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hapigokelli
Joined: 04 Aug 2009
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Mobile, Alabama.
It was 118 degrees every day in the summer and you sweat through your shirt standing still. There is absolutely nothing there and most people we met weren't exactly intellectuals.
I'm sure there are worse places, but this is my personal worst. |
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travel zen
Joined: 22 Feb 2005
Location: Good old Toronto, Canada
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 4:50 pm Post subject: |
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| How are the Southern gals ?? |
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jcan
Joined: 08 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 9:25 pm Post subject: |
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| myenglishisno wrote: |
Worst city?
Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada.
New Brunswick is the armpit of Canada and Moncton is the armpit of New Brunswick.
Nothing but strip malls, dirt, more strip malls, dirt, some churches, mud, an ugly eyesore of a mall and the city's main highlight is a river of mud running through the middle that I and several of my cohorts (we were teens) used to spend a fair amount of time throwing stolen shopping carts into.
I should add that the city is full of rude quasi-French folk that don't even speak real French (look up the Chiac dialect). |
wanna hear something funny? Im from PEI and going on a day trip to Moncton once or twice a year with familar and, later in high school, friends, was a real highlight. You could actually shop in a real mall. lol. But yeah, now that I think of it, Moncton did seem to have very little to offer other than a few hours of shopping. |
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Moldy Rutabaga
Joined: 01 Jul 2003
Location: Ansan, Korea
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| Posted: Wed Jun 08, 2011 11:45 pm Post subject: |
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I'll plug two sites: One called "Are you right for Vegas http://keneckert.com/blogette/Vegsurv/vegsurv.html?" and my "worst list" http://keneckert.com/pictures/travel/worst/worst.html.
Edmonton has cold, long winters but there are nice summer festivals, and when I was a boy it was a friendlier place with more community than now. Things like Klondike Days, Gretzky, the snow, brought people together.
There's an Edmonton-Calgary rivalry, granted, but I always found Calgary soulless, a lump of gated communities and an overpriced stampede.
Lots of people love Atlantic Canada. I loved Newfoundland, but I found New Brunswick people rather cold. I just never got into Fredericton. The same with Yorkton. Why were people so aloof? Natives of Cape Breton are extremely attached to it--which was to me a dump of unemployment, collapsing buildings, and people attacking me outside bars.
Montreal is pretty and interesting, but yes, there's some not-so-subtle hostility toward English speakers that can be galling.
Daegu, the Regina of Korea. Hehe, that's great. Relatively pleasant but dull. And I always called Korea itself 'Fort Saskatchewan for Arts graduates.'
I lived in Las Vegas for 2-1/2 years. I didn't mind the climate, actually, but I really disliked living there. If anyone tells you there is more to Vegas than gambling and strippers, they're lying. Once you leave the overpriced, jammed strip there's nothing but fake Spanish-style apartment complexes and identimalls. I know there's worse, but in my experience the most irresponsible drivers.
I went to Vegas thinking I would see all these great bands and shows after living in you'll-watch-samulnori-and-like-it Korea, and never saw one. Want to see the Police? Tickets are $50 for Salt Lake City one day, $185 the next day in Vegas, $60 the day after in Phoenix. Every time it was the same.
Okay, so that I don't sound like a crab, places I kinda like: Toronto, St. John's, Busan, Chicago, Veracruz, Auckland. |
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myenglishisno
Joined: 08 Mar 2011
Location: Geumchon
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:14 am Post subject: |
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| jcan wrote: |
wanna hear something funny? Im from PEI and going on a day trip to Moncton once or twice a year with familar and, later in high school, friends, was a real highlight. You could actually shop in a real mall. lol. But yeah, now that I think of it, Moncton did seem to have very little to offer other than a few hours of shopping. |
Haha, no surprise there.
http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/07/16/canadas-best-and-worst-run-cities/
Charlottetown was voted Canada's worst run city. I've never spent much time there but it left a better impression on me than Moncton. That being said, PEI is beautiful but I bet the kids there get awfully bored. The isolation and the toll bridge (it costs $50 to leave) must explain all the incest that goes on. 
Then again, at least PEI has some real universities as does Charlottetown (UPEI). Moncton's only English speaking university is called (brace yourself): Atlantic Baptist University.
I actually know a guy who went there and he couldn't get a hagwon job in Korea because, if you can believe it, the degrees aren't even accredited (more of this: ). |
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hogwonguy1979
Joined: 22 Dec 2003
Location: the racoon den
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 12:33 am Post subject: |
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Miami, Fl if you're not gay, rich, Cuban or Columbian its a cess pool, too expensive, traffic that makes rush hour in seoul look sane especially going e-w, rude as hell people and oh yeah hurricanes
whoops I almost forgot LeBron plays there, |
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Cedar
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
Location: In front of my computer, again.
