I've lived here long enough to know that you have less privacy even out in the sticks than you do in the city. People just don't know how to live amongst each other here. Everyone is in everyone elses business too it seems. Maybe it's because you're in cramped quarters that people know how to give each other space?

lol lovely quiet areas in nyc that are a stones throw away from the demographic that commit home invasions yeah sign me right up at 1,500+ a month rent :rofl:

if you live in the sticks and you want to be private just be standoffish, once people realize youre "uppity" they will fuck off and who cares what they say anyways.

I'd be bored to tears and broke watching the grass grow. The funny thing is I hate the 'burbs. It's either the city or the country and at my age I'm ready to scale back and minimize.

Sadly rent is double what you said. NYC has been the safest big city for the last few years now. Many once undesirable neighborhoods have been completely turned around and finding a place to rent let alone buy is near impossible. People are moving to NYC at a swift pace too. Population is up by 1 million over the last ten years.

(09-17-2013, 07:21 PM)Twitchin Kitten Wrote: I'd be bored to tears and broke watching the grass grow. The funny thing is I hate the 'burbs. It's either the city or the country and at my age I'm ready to scale back and minimize.

Sadly rent is double what you said. NYC has been the safest big city for the last few years now. Many once undesirable neighborhoods have been completely turned around and finding a place to rent let alone buy is near impossible. People are moving to NYC at a swift pace too. Population is up by 1 million over the last ten years.

you should check out grottoes va, im there now. you can be in harrisonburg in 20 minutes and thats as big of a city as anyone needs (JMU college) and theres fuckloads of menonites here that sell the best looking god damned produce you will ever see in your life. I shit you not i saw a 3' long butternut squash today, they also had that rainbow corn you were on about recently.

I enjoyed my time in Beckly, WV when I visited SyberChick

It's a nice town.

(09-17-2013, 07:25 PM)TenFour Wrote:

(09-17-2013, 07:21 PM)Twitchin Kitten Wrote: I'd be bored to tears and broke watching the grass grow. The funny thing is I hate the 'burbs. It's either the city or the country and at my age I'm ready to scale back and minimize.

Sadly rent is double what you said. NYC has been the safest big city for the last few years now. Many once undesirable neighborhoods have been completely turned around and finding a place to rent let alone buy is near impossible. People are moving to NYC at a swift pace too. Population is up by 1 million over the last ten years.

you should check out grottoes va, im there now. you can be in harrisonburg in 20 minutes and thats as big of a city as anyone needs (JMU college) and theres fuckloads of menonites here that sell the best looking god damned produce you will ever see in your life. I shit you not i saw a 3' long butternut squash today, they also had that rainbow corn you were on about recently.

I'm quite familiar with the Amish. Used to take the ride out to New Holland, Pa all the time. Bought goods for the horses from them, traded rides for produce and more. Some are so nice, some are outright assholes. I had a friend I used to compete with who was Amish but left the sect. She's pass on some ten years now and I do miss her.

I'm not big on college towns. Too often they're filled with asshole kids who think that because they're in college they're better than everyone around them. Last laugh is when they have to beg for a job. That usually weeds out those who wasted mommy and daddy's money on school or not

yeah but grottoes is far enough away you dont deal with any of that shit, just go there to go to belk or costco, also charlottesville is like 45 minutes away also a college town but very very good restaurants local breweries/wineries and stuffs to do, and youre also a whopping 2 1/2 hour drive from washington dc and all the smithsonian museums...

From where I am I am an hour to NYC, 1 1/2 to Philly and 2 1/2 to DC.

I don't think Grottoes Va will pay Matt what he makes here and there is no way we'll take a huge cut in pay. Cost of living is irrelevant. Where you save compared to here you pay more someplace else. Found that out in SD. Rents and stuff were cheaper, but making $5/hour was considered good. Food was insanely expensive. Was out there for Sturgis in '96 and at the time a can of Green Giant corn was like .65¢ here. Out there it was $1.79 Goddamn there is corn as far as the horizon and you pay that much?

Beef - pfft! All the rage over western beef being so good. Bullshit. They eat nothing but range grass which is CRAP. Feed those fuckers some hay and corn and you got good meat. I stuck to eating bison out there. much healthier and cheaper and tastier.

Cheapest and best beef i ever saw was in sallisaw oklahoma, nice place except that there were horse farms all over the place and i hate horses and i hate the smell of their shit more.

While its true yankee states pay a bit more on average your taxes are also normally quite higher, i think pretty much anywhere you live with a few notable exceptions like frisco or hollywood, and ofc NYC, things are pretty balanced out, i mean how the hell else do people live if it isnt?

(09-18-2013, 05:53 PM)TenFour Wrote: Cheapest and best beef i ever saw was in sallisaw oklahoma, nice place except that there were horse farms all over the place and i hate horses and i hate the smell of their shit more.

While its true yankee states pay a bit more on average your taxes are also normally quite higher, i think pretty much anywhere you live with a few notable exceptions like frisco or hollywood, and ofc NYC, things are pretty balanced out, i mean how the hell else do people live if it isnt?

Sure it was beef if there were only horse farms?