jonny deep
Disappointing Member
Well, I suppose you want a tan for the Christmas dinner table.
Where do you live? What's it like?
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Well, I suppose you want a tan for the Christmas dinner table.
jonny deep
Disappointing Member
Right outside of Milwaukee a block away from Lake Michigan.
I aint gonna lie, it sucks 4-5 months a year because of the weather, if I didn't work outside maybe I would feel differently.
It's a beautiful state in the summer though, and I'm lucky enough to have a job that takes me to a different place most every day. Nothing like getting paid overtime for a hundred mile drive home through the countryside in summer.
So that's Fonz-territory, right? Sounds great for the summer - a bit like the north here.
I live in the northeast US on a wildlife refuge in the woods just outside of Providence, RI.
This is what my yard looked like yesterday morning on the joyous second day of spring:
Providence is a big college town (Brown, RISD, J&W, URI, etc) with a lot of restaurants, music, etc. Boston is about 30 minutes north, the Atlantic ocean about 20 minutes east.
Cool - that's some snow right there! We only got a light dusting this year.
fat_fleet
Swollen Member
God, that is gorgeous. We actually vacation in towns like that all the time.
jonny deep
Disappointing Member
Lower Hudson Valley, NY....find Middletown...I'm close.
So that's north of New York? Not so far from Scranton - I've been rewatching The Office on Netflix lately!
fat_fleet
Swollen Member
Yeah, we normally don't have that much snow by this time of year.. it's been a slightly unusual winter.
acidrock
GO PACKERS!
There's a Fonzie statue in downtown Milwaukee.
There's a music festival called Summerfest that's huge every year.
fat_fleet
Swollen Member
I was in Corpus Christi once in August. I'll take the snow.
BroKen_H
Re-member
Originally from the shadow of Mt. Shasta. Red Bluff, CA. Great community. Great climate. If you like snow, you go to Shasta. If you like the ocean, you drive out to Eureka. If you like great forests, you stop in between.
Moved to northern Idaho when I was 12. 6-8' of snow is not uncommon in the winter, and yet we never had snow days at school. Usually down under -10 a couple weeks out of the year. Love me some cold weather. Ya just deal with it. Beautiful (most beautiful I've ever seen) scenery, great fishing, hiking, snowmobiling, sledding, etc. It's called God's country for a reason. But there's no ocean.
Spent 9 years in Denver, CO. Great town. MOUNTAINS. Estes Park. Lots of awesome things to do any time day/night. Weather there was worse than Idaho some years...blizzards. You can have 'em. But limited to a 2-3 month period. Nice city. Again, no ocean.
Now residing in Clinton, NC. January - February. Lousy weather. Lots of leaves to rake. March - Sept. Tornadoes and hurricanes. Lots of tress and branches to clean up with a large, overheat zone in June-August. Oct - Dec. Reasonable weather with more leaves (lots more...huge, I mean HUGE amounts of leaves. Leaves everywhere HaHaHaHaHa...). Nobody here can drive if there's 1/4" of snow. The only excitement here is WalMart. That's what people do on Friday night here. They dress up in their night clothes and come to WalMart. Whee!!!!
Fast food or southern cuisine (either bland or deep fried) are about all the choices for restaurants without driving 45 minutes to an hour. And still no ocean...Well, 90 minutes away. Not too bad
Moved to northern Idaho when I was 12. 6-8' of snow is not uncommon in the winter, and yet we never had snow days at school. Usually down under -10 a couple weeks out of the year. Love me some cold weather. Ya just deal with it. Beautiful (most beautiful I've ever seen) scenery, great fishing, hiking, snowmobiling, sledding, etc. It's called God's country for a reason. But there's no ocean.
Spent 9 years in Denver, CO. Great town. MOUNTAINS. Estes Park. Lots of awesome things to do any time day/night. Weather there was worse than Idaho some years...blizzards. You can have 'em. But limited to a 2-3 month period. Nice city. Again, no ocean.
Now residing in Clinton, NC. January - February. Lousy weather. Lots of leaves to rake. March - Sept. Tornadoes and hurricanes. Lots of tress and branches to clean up with a large, overheat zone in June-August. Oct - Dec. Reasonable weather with more leaves (lots more...huge, I mean HUGE amounts of leaves. Leaves everywhere HaHaHaHaHa...). Nobody here can drive if there's 1/4" of snow. The only excitement here is WalMart. That's what people do on Friday night here. They dress up in their night clothes and come to WalMart. Whee!!!!
Fast food or southern cuisine (either bland or deep fried) are about all the choices for restaurants without driving 45 minutes to an hour. And still no ocean...Well, 90 minutes away. Not too bad
dragonworks
Banned
acidrock
GO PACKERS!
Snow is nothing, it's the bitter cold that sucks. We haven't had a snow day in years, but they've closed schools and businesses a few times over the last few years because of dangerous cold.
Schwarzenyaeger
Formerly "Dog-In-Door"
@drstaw:
There is a giant shoe floating on the water in the sunset back on page 3.
There is a giant shoe floating on the water in the sunset back on page 3.
CrowsofFritz
Flamingo!
Yes, and don't worry. My friends and I were plenty loud to fulfill our duty of upholding the stereotype.
jonny deep
Disappointing Member
Yes, and don't worry. My friends and I were plenty loud to fulfill our duty of upholding the stereotype.
Good work! When we were students, a friend of mine worked in one of the old fashioned pubs in town and he loved the American tourists because they tip so well.
Schwarzenyaeger
Formerly "Dog-In-Door"
I only found out recently that you don't have to tip anybody in the UK.
CrowsofFritz
Flamingo!
I thought it was insulting to do that. I usually rounded up for waiters and didn't give any for bartenders.
jonny deep
Disappointing Member
You don't have to, but people do in restaurants and sometimes taxis.
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I thought it was insulting to do that. I usually rounded up for waiters and didn't give any for bartenders.
I've never tipped a barman. Some people do, but it's not expected like in the US.
Chili
Site Moderator
drstawl
Banned
My statement serves to remind readers that the US does not have the best weather in the world but Newport Beach is pretty close.Just for reference sake; Costa Rica is not in the US.
Mr Clean
AKA Teddy Wong
After spells of living in Glasgow and Liverpool, I lived in Derby City Centre for a couple of years with the wife before we moved back to Spondon (Th' wife is from here too, we've known each other since 4 years old) to be closer to parents who all live in Spondon.
Spondon/Derby are a great place to live. Multicultural and a very friendly place. Central England too so it's easy to get anywhere you wish to go to. We like it anyway.
Our 1886 Victorian Semi is our "until we retire home" when we'll probably move to the coast somewhere, Newquay, Cornwall most likely.
Spondon/Derby are a great place to live. Multicultural and a very friendly place. Central England too so it's easy to get anywhere you wish to go to. We like it anyway.
Our 1886 Victorian Semi is our "until we retire home" when we'll probably move to the coast somewhere, Newquay, Cornwall most likely.