English Alter In Need of American Advice and More. (All will be explained inside…) I am moving to New York City… (2412 hits)
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Submitted by Leaving on a Jet Plane (View user info) at 2007-10-23 05:06:15 EDT
Now I know, you're all going 'well who the heck is this guy?' truth be told I've been here over a year and most of you know me by name, but rarely have ever spoken to me (excluding a few). Some know me from PH and the general view of me is that I make people smile.
So! Why am I using an alter? If my partner was to see this then I'd be fucked. Very very simple. She doesn't know about this plan. Hence me not saying who I am!Anyway that's all kind of irrelevant.
I'm looking to move to NYC for a number of reasons.
1. I feel trapped
2. I'm too young to be doing what I'm doing
3. I don't feel like I've lived.
So I have spoken to one of my friends, because to be honest I have very few in the UK because of the partner and what not, and in 1 years time I'll be moving out.
Now we chose NYC because we know both 'know' people in the area. Plus we have both been there before and really liked it as a city. So don't try and change my mind on that! However I do have some questions!
1. IS it actually a nice place to live?
2. Has it got a good night life (when I went, I was too young to drink)
3. What are the people like?
Ok more serious ones now:
1. How easy is it to get a job over there? (office)
2. What's a good part of NYC/ Manhattan to live? (do the sterotypes of Harlem/ Bronx still apply? Bearing in mind I'm a middle class white boy.)
3. I have 3 years of good working experience, but no university education. I do however have, I guess you'd call it high school, education. GCSEs and A levels. What sort of pay am I looking at? In the Uk I'm on around $40,000- 50,000.
4. Are there large spiders in NYC?
5. How do I go about applying for a green card? Or do I just need a working visa?
6. Do you get many Earthquakes etc? Gangs? Crime rate? (In asking these questions, I realise how stereotypical and uneducated I am about the day to day running of other areas of the world. Apologies for my naivety.)
If I think of anymore I'll just post them as questions through out the year. Don't really give a fuck about rating, but I do on my other account so if you work it out/ find out, please don't be cunts.
Anyway I'd also like to hear back from certain members of the uber community, so if any of you (especially people like Kaos King, Hilarity Ensues, Gascs, BRD and so many more) would like to leave an email address I could contact you on, that'd be great.
Please leave any advice you can.
Oh also, what's the weather like?
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Submitted by Quint (user info) at 2007-10-26 23:14:20 EDT (#)
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5. How do I go about applying for a green card? Or do I just need a working visa?
A green card takes forever. I suggest you find a fat American chick (no shortage of them on this site), get engaged and get yourself over on a fiance visa.
Submitted by iambetteratit (user info) at 2007-10-26 22:00:08 EDT (#)
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Lets see.. NYC...the only place in the world with more puerto ricans than there are in puerto rico. crime rate depends on what part of the city you are in. the nightlife is awesome. obviously the more money you have the nicer NY is
Submitted by lucid (user info) at 2007-10-26 19:10:43 EDT (#)
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you mention 3 years of work experience, that you need to find a job in new york, you used to make x amount but you omit what it is you have experience in.
i hope it's not marketing.
Submitted by keitsith (user info) at 2007-10-26 09:17:42 EDT (#)
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ur #1 most heated !
i think ur awesome !!!
Submitted by iddqd (user info) at 2007-10-26 03:46:21 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Caulaincourt (user info) at 2007-10-25 22:26:45 EDT (#)
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Submitted by BLITZKREIG_BOB (user info) at 2007-10-23 07:53:58 EDT (#)
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Why the fuck do all you British jerks bash us Americans constantly, but then decide that you want to move here?
Stay out of my country.
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who is this crybaby pussy?
NYC is awesome.
i want to go soon. :-D
p.s. the earthquake question was pretty dumb. fault lines are taught in like 7th grade, man.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-25 04:36:54 EDT (#)
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Submitted by JulsInsane (user info) at 2007-10-24 18:15:40 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-10-24 04:47:44 EDT (#)
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I'm so glad that damned word association post has finally been knocked off most heated.
Forensic fails to grasp is that Englishmen, as well as the ethnic minorities from Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the Commonwealth, regard winding one another up as an international sport. Although it goes without saying that there are the odd one or two who genuinely feel animosity towards this great United States of America for all sorts of inscrutable reasons.
Personally I have eaten Arby's chicken strips with their gorgeous honey mustard sauce and am of the opinion that that is the greatest cultural contribution of any nation ever. Also I live in Birmingham, the proper one, so the hideous architecture that has been used to blight the very living earth has little effect on me other than stirring some primeval sense of shame.
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Have you ever heard Des Bishop's bit on Irish men winding each other up, its fucking hysterical.
Submitted by candyfloss01 (user info) at 2007-10-24 17:00:07 EDT (#)
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no0o stayyyyyy
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2007-10-24 15:28:46 EDT (#)
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Daddy long-legs are not technically spiders, but that doesn't stop my carpool buddy from screaming like a little girl when one crawls into my car.
