Pittsburgh is a pretty cool guy, I guess. Eh, doesn't afraid of furries.

Pennsylvania Liquor laws...




PASS

Pittsburgh is swag, except for the liquor laws and casual racism :<

Not as much in the city, but outside of it is crazy racist. I'm from there, unfortunately.

I'm from the inside of the city... and I agree with you.

In the city, they'll just do it behind your back. But in the outside counties, their nasty as fuck right in your face and then they wonder why they always get into fights :V

Yeah, I've seen this happen numerous times.

I'm white, so it's not like it happens TO me, but seriously rednecks have no tact at all. Like, I went to a school where it was 97% white and they'd talk about a whole shit ton of racist and bigot shit right in front of black people (there were no other minorities around, so it didn't happen to anyone else).

So glad I'm in college now at a good school where I'm not surrounded by idiots.

Except for family functions. My family had a going away party for my cousin who's moving to Florida and there was seriously a discussion of why it ain't right for white guys to date black girls. "They should keep to themselves and stay away from us.", etc. Also a whole bunch of other racist shit.

And it's stupid because there's no way you can make them stop. If you point out things are wrong or that you know people that aren't horrible stereotypes or something they'll just be like "Well, they must be one of the good black/gay/Mexican people, but the rest aren't like that."

:|

YOU JUST HAVE TO BUY EVERYTHING YOU COULD EVER WANT BEFORE 6.

new york city is the best place on earth anyone who says otherwise is wrong forever the end.

i miss it so much ;-;

what parts of new york do ya like? ive only really been in manhattan and i don't like it all that much.

i love it all... lower manhattan and brooklyn especially. i lived in midtown and admittedly that sucked but i still love going trough that area... i love that city sfm haha

ive actually never been to brooklyn.

I can see that


God I hate Ohio, columbus is cool but omfg

I UNDERSTAAAAND boy do i understand. fuck ohio.

Lik eOMG you know uggggggh

Dogfuckers, Racists and Ignorant ass N******

im like a two hour drive from NYC and ive been there about maybe ten times. It is extremely expensive to really do a lot of stuff there, even in the other boroughs outside of Manhattan. I don't really like it too much though it seems like a much better place to live then to visit. New Jersey isn't too shabby a state, there's lots to do, it's pretty progressive, but the people are generally shitty and petty.

>New Jersey
>Progressive



explain

we recently passed a law legalizing medicinal marijuana
we also allow civil unions, which is just one step below marriage, which is still better than nothing.

if you're in blue counties you'll find plenty of progressive people, especially in north jersey
south jersey's pretty much georgia. jersey shore is georgia with guidos.
also all the towns along the delaware, especially in hunderton county, are quaint beautiful villages.

some other advantages to new jersey is that it is small and everything you need is really fucking close by. however there's lots of cars and traffic.
We have decent public transportation and a great train system.

On the negative side, we have some of the strictest laws in the country. on everything.

On the negative side, we have some of the strictest laws in the country. on everything.

Oh?

And the cost of living?

cant by smokes till 19, get your license at 17, there's very little wiggle room for interpretation with law, like its easier to get away with murder than a DUI here. the cost of living is the highest in the country since we have high taxes on everything. sales tax is 7 percent, property tax is through the roof. buying things here is also relatively expensive, but nowhere near as bad as NYC, where everything is the most expensive it could be. the best places to live for people your age are probably princeton, red bank, asbury park, hoboken (which is right across from NYC but is also expensive) and parts of jersey city and newark, though jersey city's a bit better.

avoid the suburbs unless you are in your 30s. we have beautiful suburbs with places really close to shop.
avoid my county, we have lots of old people and snooki.

Too bad your governor sucks literal balls,

oh yeah, christie is shit but he'll get voted out, the people hate him now because he's a massive prick.

NEW JERSEY IS BROKE

>Shows up to a baseball game in a helicopter.

hey there New Jersey Senate President Stephen Sweeney, i swear i wont cut AIDS funding

>does that, gives $150 million to rich school districts.

