Reviews & Comments
New York, NY
re: I grew up in the South, and I think NYC i
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5/28/2022no one should be reviewing us a that they visited on vacation for a week. It's absurd. Reviews of the city and/or town or any geographical area should at least be accompanied by one year at least a minimum of residence so that they can get over the sugar high of the first few weeks in town and discard them and then additionally exclude the low points that over the course of the year show themselves to be a rare occurrence. This reviewer therefore cannot be taken seriously. Getting a hotel in Times Square and walking around town for a few afternoons gives you absolutely zero idea of what the daily ins and outs of actually living in the city are all about including the costs of housing, job prospects, taxes, the ability to create and make long-term connections with people. This discovery can not occur unless an extended period of time is spent actually living day in and day out in New York City or any city for that matter
Miami, FL
re: Filthy extension of Honduras and Guatemal
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1/31/2022To be blunt, it is an Hispanic city with many third worlder from strife ridden countries newly arrived. It is technically america but lives like it's Haiti meets Caracas Venz...Whites are not harassed but you will be made to feel unwelcome by the dirty looks and Bad Vibes given off. Learn Spanish proficiently to mitigate this but it won't change much. South Beach, once the Jewel, has turned into a Hip Hop garbage Fest.
Boston, MA
re: Boston is great? Think again.
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11/15/2021Black cities u might like go to Atlanta or Detrout
Buffalo, NY
re: Buffalo, The Armpit of the United States
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9/20/2021Minnesota: Home to BLM and Antifa. Sounds like heaven
Pensacola, FL
re: Pensacole, Race to the Bottom!
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9/12/2021I am trying to get money for my mouth fixed from meth and the city will not give it to me as there is a waiting line. It is all not roses for us.
Pensacola, FL
re: Pensacola , a city ruined by homeless jun
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9/12/2021 I live in Pensacola and do drugs and drink and I am a bum so why not review the city.
Las Vegas, NV
re: Great but ill mannered people is prevalen
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9/7/2021the west side of Vegas has to be broken down into separate and distinct areas to properly evaluate it. summerlin is the most expensive, mountains edge would be next and thirdly where I live which is the North-west part of Las Vegas the where building is the most rampant is called Centennial Hills. Centennial Hills is every bit as nice as Summerlin in my opinion without having to pay premium prices for the "reputation".... without the price tag. Okay so I live in a brand-new construction home or was when I rented it in 2018 brand-new construction matters. Don't kid yourself. Homes that have been in the rental program for years and years are old..old appliances old this old that.. is a real pleasure to move into a brand-new construction rental whether it be an apartment and or a house. So 4 bedrooms three full baths two car garage washer and dryer stainless steel appliances high-end cabinetry and from my perspective the most important component of all nausea central air-conditioning on both floors but also the master bedroom has his own dedicated central AC thermostat which in Las Vegas definitely matters if you want to keep your bedroom very cool ... but the point is that I have all of that for $1400… Rent just one up to $1500 for 1800 ft.²… So you can see the west side is not that expensive depending on where on the Westside you live. Smart money is moving to Centennial Hills. Summerlin is way too expensive and has that "it" factor about it that is causing California money to fly there. Consequently this home renting Centennial Hills would be seven or $800 more in Summerlin and would not be new. Keep that in mind but otherwise agree with your assessment of the Westside versus East side. This is a known fact an important one to keep in mind for anybody moving to Vegas. It's almost like two separate towns. East side is very difficult and run down and it just "feels" dangerous. The Westside feels just like living in Palm Springs or some small community in Utah.
Las Vegas, NV
re: Vegas, the home that everybody dreams abo
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9/7/2021Vacations don't make good reviews. A person needs to live in a place for a minimum of one year preferably longer to work out the kinks, get off the sugar high or the bad times that are one offs, to be able to review a city properly . Sorry, but Glad you liked your trip.
Toledo, OH
re: TOLEDOLY NOT COMING BACK
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9/7/2021drunk when he wrote this..
...or at least I hope he was drunk
Tucson, AZ
re: A much nicer city than I remembered
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8/30/2021Re: Heidi's response about the dating scene. I show up to first date whenever I get one that is, in cargo shorts, T-shirts and unshaven. It's hot outside and shaving is just too much trouble. many of us don't own cars. Gas is expensive and we choose to hoof it. I do consider myself above the rest as I change my white sandal socks twice a week.
