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Start here => Free For ALL => Topic started by: Natalia Evans on October 11, 2007, 11:47:25 AM
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Portland is better. B&J should move here. London is better too. Cars are uneeded and you can take buses or trains to get to places. But we don't have undergrounds but we have lightrails though and street cars in downtown so there. And we have a lot more going on and so does London. We have more malls than Spokane. Plus my boyfriend is here and if I have moved to Spokane I would have never met him and I would still probably be single struggling meeting men while here it was a lot easier because there is a lot more people here and a community with people who meet the same kinky interest as me. I doubt there is one in Spokane. Vision Quest should have taken place here and Mozart and the Whale ;D. Benny & Joon should have too, duh lot of trains pass through here too. I hear them all the time. I guess the director didn't know that lol.
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Lancaster.
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Not a city per-se, but Lander, Wyoming is most definately better. It's pretty, it's in Wyoming, and it has some stuff.
It's nice and small too, no crows or anything like that so it's a comfortable place to live.
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Manchester
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pretty much anywhere that doesn't act as the setting for shit romantic comedies.
Especially York, which is much nicer than Lancaster. :moon:
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I loved York when I went there, haven't been for ages though. Manchester, London, York and Chester.
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NEW YORK is better. Especially Manhattan. ;D
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Cities yuck too many people :bunny:
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Cities yuck too many people :bunny:
Agreed, I'v stayed in Boston, NYC, Portland Maine, Pittsfield Mass. Albany NY. Springfield/Ahmerst Mass. Give me a small town anyday!
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Fucking Newark NJ is better than spokane.
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pretty much anywhere that doesn't act as the setting for shit romantic comedies.
Especially York, which is much nicer than Lancaster. :moon:
Part of my family has genealogical roots there, and since I found out I've always wanted to check it out, although that's kind of a stupid reason because most white people probably have genealogical roots all over Europe.
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There's plenty of reasons to check out York. Its alive with history, friendly, not too large but plenty to do. There are some good pubs too. I'd move there if I could afford it.
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There are some good pubes too. I'd move there if I could afford it.
Really?
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Cities yuck too many people :bunny:
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your mom.
Now, Y'all really should have asked me
questions.
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I've never been to York. So I can't say whether it's as nice as a warm meat pie or as vile as lying in your own sick all night.
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Few things are nicer than a warm meat pie.
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Few things are nicer than a warm meat pie.
With melted vanilla icecream! :P
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Most of the California Central Coast is better than Spokane.
You have the nice weather of Cali, and nice beaches, minus the big cities of San Diego, L.A. Area and the Bay Area.
If I could live anywhere, it would probably be in Pismo Beach, or San Louis Obispo. 8)
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California has even more boring weather than spokane.
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California has even more boring weather than spokane.
I do miss having thunderstorms. :'(
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Cities yuck too many people :bunny:
Agreed, I'v stayed in Boston, NYC, Portland Maine, Pittsfield Mass. Albany NY. Springfield/Ahmerst Mass. Give me a small town anyday!
Come on guys. Cities own. Small towns are :yawn:
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:agreed:
But ANYTHING'S better than suburbs.
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Fucking Newark NJ is better than spokane.
Agreed, if you happen to like that Blade Runner level of industrial strength dystopian fucked-uppedness and urban blight.
I think that the original Portland, that being my home town of Portland, Maine is probably better than Spokane, or at least it's better than the two days that I spent stranded at the Husky Truckstop in Spokane before I caught a ride out of there on a trip that I took in 1985.
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I thought the original was in the UK. ???
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I thought the original was in the UK. ???
The name of the city of Portland, Oregon was allegedly decided at the flip of a coin. Most of the early settlers there were from New England, what with the logging as well as the ocean being relatively nearby. The two names that they had settled upon were Portland, (After Portland, Maine) and Boston ( After Boston Mass.). Those two towns were originally named by English settlers in the 17th and 18th Centuries after the English Ports of Boston, ( St. Botolph's Town) and Portland.