NO TAXES FOR THE "Job Creators"

i fucking hate that euphemism so much.

Taxes=GUN TO RICHIES HEAD

I live in Germany now.


Nuff said. Germany.

I might join the Air Force after college



I WANNA FLY AND DRIVE AROUND THE NURBURGRING TOO ;;

Best decision of my life. ;3

Seriously tell me about it

I dunno what you wanna know haha. Ummmm make sure you sign up for jobs you actually wanna learn, and make sure to stick in your DEP (That's the group you join when you actually go YES SEND ME TO BASIC, BITCHES and are still waiting for a spot) until you get a job you want. Don't let them bully you into something you don't wanna do. DON'T SIGN UP FOR OPEN GENERAL. Unless you really, really wanna be a cop. Because that is what you'll get. Like 90% guarantee. Always need more security forces. Make sure to get the official paper that says they'll start training you in said job guarantee. (If you fail out of that job, then you'll be either academically discharged or re-classed into pretty much whatever. The ones I usually saw that were reclasses were knowledge ops, which are kinda like secretaries.)
Basic is exactly what it sounds like, 8 and a half weeks of people yelling and weird things you have to do exactly right or there is more yelling. But by the end if it if you just stick through, you'll look back and go MAN THAT WASN'T SO HARD. I highly suggest you get up to PT standards before you join, I wasn't at all, and it led to sooooooo much stress. That's an 11:57 mile and a half, 45 pushups in a minute and 50 sit-ups in a minute, for dudes. You'll be doing a lot of PT during BMT, but it's way better if you can do it before you join. Trust me, haha.

As for your first base, it seems to go in sets, my whole tech school group got either Germany or Hawaii, but the next group got random states. So there's a bit of luck in that. You do get to fill out a 'dreamsheet' though, and they'll actually try to put you somewhere you put on that, if there's a spot. And you don't have to list any states. I put all overseas on mine.

If you're going after you do college you should start with two stripes, too, as an A1C. (Soon as you graduate BMT, everyone is airman basic there) So you'll get higher pay and rank than people who didn't. IIRC you actually get back-pay for your time during basic, after you graduate, too. Not sure though, I came out just a slick sleeve no-stripes. BUT I don't know much about that, I just signed for four years and with no college sooooo. You'd have to talk to a recruiter.

And I dunno what else you wanna know. XD

Hey I need to lose weight, and im used to yelling


A lot of yelling


A lot


Lots

But yeah I got 2 years to think about it, it depends on the US job market really

Its totally looking gooHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

Yeah, you got time. XD Definitely look ultra-into it before you decide for sure, it's something that's really hard to get out of once you get in. There are just some people who hate the life for whatever reason, so make sure you're positive on what you wanna do first. :3

Either this or work at McDonald's with A B.A. in CIS or at least make something more with my life? But yeah I will ultra look into it, my Uncle thought it was a good idea, but I think it would be hard if I do decide to join, tell my guardian. Y U FIGHTIN A WHITE MANS WAR etc.

Just point out how much more badass black guys look in uniforms than white guys X3
because it's true haha.

Not just in uniform. In anything.

this is true

Buffalo sucks. There's nothing here. I'd want to move to NYC or LA after I'm done with school in 2 years...

In 2 weeks I'm be passing THROUGH Buffalo. 8D

south carolina
rednecks
really NOT as racist as fiction and the media make it out to be
but just generally full of ignorant rednecks

also really hard to find weed in columbia

Southern costal states cept maybe Florida and Georgia, never really appealed to me

i live in ontario canada
we get paid in maple syrup while we fight off wild moose from our igloos

What about pringles.

ryu is banned from canada so we have no chip damage in street fighter

as for the actual potato chip we got dat

KETCHUP CHIPS

....I saw NO igloos when I went last year!!! >8U

I was born in New York Bronyx and I now live in Atlantic city new joisy.

FUCK NYC! LIVE IN DUBAI!

TOO HOT

You know I live in Queens.

Holla at ya boy.

Holla

Come through around January.

