What are some things you DON'T like about the city you live in?

[Tarik One]

Peddlers. It seems like it's at an all time high. It's impossible to go thru a day without coming across at least 3 people begging. In line at Wendy's the other day. Some spotty caucasian lady comes in asking for money for a burger. I told her "What do you want? I'll order and buy it for you." She turns around and walks out. lol

Taxes. Sales tax is 10.25 percent and downtown is 1% more.

All of the parking meters are leased out to private company, so now they are total control of the rates which are thru the roof right now.

Road Construction going on all over the place no matter what.

[pete's montreux]

The constant mention of incest.

[lurch67]

The lack of people, jobs, stores, A STOPLIGHT, ETC........

[mlh1981]

The nearest big city is 75 miles away.

Not a lot to do for a guy my age. Everything is tailored to college students, or families.

[jbot]

nothing really to do w/ kids. we need a nice water park.

[AirGauge23]

Lack of jobs.

[jbot]

Lack of jobs.
welcome to most cities in America.

[lurch67]

The nearest big city is 75 miles away.

Not a lot to do for a guy my age. Everything is tailored to college students, or families.

I thought you was in Cinci

[jbot]

The lack of people, jobs, stores, A STOPLIGHT, ETC........
explain please.

[BRabbiT]

traffic is/seems ridiculous.

[PowerGlove]

traffic is/seems ridiculous.
+1.

-Crackheads invading your personal space and begging for a dollar

-These huge metal plates they put over holes they need to fix

[mlh1981]

I thought you was in Cinci

I lived there a long time ago, but now, I live about 130 miles away.

[Rizko]

I live in Maine

/thread.

[Tarik One]

Lack of jobs.

No jobs in San Dogg? Wow. There was a time when you could get a job just for have you shoes laced out there.

[PowerGlove]

Double /thread
Triple/thread.

[wang4three]

****ing New York City prices.

[Sarcastic]

The New York Mets.

[lurch67]

explain please.
NO stop light. nearest one is 13.5 miles away. I be out in $#it kicker land

[mlh1981]

The New York Mets.

I went to a game there at Citi field this Summer.

Nice park, but there is NOTHING to do outside.

Unless, one want to hang out around those junkyards.........

[jbot]

NO stop light. nearest one is 13.5 miles away. I be out in $#it kicker land
wow, that's crazy (not that i live in a thriving metropolis or anything).

[vapid]

LA/Orange County:
- You need to drive long distances for everything
- Traffic is consistently terrible
- Not much quality non-western food in Orange County except Japanese
- Most things close early

[Wadeisabeast]

Overall I really like my city. One thing I dislike is that a lot of the traffic signals are out of sync which can get very frustrating. And something I had listed in another thread, which I am able to avoid except 2-3 days a week.

[Meticode]

I lived in Cincinnati, Ohio until I was 19. The two biggest things I disliked was the crime rate and the horrible pollution haze that would be over the city on 90+ degree days. I would say the construction, but after years and years of rebuilding the waterfront down by the Ohio they got the interstate down, Great American Ballpark, Paul Brown Stadium and a Underground Railroad museum.

Currently right now I live in La Crosse, WI. I love the town, sometimes not enough to do here, but I still love it.

[Brujesino]

For a small city we have a lot of gang violence.When i first moved here about 7 years ago it was peaceful and i could walk down any street i wanted to without worrying about it but in the last couple of years gangs have taken over some parts.

I blame us mexicans:oldlol: before there were very few mexicans but then this city got a bunch of mexicans from the Bay Area and brought along there gang habits.

[Sarcastic]

I went to a game there at Citi field this Summer.

Nice park, but there is NOTHING to do outside.

Unless, one want to hang out around those junkyards.........

Did you go to Yankee Stadium? There is a lot more to do around there. Plus you are 10 minutes away from Manhattan, where there is always something to do.

I haven't been to Citi yet, although I hear it's a nice ballpark.

[Whiteness]

I live in New England and I moved from RURAL Georgia.

A shorter list would be the things I like about this dump.

