Reviews & Comments
San Francisco, CA
re: No.
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7/15/2020Do not "enjoy the food", especially if sitting at a table next to the window at any SF restaurant.. The view is most likely going to be disappointing unless you think that seeing a homeless guy taking a...
Port Charlotte, FL
re: Port Charlotte Living
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7/4/2020John u are the angry east coast guy u are talking about. Get yo self back to Poconos with the rest of the riff raff!!
Austin, TX
re: A living hell
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6/24/2020Another example of a US city that used to be good 30 years ago, got discovered, than overpopulated, followed by high housing costs followed by all usual problems of a city in decline. Portland Seattle San Fran NYC Los Angeles San Diego Miami and on and on.
Tulsa, OK
re: Lived In Tulsa For 27 years & Still Love
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6/20/2020Awful review. Lazy narrator. No details Just I like it, so there
Tulsa, OK
re: Lived In Tulsa For 27 years & Still Love
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6/20/2020Awful review. Lazy narrator. No details Just I like it, so there
Austin, TX
re: Austin is overrated
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6/1/2020Regarding Christophers response below: There has been a new ordinance passed that it now must be 1050 feet. This will change everything.
Austin, TX
re: Austin is overrated
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6/1/2020To your credit, at least you stayed there long enough to really get to know the place, by virtue of the fullness of time, to give it a fair, deliberate and thorough review.
Miami, FL
re: Unless you earn 6 figures, go elsewhere
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5/21/2020You do not Have to work in Miami to have money, You just need to have money. What's with this Work Mantra peppering your post.
Miami, FL
re: Visit, vacation, don’t live here.
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5/21/2020Santa Clarita is a Pit outside of the single most undesirable city (LA) in the United States though I have to say
Houston, TX
re: As Someone Who's Lived in Houston for 2 d
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5/4/2020where overseas would that be
New York, NY
re: new pork city
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4/19/2020Born and raised in NY. Spot on review. It;s everything I have thought over the years but you worded it better than I could. I think maybe when you're young. It's like one of those "it" cities, Los Angeles would be another example that in your 20s might make sense. Five roommates in a one-bedroom. I don't like the gentrification. Very sterile now. Much more fun in the 70s and 80s. The city had grit and edginess. Regular Joe type shot and beer joints/bars can't exist anymore. Can't pay the rent. So now flagship Abercrombie and Fitch corporate garbage moves in. This is appealing for soccer moms from Minneapolis with real estate licenses that want to raise their kids in the city but the stuff that made the city fun for me is gone now. You're right about the culture and arts. I never really knew what that meant anyway. "City has great culture". What does that even mean?. You couldn't pay me to go to a Broadway play. I don't really like the opera. I don't like spending hours leafing through old books at Soho bookstores. I can't remember the last time I was in a museum. Actually you mentioned 3000 a month for rent. I was paying $4500 per month and it wasn't that great of a one-bedroom apartment. No washer and dryer remember that. Also no central air-conditioning. Don't believe the "you don't need a car" mantra. Maybe if you never want to leave the city that's true but I always wanted to leave the city. The Northeast has some beautiful geographical spots and the train doesn't go to every one of them. So I kept a car and I used it a lot. At least once a week I would get out of the city so I needed the car but that was an additional $700 a month just for underground parking on top of the $4500 a month rent. I moved to Las Vegas. Could've been anywhere else but I chose Las Vegas and here I've got a brand-new 2020 construction home with a two car garage washer and dryer three zone AC the works, for $1400 a month. There are shows and bands and whatever else you want to see along the strip and instead of paying $150 per month for a gym membership at a gym that was the size of a walk-in closet in New York City I pay $20 per month for a gym that literally is 75,000 ft.² large with thousands of pieces of equipment. The trade-off isn't worth living in New York unless you've got your claws in real estate or you've got some big seven figure job working at the bank's but then those kinds of guys are really living in New York living in penthouses and taking helicopters to Teterboro to their private planes. That's a different story but for anyone lower middle-class/middle-class/upper-middle-class is no rationale for it. The city does offer good benefits for government jobs and there are a million government employees in New York state. That's where your tax dollars are going to. New York is broke. Houses on Long Island have a $30,000 per year property tax. That's 30,000 and that's every year. There are some spots in the suburbs where you might be able to get away with $15-$20,000 a year but you gotta be kidding me $20,000 a year for what. Except for New York City/Boston and the surrounding suburbs and outskirts, the Northeast is not that congested. My choice would be to live within a couple of hours of the city where housing costs are a third and so are the taxes. The Northeast is a beautiful part of the country.
Tampa, FL
re: Tampa is no Silicon Valley or Research Tr
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4/12/2020Geek needs Seattle. Good Rat-hole for techno-nerds. Try San Francisco. good bums all the way around. good bums in Seattle too,
Las Vegas, NV
re: Great plyace to live!
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4/10/2020 Bugs + Flat + HUMIDITY = FLORIDA
Las Vegas, NV
re: Great plyace to live!
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4/10/2020 Bugs + Flat + HUMIDITY = FLORIDA
Fayetteville, AR
re: Arkansas is fattening
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3/31/2020Seattle has a lot of fatties too. I mean a lot. It's all relative. Miami nightlife on Friday compare the girls bodies going out. Seattle females are not necessarily carrying 60 extra pounds of mass but they are carrying 20. The PNW is no picnic for single men. The women are an abomination. Maybe worse than San Fran and Portland and that's saying something. Don't get me started on the lack of makeup and ridiculous multiple piercing tattoos and strange green and orange hair coloring choices
Fayetteville, AR
re: Not a good place for non-whites, overrate
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3/31/2020I am a middle aged White guy and in today's America that's the minority. So please get off of the ...bad place for minorities routine, It's old and dated.
Boston, MA
re: Overrated
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3/31/2020By diversity you mean more Blacks. Diversity keeps cohesion at bay.
Tampa, FL
re: Make $18+ an hour & have a car if you mov
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3/12/2020An educated person in his thirties...Oh my, What a Unicorn. We don't have any of those here.
Los Angeles, CA
re: Not a place to live
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2/27/2020Very concisely put. No need to pontificate. The place Sucks. 1980's OK, but not great. 1990's Bad. 2000's Terrible. 2020's>>Horrible.
Monterey, CA
re: How wealthy are we talking about?
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2/11/2020No everything else is free.
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
re: Healthy lifestyle if you find the champio
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1/19/2020Great review of the city, Thanks! Could you write us out an expose' on the mating habits of the Ivory Billed Woodpecker.
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
re: A great place to live
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1/19/2020What this Dork is trying to say is there are alot of Mexicans there
Las Vegas, NV
re: It's Vegas.....
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1/18/2020You're reviewing The Strip, not the other 99 per cent. None of your descriptions apply to the Suburbs/ off the Strip. "Losing all you've ever worked for"?, is the guy who gambles. You can gamble in all 50 states these days. If a person got a problem it's not the towns fault, but the addicts. Food is cheap. Stay out of the Bellagio restaurants that's all. Try Chinatown. Great food, inexpensive. Stale smoke? Stay out of the casinos, it's easy, I've been her 8 years and have been in one twice. BTW I'm glad the nightlife and diversions are here otherwise it would be Tucson or Phoenix. The buzz of the strip is great to dip your toe into once and a while and than get out. I'm glad it's here for the 2 times per year I want a little adrenaline jolt. If you want a boring town you've got 10,000 other cities to choose from. Have at it.
Missoula, MT
re: DO NOT LIVE HERE !!!
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1/14/2020This review was written by a Fat, one legged, senior.
Missoula, MT
re: Transients, bad air quality, rising taxes
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1/14/2020Californians are sewer rats. Always have been. You must rid yourselves of these pests or they will eat away at your land, culture and quality of life.
Darby, MT
re: Over Inflated Prices
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1/14/2020Montana is finished
Greenville, SC
re: Not good at all
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1/11/2020It's true that they can be unwelcoming at first to outsiders, and very religious, but to say that they are disgusting bugs is uncalled for.
Greenville, SC
re: Stay Away
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1/11/2020I am religion. Muslim. We have several Islam mosques here and are building more. Good place to be practice Muslim. We Lucky and are moving many family here from my Libya . I have 126 family friend Muslims coming. This will been good town for us. Thankks
Annapolis, MD
re: Unparalleled quality of life!
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1/6/2020what a douche
Buffalo, NY
re: Get Out
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1/5/2020OMG Bradenton is no walk in the park
Bugs humidity and Boring bloring Borinmg..
Tons of rust belt overweight retirees with expanding bellies and receding hairlines. Boomer hell on wheels.
Eugene, OR
re: I've never felt so unsafe!