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Cities yuck too many people :bunny:
Agreed, I'v stayed in Boston, NYC, Portland Maine, Pittsfield Mass. Albany NY. Springfield/Ahmerst Mass. Give me a small town anyday!
Come on guys. Cities own. Small towns are :yawn:
Just another example of a different perspective. 8) You go for what works for you QC!! :plus:
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Gore.
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Cities yuck too many people :bunny:
Agreed, I'v stayed in Boston, NYC, Portland Maine, Pittsfield Mass. Albany NY. Springfield/Ahmerst Mass. Give me a small town anyday!
Come on guys. Cities own. Small towns are :yawn:
Just another example of a different perspective. 8) You go for what works for you QC!! :plus:
I prefer to sleep in a small town, within a reasonably short drive to a big city. When I want culture I can find it. When I want to watch birds and squirrels, I go to my back yard.
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Cities yuck too many people :bunny:
Agreed, I'v stayed in Boston, NYC, Portland Maine, Pittsfield Mass. Albany NY. Springfield/Ahmerst Mass. Give me a small town anyday!
Come on guys. Cities own. Small towns are :yawn:
Just another example of a different perspective. 8) You go for what works for you QC!! :plus:
I prefer to sleep in a small town, within a reasonably short drive to a big city. When I want culture I can find it. When I want to watch birds and squirrels, I go to my back yard.
We live within an hours drive of the Portland Maine area. And there is always something going on to interests us. Like taking Amber to the Lippizaner Stallions. Plus a local Folk Singer, Carol Noonan just opened up a small dinner/music stage in a converted barn in a nearby town. Amber and Carla have gone to see shows there. we live in a pretty culturally active area.
But, when it's time to sleep or do things outside, I like the quiet, broken only by the wind, thunder and lightning, rain, etc. 8)
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LIVERPOOL and in caps too.
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Liverpool is a shithole. And the accent is wack too, la :puke:
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Liverpool is a shithole. And the accent is wack too, la :puke:
Also, they used to have a reputation for churning out shitty music. Not sure if they still do, though. :laugh:
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It wasn't ALL bad. The Teardrop Explodes and The Boo Radleys (apart from Wake Up! which sucked balls) were both ok.
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:laugh:
I didn't know the Boo Radleys were from Liverpool.
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The City of the Dead
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i've been to liverpool once.
won't be going back.
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If SG likes Spokane, can we safely say it's not a city, but a shithole? :P
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ass?
'parently not.
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Damn the Liverpool accent makes me shudder- it sounds like they're talking through a mouthful of phlegm.
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Boo Radleys makes me think of the store in downtown Spokane I like going in and my favorite movie.
"Having a Boo Radley moment are we," Joon to Sam as she serves him her breakfast drink.
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:agreed:
But ANYTHING'S better than suburbs.
Meh, suburbs are better than small towns too.
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Cities yuck too many people :bunny:
Agreed, I'v stayed in Boston, NYC, Portland Maine, Pittsfield Mass. Albany NY. Springfield/Ahmerst Mass. Give me a small town anyday!
Come on guys. Cities own. Small towns are :yawn:
Just another example of a different perspective. 8) You go for what works for you QC!! :plus:
Thanks, Ozy...you too. :)
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I lived out in the suburbs for a while when I was growing up. Then when I was 12, the city re drew the city line and we were now living in the city until we moved out to Montana which I hated. But I knew I get out by the time I am 21 hopefully and that's what I did. 21 on the nose it was.
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:agreed:
But ANYTHING'S better than suburbs.
Meh, suburbs are better than small towns too.
I disagree. I grew up in a fairly small town.
'Twas boring, but nowhere near as unfriendly
as people in the 'burbs tend to be. Plus, there were
places one could go, by walking.
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Damn the Liverpool accent makes me shudder- it sounds like they're talking through a mouthful of phlegm.
Yes there accents are really hard to understand. When I started to watch The Beatles movies I had to put the captions setting on to understand what they were saying. After watching A Hard Days Night a couple times I understood and perfectly have been able to imitate their accents. At school kids would be all "Marlys! do the British accent!"