Tucson, AZ
re: One of the worst if not the worst place i
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8/30/2021Correct Lake Tahoe most boring town in the Northern Hemisphere. Carson City is not even a place. It's a non entity . Reno is right behind with the witless Californians spilling into it with their Zero personalities and their entitled soccer moms with the California chip firmly on shoulder
Tucson, AZ
re: Tucson really is Toosad
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8/30/2021to the two responders to this person's post firstly is a very liberal city is one of the most liberal cities in the United States. Noam Chomsky the Communist professor from Cambridge Massachusetts i.e. MIT/Harvard lives in Tucson these days. It is the most liberal city in the southwest for certain. To the autoresponder from New England who came back with this snide remark about his perceptions of acorn by our world in the American Southwest is only someone from New England from a lily white state like Connecticut there was say something so stupid and uninformed. On a 60-year-old guide myself but I have lived all over the United States for the last 20 years in the Southwest including Tucson and Phoenix and Las Vegas and several other cities that are heavily populated with minorities I can assure you they do not like you. It's not a matter of fitting in or getting a longer any of these colloquialisms that liberal white people like to say in the real world the way it actually works is you are eyeballed in the parking lot lot your look down upon your challenge to fights you are tailgated and if you're white you are an outcast. You have to remember that Hispanics view the United States as Europeean invaders that took their homeland which by the way is true incidentally in case anyone doesn't remember their history. So when you get a bunch of antagonistic ethnic groups all thrown together and the dominant population is nonwhite there is always going to be conflict the matter whether it's Los Angeles or San Francisco Phoenix Tucson New York City Philadelphia I could go on and on but particularly the case that Hispanics are extraordinarily antagonistic so you can call me with your open-minded police from your q. week or estate in Wilton Connecticut where all of her neighbors were lily white blond hair Irish neighbors named O'Shaughnessy and you think you're going to be the white guy that shows up 60 miles away from the Mexican border and you're not going to have any problems I can assure you got another thing coming. And those not just me it's everyone I know I'm talking about thousands and thousands of white people that I've spoken to because I was here you don't. So this particular posters message may seem negative but it's true. Diversity keeps cohesion at bay and the southwest of the United States is representative of this dynamic in spades
Las Vegas, NV
re: Vegas - The good, the bad, and the ugly
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7/7/2021The so called Diversity is not a plus. It's responsible for most of the crime and alienation the city has. You're probably under 30 so you think that's "cool"
Las Vegas, NV
re: Vegas - The good, the bad, and the ugly
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7/7/2021The so called Diversity is not a plus. It's responsible for most of the crime and alienation the city has. You're probably under 30 so you think that's "cool"
Las Vegas, NV
re: Vegas - The good, the bad, and the ugly
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7/7/2021The so called Diversity is not a plus. It's responsible for most of the crime and alienation the city has. You're probably under 30 so you think that's "cool"
Albuquerque, NM
re: Want to give negative stars to Hell as on
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6/27/2021Stink Burger franchises are all over Alb
San Francisco, CA
re: A Balanced Review After 10 Years
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6/26/2021POMPOUs
San Francisco, CA
re: A Balanced Review After 10 Years
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6/26/2021POMPOUs
Santa Rosa, CA
re: The good, the bad and the ugly
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6/26/2021there is a large LBGQT community there Jerry.
Duluth, MN
re: Fairweather Duluthian
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6/23/2021Your reference to hearing a loon call...I did not know that Trump had visited Duluth
Columbus, OH
re: Horrible Horrible
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6/20/2021Law school. Please learn to use proper syntax and grammar. If you receive an interview remember to say because, not cuz. Street slang is ok for the hood, but than again law school is accepting any sucker these days with a buck to pay the tuition and the over payed so-called professors that couldn't make it in the real world.
Columbus, OH
re: Counting down the days until I move.
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6/20/2021OSU offers the worst education in the country. They are at the bottom of every list and any one even failing grades can make their PHD programs.