[Tarik One]

- Most things close early

LA is like that. If its after 10pm and you're hungry for some take out, you're SOL, unless you want to drive 15 miles across town for a drive thru Taco Bell.

The food sucks too like you said. They don't even know what a pizza puff is out there.

[mlh1981]

Did you go to Yankee Stadium? There is a lot more to do around there. Plus you are 10 minutes away from Manhattan, where there is always something to do.

I haven't been to Citi yet, although I hear it's a nice ballpark.

Yeah, I hung out in Manhattan and did all that.

Yankees were out of town, but I did take the stadium tour and it was pretty amazing.

[Fallguy20]

The "Downtown" sucks, so no nightlife unless you drive to Boise.

Row after row of ugly, ugly females.

Few cute ones to balance the above out.


...

Basically, im moving somewhere else to find a girl if this thing I got going now doesn't pan out.

[DeuceWallaces]

Mark Wadeisabeast down for Black People.

[rawimpact]

socal

so traffic and light pollution

[sunsfan1357]

For a small city we have a lot of gang violence.When i first moved here about 7 years ago it was peaceful and i could walk down any street i wanted to without worrying about it but in the last couple of years gangs have taken over some parts.

I blame us mexicans:oldlol: before there were very few mexicans but then this city got a bunch of mexicans from the Bay Area and brought along there gang habits.
I was born in Stockton, but raised in Manteca since my birth and there have always been a lot of Mexicans.

[Fatal9]

Toronto

- too much traffic
- too many immigrants who can't speak english
- no soul or identity or great history to appreciate, city is so fragmented by all the different cultures that it lacks one of its own
- weather sucks 7 out of 12 months
- the sports teams are all mediocre
- poor architecture
- poor/short subway system compared to most of the other big cities
- there is NO nature around it. it's in the green belt, the land is flat, no landscapes, no mountains, just flat farmland surrounding it (the whole province is like this really)

[Horde of Temujin]

NYC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Za2k5wA3sk

[clipps]

Antelope Valley, CA(Palmdale, Lancaster, Edwards AFB)

I live in Edwards AFB.

- There is nothing to do.
- The only things to do is to drink
- The STD rate among active duty members on base is 75%. So I stay away from any Air Force stank
- 20 min drive just to get to Lancaster.
- takes 40 to get to Palmdale.
- Nightlife sucks
- the last club I went to had a shooting.
- good looking females are scarce.
- same damn crackhead lady constantly begs for quarters at walmart.
- extremely hot in the summer. Painfully cold in the winter

[artex]

Long Beach, California - Nothing

[Manute for Ever!]

-Singapore is a city that is also country, thus you can not get out of the city without a passport.

-Anything fun is either illegal or taxed to the shit, eg. (based on $1SIN = $0.75US)

A pint of beer most places is usually between $15 ($11.20US) - $17 ($12.70US). A mate of mine runs one of, if not the cheapest bar here, where a pint costs $10 ($7.50US).
Cigarettes are $11.80 ($8.80US) for a pack of 20.
To get into the casino, there is a $100 ($75US) cover charge for Singapore citizens and permanent residents (fortunately, I don't fit into either of those categories, but my fiance is a PR).
Death penalty for weed.


-You can't walk down the roads without people trying to hand you flyers or make you a suit or get you to sign up for a new credit card or....

-People only care about money, status and material possessions. Personal success here is based on attaining the finest of the "5 Cs": Career, Car, Credit Card, Condominium and Country Club.

-There is almost no arts scene or culture.

-Everyone only likes whatever is popular, what everyone else likes or what they are told to like. There is no diversity and no subcultures, nobody thinks outside the box.

-Everything is government controlled.

-All the media is run by one company, MediaCorp (which is government owned). They control all TV, radio and Print media as well as the ridiculously high level of censorship, thus we don't actually hear a lot of global news. The front page of the newspaper yesterday was about a dead cat. Surely something else happened...

