dragonworks
Banned
no, it is the Jersey Coast, Monmouth county
Where do you live? What's it like?
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ShanPeyton
Member
Still though, looks like sharks live there. I miss the ocean. 
dragonworks
Banned
sharks do live there, saw quite a few when I was younger. There were never any seals but they are there now.Still though, looks like sharks live there. I miss the ocean.
Tadpui
Well-known member
I live right in the middle of the U.S., in Kansas City MO. It's...average.
We get hot summers, cold winters, but beautiful springs and falls. It's cheap to live here, there's more land that there are people to consume it (although less and less every day). We have more lane/miles per capita than anywhere in the US. So traffic never gets all that horrible. Most people are friendly, although the crime rate is more than double the national average. It's no so bad out here in the suburban-like northern reaches of the city. There are a few areas of town that seem to skew the crime statistics for the rest of the city.
We get hot summers, cold winters, but beautiful springs and falls. It's cheap to live here, there's more land that there are people to consume it (although less and less every day). We have more lane/miles per capita than anywhere in the US. So traffic never gets all that horrible. Most people are friendly, although the crime rate is more than double the national average. It's no so bad out here in the suburban-like northern reaches of the city. There are a few areas of town that seem to skew the crime statistics for the rest of the city.
beezelbubba
Shitty Buddhist
I think Jaws was filmed in California, though the setting was Nantucket.dragonworks said:
The story behind it was inspired by events in the early 20th century in....New Jersey.
drstawl
Banned
You're right and you're wrong!I think Jaws was filmed in California, though the setting was Nantucket.
The story behind it was inspired by events in the early 20th century in....New Jersey.
Les dents de la mer (1975) - Filming Locations - IMDb
beezelbubba
Shitty Buddhist
TAE
All you have is now
I live in Covina, California situated @ 20 miles east of Los Angeles...and about 20 miles north of Doc Stawl.. Doc is @ 10 degrees cooler cause he's closer to the pacific ocean... My retirement target is Encinitas which is just a little north of San Diego ...So Cal weather is damn nice most often...
Lived here all my life ...it's pretty chill...but then I work from home so I am able to deal with the traffic that occurs when you live in the most densely populated county in the nation on my terms.
have all the amenities a suburbianist could want...literally 100's of restaurants and stores within a few miles... Home is paid off so just utilities and taxes but it is a bit expensive living here...we burn through a few G's a month just hangin... our damn water n trash exceeds $100 ....electricity @ $250 medical insurance....damn!
I'm moving!
Lived here all my life ...it's pretty chill...but then I work from home so I am able to deal with the traffic that occurs when you live in the most densely populated county in the nation on my terms.
have all the amenities a suburbianist could want...literally 100's of restaurants and stores within a few miles... Home is paid off so just utilities and taxes but it is a bit expensive living here...we burn through a few G's a month just hangin... our damn water n trash exceeds $100 ....electricity @ $250 medical insurance....damn!
I'm moving!
jonny deep
Disappointing Member
I live in Covina, California situated @ 20 miles east of Los Angeles...and about 20 miles north of Doc Stawl.. Doc is @ 10 degrees cooler cause he's closer to the pacific ocean... My retirement target is Encinitas which is just a little north of San Diego ...So Cal weather is damn nice most often...
Lived here all my life ...it's pretty chill...but then I work from home so I am able to deal with the traffic that occurs when you live in the most densely populated county in the nation on my terms.
have all the amenities a suburbianist could want...literally 100's of restaurants and stores within a few miles... Home is paid off so just utilities and taxes but it is a bit expensive living here...we burn through a few G's a month just hangin... our damn water n trash exceeds $100 ....electricity @ $250 medical insurance....damn!
I'm moving!
You should move to a modern country with a universal healthcare system.
bouldersoundguy
Well-known member
I live in Colorado. They say that if you don't like the weather wait fifteen minutes. We've had a few days in the high 70s this spring, but it snowed and inch or so this morning. Last fall it went from 70s to teens in just hours. After growing up in California where the weather is so mild you forget about it the weather here is much more entertaining.
Boulder gets something like 300 sunny days a year, but you pay for that with blizzards and wild thunderstorms on those remaining 60-some days. The wind can be extreme, sometimes approaching 100mph. It gets below zero in the winter and above 100 in the summer, and the humidity rarely goes above 20% except after it rains. Living here does require a certain toughness.
Colorado's cheaper than California as long as you stay out of Vail and Aspen. Boulder got too expensive so we moved to another city in Boulder County. All the big city amenities are available in Denver less than an hour in one direction and mountain hiking and camping is about the same distance in the opposite direction.
We live in a quaint old mining town, literally above caverns that stretch miles across this part of the state. We had a cave-in down the street where the timbers covering an old shaft collapsed. It was under a street and an SUV drove into it. They were lucky they didn't fall the 200 feet to the bottom. Well actually, it would have been 60 feet to the water left by last year's huge flood.
Boulder gets something like 300 sunny days a year, but you pay for that with blizzards and wild thunderstorms on those remaining 60-some days. The wind can be extreme, sometimes approaching 100mph. It gets below zero in the winter and above 100 in the summer, and the humidity rarely goes above 20% except after it rains. Living here does require a certain toughness.
Colorado's cheaper than California as long as you stay out of Vail and Aspen. Boulder got too expensive so we moved to another city in Boulder County. All the big city amenities are available in Denver less than an hour in one direction and mountain hiking and camping is about the same distance in the opposite direction.
We live in a quaint old mining town, literally above caverns that stretch miles across this part of the state. We had a cave-in down the street where the timbers covering an old shaft collapsed. It was under a street and an SUV drove into it. They were lucky they didn't fall the 200 feet to the bottom. Well actually, it would have been 60 feet to the water left by last year's huge flood.
drstawl
Banned
Since, through the distribution of risk among a large population, insurance allows the person who can't afford to pay attention access to expensive diagnostic and treatment services, the tiny minority who want to be treated like people whose well being is more important than the rest of the rabble and can pay for it- should be able to buy that. But only after they pay their share into healthcare for all. The only people who drop through that safety net are those who want to be treated like people whose well being is more important than the rest of the rabble but don't want to pay for it. Fuck them!
dragonworks
Banned
WhiteStrat
Don't stare at the eye.
Here's where I live. I tell people I live in St. Louis, because that's where my wife and I both grew up (and we still work there). But about 10 years ago we moved out of the city and built our own house in the country. We both still work in St. Louis, and spend most of our leisure time there, but our official address is Waterloo, Illinois (yep, that's farm country). We have a "way-too-big" house on "way-too-much" land (25 acres) and we're actually listing it for sale this spring. We've enjoyed our time in the country, but now that the kids are gone, we're looking forward to moving back to the city!
Here's the close-up aerial view of the house:
And here's a look at our property:
Here's the close-up aerial view of the house:
And here's a look at our property:
jonny deep
Disappointing Member
Nice! I'd like to build a house right in the middle of a plot of land. Then I'd buy a couple of 4x12s. 25 acres would be way too much, but half an acre or something would do nicely.
WhiteStrat
Don't stare at the eye.
Yep, one of my favorite things about living out here is that noise doesn't matter. Drums, 100 watt stacks, or guns--no one complains. I'm gonna miss that when I move back into the city!
Good. Some of these inbred shit-ins can't get the cave out of their cave.
jonny deep
Disappointing Member
Here's an aerial shot of my university campus, which you can see in the foreground here, all those modern looking buildings by the lakes. I live in one of the red houses, 10 minutes walk north of the campus (the picture is facing roughly north):
