post three negative things about your city
 

toronto

1) Has North America’s (or was it the worlds) busiest hwy (hwy 401)
2) This hwy also has the most accidents in North America (or was it the world)- try getting on time for school or work driving on the Hwy 401....you have to see leave like 2+hours ahead of time sometimes
3) The price for houses is so expensive and if you are interested in new houses be prepared to see the smallest rooms

that’s all I can think of right now

Washington, DC

1) Politicians
2) Politicians
3) Hmm, let's see, Politicians.

1. Its in Utah.
2. Any alcohol higher than 3.2% must be bought from a state owned store only open 8 hours a day, 5 days a week.
3. Everything closes at 8pm.

a small town in northern new jersey
1. corrupt politicians who get rid of 1/2 the police force because there's no money in the budget, but give themselves nice raises.
2. people who have lived in this town since they were babies, in the same house and while liviing 20 minutes from NYC have never ventured into that place because it's scary.
3. Way way too much section 8 housing.

Dundee

1. Neds ( on every corner with their stupid caps, and their stupid tracksuits, and their stupid "oi mate, insert random harassing comment here )
2. The Council
3. The ..... well due to lack of a 3rd, the neds again.

Dallas

1) The traffic is ridiculous at all times of the day and night there's a traffic jam for no reason, and most of the people can't drive.

2) The urban sprawl. Dallas/Fort Worth area extends from the far east tips to the far west for about 70 or so miles including the major suburbs and it's still spreading. It's moving out North so far that 45 miles outside of downtown Dallas you can still consider yourself in the Dallas area. I'm soon expecting "Dallas" to stop just on the other side of the Oklahoma border.

3) The politicians act like a bunch of children. I mean seriously. Name calling and fisticuffs aren't uncommon.

Columbia

1. no alcohol can be bought on sunday
2. no items of a non-food variety can be bought from 00:01 saturday till 13:30 sun
3. ... humidity? *shrugs* the first two are enough*grin*

Burnaby

1) Lack of southwest thouroughfare... I don't know how they overlooked THAT
2) ...
3) ...

Really, that's all i got... I love Burnaby, I never want to leave

ouch i never heard of that before

1) Traffic( I actually drive what was rated as the worst traffic in America several days a week)
2) Horrible weather
3) Very dirty


EDIT: I read some other posts and decided I hate these three things more.

I'll write mine about the Bay area in general:

1. Cost of Living
2. Traffic 24/7
3. Hmm...the first two about sum it up. Otherwise, I love it here :D

1: Taxes
2: Taxes
3: Racism/xenophobia

Bel Air (Not CA)

1) House prices have increased so much that my house value is double what it was 3 years ago. Good until you want to buy another house.

2) Police are so bored that they harass the crap out of everyone for the stupidest stuff.

3) Traffic stinks because there was no planning in the city's growth.

yea same over here :|

small
boring
rednecky

'nuff said

Norcross

1. WAY to many spanish only speaking people
2. Traffic
3. Most of the fast food places employ people that really cant speak english

San Francisco (in no particular order)

- Residual superficial Dotcomers
- Bleeding heart liberals pissing away my tax dollars
- Cyclists who think they're pedestrians, and drivers who can't tell the difference.

Denver:

1. Too many out of staters move here
2. On the weekends I-70 is a parking lot
3. Cost of living because of all the damn out of staters (mostly texans) who won't go home.

Houston

1)hot
2)humid
3)crappy drivers going slow in the left lane

Chicago

1. Bears
2. Cubs & Sox
3. Bulls

Property tax is out of hand
Rapid growth is ruining the character of the town
Very few high-paying jobs

Cincinnati

1. Hard to make new friends as neighborhoods are clique-ish (aka: hard to find a quality date :) )
2. Reds/Bengals - if that doesn't suck ass I don't know what does :D
3. Did I mention the Reds/Bengals?

noone's done Seattle yet, so here goes:

1) Traffic & Drivers themselves . high influx of people from all over the world (& different driving styles) coupled with a poorly constructed city on impossible terrain, and BAM, traffic jams in 3/4th of the city, 12 hours a day. plus i swear there's more 50+ y/o asian women on the road here than in the rest of the US combined.

2) Rain. 9 months out of the year. if you like the rain, then maybe the 3 months of drought are bad for you.

3) People. Shallow, nice in a horribly fake way, passive agressive. I've lived here for 6 years and havn't maintained a true friendship with anyone for more than a year or two (meanwhile, everyone I know has strong friendships with people who do not live in seattle, myself inculded).

I hate this town.

Denver

1. Freeways are horribly congested at unpredictable times.
2. "LoDo" is really trendy but not actually as cool as it should be.
3. Fanatical Broncos fans.