-Free thinking and freedom of speech is illegal; There is a speakers corner in Chinatown, but there is a list of about 30 topics that you can't touch on. You must submit a speech prior to speaking that has to be approved first and if you stray from that script you can, and most likely will, be arrested. If you want to write a letter to a newspaper to voice an opinion or bring up a topic of interest, you must include your ID card number or passport number.

-If you do anything wrong, even the most menial, trivial shit, there is a large fine or jail time, example: You can ride a bicycle on the sidewalk, but there is a $1000 fine for riding it under a bridge. You have to get off and push it, then you can continue riding it once you have reached the other side.
Some other examples:
http://images.travelpod.com/users/ivoandannemieke/1.1258299295.heavy-fine-for-cycling-in-singapore.jpg

http://static.flickr.com/54/107584380_2c064b5eec.jpg

http://www.treehugger.com/2007-12-31_130944-TreeHugger-singapore.jpg

http://images.travelpod.com/users/tomandcharlie/a_year_with....1199712540.p1061269.jpg

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2793/4383291772_cc44549d7d.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3521/3770666671_52d688a9cc.jpg

Singapore is a very successful city/country and the above points, as well as the many I haven't listed, have contributed to it's success, but it is no way to live.

[chains5000]

Death penalty for weed.
:wtf:

[Manute for Ever!]

:wtf:

Maybe I wrote it in a way that is a little misleading, it's not cut and dry, you need a decent amount, but here are the details of how weed factors into Sinagapore's drug laws:

Drug trafficking

Narcotics laws established by the Misuse of Drugs Act are very strict.
Anyone caught with more than or equal to 15 g (0.5 ounces) of heroin, 28 g (1 ounce) of morphine or 480 g (17 ounces) of cannabis faces mandatory capital punishment, as they are deemed to be trafficking in these substances. The stated quantities are the net weight of the substances after they have been isolated by laboratory analysis. Between 1991 and 2004, 400 people were hanged in Singapore, mostly for drug trafficking, one of the highest per-capita execution rates in the world

The Misuse of Drugs Act is a national drug control law classifying substances into three categories, Classes A, B, and C. Section 44 provides that "The Minister may, by an order published in the Gazette" add, remove, or transfer drugs among the classes. The statute's penal provisions are draconian by most nations' standards, providing for long terms of imprisonment, caning, and capital punishment. The law creates a presumption of trafficking for certain threshold amounts, e.g. 30 grams of cannabis. It also creates a presumption that a person possesses drugs if he possesses the keys to a premises containing the drugs, and that "Any person found in or escaping from any place or premises which is proved or presumed to be used for the purpose of smoking or administering a controlled drug shall, until the contrary is proved, be presumed to have been smoking or administering a controlled drug in that place or premises." Thus, one runs the risk of arrest for drug use by simply being in the company of drug users. The law also allows officers to search premises and individuals, without a search warrant, if he "reasonably suspects that there is to be found a controlled drug or article liable to seizure". Moreover, Section 31 allows officers to demand urinalysis of suspected drug offenders.

Amount of controlled drugs that would qualify as drug trafficking
Section 17 of the Misuse of Drugs Act lists the amount of controlled drugs beyond which, the person who carries them shall be presumed to possess them for the purpose of drug trafficking unless proven otherwise:

Opium: 100 grammes
Morphine: 3 grammes
Diamorphine (Heroin): 2 grammes
Cannabis: 15 grammes
Cannabis mixture: 30 grammes
Cannabis resin: 10 grammes
Cocaine: 3 grammes
Methamphetamine: 25 grammes
10 grammes of any or any combination of the following:
N, α-dimethyl-3,4-(methylenedioxy)phenethylamine (MDMA)
α-methyl-3,4-(methylenedioxy)phenethylamine (MDA)
N-ethyl-α-methyl-3,4-(methylenedioxy)phenethylamine (MDEA)
Unless authorized by the government, the possession, consumption, manufacturing, import, export, or trafficking of these and other controlled drugs in any amount are illegal


http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/db/SingaporeEmbarkationCard.pngThe Singapore embarkation card contains a warning to visitors about the death penalty for drug trafficking. Warning signs can be found at the Johor-Singapore Causeway and other border entries. Singapore Airlines also announces similar warnings to air passengers during flights to the country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misuse_of_Drugs_Act_(Singapore)

So based on that information, you risk facing the death penalty if you have, or in the company of someone who has 15 grams or more (or if you have the keys to their house :banghead:) and the death penalty is mandetory if you have 480 grams or more.

