blar

oh yea we toronto has a lot of those people i knwo toomany people that can take the transit to work or school no they feel its better to drive the short distance

william

Ft Lauderdale:
1. People who bitch about the heat (WTF - you're in SoFL).
2. Insurance rates taking a big hike (if the company stays) because the insurance companies have to pay out every few years, to a few people (overall).
3. Trying to keep the election process non-partisan, while being ruled by an obviously partisan state elections supervisor.

3 Nice Things:
1. It's SoFL.
2. You can go to the beach everyday if you want.
3. Laughing at the daily traffic report, because I live close enough to work I don't have to deal w/it. Except of course, when I want to go south, like Vizcaya or Coral Castle.

xerraire1

Australia/Sydney (we have the same population in our country then some of your states

1) We voted in a ole' codger Howard for a 4th term. Not only is he going to retire/die and therefore we'll have a new Prime Minister who we dont know can handle the world situation
2) But! He is old, and his policies are contradictory (he tries to please as many people at one time, but then all of the people only like him because he promised interest rates will not go up in his term (next 3 years) they went up yesterday... Looser)
3) Takes ages to get anywhere

Dant0007

Lincoln, NE

1) How the huskers are playing
2) The women's attitudes here
3)the view

optik_nerve

Englewood, FL

1) Old people
2) Cops are douches, they have nothing better to do because it's freakin Englewood. We don't have anything exciting. They eat donuts and bust people for making too much noise with their instruments
3) More old people

Gatorade Frost

Plano -
Nothin' to do.
Horrendous allergen problem.
One of the richest cities in America (We're a bunch of snooty rich guys who are overly arrogant for the most part). We'll just call it the "Plano Bubble"

raeanna74

City Hall has WAY to many clerical errors. (Note: Assessment) I think I found an out though.
The City cops are way too bored and a little bit stupid. They stopped my brother for "speeding" on his roller blades.
Property Taxes are way too high.

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Gortexfogg

My hometown, Bakersfield, CA
1. There's absolutely nothing to do
2. 2nd worst air in the US, right behind LA
3. The weather is basically always somewhere above 40 degrees and hazy.

My college town, Stillwater, OK
1. Very small with nothing to do outside of campus.
2. No electronic stores (the Walmart doesn't count)
3. An overwhelming lameness

JStrider

yay bakersfield...
cant forget the dust storms...


im goin to college in lubbock TX
1. DRY CITY...have to drive 20minutes to pay artificially inflated prices for booze...
2. Dusty...lots of dust... it coats EVERYTHING...hang a white shirt outside for a couple hours... and it will come back in orange...
3. Crummy roads... and the fact that they started working on fixing some of them... and still have that construction going 2.5 years later...

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yournamehere

Houston:

1. The climate - constant rain, floods, hurricanes, tornados, humidity, heat, etc.
2. Traffic - really doesn't affect my 2 mile commute, though - but what can you say about a place where it's legal to turn right on red, but not left on green?
3. Taxes and insurance rates (sure it's one item - file it under "escrow payment").

Do I only get three?

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hunnychile

Napa:

1. Buying a house is 'unheard of' if you are in the middle class or even upper middle class.
2. Less people in service jobs speak English well -if at all. Weird!!!
3. You have to drive to San Francisco to go to any good music or dance clubs.


Otherwise it sure beats Palno, Texas or Houston hands down, (the weather is perfect here and that's free)

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hunnychile

At least there are decent jobs to be had in Plano.

You're right that there's not much to do there, 'cept get drunk, cheat on your SO or mate and/or watch Sports 24x7. I left and I don't miss it at all. Leaving was the smartest thing I ever did for my sanity.

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Boo

Anchorage, AK

1) For Alaska, the fishing here in town is pretty weak. (except for the silver and king salmon at Ship Creek)

2) Too many slobs. In a perfect little neighborhood, 2 houses look like shit.

3) Too many homeless on the corners begging for a handout to buy mouthwash and cigarettes.

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hunnychile

Hey Boo, are you sure the homeless want cigs and mouthwash?

...not food or booze??

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tecoyah

Rochester, NY

7 Freakin' Months of Winter+
Kodak Is Hurting
Buffalo took my area code

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Carno

Melbourne, Fl

1. Too many old people.
2. Really boring, and the few clubs that we have all suck ass.
3. Old people and boringness tied for third.

Boo

They get drunk on mouthwash. Unless they hit a big wad from a tourist, then they get the good stuff.

Smokes are near $6 a pack now. Even with the expense, they smoke like a freight train on a long climb.

As for the food issue. I watched a tourist get hit up and she refused to give them money. She purchased enough food and coffee for both the beggers. When she gave it to them, they threw it at her. Remember that we have shelters that supply all the food they need. If they are begging, it is usually for alcohol or smokes.

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Rodney

Santa Cruz, just south of the Bay Area on the Monterey Bay

1)Fourth-highest rents in the state -- higher even than San Jose -- yet there are few good-paying jobs. Housing prices go without saying -- starting at $500K for something barely big enough to swing a cat in.

2) Worse traffic than even most places in the Bay Area, and more dangerous roads. Highways 1 and 17 look like they were designed by Steven Spielberg for a chase scene from an Indiana Jones movie.

3) A lot of liberal hypocrisy. I am liberal, but I do tire of people who are all for social action and for affordable housing for lower-income people -- as long as it's not in their neighborhood. Shit, we're talking about employed people who do low-paying but necessary jobs, not welfare recipients.

bookerV

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

1) Too cold in the winter.
2) Too humid in the summer.
3) WAY too cold in the winter!

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ncgti

Chapel Hill, NC

1. If you are not a card-carrying, tree hugging liberal, you are considered a right-wing fascist AND are not allowed to voice an opinion that is taken seriously or without considerable derision.
2. An anti-business mentality that goes along with item #1 above, keeping our taxes high
3. Constant kowtowing and bending over for the local university. The latest example was free local bus service provided entirely by the town - a good idea but it is being used mostly by the college students who don't pay taxes.

keyshawn

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..]

World's King

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.

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Squishor

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.

FlatLand Flyer

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

The Magic

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 *_*

Rococo

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.

slimpi66y

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

water_boy1999

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.

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cj22009

Atlanta

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

raeanna74

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.

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Janey

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)