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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: THX on March 03, 2009, 05:00:35 PM
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http://images.businessweek.com/ss/09/02/0226_miserable_cities/index.htm
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Midwest? WTF are you talking about?
I did not see one mid-west state named...lol
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huh..my stats teacher asked who everyone thought had the highest suicide rate and almost everyone said seattle, washington. he was adament that we were wrong and he\'d never seen a study that said that but every semester all the students say seattle. guess he was right
maybe we\'re still hung-over from kurt cobain
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I\'m not gonna front...i thought seattle would\'ve been no 1 as far as depression ranks go.
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There were a few Midwest cities on there, but no more than any other area.
Milwaukee was too high on that list. It\'s a happy place. Chicago is more depressed than Milwaukee.
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Midwest? WTF are you talking about?
I did not see one mid-west state named...lol
I assumed you were an idiot before, but this just confirms things.
Two Ohio cities in the top ten, ha, i need to get out of this state.
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Midwest? WTF are you talking about?
I did not see one mid-west state named...lol
The second one on the list is St Louis, MO. :stick:
Fourth one is Detroit,
Do you know which cities are NOT on the list? Los Angeles and San Francisco. :)
Damn Sacramento is always draggin\' us down.
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Ahh...next time I guess I should click on a picture instead of reading text.
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It still wasn\'t like the Midwest was all over the list.
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Half isn\'t all over?
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The east and midwest is represented a lot but then again that\'s where most of the population is.
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Half isn\'t all over?
I counted 8 out of 20. That is neither half, nor "all over".
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I counted 8 out of 20. That is neither half, nor "all over".
Here\'s my count of the cities listed in this article:
Pacific Northwest: 2
West: 3
Midwest: 8
Southeast: 6
Northeast: 1
So the Midwest has the largest number of hits. I would call that "all over it." I think the Southeast is all over it too. Those are the two regions most represented.
I\'m surprised there is only one city from the Northeast: Pittsburgh
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I think we have to agree that we all have different opinions on what makes something "all over".
I myself would have to have AT LEAST 75% to be considered all over.
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Pittsburgh and Louisville, although technically not midwest, are still midwest cities in my mind. So yeah, I see it as half, but either way, i saw it as the majority and therefore all over.
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Back to the subject:
Why do people live in the midwest? I\'ve never understood it myself. :)
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To get away from LA. :)
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I\'d be scared to live in a state that is basically one big ass Volcano.
Have fun with that, pal!
On the reals though... I like the Midwest. I like living somewhere that has all 4 seasons, even if winter is like 10 fucking months of the year.
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Only good thing about the Midwest is Chicago
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cmon man... Milwaukee is great too.
And say what you will, but Detroit will always have a special place in my heart.
Go Tigers!
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Mil. is fucking nasty as is Detroit.
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I like Minneapolis and Chicago. Don\'t really care for anything in Wisconsin.
The only time I\'ve been to Detroit was on my way to Canada. That was years ago, and I didn\'t see much, but I\'ve heard it\'s pretty scary now.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/26217951/motor_city_breakdown/ (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/26217951/motor_city_breakdown/)
We drive into Highland Park, a tiny city almost completely surrounded by Detroit proper. Highland Park is best known as the site of Henry Ford\'s first assembly line and, more recently, as the setting of the Clint Eastwood movie Gran Torino. Thousands of people moved to the area in the Teens and Twenties to build Model T\'s, but those working-class families are mostly gone now, and in recent years, entire residential blocks, once tightly packed with houses, have been razed by arsonists and demolition. We turn onto a side street and drive past a large, empty field covered in snow, with impossibly tall patches of yellow grass poking up like a wheat field. "I wish you were here in summer," John says. "It looks like a jungle in Bolivia. You\'ll see these vast grasslands with one home in four blocks. There are no city services. These people are alone on the frontier. Someone saw a coyote downtown last year."