I get little green and brown spiders in my car ALL THE TIME. probably because I leave my windows slightly cracked and park under trees for shade. I see black widows frequently, especially this time of year. The big wolf-spiders are the ones that scare me, their venom isn't too bad, but they have flesh-eating bacteria in their saliva.
Can you say "necrotising fasceitis(sp)"?
I found a HUGE black and orange spider in my wheel-well. I have no idea what kind but it's probably been supped-up by drinking the toxic water in Baltimore.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-24 14:54:19 EDT (#)
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we do get noreasters. good luck with that one. it's always good when a storm is so bad it gets a new name from the region it came from.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-24 14:53:14 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-10-24 06:06:52 EDT (#)
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NYC is a coastal town. You don't get spiders on the coast.
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brown recluse, daddy long leg, wood spider, wolf spider, all sorts of little jumping spiders and things that live in plants and walls.
it's got loads of fucking spiders. but the cockroaches are what kill ya.
Submitted by beat_raven (user info) at 2007-10-24 14:52:23 EDT (#)
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barry would like to know if he could borrow this alter for one post? if so - brdn_nkd.at.gmail.com
~Crystle
Submitted by beat_raven (user info) at 2007-10-24 12:58:27 EDT (#)
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oh yeah - and I'm in the SF Bay Area - LOVE it here.
but it is 'spensive.
~Crystle
Submitted by beat_raven (user info) at 2007-10-24 12:57:45 EDT (#)
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I'm dead curious as to who this is.
~Crystle
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-24 10:55:10 EDT (#)
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Its all about opinions. Someone on here says one thing is great that you will think is shit and vice versa.
Do what you feel is right. If you dont know, stay put.
Submitted by Razor (user info) at 2007-10-24 10:45:10 EDT (#)
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You know, I read a lot of really inaccurate and/or biased in one way or the other things about New York in this thread. I have never lived in New York, but I had a girlfriend who did, and was up there every weekend for awhile.
Here's what that city amounts to:
1. Despite what some people have said, it's not particularly high in crime and does not have the worst traffic in the United States. Both of those honors belong to Washington, D.C. NYC's violent crime per capita rate is actually fairly low all things considered.
2. Speaking of per capita, what you really have to understand is that it's just a ridiculously large number of people crammed into a ridiculously small space. What that really means is that as long as it's not peace and quiet, you can find just about anything you want there. If you want to hang out in an English style pub and eat bangers and mash, you can do that. If you want to go shopping for vintage clothes, if you want to do something really obscure like go to tranny clubs every night, if you want to eat authentic whatever, it's all in the city. Enough restaurants open and close every day in the city that you could eat at a different restaurant every meal for the rest of your life there.
3. The corollary to that is that your life experience in New York will be largely influenced by your earning power. While everything is available, it's not available to everyone equally. Expect to live in a space unbelievably small if you try to get into Manhattan, and expect the quality of life to go down anywhere outside of Manhattan.
4. Central Park is actually pretty cool and offers a very needed break from the sheer urban tidal wave that is the city.
Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-24 09:59:45 EDT (#)
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see that sounds good to me.
Submitted by Donitsu2002 (user info) at 2007-10-24 08:09:02 EDT (#)
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NYC is nice to get trashed in though, love that place.
Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-24 07:35:00 EDT (#)
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Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-10-24 07:07:22 EDT (#)
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Earthquakes? Spiders? In New York?
Im guessing your GCSEs were in Home Ec and PE
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nope. A* in Geography. They taught us shit. And I went to a posh nancy boy school.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-24 07:14:18 EDT (#)
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Oh and my hair never looks bad, just trying to make the normal peopel feel better.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-24 07:13:45 EDT (#)
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Im drug free these days, well virtually.
I remember on NYE on a slightly different note , I was coming back from the festivities with my then girlfriend and met her doddery parents.
Now we had been drinking a fair amount of beer and scoffing some food, as you do on A NYE! When I arrived at their house I still had my god foresaken sniffly nose and sore throat that winter tends to bring.
I know what will fix that young man, the old doddery smelly women said. And so did her mum, hehe. Basically the old women fed me Brandy to fix my illness.
Hey I thought, that worked!! Until I walked home and threw kp nuts up all over the pavement.
Submitted by The_taste_of_Monkeys (user info) at 2007-10-24 07:07:22 EDT (#)
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Earthquakes? Spiders? In New York?
Im guessing your GCSEs were in Home Ec and PE
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2007-10-24 06:58:52 EDT (#)
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And ps Em, no girl has ever wanted to touch your bojangle!
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-10-24 06:57:45 EDT (#)
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Emission, there is nothing wrong with you that a brace of class A drugs won't cure.
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2007-10-24 06:55:31 EDT (#)
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Your hair looks bad? Em, this is critical!
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-24 06:51:44 EDT (#)
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I have the deadliest strain of Man Flu available.
Let me run through my symptoms.
Aching muscles.
Dry cough.
A blocked or runny nose.
High temperature.
