Do you hate where you currently live?

Maiden Voyage said:
I love that I can leave my front door for a run and be in the middle of nowhere within a few minutes. From my front door to my kayak on the water is 7 mins. Having nature close-by is such a mental health boost. I could never go back to the city.
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I can relate. I dont have to lock my cars, but I do lock my doors at night. I live in the country but I'm a 10 minute drive to the city and 30 minutes to my office.
 
I actually like where I live in Nebraska. I use to think moving would solve all my problems, but I miss where I live when I travel somewhere. I like big cities, 500k, but the larger cities I've visited feel like a zoo. Larger cities show their problems and all the traffic makes the problems stand out even more. What I enjoy is having a bunch of smaller towns surrounding a big city. I prefer living in the city, but I enjoy traveling. What I never liked was living in a small town and not being close to the city. I feel like city life has a lot of perks to it.

As much as my city has changed. I still feel at home when I drive down its street. I sometimes wonder if that's just a setup. I know the faces aren't the same and the school years are over with. I've grown up here since 97. The streets and highways have a sense of comfort that I always hope is still there when I return.
 
AJUMP23 said:
I can relate. I dont have to lock my cars, but I do lock my doors at night. I live in the country but I'm a 10 minute drive to the city and 30 minutes to my office.
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I'm roughly twenty minutes away from the city, but like the fact that I can come and go as I please. I'm not overly keen on the hectic city life. I've a huge lake near me with trails that I can disappear on. I'm from West Sussex originally and miss the South Downs for rambling, although here I have a local forest.
 
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I'm pretty comfortable where I live. It's a small town (12 k in the city, 30 in municipality). It's rather quiet (except certain weekends when random drunkards pass by my flat and screams). I have a nice apartment. My own parking spot. No obnoxious neighbors. Pretty good economy. It does begin to get a little expensive but I manage so far. I reckon there is worse places to live. I think I'm going to live here until I die.
 
Lasha said:
I'm really happy with where I live. Cost of living is the only annoyance. Curious what's wrong with PR. I was thinking of moving their myself for a few years.
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Sorry for the late reply , don't move here , super corrupt and useless government, shitty people, crazy drivers, food is getting more expensive now, shitty weather (that's a personal one for me though since I don't like tropical weather). It's all good visit place but living here really sucks.
 
Putonahappyface said:
I'm roughly twenty minutes away from the city, but like the fact that I can come and go as I please. I'm not overly keen on the hectic city life. I've a huge lake near me with trails that I can disappear on. I'm from West Sussex originally and miss the South Downs for rambling, although here I have local forest.
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Or make other people disappear on right?
 
AJUMP23 said:
It was a joke about you murdering.
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Nah I like it.
Moved out from the big city to go to near the end of the world (Patagonia) and I enjoy it.
It's definitely not for everyone as it's pretty isolated so we don't have a lot of stores and product variety (no mall, cinema, only 2 supermarkets with a fairly limited selection of items), everything is more expensive, limited restaurants and events, high shipping costs and the weather kinda sucks for 8 months a year.

At the same time though you got a lot of small town benefits like a short commute, most stuff is walkable, no traffic jams, etc. We've also got way less criminality than it other places and, most importantly, we are surrounded by nature and 20 minutes away from awesome hiking trails, fishing spots, rafting, kayaking, waterfalls, etc
 
After a long stint at Uni and then a long stint in Japan where I lived on Kyushu, I now live back in my hometown in the UK, which is in Cambridgeshire.

Overall, I really appreciate where I live. There's greenery everywhere, fields and rivers nearby and most of the town is generally quiet. We have a decent sized garden to grow vegetables, flowers etc and most people around us are fairly simple folk with families. Cities like Cambridge or London ain't too far for a bit more fun and hustle and bustle. The negative I'd say of course it can feel a bit suffocating and boring at times living back in your childhood town too. Although when you do venture out and travel it feels great. Ideally someday in the future, I'd like to live somewhere mountainous again and by the sea.

I've had my fill of living in and around apartment blocks, tall buildings and party culture.
 
I live in Brazil, everything are expensive, many thiefs, ugly city, but I love my friends and family.
It is the worst place and the best at same time.
 
squallheart said:
Yup. California has gone to hell. We've discussed moving but tough choice seeing how all our family is here. The only thing that makes it tolerable is all the entertainment. I live outside the city so don't have to deal with all that chaos.
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I'm in the process of relocating out of CA. Spent the last three weeks in the Midwest and I can't wait to get the move over. I was laughing while in Dallas and the news was reporting that people were mad at $2.99 gas. Try $7 in CA.
 
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Mondai said:
Sorry for the late reply , don't move here , super corrupt and useless government, shitty people, crazy drivers, food is getting more expensive now, shitty weather (that's a personal one for me though since I don't like tropical weather). It's all good visit place but living here really sucks.
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That's a shame. Poor governance seems to be an American issue. I have similar reservations about moving to mainland america. Everything got worse since I left. The weather of PR is a big attraction since I already live at the equator. I'm used to 32+ and 80% humidity year round.
 
I live in the Bronx NY and I absolutely love it. I have everything I ever want at my fingertips, delis/stores are open 24/7 and I've never had a single issue living here my entire life.

