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Redlin5_v1legacy

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Doesn't need to be specific to the city or town unless you want it to be. Mine is pretty obvious if you know western Canada but that's okay. Lots of failed creatives live here. <.<

People- Lots of hardworking folks but an equal amount of people running off their parent's bank accounts. Generally rude in lines and bad drivers. Excessive amount of *cough*medicinal*cough smoking. You do meet a wide variety of people here which can be both a blessing and a curse. Ask for money up front for things though.

Traffic - Accidents on major bridges daily because people don't know how to drive without crashing in rush hour.

Summer - Pretty okay when the sun is out. Lots to do and see and it doesn't get terrifyingly hot.

Winter - London levels of rain. Like more rain than I ever saw in my life where I used to live falls every winter month.

Biggest Pro - A thriving film community means I can actually do the thing I'm trained to do.

Biggest Con - OH MY GOD THE REAL ESTATE MARKET HERE IS INSANE. I currently live in an expensive dump. >:/
 

Zontar

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Living in Quebec in the rural areas on the South Shore just outside the GMA.

People- There are two very distinct class of people. While not everyone fits neatly into each, most do. One are the hard working people who tend to either get a job after dropping out of school, right after finishing school, or taking a practical degree. The other are the socialist students who are the entire reason why the stereotype of socialist students being lazy exists. Most end up working for impossible to justify salaries in unions that the workers openly oppose due to the fact they much more often then not act against the wishes of those they claim to represent want (they only stay in power due to balancing this with occasional fights for higher wages at about the same time inflation made that inevitable anyway).

Traffic- Quebec drivers suck, but we at least understand the concept of zipper lane merging. That makes us better then the rest of Canada and much of the United States by default.

Summer- Too fucking hot, but at least there's always something happening in town so if you have free time there's always something to do.

Winter- Nice level of snow when it finally hits, and unlike Toronto we actually know how to deal with it (seriously, they called in the army a few years back for what we consider to be typical levels of snowfall)

Biggest Pro- Second only to Toronto we're the single best city in the Western World for starting a business (and if it wasn't for over-regulation at both the municipal and provincial level we'd likely be #1. That's right, we're #2 despite over-regulation).

Biggest Con- Hard to say. There are three things I'm torn on for this, first is the aforementioned government over-regulation that applies to more then just business (and I'm including our highest level of taxation in North America in that), but there's also the fact that a lot of policy continues to stem from Francophones who are still living in the 1960s and think that after 50 years we still need laws that are for "correcting" the pendulum being one way by forcing it the other instead of having actual equality. And then there are the socialist students I've already mentioned, who once every 4 or 5 years on the dot riot over minor tuition fee increases that aren't even keeping tuition indexed at inflation (between 1980 and today tuition here has risen by less then a quarter of inflation in that time) that are at rates so low students would be celebrating in the street in any other province in Canada for them, and in the US you'd probably have people die from those celebrations if they where paying the same rate.
 

Redlin5_v1legacy

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Chanticoblues said:
Same city. Also film industry. How ya doin.
Not enough money coming in between now and September to cover rent without the student loan coming in unfortunately. Trying to balance things, get an AC job but the client involved has a terrible schedule so it keeps getting postponed. I'd do larger shows if I could stay on for the full run but school is coming up too and I don't want to break off.

So I'm just doing odd jobs at the moment, sadly most aren't paying but I've got to keep doing something.
 

Frezzato

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The same here, with a few minor changes:

People- Lots of hardworking folks but an equal amount of people running off their parent's bank accounts credit cards or government handouts. Almost always generally rude in lines and bad absolutely terrible drivers. Excessive amount of *cough*medicinal*cough smoking pot smoking and drunk driving. You do meet a wide variety of people here which can be both a blessing and a curse. Ask for money up front for things though.

Traffic - Accidents on major bridges any and all roads including highways and surface streets daily because people don't know how to drive without crashing in rush hour are fucking stupid, don't pay attention, and spend more time on their phones while driving than having both hands on the wheel. *Addendum* Very few people signal down here. When they do it's usually because they're not paying attention to where they need to go and want to move over three lanes in ten feet. People are more than willing to hold up 50 cars behind them instead of going a little further and turning around or going a few minutes out of their way. This city is the capital of selfishness and self-involved people who drive moderately nice cars but live in shitty houses.