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1/3/2020The more so-called liberal the more crime. It's true, not PC but true. There will be no consequences, so they are emboldened. I don't care what Oregon law is, carry a handgun. Keep a 12 gauge in the bedroom. As they enter the house, shoot first and ask questions later. The word will get around believe me, and home invasions will plummet.
Eugene, OR
re: Scenic, But Plagued By Quality Of Life Is
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1/3/2020Lucky I don't need to work and have money enough to never have to work again, but your review put me off Eugene somewhat as a place to go next. I was expecting a more bucolic setting, but that is something contrived in one's head and most always does not meet up with reality.
Newport, OR
re: Good for a visit but not to live if educa
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1/2/2020Air B and B destroyed and is destroying ALL tourist markets in the country. NYC, Hollywood Hills, every small town with charm. prices quadrupled as these lousy "investors" pay 4 times as much as these places would have sold at before Air B and B. They pay it as long as they can suck rental income out greater than their monthly nut on the place, So they rent it for 10 years suck out the rent don't put a penny int o the place and let it run into the ground than dump it. Don't be so stupid as to buy these dumps
Seattle, WA
re: Once a fun & safe city degenerating into
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1/1/2020Just another predatory capitalist rathole. This is synbolic of the entire US These posts could be extrapolated out to any of 100 other 401 K loving crap-traps. By the way real artists don't live in places like Seattle. They've moved smartly and long ago to Berlin, Vienna, Lisbon, Paris and 50 other places I could name and have lived in that are not on the US hamster wheel. You are correct about Japan and much of Asia incidentally.
Portland, OR
re: Ppl Like PDX Because Being Sh*tty is Enco
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12/25/2019All of these replies to the Op are the very miserable and angry women in Portland he is referring to. Bluntly put, the women in Portland and the PNW in general are unbelievably unattractive. Tattoos piercings short manly hair styles and hiking gear fashion along with 30 pounds of extra pounds is just for starters. Add no makeup or style sense, as they would see it they never demean themselves to look good for a man, I'm too progressive and woke for that. What's with the tatoos!!! NYC, Miami women in dresses and heels don't have full body tats or any tats. This is a west coast thing exagerated in Portland for good measure. If you are a single man and have ever lived in the South for example no less style sense cities like Montreal Paris Vienna Milan you will be miserable there.,, In short the girls there are the single most unfeminine hideous broads on the planet.
Portland, OR
re: sucks
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12/25/2019Brilliant review. Your excellent use of syntax and structure is magnificent. The single most elucidating review I have ever read about anyplace in my life.
Knoxville, TN
re: NEVER move to Knoxville. You'll regret it
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12/24/2019Fake review to shake a bee hive . I'm from Long Island. There are jerks there butI'm fairly certain this is a fake review but no one as over the top as this guy. He means to be stereotypical with the foul language and southern people insults to sit back and laugh at the replies. If this guy is for real he needs to be quarantined. I have live in the South Midwest NW SW and everywhere in between and I came with my NY accent but put the attitude in the trash can where it belongs.
Southerners have been nothing but friendly to me, It helps if you smile and are pleasant . People take to that no matter where you're from. I have never had a go back to NY moment in 40 years. Embrace the culture wherever you go or stay put. We're all not like this guy.
Knoxville, TN
re: Eastern Tennessee - Where Friendly Folks
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12/24/2019People from TN and Arkansas are the friendliest I have come across.
Pittsburgh, PA
re: Don't even think of moving here if you d
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12/24/2019You don't know NY obviously if you actually believe that a 7 figure salary won't buy you much. 1 million dollars which is obviously the lowest 7 figure number equates to approimately 500 K to 600 K NET per year after taxes. Using the 1/3 for rent equation that gives you 200 K per year for rent in Manhattan. That's 17 k per month for rent. A nice rental in Manhattan is 4000 to 500 per month . 17 thousand puts you in a 3 bedroom penthouse overlooking central Park. You'll still have 400 K left over to "play with" Your statement is absurd. Any rational person that doesn't dine 7 nights a week at Le cirque and rent a Hamptons summer home and dumbass things like that can live VERY well on 250 K per year gross, yes, in Manhattan, which will net over 150 K after taxes. This is plenty to live well in NY. Believe me I do it.
Pittsburgh, PA
re: Just DON'T
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12/24/2019I like the idea of life long welfare and selling my food stamps I never thought of that thanks. You mentioned I could stay on the system forever and drive a BMW. This is another good idea. Could you recommend a dealership. I would like a higher end Sedan model which I can afford I think after reading your review.
Boulder, CO
re: Fake
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12/20/2019Boulder is a stick a fork in it town great 70's, sucks now kinda place. Portland Boise Austin Seattle Denver cool once suck now. A place filled with artists and non materialist interesting folks gets discovered. Soon the amateurs from all over arrive with their Lexus SUV's their power couple money and real estate licences. The money obsessed yuppies arrive to buy up all the real estate to rent out to the suckers for 3500 month, Real estate goes through the roof as now demand outstrips supply.
Corporate Chain stores come in and are the final nail. Mom and pops cant afford the rent so they're out and now you're left with baby boomer hell power hiking than rushing to their yoga classes and tofu sandwich restaurants. The original people that made the place so attractive in the first place are long gone and you're left with these cretins. If you are lucky enough to find the next Boulder of 40 years ago, if that even exists here in the US, keep it to yourself and hope and pray it doesn't get discovered. Hint" If it's far enough East you might be able to avoid the rush and crush of the cursed Californians.
Denver, CO
re: If you like phony people, move to Denver!
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12/20/2019We are Californians and we are hungry. We will continue to gobble up everything in our path until everything is destroyed. You can't blame us. Dumb people are buying up our $1.3 million shacks and we are cashing out and coming to your town next. Just look at what we've done to Portland Reno Boise Salt Lake City Phoenix Austin and even to you Denver. But like I say we're hungry, and always in search of our next meal. Please tell us where the next cool place is. We'd like to know. We are an equal opportunity destroyer and yes we are RUDE. Hide your real estate. We're coming for you next!
Miami, FL
re: liked it
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12/16/2019This is supposed to be a thorough review of the city, not what your ex GF said to you the first time she saw you naked.
Miami, FL
re: Great Warm Weather Beach CITY
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12/16/2019Those complaining are broke, unattractive, and drive a Hyundai (used).
Jacksonville, FL
re: What is a good income?
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12/16/2019Anyone that would move from beautiful Port Jeff/Setauket 3 villages Long Island for a Florida Georgia border town, would have to be considered clinically insane. anywhere in Florida actually the same diagnosis applies. Advice: Don't do it. Taxes Shmaxes...So what..Quality of Life...If you have to get your Florida fix than buy a cheap condo for weekends Jan -March....That's enough..
Jacksonville, FL
re: Think twice, it may not be the place for
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12/16/2019Tim is a homeowner that is irritated that the reviewer thinks housing prices will go down in the future. Tim does not like this.
Las Vegas, NV
re: Cool visit but I'd never want to live her
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12/15/2019Texas is no picnic, no walk in the park, no day at the beach...
Delray Beach, FL
re: Al's Quality Custom Frameless Shower & Tu
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12/15/2019Al is a cross dresser and came to my home wearing a wedding dress and sporting a flipped bob hairdo form the 60's. He will attempt to sell you high end makeup products particularly lipstick that he claims will not "rub off". He volunteered to kiss me to prove this point and when I declined he stormed out of my house breaking his high heel pump shoes in two!
Delray Beach, FL
re: Delray Crime
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12/15/2019Rehabbers won't bother you unless you refuse to give them 50 dollars let's say thereabouts, and/or Heroin.
Tallahassee, FL
re: An Isolated Island of Traffic
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12/15/2019The Blacks.
Tallahassee, FL
re: city is claustrophobic
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12/15/2019"Never lived in a Forest before"..HaHa
Tallahassee, FL
re: Great Place to Raise A Family!
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12/15/2019Great place to raise a family mantra. Jesus houses and Christian values. Place sounds like a blast.
Pittsburgh, PA
re: Harsh and Repressive
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12/15/2019So many down votes below for Liz who makes valid points. It's only those of us that have spent a large majority of our lives living in these diverse hellholes that are so highly touted by the social justice warriors and propagandists that we're all supposed to embrace, can truly know how horrible it is. Be careful what you wish for. Some of these down votes and "lack of diversity" posters must be majority written by woke millennial's and hipsters. There is enough of them in already ruined US cities. Hopefully Pittsburgh has not succumbed.
Pittsburgh, PA
re: Brown
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12/15/2019Thanks for the positive review!! I hate light! I live in Las Vegas. You want Light?.. It's LIGHT here 365 days per year. Light, Light, and more Light!! Oh, and pleasant summers with cool refreshing breezes blowing in from Dante's Seventh Circle of hell... Want to trade?
