Describe where you live

colin_h · Post by **colin_h** » Thu May 19, 2005 4:09 am

AdamJay wrote:
montrealbreaks wrote:I live in the sexiest city in North America. 'nuff said.
read: "Smellyist"

i kid!!! i kid!!

and considering how sexy/smelly it is, it's surprisingly friendly...

anonymouse · Post by **anonymouse** » Thu May 19, 2005 4:19 am

central heart of tokyo, in a small oasis of old wooden 2 storey japanese houses with paper walls and tatami mats - just minutes from the noisy jungle of skyscrapers & neon.

safest city on the planet.

colin_h · Post by **colin_h** » Thu May 19, 2005 4:26 am

anonymouse wrote: safest city on the planet.

whatever man, I've seen Akira. Tokyo's harsh!!

netchaiev · Post by **netchaiev** » Thu May 19, 2005 8:19 am

City of Lights: my place is across some projects. Dudes who sell dope and burn cars sometimes. But very safe though. Walking distance of "downtown" in a somewhat slowly gentrified 'hood.... In a way, my old 'hood of Williamsburg is not so far

!!!!!!!!!

borg nagar · Post by **borg nagar** » Thu May 19, 2005 11:04 am

I live in a Medium sized city (about. 120000 citizens) in the middle of western finland. Just beside Botany bay. Near the city's rubbish dump. In an indrustrial area with a lot of excavators and cranes. Next to a concrete factory. In the middle of meandering rusty drains. Beside a lorry road to the nearby cable factory. In one end of an industry hall. In a lovely, cheap, 2 story, 100 sqm apartment with our own sauna.

AdamJay wrote:read: "Smellyist"

P.S. I find it quite hilarious that American people can't write their own language

jahnlay · Post by **jahnlay** » Thu May 19, 2005 2:04 pm

I Live in Johannesburg, nuff said?

elemental · Post by **elemental** » Thu May 19, 2005 2:20 pm

a warehouse in north london with about 12 other people. currently building a studio underneath my bedroom!

polyslax · Post by **polyslax** » Thu May 19, 2005 3:01 pm

borg nagar wrote:I live in a Medium sized city (about. 120000 citizens) in the middle of western finland. Just beside Botany bay.

[wrath of khan] BOTANY BAY?[/wrath of khan]

djadonis206 · Post by **djadonis206** » Thu May 19, 2005 3:59 pm

djadonis206 wrote:I live in a booth at the local Porn Shop - they finally let me hook up my wireless

but I'm fighting to keep the tweaker guy out who shows up every other night @ 4am and stays till noon - it's gross

Ok ok - I live in Seattle...lots of white and asian people - some black people and lots of ethiopians (I've got to know quit well from taking cabs all over the city in the middle of the night)

lots of coffee shops and trees, and plenty of water - plenty of Heroin and Pot - cokes on the rise again though in the indie club scene though

3 sports teams and 1 major university

Bill Gates lives right across the water (he's rich and developed windows)

oh yeah - nintendo is here as well - so is Adobe

so is DMX MUSIC Inc. (lame plug for the music you hear when you go to the Gap or Nordstroms or The Limited or Claires or Wilson Leather)

I live in a nice neighborhood close to where I grew up. Leshci / Judkins Park area - it's right next to Lake Washington (in the Seattle City limits) really good mix of people but not that many Asians - some interracial couples and fair amount of young black and white professionals - no immigrants though

I work on Capitol Hill - lots of homosexuals and transients, homeless people and speed addicts. Artist and non comformists type of neighborhood which rests on the eastern edge of downtown seattle

We have a Space Needle - it's nice - next to the EMP

And if you have Donalds new CD (This is me) on Moist Music you can see The Pike Place Market in the background - very good food and northwest culture there, yup

did I mention lots of asian people and homosexuals - lots of them

When you leave the city lots of white people and mexicans - we have a volcanoe and some of the best recreation snow areas in the country - Mt. Baker (baker banked slalom and the most snow fall in all of North America - except for last year) and Stevens Pass - Whistler / Blackcomb is right up the street

we've produced some of the finer musicians and martial artist in the country

from Quincy Jones to Lane Stayley to Donald Glaude and Dj Dan - Bruce lee (Asian)

...we have lots of asian people - alot of white guys who date asian girls and black guys who date white girls

lots of homosexuals - lots - they congregate on Capitol Hill and go to gay clubs and eat at gay restaurants and do gay stuff gay people do...

but it's cool - don't move here we don't like people from California or New York but if your from Vietnam / Laos / Ethiopia / Somalia / Iran / Egypt or Korea it's cool, we need more corner markets that sell 40's, blunts and batteries (wink)

* FYI i don't have anything against asian / black / white or homosexuals in that order * as hoffman2k so eloquently put it, I watch waaaay to much South Park (giggle giggle) *

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ultrasource · Post by **ultrasource** » Thu May 19, 2005 8:41 pm