Summer - Pretty okay when the sun is out. Lots to do and see and it doesn't get terrifyingly hot. Very hot, insanely humid.

Winter - London levels of rain. Like more rain than I ever saw in my life where I used to live falls every winter month. Winter here is great. All three days of it.

Biggest Pro - A thriving film community means I can actually do the thing I'm trained to do. The thought of moving away.

Biggest Con - OH MY GOD THE REAL ESTATE MARKET HERE IS INSANE. I currently live in an expensive dump. >:/
 

hermes

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I live in a South American City, which should be easy to guess if you try...

City: Unlike most cities in the continent, this one has almost no native influence, almost everything comes from colonialist or african immigrants, so you can picture it as an average (if slightly poorer and dirtier) version of most European cities.

People: A mix of hardworking people with a lot of people living on government handouts. Government seems happy to buy people's loyalty with shinny objects, so I guess it can't be helped. People here is introverted and in denial, in general. There is crime and corruption, but we are so low profile we don't even like to admit it and look at our neighboring countries with awe and disdain. Not a lot of smug but not particularly clean, so we live with some other odors.

Traffic: Not that bad. Not that it is incredibly safe (there are daily accidents like in any other mayor city), but compared with the traffic in other cities in the region, it is far more organized and respectful.

Culture: It is the cultural center of the country; not because it has lots of cultural activities, but because it concentrates one third of the population of the country, it almost has to be cosmopolitan compared to surrounding cities.

Summer: Hot and dry. Even when it might rain in summer, they are short and not bothersome. Pretty good for beach activities.

Winter: Cold and wet. Also, extremely irregular, so some years it can start way into august, or end way into november...

Biggest PRO: As mentioned above, it is the closest to a cosmopolitan hub in the region, to the point some works couldn't be done in other cities of the country.

Biggest CON: It is dirty. Maybe not compared to other mayor cities of the continent, but of the world... even the commercial neighborhoods are far from clean.
 

KyuubiNoKitsune-Hime

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Welp this will be interesting for people who don't live hare: It's Reno, Nevada. The biggest little city on earth.


People: Reno's got quite a mix going on for people. Most people are just under middle class, hard working, lots of them are casino workers. Quite a lot of people here are from California, you can usually pick them out, because they tend to be more uptight, nosy, and judgmental, plus they always go on about how great California is and how much Nevada sucks. Some wealthy folk live here too, you rarely see them around though. We have a disproportionately huge number of homeless and hookers too. Also the given, there are lots of tourists around during the many events the city hosts. Also lots of students as we have a fairly nice University, though smallish here.

Traffic: Pretty bad right downtown, especially on Virginia street between the University out to midtown. Other wise the traffic isn't too bad most places. Lots of accidents, major ones tending to be car vs motorcycle messes, other than that there aren't too many major accidents. Some truckers tend to forget to take wind advisories seriously, so often there are semi-truck roll overs on the freeway just outside town.

Summer: Mostly hot and dry, but not horrifically hot. Expect thunderstorms. Often unpredictable, it's not unheard of for it to actually freeze during the summer, sometimes it even snows.

Winter: Mostly cold with sporadic rain and snow storms. Every 5 or so years it snows so hard that we catch around 3 feet and the city shuts down for a day, every 10 or so we catch a storm several magnitudes worse, shutting the town down for several days. It snows a lot in the mountains, often enough a warm rainstorm hits and melts the snow there, which causes the Truckee river to flood parts of town.

Biggest PRO: Gambling and Booze is available 24 hours a day 7 days a week. Seriously in almost all of our supermarkets you can buy booze and they often have gambling machines in the front.

Biggest CON: The homeless who are drawn here are especially hostile, anti-social, and alcoholic.
 

Scarim Coral

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I lived in a costal town in Wales-

People- Half of the locals are elderly but overally the types that are understanding and friendly. The rest are tourists who can be not so understanding and friendly.

Traffic - Other than holidays and special events like the yearly fair, it's normal as in your usual morning rush and afternoon. Well ok ther motorway can be a problem but are not the cause of the problem as in a neighbouring Moterway is causing the queue and it spread over here.