Pittsburgh, PA
re: The facts about Pittsburgh
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12/15/2019Frank sounds like a guy to me who can't get a job and is pissed about it. Regarding some of Frank's points, so is losing population, great that's a good thing, the countries too crowded as it is. Cities are bursting at the seams. Believe me I know I've lived in Los Angeles and New York and a dozen other cities. You want big burly nasty large populations go to Los Angeles to see how you like it. I'm also sick of everybody complaining about "lack of diversity". What is that supposed to mean? Do you really think it's a good thing to be living amongst hundred and 50 ethnic groups and nationalities 26 different religions a huge stew and potpourri of squabbling minorities it don't get along and hate each other. Is nothing wrong with seeking out a place that you have a cultural commonality and social affinity with. You want diversity, again try Los Angeles. Everybody cell segregates any way and the more diversity the less cohesion. Go to the San Gabriel Valley outside of Los Angeles which is 100% Chinese, rent an apartment there and see how well you get accepted. Job growth? Go to medical school, become a doctor or some reasonable facsimile and you won't have a problem getting a job anywhere. I went to college outside of Pittsburgh in medical school in California and I can tell you I'll take Pittsburgh in a heartbeat any day over the mess that is this faux multicultural utopia that people are fleeing to escape from. Go ahead Frank check it out. At that you'll come running back to Western Pennsylvania within a year.
Pittsburgh, PA
re: Can I give Pittsburgh 0 stars?
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12/15/2019I do not believe "Brittany" be a white womans.
Nashville, TN
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12/13/2019The most commonly spoken word/phrase in Nashville, verbalized by each and every resident is a resounding.......YEEEEEHAWWW!!. The city council opens it's formal sessions, and teachers greet their students first thing in the morning with a........You guessed it! City employees must address their bosses at the beginning, and than again at quitting time with a .......That's right! I recommend to all perspective new residents, practice this skill, and as soon as you pass over the county line, roll down your window and yell........!! I think you'll be Astonished and Amazed at the response you get. Welcome to Nashville
Nashville, TN
re: Goodbye From a Native
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12/13/2019Excellent and spot on. Obesity, evangelism and ridiculous trucks sum it up. This is most of America.
Los Angeles, CA
re: A Little Good Mixed in with a Whole Lotta
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12/13/2019It is not expensive here. My second home here only cost me 6 million dollars in the Hollywood Hills. My pool is not as large as I would have liked but.... We have several airports for your plane. I recommend Burbank. The drinks at the Beverly Hills Hotel are surprisingly inexpensive. I believe 18 dollars if memory serves. This is way less than I was paying at the Ritz in Monte Carlo. Limousines are plentiful and there are plenty of servants available to choose from the under-classes for everyday labor concerns. My friends even have their own private fire department on hire in the event of a flare-up on your acreage. I will look into this. It is a jolly nice perk for us residents here. Please don't believe everything you read.
Los Angeles, CA
re: Not a place to raise a family
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12/13/2019Thank you officer.
Asheville, NC
re: Hard to make a living and get decent hous
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12/6/2019This Sandra..what a nasty witch. People project their general degree of happiness or lack of happiness on to where they live. This person's misery index I'm sure is off the charts. God help the poor soul that has to inhabit a physical space with this malcontent: Asheville is fine. It's geographically beautiful and has good people and bad, sober people and not, the same as everywhere else. When Sandra leaves it will have one less bad. I will volunteer to throw all of her stuff into my extra large duffel-bag and give her a ride in the "back" flat-bed of my pickup truck, and happily drop her off at the state line of her beloved Northern state.
Portland, OR
re: The people are bigger drips than the rain
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12/6/2019Too many beta males with hairy backs, 9 month neck beards, pouched bellies, some sort of tattoo and piercing, boring dress habits. Hiking boots flannel shirts, bulky camping gear type coat. They look like the Michelin tire Man logo. It's a Parka and galoshes type joint. Coffee shops are cliche and hipster-ish. Avoid any city that hangs it's hat on having a lot of coffee shops. Exciting cultural interesting cities you never hear about "coffee shops". Paris, Prague, New York. Portland is a midwest town really that's happens to be 3 times as expensive is all
Sloatsburg, NY
re: Family oriented
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12/6/2019Too many Jews
Stony Brook, NY
re: Ph. D IN Stony Brook univ
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11/28/2019India sucks
Charleston, SC
re: If I Could Give It "ZERO" Stars, I Would<
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11/23/2019Te bigwigs and people with power as you put it allow it because they are the ones that benefit finacially. Corrupt politicians in bed with so called developers that seek and destroy and tear down and build without regard to anything but money. This is the disadvantage in living in a hyperbolic predatory capitalist system where the ONLY thing that matters is money money and more money with no regard to preserving the natural landscape for the next generation.. Me Me Me + Money = Charleston and every other US city that has been plowed over and built into a parking lot.
Des Moines, IA
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11/20/2019Good for the old that like slow pace and cheap buffets. Also good for non-descript mid-westerners that don't like a lot of action. No nightlife or mountains to hike on. Flat terrain with cows and cornfields. No trees, flat grasslands only. People tucked in to bed at 10 Pm on Friday so if you're out looking for fun you'll be the only one. Driving in your car past a certain hour will profile you to be pulled over by the police who will think you're up to no good. Old guys will like it cause there's nothing going on and that's how they like it. The housing very inane and uninteresting. Very mid-western. Bring a Parka and golashes and you will be on your way to fitting in.
Des Moines, IA
re: Rated #5 Among Best Places to Live for a
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11/20/2019You are lecturing and philosophying on life and age and peoples disposition but not one word about Des Moines. this is site to review the town. restaurants, nightlife weather. traffic 100 other quality of life issues not gov statistics which anyone can read. Your lecture should be placed in the personals columns or at a community college where they offer empty headed courses on the meaning of life.
Atlanta, GA
re: Moving to Atlanta
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11/17/2019There are many negros here in this place that is correct. Harlem also has them and so does Detroit I think.
Wichita, KS
re: Not a Nice Place to Live
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11/17/2019Drum beating is at epidemic volumes if you'll forgive the mixed metaphor. This is NOT a case of one single neighbor as the reply below reads, but rather a fierce cacophony of sound reverberating throughout all of the metro and suburban neighborhoods of Wichita. it is estimated that 86.4 % of neighbors drum incessantly anywhere from 8 to 12 hours per day on average. The reasons for this are to date unknown, but the phenomenon has baffled Scientists from around the globe.
Wichita, KS
re: I do not recommend anyone ever move here<
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11/17/2019I am a Heart surgeon and I bring my dog in to the operating room while performing open heart surgery. Neither the patients nor the Dog seem to mind it much. It is true however that that the patients are asleep some of the time.
Wichita, KS
re: The weather
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11/17/2019There's something else that "blows constantly" in Wichita as well, located along S. Broadway.
Wichita, KS
re: Wichita is a real S-hole.
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11/17/2019Christians are stupid, and ignorant, yes indeed. Superstitious and supercilious, and inexplicably believe in ghosts and Sky spooks, I agree. The smart ones, the pastors of these mega-churches are the most vociferous non-believers, laughing at the suckers for forking over/tithing their 10 per cent a year so Pastor Bob can fuel his new Lear Jet...... $2000.00 a year in property taxes though, is Cheap Cheap Cheap.
Ithaca, NY
re: Ithaca is great (if you don't want to dat
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11/17/2019I think this phenomenon exists everywhere in the US outside of major cities. If you're single and over 30 something forget the suburbs college towns and the so called beautiful rural area. Adirondacks Catskills etc. It's NYC as tough as that is to acknowledge if you're single and want exposure to large numbers of other educated singles over a certain age. These other places are for families ( I really hate the "great place to raise a family"), mantra, retirees, ( another dreaded demographic), empty nester's (yikes), and of course the college kids that will only exist in their 17 to 22 year old bubbles.
Saratoga Springs, NY
re: My 'hometown'
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11/16/2019Ha Ha What s dork. " I'm not snobbish but PRIVATE investor 'influential families"...I bet this guy can't stop looking in the mirror.
Quincy, MA
re: the Culture of QUINCY
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11/7/2019Real estate commercial.
Quincy, MA
re: Merrymount Elementary reality check
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11/7/2019This is a review of your kids experience in a school, not of the town.
Park City, UT
re: Park City real estate in a bubble (2019),
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11/4/2019The whole country is in a real estate bubble (2019), with particular bubbleosity rendered to the "IT" towns/cities. A stucco toy house in Vegas that was `125 K in 2011 is now 500 K. Good luck to the guy buying now unless he's using someone else's money (speculators), air bnb cretins. Real estate musical chairs lesson: The last guy standing without a chair when the music stops loses.
