First you have to name the place, or if you prefer not to, than at least the state..or lie.
Just letting all my angst out...New York City
1) The crazies on the bus singing "Dancing in the Rain", messing up a totally good song.
2) The constant dirt and germs--the buses pass you by and blow all that smoke and dirt in your face.
3) bold pigeons-the pigeons just fuckin' fly right up to you, they might even snatch your sandwich out your hand..bastards
4) rich people-they act like they're life is soooo hard. Yea, it's tough living out your 2 story condo on Central Park West where your daily activities include walking your shitzu, going to the gym to walk for 20 minutes, and getting your nails done after going to starbucks. Tough life I tell ya!
5) The poor people-they're all on their cell phones screaming at some cousin about not getting Section A housing cuz they went against the rules and had 5 people stay with them when they're supposed to be broke and living alone. Then they want to talk to you about it, then about they're 3 kids, they're ex-boyfriend, they're lesbian lover, whatever SHUTUP!!
6) The air is disgusting. Everyone is puffing on a nasty ass cigarette and blowing it in your face as if you were weariing a sign that said "I love second hand smoke". Let's all die together.
7) No I DON'T FUCKING SPEAK SPANISH!!
Just letting all my angst out...New York City
1) The crazies on the bus singing "Dancing in the Rain", messing up a totally good song.
2) The constant dirt and germs--the buses pass you by and blow all that smoke and dirt in your face.
3) bold pigeons-the pigeons just fuckin' fly right up to you, they might even snatch your sandwich out your hand..bastards
4) rich people-they act like they're life is soooo hard. Yea, it's tough living out your 2 story condo on Central Park West where your daily activities include walking your shitzu, going to the gym to walk for 20 minutes, and getting your nails done after going to starbucks. Tough life I tell ya!
5) The poor people-they're all on their cell phones screaming at some cousin about not getting Section A housing cuz they went against the rules and had 5 people stay with them when they're supposed to be broke and living alone. Then they want to talk to you about it, then about they're 3 kids, they're ex-boyfriend, they're lesbian lover, whatever SHUTUP!!
6) The air is disgusting. Everyone is puffing on a nasty ass cigarette and blowing it in your face as if you were weariing a sign that said "I love second hand smoke". Let's all die together.
7) No I DON'T FUCKING SPEAK SPANISH!!
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Wed, April 7, 2004 - 11:43 AMWhile I don't HATE living in my city (Los Angeles) - here are the seven (7) most annoying things about it...
1. Traffic
2. Inconsiderate People
3. Traffic
4. People Who Will Smile As They Stick A Knife In Your Back
5. Traffic
6. The Lack of a True "Sense of Community"
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Wed, April 7, 2004 - 11:47 AMOakland, CA:
1. total lack of community
2. rampant classism
3. murder, murder, murder
4. a pathetic history of dumb city government
5. victimization
6. blight
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Wed, April 7, 2004 - 12:32 PMLA... also dont hate it but i find many things annoying
5. LAPD- sorry, but they are bastards
4. People actually born and raised in LA (they always seem to be stuck up and bothersome)
3. Plastic people
2. Traffic
1. The overuse of the sentence "I'm an actor/model, but right now i'm waiting tables/working at (insert restaurant/retail chain here)." -
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Wed, April 7, 2004 - 12:52 PM... high-five to fellow Angeleno!
Hi - I'm an actor...
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Wed, April 7, 2004 - 1:38 PMi think its my biggest pet peeve. Just because they take acting classes or took some headshots and sent them to agencies doesnt mean they are actors. I swear if they just said, oh i work at a restaurant or something i would have much more respect
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Wed, April 7, 2004 - 1:59 PMBoston here.
1. The roads.
2. The lack of 24-hour public transportation.
3. The lack of 24-hour dining establishments.
4. The rioting every time a major sporting event occurs.
5. The loud, obnoxious, inebriated, male Irish tourists (the women, however, have been nothing but pleasant).
6. The roads.
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Wed, April 7, 2004 - 3:06 PMnone of you have NOTHING on me....I live in OHIO!!!!
Boston, LA, NYC...haha...TRY LIVING HERE, then you can bitch.