A shivery feeling.
Headaches, which can be severe.
Sore throat.
Loss of appetite.
Fatigue and weakness.
Look like death
No girls want to touch my bojangle
Danger Ranger has put his nurses uniform on
My hair looks bad.
Bertys wearing a hanky over his mouth and calling me Shirley.
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2007-10-24 06:46:14 EDT (#)
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Why are you ill Em? You caught a hangover? I think there is one going around.
Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-24 06:37:43 EDT (#)
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bah! no excuse :)
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-24 06:11:32 EDT (#)
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Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-24 10:59:11 BST (#)
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that was for emmission
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Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-24 10:58:10 BST (#)
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sometimes you are so gay.
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How Very Dare You, im ill ok, cut me some slack.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-10-24 06:06:52 EDT (#)
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NYC is a coastal town. You don't get spiders on the coast.
Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-24 06:00:21 EDT (#)
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Donitsu2002
I do like Boston... that's East Coast too. Hmm. it all depends, becuase if I'm going on my own then I'll choose, but if it's me and my mate, then we'll need to choose, and he's being a raving vagina right now.
Hmmm.
You put a good case forward for Boston, thanks :)
Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-24 05:59:11 EDT (#)
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that was for emmission
Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-24 05:58:10 EDT (#)
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sometimes you are so gay.
Submitted by Donitsu2002 (user info) at 2007-10-24 05:57:35 EDT (#)
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this is a serious answer about Boston.
1. IS it actually a nice place to live? Pretty nice, summers are always great and winters get a solidly snowy.
2. Has it got a good night life (when I went, I was too young to drink) Pretty great, in my opinion. I go down there a lot to drink and always have a good time.
3. What are the people like? People are a little weird to get used to at first, generally we're cold to the touch but once we get used to you we're pretty nice.
Ok more serious ones now:
1. How easy is it to get a job over there? (office) Not bad, depends on what you do though. I have a solid job making about 70k a year and I don't really have a degree in anything other than History.... my job has nothing to do with my degree.
2. What's a good part of NYC/ Manhattan to live? (do the sterotypes of Harlem/ Bronx still apply? Bearing in mind I'm a middle class white boy.) A few of the incorporated towns are nice, East Boston isn't.
3. I have 3 years of good working experience, but no university education. I do however have, I guess you'd call it high school, education. GCSEs and A levels. What sort of pay am I looking at? In the Uk I'm on around $40,000- 50,000.
Refer to my earlier post.
4. Are there large spiders in NYC? Nope, not that I know of.
5. How do I go about applying for a green card? Or do I just need a working visa? No clue.
6. Do you get many Earthquakes etc? Gangs? Crime rate? (In asking these questions, I realise how stereotypical and uneducated I am about the day to day running of other areas of the world. Apologies for my naivety.)
No earthquakes, few gangs, decent crime rate but it really depends on what area you're in. It's a nice place, but it's definitely something you need to get used to.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-24 05:44:38 EDT (#)
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We just cant tar everyone with same brush, be free people, smile on the inside and you will be truly happy.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-24 05:37:24 EDT (#)
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Seriously though, Stereotypes are common place in most places you go.
I could say oh ive been to NYC, I know what America is like, blah blah blah blah. But I dont, I have no idea.
Its the people who do think that , you have to worry about. Its the same as the dimwits who come over to London and then when they next talk to you the say 'OMG I love England, it is so beautiful and the queen , she lives in such a nice house, oh and you all speak like Hugh Grant but so so love your history'
No, no we dont, you came here for a week and visited London.
Live outside the box people.
(that's management talk)
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-24 05:31:51 EDT (#)
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Thats actually a line from Deuce Bigalow, European Gigalow.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-10-24 05:08:14 EDT (#)
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I believe that there are many people in Iraq, people who live in the cities who DO want democracy. Of course there are many other people who only want to rape and steal and torture and kill because they are poor and everyone knows that poor people are violent thugs.
*scoffs cake*
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-24 04:51:10 EDT (#)
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I love America, I love President Bush. Thank you for bringing democracy to Iraq.
Gooooooooooo yankeees
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-10-24 04:47:44 EDT (#)
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I'm so glad that damned word association post has finally been knocked off most heated.
Forensic fails to grasp is that Englishmen, as well as the ethnic minorities from Scotland, Wales, Ireland and the Commonwealth, regard winding one another up as an international sport. Although it goes without saying that there are the odd one or two who genuinely feel animosity towards this great United States of America for all sorts of inscrutable reasons.
Personally I have eaten Arby's chicken strips with their gorgeous honey mustard sauce and am of the opinion that that is the greatest cultural contribution of any nation ever. Also I live in Birmingham, the proper one, so the hideous architecture that has been used to blight the very living earth has little effect on me other than stirring some primeval sense of shame.
Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-24 04:43:45 EDT (#)
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HMMM
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-24 04:42:20 EDT (#)
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I plan to retire to Weymouth, oh no ones interested?? O RLY.
Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2007-10-24 02:24:04 EDT (#)
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Texas is like Detroit and like Dufour.
They're all considered fly-over destinations.
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2007-10-24 01:21:35 EDT (#)
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austin is a pretty solid nomination
Submitted by jared.melton (user info) at 2007-10-24 00:13:44 EDT (#)
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Austin, Texas.
You're welcome.
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2007-10-23 19:10:13 EDT (#)
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Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-10-23 18:43:38 EDT (#)
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Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-10-23 15:55:30 EDT (#)
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i plan to retire in colorado springs.
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Better hit the lottery. That, or invent something that costs $1 to make, sells for $10, and everyone needs three of.
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or get a teaching degree and join the air force.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2007-10-23 18:43:38 EDT (#)
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Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-10-23 15:55:30 EDT (#)
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i plan to retire in colorado springs.
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Better hit the lottery. That, or invent something that costs $1 to make, sells for $10, and everyone needs three of.
Submitted by Amontillado (user info) at 2007-10-23 18:26:08 EDT (#)
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Atlanta has bad traffic and not the best public transport. It goes only to the places where poor people are somewhat accepted. The drought sucks too- we're running out of water quickly and have no backups. It is pretty though and very green. Weather is mild. If you wanted to live here I'd highly recommend an apartment or condo at Atlantic Station. It's downtown but in the really nice area, has way more than enough parking, a community feel to it, and you wouldn't ever have to leave for anything. It's got a movie theater, restaurants, and shopping all within like a square mile.
Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2007-10-23 17:14:54 EDT (#)
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changes in latitude
changes in attitude
la la laa laaaa la la laaaaaaaaaa
Submitted by TheUniter (user info) at 2007-10-23 16:58:45 EDT (#)
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Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2007-10-23 16:38:57 EDT (#)
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you're asking THESE losers about jobs?
jesus.
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-10-23 15:55:30 EDT (#)
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i plan to retire in colorado springs. awesome place. no night life to speak of there though for our young stalwart here.
Submitted by AsshOly (user info) at 2007-10-23 15:12:57 EDT (#)
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i live in chicago and i love it. very good night life.
other cities i personally want to go live in some day:
houston
san diego
colorado springs (dont go to denver, denver sucks)
seattle (it's cold as fuck pretty much half the year though.)
phoenix
and somewhere like charlotte or savannah. some little big city on the east coast between florida and DC
none of this really helps you. just spend like three days on wikipedia and figure it out before you buy a plane ticket.
Submitted by Wildman (user info) at 2007-10-23 15:11:01 EDT (#)
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keep flying until you hit the left coast
we got everything
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2007-10-23 15:07:19 EDT (#)
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No Comment
Submitted by gascs (user info) at 2007-10-23 14:56:21 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Method (user info) at 2007-10-23 14:23:25 EDT (#)
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Gascs, do you have any experience in Zend?
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No, never had any reason or motivation to do PHP.
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2007-10-23 14:40:34 EDT (#)
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as to your important questions... (finally, something to do with the afternoon!) it's remarkably easy to find work to get you on your feet, there are dozens of staffing agencies who will find you work quickly while you look for a more permanent position. Your lack of a degree will hurt you though... both in getting a job and as far as pay is concerned.
No large spiders, except for Spider-Man...
Green Card? Hard, actually, or at least I hear. There's some kind of lottery involved. I don't know much about this but I would go after a work visa.
No natural disasters, surprisingly low crime these days. It's actually very safe, anybody who calls it crime infested hasn't been here in the last ten years.
That's all I got.
Submitted by c1ndy (user info) at 2007-10-23 14:26:45 EDT (#)
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wow, good luck!
Submitted by beeltea (user info) at 2007-10-23 14:25:22 EDT (#)
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1. I feel trapped
you'll still feel trapped, but more in a "I live in a hive" way. Everything in NY (Manhattan especially) is very small and cramped, and housing is expensive. Location is everything.
2. I'm too young to be doing what I'm doing
you'll fit right in around here, plenty of young people around trying to figure out what to do with their lives.
1. IS it actually a nice place to live?
It's great, but it takes some getting used to, it can be hard to meet new people, and sometimes the pace of the city will drive you insane. But overall I like it.
2. Has it got a good night life (when I went, I was too young to drink)
It has a great nightlife. In fact too good really, it can start to run your life. There's practically every entertainment imaginable here.
3. What are the people like?
like anywhere else, except more variety and quantity. Every culture is represented here.
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2007-10-23 14:23:25 EDT (#)
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Gascs, do you have any experience in Zend?
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2007-10-23 14:20:25 EDT (#)
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yeah, but what if you want to BUY?
3 bedrooms, somewhere not too infested with scumbags.
Submitted by gascs (user info) at 2007-10-23 14:19:24 EDT (#)
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Use the contact form at http://www.flikky.com/Contact.jsp to get in touch with me, I think.
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2007-10-23 13:57:59 EDT (#)
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You can get a decent apartment for well under 1,000, even less if you get a roommate
Submitted by ConorJS (user info) at 2007-10-23 13:54:58 EDT (#)
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New York sucks.