Why don't British people sound British when they sing?
Anyways the Beatles would make shitty pirates. Instead of "ARRRRRRRRR" They would say "ahhhhhhh"
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I don't think regional accents do completely disappear when people sing, but I do agree that they are less noticeable. The Beatles clearly sound British though when they sing imo.
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:agreed:
But ANYTHING'S better than suburbs.
Meh, suburbs are better than small towns too.
I disagree. I grew up in a fairly small town.
'Twas boring, but nowhere near as unfriendly
as people in the 'burbs tend to be. Plus, there were
places one could go, by walking.
It depends on the small town I guess. The kind I hate is where there are no places you can really walk to and the only stores in the town close really early. Having to drive hours to go to the movies or a mall is ridiculous.
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Not big on movies or malls. Grew up in just such
a place, really. I considered my experiences far
superior to kids I knew who grew up in more
suburban areas. Plus, there was definitely more
interaction between neighbors. Yards were smaller
in town. People knew one another. When I was
at my dad's (in NJ), no one came out of their houses.
I'm not social, but I like other people to be so.
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If I were you, I'd move to Seattle. But then again if I were me I'd move to Seattle. Been trying to move there for three years. Maybe when I graduate.
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NW sucks.
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I heard Seattle is very expensive but I heard Portland's expensive too but I make it.
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all cities are shit
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Vancover, Canada kicks.
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...the bucket.
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I heard Seattle is very expensive but I heard Portland's expensive too but I make it.
Everyone says that when I tell them that that's where I want to go.
Meh. Living costs go up, wages go up. Maybe not proportionally, but the extra energy I'll have by being somewhere that isn't here would more than make up for that.
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Most of the California Central Coast is better than Spokane.
You have the nice weather of Cali, and nice beaches, minus the big cities of San Diego, L.A. Area and the Bay Area.
If I could live anywhere, it would probably be in Pismo Beach, or San Louis Obispo. 8)
That is until the California People's Republic took over Sacramento.
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Mandurah isn't too bad. It's halfway between a town and a city. Also about 50 minutes by train to Perth, the most isolated capital city in the world.
Mandurah just got a new bridge:
(https://www.mainroads.wa.gov.au/PublishingImages/Mandurah%20Traffic%20Bridge%20aerial%20west.RCN-D16%5E2355687.PNG)
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I would much prefer London.... seeing that I haven't been to the West Coast .-.
Also Portland sort of sounds boring, no baseball team... except the minor league teams, and maybe being broadcast territory for the Mariners.
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London is nice.
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Regional accents can come through very strong sometimes in singing.
https://youtu.be/Gs2Hj41J41Q?list=PLC73B4084B00B8CC2 the regional accent comes through very clearly here, I've quite a few of Enter Shikari's albums and its easily discernable in all of them, bar the first track, before 'Solidarity', the intro track on 'common dreads' which features samplings of voices throughout the world and different languages) but otherwise it does.
That said they sound like a scouser accent to me rather than london
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Regional accents can come through very strong sometimes in singing.
https://youtu.be/Gs2Hj41J41Q?list=PLC73B4084B00B8CC2 the regional accent comes through very clearly here, I've quite a few of Enter Shikari's albums and its easily discernable in all of them, bar the first track, before 'Solidarity', the intro track on 'common dreads' which features samplings of voices throughout the world and different languages) but otherwise it does.
That said they sound like a scouser accent to me rather than london
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Shouting out to Pittsburgh and Johnstown and my Pennsylvania cousins! 8)
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I would much prefer London.... seeing that I haven't been to the West Coast .-.
Also Portland sort of sounds boring, no baseball team... except the minor league teams, and maybe being broadcast territory for the Mariners.
There's more to life and cities than baseball. :P
If I had the money, I'd spend much of the year in Stateline Nevada, on the shores of Lake Tahoe.
(http://img-aws.ehowcdn.com/560x560p/photos.demandstudios.com/getty/article/178/36/88018956.jpg)