Atlanta, GA
re: Population growth is destroying Atlanta m
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11/3/2019Andreas you are correct though the ignorant responders to your post don't get it. With a so called booming economy in a predatory capitalist system quality of life gets worse for everybody. Increased traffic of course 30 per cent rise in housing prices since 2016 alone. L.A. 50 percent. How is that good for the working folks. restaurants are more crowded and everything costs more, everything. Cars, Gas, flights and 1000 other things. An over stimulated economy hurts all but the very rich. and what about the developers. With a raging economy they destoy everything in sight, plow down forests and build more and more crappy cheap homes and strip malls forever as far as the eye can se.. they rape pillage and destroy and than move on to destroy the next place. How is this a positive for anyone but the greedy developers. They have bulldozed tens of thousands of acres in Las Vegas recently and put up 1000 houses on 8 acres of dirt in 2 weeks and what's more is they are not affordable fot the masses. A 125 K house here in 2011 is now 500 K for the same place due to this "raging economy". So the city is uglier and more inane and sterile and soulless just more crappy 8 dollar an hour jobs and houses that they can't afford to live in. I agree with the general consensus of your point that the "stronger" an economy the worse the overall quality of life in every measurable way that manners is accurate. For those on thew outside looking in that want to be able to afford "things", an event that will cause these asset classes to go down by 30/40 per cent is actually good for all of us looking to buy in to this bubble economy after it hopefully bursts.
Atlanta, GA
re: Atlanta Great Place to Live
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11/3/2019The Bronx and Newark are not suburbs. Your analogy would be more acute if you wrote Scarsdale or Montclair. By the way Portland Sucks!
St. George, UT
re: St. George is a great place to retire.
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11/3/2019Good for old guys that like to play golf. Costco is packed so the ladies always have something to do.
St. George, UT
re: The red rocks are amazing, however...
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11/2/2019Valley girls are more likely to lead to your demise than Valley fever.
St. George, UT
re: Best of both worlds
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11/2/2019I drive like a maniac so for me it's 20 minutes, and I don't mind speeding tickets, in fact I rather like them.
Salt Lake City, UT
re: Sad to leave SLC but had no choice.
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11/1/2019Californians ruin everywhere they go. They are narcissistic self involved money craven horror shows. They have turned Nevada blue. I hate them.
Raleigh, NC
re: BORING suburban sprawl
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10/23/2019Suburbs for Soccer moms and Little league dads with the receding hairlines, bellies and hairy backs. those guys are made for the suburbs. Single needs cities. You don't need to go on Sperlings to know that all of NC is a no go zone for young and not so young singles looking for fun and nightlife. Let hairy backed Dad with 3 rugrats in tow live in soul crushing suburbia. PTA multitasking Walmart shopping mom fits well there too. One request though, please stop breeding.
Raleigh, NC
re: Why We Said No to Raleigh and Yes to Wilm
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10/23/2019Yopu use terms such as we and us. I will take a wild guess and say you are 50/60 something empty nesters looking for a small cozy Mayberry pretty port town not too crowded with art galleries window shopping and couples meals on the water. For me as a single guy this is BORING beyond belief. Wilmington is just that and it goes to show the subjectivity of these [posts, I would say if you are single of ANY age you will hate the inaneness and pace of
Wilmington, lack of strong nightlife and lack of a party culture. Raleigh is of course more crowded and active and busy but that gives it the allure to a single man or woman looking for some edge and spark and nightlife if you're considering NC there really is no other choice . forget these smaller baby boomer empty nester couples places like Wilmington and Asheville. You'll be there for a week and be bored out of your mind. To the older Boomers with a significant other in tow have at it with the Wilmingtons of the world. Hilton head another good boomer escape. Be careful when you read these reviews who they are written by meaning what demographic they are from in comparison to your own. In summary and generally speaking Single and under 50 Raleigh Durham forget the rest.
Austin, TX
re: DO NOT MOVE HERE
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10/20/2019Oh yeah Trans, lesbians and Tattoos, especially on women just like {Portland, Seattle} and other trashy US cities. Add to the mix the new slim ( 20 pounds heavier than 20 years ago), the girls there same trash heap as the rest of progressive west coast cities. Lose weight rip off the piercings, lose weight wear some makeup, heels and an actual dress rather tham=n columbia hiking gear and army boots.
New York, NY
re: Biggest wasted opportunity in the USA
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10/15/2019It is not true that you need a lot of money to live in New York. I live in upper west side Manhattan and survive on 4 million dollars a year. It's not much but I make it work because I scrimp and am careful with my money. I make sure to not go over a thousand dollars on any night out including the meal. It's difficult, but it does go to show that if you monitor your spending you can get by.
Erie, PA
re: Erie could be the death of me!
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9/29/2019Me Thinks Doth protest too much.
Amherst, NY
re: 0ver one year now.
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9/29/2019Another real estate whore peddling their wares
Los Angeles, CA
re: City for young people? Maybe with daddies
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9/7/201986%
Sioux Falls, SD
re: Not Worth Moving To
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9/2/2019I read your post and your desire to be a successful hooker in S.D. Keep trying and give it your best shot. You can always go North to Fargo as the hooking is potentially better there if all else fails. You'll make it by Hook or by Crook you betyaaah..
Oxford, MS
re: Best for a reason
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8/30/2019yes 50 million a year would work.
Lexington, KY
re: Criminals Thrive in Kentucky
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8/29/2019Your story is hilarious Duane. It made me laugh and laugh.
Greenville, SC
re: CITY INHABITED WITH HORRIBLE POPULOUS
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8/25/2019Lamar is clinically insane and frenzied. Any attempt to unpack his daft ramblings is an empty exercise.
Missoula, MT
re: Pure crap, all image
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8/10/2019Tom L you seem to be a very happy and contented man. The city is lucky to have you. One question though: How can you continue to live in a city that is "feeble and sanctimonious". By the way, How is it that a city can be...
San Francisco, CA
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7/31/2019An outdoorsy "Poopers Paradise". Techno Geek millennial Hipster nerds love it. Diner's with a window seat at the ever diminishing San Francisco eateries, not so much.
Phoenix, AZ
re: Detroit in the desert meets mad max
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7/30/2019Cultural chasm and alienation grows exponentially with increased numbers of non-assimilating ethnic groups. This is getting worse not better. That + Dreaded Californians with their 2 million dollars sold Shack money and attitude. I agree with your assessment of the so called Real Estate agents. Uneducated Schwarmy Power couple Soccer mom types with a high school diploma maybe, and a 2 week internet course, think they are white collar pro but are really nothing more than glorified used car salesman. With Social media their jobs are becoming more and more obsolete and the extinction of this group alone will go a long way to improve the Earth. As for me, it seems a fool's errand to attempt to fight Gravity so will look to return to a place in this country with some semblance of social and cultural cohesion remaining.
Phoenix, AZ
re: The One Positive Review I Know.
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7/30/2019Your writing style is in fact suggestive of a serious mental disorder, Paranoid Schizophrenia to be specific. Venting this gibberish on-line will only result in 50% of the readers of this absurd post to join you, if only temporarily, in mental anguish.
Phoenix, AZ
re: From the Windy City to a Desert Paradise!
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7/30/2019Chicago DORKS love the desert
Phoenix, AZ
re: Why Phoenix has outgrown itself
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7/30/2019What an Idiot. This is supposed to be an expansive review of the city and this guy goes on about an experience he had with a utilities company that wronged him 20 years ago. Try YELP
Phoenix, AZ
re: SHAME ON PHOENIX
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7/30/2019"Old ladies sleeping on sidewalks". Where would you propose that they sleep?
San Francisco, CA
re: San Francisco ZERO quality of life (Not k
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7/29/2019Tech drones are Brain affected due to staring at screens their entire life since small child. Add the hipster element and you will want to strangle them. Avoid the tech and hipster havens to have a good quality of life. Coastal cities out West are ruined. Some back East..NY is in process of being destroyed as well. On the bright side San Fran offering 187,000 dollars per person for sidewalk poop cleaning jobs.
San Francisco, CA
re: Okay
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7/29/2019Tourist.
Las Vegas, NV
re: Vacation is good and lived is suck
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7/24/2019vegas not for kids thats a good thing. rest of country for kids leave at least one place for adults. NW vegas is Summerlin very low crime and Centennial hills which is loaded with retired and active cops and military very low crime here. police and military are all carrying and crooks know it
Los Angeles, CA
re: Great for young adults, terrible for fami
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7/24/2019I'm not younf but I was once and the 1980's in L.A. was L.A.'s golden era. I disagree that it's a good place to live now if you're young. the young are not immune to the awfulness of Los Angeles in 219. The nightlife is not even any good no matter what hour age. The music scene is dead. It was once a great place to live when young but not now. The Sunset Strip was alive and exciting, now it's a ghost town. Could go on but it's too depressing. If I was young I's consider Toronto Montreal and European cities if I could swing it. Not so much the US these days. Here in The US I would take NY and Miami, Boston over LA if I were in my 20's/30's
Reno, NV
re: reNO
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7/16/2019ha Ha OHIO?? Get Taco Bell job save up Greyhound is 92 dollars to Cleveland.