Miami, FL
re: RIP OLD MIAMI, IN MY MEMORY
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6/20/2021Well, I don't dance around it. From my perspective it's worth being deleted or shut out of a forum that does not allow free speech. So I'll just come out and say it. I remember Miami In the late 70s during spring break. This was well before the migration from "the Caribbean". Blond haired girls, it might as well been Cape Cod. What's happened to Miami in the last 40 years is the same thing that's happened to Los Angeles for example. I would say that LA was worth living in in the 80s but now it's a nightmare unless you're very very rich and even then you really can't insulate yourself from all of the problems. Homeless everywhere crime skyrocketing. Sound familiar? That's Miami. Walking down the street on Ocean Boulevard across from the ocean these days you're more likely to see 90% hip hoppers with baggy pants and potential gunfights than you are to see rollerblading attractive women. Both South Beach and Hollywood were a Mecca for a single guy but you couldn't pay me to live in either one of those places today. All the cities that were great or fun to live in 30/40 years ago are now the worst places in the country to live in whether it be New York City, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami/South Beach…Over the last 30 years or so I have been to Miami probably a dozen times. I lived there in 78/79. Also spend another year there in 2000 and then back and forth since then about 10 more times and each subsequent visit the place gets worse and worse and more dangerous feeling each and every time I go. Do not venture into the wrong neighborhood and believe me that's easy to do whether it's too far east into Little Havana or you take the wrong turn off the 95 and end up in Overland you'll definitely feel like you're not in the right neighborhood. I have to say thhat at the beginning when the Cubans migrated here and they weren't dominating the demographic landscape to the tune of well over 95% Cuban population in Dade County, they weren't quite as dismissive and passive aggressive towards non-Cubans/non-Latinos. There's a sense of alienation when I've spent a few days at a time in Miami that I also feel in LA sort of like they don't want you there as the Caucasian demographic is so small now that they not only don't need your business they don't want you there in the first place. It's palpable and even though it's a generalization to say this, the overarching feeling is there. Would not even recommend a vacation down there.
Bozeman, MT
re: Bozeman and Montana...ruined by liberals<
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6/16/2021the Californians ruin everyplace theyy go mantra is exactly correct. Lived in California for years and I have never met a bunch of more inane self absorbed narcissistic money hungry empty headed hollowed out road rats in my life. I can afford to live annywhere but I hate to say it I would move to Montana not the so-called "in places" to live whether that be Bozeman Helena Missoula. Of course they come in and drive up the prices and ruin the community with their liberal mindset. Real estate agents moved to these towns and they're all in on it houses get bid up locals get bid out and what made the place special is no longer special. I went online to look at some of the properties in Bozeman in the looks a lot like the San Fernando Valley to me. I sorry 1000 ft.² tiny 80-year-old home for sale for $1 million in downtown Bozeman. This is the pure unadulterated result of California's moving in and destroying a community. Unfortunately there like termites they started the spread into Nevada and everyone's Reno forever. They then penetrated into Idaho and now Lake Coer de lane in northern Idaho might as well be Lake Tahoe. Locals are getting out and another beautiful small town ruined. Unfortunately Montana is too close to California to really escape them. There are states in the country that a Californian would never move to and those are states with the quality of life being much better for lack of them being there. A California would never move to Ohio for example. You can still get a beautiful form on 50 acres with a brand-new construction home for $200,000. Try doing that in Bozeman. That's too far off the grid for a Californian but I hate to say it if you want to get bang for your buck and a quality-of-life away from these vermin you really have to move to states that they will not populate. It's just not hip enough for them. Good luck in Jackson hole in other parts of Wyoming as well same thing. It isn't worth paying $900,000 to live in a town full of California transplants. I wish the people of Bozeman the best but I would say that your city is already ruined
New York, NY
re: Don't Fight The Last War by Moving to NYC
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5/22/2021Miami is the ugly one leg it stepsister of New York. They're both cut from the same cloth. It's funny New Yorkers that want to escape New York go running to New York with palm trees. Hot sweaty unit and flat and you better speak Spanish. I'm not kidding. The New York City for 30 years in Miami for five so I have a pretty good idea of both places. Would not move back to either one of them. I thought your story would have a happy ending. Something like I decided to move up north to a more livable city like Montréal or Toronto or maybe get a place on the lake in New Hampshire but Miami?. The one-bedroom apartments there are closing in on $1 million and for nothing. Small and cramped just like Manhattan. If I had to go to Florida and someone put a gun to my head and forced me to move there I would definitely choose Tampa Bay and/or Jacksonville over Miami.