That's not entirely true in all aspects, but it's a good rule of thumb for most things related to NYC. I spent a month with a friend and his brother in the city and in the end I just hated people. That's the kind of place New York is.
Submitted by darkwulffe (user info) at 2007-10-23 13:46:34 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-10-23 07:14:08 EDT (#)
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Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-23 07:06:02 EDT (#)
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I would consider Boston, and Chicago, but I do LOVE the southern accent. Still... NO one is putting forward cases for other places!!
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Where the hell else would you want to move to? Delaware?
I guess you could move to Las Vegas but there comes a point where driving down the street staring at emaciated, prebubesant hookers just stops being funny anymore. I guess I am saying it is a bad place to work as a teacher.
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Boston is a decent place to live, at least when school is in session... Kinda dies out when it isnt. It had a nightlife, wasnt all that expensive to live, didn't see too many gangs.
Chicago isnt that bad either.
Where you live and drive where all the emaciated hookers hang, bert? I live in Vegas and I have as of yet to find this "Land of the Hookers"! Except for the heat Vegas is great! Lots of jobs, not too expensive, a decent transient traveling nightlife. I have tried to move from Vegas twice and moved back because I missed this old place..
Submitted by Brdn_Nkd (user info) at 2007-10-23 13:38:29 EDT (#)
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brdn.nkd.at.gmail.com
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2007-10-23 13:32:05 EDT (#)
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hell yeah you can get cheap food in New York, or you can spend an arm and a leg if you choose, but what about apartments, flats, houses, townhomes, etc.?
Method, drop some figures on housing costs. I can tell you just south of where I live in the quiet town of Columbia (Howard County MD) is recockulously expensive. $1200 a month for a one bedroom flat. $300k for a townhome near the mall ???? Meanwhile Baltimore county you can get away with a two bedroom for about $800 a month. More or less depending on what neighborhood/amenities.
DC is 'spensive but has the best job market. FACT. i was looking to move to New York a few years ago (before dating the crazy-ass-drama-stalker) and I couldn't find a job as a mechanic to pay the bills let alone an office job without a college degree. Manhatten is out of the question unless you're Loren and make six figures.
Dear anonymous uberer: check out jobs before you pick your city, find the combo that's best for you. If you show up off the boat with nothing but a gleam in your eye and a pocket full of dreams, you will leave with a very bad taste in your mouth.
hehe, pun.
Check out the employment websites like Monster or Careerbuilder, see where you fit in economically. City living isn't all it's cracked up to be if you're sucking down Ramen noodles seven days a week.
Submitted by HotWillie (user info) at 2007-10-23 13:28:04 EDT (#)
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I fucking love NYC.
You need to hook up with some people over the internet first, though.
You'll have to send a bank cheque to hold your flat, but have no fear.
They are usually even nicer than in the brochure.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 13:16:07 EDT (#)
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http://money.cnn.com/2005/10/18/real_estate/buying_selling/most_expensive_places/index.htm
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 13:14:43 EDT (#)
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The Americas
New York remains the most expensive city in North America but drops five places to position 15 (score 100). Other North American cities have dropped more steeply and only New York and Los Angeles (position 42, score 87.1) rank in the top 50 cities.
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2007-10-23 13:14:39 EDT (#)
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Oh, happy day! I can't wait to meet her and invisi-boy!
Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2007-10-23 13:13:57 EDT (#)
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Yes it is, Method. CookieLass is going to move to New York to hang out with you. She will also bring the guy who desperately claims not to date her.
Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2007-10-23 13:09:10 EDT (#)
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do tell, if you have the info, my dearest hadley
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 13:09:03 EDT (#)
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hahahahahahahhahahahaha@below
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2007-10-23 13:08:37 EDT (#)
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Is it cookielass? is it? is it????
Submitted by HadToBeDone (user info) at 2007-10-23 13:07:16 EDT (#)
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It's not hourman. But I do know who it is.
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:59:29 EDT (#)
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For the people harping about the cost of living in NY, that's such bullshit. Those are tourist prices. I don't know the exact number, but there are a re-donk-ulous amount of restaurants offering such a variety of delicious foods at incredibly low prices. There are also the expensive ones, but those are the ones everyone hears about. You just have to do your research. Tons of broke people do just fine every day in NY.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:57:45 EDT (#)
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yeah but seattle closes at 6pm regardless of the season.
the nightlife is pretty dead there. i mean yeah there's venues and stuff, but not even close to nyc variety.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:56:13 EDT (#)
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hahahahahhahahaha, dick
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Submitted by scourge (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:55:30 EDT (#)
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so, this is hourman, is it?
don't string your lady along like that. it's a cowardly fucking thing to do. let her know of your plans and then you can both move forward like adults.
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:44:14 EDT (#)
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I like New York. There certainly is great food, and culture, and whole districts of odd and or attractive people.
But for the price you pay to live there, no thanks.