Reno, NV
re: Just a mini LA without all the jobs now.<
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7/16/2019Jasmine there are job openings at Burger King and Taco Bell so apply and you might achieve your goal.
Boise City, ID
re: Just like heaven...
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7/16/2019Rose, try Tinder dating app. Right swipe to check out your matches and if not interested in the pictured option that comes up left swipe. From what I hear the local McDonald's is hiring. Pretty good wages too. 7.25 an hour and you can't beat that. Fixer-upper is are available all over the place. I presume you have your own tools and will be performing the construction upgrades yourself with the toil of your own loins. Figure $350,000 for the property and another 75,000 particularly if you lay your own flooring.
Boise City, ID
re: VERY HOT
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7/16/2019To CE reply post. Yes there are planes available. Boise even has an airport. So actually it's not a two day event to get to a "major city". Also I might add that Portland Oregon is 400 miles away. I would describe Portland as a major city, and with no traffic lights between Boise and Portland, that's a 5 Hour Drive. Not two days to and from. Unless of course you're driving a 1916 model T and then yes indeed that may take you two days traveling at 20 mph.
Coeur d'Alene, ID
re: Overpopulated & overpriced
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7/13/2019Your times is over Andy. Make way for us Californians. This joint is ours now!!
Boise City, ID
re: One of the Top 5 cities to Live
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7/13/2019Liberals have long ago destroyed the so called first tier cities of SF Portand Seattle LA and there is no escaping it, they will, and are bringing their liberal BS with them wherever they go. not all of them, but enough of them to affect the overall quality of life to the negative. They are like weeds.
Las Vegas, NV
re: It’s hot, windy and too much crime
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7/2/2019You are correct to not purchase here in Las Vegas. Your 20% number is right on the money. The case/Shiller index out of Yale which is the most highly respected indices of home pricing in the United States shows Vegas as being the singular most overpriced city in the country at about 20%. I was a victim in 2009 of my own stupidity. I purchased a condominium on the strip for 300,000 and within one year it went from $300,000 in value to $120,000 and stayed there for eight consecutive years. Strangely in the last year it went back up to 270,000 and I got out quick. Took a small loss but I think the guy the guy that purchased it is going to take a bath. I also have to agree with one of the commenters below that stated is really true that California is a destroying neighboring cities. They bring their blue politics with them which create the very thing that they tried to escape from in the first place. They've driven up prices in Boise Idaho to triple what they were just five years ago. Idahoans universally hate Californians though a large part of the state now is Northern California transplants. They brought a lot of pain and misery to Portland and Seattle as well which has been well documented. Las Vegas which was read is now moving to blue forever and the illegal problems you have in California have crossed over to Las Vegas making it a less livable place and it was when I first got here seven years ago. You're from San Francisco I suppose from your post so you probably have a emotional connection to the place but I tell you I hated it. I went to medical school there UCSF on Parnassus and I couldn't wait to get the hell out of there. This incidentally was at the time when San Francisco was supposedly a nice place to live back in the 1980s. I found it to be droll and uninteresting and yes the scenery is somewhat pre-and the weather is great but everything else about the place I couldn't stand. The people pretty much have no personality very Midwestern not very sarcastic not much wit rarely found the person with a sense of humor and I couldn't wait to get back to New York, back to the East Coast but then again most of us from back East feel that way. Today if you gave me $1 million house in San Francisco to live in or million dollar house in Las Vegas I would still choose Las Vegas over San Francisco. The homeless problem up there in the condition of the city is an atrocity. The traffic is possibly the worst in the country and wallet hub just came out with the best and worst run cities in the United States. Boise Idaho is number three and San Francisco was 149 out of 150. That sounds about right to me. I can't think of a worse place to live in the United States in the San Francisco Bay Area even if I had 10 figures in the bank I would despise living there. With that said, I do wish Californians would stay put and stop ruining the neighboring states which they been doing now for the last 20 to 30 years. Vegas seems fine to me. The summers are hot but not really that bad. There's no humidity and no bugs. It was 104° today and it felt like it was 80° out especially coming from back east with 90% humidity. I think the admonitions regarding the summers here are overblown from my own personal experience anyway. Is more to do here in regards to nightlife and many more options for shopping and eating. I happen to like the Walmart/target box store type of life. Things are half as expensive and from my perspective that's not a bad thing. This thousands of food options here healthy food options for under $10 a shot. Try finding that in San Francisco. All in all I think this is a better place to live. Better than San Francisco and Los Angeles in fact better than any place I've lived in California and I practice medicine from San Diego to San Francisco including Los Angeles and you could have the whole state as far as I'm concerned. I will say there are better places to live in Los Angeles but I wouldn't be going West to find them I be going east.
Flagstaff, AZ
re: High cost, low wages, growth limits, seco
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11/26/2018I wear a tin hat, and can open a dumpster with my teeth. I'll be your friend
Flagstaff, AZ
re: High cost, low wages, growth limits, seco
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11/26/2018I wear a tin hat, and can open a dumpster with my teeth. I'll be your friend
Flagstaff, AZ
re: Retired and loving Flagstaff
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11/26/2018Just what a college town needs is more retirees.
Flagstaff, AZ
re: We Love Flagstaff Arizona! Great Place to
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11/26/2018Make sure to spell out our biz with CAPS. Another self promoter disguising with phony review to sell his goods. Don't do business with this guy.
Tucson, AZ
re: Low Wages, Uncertainty About Growth & Rec
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11/26/2018Tucson needs to die off.
Cincinnati, OH
re: Hong Kong (9 years), back to Cincinnati
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11/25/2018You are a Dork!!
Cincinnati, OH
re: @ the Degree of the BS woman
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11/25/2018Cincinatti = West Virginia with sky scrapers. to compare Cinc. to Vienna, Lake Geneva, Munich, Oslo, Milan, Dublin, Copenhagen is absurd. You have not traveled to Europe. A dying midwest u.s city has no business in the same conversation as European metropolises . Your post is ridiculous and so are you.
New York, NY
re: NYC
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11/13/2018exceptionally interesting post. Very thorough. A real page turner. Thanks!!
Medford, OR
re: Medford 1947-Looking for my Father
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11/12/2018I am your father Lucky but changed my name to unlucky, ohh a few years back now I guess. I'm working the slot machines here in vegas a quarter at a time.
Medford, OR
re: Southern Oregon
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11/12/2018Stay in California. We are snobs and don't like self-described down to earth californians.
East St. Louis, IL
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11/10/2018East St louis is paradise on earth. vibrant night life and great restaurants.
Eureka, CA
re: Tourist town ok for tourists, mostly
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10/28/201885 dollars hahahahahhahahha. Another website is the answer. I recommend the website suckasgivmecash.com.
Los Angeles, CA
re: LA LA Land
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10/14/2018Your list of pros is funny. "Great nightlife" "best attractions". Only someone who grew up in LA and hasn't been around much could possibly say that. Last call is at 1:30 AM. Vegas is 24 hours in New York City might as well be. South Beach… Top five most polluted beaches in the United States. Santa Monica, Malibu and three others. I would not call the beach and attraction but rather a detraction. What else let's see… Magic Mountain and Disneyland. Anaheim gangs and high crime. The mountains are parched with very little green and those that do have some trees are due to get burned down in the yearly firestorms that pervade the state. You mentioned that you get to meet people from all over. 90% of all new transplants to Los Angeles are Mexican/Asian. If that's your thing fine but if you're looking to meet sophisticated and educated Europeans from Sweden or Norway or Denmark for a couple of dozen other European cities good luck with that. I spend half the year in Lake Geneva Switzerland and the other half living in Vienna Austria I can promise you isn't the one of them that has ever had the desire to visit Los Angeles no less live there. Travel overseas if you can afford it spent two years living in culturally advanced first world cities and yes I am referring to Europe, and then look back your rearview mirror and come back on this site and post what you think about Los Angeles upon reflection.
San Diego, CA
re: Money Money Money
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10/14/2018It's a wonder you're single Shawna.
San Diego, CA
re: Let's be serious
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10/14/2018What was that about most posters that post here being unhappy losers? Who posted that? Did you post that?
San Diego, CA
re: The most highly overrated city in America
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10/14/2018Yada yada yada. Sunny 24/7? I might be wrong but I think it gets dark there. Even in the summer. Northern Finland in August might be a better choice. 86% of Dade County (Miami) is Hispanic/Latino. Good idea to speak Spanish there as well. More so even by a long shot. Miami culture? Hip - pop and heavily, very heavily, Latino influenced. If that's your definition of culture and your thing, than fine but it's not Minneapolis. Add exceptionally high crime and mind bending humidity to the mix for good measure. Miami vs San Diego, San Diego vs Miami. Like 2 homeless guys arguing with each other as to who has the dirtier underwear. Whoever wins, they both lose.
