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  • Feisty_Red
    Feisty_Red Posts: 982 Member
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    I think we get taxed on breathing air in this state...Or they are working on a plan to...
  • knk1553
    knk1553 Posts: 438 Member
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    Everything floods when it rains, people don't know traffic laws, and Northern transplants who think we're crazy because we don't think anything of hurricanes but the entire eastern side of the state shuts down at the threat of snow.
  • tamtamzz
    tamtamzz Posts: 142
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    That I live in the cess pool of reality TV (good 'ol NJ).
  • SherryTeach
    SherryTeach Posts: 2,836 Member
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    It is currently 112 degrees. Enough said.
  • matchbox_girl
    matchbox_girl Posts: 535 Member
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    All the damn vampires.

    Cali? Haha I'm thinking Lost Boys.
  • scloyd
    scloyd Posts: 327 Member
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    The most corrupt state in the nation...Illinois.
  • ellenxmariex3
    ellenxmariex3 Posts: 165 Member
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    I live in New Jersey but it's the redneck area of northwest Jersey that really is basically Pennsylvania. It's really country out here - farms, open skies, farmer's markets. Everyone owns a truck, myself included. It's nothing like any of the Jersey reality shows!

    I hate that it's so expensive though! I go to college in Florida and rents are easily half of what I pay in Jersey.

    I also hate that everyone up here has Confederate flags on their trucks or property. Last time I checked, New Jersey is a northern state.
  • CentralCaliCycling
    CentralCaliCycling Posts: 453 Member
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    I think we get taxed on breathing air in this state...Or they are working on a plan to...

    Don't let people know you know about the "plan" or you might just disappear ;)

    Seriously, they keep spending and expecting us to pay for it. I could related that to someone else who seems to call asking for money like I don't have any better place to spend it but I won't go there.
  • CallejaFairey
    CallejaFairey Posts: 391 Member
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    I love Edmonton for the most part, heck, I even love the long winters (true Canuck here, prefers cold to hot). I do dislike the fact that even though our winters last about 50% of the year, people still seem to be unable to drive the way this weather dictates. I spose that's everywhere though, as I can see from the mention of bad driving throughout this post! LOL. I hate the huge temperature differences between winter and summer. If it's going to be super cold in the winter, it should not get super hot in the sumer!

    Otherwise, I love it here. This city has one of the highest restaurants per capita ratio...which I spose is not so good for losing weight :) Within easy driving distance of lakes and mountains. What more could you ask for?
  • shaynak112
    shaynak112 Posts: 751 Member
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    Traffic.
    Subway/transit crowds (9 AM rush hour ... you might as well plan your 45 min ride to be an hour and a half *sigh*)
    Ridiculously expensive (1500/mo for a 2 bedroom apartment?) - at least in my opinion that is expensive :p

    (Toronto)

    That being said, there are way more good things than bad things!!!
  • smaugish
    smaugish Posts: 244 Member
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    All the damn vampires.

    Cali? Haha I'm thinking Lost Boys.

    Haha, that was the reference :p I actually live in the UK, but I've always wanted to say that ><
  • FatStoatLondon
    FatStoatLondon Posts: 197 Member
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    The children who play in the ornamental square under my apartment balcony for hours, squealing and yelling while the noise bounces off the walls of the complex. There's a park right next to the complex, with grass and swings etc. but the parents use the square as a sort of outdoor crèche. On hot days when you need to open the windows, it's intolerable!
  • TreAckee
    TreAckee Posts: 26
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    One of my neighbour is just vile!!! Also, the local children playing football near my @!!8'#$!!!! car. :grumble:
  • ebonypixie
    ebonypixie Posts: 61 Member
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    My house is an old Georgian gate lodge with wooden shutters, a whole wall of bookcase, reclaimed floors, doors and stove, along with an acre of garden and a forest. Sounds dreamy right??
    Nope!
    Its DAMP!! And it just so happens that me and boyfriend are always sick because of allergies to mould..

    So..lease is nearly up and we just so happened to find a place nearby with 4 bedrooms ensuite, conservatory, large kitchen, sitting room, dining room, utility, fam. bathroom with an acre of pristine garden and only 15 mins from my work at an AMAZING 600/month :)

    Going to view tomorrow!! Fingers crossed :)
  • pinkraynedropjacki
    pinkraynedropjacki Posts: 3,027 Member
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    The fact it's raining here & I can't go for my usual run. Or the fact I can't even go for a swim across the road.
  • Eaglesfanintn
    Eaglesfanintn Posts: 813 Member
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    Memphis - where the churches are magnificent and the schools are run down. This area is so red (and redneck) I can't stand it some days.
  • Missklara
    Missklara Posts: 283 Member
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    Croatia- because of the economic crisis, unemployment, terrible government etc. -.-
  • whutzup1
    whutzup1 Posts: 128 Member
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    The Air Conditionder runs all damn day $$$$ !
  • Ohmydaze
    Ohmydaze Posts: 403 Member
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    It's miles away from anywhere.
  • dhakiyya
    dhakiyya Posts: 481 Member
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    50+ degrees C heat (that's 122+ degrees Fahrenheit)

    sandstorms

    burning my feet on the courtyard floor if I forget to wear flip-flops when I go outside for 5 seconds, that and feeling like I just stepped into an oven (a fan oven if it's windy)

    no gyms (apart from a very expensive one that I can't afford or get to) so I have to work out indoors at home

    I can't send the kids outdoors to play in the summer during the day so they drive me loopy playing noisy games indoors instead. they have a trampoline and are allowed to ride trikes indoors so they get exercise.

    taking the kids to the park in the middle of the night (everyone does this, they're well lit and safe)

    even with the air conditioning on it's 30 degrees C indoors (pls go online to convert it to Fahrenheit because I can't remember the number off the top of my head)

    have to travel 900 miles to another country to buy protein powder, travelling by car through empty desert

    most shops haven't really grasped the concept of healthy food, there are so many things you can't buy here

    the complete lack of adherence to the driving laws. even police cars jump the lights. doing a u-turn over the central reservation of a highway is normal. young men park their cars on the roundabouts then sit around socialising on the roundabout, and even have the occasional fights there.

    they only just got street signs for the main roads

    I live at number 6 nameless street according to our satnav. Most streets around here are nameless. For some reason our block of houses/apartments have numbers. These numbers have no purpose as the local restaurants that do delivery give each house a unique number (of their own, i.e. not 6 in our case, they write the number on a sticker and stick it on the front gate) so they know where to deliver your food (not that we've ever tried this)

    most of the doctors here are total quacks. you go there with a cold because you need a sick note for work, and they will prescribe you four different medications after getting the diagnosis totally wrong.

    our upstairs neighbours keep chickens (yes, in their upstairs apartment)

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