The 10,000 Post thread V3

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

1291

 

Here in crazy world (aka Japan) land prices are so insane that the daughter of a man I know still lives at home and commutes by train to Yokohama for her full-time job.  Yokohama, by train, is more than two hours away, and she does this every day because it's cheaper to pay train fare every month than it is to find a decent place to live in the city.  As for myself, when I lived in Osaka, I paid about US$800 for our crappy two-room apartment in the center of the city.  Sure, the location was totally awesome, but the place we're in now, in the countryside far, FAR from a real urban area costs us about US$550 per month for more than twice the space.  Our place in Saitama *just* outside Tokyo was about the same price as we're paying now, but we didn't get two parking spaces included and our apartment was missing one room and about 100 square feet.  Real estate is lunacy once you go urban in Japan.

[Duke87 1,070]

(1292)

 

Yeesh, can I move in with either of you? I'm paying $1250 a month for a 1 bedroom apartment that's maybe 400 square feet. And yes, a newer building in this neighborhood would be even more than that. New York City is expensive!

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

(1292)

Yeesh, can I move in with either of you? I'm paying $1250 a month for a 1 bedroom apartment that's maybe 400 square feet. And yes, a newer building in this neighborhood would be even more than that. New York City is expensive!

1293: Are you originally from NYC?

[simlink 1,098]

1294

The joys of living in an urban area...

[B.C builder 291]

1295
The joys of living in a house and don't having to pay a rent 

[Duke87 1,070]

(1296)

Are you originally from NYC?

Yep. Why do you ask?

[Larks2242 251]

1297.

 

I thought you said CT.

[Mr Saturn64 742]

1295

The joys of living in a house and don't having to pay a rent

1298

You have a valid point.

[Duke87 1,070]

(1299)

 

I thought you said CT.

 

I was born in The Bronx but my family moved to CT when I was pretty young. Even still, I had family in The Bronx that I spent a significant amount of time with, and the town in CT where I was growing up was more a suburb of New York than a part of Connecticut. I now as an adult live in the city again.

 

The result of this is that I will either say I am from Connecticut or from New York City, depending on what is most convenient to the conversation. Quite honestly, I feel like I am "from" both. I am neither a city boy nor a suburb boy, I am a hybrid of the two.

[Larks2242 251]

1300.

 

 

(1299)

 

I thought you said CT.

 

I was born in The Bronx but my family moved to CT when I was pretty young. Even still, I had family in The Bronx that I spent a significant amount of time with, and the town in CT where I was growing up was more a suburb of New York than a part of Connecticut. I now as an adult live in the city again.

 

The result of this is that I will either say I am from Connecticut or from New York City, depending on what is most convenient to the conversation. Quite honestly, I feel like I am "from" both. I am neither a city boy nor a suburb boy, I am a hybrid of the two.

 

That begs the question, do you have the famous "accent"?

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

(1296)

Are you originally from NYC?

Yep. Why do you ask?

1301: I was just wondering, because my follow up question if you are from another area would have been, "what was your incentive to move to New York?", considering that rent is no doubt cheaper elsewhere.

[Duke87 1,070]

(1302)

 

That begs the question, do you have the famous "accent"?

 

Usually no, but it does sometimes slip out unexpectedly and I laugh at myself whenever it does.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

1303

 

If you're in Tokyo you're looking at $1000 and up for rent, easily, plus at least half that again for parking if you have a car, but in Tokyo you totally don't need it.  I've heard Moscow is more expensive now than NYC or Tokyo, but whatever, those are all places I have no intent on ever inhabiting ever for whatever reason.  Yuck.  I'm a country boy, and I'm happy to stay that way after my urban adventures here in Japan.

[Mr Saturn64 742]

1304

The trouble with Tokyo is that it's so dense. If they built up, rather than out, overpopulation wouldn't be as big a problem.

[Muck308 55]

1305

 

Yeesh, can I move in with either of you? I'm paying $1250 a month for a 1 bedroom apartment that's maybe 400 square feet. And yes, a newer building in this neighborhood would be even more than that. New York City is expensive!

 

Nope, I like living alone too much! However, the guy next door on my floor is currently being evicted (a process that can last months in Pennsylvania) so if you're interested in living in lovely West View, stop on by!

 

I actually really like my neighborhood. I have a lot of friends here and it's still only a 15 minute drive to the city. 40 minutes by bus though.

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

1306: I've lived in the same house for 18 years Not yet at the life stage where I need to worry about rent, but I do plan on moving to the northern suburbs in order to be closer to university for when I attend (it's currently an hour drive assuming no traffic.)

[Durfsurn 539]

1307

 

Ah being young is good in some ways....

 

Lol after a plugin downloading spree I have almost 7,000 files and over 3.6 GB of plugins! 

 

[Mr Saturn64 742]

1308

Oh Mylanta.

