I hate where I live.

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Likewise, I'm sure many of you agree.
I don't actually hate it. I've grown bored of it. 18 years in Dallas is too much. </p>

<p>But what I've noticed is that people tend to hate where they live. Hate is probably too strong of a word, but the underlying idea is still the same: I want out; you do too.</p>

<p>Now I'm sure there are a good number of you guys who love where you live. Kudos to you.</p>

<p>But I just find this funny:
Kids here, in Dallas...aspire to go to California. Generally speaking. A good hand full (e.g. Me) also like the Northeast. Specifically NEW YORK or BOSTON... and then there is always those one or two kids who want to go somewhere like Japan or France or something.</p>

<p>Kids in California all aspire to go to the Northeast.
Kids in the Northeast generally aspire to go to California, maybe Florida. </p>

<p>We use College as an excuse to go FAR... some of us, at least. So I'm quite curious as to what many of you have to say.
I want you to tell me why you want to leave your city, and what about the place you want to go draws you.
i.e. bash your hometown and glorify where you want to go.</p>

<p>I'll start.
Obviously there are people who aspire to come here... not very many, mind you. I can sort of see why. The city here is not really a city. It's a big suburb with too many malls. I dislike the strong religious undertones everywhere. The city feels quite dead to me. What is it mostly, is that it's a big suburb with too many malls.
I like Boston and New York. I like urban areas. I like riding subways. Dallas' metro is more of a trolley-train thing no one uses. I like being able to walk around, and not have to drive everywhere. I like the feeling of being lost amongst the crowd. I like the density. </p>

<p>I used to want to go to California...but San Fran doesn't really satisfy that need for urban life. Los Angeles is also a mess; it's like Dallas...except it's in a much cooler place with better weather. I also find Californians to be disproportionately weirder. </p>

<p>Now, like I said, I want to hear WHERE you want to go...and WHY you want to go there. I also want to hear WHY you don't (or do, I guess...to include those of you who like 'home') like where you live.
ready.set.go.</p>

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<p>I live in SB, Cali and I want to go to New Jersey, I was born there and miss the foggy weather (IDK why),</p>

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<p>I actually kind of like where I live. Despite the cold winters, Minneapolis is a great city to live in with an astonishingly low crime rate and with clean ‘green’ areas.</p>

<p>However, I would like to get out of here for college. I wouldn’t want to go to California because of the hot weather nearly year round. I wouldn’t wanna stay in the Midwest either unless it’s Chicago (lived in 3 Midwestern states…) so I’d go to the Northeast, likewise. The NE part of the US offers amazing universities along with vibrant, large metropolitan cities and attractions. Because of this, the NE hotelier attracts people from everywhere, resulting in a diverse environment which I love. And the weather is pretty cool as well!</p>

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<p>Typo…hostlier should be corner. Dang iPhone!</p>

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<p>And yet… It’s not Darfur.</p>

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<p>Originated in CT, lived in North Jersey, boarding school in MA, college in Philly, then plan on a job in NY(manhattan)</p>

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<p>I was born in Tennessee, but I moved to Guam when I was around a month old.
After that I moved to Samoa, then to Redondo Beach in California, then back to Tennessee.</p>

<p>I’m going back to California if it’s the last thing I do. I’d rather have hot Cali weather + earthquakes than ****ty Tennessee weather + tornadoes. My city is notorious for its crime, murders, etc; the only good college we have here is Rhodes. I want to go because there are so many opportunities in California, my family is close by, and so is the beach :D</p>

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<p>I live in Boston and love it.</p>

<p>As the nation’s oldest city, it developed organically. Instead of grid layout, it has long, windy, narrow, sometimes cobblestone streets. I love it: grid layouts are pretty boring. It also has an abundance of public green space. There’s the Esplanade, the Common, the Public Garden, Copley Square, and many more places where you could just walk and look and enjoy life. Connecting all this is the MBTA, which is often even faster than drving those narrow streets. If you wanna go to New York from Boston, there is the high speed train Acela Express that whisks you there in comfort in just over three hours. </p>

<p>Another thing I love about Boston is the people. We have a reputation for being a bit cold and standoffish. But that’s because we aren’t fake. We won’t say “miss you” if we wouldn’t really. Once you really get to know Bostonians, however, we’ll be just like family. Another thing is that so many people here are educated, and there are a lot of great schools. If you meet a random person, odds are they went or are planning to go to a four year college. Many of the people I meet my age actually care about their education, and we are able to talk about politics, not celebrities.</p>

