Unfortunate things about your current place of residence

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!

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

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.

The Air Conditionder runs all damn day $$$$ !

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)

All the stairs you have to climb in order to get around town. All of the tourists-especially cruise people... :-/

the weather is rubbish. it rains.. almost always.. cold rain in winter.. warm rain in summer. If we get a dry day when the temperature rises above 15 degrees.. everyone is stripped off and at the beach.. :laugh:

apart from that... i LOVE were i live.

Traffic!!!!!

And convince the general public that a "light rail" system is a good thing is like pulling teeth!!!! There are a vast amount of places I refuse to go to because it will take me an hour by car (due to traffic) to get there!!

Oh and yes we have beaches, but you can see your toes when you are only up to your knees. :sick: The port here is one of the largest, if not the largest, on the east coast (virginia beach). This causes a horrible amount of dumping by the cargo ships all right off the coast. Which makes the water horrible!!

My friend moved and gave me her bed. There are fleas in the mattress so I have to sleep on the couch until I get it figured out

I live in KS. Need I say more?

-Snows 8 months out of the year.
-Can have -30 windshields
-Nearest real beach is two huge states away.
-Biggest source of entertainment are rodeos.

I hate rodeos. I live in North Dakota and I hate it too.

Halobender, it is totally not worth the money. I'm only here because the husband is stationed here. We can't wait to leave. :indifferent:

Southern Maryland... Surrounded on 3 sides by water but not the kind you want to swim in... and it's hot. Always with 100% humid 100% of the time. Can someone tell me how on Earth humidity gets ABOVE 100%???

Oh and I live right by Patuxant Naval Air Station so base traffic.

And I live in a freakin crazy neighborhood. Someone drove through yesterday with 2 mattresses on top of their car. Neither one of them were tied down and the passenger and driver each had a hand out of the window holding the bottom mattress down! I've had to call the cops on my next door neighbor for the violence at their house, they frequently block my driveway and the man of the house has walked outside his front door naked a couple of times. The woman that lives across from him is a crazy hippy. Here, I'll show you...


(this is my neighbor's house taken from my front yard)

That and everything seems backwards... IHOP closes at 10 unless it's a Friday or Saturday (what IHOP isn't 24 hours???) and most other places close down really early.

No sidewalks and fast moving traffic. Also not very well lit (my neighborhood area). Really puts a limit on my jogging routes. :mad: Not very many people are health conscious here either so they look at me like I have 3 heads whenever I am out jogging ...

While I love being close enough to drive to what ever I want (big city, beach, mountains, skiing), I have to say I have been disappointed with the with the large number of people haven't moved into the 21st century. way to much talk about "those" people who don't look American.

Do you live in the San Diego area? I grew up there. Oh how I miss it!! But yes, there is much talk about those "other" people.