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Old January 11, 2003, 00:13   #31
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I'd meet up (granted, in a public place most likely) with most any Apolytoner (in save a few)

Hell, I'd even meet up with Speer somewhere. He's not that far away from me
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Old January 11, 2003, 01:45   #32
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Old January 11, 2003, 01:57   #33
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I live just outside of Phoenix, Arizona. The city is mostly suburbs with little in the way of skyline. It just stretches on forever into the horizon. I think the metropolitan area is about 600 square miles. Hotter than hell in the summer but for the other 5 months of the year it is heaven. Reasonably well maintained but has it's bad sections to be avoided. Not enough freeways which makes travel bad, but not total gridlock. If I had a choice I would live in Flagstaff Arizona. I went to college up there and it is heavenly.
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Old January 11, 2003, 02:03   #34
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athens has been desotryed into being a monster of concrete unfortunately.
A bit like Mexico City?
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Old January 11, 2003, 02:17   #35
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Near Washington DC. "The most important city in the most important country in the world".

Hey, I didn't make that up, it was the local slogan for a while. LOL!

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Old January 11, 2003, 04:00   #36
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well I'm white trash, what can I say

I live in a white trash neighborhood right now in Las Vegas.

And yeah Flagstaff was mentioned. That would be a cool place to live. It's nice in that area. Probably too cold for me in the winter
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Old January 11, 2003, 09:20   #37
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What's with the "White Trash" talk? I find it to be a racial slur.
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I live in Haifa, Israel

The city has formed from a couple of villages so old, noone even remembers. Haifa's population is about 250,000, but together with the outlying suburbs it's around 400-500k.

We have the largest port in israel considering the amount of ships that pass in a year. The city has an oil refinery, and a large chemical industry, as well as some high-tech industries. The city is situated on a ridge that pentrates the sea, and slopes down towards a valley of a minor river. We have two universities: one , The Israeli Institute of Technology-Technion, is a major university, and is very respected around the world. It has it's own satellite, and me, as a student. The other is occupied mainly with humanities, and sucks.

The city is also the center of the Baha'i religion, a religion that was started in Persia, in the 19th (?) century. It numbers 6-7 million followers around the world. There is a major Shrine as well as their archive, and world council are situated here. Their shrine and complex are amazing , and are to be considered one of the most beautiful places in the country.

Air and water pollution are a problem because of the factories, but the beaches are clean, since most of them are situated on the other side of the mountain, and we don't get our drinking water from the (toxic) river. Unemployment has also been high lately, because Israel's economy is very tech-oriented.
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I Live in Torino (Turin is the english name).
A big city just on the foot of the Alps. The city was also the first capital of Italy (something that everyone from Turin will just keep stressing you about it) and is currently one of the most important cities (just after Rome and Milan).
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Old January 11, 2003, 12:49   #40
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Austin, Texas

land of ONE season. Winter does not exist.

if the humidity doesnt almost kill you, the stupid drivers on the TOO small interstate will.

school system sucks.(except for the university)

its too freaking hot all the time.

too many tree huggers.








its pretty in some places though....



did I mention its freaking hot as Hades?







I wanna moooooove somewhere else.

Maybe san antonio...
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My family home is in north east london, suburbs much like the suburbs everywhere else in greater london. Too many cars, not enough green, people are ok but tend to avoid any contact with strangers, average crime. One thing that is nice is it is a very very multi-ethnic community, lots of bangladeshis, indians, pakistanis, jews, africans and afro-caribeans. I love walking around the local shopping centres and seeing the diversity of cultures.

I go to university in an appalingly upper-middle class town called Farnham. It's a nice place, lots of fields around and fresh air, but boringly uniform in cultures and attitudes represented. Fortunately the uni has quite a large percentage of foriegn students, all of whom I find fascinating. Lots of norwegans for some reason. Part of the reason I chose to go to uni there is for the contrast to my family home, though. 18 suburbun years of houses as far as the eye can see, smog, and unfriendliness is more than enough for anyone.
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Old January 11, 2003, 14:01   #42
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I live in Geneva in Switzerland.

Actually that is not quite true. Geneva sits right on the Swiss/French border. I live just over the border in France because the rents are a lot cheaper, but it is only 20 minutes into the centre from where I am so it is practically Geneva. Having said that though, although I am so close to the city my house is surrounded by green fields. This is because it is difficult to get a work permit for Geneva when living in France, so the French bit is still very green. (The work permit isn't a problem for me since I have diplomatic status.)

It is quite a nice city. It is on lake Geneve and within sight of the Alps. The weather is nice in summer, but pretty awful in winter when it tends to get misty because of the lake and the mountains. Lots of good skiing nearby though.

It has lots of rich people, which makes it a bit expensive, but means that there are lots of good restaurants and facilities.