Knippa

1. It has nothing
2. The next nearest town also has nothing
3. I haven't seen <font size=4>1</font> girl who even LOOKS close to my age since I moved here.

Too bad you only said 3.

Asta!!

Calgary:

1) transit system could definitely use some improvement (buses and train don't run late enough for one)
2) some of the streets outside of the downtown core are really messed up, thanks to bad city planning
3) most of our economy is based on the oil and gas industry

Los Angelos
1. Traffic
2. Smog
3. Punk ass bitches, oh and Straight up cash, biatch

Everett

1)Rains too much...
2)Boring
3)...and boring...

other wise it's cool.

Melbourne:

1- Hook turns in the city. (If you want to turn right at an intersection, you get in the left lane, wait to the far left of the intersection, wait until your light turns red, and then turn right across four lanes and two tram tracks.)

2- 99% of the city is just offices, there are only a few main streets of shops and interesting stuff.

3- We have 'dynamic' speed signs in some areas, where it changes between 40kph and 60kph depending on the time of day, and some side streets are 40kph, some are 50kph, and half aren't signposted. You spend more time staring at your speed than on the road.

Knoxville
- Traffic/Construction: They've been working on the same stretch of interstate (I-40) for 5 years, and the current plan is to continue working on it for the next 5 years.

- Vols: During the football season, over 100,000 pricks get together and get drunk every gameday (let's just say I stay away from that part of town on those days).

- Parking on campus: You know there is a problem when the University of Tennessee at Knoxville has part of its BUDGET 1,000,000+ parking tickets being handed out.

Hello! Try living in any part of California. Some times you won't hear English for days.....

1- It's in Arkansas.
2- "Progress" is on the verge of turning a picturesque town near the lake into your everyday run of the mill "homogezone."
3- Everything seems to shut down on Sunday, except Wal-Mart.

Akron/Canton (2 different cities always labelled together though.

1) Extreme high unemployment nearly 25% with more layoffs coming
2) Extremely suckass job market (temp services are about all there is and they offer $8 max and have their pick of workers.)
3) I don't have the money to buy land and houses right now and take advantage of the low market prices.

Jacksonville

Umm, something bad......
Well, we don't have dsl yet.
High rental prices.
...

That's about it.

Oh, that's easy.......

Puyallup (mainly s. hill)
1. city leaders suck- they are republican power-trippers
2. It's a Bellevue-wannabe town (Bellevue is a snobby wealthy area close to Seattle)
3. Traffic on Meridian St. is just as bad if not worse than the freeway

.......I could go on...........

Atlanta:

1. There's no water. Well there's a crummy little river and some lakes not too far away, but no real big river or coast.
2. There's nothing for visitors to do. Seriously. Go to Atlanta sometime and ask people what you should do.
3. It's effing hot in the summer and effing cold in the winter. I might as well move further south.

But I do like it here. :)

Boston:
1) Traffic
2) Bad drivers
3) narrow winding streets

hmm, they are all about driving?????

Fairfax
1) God-awful traffic
2) Republicans/People who want to pay no taxes, but bitch about poor services (Not the same people everywhere, but definitely in Fairfax)
3) Suburbs are the infrastructure equivalent of a scab.

That is becuase the whole state of massachusetts is home to some of the worst drivers in the world. Which make some of us the best drivers for having to deal with them. I love it how roads in Mass are crappy, until you get to that state line, then all of a sudden they turn GREAT.

Im really not complaining though.

At least where I live in MA
East Brookfield

1)NOBODY knows where it is, not even the people three towns ovah.
2)There is nothing here.
3)When you want to do something cool you have to drive 35 minutes to the center of Worcester.

lol I was just about to post that exact same thing about Texas. When I visit my family in Alabama and in Georgia they go on and on about how many people speak just Spanish. But I have yet to see any evidence of this for myself compared to home. I mean you don't live in an area with a lot of Spanish speakers unless most of the fast food joints have their entire menus in spanish and in English(with Spanish being the predominate language). Or grocery stores adding entire aisles of "ethnic" goods. I remember when that stuff used to be confined into a tiny little shelf in the bread aisle now every store I go into has at least ONE aisle full of the stuff. But I'm not complaining because I kind of enjoy all the latin women... :thumbsup:

San Jose, CA (men's health's top 10 healthiest city for like 3 years running)
1) some of the worst polution outside of L.A.
2) traffic that makes a heart attack 3 times more likely (according to a medical report)
3) the club life is really dying down

Weslaco (area)

1.DWT's (damn winter texans)
2.Illegals coming thru.
3.Political graft.