Speaking of, is it possible my computer lag is based on the fact that I have too much data on it?

[Duke87 1,070]

(1309)

 

Having a lot of files on your hard drive should only cause lag in situations where you are trying to access them all - e.g., your pictures will load slower when browsing folders, your music library may load slower in your media player, etc. But both of these things have more to do with number of files than with file size (a few big files won't cause as much lag as a lot of little ones that add up to the same size).

 

What causes general lag is two things: one, having a lot of software programs installed, and two, having a lot of patches on your system. The first one you have some control over... the second can't really be helped, as Windows needs to keep updating itself to stay current on system security and whatnot. For this reason, computers slow down as they get older regardless of what you do with them. Some have accused Microsoft of making that happen on purpose so people will buy more new computers.

[Larks2242 251]

1310.

 

Upgrade RAM.

 

Or in joking terms, download more ram.

[Muck308 55]

1311

 

I prefer to do things properly. For example, one should not sleep upon a couch when they have a perfectly good bed to sleep on. But then again, my couch sucks to sleep on.

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

1312: I need to upgrade RAM. I can't play Simcity and listen to music without having my tracks skip at times.

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

1313

 

1304

The trouble with Tokyo is that it's so dense. If they built up, rather than out, overpopulation wouldn't be as big a problem.

 

There are two things that I think here: first, building up instead of out is a way to increase density, so that's not a real reason for it.  Second, in Japan, there are a number of factors that make the population density of the major urban centers the way they are (Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, Fukuoka, etc): First, you can't build a whole bunch of supertalls because you're sitting on fault lines all over a country that has MAJOR problems with MASSIVE earthquakes every so often.  We're actually expecting two near where I live in the next 30 years or so (Tokai earthquake and Tokyo Bay earthquake).  So, while technology and building materials are great now, they're still not act-of-god-proof.  Second: Japan is a series of rocks off the coast of Asia with very clear limits as to where you can build.  Kanto Plain, where Tokyo and like 80,000,000 people live (exaggerated), is only like the size of Connecticut.  Kansai is much, MUCH smaller.  So, there are limits that way, too.  Arable land is scarce and frequency of major disasters is high.  So, yeah, there are some pretty good reasons things are the way they are.  Not everywhere is Chicago or Detroit where all you have to deal with is a blizzard every now and then (no tornadoes, those hit the trailer parks in the 'burbs).

[Duke87 1,070]

(1314)

 

There's also a question of age. Older cities that came of age before the advent of the automobile (long before, in the case of most cities in Europe and Asia) tend to be more compact because people couldn't travel as far as quickly back then, so distances between things needed to be kept small. 

[Mr Saturn64 742]

1315

And that also contributed to spreading out and having new areas built up and than you have the "historical" area. Take Heav- or, Paris for example. You have the old districts dating from the middle ages, than you have some from the 1800's and than you have La Defense, which looks like it was built in the 22nd century,

[Larks2242 251]

1316.

 

 

1312: I need to upgrade RAM. I can't play Simcity and listen to music without having my tracks skip at times.

 

How old is it?

 

Since there are limitations on RAM in older motherboards, had to rip out and replace the entire thing just to upgrade my ram

[astronelson 339]

1317.

 

Thought I'd pop in and say hi.

 

Australian cities are really spread out. If Brisbane had the density of New York City it would have a population of over 62 million. As it is now, it has about 2 million.

[ROFLyoshi 1,760]

1318:

1316.

 

 

1312: I need to upgrade RAM. I can't play Simcity and listen to music without having my tracks skip at times.

 

How old is it?

 

Since there are limitations on RAM in older motherboards, had to rip out and replace the entire thing just to upgrade my ram

Genuinely unsure.

 

1317.

 

Thought I'd pop in and say hi.

 

Australian cities are really spread out. If Brisbane had the density of New York City it would have a population of over 62 million. As it is now, it has about 2 million.

Sydney would have nearly 130 million, Melbourne 106 million.

[Duke87 1,070]

(1319)

 

I don't think the difference is as drastic as you make it sound. All three of those cities contain within their boundaries not only the city itself but all of the suburbs and a lot of undeveloped land. If you expanded the borders of some North American cities to the same size, you would get a similar picture. Also, it isn't really fair to use New York as a comparison point as it is by far the most densely populated city in the US - its density is not typical of an American city, it is exceptional.

[Mr Saturn64 742]

1320

Then you have cities like Atlanta and Philadelphia where it's so dang spread out and Atlanta has a population of around 400,000 and Philadelphia 1,500,000. But I can't judge for Atlanta as I have never been there, but if you want to get down to Center City Philadelphia from the suburbs, you go down West Chester Pike 2-3 miles then go down Chestnut Street between around 60th street all the way down to the technical "Center City" at 30th. And those are long blocks. So cities like that are big and dense sort of, but neither have exactly the biggest CBDs either.