I dislike a portion of the United States that belong to a cult and don't believe in democracy. Also the United States is going backwards instead of progressing as a nation
 
Go_Ly_Dow said:
I've had my fill of living in and around apartment blocks, tall buildings
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One of the things that surprised me in China was how the perception of living in a tower block wasn't actually really shit compared to the UK. That's because they are not occupied by the worst of society and are mostly but not always respectful to their neighbors and the common spaces. I always get the highest floor available for (Hopefully) the best views. However I did miss having a garden.
 
nush said:
Barometric pressure headaches. It's like a shit superpower that you know when a thunderstorm is coming. Would be quite useful if you were a sailor over 100 years ago though. I used to get them but as I've got older they don't happen very often at all, so hopefully you'll get them less too.
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lol You're right about it being a shit superpower. I know when the weather forecast is wrong (and it's wrong a lot) and can predict a weather change up to four days in advance. Unfortunately it has got worse as I've aged, although I'm glad it improved for you.
 
laynelane said:
lol You're right about it being a shit superpower. I know when the weather forecast is wrong (and it's wrong a lot) and can predict a weather change up to four days in advance. Unfortunately it has got worse as I've aged, although I'm glad it improved for you.
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I hope it gets better for you. I think that also general life stress also inflames our condition. If you don't already know this. Trying to sleep in a cold dark room is more effective than painkiller medicine. Painkillers don't work for us.
 
Yes, it actually used to be nice and safe when I first moved here, and now it's a dirty, disgusting pile of shit where no one knows how to drive, garbage all over the place, crammed, loud, shootings, stabbings, can't wait to move.
 
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AJUMP23 said:
Atlanta traffic is perpetually terrible. It blows my mind how bad it is all the time.
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They are in dire need of public transportation expansion and to lessen the car load going in and out. Sadly they built their whole ecosystem on interstates and it just bogs everything down.
 
No, I understand that the town that I live in does the best it can to maintain itself, and just a couple of years ago things started improving for our quality of life, it's one of those towns that just doesn't care if the world is getting modernized and whatnot.
 
Yeah it sucks. Crime here is more than twice the national average. Homeless people and crackheads all over. The general public is full of trash people.
Dollar is trash and inflation is high, but seems like that's the story everywhere.
 
Sakura said:
Yeah it sucks. Crime here is more than twice the national average. Homeless people and crackheads all over. The general public is full of trash people.
Dollar is trash and inflation is high, but seems like that's the story everywhere.
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Sounds like you live in LA
 
Tams said:
Rural Japan, which is pretty nice.

That said:
  • in nature here there's always some sort manmade thing somewhere if it's not overgrown. I miss the UK were there were whole swathes of countryside that had almost nothing manmade, but due to human influence were easy to access (not overgrown, plenty of footpaths, etc.).
  • I miss a good range of cheese at prices that don't make me consider taking out a loan.
  • I hate the summer, and it only seems to have gotten longer to now be unpleasant for at least four months of the year.
  • Japanese people are still a bit odd to me, even after years of living with them. They are almost all incredibly polite, the vast majority are very respectful (thus low crime, etc.) But they can be quite cold, not that open, can be quite ready to ghost people, and if you manage to get into a situation that requires going against the grain... good luck persuading most of them to try something different.
The only thing that really ticks me off is driving in Japan. The drivers yes, but more the number of traffic lights. Learn what a fucking roundabout is Japan.



Ranting aside, almost everything else is great. I am moving back to the UK in the end though, as I feel like I've had my fill of Japan.
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Interesting. I loved my time in Japan and could see myself going back there a few times for long trips over the years ahead. But like you, once I felt like I had my fill I was looking forward to moving back to the UK. I think just the work culture and not having any strong Japanese friends (most of my friends were other foreigners) never made it feel like home. I do miss the stunning nature in Japan of course, which has given me a greater appetite to find places of beauty here and across wider Europe next year.
 
I live in a beautiful little city in southern Germany (Bavaria), 10 minutes till Austria, 30 and I am in Switzerland. We have a terrific lake but unfortunately it's expensive as fuck, almost like Munich and most people tend to be older, but as I start to grow older, I don't care that much about it anymore.

Crime is pretty low except drug smuggling and selling because of the close borders. But we are talking mostly weed and speed, nothing too heavy like meth or crack. And you would never notice that as an outsider.
 
It's pretty good. Wife and I were in Boston until earlier this year when we moved to the suburbs after our son was born

It's nice to have some space, and our town is a lot friendlier than the city. Sometimes I still miss city living but the positives outweigh the negatives
 
I was born 5 minutes from where I currently live.
I spent my entire teenage years shitting on this area wanting to leave it.
I got a job in my 20's that allowed me to travel the entire country and get a feel for what I was missing.
I'm 47 now and I love this area and could never imagine living anywhere else.... it's absolutely perfect.
 
IDKFA said:
My wife is Polish. It's not just that he family is there, but I also love Poland as a country. Love the people, the food, the culture, the language. I consider it my second home.
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Kurva that's is the only polish I know. It seems to be used a lot.

Poland is a lovely place. 😀
 
Cyberpunkd said:
Just say your wife is hot, that's ok, Poles are used to it.

I live in Paris, so….

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I sometimes use Charles de Gaul on my way to Blighty so tally ho. Your Disneyland is great.

Also chocolatines to you. From your neighbour in the southwest. With one of the best rugby teams in the country. Allez le stade.

I love where I live i love where I work.
 
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