Take a look at this site if you want to see what it looks like.
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Not much to tell about this place I live in (Sønderborg, Denmark):

A few years ago, there was "many" netparties, but since an incident in Tønder (Netparty + police = fines), netparties is more seldom (And the few there is, are boring)

So, now the only thing to do in this town is to go to a party, get drunk ASAP, and do the same next day...

Well... there's also a second option (for guys like me, who hates those "Get drunk ASAP" parties): Stay online

The city is too big to relax (~20,000 inhabitans), but too small to being able to do something...
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Old January 11, 2003, 15:34   #44
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i've alwasy lived in the state of NY, USA.

i was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, but i was4 when we moved. there was a gang-banger-drug-related shooting in my apartment and my parents decided it was time to leave.

i was raised in Bellmore, Long Island, the South Shore. close to the beach, nice little suburb. gets kinda quiet if you dont drink 24/7 though, and there are a few "rich" people who think they're better than you, but they're really the same class as you just with a lexus / jag /mercedes for some reason. grandpa probably bought it for them.

i'm getting too far into the social aspect . the suburb is clean, and it's a typical weather for long island, highs about 100 degrees (F) lows a little under 0, and those are extremes. usually we get a nice little 70-90 degree span to live in.

theres a bunch of netarties adg

i now live in Troy, New York, right outisde Albany, and a jump skip and a hop from Canada. i should really get some buds together and take a trip acorss the border one of these days. Troy is a college town really, and it's pretty dirty in the city, a lot of hills (long island was pretty damn flat), etc. the best way i can desribe the normal houses in troy are "ghetto". rickety ass buildings on their last legs that no one cares enough to improve. theres a little gang activity around there, every few days we get fliers posted everywhere: "CRIME ALERT: YOUNG MALE WAS APPROACHED BY SEVERAL AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES, WHO ASKED HIM FOR HIS MONEY. THE VICTIM HAD NONE. THE MALES THEN STABBED HIM IN THE STOMACH AND PROCEEDED TO KICK HIM IN THE FACE". thats oen fo the extreme ones i remember, but there are little ones too (some guy got punched in the face and then the dude ran, proabkly some initiaion thing) and theres also some sex crimes (2 rapes since august). I'm a big dude but even i dont want to walk around troy by myself. The college campus is a little different, but ehhhhh, i still slink away when i see 6 black guys walking together.

the school is only 8% minority btw, and like 70% of that is chinese. so most of the blacks wandering around are from the ghettoes around the campus.

bleh. it's a good school though
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My home village is such a shitty town it's not worth showing, but this is where my uni is and where I live most of the time...
Compared to just 5 years ago, the city has undergone much restoration.. it's actually a beautiful city now, it used to be a grey shitty town..


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Leuven: the capital of beer



The building where i live in (it's not very comfortable on the inside though ) There are aula's in it as well...


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Gaa, can't find my other picture! Anyway, I live a few miles south of downtown (off the lefthand side of the downtown picture).
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thats a little bright, isnt it?
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your pictures don't work Speer.

Rogan Josh - Sounds beautiful
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His pictures work for me, unless you're referring to some deeper sense of their working...
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Austin, Texas




its pretty in some places though....



did I mention its freaking hot as Hades?







I wanna moooooove somewhere else.

Maybe san antonio...
San antonio gets twice as hot as Austin Femme, and twice as humid, did I mention the drivers are twice as crazy???? I know I lived there and I hated it! Sure it's a great place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there EVER AGAIN!
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Actually Austin is the hottest place in Texas because BlackWidow lives there.

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I used to live in many places, big cities like Berlin and Leningrad, medium cities like Leipzig and Dresden, and small ones. By the time (and with increasing age ), I got sick of cities, of all the dust, dirt, noise and chaos on the streets, and moved to a small village in Frankonia.

We have beautiful green hills here, a forest coverage of more than 50%, it's pretty clean (if this can be said in Germany ). I guess for the most of you this place would be boring like hell, but I don't seek entertainment and if I did, Nuremberg, Erlangen and Bamberg are close, 15-30 minutes drive. The living is cheap, we have lots of pubs and restaurants with yummy food, each village has his own brewery, ours has even 2. I'm content. I don't think I ever want to move back to a city again.
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thats a little bright, isnt it?
It is... and it's not a very good picture anyway, but it was the best I could find in three minutes before I had to go to work.

However, light-pollution here in the Truckee Meadows is AWFUL, even at the southern end of the valley far from downtown. Once you get up into the mountains, either up Mount Rose Highway to the southwest or Geiger Grade (Stateroute 431?) to the south east, the night sky is crystal clear. Absolutely breathtaking...
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I live just outside of Lynchburg Virginia, hometown of lynching and Jerry Falwell. I'd say more but it's common knowledge that the police in this area monitor the internet. Ostensibly the're looking for kiddie porn and child molesters, but they may be working for Jerry and I just don't want any trouble.
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Actually Austin is the hottest place in Texas because BlackWidow lives there.

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