What do u think are the WORST things about the city you live in ?????? TIME TO VENT !

[LaNegraLoca]

Manhattan

1. Cabs charge $50 (plus toll) to get home from both airports. $75 from Newark.
2. Some cabs in mid/downtown don't want to go "all the way uptown".
3. Everything is more expensive here - especially fast food.
4. You get around much faster by walking to your destination - especially during rush hour.
5. Finding parking spots can be quite challenging! Meter maids are always on prowl.
6. Summertime get extremely hot! The Big Apple becomes the Baked Apple!
7. Plenty of rats and cockroaches.
8. The aroma of hot garbage, chicken wings and marijuana (wait a minute, that's the 'hood smell).
9. My Italian/Polish/Jewish neighbors complain about "all the foreigners". Fuhgetaboutit!

[dirtie blonde]

a fuckin train???

do i really need to explain this? Is this not the vent thread?

Maybe in Acacia they have public transportation and/or no traffic.

[LadyA. Acacia]

do i really need to explain this? Is this not the vent thread?

Maybe in Acacia they have public transportation and/or no traffic.

acacia street is in LA. right next to the trains

[LadyA. Acacia]

i hate expensive ass rent for shit hole places.

[likewater]

East Orange NJ

1. Police stop you for bogus spot checks, then take your ride..
2. To Many Kids with nothing to do.. making noise all night.. "YO Dawn" Kiss My ass?? "Yo Dude" What's Up!! that kind of stuff..
3. People using my fence as a chair..
4. Police parade at 8:00 at night.. all 500 cars roll down the street with sirens on full blast.. and the bull horn telling people "This Is Your East Orange Police Dept.. like we dont know..
5. No Clubs IN EAST ORANGE, NO PLACE TO PARTY,
6. Cab driver wants to charge 25.00 to come from Penn Station to East ORange, or Maplewood NJ.. ( slap him hard) "what?? I'm giving You 20.00 dollars.. Bye!
7. Cars think its the East Orange Speed Way while riding down Elmwood Ave, (killing the cats in the hood)
8. GARBAGE MAN.. they Leave all the garbage on the street and throw your can in front of someone elses house.. (you'll never see it again)
9. The Garbage truck backing up for 2 blocks to keep from turning around and this is done at 4:00 in the morning.. (BEEP BEEP BEEP ... motor noise, then HONK HONK>> beep beep)..
10. Crack heads always want to help you do the yard or the front for 16.00 dollars.. " Yo Miss You need some help" No Thank You..

[Mr.I]

try:

Radius - Mount Pleasant
Pizzeria Paradiso - Dupont Circle/Gtown - http://www.eatyourpizza.com/
RedRocks Fire Brick Pizzeria (opened by former Two Amy's owner)- Georgia Ave.-Petworth, Columbia Heights
Two Amy's - Cleveland Park

will do! - funny, I almost stopped by RedRocks last night to try it, I pass it often

[DJ GOLD D]

1. Too many fines i.e. if you're caught feeding a pigeon $200! (some years back you can go to jail for feeding pigeons)
2. Prejudice mofos
3. Cost of living is too high.
4. Construction, Construction, Construction
5. Air quality is poor.
6. Too much concrete, not enough trees.
7. Too much dog crap on the sidewalk
8. Very segregated
9. Too Conservative
10. Way too many hustlers.

[Ayo]

Baltimore

1. When the nickname is Charm City/Baltimore is more closely associated as Harm City/Bodymore & it's true.
2. The only place the gov't fixes up in the Inner Harbor.
3. The huge amount of abandoned homes & homeless...something just doesn't add up here.
4. The 'dead' eyes I encounter on a daily basis on the youth here in the City.
5. getting on I-83 & getting stuck in traffic when I trying to just get to a place that should only take me 10 mins with no traffic.
6. BGE's rate increase. (Baltimore Gas 'n Electric)
7. The trash thrown all over the place (but there are no trashcans)
8. Muffintops on men & women. (Y'all already know.)
9. The drop-out/graduation rate is abissmal (HS).

10. If the average person--they'd do better...but we don't try educate & assist.

Bonus: It's perfectly acceptable to have multiple children by multiple partners.

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I seriously think that Darrow should run for office...

[MYOR]

TAXES!!!

[Ayo]

1. Too many fines i.e. if you're caught feeding a pigeon $200! (some years back you can go to jail for feeding pigeons)
2. Prejudice mofos
3. Cost of living is too high.
4. Construction, Construction, Construction
5. Air quality is poor.
6. Too much concrete, not enough trees.
7. Too much dog crap on the sidewalk
8. Very segregated
9. Too Conservative
10. Way too many hustlers.

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3. the cheapest to live for what it cost to live and what you earn
5. I read that Chi is one of the "greenest" cities

but as someone who is considering Chi, I'm really concerned that i keep hearing this segregated/prejudice thing over and over again. someone said tho who is from chi, that it's not the city but the people who refuse to leave Southside who keep saying that

[Jamie 3:26]

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3. the cheapest to live for what it cost to live and what you earn
5. I read that Chi is one of the "greenest" cities

but as someone who is considering Chi, I'm really concerned that i keep hearing this segregated/prejudice thing over and over again. someone said tho who is from chi, that it's not the city but the people who refuse to leave Southside who keep saying that

Basically...hel,Hyde Park and many parts of the north side are very mixed.

