Well, then I guess Altoona would be the other armpit…no…that’s too nice. Altoona is the smegma on the sweaty nutsac of Pennsylvania.
Shut up, you who live in Atlanta, where I would love to live and who are moving to Durham, another place where I would love to be (I used to live in Chapel Hill). Come here and see how frickin’ perky and musical you are.
Damn, I can’t even post mad as a joke. You know I am kidding, right?
And Tuckerfan, thanks for the offer. I am a psychologist and while I would take any psychologist position in Middle TN at this point, my speciality is working with patients with medical illnesses or spinal cord injuries. Like I said, narrow. 
But if you hear of anything… (hey, stranger things have happened. If I can meet my husband here, maybe I can get a job here, too).
I live just south of Myrtle Beach, South Carolina…aka the Redneck Riviera. That just about sums it up.
Our mayor regularly gets in fistfights with the guys on the town council.
We just had a new mall open (the largest in South Carolina!) with escalators and everything. The local radio station was down there interviewing people who had never ridden an escalator. (Oh, and they didn’t bother to put a book store in the largest mall in South Carolina)
People here don’t ask what you do…they ask what church you belong to.
The biggest cultural attraction we have here is Medieval Times.
It’s not bad living a couple blocks from the beach, but we’re outta here in September.
As luck would have it, I know folks who work for Vandy’s medical department. I’ll see if I can’t inspire them to poke around and find out if there’s any openings.
I lived in Cowlumbus for 11 years. I’m now in Los Angeles. The city here isn’t rotting and deserted, it’s a rotting desert. And so are the suburbs. You want a 50-year-old starter house in a place with graffiti and gang-infested schools? That will be $400,000, please.
But the weather sure is nice.
I went to school in Rochester NY and would not want to live there. I think it is rated the 3rd place in the nation with the least amount of sunny days per year. (Seattle I think was number 1). The winters are long and messy. At least the people do know how to drive in the snow. (Not like here in NJ where idiots still tries to do 70 in a blizzard.)
Thanks, Tuckerfan, I really appreciate that. Feel free to email me if you have questions, etc.
(hoping I got the coding right this time)
Do you like theme parks? Want to live in one?
Well, then, why not move to sunny
rlandooooo FLORIDA!
And give me your place so I can get the hell out of ratland ASAP.
Well let’s talk about Peoria. While I don’t “hate” it here, I would never relocate here of my own accord. When my employer transferred me here 10 years ago my friends in Wisconsin thought I had gone off the deep end. After getting the blank stare, they would finally gasp “Peoria?”.
I never woke up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat thinking, “God, if I was only in Peoria”. Actually if you live outside of town, it’s not that bad, but it does have it’s low points.
City Council is a joke. Seems to be that their sole purpose is to either stonewall any decision by having another study performed by yet another consultant or outright chasing away any new business in order to protect their buddies. This is the same city council that fought Hooters coming into town for 2 years, but yet one of the most famous places in town is Big Al’s strip joint. They are also now entering their 3rd year of debating what to do with a block of land downtown where Sears moved from.
Employment market is dismal except for Caterpillar.
Try to find a place to eat that’s not a chain establishment - good luck.
Yes it does snow here in the winter, but seems like nobody has a clue as to what a snowshovel might be used for. Good luck trying to use any sidewalk until the snow melts.
Schools - don’t move within the Peoria school district.
I’ve often said the area reminds me of a flat version of the Appalachians (where I grew up).
I know, I know, I don’t get offended or anything. How could I get mad at anyone who lives in Detroit? You got it bad enough!
LOL! I present to you, Furt, the post of the year award! Congrats .
With having said that, I live in Rockledge, Florida and wouold kill for a ticket out of here. As I’ve said before, it’s hot, dirty, filled with crime, the traffic lights aren’t sinchronized, and finding a job is impossbile if you don’t have any experience. If there was a job licking hobos clean, there would be a mile long line of people with PHDs waiting for applications.
Okay, I think that needs to be someone’s sig.
And before I lived in Knoxville, I lived in Atlanta. I hate Atlanta. I don’ t think I could be paid enough money to get me to move back there.
Atlanta thinks too much of itself. I never got the impression that there was a lot of thinking about the future in Atlanta, just the present and the past.
Atlanta, to me, is a boil. You can’t go anywhere in a reasonable amount of time (unless it’s less than 5 miles away or 2 AM), you can sit in traffic for 2 hours or more every morning. In the summer, it’s hot as hell and incredibly humind and you don’t have decent winters to make up for it.
I hate Atlanta. A lot.
I should say that my thoughts on my 2.5 years in Atlanta are likely jaded by the fact that I was in a job I didn’t really want to be in, I wasn’t at a good point in my life and the like. I should also say that, even though I don’t dislike Knoxville, I will likely be moving within the next few months because of job stuff - hopefully to someplace that I’ll really like.
Ditto. Also, drive down 1 road long enough, and it will change names. Highway 80 - Atlanta Highway - Madison Avenue - Bibb Street. And it’s all the **same ** road! And don’t get me started on how Carter Hill Road changes to Vaughn Road if you go straight. You have to know that to stay on Carter Hill, you have to make a 90 degree turn.
It’s oddly comforting to me that there are suckier places to live than where I do.