Rant: people complaining about living in a wonderful city

gball said:
Yeah, that's why I said "yet" - sooner or later there's gonna be somebody complaining about the near-perfect year-round weather and low-key, walkable downtown that is simultaneously quiet/quaint but has anything you could want to do in multiples. The place is like a hellscape.
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I thought that you lived in LA? Did you move away from this "paradise?"
 
I live in a great small city 70,000, has everything a person needs and then some , can drive anywhere in the city 15 minutes or less, close to shopping restaurants, water, parks, etc etc. And one of the biggest guitar shops around this area . . Then i go to my Summer home 1 hour 15 minutes away from my house life is good..
 
People complain about the Boston area, but I love it. And, all of New England. I live about a half mile from the cold North Atlantic. Since we're in the northeastern part of the state, the ocean is part of the Gulf of Maine, and home to great seafood. The smell of the ocean as I'm coming over the hill by the high school is a reminder every day of how much I like it here. Gloucester is about 10-15 minutes away, Portsmouth, NH about an hour, and Portland Maine just under two hours. It's a great location. Plus, it's only about two hours to great skiing. We do have it all with the ocean and mountains right here.

Everyone complains about the weather. It's crazy, all the time. Don't like it, wait a minute. It will change. Having four real seasons is awesome, especially since I love spring and fall the best.

Second, up until all this takeover of property by the universities and foreign investors turning everything into new cheap-ass condo complexes, Boston had some beautiful old buildings from the 1620s through the late 1700s. Of all the cities I've been to, Boston has a very European flavor to it. Many parts are easy to walk around, or short distance by subway or trolley. It's getting ruined by all the people wanting to live here to get good high-tech jobs and send their kids to our number one ranked in the nation again, and again, and again schools. People are wicked smaht here, but the newcomers want to see Applebee's and other crappy chains instead of the independants we've always been known for.

People are a bit harsh on the surface here, but like several of my friends from other parts of the country have said, "It's tough getting to know people in Boston. But once you do, and they open up, there's nothing fake. Especially the friendship." They have all said their longest most lasting friendships are with people from here. They move back to where they were from, and they miss Boston. When they come to visit, two phone calls will get about twenty people to show up at the pub. They say when they go to other places they've lived, twenty phone calls will get two people if they're lucky.

The things everyone disses on are students and tourists. Luckily, I don't live near Cape Cod so I very thankfully don't see the influx of people from New York and Connecticut every summer. With the ocean so close, why sit in traffic going to the Cape? But what I do get to see, is how stupidly they've turned the killing fields of Salem into a theme park every fall. Salem is so bad starting in late August, that I can not get across the bridge, and just wait until November. It's Halloween on steroids. My wife who was born in Salem complains about it all the time, because it is a new thing. It was never like that when she was a kid. I don't go to any of the places I normally do all year in September or October. Except for seeing live music, which I can wait until late enough at night for people to clear out.

I let other people do the complaining. I like it here, and am happy to not be in WV, or even worse... someplace that's landlocked like Nebraska.
 
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gball said:
I generally ignore this stuff. There will always be people complaining even when they have what most others would generally envy. I can't tell you how many people I heard bitching about living in LA when I was there - like, really? Anything imaginable in the World is right down the street and there's amazing weather, and you want to bitch about some petty BS? But, I guess the reality is that there are dudes out there that are tired of banging supermodels, so...
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When did you move to San Diego?
 
WavMixer said:
I thought that you lived in LA? Did you move away from this "paradise?"
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Sp8ctre said:
When did you move to San Diego?
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We arrived on January 9, so it's still a new thing but loving it so far. The pace of life is dramatically slower than LA, so that's a bit of an adjustment...it's a big city that feels like a small town, really not kidding. Everyone is unbelievably nice and patient. And its not joke what they say about the weather.
 
gball said:
We arrived on January 9, so it's still a new thing but loving it so far. The pace of life is dramatically slower than LA, so that's a bit of an adjustment...it's a big city that feels like a small town, really not kidding. Everyone is unbelievably nice and patient. And its not joke what they say about the weather.
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Hope you love it. A High School friend of mine moved there in 1982. Him and his wife just retired last year and moved to Sparks Nevada.