Saratoga Springs, NY
re: the quality of life is very high
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4/23/2021ethnic diversity give me a break if u want that move to the bronx
Los Angeles, CA
re: Not a place to raise a family
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3/28/2021Poor Eric has an anger management issue. He carouses the response sections on Sperling's picking fights with strangers. He also doesn't understand Sarcasm. Pathetic little boy hold up in his basement in Aurora epicenter for mass shootings by the frustrated and angry.
Las Vegas, NV
re: Don't be tempted to move here.
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3/26/2021This is not the 1800s. Lewis and Clark and the Donner party are no more. Cross country moves now those people that left Independence Missouri and trekked through thousands of miles in horse-drawn buggies with no medicine, little if any food, now those times were difficult and if one's spouse was to make the statement that we're too old to make a cross-country trip that would be understandable but listen Steve this is 2021.: Moving company they'll pack everything up for you you don't have to lift a finger. If you don't want to drive have an auto trim move your car and then hop on a plane and in a couple of hours your "cross country" move is completed. Don't exaggerate the process. Unless you're medically incapacitated I have to say it's probably just sheer laziness forgive the observation or you've gotten into a comfort zone that you don't wish to break. Don't let your wife/husband relegate you to a life of doom and misery waiting for the grave. If you want to get out get out. It's not all that difficult irrespective of what your wife says.
Las Vegas, NV
re: Sure it's relative, but really it's awful
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12/27/2020I have to say that I don't relate to most anything they you have had to say on your post. Not saying it's not valid for you and your review is perhaps pertinent to others of your demographic but everyone's experience is different based on age, income and other demographic factors which go into consideration as to where to live. I personally know no person who has overdosed on drugs. I am a physician here in Las Vegas but I live in a middle-class community in Centennial Hills which would not even be considered on par with Summerlin or Henderson in regards to status so I am not over wealthy but I have never witnessed a crime nor have I ever been a victim of crime. Most of this of course is due to individual behavior which is in the control of each and every one of us. I don't gamble drink or do drugs and that helps. I also have to say that your assessment much of it at least, is in regards to the last 10 months. We are in the middle of a pandemic and there is not a single city in the United States that is not suffering through the same predicaments. I treated patients in Elmhurst the epicenter of the coded outbreak with thousands were dying per day in New York City. I worked in the emergency room and one month before New York City was the most vibrant city in the world arguably. Everyone who could afford it once to live there but look at it now. A snapshot in time would preclude any rational person's interest in moving there but then that snapshot quickly changes. A year from today New York City will be back to what it was and I would say the same thing about Las Vegas. We don't want to get caught up into how hard things are now or expensive it is to live in a particular city when virtually that statement could be extrapolated out to literally anywhere in the country at this point. With that said, I will comment on the population explosion. It is very real but then again places that are booming are places people want to move to by definition. I remember Vegas in the 1980s when there were 400,000 people so it is increased in my lifetime 10 times where it was just 35 years ago. In some ways it's better and in some ways it's worse. It's worse because it's more crowded of course but the entertainment options and casino properties are significantly more grand and beautiful than they were 30 years ago. I also have to disagree with you on the food. This is a franchise restaurant corporate town so there are hundreds of restaurants that sell sandwiches all competing for your business. There are hundreds of chicken joints that serve healthy grilled chicken alternatives all vying for your business. Competition drives the prices down not up. If I bring $10 with me I can name off the top of my head 50 to 100 restaurants in my neighborhood alone that I can go in to get a healthy well-balanced meal and walk out with change. Literally. As far as rent is concerned I am renting a four bedroom three bath brand-new construction home with central air-conditioning i.e. digital thermostats in all of the rooms with an attached two-car garage 1800 ft.