Thinking of Moving?

[The boy formerly known as Evil Muzz 27]

You could live in Scotland, where:

-Foreigners think you live in a part of England
-The First Minister thinks that using the phrase "Scottish people" in every statement makes him a good leader
-You can go swimming in the sea, only to swim back a second later because you got frostbite or you found nuclear waste.
-The most exciting thing that has ever happened is that a monster was sighted in a body of water 70 years ago.
-You know everyone in your town.
-You see a native wild animal called a Haggis on the hills.

[callagrafx 3]

You could live in Wales where

1. You have to pay to get in (

[mayormommy 8]

Well, you could live in northern Wisconsin where:

1. You can ice fish on Easter morning.

2. Bears will raid your bird feeder in the spring.

3. Gardeners strive in vain to grow watermelon, since there's only 90 guaranteed frost free days per year.

4. The local fish hatchery is often the largest employer.

5. Convenience stores carry cheese, beer, granola, and cross-country ski wax.

6. Snowmobile trails have stop signs.

7. People often keep donkeys to keep coyotes away.

8. You often notice that the loons are catching more fish than you are.

Or, if that's too cold for you, you could live in the Florida Keys, where:

1. The sky is pink, the sea is green, and the people are orange.

2. Liquor stores are drive-thru.

3. "Drive safely" signs mark accident sites along the Overseas Highway.

4. A beach is 10 x 10 patch of sand.

5. You might awaken to a hungover Canadian dragging a dead shark through your yard (true story).

6. Addresses are given as mile markers.

7. The "green flash" is the dollar bills collected by hucksters at sunset at Mallory Square.

8. The birds are taller than you.

[Voar Tok 4]

mayormommy: I know of a place in Texas where they converted a car wash into a drive-thru liquor shop. You could get bait too.

[Meg 368]

Originally posted by: Voar Tok mayormommy: I know of a place in Texas where they converted a car wash into a drive-thru liquor shop. You could get bait too. quote>

 

I know a place where they converted a drive-through bank to a drive-through Starbucks.  No bait, though.

[Easy Bakes 253]

Originally posted by: Voar Tok mayormommy: I know of a place in Texas where they converted a car wash into a drive-thru liquor shop. You could get bait too. quote>

 

I know of a place  in The DFW were they turned a 50 lane bowling ally into a church.

 

[ILL Tonkso 1,239]

Ok, you could:

Live in South Hampshire

1: Where your either Portsmouth or Southampton, either way you get beaten up.

2: The Isle of Wight is a Foreign Country.

3: Your never more than 6 houses away from someone who owns some form of boat.

4: The letter T, exept at the beginning of words does not exist.

5: You know at least 5 pregnant teenagers/teenage mothers.

6: Your related to someone in the Naval/Shipping/Cruise ship business.

or you could....

Live in London

1: Where leaving the city is like going abroad.

2: If you get on the wrong train home you end up in Paris or Birmingham

3: You do not actually know anyone that speaks Cockney.

4: Foreigners think you are part of a living museum.

5: Your sick of foreigners commenting on your accent.

6: You probably own Shares.

or maybe you could....

Live in Dorset

1: Where the small town of Weymouth (about 40,000 pop) is the city.

2: You can drive a tractor at 13 years old. (my mum could)

3: You have to walk 2 miles up a hill to get a mobile phone signal.

4: If you miss one bus, your screwed.

5: Where the 2 lane A303 can be almost considered a Motorway.

6: There are more cows than people.

or even you could....

Live in the Peak District

1: Where the weather forcast is either, 'Foggy' 'Light Fog' 'Light Rain' or 'Strangly Blistering Heat'

2: Your in the middle of no where 60  miles from Manchester and Sheffield.

3: The main road closes on some winter days.

4: Buxton^tm spring water comes out of your tap yet tourists STILL buy it from the supermarket.

5: Most of your railway lines are now gone and used for scenic walks.

6: Sheep, Sheep, everywhere.

Anywhere in the Country

1: Foreigners insist on calling you 'European' despite how much you hate it and deny it.

2: You have during your life, visited the Isle of Wight for a hoiday.

3: No matter what Football Team you support, there will allways be someone willing to beat you up for it.

4: Your Pub is your Fortress.

5: You have owned, or a family member has owned a Mini at some point.

6: You watch Dr Who.

Hehe, hope you enjoyed my little insight into the UK

[GingerBlokey 30]

You could live in Norfolk

1: You will find yourself becoming 'closer' to your cousin

2: You own at least 2 pigs and a sheepdog

3: You support Norwich City or get killed by rowdy locals

4: You know not only everyone in your village but in the county

5: You shop at Waitrose

6: You watch Dr Who.

[DuskTrooper 316]

Heh, there are several instances in Houston where there are at LEAST 2 Starbucks across the street from each other.

