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  • eat me
    Senior Member
    • May 2009
    • 648

    cities we live in

    I was just interested to get an opinion of SZ members on different places to live. Like, where do you live and whether you like it, or not, and for what reasons.

    I was musing on where would be a good place to live and couldn't really reach a satisfactory conclusion.

    I live in London now, north. And while London is a great city, it definitely helps if you're loaded. Also, it's not the best place in terms of value for money. The Government is thrashing the place faster than you can blink, the minority and liberal groups are taking over common sense, the weather sucks, the property prices are out of this world, many streets are dirty and overrun by ignorant people and the crime doesn't help either.

    On the other hand, there's plenty to do if you have the means, the fashion culture is great, there's always something going on, the rhythm of life is contagious and you generally feel like you live in an up-to-date place.

    So how is your place? And what are your thoughts on other places to live? Maybe you thought of moving and where?
  • Faust
    kitsch killer
    • Sep 2006
    • 37852

    #2
    As far as US goes, I don't see myself anywhere else outside of New York, maybe with the exception of San Francisco. There is just too much going on, and the ambiance here is unparalleled - the vibe you get on the weekend is just so alive and full of energy - I have not encountered it elsewhere.

    Having said that - New York can be an extremely alienating place if you don't have money and/or friends. One may feel like Tantalus, all these beautiful and awesome experiences are within your hand's (mouth's?) reach, but you can't have them or have no one to enjoy them with.

    It also has changed a lot since 9/11. Consumerism is so ridiculously rampant that everything has become about money. SoHo has become a big mall, new areas get gentrified faster than you can blink, clubs are full of jersey meatheads bleeding money, trends are too strong, making everyone look the same. When you start seeing restaurants popping up that don't even have a number listed, you know the city has problems. It's no longer about money, but about the type of people they want as customers. Hopefully this recession will correct a thing or two.

    I still want to move to Europe for a few years - even if to just have my illusions shattered and realize that the grass is truly greener on the other side.
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    • Vanna
      Senior Member
      • May 2008
      • 1217

      #3
      Originally posted by merz
      in LA.
      Would like to escape.
      help.
      I hear you. I'm in the DC area and need to get the funk out.
      Life is a hiiighway

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      • philip nod
        Senior Member
        • Aug 2007
        • 5903

        #4
        Originally posted by merz
        in LA.
        Would like to escape.
        help.
        its damn near impossible. you'll need to become spock for that. la is a black hole eating itself alive from the inside.

        One wonders where it will end, when everything has become gay.

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        • Classique
          Senior Member
          • Apr 2008
          • 126

          #5
          Las Vegas - Ridiculously conceited women (And I lived in Los Angeles.) 106 degrees Fahrenheit reads as casual weather for 6 months; Hell, must be jealous. Residents are as braindead as the desert, landscapes. Tacky Casino architecture & cheap clone housing (Suburban wasteland.) Ranked #1 in most negative aspects of, public school education; Altho the library collection is fucking awesome! Independent films, museums... Hahaha. The Las Vegas, Film Festival had a college students work on this 50's monster alien invador, cockroach. Small Business, cemetery; Grocery store is a car drive away... 7-11 count?

          Bottom line, visit Las Vegas from Novemer - April with like $10,000 cash: Even so, that sum of money is not guaranteed to last you a day from the typical, gaming addiction. (Heard it all, never surprises me to witness the fall.)

          But, Vegas is beautiful... Mascara beauties it's ugly face.

          Visit, Vegas.com.

          Imagine you never read this.

          Cirque Du Soleil, Comedian Heaven, Incredible restaurants...

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          • Chinorlz
            Senior Member
            • Sep 2006
            • 6422

            #6
            corsair, what part of texas are you at?
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            Merz (5/22/09):"i'm a firm believer that the ultimate prevailing logic in design is 'does shit look sick as fuck' "

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            • Chinorlz
              Senior Member
              • Sep 2006
              • 6422

              #7
              haha, random!

              Envious of your Parisian move... another 2 years here before I can get out.
              www.AlbertHuangMD.com - Digital Portfolio Of Projects & Designs

              Merz (5/22/09):"i'm a firm believer that the ultimate prevailing logic in design is 'does shit look sick as fuck' "

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              • Sombre
                Senior Member
                • Jan 2009
                • 1291

                #8
                I live in Boston (here for school), and right now I really like it. If you're a student there's no shortage of peers, and since most students here are from elsewhere, they're pretty outgoing and it's easy to make friends. It's also the first city in the US I ever lived in, and it was such a welcome change to being in the middle of nowhere for two years that I think I was bound to love it. Plus, it's easy to get to know the place. You can walk anywhere as it's not that big.

                Of course the size is a double-edged sword. I probably wouldn't enjoy living here permanently because Boston would get too small too fast. Also, outside of the academic circle the people here are stiflingly homogeneous, and that adds to the feeling of constriction one can feel here.

                Overall, I would say it's a great place to live for a few years, but not indefinitely.
                An artist is not paid for his labor, but for his vision. - James Whistler

                Originally posted by BBSCCP
                I order 1 in every size, please, for every occasion

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                • coup de grace
                  x
                  • Sep 2006
                  • 1647

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Classique View Post
                  Residents are as braindead as the desert, landscapes. Tacky Casino architecture.
                  funny, this is precisely the appeal of vegas for me, as a non-resident.