San Diego, CA
re: Born here, left in 2011
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10/13/2018Cheryl, there's the real world and then is the world that we all wish we can live in. In the real world employers are always going to choose the more attractive person whether it be male or female. It's harsh to put it that way but human nature is what it is. If an exceptionally attractive tall man was to apply for the same job as a 4'6" overweight balding man, who do you think would get the job?. Also I have to say that employers and rightfully so, have got to consider the health implications of hiring someone who is overweight. Obesity is a precursor to many medical issues including hypertension diabetes peripheral vascular disease arthritis and many other medical conditions that I will not get into. Overweight or obese employees miss much more work over the long haul due to medical reasons then those that are healthy and in shape. Again not meant to be offensive but your weight is something you can do something about. It is not out of your control as it would be for example if someone was to expect that you would have to be 6 feet 5 inches tall and have blue eyes and freckles. These are genetically unalterable but your weight or anyone's weight for that matter is for the most part with rare exceptions controllable and with dedication and discipline you could become one of those "slim" females that you were referring to in you post. Hit the gym six times per week, and lay off the cannoli.
San Diego, CA
re: America's greatest city
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10/13/2018Oh yeah, San Diego is world renowned for its nightlife. Last call 1:30 AM in the three square block gaslamp District. Military guys stumbling back to Pendleton after a Kegger. Definitely better than Las Vegas. After all, Vegas is a 24 hour town. Much better to shut things down at 1:30... 4972 restaurants/bars including strip and downtown Fremont Street. That includes the 196 shows and cabarets and 86 gentlemen's clubs etc. and etc.… But who's counting.
San Diego, CA
re: Used to be nice
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10/13/2018Anyone paying these crazy prices for these shacks in California has got to be a charter member of the "there's always someone stupider than I" club. Sooner or later the Russian roulette wheel estate hammers going to fall on the last guy. When the music stops the last guy without a chair loses. Everyone will look at themselves and say can you believe how stupid we were to pay $872,000 for a 90-year-old two bedroom one bath clip joint without a garage or central air-conditioning because it's only 1.3 miles away from the beach. Normal people can't be participating in the market out there, it's got to be Chinese real estate investment trusts or air B&B speculators. Otherwise it doesn't make any sense. Most of the housing looks like Third World property to me. The kind of houses when I was growing up I used feel sorry for people that had to live in them. Small, old, no yard, no land and wished right between your neighbors to either side. I think people selling now and getting out are getting out while the getting is good. I have to disagree with one point that Mike made. I really don't think that the only thing that California and San Diego has going for it is its natural beauty. I grew up in New England with hundreds of miles of country roads and beautiful green landscapes and water feature is legs/rivers waterfalls wherever you would look to the left into the right everywhere green and beautiful. I don't see any of that in California with the exception of a few very isolated areas of beauty which have been completely cannibalized by developers and guys like Mitt Romney that can afford a $10 million house overlooking the ocean in La Jolla. Get on a freeway or any roadway between San Diego and Los Angeles and tell me with his any natural beauty to be seen anywhere. Parched freeways, crumbling infrastructure, no green spaces. I see no or very little natural beauty anywhere in Southern California. It's a desert littered with strip malls and planned communities stock up on top of some shaved off hill/mountain. Waldorf communities cinder block walls. No natural terrain i.e. forests to create natural boundaries between homes. Parts of northern California near the coast/Yosemite a few other places but most of the state looks like the surface of the moon with freeways.
San Diego, CA
re: Weather Is Best Everything Else Horrible<
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10/13/2018Weather is not good. It's the same every day. The same every day is not good, it's boring. Sunny and 70. Boring boring boring. LA same thing sunny and 70 sunny and 70 now more like sunny and 80 but same principle. I'll take the rain, the clouds, the snow, the leaves changing in fall, a winter snowfall a hot day followed by a cool day followed by a cold day followed by a rainy day… Any day over the sameness and drudgery of San Diego whether. Change of scenery/change of clothing/just change or change sake. The weather is droll and uninteresting a lot like the people. Yes I'm an arrogant northeastern New Yorker. I know you hate us but most of us up here feel the same way. Gave California a shot for a long while. Good job as a doctor but never could make enough money to live well. Everyone has said it already but it's true, it's overrated and overpriced. I've lived in several European cities, Vienna, Oslo Stockholm Sweden, expensive but worth it. These are real cities in every sense of the word not conservative backwards thinking Christian scientist meets hoards of border jumpers.
Las Vegas, NV
re: Las Vegas is EXACTLY what you think it is
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10/12/2018People with such negative comments about a town normally have something else going on inside of them. I read both your post and Michelle's reply and I feel like we are living in two different towns. I've never been a victim of crime. I've driven close to 150,000 miles in eight years here in Las Vegas and have never had a single traffic incident. Never. Not even a fender bender. Alcohol and drugs? Of course as you know they are everywhere. I don't drink and do not remember one single encounter since I have lived here when I have even had a conversation with someone that has been intoxicated. I disagree as well with your assessment about middle-class lifestyle and Las Vegas not being a good fit. I believe it to be just the opposite. I've lived in Manhattan New York City, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco. Now those are cities that definitively speaking have no real middle-class or no chance for the middle class to even afford a residence. Here, that's not true. I'm a medical doctor and have not had any problems finding a job as you put it. Yes, I went to medical school and maybe your review is not geared towards professionals but I can tell you: the town with an M.D. degree you going to be making well into the six figures your first day at work. I know I did. And all of my colleagues as well. Even though I'm a physician I still consider myself middle-class and you probably are aware housing here is a third of what it is a more sexy cities in the United States such as New York or San Francisco. Your first comment regarding no future. Multibillion-dollar sports franchises have either moved to Las Vegas or are currently in the process of moving here. Businesses like that don't relocate and commit billions of dollars without a future. As far as the people are concerned they seem pretty nice to me. I treat elderly patients all day long and they are grateful and generous in their kindness towards me and are happy to have someone that cares for their well-being. I really don't recall any negative instances at all not a single one in the eight years I've been here with any person. Maybe one road rage incident but that's about it. I think if someone sees the strip in downtown as dens of iniquity rather than just places to have a good time, but I just look at them as places to step out once a month to see a show, have a nice dinner, people watch, take date to go shopping. I've lived in some pretty boring places. Cities that had several million people that had nothing to do after 10 o'clock at night. Vegas does. I like that idea though I happen to like a city that has some edge to it and maybe a little bit of danger as long as I can keep in arms distance from it. I'm sorry that your experiences here have not been the same as mine or my colleagues and/or friends but I found the most of the reasons that a person either likes or dislikes a place is based upon what's going on internally as opposed to what's going on around them. That's just my observation. I do agree with you though about one thing and that is that will do tend to isolate themselves and segregate themselves or in their homes. Blinds are drawn and very rarely do people interact with each other. That's too bad there is a lack of community here which I think bothers some people more than others. I don't mind it as I like to be left alone anyway. I'm not really a wife and two kids and neighborhood BBQ type of guy but I do get your point on that one. I still think Vegas is a good call for someone that has middle-class money, likes relatively good weather with the exception of some hot months in the summer and wants to live in a city with action and things going on around them even if they don't partake but every once in a while. Stay sober. Don't gamble. Stay away from bad influences and you'll be just fine out here. It's not magic and applies universally to pretty much any place you choose to live. It does help to have a good education and a strong career I'll admit that. Anyway, my time here has been positive so far. And one more thing, reading about how terrible the doctors are in Las Vegas? Do your homework and choose wisely. My neurosurgeon is valedictorian from Stanford medical school. My cardiologist was second in his class at Harvard. I could go on and on but there are intellectually strong, well skilled and talented physicians out here. There are also bad ones. I could say the same for New York City Boston and Portland Oregon for that matter.
Las Vegas, NV
re: Vegas is no longer fun
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10/12/2018I don't dislike it here quite as much as you, but I agree the Dentists are the worst of the so called profession clas in L.V. Try inding one by the name of Smith or Jones to start with. They come her from 3rd world places and somehow get a license here in NV which has more loose licensure standards. They are out to rip offcan from as much as they the americans and than scoot back to their home countries with the loot.
Las Vegas, NV
re: The city you love to hate
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10/12/2018The Holden Knights? Is that the William Holden Knights, named after the late actor in The Wild Bunch?