The most infamous example is in the River Oaks area, where they are less than 60' apart from each other...

[Voar Tok 4]

Originally posted by: DuskTrooper Heh, there are several instances in Houston where there are at LEAST 2 Starbucks across the street from each other.

The most infamous example is in the River Oaks area, where they are less than 60' apart from each other...quote>

Don't forget the Galleria area.  There are 2 or 3 in the mall, and two on opposite corners of the intersection.

[Praetorian Cohort 0]

Originally posted by: DuskTrooper Heh, there are several instances in Houston where there are at LEAST 2 Starbucks across the street from each other.

The most infamous example is in the River Oaks area, where they are less than 60' apart from each other...quote>

Here, there is a Fantastic Sams under construction on the southeast corner of an intersection, when there's already one on the northwest corner.

[SamFlash 0]

Hey, we're doing better.  England, Wales and Scotland have been heard from as well as Northern Wisconsin and the Florida Keys.  

As far as Starbucks is concerned, we have one here in Los Angeles that was torn down in order to build a larger one.  I guess they wern't making their quota of lattes. 

[octaves 4]

You can live in Fredericton New Brunswick, where...

1. You can live in any 'suburban' neighborhood and have to drive 20 minutes to get to work.
2. You can jump off the tallest building downtown and only break a finger.
3. You drive down route 101 to New Maryland one mile over the speed limit only to see that a cop car waiting in the ditch with their radar gun has caught you.
4. You get sick of walking through the Fredericton Mall and it being so empty in the hall it feels like someone's gonna jump out and yell "Boo!"
5. Your average suburban homeowner owns 3 acres of land which his tiny little bungalow sits on.

More Coming (Hopefully)

[MadTV_Freak 0]

You can live in Washington D.C. where

- You can sit in traffic for 3 hours and move 10 inches.
- You have to go five blocks from your destination just to find parking.
- You may not be able to find parking on the street and must go to a 
$20.00 parking garage 7 blocks from your destination.
- There is traffic no matter what freeway you get on.
- You can leave one city and drive 3 hours before you find another.
- You can cross a boundary and step from rich & pleasent to crime & ghetto.
- Where we may have alot of crime, but not even in the Top 10 for worst crime in cites across America.

Maybe you want to live in the DC suburbs where...

- No matter where you go, its always traffic.
- You can never complain about a McDonalds not being near.
- You can never complain about having no where to shop.
- Where urban sprawl is taking over.
- Where you could drive 3 counties away from the city and still be in
the DC suburbs.
- Where the crime seems worst then the city.
- Where its only 2 murders in the western and nothern suburbs, but 222 murders in the eastern and souther suburbs.

[jvlm.123 0]

You could live in Dublin, Ireland, where -

1. You can't afford to live there, but do it anyway.

2. You like it when the media use the word "cosmopolitan" or "European" to describe the city, but don't know why.

3. You hate the three hour drive to the West coast of Ireland, but happily spend four hours commuting in rush-hour traffic every day.

4. You tell tourists wrong directions for kicks.

5. You don't even know the names of your neighbours.

6. You aim to be more multicultural because it's the "in-thing".

7. You live in the south-side and can't understand the north-side accent (or vice-versa).

8. You aim to live as close to work as possible, but still drive there to show off your car (no matter what it is).

9. Anything over five stories is a skyscraper.

10. Tourists always offer to buy you a Guinness, always...

11. €1,000,000 (US$1,261,374.60 or UK£683,090.98) for a three-bed semi-detached house is "reasonable".

12. You want a house/apartment near a train/tram station or bus stop, even though you think "public transport is for losers and university students".

13. Your afraid if you see more than two teenagers wearing hoodies.

14. Your three main topics of conversation are house prices, traffic and weather.

15. Temperatures over 25C/77F are "very hot", while over 30C/86F is "a heatwave" (it reached 31.5C last week, how do you think the media reacted?).

16. You read "The Economist" to impress others, but don't undertand it.

17. Starbucks is new, and therefore, scary... (there are only 13 in the whole of Ireland).

18. Anywhere outside the M50 (ring road) is practically considered "foreign" or "exotic".

19. Tourists think you want to be their best friend.

20. You wonder why everyone on the West coast (which was formerly very poor in the 1980s, but is now just as rich as Dublin per person) just doesn't move here.

21. You complain when it rains, when it's dry for too long, when it's too hot and when it's too cold... Snow is almost your worst enemy...

22. Prices are about 30% higher than in the rest of Ireland (seriously!).

23. Over 30 is considered really old, because over 50% of the population are under 25.

24. Infrastructural projects (eg. Dublin Port Tunnel, Dublin Metro, M50 upgrades, etc...) are always over budget and behind schedule.