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[St</a>. Augustine, Florida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Augustine,_Florida]St”>St. Augustine, Florida - Wikipedia)</p>

<p>But that’s just European. They get much older.</p>

<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_cities_by_year_of_foundation[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_cities_by_year_of_foundation&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Saint Augustine isn’t a city. It’s a town. Other than the fact it has a mayor, not a town council (officially making it a city), it has no characteristics of a city. It does not have a metropolitan area. It itself is a suburb of Jacksonville. </p>

<p>Alright, you got me. Zuni Pueblo, New Mexico, population 6,500, is the oldest city in the US.</p>

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<p>St. Augustine is classified as a city. It is hardly a suburb; have you been there? It is quite surely a city.</p>

<p>Also, look to the list I linked to; there are a lot of cities in the US founded before Boston (New York City, a few in Virginia, a bunch in Massachusetts itself, several Southwestern). I have never heard it referred to as the oldest city in the US.</p>

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<p>I <3 DC.
homeeee</p>

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<p>It has 11k people and is near a much bigger city.</p>

<p>I looked further, and New York was founded before Boston. So you win.</p>

<p>My point was is that is the largest city that was laid out before the automobile and has that layout surving (ie Manhattan has nothing in it remaining of the past) </p>

<p>But anyway, Boston, Manhattan, Washington, it doesn’t matter, they’re the best three cities in the nation.</p>

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So you haven’t been there. It is unmistakably a city; proximity to a larger city makes it no less a city. Indeed, it has tons of historic buildings and weird cobbled roads and such things that you like about Boston, plus a giant fort.</p>

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Yes, I mentioned that in an above post.</p>

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Actually, Manhattan was built in the street/building pattern that it retains today. Rather than the “build as we go outwards” model, they did a grid with wide streets; seemingly extra wide for the time, but perfect for the day when the automobile would rule the road.</p>

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<p>I live in the small town of Chelsea in northeast Oklahoma, and I DESPISE it. It’s too hick, Christian, ignorant, Conservative (liberal here is a bad word), Close-minded, and selfish here. Grant it, several of these problems can’t be solved by moving (a lot of people are ignorant and selfish), but as a Black, Agnostic, Liberal, Otaku I don’t fit in here at all. Most kids in my school are 3rd or 4th generation Chelsea students so this town’s been in it’s own world since it was founded. It’s like a black hole that sucks people in and KEEPS THEM THERE. Its one of my top reasons to do good in school because I can’t live my life here, I’d become too depressed. There’s no jobs I’d like to have, not a group I can express my interests with, and no men I’d be willing to marry here, so if I don’t leave, my life will never start.</p>

<p>As far as where I want to move too, I would like to live in either Japan or somewhere in the pacific northwest like the Olympic Peninsula. I love almost everything about the Japanese culture. I love the art, the language, the architecture, the customs, the religions, the schooling, the environment, the traditions, the food, honor system, entertainment, style-- basically everything. The only things I dislike about Japan (even though they are some pretty big things) is the sexism and bigotry, but this is getting much better, and considering where I live, it’s probably not much worse (they still have Klan meetings here). I also don’t like the earthquakes/volcanoes because they’re deadly. </p>

<p>But I’m afraid that Japan is going down the crapper right now, so my favorite place in the US is Washington. It rains a lot, isn’t very hot, seems pretty quiet, and is very green. Also, Seattle seems fairly artsy, and I like artsy. It would be fairly easy to practice my within nature lifestyle If I was living there. It’s definitely my second choice if Japan doesn’t work out.</p>

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<p>A pseudo-intellectual comment based upon a superficial, incoherent knowledge base.</p>

<p>It is not hot year round. Only from June to early September is it hot (80 to 100+ degrees). Otherwise, it’s just 60-ish degree weather. And this is just southern California. Lately it’s been raining and so damn windy and cold too. It’s even colder in northern California. Check yo facts</p>

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<p>@Thread/OP</p>

<p>From Socal and I wanna go to Boston or New York City. So many Asians here, I need a change in setting</p>

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<p>I live in Alabama, going to Tennessee for Vandy then either Cali or Cambridge for med school.</p>

<p>The place where I live is sub-par, but it could be worse.</p>

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<p>I want to go anywhere :P</p>

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<p>Lol. Who’s the incoherent, pseudo-intellectual one?</p>

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<p>@thecaboose NYC still does retain the way it looked at its founding. If you’ve been to Wall St. and the whole financial district the way the streets are laid out is very European, and remained the way the Dutch laid it out. Manhattan has never changed and retains its early colonial layout.</p>