By then I will be moving off campus and i'll have a apartment or somethin'

HOUSEWARMING PARTY

I live in Miami. Florida. It is hot as shit. My part of town does not speak english primarily. There is little sympathy and care for your common man.

BUT RICK ROSS

AND DRAKE

Hartford Connecticut.

We have the oldest art museum in the country. Samuel Colt, J.P. Morgan and Katharine Hepburn are buried here but I'm told the KKK also meet in the back of a cemetery. Despite that, it's my favorite thing abut Connecticut.

Oh, and Mianus.

Hartford seems pretty chill, WHAT ABOUT DAT STATE FUNDED HEALFCURR? Or was that Vermont?

I wouldn't say Hartford's chill. I'm used to it I guess, but people are always getting shot and shit. Thankfully I live in the Southend and closer to Wethersfield... Which is fucking awesome.


About that healthcare, I dunno tbh. All I know is that I don't have health insurance personally. We pay out of pocket if I need any medical treatment. Sucks balls, man.

Indianapolis, Indiana is just bi-polar all the time

Location is bull shit... being stuck in one place is not an issue of being stuck in one place... its an issue of being stuck with your prejudices and desires and feeling as if it is the location's fault for not satisfying them.

people can say "oh if you like that, this city is good for that. If you like this, that city is good for this... Oh if you hate this, that city is horrible for this. If you hate that, this city is horrible for that."

Its all the same, its just a matter of small things that you like or dont like that change between locations.

If you figure out how to fuck off with your "AWWWWW im bored and this place stucks" mentality and realize IT DOESNT FUCKING MATTER WHERE YOU ARE IT MAKES NO DIFFERENCE! then you will be happy.

I've been there... i've done that... everywhere... everyday...

its lame.

and before yall get butt hurt... im just telling it to you straight.

SO I should just fit in with the rest of ohio, I want to move and that what I will do.

nah im saying if you are not happy here and now, you wont be happy anywhere...

just cause NYC is the city that never sleeps doesn't mean its the best place to be... there is no best place to be.

And trust me... NYC most definitely is not as cool as people like to pretend it is.

My suggestion is... if you plan on living in the big apple, go to the shitty side of C-bus, (if there even is one) find a flea bag motel, and imagine the room you see there, half the size it is just as dirty, twice as loud, and probably three times more expensive.

and that will probably emulate well enough your studio apartment in the "Most Fashionable City in the Country."

But Williamsburg is cool... if you can stand hipsters, art fags, and vegans. Thats probably where rent is cheapest outside the bronx.

I know that Im cool in MY CITY but I dont like the state at all anymore. I feel like im in purgatory or something, I try to make the best out of it, then it becomes the same thing over and over. I freaking feel like Bill Murray

well what do you need out of your state that you think a giant cluster fuck city like NYC can provide?

NYC was an option.

i still don't understand what you need from ohio that you cant seem to find in it...

besides big lights, and bars till 4 am.

personally the three cities i enjoyed the most, New Orleans, Dayton, and Detroit..

the most broken cities ever... but number one on the list is East Berlin... never been... i claim that just from its reputation alone.

I guess were just that different man.

This is a mad interesting topic but I have some questions:

1. Well what about those who want more opportunities? Does your rrasoning apply to them?

2. What about those who just dont fit in a given place at all? (Ex. A country cat in the middle of NYC or a flamboyantly gay hairdresser in Fargo) Should they just tough it out?

3. If your unhappy in any given place, does it mean you will feel the same anywhere?

As he said, New York is just an option. Is it possible he just wants to get out and see different places? I can personally say that there are definitely benefits and changes that come from living in different places: new people, new environment, new things to explore. I can sympathize with you on your message of not letting it control your emotion and state-of-peace, but some of us just get bored of the same-old-same-old that comes from being in a place too long. For example, I used to hate my hometown but now I've learned to enjoy the little things about it that make it special. Do I want to live there the rest of my life? Fuck no; it doesn't offer a great variety of the things that I look for in a community. There is no infrastructure for technical jobs such as my own, most of the social life consists of working class individuals who would rather discuss NASCAR and hunting than anything else, and the educational system, while consistent, is non-competitive with many other places. I may be able to change some of these issues in my own little way, but it would make more sense to go somewhere that has the things I'm looking for.