I lived on the north side 2 times in my life and it bugged me out on how mixed the areas were.

I'm a born south sider,but my eyes got opened when I lived up north.

[Mr.I]

East Orange NJ

No Clubs IN EAST ORANGE, NO PLACE TO PARTY,

Say it aint so!

[dirtie blonde]

Keep in mind I am coming from this, I will never complain about the CTA again, btw



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Just curiuous, in LA, how easy is it to take the train the LAX? Can you walk from the stop to the terminal? Is there a shuttle?

[martino]

Mart- serious question:

Have you ever lived in another city? I find most Torontonians don't realise/appreciate they live in one of the best cities in the World.

Yes I have. Just dissing a few things that as you can tell, aren't that big of a deal. The Condo explosion and an ugly yonge street is hardly reason to move.
But the superiority complex of the people is the reason the rest of the country hates us LOL

[mjoseph]

Toronto:
3. The condo explosion
4. The ugliness of the city (skyline by the lake? wtf happened? see #3)

do you mean the lakefront revitaliztion that never happened, or just an unimpressive skyline of mainly condos?

the banking industry almost totally dictates the skyline - unlike other cities

[Moksha]

too many bitter old ex-hipsters complaining about today's twentysomething hipsters ruining "their" city

strollers

[geo]

Yes I have. Just dissing a few things that as you can tell, aren't that big of a deal. The Condo explosion and an ugly yonge street is hardly reason to move.
But the superiority complex of the people is the reason the rest of the country hates us LOL

Yeah I hear ya on everyone else hating us- not my fault they live in Saskatchewan or some sh$t hole ut we're one of the few large North American cities where people actually can live downtown.
I love it!

[travy]

too many bitter old ex-hipsters complaining about today's twentysomething hipsters ruining "their" city

strollers

too many even older ex hipsters living in midwood or some other hood so far away it's in a different area code telling the slightly younger ex hipsters that the city has always been changing and that there's always been a class of bitter, on the way out folks bitching about 'their city changing' when in fact the current real estate price increases are beyond anything the city has experienced before.

i hate strollers too!

[Myron]

too many bitter old ex-hipsters complaining about today's twentysomething hipsters ruining "their" city

strollers

You noticed that ones complaining most about hipsters are the ones who could get easily confused with hipsters regardless of whether or not they are actually hipsters.

[Bill Blake]

You noticed that ones complaining most about hipsters are the ones who could get easily confused with hipsters regardless of whether or not they are actually hipsters.

It's quite apparent you're not a hipster.

[travy]

You noticed that ones complaining most about hipsters are the ones who could get easily confused with hipsters regardless of whether or not they are actually hipsters.

dude, people get shot in my hood for calling the wrong person a hipster. that bulge in those skinny jeans might be gun...

[Long Island Head]

[S&S]

Oh my!!! Jersey

[DJ GOLD D]

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3. the cheapest to live for what it cost to live and what you earn
5. I read that Chi is one of the "greenest" cities

but as someone who is considering Chi, I'm really concerned that i keep hearing this segregated/prejudice thing over and over again. someone said tho who is from chi, that it's not the city but the people who refuse to leave Southside who keep saying that

There are various neighborhoods that are mixed but it's been over time.
we still have some ways to go.
and as for cost of living, I personally feel it cost too much money to live here.
I found many places that are reasonable but there are also other expenses in this city too that make the cost of living a challenge.
The prejudice thing I'm referring to is downtown mainly... there are some not all, caucasians that feel a sense of entitlement of walking down the street and will run right into you to make you move out of the way. or if I'm shopping and I'm looking at a sweater they reach over me right in front of my face and don't say excuse me or nothing and the store isn't even crowded it happens a lot.
5. It is one of the greenest cities but I was just venting because you can never have too many trees.
as for poor air quality I was comparing Chicago to Canada, I went to Van Couver and the air was so clean I got turned out. In B.C., their busses don't emit exaust in the air.

[Jamie 3:26]

There are various neighborhoods that are mixed but it's been over time.
we still have some ways to go.
and as for cost of living, I personally feel it cost too much money to live here.
I found many places that are reasonable but there are also other expenses in this city too that make the cost of living a challenge.
The prejudice thing I'm referring to is downtown mainly... there are some not all, caucasians that feel a sense of entitlement of walking down the street and will run right into you to make you move out of the way. or if I'm shopping and I'm looking at a sweater they reach over me right in front of my face and don't say excuse me or nothing and the store isn't even crowded it happens a lot.
5. It is one of the greenest cities but I was just venting because you can never have too many trees.
as for poor air quality I was comparing Chicago to Canada, I went to Van Couver and the air was so clean I got turned out. In B.C., their busses don't emit exaust in the air.

That BC bud turned you out...tell the truth Ruth...