PS Baltimore has rats the size of dogs. The cats are completely out gunned.
Every city has it's problems to be sure, but every city also has wonderful little niches that when you find, you fall in love with.
Best clubs in Baltimore are in the gay district, but are not gay clubs... go figure.
Most of the people getting murdered around these parts are drug dealers anyway, killing each other for cash and territory. Still, we don't walk alone in the city at night. Not no how.
Parking blows in any big city. If I didn't have a car, I wouldn't buy one. But I'm a commuter, I only work in the city and live in B-more county.
Seattle was nice as I recall, I had a lot of fun there wandering about like a homeless person for a few days. Good food in the little shops but no public bathrooms... that was a sticky wicket I tell ya, especially after a few cups of Seattle's Best. But nice scenery, decent people. I wouldn't mind living in Washington State for a year or two.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:36:28 EDT (#)
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also its nigh on impossible to rent a flat in NYC, so confusing. Anyway I need a new chinstrap muddy my old stallion, so if you wouldnt mind popping to the store old chap we can sort this debacle out.
chin chin tally ho.
Submitted by Constitution (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:33:50 EDT (#)
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What's with everyone down on NYC? It fucking rocks here. There's good food, it's easy to get around, there's a lot of good looking people, and a bar on every block. You probably can't afford Manhattan, but there are parts of Brooklyn that aren't bad. And as for crime, I've lived here for a number of years, and nothing ever happened to me of my friends. I bet most of the people bashing the city have never been here, or at least only as tourists.
The only reason I'd tell you not to come is because there are already too many fucking people here and rents are high enough.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:31:14 EDT (#)
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tighten you chinstrap EI, don't want to see you hurt yourself.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:30:17 EDT (#)
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hehe you said breast
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:28:28 EDT (#)
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i'm eating lunch right now, some baked chicken breast, peas, and brown rice
this post just bumped the Word Association from #1 after how many weeks?
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:27:44 EDT (#)
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she's old fat and wears dodgy jumpers, we have laws against that in England.
We hang em at the gallows
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:26:16 EDT (#)
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FYI, we don't claim Roseanne.
At least we don't want to.
She's up for grabs if another country wants her.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:22:31 EDT (#)
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Hell if it wasnt for America we would never of got Roseanne
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:21:22 EDT (#)
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to forensic, i think they're just bitter that their own countries didn't afford them the opportunities they get here. so they're pissed they had to leave because they sucked at life at home. if they really do hate it here and look down their noses on us, they probably don't want to admit that where they came from they were the failures. no one wants to be the lowest on the totem pole, and i think they're trying to make it seem as if they're not.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:17:06 EDT (#)
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I think you will find i have the best hair on Uber.
Berty we need a hair off.
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:16:56 EDT (#)
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RAWR! Go whistle some mud.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:16:05 EDT (#)
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forensic, stop worrying your little blonde head, don't want you to hurt yourself
Submitted by forensicgirl3 (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:14:11 EDT (#)
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Have an idle question, spawned from boredom. Considering Bob's comment, why, if America is so horrid, do people bother coming anymore?
Granted you responded that you didn't hate America at all, in fact quite liked the place.
But I have noticed that America bashers will still move here. I'm sure some of them are just taking the piss but some America bashers move here and continue to bash America even while they're here.
No skin off my nose but it does make me curious sometimes.
I've had some classes with Britishers, Aussies, Italians, Germans, Indians, Pakistanis, and so on. True they were here on student visas but most of them didn't have any problems with America so to speak. Well, some of the Middle Eastern students did but that's a whole different ball of wax.
Sometimes I ask, if were such a wretched people and country, why stay here and subject yourself to our culture and government? They usually just blink at me.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:13:21 EDT (#)
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i'll have you know, i have made clothes out of curtains.
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:12:08 EDT (#)
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I will take your comments on board, thank you inion.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:10:17 EDT (#)
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Doe, a deer, a female deer
Ray, a drop of golden sun
Me, a name I call myself
Far, a long, long way to run
Sew, a needle pulling thread
La, a note to follow so
Tea, a drink with jam and bread tralalallaala
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:10:03 EDT (#)
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your hair's not as swoon-inducing as berty's.
work on that and then we'll talk.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:09:08 EDT (#)
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katy would you do the same for me :)
I would defend your honour till my death.
I think i heard that in a movie, well not the bit about you or maybe I did must of been a funky movie, hmmmm I cant quite remember. Maybe it was 'Bugs life'
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:08:51 EDT (#)
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overestimation on your part. i've never claimed to be classy.
where's my deer dear.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:07:23 EDT (#)
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is this where we're going katy...'I know you are but what am I'
I've always thought higher of you
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:07:06 EDT (#)
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ooo burn.
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Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:06:31 EDT (#)
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well no... that's more like bringing YOU home.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:05:13 EDT (#)
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true, berty is a catch
like catching herpes
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:04:08 EDT (#)
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well how could i not love that fluffy little head of his :)
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:03:25 EDT (#)
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look at katy run to stick up for her little brothers....hahah
that was actually a very funny comment, certainly made with tongue in cheek.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 12:01:35 EDT (#)
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Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:54:22 EDT (#)
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You have ALevels.