Im more or less responding to the "where i am now sucks huge balls" deal with the hope of going to a different city as if this different city is really any more better for you as a human being, or as a homosexual, or as a red neck or as a gen x/y kid frustrated with the babyboomer suburban life style.

How i feel is this... So fuck if im in a shit town with "nothing to do" and is just boring. To me you are a part of that town/state/region and if that location is boring yhen that makes you boring and tgats a sad thing to think of your self. But if you decide that you your self are the bees fucking knees and thus your town/state/region is the bees fucking knees because you potentially can have that huge an effect on your location. And if people think you are an arrogant cunt then fuck em... Tgey arent the bees fucking knees you are! And your location is thusly exempt from bees fucking knees haters too.

Roots bro, pride in your roots!

And yeah having been to both nyc and fargo as a country boy and a faggot i can say its totally enjoyable if you can find good weed. And i dont even smoke.

I kind of don't understand what the marijuana comment is related to. Also, may inquire how long of an experience you have had which each of these locales? It seems that you have been a crap ton of places, so it is kind of hard to gauge your level of association which each of these areas.

Well the question you ask is moot. Seeing as

A. Locations dont matter its attitude that matters.

B. If i can have found baller ass relations and livins in a city ive only been in for a month at the most (most cases its far less than that) then i dont see why a fuckin kid that is the fuckin bees fuckin knees (such as kista) cant find in a long time period at a town hes been in for a couple years.

The marijuana comment involves the reality that even if the issues one doesnt have in terms of attitude are survivable through cool friends and nothing makes good friends like free green cept of course free food.

I wouldn't say my question is moot as you make mention of living at/being in certain cities. You also say which areas you enjoy the most and attest to NYC not being as great as people say it is. You must have formed these opinions somehow, and I just was wondering if you travel around regularly or just passed through each area.

I think your broad sweeping generalizations to location affecting emotion are correct to a certain point. People matter, not location. If you feel you enjoy your community and, more importantly yourself ,in the damn Arctic good for you. I'm sure there are people that do. I can attest, from personal experience and those of acquaintances, that certain environments are more productive to reaching certain goals more than another. Industry, opportunities, and certain relations will drive people to move to a certain area.

Also, do not forget to take into account people who enjoy physically different environments. Would someone with allergies want to live in an area with drier climates? Would someone with asthma not want to live in place with frequently poor air condition? These may be "small things" to an individual who does not suffer from such problems, but it sure as hell plays an impact on the opinion of those who do.

Long story short, while someone should be happy with themselves despite their location - as they should be despite many external factors - it is perfectly normal, and I'd say even rational, to wish for a change of environment and/or location. Hell, many times, again from personal experience, it can spur major changes in life and even force an individual to form different opinions through the change in culture.

Its all in your head briskue its all in your head.

Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania where, if you came, you would be the coolest minority we've ever had in the town. Though the whole finding a job thing would pretty much not happen unless you commute to NYC or Philly.

We do have pretty trees though!


But, for real, I think I'd be interested in moving to Colorado, NY, San Diego, or the San Francisco Bay/Silicon Valley Area; fuck LA, I heard it smells like butt.

Remove San Diego, and pretty much thats what im looking at

You already know what I think haha.

Btw, if you're not doing anything today, come kick it with me and Will before I leave tomorrow!

FO SHO

Montana

we have snow, road construction, rednecks, and road construction

AND FAY


WE LOVE FAY

:3

I hate Ohio, 'cept C-bus. C-bus forever brah. But fuck Cleveland. Maybe not Avon Lake, but fuck Cleveland.


I wanna live in Portland, but I am too poor and not hipster enough for it.

More like C-LEAVE-land amirite

Rofls. But omg TOLEDO, :< that my friend is a wasteland brah

L.A. is sick. But i grew up in Montana so I feel your pain for the backwards, small time thing.

