Tell us something minor you hate about your hometown

[HEyHEY]

I mean the area you grew up in.

I hate the way I have to sit all manly in Pomo. If I sit even remotely un-manly, I'll get stared at.

[flvegan]

1. Absolutely nothing.

I admit, when I was young I wanted nothing more than to be out of there. Small town America sucked. Now...I wouldn't mind being back there.

Okay, maybe the fucking cranberries. Ocean Spray is based in my hometown, and it's just all cranberries!

[HEyHEY]

3. I love cranberry juice.

Especially with vodka.

[flvegan]

7. As do I, and in the same format.

But when your entire community is built on it, you get really tired of hearing about it.

BUT, it's kept the town afloat for quite some time, so I shouldn't bitch.

[mcctatas]

5. We have all kind of cranberry bogs upstate on the MN border

I love the cranberry bogs!

[mcctatas]

2. Our city water is quite possibly the worst tasting water

anywhere, ever

[sohndrsmith]

4. well, it's beautiful... but it's so bloody far from everything. The deer. I hate the deer at

dusk when I'm driving (which I always have to do because it's in the woods). The "village" isn't much help. It's a ghost town by 5:00pm. But it's gorgeous!

The deer. And the trek to and fro...

Nope. I forgot what I really hate. The thing that scares me worse than anything...

...........................the ticks...........................

They are evil.

Very evil...

[Drunken Girlfriend]

6. ...

There are too many crackheads here in Oshawa,and a lot
of drug use and poverty.

[HEyHEY]

9. That's a minor thing to you?

[auntAgonist]

8. Elmira, Ontario. It's there and I'm here

:(

I hate that.


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[ghostsofgiants]

10. No sidewalks along the main road.

It's a really small town, but along the main road? Seriously?

Also, you might be interested, if you didn't already see: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x8453354

[justabob]

11. couple of things

Five inch flying roaches (aka Palmetto bugs) and the weeks of 100 degree heat (plus humidity) in summer

[Inchworm]

12. No newspaper

Well, a weekly, very small, but still.. I miss reading a couple papers a day.

:hi:

[Robeson]

13. I hate the way tourist come here, wearing cowboy hats, not realizing...

...that those who live here, instantly mark them as tourists, because we don't wear cowboy hats.

[harmonicon]

14. the dutch left

[HEyHEY]

15. Pinko clog makers

[XemaSab]

16. Freeways tend to fall down in quakes

and when you go to the park, you might find a body. :scared:

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

17. The "I work in Boston" crowd

They live here, commute to Boston (or in that general area), but have very little connection to the community and don't think they should have to pay taxes for schools. They rarely have kids, and if they do, they make enough to send them to private school. They've attempted to hijack the local politics and would love nothing better than to have the teachers all tossed out and get bad ones to work for peanuts because they don't give a fuck.

[petronius]

18. They (we) got an All-American City Award in the mid-90s

The boastful mural is still up, even though it's surrounded by buildings with going-out-of-business signs...

[Jamastiene]

19. YOU DAMN KIDS GET OFF MY LAWN!!!!

Bad joke, in this case, I know. :shrug:

[Lucian]

20. I hate everything about my hometown.

I need to get out of here.

[HEyHEY]

21. I thought you were

[Lucian]

22. In the fall.

Only seven more months until I move.

[Ikonoklast]

23. The people who are soon-to-be ex-city government.

We had a city income tax increase on the ballot in the general, which went down to a resounding defeat. It was for .5%, and was described as 'essential' for city government. No one, from the city manager to council could tell us exactly what the money would be used for.

Well, they lost, and they are putting it back up for a vote in a special election to be held last week of February. They just don't get it that they need to do with less, as incomes in my town have taken a hit, there are over a hundred foreclosed on bank-owned homes (in a community of 34,000), and jobs are nonexistent.

Case in point: They just purchased a ladder truck for the fire department for $275,000. We HAD a perfectly serviceable ladder truck, that was sold to another fire dept. and they are happy as all get out with the deal we gave them.

Want to know the reason why our town geniuses spent the money, when we didn't have to?

They said the new truck will be able to reach to the top of a five-story building, and the other one only went up to three stories.

Our city building code only allows for three-story structures. There will NEVER BE A FIVE-STORY BUILDING IN THIS TOWN. EVER.

The city actually was sued by a developer that wanted to build four-story apartment buildings, but he lost. The city told him they would never allow a structure over three stories to be built, and would never change the building code for it.

I just wonder who got the kick-back on that little deal.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

24. Lack of a public indoor swimming pool.

Which they actually got around to building after I moved away.

I would say lack of a Barnes and Noble or Borders (the two large chain stores that I actually enjoy going to), but on the other hand, having to go at least 40 minutes to the nearest large bookstore made the experience a little more special. Now I have a Borders right down the street, a Barnes and Noble a couple miles away, and another B&N near my office, and while I love going a lot more often, it has lost some of its excitement.

[fizzgig]

25. something minor?

hmmmmm...there are only two movie theaters in town and they're on the far side of town from me. there were six or so about 15 years ago, even though the population has grown about 50 percent since that time.

[Lyric]

26. Too much red brick downtown.

Some brick color variations would look ever so much nicer. As it is, 90% of downtown is made of big, red brick buildings all clustered together. Ugh.

[av8rdave]

27. Let's see....

Well, it's perpetually economically depressed and the weather is awful. Oh, and the cost of living and the taxes are high.

Other than those minor complaints, it's great!

[Lavender Brown]

28. The bus ride to and from school was too long.

[Tektonik]

29. The San Fernando Valley is too fucking hot