3 things you hate about where you live.
 

Chula Vista, CA.

1. I pay more for milk, gas, juice, veggies, etc. than anyone else on this forum.

2. Mello Roos and Association fees. It's ****ing beautiful here but damn, it costs a lot to keep it that way.

3. The ****ing Border Patrol!!!!! A BP helicopter has been flying in circles over my neighborhood for the last ****ing hour. The noise is beyond obnoxious at this time of night. Someone spotted a few illegals crossing the border so the BP shuts off their re-runs of the A-Team, and comes out in en-masse to catch the poor bastards, handcuff them with tie wraps, and stuff them into a BP van for deportation. The helicopter keeps a spotlight on them until the ground troupes can hone in.

Because it's pitch black out this can take a while. It's total cat and mouse ****.

Tomorrow morning I'm buying a drone and some M80s...........

lol, no you don't. try coming to canada, east coast canada in particular.

1. Nothing to do past 8 other than fuck and do drugs unless your into the club scene... which I'm not.

2. Everybody thinks they're a cowboy. No you're not! You didn't grow up on a farm, you've never herded cows, and your hands lack calluses. You're a fucking city slicker! If you want to wear the clothes because you think it looks good that's fine, but it doesn't make you a cowboy!

3. The only bands that come out here are either to expensive to see or to shitty to justify paying to see.

1. Homelessness and the common trend of taking the guise of caring about the homeless to never do anything to reduce it.
2. So expensive. In every single aspect.
3. Yuppies.

Unless you pay more than $10 for gallon of milk, you do not pay more for milk than me. :/

Seriously, don't mess with M80s, fireworks or explosives.

1) humidity
2) mosquitos
3) mold

And Denmark too, I'm pretty sure. Just a few examples, converted to US dollars: A cinema ticket costs around 16 dollars, 1 litre of milk is at least 1 dollar for the cheap brands, 1 litre of gasoline is usually around 2 dollars or a little less, a new video game will set you back 80 dollars, easily.
Of course, there's the complications that earnings are different relative to living costs, so comparing by price isn't really going to reveal the relative expensiveness of living in one country over the other.

I'm not sure there's anything I hate in particular about where I live, but I'll try:

1) It seems there's almost always someone fixing their house or doing work on water lines under the road or whatever, so much of the year, there's constant construction noise. This summer, it seemed the whole city was being dug up.
2) I live close enough to the West outskirts of the city that sometimes in summer, you can smell the farmers spraying liquid manure on their fields. Only if the winds fall in a certain way though.
3) My neighbors aren't noisy very often, but when they play loud music, they play loud terrible music.

None of those are really anything worth complaining about... I guess this place is allright.

1. The weather is so dull 99% of the time.
2. It’s miles away from where I work.
3. The internet is crap, even though we pay for good internet.

1.) We have extreme hots and extreme colds. I've lived here through 100+ weather, and <0 weather.

2.) The most significant thing about our town is that we're connected to and connecting other towns to a more populous city.

3.) The POA.

1) I love how they have trails around here to hike.
2) I love how there are basketball hoops to shoot at.
3) I love the peace too, the people are nice (besides the whole moving toys around in the lobby)

1) the weather in Scotland is horrifically inconsistent. it's either too cold, too wet or too f**king hot!

2) people like this!
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my country is full of these pricks! they absolutely looooove talking with a Glaswegian accent (even though many of them have never even set foot in Glasgow), drinking Buckfast (even though most can't handle their alcohol) and then smashing random passerby's faces in with the bottles. i have a couple of scars on my face from "encounters" with these rather charming so-and-so's.

3) video game publishers like Atlus have a serious hate-boner for Europe, leading to many titles either having seriously delayed, seriously limited or no European release.

In America, in the east, even the southeast, crime is almost always business. It’s pretty easy (not fun) to deal with crime if you think of it in terms of a business transaction. Out west, it’s like crime just for the **** of it. I can’t deal with West Coast crime. In the east they want your money. That sucks but at least it makes some sense. Out west it’s like what the **** do y’all want. We want to hurt you. That’s hard to negotiate with lol.

Poznan, Poland
1) the country is a bit too right wing. It's off balance. Not as much as the media worldwide seems to be suggesting right now, not by a long shot.
2) Air quality is atrocious when the "hearing season" starts. Stupid ****ing people burn trash to warm their homes - not because they can't afford real fuel, they simply don't care about cancer and consider this a "smart move"
3) Politicians, especially from the now ruling party, have absolutely no shame and accountability. It's like they all saw what trump is doing and saying and decided they could do better.

I don't buy video games, but that's comparable to our prices in San Diego except our gas is 3-4 dollars a gallon.

My apologies to the BP. This time is was the cops. After 2 hours I called them and before I could even finish the question the cop said that there had been a high speed chase and that 2 dudes had fled on foot.

Sounded like it had been the 100th time he had had to answer a call about it.

1. I live close to 2 malls, and there's also every single chain restaurant you could imagine in a 10 mile radius (seriously, every single one. Go ahead and name one, it's here), so traffic is pretty much gridlocked all year round. During the holiday's, forget about it, it's next to impossible to get anywhere. It's a ****ing traffic nightmare. Couple that with a main road that has (again) dealers for every single car brand all clumped together down one road. Want a Porsche? No problem, it's sandwiched between the Audi/BMW/Mercedes dealer and the Cadillac/Buick/GMC dealer, which is across the street from the Chrysler/Dodge/Jeep/RAM dealer. Ford, Volkswagen, Chevy, Nissan, Honda, Acura, Hyundai, Kia, Volvo, Toyota, Infinity, Lexus, Subaru... and anything else. They're all here. I'm waiting for a Citroen dealer to pop up at any moment. They spit out more cars than they have roads to drive on, and the village can't keep up. The pinnacle of Capitalism is right here.