Summer - Warm enough to get the tourist coming but it's rare to get a SCOCHING heat since it only happened one time this Summer!

Winter - Three words, WET, COLD and WINDY!!! It rarely snow due to the costal wind (however this is also the cause of the gale like winds) which I guess I should be grateful for but it still snow!

Biggest Pro - Community are nice and friendly to the point that I never really experience BAD customer service like most people do. Also those who want to get away from the city life/ concret/ urban do get to enjoyed spending a day or holiday over here (we got pier, threater, arcade and nice scenery at the submit).

Biggest Con - It's in the middle of nowhere or rather miles aways from the cities I go to. It take me two hours to go to the city I often visit.
 

Breakdown

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Living in a city in the north east of England

People - pretty diverse, fair amount of students, lots of working class areas, a few well off areas.

Traffic - slow, unreliable public transport

Summer - hot for maybe 3 or 4 weeks if lucky. Somewhere will inevitably flood every few years.

Winter - cold and wet, sometimes it even snows.

Biggest Pro - lots of bars, nightclubs and that. Also, nice architecture and bridges.

Biggest Con - Not enough jobs, lack of investment from the government
 

Cowabungaa

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Let's see if people get this one.

People: Diverse but generally very young due to a disproportionately amount of university and college students. This leads to a little friction sometimes, but it's very noticeable in the streets. Thanks to the amount of students it's also one of the most progressive urban populations in the country with plenty of leftist (as in actual leftist, not US college leftism) anti-government protesting going on. It also gives the city a decent alternative scene, though I have yet to tap into it. Some day, hopefully.

Traffic: Hellish during rush hour due to the ancient street layout, otherwise alright. Going by car isn't very recommended and it's well-sized enough that going by bicycle or even walking is a way better option. Public transport is alright but don't attempt to rely on it during the evening and night, and it can also be quite hampered by car traffic. But a traffic ban in the inner city is coming next year, hopefully that'll help.

Summer: This being Western Europe it can be anything. Hot and muggy weeks, dreary and cold weeks, furnace weeks, you name it. This year I only had to break out the electric fan for a few days. It helps that my building stays cool real easily. Going outside is another matter, as I'm often already bothered when temperatures near 25C.

Winter: Basically Autumn 2.0. Rainy and the last few years temperatures rarely go below 10C.

Biggest Pro: The city's old bones, if you ask me. You feel and see the city's age everywhere. It's gorgeous. It's also incredibly vibrant in terms of activities if you're into that sort of thing. I don't visit them often but there's two decently sized geek conventions and one smaller boardgame convention, lots of festival thingies, that sort of thing. A week ago my entire neighborhood was one big flea market for instance, with live music in the evenings and such. Pretty dope.

Biggest Con: Umm, dating here is really hard? I don't really know otherwise. To me the city is starting to feel a bit small.
 

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Feb 4, 2009
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Sydney.

People: Sprawl... lots of people from lots of places spread out over a city that covers an emormous area.

Traffic: Not so bad, but road planning is horrible...

Summer: Erratic. Typically hot and dry, but wracking storms not uncommon.

Winter: Mild to warm. Slightly wet.

Pros: Whole lot of high ranked universities. Good beaches and other touristy places. Low crime.

Cons: Ridiculously expensive place to live. Like, beyond understanding why it is so ridiculously expensive to live here. If you're middle class prepare to stare at your accounts and question whether the payoff is worth it. Each year that passes I'm finding less and less reason to stay and I *love* Sydney.
 

FalloutJack

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Zombie Capital, USA.

I have a few more obvious clues, but that's the fun one.
 

Eclipse Dragon

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People-
Mostly either retired or in collage, they don't mix well

Traffic -
Not congested unless it's rush hour and even that isn't too bad. The drivers though are awful, lots of impatience, accidents and road rage. Because of the above, drivers mostly either go 10+ under the speed limit or 10+ over the speed limit.

It doesn't much matter whether people follow the speed limit anyway because it tends to be unreasonably slow in areas where traffic should be faster but there's an abundance of golf courses. People wanting to drive faster use the highway, so don't ever go slow on those unless you want to have pennies thrown at your windshield. The police will literally pull you over and tell you to get off the highway.