Canton, Ohio to be exact(that's 60 miles south of Cleveland for anyone who flunked highschool geography class)
1.) No opportunity- yeah we have every business that any of you have, but no matter how far you go or how much money you make, you are still in Canton, Ohio. This goes for any Northeastern Ohio town.
2.) Well this goes hand in hand with #1...but is even worse!! I'm living with my parents again!!!! Yep, that is where a college degree got me. HOPEFULLY, by summer, I'm out of here. Nothing more degrading than living at home AGAIN after graduating from higher education. AGHHH. laugh all you want.
3.) No atmosphere- No matter HOW many new businesses go up here, there is still nothing that is attracting.
4.) No social settings- No cool bars/clubs/ANYTHING
5.) Did I mention I live at HOME again!!!
6.) No interesting people- only rich meathead/ettes. No art/music scene at all.
7.) I have no friends here- After being away at college, everyone I knew around here moved away(good for them).
I WISH CANTON, OHIO ON NOBODY!!!!
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Wed, April 7, 2004 - 3:09 PMActually, I grew up in northeast Ohio. My mother was born in Canton.
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Wed, April 7, 2004 - 5:25 PMAustin, Texas.
1) The movie "Slacker" was more of a documentary than Rick Linklater would like to admit.
2) Everyone's an artist, or at least would like to believe they are.
3) As a hub on the homeless teen express, more than our fair share of pseudo-intellectual bums trying to justify their mooching with Marx.
4) South by Southwest, the Austin arts festival for everyone who doesn't live here.
5) Paraphrasing someone else here, but...8 hours of Texas in every direction.
6) Getting turned down for a job because you aren't "hip" enough. (And I'm not talking about a fashion type job, either.)
7) "How many Austin natives does it take to change a light bulb?" "Five. One to change the bulb, and four to bitch about how much better the old one was." -
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Wed, April 7, 2004 - 8:27 PMOcean Springs, MS. (Gulf Coast area, so yes we have running water and wear shoes)
1. tries to be an "artsie/fartsie" community
2. just because you're related to Walter Anderson doesn't mean that you are a great artist
3. Walter Anderson wasn't that great of an artist
4. trust me mom, there isn't any drug use in the school system
5. D'Iberville landing re-enactment is on the same level as a grade school theatre production of anything. Gives the aldermen,lawyers,doctors, and businessmen a reason to dress up in tights and indian garb...basically to crossdress and get drunk
6. Peter Anderson Festival (Walt's bro.)attracts people from all over the country to view artwork and pottery that ALL LOOKS THE SAME!!
7. "bedroom community" in which everyone is in each other's bedroom -
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Sat, April 10, 2004 - 10:58 AMhahah...i went to that Walter Anderson house! Yea Mississippi wants to be New Orleans so bad it hurts.
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Fri, April 9, 2004 - 10:53 AMSmall Town, Texas (between Austin & SA)
1. Lack of teeth. I have more teeth than the rest of the people on my block combined.
2. Nothing to do on a Friday night? BINGO. Always Bingo, 7 days a week. Bingo.
3. Average age = 65.
4. Not necessarily "my city" specific, but that disgusting shade of brown everything turns in the summer when it dies from the heat.
5. Kids. It's so boring here they have nothing better to do than throw paint at mailboxes or steal my magazines. Fuckers.
6. Waterbugs. Bugs that are about 4' long and manage to get into my house regardless of the various and many poisons I put out for them.
7. People. But I guess that's anywhere you go. Hm. -
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Sat, April 10, 2004 - 9:58 AMhehehehe poor Dixie!
Kingsville, TX
1. The cops don't actually do anything, they just drive around all day. You break laws right in front of them and they will yawn and scratch their nuts.
2. The university police department will stand there for 20 minutes timing a car in a 20 minute space, while somone is smashing in windows and stealing stereos about two blocks over.
3. Half the town has herpeghonasyphilaids, so no sex for me for the next...4-5 years.
4. All my classmates are only slightly too old for me to be old enough to be their mother, 'nuff said.
5. All the businesses know that you are pretty much trapped here, especially with the price of gas, so they treat the customers like shit.