Why, with qualifications like that you could rule the world!
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i dislike her more and more. it's like every time i catch a review of hers she's saying something disparaging and/or hypocritical.
of course by that remark above we're to assume you've got a bachelors with honors from a top ranking uni right? at least throw some good cheer around now and then. even i manage to do that.
and berty, you've proven intelligence time and time again despite whatever level of schooling you stopped at. i doubt she could keep up with you.
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:59:39 EDT (#)
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Racist below. *snicker*
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Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:58:22 EDT (#)
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Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2007-10-23 16:55:11 BST (#)
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Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:51:21 EDT (#)
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And why does everyone like Mexican food?? the stuff we get here is basically just snacks, its rubbish food!
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I like Mexican over Itlian or Chinese or whatever...
I make a killer Mexican Lasagna.
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What ya do? throw one of those stupid moustaches in. and say * owowowoow, arriba arriba*
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:56:30 EDT (#)
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Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:54:22 EDT (#)
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You have ALevels.
Why, with qualifications like that you could rule the world!
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Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:55:11 EDT (#)
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Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:51:21 EDT (#)
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And why does everyone like Mexican food?? the stuff we get here is basically just snacks, its rubbish food!
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I like Mexican over Itlian or Chinese or whatever...
I make a killer Mexican Lasagna.
Submitted by orphelia (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:54:22 EDT (#)
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You have ALevels.
Why, with qualifications like that you could rule the world!
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:51:21 EDT (#)
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And why does everyone like Mexican food?? the stuff we get here is basically just snacks, its rubbish food!
yeah, chinga tu madre!
Submitted by kaos-king (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:51:05 EDT (#)
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I still have no idea who the fuck you are... e-mail me at antius777.at.yahoo.com
Stay on the Esat Coast - stay outta NYC.
LISTEN TO THIS GUY!!!
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Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:27:57 EDT (#)
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Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-23 06:46:23 EDT (#)
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Ok guys fine. YOU ALL WIN.
Where is a good place to live in the USA here's what I want:
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I'm recommending these places, but I can give you info:
Annapolis MD: Great Harbor City, Bustling shops and nightlife, great seafood, snobby shit-bags who will look down on you, lots of Navy guys, old-world charm with an American injection of loud noises and fried food. Taxis get you around but public transport is limited to ferries and other aquatic devices.
Washington DC: The best place in the US to look for a job. Excellent public transportation. Tons of events, festivals and nightlife (of all varieties, be careful of what district you're in). Southeast Quadrant is a shithole, don't go there for any reason. Tons of immigrant and ethnic food (tasty).
Baltimore MD: Great Harbor City. One bedroom apts go for around $600. Be careful of district. Not a bad place for a service job, waiting tables etc. Marginal public transportation via the light rail, buses and ferries. Office jobs will get you a little under 30k unless you really wow the boss. Nightlife every night of the week, clubs alternate themes and crowds. Lots of events. Two hours from the beach, two hours from the mountains. And me, I'm a bonus.
Ellicot City: The place I would live if I could afford it. Lots of shops and little restaurants. A river runs through it. Close to three major highways and Baltimore City. Tends to draw artfags (aww).
Fredericksburg VA: Not much night life, draws teenagers and middleaged folk. Very pretty though.
Richmond VA: My brother worked as a firefighter/EMT and when he would run into buring buildings to rescue trapped people, folks in the adjacent buildings would take pot shots with small caliber guns. His Seargent had to be hospitalized for a .22 to the ribcage during a fire. Don't move here.
Philadelphia PA: A lot like Baltimore, except no water and lots of funny smells. Decent nightlife and lots of college aged people to hit on.
New Jersey: Just No. Unless you like gambling, in which case Atlantic City is a great place to blow your salary.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:50:06 EDT (#)
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Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:46:13 EDT (#)
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you may also consider the distribution of Uberers, in MD you get me, Jonukah, Razor, and in New York you get JMG, Loren, Method (I think) and a few others.
Then again, you may want Wyoming to get away from the freaks and weirdos...
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:47:18 EDT (#)
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There must be loads of really tasty mexican lagers, surely?
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:47:18 EDT (#)
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This post is a pile of shit
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:46:44 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-10-23 16:43:04 BST (#)
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Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:40:59 EDT (#)
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With those qualifications you could probably be president.
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You need to be in the Skull & Bones club for that, EI, and a ten second videoclip of you wearing an eyepatch and saying "yarr!" on Youtube doesn't qualify.
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BUT I was naked with two carrots poking out of my ears, not to mention the handily placed kinder egg.
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:46:13 EDT (#)
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you may also consider the distribution of Uberers, in MD you get me, Jonukah, Razor, and in New York you get JMG, Loren, Method (I think) and a few others.
Then again, you may want Wyoming to get away from the freaks and weirdos...