Summer - The high for today is 93 with 81% humidity

Winter - Nonexistent, except for maybe one week when it will get around 30 degrees, but feels like 10 because of the 81% humidity. Never any snow never ever, it would shut down the entire state.

Biggest Pro - An abundance of beaches and amusement parks, great for catching magikarp in Pokemon GO for that damn Gyarados.

Biggest Con - Unreasonably giant insects that never die because it never gets cold enough to kill them off. Cockroaches and grasshoppers, literally three times their regular size here; and they fly.

I went to take out the trash one day and this jerk was sitting on top of the can.
 

Barbas

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Location: Great.
Summer weather: Great. Nice and warm.
Winter weather: Great. Not too cold.
Space for activities: Great.
Drinking water: Great. There's lots, and it's safe!
Power supply: Great. It almost never turns off!
Heating supply: Great. The windows trap heat!
People and their attitudes: Great. Mostly!
Restaurant and take-away: Great.
Dairy and pharmacy stocks: Great.
Shopping: Great.
Golf: Great.
Airplanes: Great.
Snow: Great.
Estimated days to catastrophic nuclear or climate event: 143.







Could do with some more Manchego, though.
 

Neurotic Void Melody

Bound to escape
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Skagheads to the left of me, drunkards to the right. Here i am, stuck in the Midlands wild zoo.

*Guzzles from bear wine bottle*

Soon, my escape plan shall be put into motion.

...

Soon.
 

DefunctTheory

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People- Hill people. Do hill people things. Fairly nice, like privacy, except for the local land owner who, like most land owners, is a colossal prick.

Traffic - Very little traffic, road was just resurfaced. Only a 'lane and a half' though - Very tight, hard to drive on only one side. Road is destroyed every year by ice wedging. Because of how nasty the road is, we get 20 or so serious biking accidents a year.

Summer - Humid and nasty.

Winter - Ice everwhere.

Biggest Pro - Living in the woods=nice, quiet surroundings.

Biggest Con - 25-35 minute drive to nearest town/grocery store.
 

Bob_McMillan

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People - Generally friendly people, though like every city in my country, huge gap between the rich and poor. Find a cripple begging on the street? 100 meters away you can find some kid with a silver spoon up his butt worrying over which overpriced branded article of clothing he should buy.

Traffic - Horrid. Mostly cause by asshole drivers, incompetent government officials, and population density.

Summer - Hot as fuck.

Winter - No such thing. Sometimes, at night, its cold enough for you to want to wear a jacket. Not need, but want.

Biggest Pro - I do live 2 minutes away from school, so that's something. Also, I live in a gated neighborhood, so safety is never a problem.

Biggest Con - Just the traffic really.
 

sageoftruth

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I'm currently living in Somerville, Massachusetts in the United States.

People - Somerville is a place that underwent a massive gentrification some time before I moved in. It was once all crappy stores and industrial buildings, and now it's all trendy stores and a nearby college campus. As a result, the population is a mix of blue-collar adults, young campus kids, and young adults fresh out of college. The place is urban, but not capital-city levels of urban so things like crime, homelessness and the occasional wierdos are things to expect to some extent.

Traffic - A dense population, combined with a lousy road system makes this a very lousy place to drive. Thankfully, we have easy access to subways and trains, but those can still be unpleasant.

Summer - Can reach about 100 degrees Fahrenheit tops. Air conditioning is advised.

Winter - Tends to be very cold and windy. Often snows heavily, and not everyone shovels their portions of the sidewalk meaning some annoying treks through snow. Also, snow on the roads tends to make the roads narrower, making it even worse to drive.

Biggest Pro - Easy access to just about any place. There are plenty of restaurants, stores, cafes, and public transportation.

Biggest Con - Not a very relaxing place to live. There's constant noise from road rage, annoying college revelers, and drunk or crazy people, and the lack of respect people have for crosswalks means you can't rely on people to cross the street responsibly, or stop at crosswalks if people need to cross.
 