25. You're thought of as a tourist attraction.

26. You go to a 24-hour supermarket at 3AM, just because you can (it's the principle that counts...).

27. You think of yourself as a rugged individualist... Like everyone else.#

28. Every day, another politican is found to be "corrupt".

More on Dublin (and the rest of Ireland) soon!

[Arrow 0]

You could live in Memphis, Tennessee where:

1. Highway construction is a neverending part of life (I-40 has been under construction for the past 10 years at least.)

2. People drive a Mercedes but live in a shack sized home.

3. Several hundred million dollars in taxes go to the school systems yet they are still poor.

4. We had 2 stadiums capable of hosting basketball games but the third time's a charm so we built another funded of course, by the taxpayer dollars (again).

5. A day when there isn't a new murder being reported on the news is strange.

6. Driving through some parts of town at even a fraction of a mile per hour over the speed limit will get you pulled over. (True story, I've been pulled over for going 30.7MPH in a 30MPH zone)

7. There seems to be a law that there must be at least 3 Walgreens stores within a 5 minute drive of your house.

[paperboy15 4]

You could live in Fresno, CA where:

1) People call it a small farm town even though it is a sprawling 500,000+ city

2) High-density housing consists of two-story apartment buildings (literally...according to the Fresno General Plan)

3) You wonder what happened to the stars in the sky...until you visit Yosemite

4) You have to drive 3-4 hours to get to the nearest large metro areas

5) A brown haze encapsules the city (hmmm...chunky!)

6) Cyclists have a death wish or think they are invincible

7) The farther south you go it gets more slummy and the drivers go slower

[Nerd_Guy 4]

You know you live in the tri-city area of central Illinois (Springfield, Decatur, Taylorville) when:

-Your town contains 10 bars.

-Villages must have a gas station to be considered a town.

-You can see for miles, but there is nothing to look at.

-You can here the train from any given point in town.

-The most exiting event in town is the Demo Derby.

[simzebu 20]

You could live in Albany, NY where:

1)Everything is named after Joe Bruno.

2)You can get from the tallest building in New York State outside of Manhattan to a farm in less than 20 minutes.

3)There are about 10 different routs with "9". i.e. 9, 9W, 9N, 90, etc.

4)Spelling and pronouncing "Schenectady" is considered possible.

5)"If you don't like the weather, wait a few minutes. It'll change."

6)The State Office complex isn't used for state offices.

7)The split is almost exactly 50% Yankees fans, 50% Red Sox fans.

8)There is very little objection to building a landfill in a protected ecosystem that is completely exclusive to the area.

9)Getting off I-87 gets you to I-87, but staying on gets you to I-90.

10)Islands don't neccecarily have to be separated from the mainland.

[djrules5454 5]

You could live in Minnesota, where:

1) Anyone you haven't known for 20 years is a stranger.

2) You are required to be passive-agressive just to fit in.

3) The people wear T-shirts when it's 40F out, and still wear the same T-shirts when it's 95F out.

4) You can go from the fifth/eleventh most multicultural cities in the US, to a hick-town within an hour.

5) You can live in an iron range and drive to a port in 2 hours.

6) The lakes in the south and central part of the state have crowded shores.

7) You can fish in Canada without going through customs. (via the BWCA)

The politicians don't like to pass laws.

9) Everyone drives 10-20 mph above the speed limit, and people usually top 90 on highways like I-90, I-94, and I-35.

10) It costs a small fortune to get a good piece of lakeland in the state.

[Mrkeacher88 0]

You could live in New Hampshire, where:

1) Every Friday, thousands of people from Massachusetts flock to Northern and Central New Hampshire clogging I-93 northbound. Mass-holes!. The process then repeats on Sunday evening, for the drive back.

2) Nevermind other cars on the highway, look out for moose!

3)From the states Capitol (Concord) you are one hour from the Mountains, an hour from the Coast, and hour from the city (Boston, MA)

4)The tallest mountain east of the Mississippi River, Mt Washington, at around 6,000 feet. Nestled in the White Mountains.

5) "Live Free or Die" the states motto, well thats really something to live by.

6) Motorcycle Weekend, at Weirs Beach in Laconia, NH. Its about the only time NH sees serious big city like action. Where over 400,000 bikers come to the region.

7) "Manch-Vegas" or the "Queen City" are 2 popular names for the states biggest city Manchester.

In your vocabulary: replace the word "really" with the word "wicked" For Example: That was wicked cool. Instead of: That was really cool

Thats a genreal give away your from NH.^

9) The Old Man of the Mountain, a popular tourist destination and the states emblem, Is a rock cliff that looks like the profile of a human man. Well eventually, being a cliff, it crumbled into Profile Lake below. Then local hicks flocked to the lake to grab the pieces, then to sell them on eBay! Half forgot that they didn't have a computer, the other half who did, lucked out and made something off it!

10) NH is the first state to vote in the nation! With the NH Primaries. The first town to vote in the state is Dixville Notch, population: 27...no joke!