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:13 am Post subject: |
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| I guess I've liked almost everywhere I've lived except perhaps New Paltz, NY because my bike was stolen while i was living there. And I didn't like the manager where I worked. |
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myenglishisno
Joined: 08 Mar 2011
Location: Geumchon
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 8:23 am Post subject: |
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| I guess I've liked almost everywhere I've lived except perhaps New Paltz, NY because my bike was stolen while i was living there. And I didn't like the manager where I worked. |
I hung out with a girl from New Paltz for awhile. She went to university with me in Halifax. She was a vegan and a picky one at that and went on and on about how Halifax was a hick town full of rednecks because we only had a few vegetarian/vegan restaurants and she would only eat at vegan exclusive restaurants that didn't serve any form of meat or dairy.
I took her to some local venues and apparently we were a decade behind New Paltz and the rest of New York. She said the same thing about the fashion and the overall vibe of the city. She compared it to Alabama.
After a few months she decided she had enough of our backwater ways so she dropped out and went back to New Paltz. Ever since then I've kind of had a hate on for that place. The way she described it was as if everyone who lived there was just like her. |
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joelove
Joined: 12 May 2011
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| Moldy Rutabaga wrote: |
I loved Newfoundland...
Montreal is pretty and interesting...
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I agree with these taken out of context phrases. I've heard it said that without Newfoundland and Quebec, Canada wouldn't have much culture at all, whatever that may mean. Maybe they are more interesting than the rest of the provinces? |
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myenglishisno
Joined: 08 Mar 2011
Location: Geumchon
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| Posted: Thu Jun 09, 2011 9:09 am Post subject: |
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| Montreal does have culture but they sure as hell do crap on you if you aren't one of them. |
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Cedar
Joined: 11 Mar 2003
Location: In front of my computer, again.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 6:37 am Post subject: |
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| myenglishisno wrote: |
I hung out with a girl from New Paltz for awhile. She went to university with me in Halifax. She was a vegan and a picky one at that and went on and on about how Halifax was a hick town full of rednecks because we only had a few vegetarian/vegan restaurants and she would only eat at vegan exclusive restaurants that didn't serve any form of meat or dairy.
I took her to some local venues and apparently we were a decade behind New Paltz and the rest of New York. She said the same thing about the fashion and the overall vibe of the city. She compared it to Alabama.
After a few months she decided she had enough of our backwater ways so she dropped out and went back to New Paltz. Ever since then I've kind of had a hate on for that place. The way she described it was as if everyone who lived there was just like her. |
Ironically when I lived in New Paltz I was a strict vegan, and I never noticed it being particularly hip to the vegan scene. Of course I might have been there when this girl you used to know was in grade school and eating bacon for breakfast... it was a s--t town full of pretentious college kids who acted like they were in Columbia or Yale when they were in SUNY New Paltz for crying out loud. I lasted about 3 mths, that's it. |
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cragesmure
Joined: 23 Oct 2010
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| Posted: Fri Jun 10, 2011 11:10 am Post subject: |
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| Cedar wrote: |
| myenglishisno wrote: |
I hung out with a girl from New Paltz for awhile. She went to university with me in Halifax. She was a vegan and a picky one at that and went on and on about how Halifax was a hick town full of rednecks because we only had a few vegetarian/vegan restaurants and she would only eat at vegan exclusive restaurants that didn't serve any form of meat or dairy.
I took her to some local venues and apparently we were a decade behind New Paltz and the rest of New York. She said the same thing about the fashion and the overall vibe of the city. She compared it to Alabama.
After a few months she decided she had enough of our backwater ways so she dropped out and went back to New Paltz. Ever since then I've kind of had a hate on for that place. The way she described it was as if everyone who lived there was just like her. |
Ironically when I lived in New Paltz I was a strict vegan, and I never noticed it being particularly hip to the vegan scene. Of course I might have been there when this girl you used to know was in grade school and eating bacon for breakfast... it was a s--t town full of pretentious college kids who acted like they were in Columbia or Yale when they were in SUNY New Paltz for crying out loud. I lasted about 3 mths, that's it. |
Of course, anyone that feels the need to bring up their dietary habits to all and sundry is no better than a religious nut, hipster or KKK member. The opinions of such an individual are best ignored, with a similar prejudice to that which they offer. |
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