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                  • zamb
                    Senior Member
                    • Nov 2006
                    • 5834

                    #10
                    Living in NYC since 2001,
                    Lived in Miami for two years but hated it.
                    Kinda stuck in the third level of NYC (Queens, with Manhattan and Brooklyn being the first two) right now. I really don't see myself living anywhere else (other than Jamaica, and every time I visit I find some reason to not want to go back) There is a great jamaican community here, so I can connect with my roots, this is a Fashion Capital, so I can practice my profession at the highest level. there are great thinkers here so I can be intellectually fullfilled...........Never really cared too much about being rich or living too fancy so not going to the fancy restuarants and parties on a regular basis does'nt bother me...............Matter of fact, the Church is my party, as I am a deeply religious man. so long as I can pray, eat, work and hang out with a few wonderful friends I am cool.
                    The only too things I dont like about New York is the cold weather during winter (which is not so much of a problem now that I drive) and the fact that my wife is not here yet.
                    I hope to visit Europe sometime soon, thanks to my wife in changing the wedding date last year, my anniversarry falls too close to Paris (mens) fashion week, so I can't get to joint the crew there this year...................
                    “You know,” he says, with a resilient smile, “it is a hard world for poets.”
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                    • Sombre
                      Senior Member
                      • Jan 2009
                      • 1291

                      #11
                      ^As far as Jamaica goes, I wouldn't return to live there because the intellectual and social scopes to me are too limited. Moreover, in my experience, people there are reluctant to accept anything too different from the norm. Plus, Jamaica is actually too hot for me.
                      An artist is not paid for his labor, but for his vision. - James Whistler

                      Originally posted by BBSCCP
                      I order 1 in every size, please, for every occasion

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                      • zamb
                        Senior Member
                        • Nov 2006
                        • 5834

                        #12
                        [quote=SombreResplendence;152322]^As far as Jamaica goes, I wouldn't return to live there because the intellectual and social scopes to me are too limited. quote]

                        This I can can agree on, but more than this it is the mediocrity and the pervesion of Justice that bothers me. I always had my circle of friends that fullfilled my intellectual and social needs

                        Originally posted by SombreResplendence View Post
                        ^ in my experience, people there are reluctant to accept anything too different from the norm. .
                        what else do you expect in a third world country?, the rate of change in places like these will always be slower than places like the USA. this can at times be a good thing..........Also I am a man of as much emotions as I am intellect, and there is an emotional connection i have to JA that i dont feel anywhere else


                        Originally posted by SombreResplendence View Post
                        Jamaica is actually too hot for me.
                        I am a warm weather Guy, after all, I would have been about three to four inchers slimmer in the waist if i was living in JA
                        Last edited by zamb; 05-31-2009, 11:07 PM.
                        “You know,” he says, with a resilient smile, “it is a hard world for poets.”
                        .................................................. .......................


                        Zam Barrett Spring 2017 Now in stock

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                        • Sombre
                          Senior Member
                          • Jan 2009
                          • 1291

                          #13
                          [QUOTE=zamb;152325]
                          Originally posted by SombreResplendence View Post
                          ^As far as Jamaica goes, I wouldn't return to live there because the intellectual and social scopes to me are too limited. quote]

                          This I can can agree on, but more than this it is the Mediocrity and the pervesion of Justice that bothers me. I always had my circle of friends that fullfilled my intellectual and social needs


                          what else do you expect in a third world country?, the rate of change in places like these will always be slwer than places like the USA. this can at times be a good thing..........Also I am a man of as muh emotions as I am intellect, and there is an emotional connection i have to JA that i dont feel anywhere else



                          I am a warm weather Guy, after all, I would have been about three to four inchers slimmer in the waist if i was living in JA
                          You make good points, and you make me realize that my friends there are quite discerning so long as they can relate to the issues being discussed. I think for me it's a side-effect of living in the US. After becoming accustomed to having every viewpoint if not accepted, then at least heard fairly, it's disappointing when some are struck down hastily.

                          I completely agree about the perversion of justice. "Jungle justice" seems to be the prevalent form, if you can even call it that.

                          I hear what you say about the emotional connection. I think my first two years here caused a numbness in me that still pervades. so i tend not to think about it. Then I'm reminded every time I go back that I've been going in a completely different direction since I left. I'm actually starting to feel like a foreigner there.
                          An artist is not paid for his labor, but for his vision. - James Whistler

                          Originally posted by BBSCCP
                          I order 1 in every size, please, for every occasion

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                          • eat me
                            Senior Member
                            • May 2009
                            • 648

                            #14
                            Having said that - New York can be an extremely alienating place if you don't have money and/or friends. One may feel like Tantalus, all these beautiful and awesome experiences are within your hand's (mouth's?) reach, but you can't have them or have no one to enjoy them with.
                            Faust, so true. Perhaps, it's true for every megapolis, or only selected 'lucky' ones?

                            still want to move to Europe for a few years
                            Where to?

                            merz, any details on LA and why do want to gtfo of there?

                            April with like $10,000 cash: Even so, that sum of money is not guaranteed to last you a day from the typical, gaming addiction.
                            Classique, if I'll have $10k gaming would be the last thing on my mind :).

                            Living in NYC since 2001 <...> this is a Fashion Capital
                            huh? zamb, come on, you know better than that.

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                            • prednisone
                              Member
                              • Nov 2007
                              • 48

                              #15
                              What I've read in this thread about LA reflects some of the general sentiments I've picked up on other forums regarding the city (or city of cities rather). I've read the horror stories about peoples' attitudes, the urban sprawl, the traffic, the lack of public transportation. But what about coastal LA? Are the troubles pretty much the same throughout LA?

                              I visited DC recently, and while it's a decent place to visit, I realized I'd never want to live there (especially given the cost of living in that area compared to what the city has to offer).
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