiking and biking and it's great to have many different places (hills, dirt roads, woods) to ride around. We have a football team and even a baseball team.

Beside the obvious Easter and Christmas, we have a pretty large town festival late August/early September and others in neighboring towns around the year, especially during the summer. I especially like Carnival, people get loud and silly and you get to wear costumes, the sillier they are, the better. It's not like in Venice where masks are like museum arts. There's a big parade and a lot of guys dress up like women, which is kind of a tradition here.

I work in the next city and I'm planning to move there soon-ish. It's by no means a huge metropolis and it's a seaside city, which is always cool.
 
Billy the Uncle said:
I live in a small town in the north-east of Italy. I'll start saying that it looks nothing like the stereotypical image of small Italian towns. It's a very quiet town, with new-ish buildings, green areas and little traffic. It is mostly surrounded by countryside.

What I like the most is that despite being a quite country town, you don't feel left outside of the civilized world. You have shops, malls and whatever you need for daily life, schools, most basic services, good 4G mobile coverage. There is an airport literally 5 minutes away from my place which is also convenient. The sea is a 15 minutes bike ride away (albeit it's no Miami Beach), in the same time you can reach relaxing green hills, and mountains are one hour of highway away. The night life isn't the best, but I've never been one for night life anyway.

I'm not a sporty guy, but I enjoy hiking and biking and it's great to have many different places (hills, dirt roads, woods) to ride around. We have a football team and even a baseball team.

Beside the obvious Easter and Christmas, we have a pretty large town festival late August/early September and others in neighboring towns around the year, especially during the summer. I especially like Carnival, people get loud and silly and you get to wear costumes, the sillier they are, the better. It's not like in Venice where masks are like museum arts. There's a big parade and a lot of guys dress up like women, which is kind of a tradition here.

I work in the next city and I'm planning to move there soon-ish. It's by no means a huge metropolis and it's a seaside city, which is always cool.
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Wow, Italy? That sounds great! I've always wanted to go there. I'd love to go there for that carnival you were talking about, sounds like tons of fun :3.
 
I live in suburban Massachusetts. It's really quiet. It's a really small town, but it's one of the best in the country (according to money magazine), so eh. Nice schools, nice forests. I like it here. Possibly the only bad thing is how competitive it is here.
 
I like in Amherst, Massechusetts when I'm at college, and Calcutta,India when I'm not. It'a pretty chill at college obviously, I go to UMass Amherst btw(there's always enough to do); and being at home's awesome too, obviously there are a lot of differences between the two places but that's what makes it enjoyable, I love going through all the shops in the quaint town of Amherst, and I love Calcutta cause of family, and the city vibe you get here!
 
I live in Hong Kong. Population density is very high but also very convenient because everything is close / nearby.
Beach- 15 mins bus ride.
Department store - 15 mins walk.
Grocery store - 5 mins walk.
Restaurants (more than 10) - 5 mins walk.
 
Drangonn. said:
I live in suburban Massachusetts. It's really quiet. It's a really small town, but it's one of the best in the country (according to money magazine), so eh. Nice schools, nice forests. I like it here. Possibly the only bad thing is how competitive it is here.
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Oh? What do you mean by competitive? Like, sports and stuff?
 
Cresselia~~ said:
I live in Hong Kong. Population density is very high but also very convenient because everything is close / nearby.
Beach- 15 mins bus ride.
Department store - 15 mins walk.
Grocery store - 5 mins walk.
Restaurants (more than 10) - 5 mins walk.
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I'd hate to live somewhere so crowded. I like lots of open space, so I guess that's why I like it here in So.Cal.
 
College: Pomona, CA. Honestly, this place is awful. When I lived off-campus during sophomore year, I carried pepper spray everywhere because Pomona is one of the biggest crime centers in Los Angeles County, second only to Compton. I was witness to at least two cases of domestic violence while living off-campus, and I'm sure there were several more I didn't witness. I kept basically nothing in my car because I was afraid it would get stolen at any time. I'm pretty sure it is impossible to live in Pomona and feel safe, unless you're on the Cal Poly Pomona campus, in which case you're probably fine, but room and board is expensive (it's college, what did you expect lol)

Home: Yukon, OK. There's nothing to say about Yukon. It's just boring. There's basically nothing to do. If you want to be anything but bored, you drive to Oklahoma City because that's where everything is. Oh, and have fun during the winter when a tree knocks down a power line and you have no power for a week.
 