Las Vegas, NV
re: Put on hold when calling police
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10/12/2018Get a gun and or a dog. You don't need the police. Learn to shoot and draw quick like Marshall Matt Dillon. Get a bottle of Testosterone from the local Doc and shoot up once a week. Bulk up at the gym. Also shave your head bald and grow some sort of neck beard or goatee. Sneer when passerby's look at you and never look away first. It helps if you have crazy eyes. Keep your blinds drawn at all times. Come out twice a day to walk your war torn Pit, and make sure everyone sees you. Wear camouflage pants and a black security t shirt. Start there.
Myrtle Beach, SC
re: An un-biased review
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10/12/2018You are selling toxic commercial products to unsuspecting and ignorant consumers, usually the elderly. An entire industry is flourishing in this country presently dedicated to getting people out of these phony time shares that are promised to be one thing but are actually something worse. I don't own them but know those with ruined lives financially because of the,. Try going to school and become a doctor and contribute in a real and positive way to society rather than sucking the tourists dry or however you put it. You're post reads like a salesman and that's not a complement...Sleazy
Myrtle Beach, SC
re: Great, but attracts rednecks from the Mid
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10/12/2018Midwesterners are Dorks, Dry, reserved and zero personality. Dull and dim - witted. Ohio and Indiana could disappear into a sinkhole and no one would realize it for 2 years.
Myrtle Beach, SC
re: Police/Gastapo
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10/11/2018you broke the law and got a ticket, so what. This site is a review of cities not personal run ins with the law or how some one gave you the finger cause you drove too slow. go vent on some blog site. Intelligent readers of sperlings are looking for deeper insights than a singular incident with the law cause you double parked in a red zone
Panama City, FL
drought -
10/11/2018It needs more rain. drought conditions prevail. Grass and trees need rain. Sun is nice but a little rain is good.
Los Angeles, CA
re: The Grand Illusion.
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10/8/2018Filthy old houses with bars on the windowss. most not air conditioned. Old and beat up. only an idiot would by there. One state over in Nevada I jiust moved into a 2000 sq foot 2018 build new construction house, not an apt, but a real house, for 1400 month. Clean never lived in new stainless appliances, central A/c with digital zones in each room incl bedrooms, 2 car attached garage, you name it . That's just an example. Same house in LA would be 5 K and it would be 50 years old with a/c wall units, and no garage ..that place is a joke
Westville, OK
OK needs rain -
10/8/2018This place has no reviews so Ill review it. I've never lived there, nor have I ever even been there, but here goes. Small town. nothing to do. don't go there. how's that?
Olympia, WA
re: Looking to move to Washington...help?
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10/3/2018this guy is an idiot
Los Angeles, CA
re: Crowded, Expensive and Full of Criminals!
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9/30/2018The older you get the more you can compare a place you remember from a long time ago to what it's like today. A place like New York City got better in the 1990s for example than the 1970s. More livable, cleaner, less crime. Gotten too sterile for me these days, but has been generally improving over the decades, but Los Angeles in my experience has been steadily declining decade to decade. It's much worse now than it was 10 years ago. It's worse 10 years ago than it was 20 years ago. Etc. Getting more and more dirty, more more Third World and strangely more and more expensive. People from war-torn or significantly economically depressed countries/political repression can come here and have a better life but if you were raised in first world settings as most of us here in the US were, chances are you're not going to like it there. Maybe if you're very young, in your 20s it could be tolerable, especially if you don't mind being around 140 different ethnic groups whom you have nothing in common with. Los Angeles was not much until the 1920s. Two or three great decades during the Golden age and then the steady decline began. I wasn't around in the 1930s but I've read a lot and would've loved to have been around then. Must've been a great place to live. I was around in the 1980s though and as difficult of a place as it was then in many ways today it is 10 times worse in every way.
Wilmington, NC
re: Considering relocating
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9/26/2018Candy asses and jesus freaks. These rednecks and their families.. Goobers.. If you're single and you don't believe in invisible sky spooks and other myths that educated and enlightened adults have left behind from childhood, you will not fit in here. Spend a month in Stockholm Sweden, Berlin or Amsterdam and then compare to N.C.
Bend, OR
re: over crowded lack of health care
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9/25/201810 dollars an hr's not bad. You just need to work more hours. Try 80 hours per week, than you'll be back to making what you did when you were at 20 per hr/ 20 years ago. Live out of your car. Spend all you got on ski tickets and hiking boots. When you run out of dough, find a large piece of cardboard and write something on it that will get people to feel sorry for you.
Olympia, WA
re: Green City
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9/25/2018Another Dorkster with the goofy review of her own personal problems, in this case her kid, but absolutely no information about the city itself. She uses this site as a venue to vent that her son has allergies and can't be treated in Olympia. Of what use is that to anyone on this site that is looking for insights as to the quality of life and general overview of the city itself.
Los Angeles, CA
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9/24/2018A tangle of squabbling 3rd world minorities, along with a healthy helping of hoards and hoards of homeless, crumbling infrastructure, parched landscapes, along with Chinese "investors", (air b/b speculators), squeezing middle class out of the housing market, all makes for an unsavory recipe. 100 miles of faceless strip malls in every direction. An impending sense of doom and alienation hangs over like a pall.
Reno, NV
re: reno, Nevada-the only city in America tha
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9/17/2018Meth gays mexicans half way to our prediction of 50% dead nightlide geezers. That's the US basiclly. cutting edge white 20 somethings require a more forward thinking white 20 something. Try Berlin , Helsinki, Toronto, Melbourne, Montreal and 50 other European cities.. I could go on but forget the US it died 30 hears ago trust me I was there
Reno, NV
re: reno is not what you think
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9/17/2018Reno has 2 things in abundance. Dorks and wind. If you think about it they're really the same thing. Watch out 4 the LDS cults.
Wilmington, NC
re: Not that South!
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9/17/2018Another uneducated real estate loser making a fake review just so in the end he can advertise his stupid real estate job. Could you ever imagine a doctor doing that. Hi, I'm joe the doctor, if you ever need a hernia surgery visit us while your in town..
Wilmington, NC
re: Not that South!
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9/17/2018Real estate HOO.. this site is not a place to sell yourself. what a jackass
Wilmington, NC
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9/17/2018Extreme drought needs more rain . like a desert. needs more lakes and rivers. and more rain to make the place more green.
Wilmington, NC
re: Best Up and Coming City on the East Coast
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9/17/2018And another good thing is it never rains there. Extreme drought conditions.
Sarasota, FL
re: A place for older people to enjoy life! <
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9/9/2018I was particularly intrigued regarding your comment on "flying planes"..Let's see now… Flying planes… That's a unique concept.. trying to visualize it… Can't quite do so, but… Wow… Flying planes, Really.
That must be something to behold!!
Sarasota, FL
re: Everything but the weather stinks
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9/9/2018This post is hilarious. One of the funniest ones. "Old men/losers should rejoin the military or leave the country". This place sounds horrible I could never live there.
Sarasota, FL
re: Sarasota best place to retire..??
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9/9/2018Second most beautiful place. I guess you're referring to Malibu as being the most beautiful?. Had a house right on Trancas and PCH across from Cindy Crawford. She was on the ocean side LOL. Never thought much of Malibu. Never got all the hoopla. Spent years there. PCH does not have much romance. More like an interstate than a lesson beach access road. Malibu with all its houses so closely packed together could barely fit a piece of looseleaf between the properties. Sarasota much more beautiful. Were beautiful Beecher's and much much nicer sunsets. More green and just overall a much nicer place IMO. Malibu seemed to me to be rather old and dilapidated without much charm. Always thought the East Coast beaches were more quaint and pretty. You're making a good choice and I would not recommend for anyone to move to that bastion of hell Los Angeles.
Sarasota, FL
re: Sarasota Best Place to Live
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9/9/2018Marina sweetie, it's so nice to see you embracing the American dream and your Cuban roots but this is a site particularly and exclusively for An individual's true assessment of the community and NOT a place for someone selling their wares. Real estate expert my ass. The next thing you know we'll have Joe from Joe's used car shop in Sarasota going on about how nice it is to live in Sarasota and by the way while you're there why don't you stop by and buy a used car from my shop. That's "Joe used car shop" on 16th Street… See you there
Nashville, TN
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9/8/2018Deplorable's, trumpsters, NASCAR, yee haw Country, Pentecostals, born-again's, smiling white tooth pick pockets Preachers, churches, bugs, humidity, flat, Walmart vs Target, Midwest meets middle America, fat Americans, Jesus this and jesus that-er's, Bible thumper's. Fried everything. yee haw Soccer moms. Tractor pulls. Dorks, horrible hipsters. Suburbs worse, more money but same crowd.
Atlanta, GA
re: I wish someone would have been able to wa
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9/6/2018your employer doesn't owe u a job forever. that old wreck of a husband of yours should be happy about having a job there for 27 years. what a whiny broad u r
Portland, OR
re: Perfect City for Urbanists
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9/2/2018dumb ass comment typical portand weirdo city trying "to get rid of cars". some of us like our cars and don't want to "bike" in the rain or stand at a bus stop waiting to catch a ride with the chattle.