6. Pit bull fighting is the most popular thing to do in this town besides gambling casinos. Oh, did you know those are bth illegal here? Did you know you can usually find the cops there? Did you know the event directors have usually paid for a license fee from the city government for their illegal activiites? Did you know that the Corpus Christi police., the Texas Rangers, AND the state police had to raid our town, because our mayor didn't believe in law enforcement?
7. The recalled mayor, Mr' "Phil" Esquivel, is running for re-election even after having told the papers that he feels that the voters recalled him because they didn't truly understand the ballot, and that it was difficult to read, which means he called us fucking idiots. And you know, there will be people who will vote him back in! -
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Mon, April 12, 2004 - 12:30 PMOh Wendy, do your cops weigh 600 pounds there like they do here?
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Sat, April 10, 2004 - 1:08 PMForest City and the Tri-cities area in general, North Carolina:
1)The cult known as the Word of Faith Fellowship
2)Idiotic community leaders who probably flunked basic economics
3)The whole Bible belt repression thing
4)Few good channels on the cable system
5)Poor design of Main Streets means that traffic can be a bitch even in this small town
6)Few "real" people around these parts
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Mon, April 12, 2004 - 6:13 PMummmmm florida, not the interesting part. the part that borders georgia that no one visits. jacksonville to be exact.
1. everyone is or wants to be a swimsuit model. fake tits, tan, EVERYONE is completely shaved or waxed or had some sort of hair removal that costs $$$$$. they are in superficial heaven strutting around trying to get laid or find a rich husband.
2. as shelly put it its "whiteville, usa". its like village of the damned. there are only 2 kinds of people here, 1. the rich beach house owning mercedes driving golf playing country clubbing middle aged idiots OR 2. the young beach bum surfing trucker hat wearing pot heads that dont have ANY motivation to do anything in life. and everyone is a fucking racist. THERE ARE LIKE 2 PEOPLE HERE THAT ARENT WHITE!!!! ITS WASP CENTRAL!!!
3. there is nothing but strip malls. thats it. oh and some palm trees and car dealer ships. thats all.
4. its sterile, stagnant, boring, ect ect. GOD FORBID YOU THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX!!!!!!!! people here dont think, b/c that would hurt their little heads too much. you have to be in the middle of the fucking bell curve 24/7 or you are ostracized. there are certain things you can never talk about and never ever do. I MEAN THE GIRLS HERE DONT EVEN MASTURBATE!!!!!!!!!!
5. the only thing famous that has ever come out of jacksonville is the lovely mr. fred durst and his amazing band of limp bizkit. i mean if nothing else says how bad it is here that is the quality of breeding that goes on here, that kinda sums it up. he fits in perfectly too. please send gun.
6. there are no job opportunities. there is nothing going on here for anyone. its a retirement/surf bum town. THERE IS NO FUTURE HERE!
7. everyone likes to give each other STDs like they are going out of style. yeah so i dont have sex ever....... EEEVVVEEERRRR
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Mon, April 12, 2004 - 7:21 PMCurrently in Marshfield, Wisconsin on a contract job..
1. Bigots! Everyone here is white. Pure white. They're all republican bigots everywhere.
2. No Starbucks... how can these people exist?
3. No Pizza that is edible! Your choices are: frozen, pizza hut, or little ceasers. Yack!
4. No Eye candy! Once cute girls turn 19, they seem to be shipped out of town to Madison. Nothing here to look at between 19 and 50.
5. Meat-a-poolooza! What the heck is a vegetarian supposed to eat??
6. Did I mention the bigots?
7. Snow? Ice? I'm from San Jose! What the heck is "freezing rain"? What the heck is a "wind chill factor"? Brrr... it's cold as hell here!!!!
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Mon, April 19, 2004 - 2:41 PMHilo, Hawaii:
1. It can rain, non-stop, for a month.
2. There is no computer store.
3. Oh god, the hippies. So many hippies...
4. Everyone has a yappy dog.
5. The entire island is infested with ants.
6. All determined, intelletually-minded young people move to another island to go to college, leaving the ones who just want to breed here.