I moved to Brooklyn about a year ago after finishing college and spending 13 years in North Carolina. I never lived in a major city before.

My Grandmother grew up in Hoboken (across the river from Manhatten) during the great depression and would tell me about growing up during that time and what NYC was like. When I finally got to visit I knew this is where I would want to live. But it seemed like a distant dream. I am extremely lucky to have got a job at an investment bank that made this possible. Every day crossing the river from Brooklyn into Manhattan I feel like a silly tourist looking at endless city amazed at the density of historical and modern architecture.

I came with very little money when I moved in so I am living in Bushwick - a relatively afford neighborhood. Its about 15 to 20minutes train ride into Manhattan. Population density is 99,000 people per square mile; mostly Hispanic and Black but rapidly gentrifying. You can tell its an area with a history of poverty and crime yet trendy art studios, coffee shops, and restaurants show that its changing for better or worse depending on your perspective.

Winter was brutal, glad its finally over, we had a record snow fall of like 27inches in one day. It was ridiculous. Obviously Its crowded which sometimes sucks but its part of what makes the city vibrant and exciting. Inequality is stark, every time you leave home some poor homeless guy will ask you for money. You cannot go a day without multiple people holding a sign saying they are homeless and asking for money. And then you see luxury buildings with apartments worth 10s of millions all over the place.

Theres always something going on, a part of the city you havnt explored, the worlds top museums, beautiful parks, and neighborhoods each with their own uniqueness and charm. I love being able to try so many different foods. In North Carolina if I went out for food it was usually to some chain restaurant that I had been to dozens of times before like Chipotle. There's literally hundreds of places to eat within walking distance from work.
 
Gerudo Flygon said:
WCOP?
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World Cup of Pokemon, team tour where teams are theoretically based on nationality. I'd also like to point out that the TDs recent decision makes artificial shows of nationality redundant. I only skimmed the post but they mentioned IP addresses and apparently BKC trying to play for every team at once so idk what that's about.

Anyhow, I live in Sydney, Australia, where you have to be Scrooge McDuck in order to actually own a house. My particular region is known for being jam-packed with old and/or rich people who actually take our right wing politicians seriously, to the point where politicians don't give two shits about the region because it'll always be fucking liberal so what's the point in making an effort to upgrade infrastructure when there are votes to be won elsewhere. Also it has absolutely no forms of public transport outside this one bus route into the city. Weather-wise, this year we're trialling a new system of seasons where there's a gradual transition from summer to summer-lite, then back to summer. This is pretty cool because it means it's beach weather all year round due to never ever raining and we can gradually phase the word "cold" out of the local dialect. Also a recurring theme among the local youth in my area is that no-one realises that uni isn't compulsory, which is cool because it makes for easy conversation since we can all relate to each other in terms of being frantically stressed and undergoing a perpetual existential crisis as we suffer in order to get a bit of paper that probably won't secure us a job. It's great!
 
I moved just outside of Boston about 8 months ago. It's not bad, but I much prefer the city and still spend most of my time there. The only reason why I moved was because the housing prices in Boston are ridiculous (and this is now spreading to immediate areas outside of the city as well). Otherwise, we have really good schools and while people complain about the cold weather a lot, I personally really like it. If I ever move outside of MA it will probably be to a very similar city (Seattle, DC, etc.).
 
I live in southwest Florida. So it goes between hot and sticky to damp and sticky. Sometimes both. And you never know if it'll rain or shine, so you get used to torrential downpours real quick, and learn to smell when a storm's coming.
 
Nightingales said:
I live in southwest Florida. So it goes between hot and sticky to damp and sticky. Sometimes both. And you never know if it'll rain or shine, so you get used to torrential downpours real quick, and learn to smell when a storm's coming.
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Any more specifics about south Florida? I'm moving to southeast Florida in a few weeks.
 
nerd said:
Any more specifics about south Florida? I'm moving to southeast Florida in a few weeks.
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It really depends where. But you're never more than 100 miles from the coast, so that means it'll always be at least 60% humidity unless you have one of those REALLY cold winters that happen once every twenty years or so. Generally, it never goes below 60 degrees, and in the summer it isn't uncommon to hit 95-100, and with the humidity it's hell. But there are really nice days when it's around 85 and there's a ten mph wind and it just is beautiful.

Then there's the massive storms that roll in every now and then and you can sit up at night and just watch the lightning.
 
I live in Recife, Brazil. I don't really like where I live, I prefer cold weather and the weather here is almost always 86°F, and I like quiet places and the people here are very noisy.
 
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