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BTW, volcanoes are one of the few natural disasters we don\'t encounter.
That\'s ok, I wouldn\'t expect a midwesterner to know the difference between a volcano and an earthquake. :p
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Personally couldn\'t stand living in L.A., of course the midwest for the most part isn\'t any better. When I finally get out of college I\'ll probably end up somewhere on the east coast.
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East coast major cities in a nutshell:
- NYC is a cesspool but you\'ll never get bored. Just make sure you\'re a hard worker.
- DC is fun when the weather\'s nice but pretty much dead in the winter.
- Philly has culture but is D-I-R-T-Y.
- Miami is fun, to visit only. There\'s no culture with all those tourists.
- Have never been to Boston but interested in visiting. Too cold to live there though.
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I like Minneapolis and Chicago. Don\'t really care for anything in Wisconsin.
The only time I\'ve been to Detroit was on my way to Canada. That was years ago, and I didn\'t see much, but I\'ve heard it\'s pretty scary now.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/26217951/motor_city_breakdown/ (http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/26217951/motor_city_breakdown/)
d-town is rough as hell.
and for the record i was kidding about the volcano thing.
whats wrong with wisconsin? thats the land \'o luke!
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East coast major cities in a nutshell:
- NYC is a cesspool but you\'ll never get bored. Just make sure you\'re a hard worker.
- DC is fun when the weather\'s nice but pretty much dead in the winter.
- Philly has culture but is D-I-R-T-Y.
- Miami is fun, to visit only. There\'s no culture with all those tourists.
- Have never been to Boston but interested in visiting. Too cold to live there though.
NYC is not like it was even as of the late 90\'s.
DC is also nasty and crime ridden. Damn near the only nice part about DC is the Mall area.
Miami and tourists? Yea if you only hang around the tourist spots. There is an overflow and abundance of culture down here. lol
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That\'s the one place i\'ll always miss by movin\' down here from jersey...NYC...there really is no other place like it...i luv that city....:(
I\'ve never been to DC, Philly, or Miami....i do plan to go to miami hopefully in the near future. I also wouldn\'t mind checkin\' out cali tho....but the midwest states?...naw... sounds boring....i did hear that Chi-town has some nice dance clubs as in house music...i\'d like to visit chicago just for that.
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NYC is not like it was even as of the late 90\'s.
DC is also nasty and crime ridden. Damn near the only nice part about DC is the Mall area.
Miami and tourists? Yea if you only hang around the tourist spots. There is an overflow and abundance of culture down here. lol
NYC has changed in 10 yrs agreed... I go there often, was there today in fact.
DC has tons of knuckle heads, but what you say about Miami is what I say about DC. There\'s more to dc than just the mall.
Miami isn\'t a huge draw to me other than to party and enjoy the beach. Was there 2 weeks ago and it was more of the same. I need a big city with tons of jobs, a nice public transit system, and lotsa smart people. Just not a place for me to live.
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As far as DC goes, that is b/c of the politicians.... *rimshot*
You should check out Chicago, not sure about the job situation though.
ATL used to have a shitload of jobs, again not sure now.
Do you travel that much for business or something?
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There are some nice areas in DC.
Same for Philly, which is where I basically am now.
Neither even compares to NYC though, which is where I used to be.
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In all of the places I\'ve lived so far, NYC has by far been my favorite. Too bad its so damn expensive.
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As far as DC goes, that is b/c of the politicians.... *rimshot*
You should check out Chicago, not sure about the job situation though.
ATL used to have a shitload of jobs, again not sure now.
Do you travel that much for business or something?
Chicago and Boston are on my list of places to visit. Been to ATL several times while I was going to UAB, not my cup of tea.
I travel for fun, daily bus rides to NYC are $15 so I go there w/the gf to check out the museums, Chinatown, and restaurants or bars. My uncle has a house in Ft Lauderdale he sometimes occupies so we go down there a lot in the winter.