I live 40 mi east of NYC in a town with too many people and not enough teeth in a haunted warehouse.
I hate my neighbors and they hate me. It's ok because they are all white trash and have too many lawn ornaments and "we support the troops" stickers on their inefficient cars.
Located just one mile away are the usual landscape-killers: Wal-Mart (soon to be renovated into a Super-Wal-Mart) , McDonalds, Dunkin' Donuts, Burger King, Wendy's, Quik-Check, Blockbuster, Lowes, Sam's Club. In addition, I believe there are 200 places to get a pizza - all of which should be avoided.
If I don't move soon, someone will pay.
And montrealbreaks, you live in the club super-sexiest city in North America!

suburbanbather · Post by **suburbanbather** » Thu May 19, 2005 9:32 pm

ultrasource wrote:I live 40 mi east of NYC in a town with too many people and not enough teeth in a haunted warehouse.
I hate my neighbors and they hate me. It's ok because they are all white trash and have too many lawn ornaments and "we support the troops" stickers on their inefficient cars.
Located just one mile away are the usual landscape-killers: Wal-Mart (soon to be renovated into a Super-Wal-Mart) , McDonalds, Dunkin' Donuts, Burger King, Wendy's, Quik-Check, Blockbuster, Lowes, Sam's Club. In addition, I believe there are 200 places to get a pizza - all of which should be avoided.
If I don't move soon, someone will pay.

thats about right for my area (MD) Hey living in NJ would be cool though because your pratically in NYC but without the grab your ankles cost of living.

Angstrom · Post by **Angstrom** » Thu May 19, 2005 9:47 pm

My house is good and I have a garden where I sit on a deckchair through the day with laptop, headphones and little keyboard.
My road is a cul-de-sac, it's like the street that time forgot.
Beyond the end of the road - civilisation ends .. its ruled by hooded teens, muscle bound scally gangsters with samurai swords and / or guns in the boot of their BMW. There are normally about 4 shootings and a couple of samurai arm choppings in a year on the high street. Every gangster made good buys a bar round here to hang out with his mates in, they take turns to go to the big house and come back out to a big deadly party. Helicopters fill the sky. The local youth look on in envy of the day they get their first crack deal and can get a sword of their own. Education is frowned upon, outsiders aren't tolerated.

other than that, it's ok

mcconaghy · Post by **mcconaghy** » Thu May 19, 2005 9:58 pm

suburbanbather wrote:
ultrasource wrote:I live 40 mi east of NYC in a town with too many people and not enough teeth in a haunted warehouse.
I hate my neighbors and they hate me. It's ok because they are all white trash and have too many lawn ornaments and "we support the troops" stickers on their inefficient cars.
Located just one mile away are the usual landscape-killers: Wal-Mart (soon to be renovated into a Super-Wal-Mart) , McDonalds, Dunkin' Donuts, Burger King, Wendy's, Quik-Check, Blockbuster, Lowes, Sam's Club. In addition, I believe there are 200 places to get a pizza - all of which should be avoided.
If I don't move soon, someone will pay.
thats about right for my area (MD) Hey living in NJ would be cool though because your pratically in NYC but without the grab your ankles cost of living.

Beats CT, where they think they live in NYC, combined with the "grease me up before you go in" cost of living[/i]

glenclayton · Post by **glenclayton** » Thu May 19, 2005 10:47 pm

I live in a curious corner of Edinburgh, Scotland called Newhaven. Orignally the fishing port of the city, it now sits between the genteel Victorian houses of Trinity, the decayed Leith (of Trainspotting fame) and the the new dockside developments, yuppies and waterfront bars.

montrealbreaks · Post by **montrealbreaks** » Fri May 20, 2005 1:19 am

colin_h wrote:
AdamJay wrote:
montrealbreaks wrote:I live in the sexiest city in North America. 'nuff said.
read: "Smellyist"

i kid!!! i kid!!

and considering how sexy/smelly it is, it's surprisingly friendly...

As an anglophone in a predominantly French city, I thought when I got here that I would be outcast, but it's not the case. I make a solid effort to speak as much French as I can - 99.9% of the francophones appreciate it, even if I suck bad enough to switch to English after a few sentences.

But most importantly the chicks are hot. I mean, rilly rilly hot. This is a very fashionable and image conscious place... And immoral. Most women here are immoral... Always a good combination.

You can drink in public, the after hours clubs never close (I haven't visited one in almost two years though), we are the world capital in laser hair removal, the second largest North American porno producing city outside of LA, and on a per capita basis, we have more porn actresses and sex workers than anywhere else in North America.

Everybody smokes except the infants, and they're just waiting to get to kindergarten before they start. It's disgusting to go out here, you always get home smelling rank, since you're still allowed to smoke in public (unlike Vancouver, Winnipeg, Yellowknife and other health-progressive cities).

The music biz here is CUTTHROAT. I used to make 350 bucks a gig for a weekly residence, but you stop playing out for a while, and you'll never get back into it. I haven't had a gig in Montreal for almost a year, and I would have a better chance of winning the lottery than getting a gig again.

Oh well, that's life. More time to produce.

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