Portland, Michigan. Population: 3,789.

Three Negative Things:
1) There isn't a Starbucks closer than 20 miles away
2) There's nowhere to swim in the summer
3) No curbside recycling :(

Three Positive Things:
1) Awesome public school system
2) Virtually NO crime whatsoever
3) Nice people :thumbsup:

S.E. Alabama:

1. Humidity
2. It never snows
3. August

Phoenix

1. Ever been here in June, July, or August. If so, then you know about the heat. (But hey, it's a dry heat, just like an oven.)
2. Dust storms
3. It takes about an hour and a half to get from one end of the city to the other, and that's when the traffic is good.

it's in new jersey
real estate taxes keep going up
it's too close to new york. I really, really hate new york.

It's too small
only one reasonable club
no overnight 24 hours liquor store >_<

but we have the chattahochee, unless its changed its a pretty big river... and for the coast... Savannah is only 3 1/2 hours away and St.Simons and Jekyll are only about 5 1/2

You're right about not much to do....gotto get into the metro area for the fun things....

Dublin in Little Ol' Ireland.
1) Probably the worst traffic in the whole of Europe.
2) The second most expensive city in Europe now (for food, drink, hotels etc)
3) Pretty crap weather (just have to spend all day in the pub :) )

Dallas Tx

1. Traffic, traffic, traffic
2. Home of the Dallas Cowboys
3. High rate of violent crime

Cheltenham (UK)
1.) Middle-class drinking hole.
2.) During 'Race-week' (horse racing) the town swells by 2/3rds it's size, full of drunken Irish gamblers (no offence FatherTed).
3.) All this drinking and yet no decent clubs?

Düsseldorf, Germany:

1. Way too much rich and arrogant assholes (heard of "Königsallee"?)
2. too much yuppies
3. beer is way too expensive in the oldtown

nevertheless, quite a nice town...

Flint, MI

1. General Motors left taking our entire tax base with them\

2. The city council let GM leave and didn't replace the tax base. Now we have so much fighting within city council and the mayor's office, it's making us look like a joke. The state took over last year and ran our finances and now the idiots in this city elected a former criminal to the mayor's office.

3. Everyone associates us with Michael Moore




The good thing is I don't actually live in Flint. I live just outside of it where there is great economical growth and plenty of nice places to live. Despite the fact Flint is a shithole, the rest of the county seems to be doing OK.

The bad thing is that I work for the City of Flint.

1. No beer at the grocery stores.
2. State trooper, County and city police all have a station here. (one would think that it would be a good thing...)
3. No one can drive. (I suppose this is true the world over.)

1) There isn't a Denny's.

2) There isn't any good stage theatre.

3) College students drive too damn fast.

LOL :D :D
None taken !

Town in Iowa

1. Too many drunk wife beating Bosnians
2. Too many wanna be gang bangers
3. Way too many visits by the presidential canidates

Omaha

1. The perception that Omaha is...well...Omaha
2. Too many narrow minded people that go out of their way to perceptualize Omaha's "cow town" image.
3. The freakin' humidity!

And now...3 good things

1. College World Series, baby!
2. World class art and culture base. (who knew, huh?)
3. More restaraunts, per capita, than any other city, in th U.S.

Baltimore:

A major crime problem, associated with a major drug problem.

Democrats run the city.

WAY too close to Washingcrap DC.

philadelphia

1. it is a car city. too many cars. too many stupid people driving those cars. too many stupid people who talk on the cellphones while driving those cars. this from a cyclist viewpoint, of course.
2. it is too close to jersey. the problem must be in the water there. old city, which is never very interesting, is turned into hell on earth every weekend by an invasion of the jerseypeople.
3. spotty music and art scenes. lots of interesting musicians and artists in the city, most of whom only get to perform/show their work in decent venues once they have made a name for themselves outside of the city. no coherent structure for encouraging local artists in any form to move beyond showing/performing for their friends.

good things about philly
1. west philadelphia
2. that there are many interesting musicians/artists in the city
3. that the red sox are in the world series. it makes philadelphia a better place for me.

i can only think of one........


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...ardthieves.jpg




i used to really dig it here until the bastard thieves started their game of fuck a guy over.

I thought about posting that but I thought the Cowboy fans would use their psychic powers and come lynch me.

Dallas TX

1. No decent Mass Transit.
2. Unbearably Hot Summers and no "Real" winters
3. Macho arseholes that try to buy their manhood with a giant, jacked up Truck.

dallas

1. hot
2. horrendous traffic
3. no hills except the overpasses

I have been tempting fate here as a Redskins fan for over a decate so I am used to it. :D

Warsaw, Poland

1) It's gray, oh so gray
2) It's dirty
3) You can get mugged, or you can get your pockets picked

It's changing, though, and fast. It's much better then it used to be, oh, I don't know, 10 years ago.