11) Each fall Leaf-Peepers come to look at the beautiful foliage all around the state, mostly up north in the mountains (I still don't see whats so nice about it). Which means more Mass-holes, and more and more Floridians come to enjoy the sights. Probably as pay-back for so many New Hampshirites filling their state during winter.

12) New Hampshire State Troopers have light brown and tree like green cars, everything blends right in. They would go as far as taking a chain saw to cut an area in the woods off the highway to hide, and then catch you! Their pretty tough and sneaky, watch out!

13)  "Drive Safely" "Buckle Up" all of these are "The New Hampshire Way"  then theres Live Free or Die never is that advertised as the New Hampshire Way!

If more come to me I will post!

[fivedayrental 0]

You could live in Danbury,CT where:

1. You give directions based off of where stores used to be (turn left where caldors used to be or go past the painted rock before the prison)

2. You are used to main street getting shut down because of the world cup

3.Eating out on Friday nights is just impossible.

4. You know more than 8 good local Italian restaurants.

5.You are used to not going on the other side of town...but everyone knows Westside is better but they won't admit it.

6. The boundaires of"West Danbury' seem to get bigger and bigger each year.

7.You have deer in your back yard.

8. You were excited to have the ice arena built but you never go there now thats its open.

9.You can't go to McDonalds anymore because the employees don't speak English.

10. You don't play golf despite having one of the best public courses in the country.

11.You can get lost within city limits.

12. No one uses the train station downtown.

[am44 0]

dont forget that in colordo it can be 105 in the day and at night 65 plus weather changes every 5 minutes. or in m y towns case know that somewhere in town there is a giant meth ring (which is scary considering its kind of a small town.

[Abc987 3]

You could live in upstate New York where:

1. When ever you go somwhere far away and somone says "Where ya' from" and you say New York everyone always says "Oh... Mannhattan?"
2. The big city is hours away and it's 40,000 ppl.
3. It's considered an insult if you don't say Hi to somone you walk by, even if you don't know them.
4. You think 40mph is fast.
5. You drive through a town and say "How come there is only 5 gas stations here?"
6. 85 degrees is hot.

He he I live in Norwich, NY wich is upstate.

[Wlvrn567 0]

You can live in Sterling Kansas,

Where:

1. All there is to do is gaze at wheat fields.

2. You get blown at with 20 Mph wind gust full of dust and clay

3. Every summer you deal with 105 degree heat with dry/ filthy wind

You can live in Columbus Indiana,

Where:

1: There is amazing architecture

2: You can see sunshine in the morning and downpore in

 the afternoon

3: Get stuck in a long line waiting for a tractor

4: Have so called "KORN" country music station to listen to all night, which is a pain

You can live in the suburbs of Detroit,

Where:

1: You can find anything to do and your never bored

2: Have the heaviest of Traffic backups ever

3: This might be heaven if you like big urban places,

and still safe

4: every winter you have a 2 ft snowfall and have to

Shovel your driveway every winter morning

[NYfanatic 1]

#5, isnt true....

but #4 is so true!

and for #7: I still hate the fact that Boston somehow has migrated over here

[Explodingsims 3]

You could live in Clermont, FL where:

1. All the Houses look the same

2. You can see suburban sprawl from the "Citrus Tower"

3. The Roads are awful.

4. You are surrounded by Publix.

5. There are no bookstores or electronics stores!

[Wrightguy0 40]

You could live in Saint John where:

1. the fog breaking is a miracle

2. you either work for, or know someone who works for Irving

3. You judge days by how much it stinks

4. you either have or know someone who has a mullet

5. A '91 caprice with panels missing is a luxury car

6. You catch yourself thinking "At least it's not moncton"

7. You think Fredricton is pretentious, if you even know or can pronounce that word

8. Nature is a subsidiary of the Irving family

9. the summers are too cold and the winters are too wet, but hey, at least the mosquitoes can't survive

10. deer jump into the livingroom of your inner city apartment

[Duke87 1,070]

Originally posted by: NYfanatic #5, isnt true....

but #4 is so true!

and for #7: I still hate the fact that Boston somehow has migrated over herequote>

Thread necromancer powers, activate!

Form of, an epic bump!

[patriots_1228 51]

Btw, for whoever was new hampshire, Wicked is a boston word.

wicked pissah

don't take credit for our cultural achievments

You could live in Boston where:

1. Theres no school on school street, no post office on post street, no Court on Court Street, and no Dairy on Milk Street.

2. You get a parking fine for parking your car in harvard yard.

3. kahkis are somthing you use to lock and unlock your car.

4. Buildings are shot down because they produce too many shadows.

5. Moonites are a serious threat.

6. Theres an East Boston north of south boston which is east of the former west end which is north from the south end thats north of south boston and is only slightly farther south than the north end.