Ashland, OR
re: Irish pub in Ashland oregon
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9/1/2018dumb ass reviewer. suppose to be a review of the town not this dimwits personal experience at a bar one night.
Salt Lake City, UT
re: Downtown is a homeless convention center!
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9/1/2018too many mor/ons / = M
Huntington Beach, CA
re: Overpriced Dingy City
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9/1/2018The whole state is a cesspool. Arguing about what's better Laguna or Huntington is like two homeless guys are doing about who has the dirtier pair of underwear. Lived on and off and that place LA all the way down to Laguna for 25 years on and off. For anyone visiting that is trying to figure out how can some old shack 90 years old termite written shack that sell in Ohio for $32,000 is over $1 million. You got me. I'm an educated guy but I can't figure it out never could. It can't be deal more of Southern California because it has nothing going for it. Features are prettier in Florida and the mountains are more handsome in New Hampshire. At some oddball thing going on with overseas investors and air B&B purchasers. I think the Chinese are buying up tens of thousands of properties in California as part of some real estate investment trust. Never to live in what sort of like a stock that they make a dividend off of and a certain percentage of return based on rental income. It's hard to say but no normal right thinking person would ever buy property anywhere Southern California I have never seen dirtier uglier homes with more poor infrastructure, a more sorry lack of community and this multiethnic multicultural hodgepodge of 150 ethnic groups all self segregating and like squirrels fighting for the same nut. I got there in the 80s and it was bad then but I'd say it's 10 times worse now in every way that a place can be worse. I would say that every single place in the United States is better than living in Southern California. I've lived on and off in 40 different states and I would choose living outside of the Ohio on a 1 acre farm over one of these dilapidated old slumlord apartment complexes where one-bedroom units sell for over $600,000 any day. I hate that place I really do.
Las Vegas, NV
re: Don't ride the bus in Las Vegas -
7/4/2018we shall herein refer to you as the coward than is it
Los Angeles, CA
re: Studio City Dental Center -
6/28/2018this guy this guy sincesucks as a dentist . does not have a us license .fraud, Armenian high school diploma but no dental degree been sued often. he drills teeth without anaesthetic. used to be a used car salesman in glendale. the above review was written by his wife who spent 6 years in jail for check fraud
Seattle, WA
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6/1/2018From your review, you are probably much younger than me. I remember Seattle in the 70s, San Francisco in the 70s Portland etc.… Then they became "it" cities. Everyone rushed in their reducing the quality of life and at the same time raising the prices. Paradoxical that that can be the case but I've seen that with most American cities with the exception of New York which has not really gotten larger and more populated but has become much more beautiful. Seattle not the case. I will tell you I lived there for two summers and you will need air-conditioning. Particularly if you're a athletic person i.e. male and perspire often or heat humidity sensitive you're going to need it. The old ploy in the Northwest and even in California to this day is "you don't need it here". That's a lie. Because all 100° in Portland Oregon. Several people died last summer because they didn't have a sea. Don't believe the lies and prepare yourself. I portable AC which was exactly what you're talking about. Get a double hose unit not a single hose. It works better. But even the most powerful portable AC will only cool off about 300 ft.² so I hope you've got a small master bedroom. As far as your comment on Seattle being beautiful, I hate to be a naysayer but I really didn't think so. I grew up in New England which to my mind is significantly more beautiful than anything in the Northwest. East Coast rivers streams waterfalls inlets jetties and East Coast trees and forests I found to be much more beautiful. You mentioned you were thinking of leaving and were concerned you would not find as beautiful a place to live. For my money, I can name at least 10 cities of over 200,000 people between Pennsylvania and Maine that are much more beautiful than Seattle to my mind. Okay you've got those big volcanoes there but that's about it. You have my status first and spruce trees but on the East Coast or 20 or 30 different variety of trees which account for the beautiful fall foliage that we have backed their. Try Boston, Providence, Portland Maine, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Manchester New Hampshire… I can go on and on. For my money Boston it is way way heads and tails above Seattle Washington in just about every category regarding quality of life. You don't have those in a boring robotic like techies which dominate the landscape. Much brighter people in Boston, better universities and people have much more personality. Far superior city. I was a Manhattan to but I'm partial because that's where I'm from. I found the two most overrated and overpriced cities in the United States of America to be Portland Oregon on an Seattle Washington. I could go on and on as to why a but if you are not a big fan of hipsters and techies then you're going to find the East Coast much more amenable. I know I do. No comparison. Good luck with your search and getting out of Seattle is a smart move. Incidentally, I agree with you about the housing. Old, rundown "ranchers". Houses that 20 years ago were purchased by blue-collar sanitation workers are now selling for $800,000 just because they're near "Seattle". So why, it's still in the old rancher the matter where the hell is located. Be careful not to get sucked into the real estate Russian roulette wheel of musical chairs. Good luck
Seattle, WA
re: Glad I at least checked it out -
6/1/2018From your review, you are probably much younger than me. I remember Seattle in the 70s, San Francisco in the 70s Portland etc.… Then they became "it" cities. Everyone rushed in their reducing the quality of life and at the same time raising the prices. Paradoxical that that can be the case but I've seen that with most American cities with the exception of New York which has not really gotten larger and more populated but has become much more beautiful. Seattle not the case. I will tell you I lived there for two summers and you will need air-conditioning. Particularly if you're a athletic person i.e. male and perspire often or heat humidity sensitive you're going to need it. The old ploy in the Northwest and even in California to this day is "you don't need it here". That's a lie. Because all 100° in Portland Oregon. Several people died last summer because they didn't have a sea. Don't believe the lies and prepare yourself. I portable AC which was exactly what you're talking about. Get a double hose unit not a single hose. It works better. But even the most powerful portable AC will only cool off about 300 ft.² so I hope you've got a small master bedroom. As far as your comment on Seattle being beautiful, I hate to be a naysayer but I really didn't think so. I grew up in New England which to my mind is significantly more beautiful than anything in the Northwest. East Coast rivers streams waterfalls inlets jetties and East Coast trees and forests I found to be much more beautiful. You mentioned you were thinking of leaving and were concerned you would not find as beautiful a place to live. For my money, I can name at least 10 cities of over 200,000 people between Pennsylvania and Maine that are much more beautiful than Seattle to my mind. Okay you've got those big volcanoes there but that's about it. You have my status first and spruce trees but on the East Coast or 20 or 30 different variety of trees which account for the beautiful fall foliage that we have backed their. Try Boston, Providence, Portland Maine, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Manchester New Hampshire… I can go on and on. For my money Boston it is way way heads and tails above Seattle Washington in just about every category regarding quality of life. You don't have those in a boring robotic like techies which dominate the landscape. Much brighter people in Boston, better universities and people have much more personality. Far superior city. I was a Manhattan to but I'm partial because that's where I'm from. I found the two most overrated and overpriced cities in the United States of America to be Portland Oregon on an Seattle Washington. I could go on and on as to why a but if you are not a big fan of hipsters and techies then you're going to find the East Coast much more amenable. I know I do. No comparison. Good luck with your search and getting out of Seattle is a smart move. Incidentally, I agree with you about the housing. Old, rundown "ranchers". Houses that 20 years ago were purchased by blue-collar sanitation workers are now selling for $800,000 just because they're near "Seattle". So why, it's still in the old rancher the matter where the hell is located. Be careful not to get sucked into the real estate Russian roulette wheel of musical chairs. Good luck
Houston, TX
re: Avoid Houston -
5/31/2018Your review of Houston was spot on. Unlike the other commentor below JB. I too am 60 years old and single. The demographic difference between a married retired couple and a single guy is like night and day. These reviews are best evaluated and analysed by matching up your particular demographic to the person writing the review. This other reviewer JB is already married with a husband and has no interest in the single scene or anything in regards relating to your comments about the women of Houston which from my perspective is a huge reason to either move or not to move to a place and I found a similar experience with the women in Houston that you described. I've lived in California as well and that's a fool's paradise but just because one place is a sewer doesn't mean that moving to another place that's a bit less of a sewer is any rational reason to move there. The US has much nicer places to live then Texas and California that's for damn sure. For those that have the means and the energy and strength and courage and happen to be single and free, a consideration regarding a move out of the country is not such a bad idea either. You're right, Texas is not what was 30 years ago but I've lived in 20 different states and 40 different cities and I can say the same thing about all of them. There are better places to live outside of the US. I'm not talking about Costa Rica or Nicaragua either but if you can afford it , Europe, New Zealand, for all types of reasons that are more appropriate to my particular demographic and interests anyway. Good luck
Houston, TX
re: LEAVING HOUSTON TODAY YAAAAY -
5/31/2018I enjoy getting Jacked. Thanks!!