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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsComplete this sentence: As long as I live, I never ever want to go back to
Me: jail or India!
pdxflyboy
(678 posts)The Tikkis
Walleye
(31,045 posts)so with you on that Walleye!
C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)Sweet Jesus, what fuckups.
Glorfindel
(9,733 posts)Eight weeks of basic training in May, June, and July was quite enough. Fortunately, I have never been in jail, but I have always thought I'd like to visit India. Not right now, of course.
Yonnie3
(17,483 posts)luv2fly
(2,475 posts)Though doing so did give me a better understanding of why Dilbert is funny.
jmbar2
(4,906 posts)sanatanadharma
(3,728 posts)Next time I will take my chances in a war zone.
MiHale
(9,775 posts)sinkingfeeling
(51,473 posts)Chipper Chat
(9,687 posts)Faux pas
(14,690 posts)Southern California! Was transplanted from Oregon as a four year old, took me 45 years to get back there. Now even happier in Washington State.
Polly Hennessey
(6,804 posts)Freddie
(9,273 posts)Happily retired (watching my 2 yo granddaughter all day) and working PT from home about 8 hrs/week. One of the best things is wearing jeans and T-shirts and no makeup.
beemerphill
(462 posts)I like being a geezer and would hate being a youngster again.
cinematicdiversions
(1,969 posts)FreepFryer
(7,077 posts)lark
(23,155 posts)People there are mean as snakes to those who look different than them - had 2 run ins at small restaurants about 40 years ago and learned my lesson. Things might have changed, but I'm not putting my life on the line again so no thanks. Mean fucking rednecks have only gotten worse over the years, I avoid them like the plague.
IngridsLittleAngel
(1,962 posts)Or 2019...
Or 2018...
Or 2017...
Or 2016.
I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)And when trump was president don't want to go back to that. Was constantly afraid my ssi and medicaid and housing would be taken away.
I so hate conservatism aka fascism.
Midnight Writer
(21,795 posts)hunter
(38,326 posts)It was very expensive, even with insurance covering 80%.
Still, much nicer than other stuff I've been hospitalized for.
Demovictory9
(32,475 posts)whistler162
(11,155 posts)hunter
(38,326 posts)Those who stayed and embraced that lifestyle turned out twisted.
Even my years as a crazy homeless person were better. I have stories and scars. They have nothing.
ShazzieB
(16,511 posts)I graduated from high school there, and couldn't wait to get out. She, otoh, married a local guy and is still there over 50 years later. I can tolerate visiting every now and then, but if I had to live there, I would lose my freaking mind.
*Note: It is NOT my "home town." I was 16 when my family moved there and it never felt like "home" to me.
hunter
(38,326 posts)When my dad retired my parents fled, as did me and all my siblings.
beaglelover
(3,489 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,168 posts)Rio, Sofia (Bulgaria), & Manila.
Mumbai is grossly crowded, not at all clean. Makes NYC & Paris look like an operating room.
Rio is much the same. (I found Sao Paolo & Salvador much nicer.)
Sofia has some nice old architecture. The rest of the city is a visual archetype of the communist dictatorship.
Manila is also dirty and it's so hard to get around the city.
Here in the US, Nashville.
I was there for a conference. I don't like country music & like the culture of it even less.
That 5 days felt like 2 months, and I spent 60% of my waking hours at the conference.
Will never visit there again.