[craigthomasb]

severe lack of "quality" *****, i mean seriously, slags are 10 a penny, fatties and butters everywhere, all the half decent ones taken, Im having to resort to catching them whilst their fresh and dont know any betterq

[JohnnySic]

Boston:
- Summers are too short. Fall and winter have their charms, but it gets old after a day or 2. I could go for 6 months of real summer weather, 85+ degrees.
- Not much of a scene for people older than 25
- Too much of a baseball town. Bball comes first please. LA got this right.
- People are extremely aloof. Very much a "who do you know" type of place, which affects dating, making freinds, etc
- Downtown area is fairly smallish and then its all suburban sprawl for miles
- NYC envy runs thick, in many different areas (sports media, nightlife scene, etc)

[BankShot]

Minneapolis:

Terrible planning and implementation of transportation systems, both public and highway

[rufuspaul]

Lack of historical perspective. Charlotte was settled in the early 1700s but you would never know it from the architecture. Visitors often rave over how "clean" the downtown is. That's because you can't find a building that was built before 1985. I have nothing against modern buildings but a little bit of historical preservation would have been nice.

In contrast to downtown businesses the center city neighborhoods have done a much better job. My house for instance was built in 1900 and is in a historic district. There are all kinds of restrictions if you want to do any renovations, etc.

The outter suburbs are the definition of sprawl: McMansion subdivisions, ugly strip malls and box stores, horrible traffic.

[Jailblazers7]

The roadways in Pittsburgh are very confusing. I know my way around now but when I first started driving I got lost pretty often. The traffic can get shitty too.

[DCL]

cost of living is crazy expensive, near the top in the us. but i can't really imagine living anywhere else.

[beer]

traffic.

[Rake2204]

I live in a small town and I actually prefer this to the big city, but I do think our small downtown area could have more functional stores. As it stands now, each building seems to be either a clothing consignment shop or antique store. Also, someone just dropped a heaping of oil into our river last month.

[rufuspaul]

I live in a small town and I actually prefer this to the big city, but I do think our small downtown area could have more functional stores. As it stands now, each building seems to be either a clothing consignment shop or antique store. Also, someone just dropped a heaping of oil into our river last month.

Sorry, my bad.:confusedshrug:

[haterofhaters]

traffic.
Amen to that, same for me. There's a lot of things I've learned to love about NY but one thing I will never get used to is the traffic.

[rufuspaul]

The one nice thing about Maine is that there is no traffic. If I hang out with a friend at like 10pm, we can drive around for over an hour and maybe see 15 cars.

SUCK IT :pimp:

But you do run the risk of meeting a moose in the road.

[haterofhaters]

But you do run the risk of meeting a moose in the road.
My friend hit a deer in Indiana. It was crazy, he hit the deer at 70mph, the deer f*cked up his car, and pranced off into the wilderness never to be found. He was ripped shit. :oldlol:

[rufuspaul]

Honestly I have only seen 2 deer in the road the entire time I've lived here. Most people I know have hit/almost hit/seen a shitload. Me on the otherhand have seen 2, both while I was going about 15 mph.

I almost plowed into about 50 wild turkeys in Brunswick last month. Too bad too, coulda been dinner.

[Rake2204]

Sorry, my bad.:confusedshrug:
Dude, not cool.

[VishaltotheG]

Contrary to popular belief, in Chicago, people drive incredibly slow, especially in the morning. Seriously, my apartment is a 7 minute drive from campus that turns into a 25 minute drive in the morning.

[step_back]

The London underground


Bunch of ****ing useless brain dead ****ing *****.