Victorville/Apple Valley
(In California, "High" Desert)
1. Full of drugs
2. Full of drug addicts
3. Full of old people

Boston:
1. Mit Romney
2. Traffic
3. Big Dig

I will add...

4. Perpetual freeway construction (I like new freeways, I hate having them tear-up existing ones)

5. It is such a new city, without any culture, that any building older than 50 years is considered antique

6. Snowbirds! I hate wondering whether the bluehair in the lincoln driving 45 in the fastlane with her left blinker on is going to notice that she is at her exit and suddenly plow accross all seven lanes of traffic without warning.

And I'm gonna add:

7. Stolen car capital of the U.S. I'd like to keep my new truck, thank you very much.

8. Zoning planning committees that try to move already long established airport runways in multiple cities so they can build their precious houses... when there's still tons of desert around.

9. And Snowbirds again, since it's that big of a problem. Don't complain that AZ isn't like back home: If that's what you want, GO BACK!

Nashville
1: No decent radio stations
2: Country Music (Causes #1)
3: People drive about 3 feet off the bumper of the person in front of them.

I'll add to Chicago.

1. Cabs are a dime a dozen around 11pm. Try finding one at 3 am when you're 30 blocks from home and nowhere near the el.

2. Trying to walk down Michigan Avenue.

3. Trying to ride the red line during a Cubs game.

I completely 100% agree, but I'm also going to add a few more things about the hellhole that is Houston.

4) Polution
5) Fattest City
6) Nothing worthwhile to do, at all
7) A speed bump is considered a hill
8) Oh, did i emphasize how excruciatingly hot and miserable it is here?

I pretty much want to move back to Colorado ASAP ;)

Sydney:

1. the trains officially suck
2. the government are bastards
3. we are running out of water - guess we will have to drink more beer:)

St. Louis:
1. Freezing winters and boiling summers (nice in between the two, though)
2. Highest rate of violent crime (or maybe just murders...)
3. Absolutely, positively NOTHING to do

See I don't think Dallas is that hot save for late July and August.
Most of the year it's pretty nice in my book. Like this week for example. mid 80s in late October with green grass and blue skies is a ok in my book.
It's like we get spring twice a year instead of once like those poor schlubs up north.

The bohemian enclave of Arcata, California:

1) Humboldt State University students spending their parents money makes rent go up and property values go down.

2) The town's desire to keep only local businesses in the city limits prevents me from getting a Taco Bell (though there is one Subway right next to the porno store).

3) Faux-hippy panhandlers that line the Plaza on sunny days, begging for money or offering hash pipes and hemp clothing for sale.

Houston
1. The weather is just plain bad.
2. There is not a hint of a music scene.
3. I still can't get over the Astros losing in the postseason.

100,000 people @ Neyland stadium is awesome, especially when we're playing teams like Florida or Alabama. But yes, the traffic and construction is terrible, as is trying to find parking on campus.

Nashville:

1.) Traffic and Road Construction
2.) My Tennessee Titans suck this year, way too many injuries, thus too many rookies playing.
3.) Country Music

Toronto:

1.) The early morning rush hour crowd on the subway could not be more apathetic. I've never seen a bigger bunch of sad-sacks. They have their faces buried in the morning paper (free newspaper "Metro" which hardly can be called journalism) and you could be a 78 year-old pregnant woman with a cane and not get a seat.

2.) The opposite extreme: people who are too nice (and it makes them stupid). The other day I was right at the bus-stop when the bus pulls up. I'm ready to flash my pass and get on (usually takes all of 4 seconds for me to flash pass, hop on and be at back of bus standing), when I hear this woman behind me: "AHEM!! Man with a cane!?" I turn to see her presenting me with this old guy who, of course, deserves to get a seat. But I was already on the bus!! I wasn't budding in front or anything. She somehow thought that if I got off the bus and behind the old man (who she didn't even know and was five feet behind me anyway), that it would help somehow. Idiot.

3.) Selfish/lazy people who own cars and drive them when we have a very decent transit system. These people go hand-in-hand with those who complain about the cost of transit even though it's 1/4 of the cost of owning a car (still it's hard to part with $100 Cdn. every month, I know).

I guess all of the above are problems I have with PEOPLE. Maybe they should collectively only count as one.

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

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.

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

Lincoln, NE

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

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

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"

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

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

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...

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?

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) :)

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.

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.

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

...not food or booze??

Rochester, NY

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

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.

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.

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.

Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

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

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.