7. Did I mention the hippies?
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I LOVE
Mon, April 19, 2004 - 4:18 PMSF.. dunno if I HATE these things, per se, but they do annoy!
1. Cold foggy weather in spring and summer does get old sometimes. Where did the sun go?
2. Rampant homelessness- many of these people are addled by drink/ drugs & more than half act batshit crazy.
3. Yeah, a lot of the homeless say "fuck you" when I don't give out my spare, hard-earned money. Some have threatened or chased me.
4. Again homeless/schitzo-druggy-bashing- the bus smells awful when some of them get on. Then they'll yell, and litter.
5. Our beautiful city suffers from low self-esteem. It is in parts, filthy and decrepit. Once I saw vomit on a subway train.
6. The DPT (Dep't of Parking & Traffic) collects > $93M in tickets alone.. I no longer have a car, but when friends come visiting, parking is a p.i.t.a.
7. The snooty-snobs in the shops who look at me like, "You can't afford this stuff, therefore I am not talking to you." I know there are folks like this everywhere, but COME ON, "You're just a retail slut working in the store for $7 an hour, or what it is and you don't own the place. Bugger off!"
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Thu, September 1, 2005 - 1:45 AMI mostly like where I grew up but there are a few things I hate about it, of course.
Boston, MA:
1.) The thuggish, Irish Catholic provincial attitude of those born & bred in my little blue-collar ethnic neighborhood
2.) The roads are confusing, narrow, and under (or in need of) constant repair.
3.) Racial tension - My neighborhood is quite mixed, but not much real mixing or communication goes on.
4.) Class tension - There's an almost tangible (yet mostly unspoken) hatred between workers & professionals. Lots of snobbiness in my hometown
5.) Cronyism, patronage, nepotism, tribalism, peer pressure & political corruption infest everything.
6.) Real estate is very expensive, and it's only getting more so as time goes on.
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Thu, September 1, 2005 - 3:44 PMSF
1) Parking is a bitch
2) The fact that the homelessness problem has not improved at all.
3) The pseudo-hippies on Haight Street are such a joke.
4) It's so expensive to live here
5) The yuppie/frat boys/girls who lower the coolness factor of the greatest city in the world! -
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Thu, September 8, 2005 - 11:21 AMLos Angeles
1. Fakes
2. Flakes
3. Gangsters
4. Hollywood isn't what it used to be
5. Traffic
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Thu, September 8, 2005 - 1:45 PMSeattle, WA This is tough, there is so much to love and so little to hate here!
1) Tourists, esp tourists carrying umbrellas (only tourists carry umbrellas actually)
2) Too many hippies/too many white belters
3) Pioneer Square (it's a beautiful part of town, many historic buildings, but infested with tourists and frat boys, unfortunately)
4) Traffic
5) The price of rent
6) Bridge and Tunnelers (these are people who live in Bellevue, WA, on the east side of Lk Washington, to get here from there, you must drive around (this would be a 50 plus mile trip) or cross via a bridge/tunnel system... this is where the hugely wealthy live, the yuppies, the trust funders... they come over here to "slum it" at night in the "hip" bars.... which means most of the time that they end up in Pioneer Square! so the joke's on them!)
and Randall, I'm sure there are plenty of people who would be glad to help you get out of Canton! I'm sure you'll be out of there before you know it... you just gotta want it enough...
I came to Seattle with my records, books and $1000.... if you want it enough, you will make it happen... and sacrifice to do it, if need be... (less prestigous job, less money, etc etc)
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Sat, September 10, 2005 - 12:16 PMPacifica, CA
right outside of SF
1) It isn't San Francisco. I love san francisco SO much.
2) It's...a suburb.
3) If you don't drive, you're screwed. I don't drive.
4) There's nothing to do that is cheap if you are over 15 and under 40.
5) People who grew up here live here. A lot of my friends' parents grew up here, live in the same house they grew up in, and haven't GONE anywhere outside of the country and haven't LIVED anywhere outside of Pacifica. Not because they can't afford to, but because they don't care enough to have any kind of culture.
6) Homophobic jerks
7) McDonalds and Starbucks in the shopping center next to my house.