What are the pro's and con's of where you live?

[Gnarwhal]

You don't have to name where you live, but what are 5-10 pro's and con's of the area? You can focus on pro's and con's of the town/city or the broader region if you want.

What works for you? What doesn't?

Just as an example, I'll go ahead...

Pro's
- Big enough: still feels like a small town but large enough to have just about anything you'd want.
- Nature, there's a lot of it around here
- Good university that offers a lot to the community
- Culturally diverse for the size of the town
- Home to some amazing businesses
- Generally loved by everyone who comes through here
- Falls are amazing, benefit of being The City of Trees
- Good hunting, fishing, camping, hiking, mountain climinb, etc nearby
- Great music scene

Con's
- Not on the main interstate so sometimes it's overlooked
- Not enough rain
- Stupid party school reputation self perpetuates
- Summers are blistering hot
- Communications duopoly
- Too many hippies
- Outsiders run for city council and ruin the town

 

[timewerx]

Pro's
- You get philosophical

Con's
- Hell looks utterly awesome in comparison

 

[quatona]

Con's
- Hell looks utterly awesome in comparison

Isn´t that a pro?

 

[SnowyMacie]

Pros
- Easy access to a major international airport
- Very diverse
- Large enough you can do anything you want
- Good music scene

Cons
- Way too hot and unnaturally humid
- Horrendous traffic
- Too many people
- Area is too large as well
- Fair weather sports fans
- Outdated infrastructure
- Dirty

 

[Servant68]

I live in a town of 1100 that is within 15 miles of 2 college towns with a combined population of around 60k. I'm right on the Idaho/Washington border.

My pros/cons may not line up with a lot of others on here...

Pros:

- Four seasons with not too brutal winters and not too hot summers.
- World-class fishing within an hour drive.
- World-class hunting within an hour drive.
- Just about every outdoor activity you can imagine from snow skiing to rock climbing.
- Very low crime rates/road rage.
- Little to no traffic.
- Low property taxes.
- Reasonably conservative area.
- Universities provide lots of cultural opportunities.
- Diversity without the ghetto or bario.

Cons:

- High gas prices (it's a weird anomaly. I paid $2.55 a gallon yesterday).
- Highest percentage of liberals in the region.
- Low wages.
- Higher housing costs relative to wages/jobs available.
- No Home Depot/Costco/Sam's Club, etc.
- Businesses cater mostly to college kids.
- Washington state has more restrictive gun laws than Idaho.
- Churches don't have evening or mid-week services.
- Not many single women over 35yrs old and Christian.
- Everyone drives at the speed limit or under on mostly 2-lane highways with no passing.
- No steak places.

 

[MotherFirefly]

Corn & Weird Weather & Nothing Entertaining

 

[alsughasoughaiuyfygh]

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[Toro]

Cons
- Fair weather sports fans

Thats ANYWHERE. Welcome to sports.

- Dirty

Name any of the top 5 cities in America that isn't.

New York - Dirty and over populated

LA- Dirty and overpopulated with people believing they are soon to be celebs.

Chicago - Never been but I hear its corrupt and dirty and what I have seen of the other 2 I believe it.


Then comes Houston - So its exactly up there with any big city.

The rest you say is true though. Although, I disagree with the "large area" being a con. It disperses the mass of people. Unlike a place such as NY where everyone lives on top of everyone else. THAT is a con.

 

[Gnarwhal]

Housing is stupidly expensive here. A one bedroom apartment can cost around $850 a month and the owners can jack up the prices by however much they want every year.

Is that $850CAD? Cause that's about $636USD, which sounds amazing.

 

[alsughasoughaiuyfygh]

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[SnowyMacie]

PROS:
-Good place if you like fishing, camping and hunting.
-The oil industry can allow any high school dropout make $40 an hour.
-One of the largest aircraft bases in the country.
-Small enough to walk everywhere.

CONS:
-The alcoholic capital of this part of the province.
-Hardly anything to do except watch the cows mate.
-Miles away from civilization.
-Since the oil crash, the town went into recession.
-The men here act like they're on steroids and the women are gold diggers.
-The Canadian Aboriginal community here is so hard hit with problems such as drugs, crime and unemployment that they are considered the laughing stock of the Albertan Aboriginal People.
-With a military aircraft base, we always have fighter jets flying, making a lot of loud noise when they do.
-Crime, drugs and rowdy locals plague the town and the police here already have enough on their plate.
-My town made world news for vandalizing a mosque.
-Very transient town. If you make a friend, don't expect them to be around for very long.
-The climate goes to extremes. Goes as high as over 30 C (86 F) during summer and as low as under -30 C (-22 F) during winter.
-The terrain in so rough that 95% of the vehicles you see here are trucks and mini vans.
-Housing is stupidly expensive here. A one bedroom apartment can cost around $850 a month and the owners can jack up the prices by however much they want every year.
-And much, much more...

Wait...YOU'RE CANADIAN!?!?! I thought you were American this whole time.

 

[SnowyMacie]

Thats ANYWHERE. Welcome to sports.




Name any of the top 5 cities in America that isn't.

New York - Dirty and over populated

LA- Dirty and overpopulated with people believing they are soon to be celebs.

Chicago - Never been but I hear its corrupt and dirty and what I have seen of the other 2 I believe it.


Then comes Houston - So its exactly up there with any big city.

The rest you say is true though. Although, I disagree with the "large area" being a con. It disperses the mass of people. Unlike a place such as NY where everyone lives on top of everyone else. THAT is a con.

Actually when I went to Chicago I was suprised at how clean and beautiful their downtown area was.

 

[alsughasoughaiuyfygh]

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[Toro]

Actually when I went to Chicago I was suprised at how clean and beautiful their downtown area was.

Well, it IS the windy city. Maybe the trash and dirt just blew to a neighboring town.

 

[Gnarwhal]

Yes, Canadian, and that's just a conservative amount.

Still sounds like a steal. I paid $750USD ($1,001CAD) for my 1bd/1ba college apartment last year.

 

[alsughasoughaiuyfygh]

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[Gnarwhal]

Do you live in a city? Because I live in a small town in the middle of nowhere. A friend once told me before moving back to Newfoundland that here, you would have to make a minimum of $15 an hour in order to afford all the expenses. The oil fields really jacked up all the prices for a town with so little to offer.

I live in a college town with about 87,000 people. I've never thought of it as a city since I'm about 80 miles from Sacramento (450,000) and 175 miles from San Francisco (860,000). I got by making about $8.50-9.50USD/hr.

 

[timewerx]

Isn´t that a pro?

No I'm not trying to say my place is more bad--- than hell.

It's a literally bad, like bad-bad place. It reeks of squalor, crime, misery, and hopelessness. Not easy to get out of either. It's only just a few tweaks to being like North Korea where justice literally does not exist.

 

[alsughasoughaiuyfygh]

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[RobertMerton]

Pros

World class city
Cultural capital of the country
Good transportation depending on area
Lots to do.
Huge variety of food options



Cons

Over populated
Huge urban sprawl (can take 1.5-2 hours to get from one extreme side to the other in peak hour traffic).
Traffic
Housing is very expensive (median price for a house is $780,000 USD)