They loved San Diego and I have spent plenty of time there myself. I like it as well. They wanted more space for the money and their
property had increased in value 10 times. They had their dream home built and are loving the change.
 
I've lived all over the USA and many places in the world. Everywhere I've been there have been people who do nothing but complain!

It was the worst overseas. People have the opportunity to see the world and they sit in their base house and never go check out the
local community. What a great loss and a miserable life they lead...

I've never lived anywhere that I couldn't find things to enjoy. My family thinks I'm nuts for living in California, but my wife and I have
no issues here. We stay away from the crap areas and go enjoy the things we like.

Sure, you may have to drive by some homeless camps and there are areas to avoid, but that's the way it is everywhere, including my old home town in Ohio...
 
Sp8ctre said:
It was the worst overseas. People have the opportunity to see the world and they sit in their base house and never go check out the
local community. What a great loss and a miserable life they lead...
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It's funny that some of my relatives in Germany say that I have seen more of the country than they have.

At last count, I've been to:

16 countries
30 states and Puerto Rico
5 Canadian provinces (and living in Nova Scotia for a short time)
 
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One of my favorite quotes by Mark Twain is so true regarding travel. Until you really see how other people live, you have no true understanding of the world.

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
 
SG John said:
It's funny that some of my relatives in Germany say that I have seen more of the country than they have.

At last count, I've been to:

15 countries
29 states and Puerto Rico
5 Canadian provinces (and living in Nova Scotia for a short time)
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I've been to 10 countries other than the USA and lived in two of them for a total of 15 years.

I've been to 32 States and lived in 8 of them for the other 46 years of my life.

Never lived or visited anywhere that I just hated and couldn't wait to leave.
 
Been to sweet FA. Vegas 3x or so, Calif for the US Fest 83, drove to Utah and Az with the wife many years ago.
Otherwise Canada. Niagara Falls twice, Victoria and Vancouver a bunch of times and just various cites like Edmonton etc.
We don't go far but travel in style now!!

Also, love where we live, wouldn't trade it for anything!
 
I love the state of WV in general as far as natural beauty ( when not cluttered by trash and debris by careless slobs). It can be quite awe inspiring in certain places where the natural beauty is kept in tact like our National and State Parks, namely Cranberry Glades, Seneca Rocks, Blackwater Falls and the nearby New River Gorge and Bridge. There's a lot of historic value still here as well and an interesting history. But the attitude in this state has just gotten toxic, sadly.

Racism has become alarmingly higher than ever here ( which is ironic since we were formed on June 20th, 1863 to secede from Virginia and the Confederacy as a whole), its become very politically divisive as well, along with the drug and economical issues. Just a daily headache when interacting with the general public and setting off a hot debate. I hate nearly everything we've become and i think that's why i get so angry seeing someone in a much better geographic and sociological situation complain about such a trivial issue. I could live in their situations in peace but if they're complaining with what they currently have? They wouldnt last 1 week here
 
Sp8ctre said:
I've lived all over the USA and many places in the world. Everywhere I've been there have been people who do nothing but complain!

It was the worst overseas. People have the opportunity to see the world and they sit in their base house and never go check out the
local community. What a great loss and a miserable life they lead...

I've never lived anywhere that I couldn't find things to enjoy. My family thinks I'm nuts for living in California, but my wife and I have
no issues here. We stay away from the crap areas and go enjoy the things we like.

Sure, you may have to drive by some homeless camps and there are areas to avoid, but that's the way it is everywhere, including my old home town in Ohio...
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Man, I knew this, but it sure is something that you, Adrian and I are from Ohio. I was likely the youngest to have left. I was 2.

Then there are DonO and Gball. Both lived 10-20 minutes from my current home in Md. before residing in Ca. Chasfred also left Md. for Az
 
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