[boozehound]

I live in a small town and I actually prefer this to the big city, but I do think our small downtown area could have more functional stores. As it stands now, each building seems to be either a clothing consignment shop or antique store. Also, someone just dropped a heaping of oil into our river last month.
you are in the kalamacreek metro area? I grew up there.

I really like kzoo, battle creek is ok, but needs revitalization of its walking district

[boozehound]

you are in the kalamacreek metro area? I grew up there.

I really like kzoo, battle creek is ok, but needs revitalization of its walking district
oh, and aggies. they make the traffic terrible and the town smells like a cheap whore's perfume with all the axe bodyspray and whatever nasty shit girls wear these days.

If the elevator still smells like you 3 minutes after you got off, thats not a good thing- regardless of smell.

[boozehound]

Honestly I have only seen 2 deer in the road the entire time I've lived here. Most people I know have hit/almost hit/seen a shitload. Me on the otherhand have seen 2, both while I was going about 15 mph.
well, when you are glued to the computer, you probably have little chance of seeing a deer.

[niko]

The MTA sucks. The service gets worse and worse (trains and buses) but the price goes up and up. It's lost a lot of the conveinence IMO.

[Se]

Toronto

- too much traffic
- too many immigrants who can't speak english
- no soul or identity or great history to appreciate, city is so fragmented by all the different cultures that it lacks one of its own
- weather sucks 7 out of 12 months
- the sports teams are all mediocre
- poor architecture
- poor/short subway system compared to most of the other big cities
- there is NO nature around it. it's in the green belt, the land is flat, no landscapes, no mountains, just flat farmland surrounding it (the whole province is like this really)

I agree with this totally. I would just add that Torontonians (sp?) are very smug and a lot of people here act like they are the best thing since sliced bread.

[boozehound]

[QUOTE=Se

[Se]

sliced bread isnt really all that great.

also, in the post you cite from fatal9, I find it hilarious that he complains about no nature while mentioning the huge amount of farming in the province. first, farming has all sorts of native ecosystem components in the margins and edges.

second, that city wouldnt be there if the area wasnt good farmland (best in Can probably). Cities didnt exist without a large agricultural hinterland 100 years ago. Without that farmland, canada is ****ed as a country (in terms of food production).

We have tonnes of farmland in New Zealand, but we have breathtaking backdrops. Ontario is a cluster **** of industrial sites, road works, nasty-ass strip malls, pollution, farms, lakes and highways all on a big flat piece of land. Quite an uninteresting place, really.

[rufuspaul]

[quote=Se

[Se]

There are also some Canadians there, never a good thing.

BAM!

http://media.ebaumsworld.com/picture/dannydevitorule/Canadian-milk-bags.jpg

[Tarik One]

Seriously, my apartment is a 7 minute drive from campus that turns into a 25 minute drive in the morning.

Because ppl don't give a sht. They'll cut in front of you on the expressway then SLOW DOWN. Or they'll do other dumb things like drive below the limit in the fast lane or wait to turn left at an intersection without turning on their signal. No kind of courtesy.

[Brujesino]

I was born in Stockton, but raised in Manteca since my birth and there have always been a lot of Mexicans.
Well from what i heard since ive only been living in manteca for about 7 years, there were very few mexicans here but iam talking about the gangsta cholo mexicans i know for damn sure when i got here it wasnt like this.

[PowerGlove]

[QUOTE=Se

[mlh1981]

The roadways in Pittsburgh are very confusing. I know my way around now but when I first started driving I got lost pretty often. The traffic can get shitty too.

The parkway is BRUTAL.

It's very hard getting around between the hours of 2:30-6:30 pm.

[Kobe8]

Lack Of Girls.

[rufuspaul]

That's every city. Well, except for the greatest place on earth, New Zealand.:rolleyes:

Hey man, don't dis Middle Earth.