2. They've been working on the same road (a main artery to/from the malls) for 7 years.

Seven. Years.

...and they're still not completely done.

3. I live in a Condo, and there's a family that lives downstairs and across the hall from me that has a couple of boys in HS. They're rarely supervised. I've only seen the Mother once, and the Father is home maybe once a month... if that. These little ****ers destroy everything. They destroyed the front hallway with a fire extinguisher, they destroyed the back door, they have garbage all over the parking lot coming from their garage, the police are there constantly, and there's a constant smell of dank weed emanating from their general direction, which I don't mind but mentioned just to complete the picture. There's this one friend of theirs who, when I first moved in, had a pretty nice little SUV. A Nissan Murano I think. It's trashed now. Looks like they went out and played Dukes of Hazzard a few too many times with it. One day, I watched them jumping up and down on the hood and roof of it, all while waving around a toy gun. I mean, they thought they were cool and all, but from where I was standing, they looked mentally retarded. I'm cool with them in passing and all, but I really wish they'd move the **** on.

Ahhhh, Neds.

1 - Muslamic extremism/no go shitholes
2 - Public transport isn't great if you're on a late night
3 - Tribal bickering between the WM boroughs & councils

Think these are decent, tried to pick ones unique to where I am not the UK as a whole.

That doesn't seem so bad in comparison, since there's 3.8 litres on a gallon as far as I know.

I don't buy video games at full price myself, ever. Barely buy any at all, any more. It's one of the few things where I could quickly find some prices to compare.

Ah right, you Danes are still on that arbitrary liter nonsense. You should switch over to gallons, 128 is a nice round number that has a lot of meaning.

Well at least you guys have good social programs. Here in SD the only people who aren't in debt are the ones who are gentrifying the place and making it all ****ty.

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Yeah, it's true. That's why I never complain about the through-the-roof taxes in Denmark. Free healthcare for all and no one has to be homeless as long as they're willing to play ball with the system.

1. Developers that want to throw you out of your house or business via Eminent Domain.
2. Yuppies
3. Baltimore City Government in general but especially the previous two mayors.

1. We're a decently sized area, but there's **** all actually here besides a few scattered streets with small lines of bars and a mile-long beach with an... okay beachfront that takes at least forty-five minutes to get to for most everyone who lives here. And along the beachfront is literally a no-swearing zone with signs that have $@!# surrounded by a red circle with a slash going through the symbols. Srsly how the **** can in it be Constitutional to pass a law that says you can't swear?!

2. The area is so spread out that unless you have a car there is even more **** all to do or places to work, and even if you have a car it takes forever to get anywhere.

3. Jesus ****ing Christ it's humid in the summer and the Virginia coast is a malarial swamp of mosquito hell.

1: lmfao
2: Is it enforced or just encouraged?

indeed. they hang around in their cars on the other side of the river i live next to and rev/backfire them.

¬_¬ scares the s*it outta my dogs!

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No idea. I've never heard of anyone getting a ticket for swearing over there, but I imagine it would be a pretty small fine so perhaps word just doesn't get around about the odd person having to pay a fifty dollar fine. And there's a bit more of a cop presence on the beach, but it's not like marshall law over there so how the **** can they even enforce it with any kind of consistency? I'd like to think any cop who's not a complete **** would probably ignore any F-bombs cause who wants to be that kind of cop?

I wanna go to that ****en beach and get a ****en ticket.

One thing that bugs me about my city are the parks. You might imagine that in a big city in a hot climate, people would value a green and shady place. Whether they do or not, they don't get it; the local council almost always go for something like this:-

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Things like trees and grass are treated like troublesome elements that interrupt their glorious array of gratuitous concrete. Instead of being a respite from the sidewalks, many parks are actually worse, and when the midday sun hammers down, they are consciously avoided.

Concrete pavement and hot summer days are a bad combo.

I'm fortunate that I live about a 10 minute walk from some really nice, big parks and lakes, even though I live in the 4th largest city in my country.

The view from my apartment is even of a mix of house rooftops and foliage.

Can't complain.

Would just like to point out that the idea of having palm trees (like in your pic) anywhere near where I live seems really exotic to me.

^ I love your avatar mate.

And he lives in god damn Mexico.

Mine? 90's Tori Amos for the win. I'm not going to badger anyone to listen to her music, but it's a big part of my life.

I need to listen to more of her. I keep liking the few songs I listen to here and there but being too lazy to follow up.

Tori Amos is okay. Hey, she's from nearby DC so I guess I can't hate her :laughing:

Yes :cool:

Several of her albums re 70+ minutes long and they take a while to grow on you, so it's no exactly an easy recommendation. I really love her music, but I usually have to listen to every new album a number of times before I start getting into it. I could make a playlist of tracks from across her career, that I think make a good argument for getting more in depth with her material. But I'm also aware that it's not the most immediately persuasive artist discography of all time.

This post got me like...


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Tori Amos is the bomb. Her and Kate Bush. They also created a lot of the mold that resulted in the 90s explosion of female singer songwriters with an edge.