LA is my favorite place everrrrrrr.

Dont drop me off in West Hollywood, I will hate you forever.

Oh shut up you would fucking love WeHo.
So much frozen yogurt.
So many places to buy underwear.

GAY Underwear

...why do you think I keep insisting that you would like it?

OK FINE

I WANT SOME TIGHT PURPLE BOXER BRIEFS

kthx

COOOOOME GIT EM

fool i aint drivin to weho

PHILADELPHIA IS REALLY BLACK AND REALLY GAY AND SOMETIMES OUR SPORTS TEAMS ARE GOOD BUT USUALLY JUST DISAPPOINTING.

And New York is fantastic. Biking through Manhattan is one of the best little joys in life, holy shit.

Are you hitting on me?

~ o b v i o u s l y ~

I live 2 hours from NYC. LONG ISLAND YIS.
But I go in school in Philly. Everyone knows what Philly's like....

Texas.

It's hot.

It's conservative.

End of story.

Move to San Francisco. End of story. NYC is a bullshit fest anyway, bunch of jerks and mediocre italian food. Also, New Jersey is most decidedly NOT progressive. I learned all of this from Jersey Shore.

-1 for watching Jersey Shore and believing it.

I was born there, my friend. I've been through Jersey. What a shithole. YMMV, but if you enjoy toll roads and bad accents, by all means...

So by Jersey Shore you mean actual Jersey Shore? Because I would assume you didn't watch Jersey Shore then and learn anything from it.

Also, I'm not a big fan of Jersey myself, I'm not denying that.

Idk about that, NYC surprised me by how many non-assholes were there (plus they have the some damn good Italian food, you might have went to a shitty spot to eat). Everyone (myself included) rips on Jersey, but its actually halfway decent way better than say WV or Michigan xD.

But what's really in San Francisco... really? I heard it's expensive, shockingly segregated, and the gay culture and/or club scene there is pretentious and segregated based on skin color, body type, and kink. I learned all of that from various shows on Logo TV.

You can -1 me for watching Logo all you want too.

I'm an NYC kid until I die :>.

Oh hey Chicago, what's cook--CHI TOWN! CHI TOWN! WE GON SET THIS PARTY OFF RITE! ♫ It's my city, God damn it. And I love it. It's not a good city to drive in, but the public transit is pretty baller, and there's so much ish to do. I could just walk around and get lost for fun.

New bedford mass: Rent is cheap, there's lots of nice places all around it, but the people herein are uncultured swine. Every last BMX bike riding, Sideways hat wearing, Honda civic "Tuning" one of em.

New bedford mass: Rent is cheap, there's lots of nice places all around it, but the people herein are uncultured swine. Every last BMX bike riding, Sideways hat wearing, Honda civic "Tuning" one of em.

Boston's pretty cool. Surprisingly small, it's easy as hell to walk around downtown. Hell you can pretty much get anywhere important from city hall. Just...be sure to walk. Driving sucks balls.

D.C

:P

gtfout of there and move to a coast, any coast.

Boston is awesome, cheaper to live in than New York, and you can get to Manhattan on the bus for $15.

POW

I live in the Bay Area/NorCal.

Originally from the East Bay.

Now Silicon Valley/South Bay.

Born out of Hayward, residing now in San Jose.

It's Pretty cool, Big city with some small town feel, lots of stability compared to some parts of Cali in the ecomomic market due to the Tech industry in the area, and a slightly lower unemployment rate. i have had more opportunities here i shall say then i had in the East Bay, when in regards to jobs, experience, and big time references.

Fairly safe for a city over a million, although as a current trend within the state, the crime rate is getting higher, and the police cuts didn't help lol. East San Jose (ESSJ) and the south end of Downtown being the suppose worst parts, i seen worse else where in the bay tho.

Overall, i like where i am, it may not be the center of Everything like San Francisco, and boring at times in comparison, even a bit less poppin sometimes then Oakland (Which can be good or bad lol) but it seems like a good balance to me, my own damn playground, less crowds, etc.

Swag.