² in a middle-class neighborhood for $1425 per month. Try doing that in Los Angeles or New York. Or Knoxville Tennessee for that manner. Housing prices in regards to sales have gone up and I will agree with you that they are overpriced at this point. I don't think any rational person would buy real estate in Las Vegas in this market without at least accepting the very real possibility that they're going to take a 20 to 30% hit but that's everywhere. Try Miami Fort Lauderdale. Real estate in Los Angeles Seattle Portland Phoenix, name the city, has gone up exponentially around the country East-West north-south because of 0% interest rates. These are inflationary and supply and demand issues that play and are more complicated than maybe you're imagining. All in all I would recommend Las Vegas to people in my demographic single guy middle-age single guy older, retired couples. The energy and nightlife and overall buzz of the city is a nice change from small-town USA. We have a $2 billion state-of-the-art football stadium here for the Las Vegas Raiders. People don't put $2 billion into football stadiums unless they are building and a thriving and developing city. The stadium is right on the strip so after the game you can walk outside and within a block or to be in the Cosmopolitan Hotel with people all dressed up having drinks… In other words it's a fun town it has been in the past and will be when this virus passes so give it a break during the pandemic… For families, I don't know that's a tough one… I don't have kids so I don't have to face that situation but intuitively I would say probably not but there are plenty of single people both young and old and empty-nesters that Vegas would do just fine for. This enough going on at night to keep a night out like me happy and there were sleepy suburbs for an alternative as well. I like the fact that it's a resort town. New people coming in from all over the world 40 million per year. If you're outgoing and bring 50 bucks with you to any one of the casinos try the Bellagio or Cosmopolitan and just sit down at the center bar. Don't gamble grab a beer or a Diet Coke and people watch. Before you know it you'll start a conversation with a Taurus from Australia sitting next to a Taurus from Germany sitting next to another one from Holland. He can make for an interesting time. You don't get that in most places may be Miami, possibly New York, but it's a good bang for the buck town all things considered and it is not expensive. This is one of the least expensive places that I've ever lived. Tell me where else you can get a brand-new construction home for $1400 and be a few miles from downtown. I doubt even in small towns people to do much better than that. Much of the construction that I see elsewhere whether it be the Midwest, the Northeast, the South and the Pacific Northwest is old old old. Go shopping for a home in Seattle and see what year it was built. 1956 sales price $1.25 million. Here in Vegas there are tens and tens of thousands of new homes being built and if you're someone next likes living in a house that no one else has been in before soda like a new car that doesn't have to hundred thousand miles on it you can get that here. New construction is difficult to find in dying cities or those that have matured out and are no longer building up which is a good part of the US. That's another thing to consider.
Knoxville, TN
re: Misery
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12/27/2020Bible Thumpers UT football? Is that the name of a team?
Murfreesboro, TN
re: cultural diversity
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12/27/2020No so called Diversity. Thank god for that!
Dallas, TX
re: Strong white supremacy culture. Adverse t
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12/27/2020here we go with the poor blacks routine again.
Las Vegas, NV
re: Trying to be fair in my review
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9/20/2020are you really reviewing a city based on your experience with an employee at Walmart
San Antonio, TX
re: San Antonio is a Disgrace
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5/2/2019Blacks and Hispanics = S.A.
San Antonio, TX
re: Pretty racist place
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5/2/2019Whites are Superior. All the rest go in the /Dumpster
Asheville, NC
re: Why We Passed on Asheville
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4/5/2019Strange, as you reviewed Wilmington on Wilmingtons Sperlings site. This is supposed to be a site to review a place (Asheville), that a person has actually lived in, not considered living in, but has lived in, currently better still, so as to review that place, not some other place. The sad fact of your choice to move to Wilmington should be all too apparent now, with homes blowing and floating away. Port city in hurricane alley? Take the mountains and the fresh water lakes. Leave the Ocean to the salt water fishies.
Colorado Springs, CO
re: Gotten Worse
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3/29/2019Why don't you run back to D.C. for a fourth time, I heard the 4th time is a charm. Dog chases tail in a circle, and around, and around he goes.
Colorado Springs, CO
re: Very Disappointing
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3/29/2019He is right. Mountain women are horribly unattractive. No makeup. They don't wear dresses and are frumpy. Military and bible thumper's wives lean towards the obese and not very bright to begin with. CS is not a fashion conscious town and the women are a testament to that. Imagine mid-west plain Jane meets the mountain-woman. If these ungodly looking creatures were to stroll down Rodeo Drive with their pony tails, tattoos, hiking boots and their North Face down mountain gear clothing bibles in hand ( non-manicured for years hands), they would be run out of town on a rail
Nashville, TN
re: What a dump!!
