Where to begin in such a large country Alex my friend? Also if I went to America I'd want to stay in normal towns, like suburbs or something. That'd be awesome.

lol. Why?

The city is overrated and expensive, I'd like to visit as many aspects as possible if I visit and seeing what normal/average American people live like is one of the ones I'd like to see and experience, what's wrong with that?

Nothing, except that the suburbs are generally really boring. Also, statistically most Americans live in urban areas so if you want to experience the American norm you'd need to spend your time in the cities.

Many of us crammer to get out of suburbs because that kind of life is pretty boring unless you're raising kids. Either big city or deep country if you want a good American experience. I mean sure working as an accountant 30 miles outside of Cleaveland might be a more "authentic" experience but that doesn't make it any better.

On the other hand, nothing is more American than small town life. Lots of beautiful little towns with awesome people, far removed from major cities. That would definitely be a good U.S. experience. Colorado has some lovely towns.

It's not even particularly "authentic". Like I mentioned above, the average American lives in a city.

This.

I just want to visit for a little while, I come from a tiny village which only has 7 small streets and I know a lot of gorgeous places within 5 mins walking. I want to see stuff like that aswell as seeing the likes of New York City and similar cities.

Small towns are not the same thing as suburbs though.

This is a suburb:

http://samrainer.files.wordpress.com...burban-usa.jpg

No gorgeous places within 5 mins walking.

My mistake, I had no idea suburban areas were so big? I thought they were like, the same size as the closest town to here which is huge compared to my village but its still a small place on that scale :(.

So many Americans have pools also. It's mental.

I grew up in a small suburban type neighbourhood in Toronto, so I'm not exactly an inner-city kid, but the downtown core is only 10 minutes away. The real suburbs are bland and boring, with giant shopping malls and houses that look the same as the one next door to it.

I'd so much rather live in the suburbs than a small town dude. That place looks really nice although I guess it is kind of weird how all the houses look alike.

Well, like Conan was saying, you'd probably enjoy some of the small towns. Take this for example, over two hours drive from the nearest city, and I had the good fortune to live there briefly:

http://www.menupix.com/town_img/PismoBeachCAHP.jpg

Yeah, it's ridiculous. Especially in the south and west.

Because it's so hot there! I don't blame them one bit! We have a pool at our house, but I can only use it like, 5 or 6 months out of the year :(

All the houses here look alike :laughing: my house only has different roughcasting than the rest of the houses in the village haha. Only the expensive houses don't match here :(

God that town is gorgeous. It strangely reminds me of here, it looks really like a place about an hour drive from my house with the beach too. How long did you stay there for?

That's not the most representative picture actually, it was very rare for it to be so overcast. This is more what it looked like most days:

https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_5...ismo-beach.jpg

I was three for three months. If I ever became independently wealthy I'd move back in a heartbeat.

But most of them are usually a douche especially when the ones call them self "bros"

It looks amazing still, I prefer the green hills though! Is the first picture from a different end or something? Where abouts is it :)?

Edit: @luckylovexoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo, its alright though, cos I'm a tank. And a bro.

:(

then you will be fine

The second picture is looking north along the coast roughly from where the first picture was taken. The differing color of the hills has to do with the pictures being taken during different times of the year.

It's Pismo Beach, California. Three hours north of Los Angeles and four hours south of San Francisco. The area it's in, the Central Coast, is this incredibly gorgeous and surprisingly underrated part of the California. It's sparsely populated wine country with a mediterranean climate and incredibly friendly, low-key people. Just a short drive inland and things start to get surprisingly desert-ish.

The cool part is that cities in dfferent areas of the US are drastically different. Not only the weather and physical parts of it but the mentality of the people, and the overall atmosphere.

I havnt been to the west coast recently but Floridas big cities are wonderful. Thinking of finishing school in Tampa or Miami.

Can't say I agree about Floridian cities. Miami is okay, Tampa is blah, Orlando is awful and Jacksonville is even worse. Plus, unlike the west coast, the weather in Florida sucks.

But a lot of suburban areas in the UK look the same as this.

They have a more extreme climate than most of Europe and that usually means hotter summers than northern europe.

That looks like a Northern Spanish coastal town, especially with the hills.

Depends where you go. In hotter places, I guess they have more pools. Here in Virginia though, no one has a pool.

This 1st World Problem was brought to you by Burning Down. ;)

:laughing: Well I felt like complaining about something.

I started my day off by skipping class and staying in bed with my boyfriend. I'll just let your little imaginations run wild with that.

I'd agree with your assessment of Florida. I also love Pismo Beach its an amazing area. In general i find Northern Cali to be an amazing place to visit. The area is home to my favorite National Parks and also my favorite beaches.

I live about ten minutes from Newport Beach its a beautiful place also.

City of Newport Beach : Photo Gallery

Stop ignoring me then, you cunt. :love:

I ****ing love long morning study sessions!

I spent my whole day sleeping. I fucking love sleep.

Working on autocad. Listening to music. Listening to my history and theory and philosophy of architecture lecturer talk about fractal geometry. Thinking of my ex.

Heh... so, having absolutely no background in Trigonometry at all (no, not even high school), and having to use it in my Physics class, a Youtube video just did for me in like 2 minutes what my Physics teacher couldn't do in in 2 days.

F*cking sohcahtoa. Y u so awesome?

Me too... mmmmmmmmm......... :laughing:

I remember sohcahtoa! I was really good in math in high school. Trig and algebra were my favourite subjects.

You go to hell. For me, math was no because I was too busy being awesome back in 1997. lawl.

Seriously though, it's good to realize that a lot of the stuff that has held me back in math stemmed solely from the fact that I never paid attention in high school, and not because I'm still an idiot.
I just always lacked the basics that everything else was built on. I learned that the hard way when I did College Algebra (which I passed with a high B, first time around. That's miraculous for me, considering I didn't even know how to work with fractions going into it...)

Admittedly, not ever taking (or remembering) any sort of trigonometry prior to taking a college level physics class was sort of a dumb move, (I thought it'd be a conceptual class) but thankfully it turns out pretty much every sort of calculation we'll be doing is Trig-based, and I've managed to watch a couple videos and learn pretty much everything I was like "WUT" about when the instructor was busy assuming everyone already knew what he was talking about. (not his fault, I guess.)

^ Congrats on self-teaching your way up to college level trig, Freebase. I still remember learning Some Orphans Have Curly Alburn Hair Til Old Age when I was at school.

^ I spent years working in architecture too, not with Autocad but with a system of "pens" filled with "ink".

i'm actuallycontemplating taking a post-grad in quantum mechanics

i mean, my understanding of thereotical physics is pretty sound, i could understand the Theory of Relativity well enough even if i didn't have a root in relativistic physics

Average, but I spent time with friends so that's a plus. Going to see my mate's band tomorrow night, which will be fun.

My source for free green is now "laying low" in another town...so I've been out for a while. Got my hands on some more tonight...so it's gonna be a niiice relaxing night.

On that note, I will be blazing to Episode I in 3D next Friday...sure it's Episode I but it's freaking Star Wars. Personally, I think the prequels are really entertaining.

I'm waiting for them to do the original trilogy. I don't want the prequels to leave a bad taste in my mouth when the originals come out. I would love to blaze up first though. That would be...godly.