Tuesday Night Fever

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Small town in New Hampshire, USA. It's not a terrible place to live all things considered, but I'll probably be bailing the moment it makes financial sense to do so.

People- We're a small town of fewer than 10,000 people. A third of the town seems to be made up of people in their 50's and 60's who moved here back in the 80's, many of whom from Massachusetts. A third of the town seems to be elderly, due to multiple elderly communities that were built in the town about ten years ago. The last third of the town seems to be the children of the first third, raising their own families now, unable to escape this place due to the rough economy. Nobody works here, because there are no jobs here, and there are very few community events - so most people don't really know each other very well.

Traffic - Pretty light. There's a single main road that passes through town which connects three larger towns and grants access to the highway, so sometimes there's a bit of traffic there (but still, it's pretty minor). The speed limit on this road is higher than anywhere else in town, and the speed limit drops the moment you cross into any of the other towns it connects to - so the police department of my town and the departments of all the surrounding towns love to set up radar traps near the spots where the speeds change.

Summer - It tends to get relatively hot for New England, and high humidity isn't rare. It's hasn't dropped under 80F in a few weeks now, and we're in the middle of a drought. We tend not to get very many storms, and they're super mild when we do get them. Good luck leaving your house after sundown, though - you'll get eaten alive by clouds of mosquitoes (and that annoying buzzing you hear before they strike is them mocking your feeble attempts to stop them with bug repellents).

Winter - It varies. When I was little it used to get real cold around early November, then we'd be buried under multiple feet of snow from early December until sometime in March. It's nothing like that now. Now it's light jacket weather into December (it was around 60F on Christmas this past year), maybe a couple of snow storms in January/February that amount to a few inches, and that's about it until Spring.

Pros - Crime is almost non-existent here. We give out an unusually high number of speeding tickets thanks to the aforementioned main road that happens to pass through my town. Every once in a while you hear about some vandalism or a break-in committed by some local teenagers or someone from out of town, but that's about it. We're also pretty centrally located between larger towns, so we're like 15 to 20 minutes away in any direction from anything we could ever need. We're also not terribly far from the beach during summer or ski resorts during winter.

Cons - This place is incredibly boring. We have a convenience store (that due to bad electrical wiring, has burnt down like four times), a mediocre pizza restaurant, and a golf course. There are very few community events (there's a pancake breakfast with the police department every once in a while, a cookout with the fire department every once in a while, and every year the local fire departments of the surrounding towns hold a parade). Because we're in the middle of nowhere we're always last to get utilities restored if a bad storm knocks them out. You pretty much have to own a car to be able to get anywhere, as there are no jobs within reasonable walking/bicycling distance.

Also, due to the unusually large elderly population, the town never manages to successfully vote on anything that we desperately need, because they always show up in large numbers to shoot everything down. For example, we have a single elementary school that's been overcrowded for years. Like ten years ago they brought in some trailers to serve as temporary classrooms until funding could be secured to build a new wing. They're still using those trailers, which are now pretty much falling apart, because the elderly refuse to support any additional funding to the town's schools. The town's high school is also facing similar problems with no solution in sight.

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Also, we were recently featured in a segment of John Oliver's "Last Week Tonight." It's at the 4-minute mark.


Yep. That's us alright.
 
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I've already said where I live a couple days ago, but here we go (In Canada by the way)

People More country folk than most other places, but not nearly as much as the stereotypes say. People are polite to a fault, and the policy on public transit is to ignore everyone else to the best of your ability. Only real complaint about people is the amount of very loud drunk people you see on the train after hockey games.

Traffic Alight. We have a lot of construction, and if I remember correctly, the second most expensive parking in North America, but besides that it's pretty smooth for a city of our size.

Summer See winter.

Winter See summer.

(Seriously, the number of times it'll snow in summer and have to wear shorts in the winter is ridiculous. Our weather can change at the drop of a hat)

Biggest pro Our mayor is incredible. He was voted the best mayor in the world.

Biggest con Our economy is incredibly closely tied to an industry which is in the toilet right now.

Redlin5 said:
Biggest Con - OH MY GOD THE REAL ESTATE MARKET HERE IS INSANE. I currently live in an expensive dump. >:/
This is all I needed to hear to guess where you live.