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3/11/2019I'm not from LA but I might as well be having spent 20 years there. Can you imagine living in a place with 8 million of these insufferable pricks like the one posting this review. Los Angeles died in the 1990s if it was ever alive in the first place, and it's been since inhabited by these horrific hipsters that are not happy with a plate of food unless it's had fairy dust sprinkled on top by some chef named Pierre. I've lived in Nashville for year and loved every minute of it. The people for the most part in Nashville and the surrounding communities in particular are the most polite and decent people that I've run into in the country. Gregarious outgoing personalities, fun and decent. I apply none of these to just about anyone who I've ever met in Los Angeles. You wonder why guys like this ever leave there. In this fool's paradise you will you'll find virtually no one speaking English as their first language, polluted beaches, unbreathable air and traffic that is beyond description it will make anything Nashville has to throw at it look like a parking lot in comparison. I rarely met anyone truly nice out there that was not self absorbed and narcissistic. People can be like this everywhere but it's taken to a new level in that hellhole Los Angeles. Don't listen to this guy.
Philadelphia, PA
re: Spend your paycheck commuting
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1/29/2019750 is all you need. This pays for everything including your bar tab.
Jacksonville, FL
re: Don't move here
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1/18/2019V.D. (an unfortunate name), writes below that people don't speak and write English well.
Boise City, ID
re: Californians relocating to Idaho
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1/10/2019Sam they (californians), won't take our advice . Most are too obstinate and programmed for mone and stuff and I got the bigger house than you and the whole power couple thing ( real estate agents esp awful). They are infesting the what use to be nice parts of Vegas on the outskirts Summerlin Henderson and have driven the prices up by 300 per cent as they sell their crappy Laguna beach Shack for 2 million dollars. Can't stand them. Not the economic issues so much but their incessant I'm more sophisticated than dumb Nevadans attitude. They are not friendly and very off putting. I am speaking in particular of the coastal elite types not the Central interior.
Boise City, ID
re: Get a Life
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1/10/2019californiansd suck. Bloviatingself absorbed narcissists. They can't shake their love for things things things. Big houses, 100 K SUV's. And I am not an uneducated underachiever Have a Stanford M.D. and Mayo clinic residency and fellowship surgical training. It;s just like a Schmuck Californian (you), to declare that anyone disagreeing with you must be uneducated.
Las Vegas, NV
re: Difficult and depressing place to live
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12/28/2018i just posted my own new review on Las Vegas and then scroll down and saw your post. What caught my attention is your comment regarding the dentists. I included that in the body of the post that I created. What the hell is it with the dentists out here. I know this town is full of scammers but the dentists are the Michael Jordan of the scammer world in Las Vegas. You're right. I've never seen anything like it.. One guy tried to charge me $12,000 and remove all of my front teeth just to replace one tooth that needed a crown. He actually Diagnosed me with a straight face. I was so angry I was going to hit him. LOL but then I thought about all of the Las Vegas slip and fall ambulance chasing personal injury attorneys on TV at 3 o'clock in the morning trying to get you to sue anybody for anything. So I just walked out of there shaking my head. I came in for a "free consult", but when I went out the girl charged me $200. I told her you told me was Free… Well yeah it's free if you become a patient of ours but if you don't then it's $200… They actually get away with this crap…Another thing about the dentist out here and this is going to sound indelicate but have you ever met one that didn't have some six syllable last name that you couldn't pronounce with some heavy accent from some God knows where. It's like they all come here to work over the Americans financially and steal what they can before they roll out of here back to wherever they came from.