[Se]

That's every city. Well, except for the greatest place on earth, New Zealand.:rolleyes:

No way. Big cities I've been to with a good vibe from the people:
Sydney
Seoul
Busan
Auckland
Osaka
Tokyo
Manila
Bangkok
Ottawa
Halifax (so friendly!!!!!)
Montreal (if you're French sucks, they can be a little smug)
Singapore
Beijing
Shanghai

Toronto = full of smug assholes & nowhere near as friendly and helpful as New York folk

[Rake2204]

you are in the kalamacreek metro area? I grew up there.

I really like kzoo, battle creek is ok, but needs revitalization of its walking district
Yes, sir. Though I'll say that's the first time I've heard of it referred to as Kalamacreek. Nicely done. I'm just north of Kalamazoo. I don't spend a lot of time in Battle Creek unless I'm driving through it en route to Ann Arbor.

Tough to beat living within an hour's drive of Lake Michigan though.

[Se]

Yes, sir. Though I'll say that's the first time I've heard of it referred to as Kalamacreek. Nicely done. I'm just north of Kalamazoo. I don't spend a lot of time in Battle Creek unless I'm driving through it en route to Ann Arbor.

Tough to beat living within an hour's drive of Lake Michigan though.

Sweet place names. That's make me happy just saying I live in Kalamazoo!

[DeuceWallaces]

G-Rap > K-Zoo

[branslowski]

Davenport/Orlando Florida.....The f*cking music meaning Gucci mane, OJ Da Juice Man, Plies and Wacka Flocka, pointless gold teeth, stinky dreads...:facepalm


Love...The Euro vacationing woman...Sexy as f*ck...:cheers:

[Rake2204]

G-Rap > K-Zoo
I'd tend to agree, I'm a little closer to the Zoo, so I'm down there more often by default. Huge fan of the Holland area though.

[DeuceWallaces]

Holland is nice and well kept but what do you like about it assuming you're not 65 and retired? As a 21-40 year old if I'm partying on the lakeshore it's definitely gonna be Grand Haven or Saugatuck.

[Rake2204]

Holland is nice and well kept but what do you like about it assuming you're not 65 and retired? As a 21-40 year old if I'm partying on the lakeshore it's definitely gonna be Grand Haven or Saugatuck.
Ha, well, I think I may have the mindset of a 65 year old. I don't really head to the coast to party. I head there to chill and get my mind right. Hope is a quiet place. The downtown, like you said, is real nice, well kept and easy going. And on top of that, I like the beaches, both the Tunnel and the State. In some regards it's the anti-South Haven, and I guess that's what I was looking for. Also, the deep Dutch heritage makes me feel right at home.

[Tarik One]

Loud, obnoxious ghetto girls who are quick to curse people out, especially on their phones. Annoying as hell.

Overpriced places to live. Building owners, property leasers, etc..charge an arm and a leg for relatively average housing.

[KobesFinger]

Post WWII city planning, brutalist architecture (which is thankfully being demolished and replaced), reputation throughout the rest of the country, a lot of poorer areas

[MadeFromDust]

The fkkn speed traps. blatant thug grab for money rather than for public safety :rolleyes:

[Just2McFly]

Davenport/Orlando Florida.....The f*cking music meaning Gucci mane, OJ Da Juice Man, Plies and Wacka Flocka, pointless gold teeth, stinky dreads...:facepalm


Love...The Euro vacationing woman...Sexy as f*ck...:cheers:
:roll:

[RidonKs]

no good movie theater

no train/subway system

[christian1923]

That a girl has to be over 18 to blow me:coleman:

[bdreason]

Too many tourists. Not enough rain. Not enough basketball players.

[mlh1981]

St, Petersburg, FL:
-brutally hot Summers
-can be hard to get around. Constant traffic
-local economy is dicey. Hard to find good work.

[GimmeThat]

the unusual mess in which I create myself, in which I find no reason to clean it up

[DukeDelonte13]

Weather. Cold as hell, snows and rains constantly.

[BasedTom]

Traffic
Shitty drivers
Public transportation often runs late and the system is really nowhere near as expansive as it should be
Dumb douchebag tourists that litter, make a mess, act like they're hot shit, etc