Places that don't make sense for long-term living

[96583UP]

Some places seem great at first, like they are awesome and you'd never want to leave them ever, but then you spend a lot of time there and it gets long in the tooth

Some places start off great, then fall into disrepair phyiscally

Some places are full of cool people, and you want to live there, and then those people leave, and you are still there

Some places you might have thought would be a great place to live, and then moved there, and then you realized it wasn't great to live there

this is a thread for those places

[JuanHamm]

New Orleans

[Happy Trees]

A Place For Mom.

[96583UP]

had a friend who moved to celebration, florida

thought it would be paradise

was a living hell

[96583UP]

Brooklyn

is a shithole

for example

yet people work hard to convince themselves living there makes sense

[doug rr]

Austin really sucks after a day

[doug rr]

or even a half day

[doug rr]

its probably best to just stop on your way though and grab a chicken fried steak in the morning and be on your way

[96583UP]

have heard that Nashville lacks longevity as well

[tragabigzanda]

There is a wolf in me . . . fangs pointed for tearing gashes . . . a red tongue for raw meat . . . and the hot lapping of blood—I keep this wolf because the wilderness gave it to me and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fox in me . . . a silver-gray fox . . . I sniff and guess . . . I pick things out of the wind and air . . . I nose in the dark night and take sleepers and eat them and hide the feathers . . . I circle and loop and double-cross.

There is a hog in me . . . a snout and a belly . . . a machinery for eating and grunting . . . a machinery for sleeping satisfied in the sun—I got this too from the wilderness and the wilderness will not let it go.

There is a fish in me . . . I know I came from salt-blue water-gates . . . I scurried with shoals of herring . . . I blew waterspouts with porpoises . . . before land was . . . before the water went down . . . before Noah . . . before the first chapter of Genesis.

There is a baboon in me . . . clambering-clawed . . . dog-faced . . . yawping a galoot's hunger . . . hairy under the armpits . . . here are the hawk-eyed hankering men . . . here are the blonde and blue-eyed women . . . here they hide curled asleep waiting . . . ready to snarl and kill . . . ready to sing and give milk . . . waiting—I keep the baboon because the wilderness says so.

There is an eagle in me and a mockingbird . . . and the eagle flies among the Rocky Mountains of my dreams and fights among the Sierra crags of what I want . . . and the mockingbird warbles in the early forenoon before the dew is gone, warbles in the underbrush of my Chattanoogas of hope, gushes over the blue Ozark foothills of my wishes—And I got the eagle and the mockingbird from the wilderness.

O, I got a zoo, I got a menagerie, inside my ribs, under my bony head, under my red-valve heart—and I got something else: it is a man-child heart, a woman-child heart: it is a father and mother and lover: it came from God-Knows-Where: it is going to God-Knows-Where—For I am the keeper of the zoo: I say yes and no: I sing and kill and work: I am a pal of the world: I came from the wilderness.

[wease]

have heard that Nashville lacks longevity as well

Because no one can afford to live there.

[Bammer]

have heard that Nashville lacks longevity as well

Because no one can afford to live there.

Nashville, TN population: 1.3 million

PS - TRAVEL FORUM!

[Strat]

Vail, CO

[tree_]

I would never live in Las Vegas, Nevada. The place gives me a headache.

[dad]

Climax, MI.

It sounds like a good time though.

[doug rr]

have heard that Nashville lacks longevity as well

Because no one can afford to live there.

Nashville, TN population: 1.3 million

PS - TRAVEL FORUM!

late 90s and early 2000s we were in Nashville quite often..always thought it might be the only land locked place I could live..not anymore

[doug rr]

I would never live in Las Vegas, Nevada. The place gives me a headache.

yeah, it may be the worst place in America even if its for 2 days only..

[spike]

Doug’s cranky old guy vibes are strong in this thread

[doug rr]

Doug’s cranky old guy vibes are strong in this thread

I can shake my fist at clouds now as good as anyone..

[wease]

have heard that Nashville lacks longevity as well

Because no one can afford to live there.

Nashville, TN population: 1.3 million

PS - TRAVEL FORUM!

late 90s and early 2000s we were in Nashville quite often..always thought it might be the only land locked place I could live..not anymore

It’s saving grace is it’s still blue in a sea of red.