Las Vegas, NV
re: WORST CITY ON EARTH
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12/28/2018I live here too, but I have also lived in Los Angeles and having lived in both places I would say that this is the lesser of two evils. Everything bad here is magnified by a factor of 10 in Los Angeles. Used to be that one could say that the weather is better there but forest fires and if there's such a thing as global warming then LA is definitely experiencing it. Malibu is where I lived right on the beach across from the ocean and there were several days well over 100° last summer and most people don't have AC In Malibu because "if you live on the beach you don't need it". What BS. Anyway, I empathize with your point about the quality of people here in Las Vegas. I sold my place in Malibu and have been here for about six years and the only way I can describe the way I feel here is a combination of PTSD meets hypervigilance which all in all is actually one in the same. Everyone here is out to steal whatever they can from you. Dentists should be imprisoned. They may be the absolute worst and most corrupt of all of the professional class in Las Vegas that I've had the distinct displeasure of Being roughed up financially. Lawyers everywhere. You see them on television at 3 o'clock in the morning all 50 of them trying to get you to sue for every fender bender. I do believe there are people here who are deliberately trying to get hit by a car to collect insurance. I'm so aware of the cons that go on out here on so many multiple levels that I don't even drink and party and go out anymore. I'm always on guard. There's a ton of unstable people walking around even in the suburbs out here that are supposed to be nice. But near the strip you don't know what you're going to come up against. It's legal to carry guns out here without even a license. I see a lot of modern middle-age wannabe tough guys who look like they want to be a combination of Matt Dillon from Gunsmoke and a fighter in the UFC. And they walk around with guns holstered on their hips. A ton of middle-age males walking around all looking like they want to be the toughest guy on the block. Many stare downs. I'm always looking out for the next con and the next guy to step in front of my car trying to get hit and all of the other knuckleheads that are driving 100 mph and cutting me off every which way to Sunday either deliberately attempting to get me into an accident or they are just young dumb and stupid I don't know what. I feel sorry that you own a business out here. I had thought about that when I first arrived. I can and could afford to buy a business but after being here for a year or two I knew that this was a short-term proposition. Every day that I wake up I always have this idea that I'm only going to be here for a short time more and then I'm going to get out of here but strangely enough it's been six years and I haven't done so yet. It's easy to get complacent here as the housing is so incredibly cheap or at least where I live it is. Centennial Hills 2018 four-bedroom home for $1300 a month brand-new construction. Try finding that on the coast. Every day sunny and before you know it another year has passed. Anyway I like your post and the advice that I would give anybody living in Las Vegas but then again unfortunately for that matter mostly anyplace in this country but particularly Las Vegas is watch your wallet and grow eyes in the back of your head both literally and metaphorically. There's a lot of guys out here whose main job and goal is to work you over financially. As is the case for most US cities, Vegas was one hell of a whole lot better 40 years ago than it is today. There were 350,000 people here in 1983 and now it's over 2 million and I can tell you the quality of life is significantly worse but again you can say that about Los Angeles San Diego and probably most other cities. Las Vegas can be a scary place. Another sad thing I've noticed which may be the case in other cities I don't know, is that I can drive around my neighborhood and look at every single house and everyone has their shades drawn on every single window in the house. I don't see neighbors in the community getting together for barbecues or children playing outside. It looks like a ghost town though I'm certain all of these homes are inhabited but with the Blinds drawn it has the appearance of people hiding and cowering in their homes. This is not the feeling of a place that I had when growing up in my small town back east. Good luck
Chandler, AZ
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12/28/2018The summer here in the Chandler/Phoenix area between June and September is very similar Temperature wise to the San Francisco Bay area in the Summer. Has much in common with the Northern Oregon coast during the summer months. Very low humidity and comfortable.
Chandler, AZ
re: Unsafe for people....
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12/28/2018If you are the Not the light skin like you talk about then the law enforcement and governor will arrest you because they know you jump over the border. If the law enforcement do not arrest you then they cannot work there. They will be forced to work at Walmart. Gov. must put them on other side of Texas in other country.
Irvine, CA
re: Too many apartments in Irvine now!
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12/25/2018chinese is a crap culture. High rise living no class or elegance. The Japanese knew this in he 30's and saw them rightfully as mongrels and of inferior stock and crushed them militarily. I see why the more and more I am around the chinese. They are infesting Calif. and won't be content until the whole place is a polluted high rise mess version of Beijing.
Irvine, CA
re: Irvine CA
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12/25/2018Yeah I know it's like Beijing meets Baghdad. Not a good vibe.
Providence, RI
re: How is Providence RI?
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12/24/2018You ask a lot of questions. An innumerable amount to be clear. I'm surprised you didn't ask how many meters Lancaster is from the center of the sun. You asked everything else. "Building my brand". That's funny. You should try working in a haberdashery. Coke vs Pepsi. Study on this and get back to us and let us know which brand you prefer.
