here's cleveland.

con
1. urban sprawl - a pet peeve of mine. The city is designed very poorly, and thus, it's the donut hole, with the [a majority of ones, especially the west side] ignorant suburbanites.

[This is a main reason for why my town is home to the highest concentration of poverty in the nation - most of the middle class ditched the city for the suburbs, plus our job market is shams]

2. city is still stuck in 'lets revive the old steel mill' mentality. They can't accept the fact that globalization has forced america to become a more service-based economy...Thus, our economy doesn't go anywhere, as they're trying to revive something that's been dead for quite some time.

3. city nixed its recycling program last year due to budget cuts

pros

1. Really good art museums, orchestra, etc; music venues.
[though the only good indie movie theaters are on the east side, grr...]

2. almost anything else.

3. quite culturally diverse, somewhat. [west side market..]

Denver, Colorado

1: The weather. You never know if it's gonna be cold or not. It changes every 20 minutes.

2: Colorado is a Red state

3: No one that lives here is from here. It's hard to find a native. I'm a native and one of four that I know. All I went to high school with.

Santa Cruz, CA

1. I can't walk two blocks to the store without getting spare-changed half-a dozen times (I live downtown). On the return trip, I get asked for everything else I might conceivably have to offer.

2. The cost of housing is astronomical. Regular people can't afford to live here - people working normal retail or service jobs are homeless because they can't even afford to rent.

3. The fastest way out is to drive Highway 17, where you are either inundated with tourist or commuter traffic, or watching someone's (hopefully) near-death accident happen in front of you.

Grand Forks, ND

1) It gets cold here (didn't somebody complain earlier that Atlanta was too cold in the winter?)

2) Mosquitos in the summer

3) It's flat

4) The people really do talk like movie Fargo. Don't tell them that though.

5) It is in North Dakota

Portland Oregon

1. It's cold. Summers are ok if they're a hot summer.
2. It rains too much.
3. I've lived in this area almost my whole life and I'm ready to go and see new things (unfortunately out of state tuition is way too much *_*

Vancouver:

1. Worst Hwy system ever. Actually, Vancouver doesn't really have a hwy.
2. Shitty transit system.
3. It's only 20 minutes from Surrey.

I got something worse for that, you need some elaboration


1) House Prices for a 2500 sqft house reached $400,000 this year. Meanwhile $60,000 is the threshold is the so called "high income earners" where the tax will hit 50%, in other words, no one can afford to buy.

2) The police force and its chief, openly admitted that his cops will target black people in the city for high crimes. This dude went on great length on explaining that why black people should be all locked up

3) I don't know what's worse, here's two more,

The most primary school teacher strikes ( 8 times in 10 years) in Canada

The most underfunded education system, second last in the world, only slightly behind Sioux Falls, South Dakota

Sacramento

1. Even being on the west coast, there is still white trash driven racism.
2. Heat. Last July we set a record of 19 days of triple digits heat.
3. Traffic isn't all that bad, being that I came from San Jose where it was way worse. But I tell ya, we have some of the dumbest country bumpkins on our roads.

Atlanta

The traffic sucks
Nobody gets into sports here
The smog is horrible in the summer

Funny how taxes or insurance rates are a common complaint with our cities. Maybe those actually apply to the country in general. There's always something to balance it out. Lower insurance rates = smaller town and less traffic but fewer people. Or Low Taxes = Bad neighborhood. I suppose I shouldn't complain about the taxes when I consider we were able to buy a house in our town that in some big cities would be so far out of our income range we could never hope to get a house half it's size.

Toronto:

1) they fucked up the waterfront. too many private condos built in the '70's Need to look at how good Baltimore is in this respect.

2) Jerkoff drivers, who think that, ya they do own the road, or even worse, drive the shoulders

3) city council, tisl the same group of clowns. same girl different dress. too left wing to get anything done.

(side note: property tax based on market value assessment of homes. ffs! taxing a homeowner on unrealized value??? what the fk?? why should I pay more taxesfor my little 25 foot old house lot near the downtown, just because it's worth more? if and when i sell it? I thought the property tax was supposed to cover off the services the city provides.)

(side note 2: the police force for holding community hall meetings, and then don;t give the time of day to a teenage girl when she asks a charged race -related question. pathetic. on the other hand bleedinghearts who wont let the police get on withtheir work)