Miami, FL
re: Worst place in America
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12/24/2018This has to be a joke post. Referring to San Diego as the best place to live in America is when I knew for sure that this post was insincere and meant to edejm102968@aol.com
garner a response. San Diego is horrible on so many levels that it's impossible to describe in one post. It's an oddball mix of very snooty on interesting unfriendly money money money that live in the beach towns like La Jolla and the rest is some sort of post-apocalyptic wasteland. If you're single and you've been out in Miami or New York at night and have some idea what nightlife really means, you could never say with a straight face that San Diego has good nightlife. There's also a very oddball military vibe going on there that just doesn't fit. ubur conservative, PTSD military types. They're all over the place down here. There are naval and army bases everywhere in the San Diego area and the retirees from the military just love this place. Cities with a large military presence both active and retired is a turnoff. Strange disaffected personalities that I personally am not drawn to. This a ton of other stuff bad about San Diego to. I could go on about the crushing traffic and the other poor quality of life issues but the one that stands out the most is it probably is in the top five most expensive cities to live in the United States but there's absolutely no rationale to spending $4500 a month for a one-bedroom apartment to be one block from the beach. Another misnomer that has been played up over the years and might have been true 30 to 40 years ago but not today is the girls. To compare the girls in San Diego with the girls in Miami/South Beach Miami is ridiculous. Now if you're a married 45-year-old with two kids this point will have no relevance to you put to any of the single guys out there reading this, Miami has hands-down the most beautiful women in the United States. Now mind you, you need to have some money to live well in Miami same as you do anywhere else but if you can afford a condominium in South Beach and you like going out at night you can have a seven night a week nightlife until 5 o'clock in the morning. Not saying you're going to want to do that but it's there. San Diego has the feel of an old dying military town. After 12 AM everything dies even the not so great bars in the gaslight district. Another advantage to Miami and one that people don't necessarily consider or know about is that Miami has several facets of water life that are interesting and fun. It's not just the Atlantic Ocean but also the bays and inlets and canals and the intercoastal waterway's. You can take your boat along the intercoastal from Miami all the way up for 100 miles from Miami all the way up north. The intercoastal is buttressed on both sides by land and their arrest runs and bars that you can stop at along the way to eat and drink and have a good time. Try doing that in San Diego. San Diego beaches like the rest of the California are one-dimensional. It's the ocean and that's it. California is one big desert that stops abruptly at the Pacific Ocean so you don't have the same degree of water life/nightlife/fun that you do in the waters around Miami Fort Lauderdale. You'll see hundreds and hundreds of jet skis out every day along the beaches and intercoastal waterway's in Miami. You'll see people waterskiing and sailing and power boating. You can fish take a day trip in your boat over to the Bahamas digest are 1001 things to do on and with the water in South Florida that you simply can't do in Southern California. You own a boat in Miami you drive around in a circle for half an hour and you come back. The water is too cold to swim in most of the year and if you want to go to a destination you're stuck with one singular place to go and that's Catalina Island which is way way off from San Diego probably 70 miles away but that's it. So if you're a boater and like water sports forget about it this just no comparison. So in summary girls, nightlife, water activities, Miami hands-down.
San Diego, CA
re: Behind the Curtain
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12/19/2018S.C overrated overprice and QOL downward for 40 years now. Us to be no AC needed but recently rented a guest house in La Jolla for an absurd amt of $. May throuth the socalled "Fall" didnt have a/c .."you dont need it here" routine from landlord. Itwas more miserable than Vegas in the summer. Santa Anas constantly brought temps close to 100 degrees for days on end. Hated it.
Portland, ME
re: Question for Portland Residents
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12/19/2018The men all have hairy backs and neck beards. Cro magnum meets austrilopithicus. They can drink large quantities of beer at one sitting if this is a plus for you.
Lancaster, PA
re: Lancaster is "Not that Bad" - Honest Revi
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12/9/2018Latisha harlem be better.
Lancaster, PA
re: A Nightmare in Lancaster!
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12/9/2018That story is funny
Oklahoma City, OK
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12/7/2018Midwest meets deep south. Think Mr. Rogers meets Hopalong Cassidy.