Submitted by Darth_Famine (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:46:06 EDT (#)
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No offense, but based on your skills I don't think you have a snowballs chance in hell of landing an office job in NYC, there is just too much college educated talent there. But then again your accent may help.
The old saying is true though, If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere.
Ask yourself this
If by not going to try NYC will I regret it later?
if the answer is yes then go to New York.
If it's no then go somewhere easier to start off
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:44:46 EDT (#)
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ladies, you know that most big east coast cities have shipping ports right?
it doesn't matter how big your e-port is, ok
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:43:20 EDT (#)
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Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:38:30 EDT (#)
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also most imported beer on the east coast comes in through Baltimore and there are plenty of bars that specialize in getting you drunk on items you can't find elsewhere. Of course, even the imported beer has to be dumbed down for the Americans... which blows.
I can't believe you're thinking of moving to the US whilst I am thinking of moving to the UK. We should just trade, you get my job and apt, I get yours.
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actually a load of imported beer and liquor come through stamford/norwalk ct. 30 mins north of nyc.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:43:04 EDT (#)
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Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:40:59 EDT (#)
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With those qualifications you could probably be president.
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You need to be in the Skull & Bones club for that, EI, and a ten second videoclip of you wearing an eyepatch and saying "yarr!" on Youtube doesn't qualify.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:40:59 EDT (#)
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With those qualifications you could probably be president.
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:38:30 EDT (#)
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also most imported beer on the east coast comes in through Baltimore and there are plenty of bars that specialize in getting you drunk on items you can't find elsewhere. Of course, even the imported beer has to be dumbed down for the Americans... which blows.
I can't believe you're thinking of moving to the US whilst I am thinking of moving to the UK. We should just trade, you get my job and apt, I get yours.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:37:12 EDT (#)
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I did not like Philadelphia. It is a drab, grey, souless place where the only splashes of colour are from corporate funded artistic monuments.
Still, you know, that's where The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air came from so it can't be all bad.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:34:20 EDT (#)
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Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:24:05 EDT (#)
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split = so you're qualified to be a secretary...do you look good in a skirt?
berty = fat doesn't work anymore bub, i've lost roughly the equivalent of your weight over the last year.
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Well gosh, now I'm going to have to cancel that whole thing to get everyone on Uber to hold hands in a huge circle in order to give you a hug.
Seriously though, that's actually an awful lot of weight. That is the equivilant of shedding a chunk of body fat the size of 2 car tyres! I am genuinly not sure that I shouldn't be asking people to call some manner of anti-bulemia charity right now.
Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:34:01 EDT (#)
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nice...
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:33:17 EDT (#)
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I wasn't really impressed by Philly but my friends seem to think it's the greatest city on the east coast. I have to say there were two streets I walked down that smelled exactly like aborted fetus and excriment.
At least I'm assuming, the smell was horrid.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:32:43 EDT (#)
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philadelphia is good because of its centralized location
oh and its in PA so you can buy guns with a DL
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:31:13 EDT (#)
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i forgot where i read it but philadelphia recently voted most unattractive city.
if you like very very very very large black ladies you should move there. they keep sending us their pics and i keep weeping :(
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:29:51 EDT (#)
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oooo I should say "Studio" apts go for around $600 in Baltimore. Decent place for office jobs.
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:27:57 EDT (#)
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Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-23 06:46:23 EDT (#)
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Ok guys fine. YOU ALL WIN.
Where is a good place to live in the USA here's what I want:
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I'm recommending these places, but I can give you info:
Annapolis MD: Great Harbor City, Bustling shops and nightlife, great seafood, snobby shit-bags who will look down on you, lots of Navy guys, old-world charm with an American injection of loud noises and fried food. Taxis get you around but public transport is limited to ferries and other aquatic devices.
Washington DC: The best place in the US to look for a job. Excellent public transportation. Tons of events, festivals and nightlife (of all varieties, be careful of what district you're in). Southeast Quadrant is a shithole, don't go there for any reason. Tons of immigrant and ethnic food (tasty).
Baltimore MD: Great Harbor City. One bedroom apts go for around $600. Be careful of district. Not a bad place for a service job, waiting tables etc. Marginal public transportation via the light rail, buses and ferries. Office jobs will get you a little under 30k unless you really wow the boss. Nightlife every night of the week, clubs alternate themes and crowds. Lots of events. Two hours from the beach, two hours from the mountains. And me, I'm a bonus.
Ellicot City: The place I would live if I could afford it. Lots of shops and little restaurants. A river runs through it. Close to three major highways and Baltimore City. Tends to draw artfags (aww).
Fredericksburg VA: Not much night life, draws teenagers and middleaged folk. Very pretty though.
Richmond VA: My brother worked as a firefighter/EMT and when he would run into buring buildings to rescue trapped people, folks in the adjacent buildings would take pot shots with small caliber guns. His Seargent had to be hospitalized for a .22 to the ribcage during a fire. Don't move here.
Philadelphia PA: A lot like Baltimore, except no water and lots of funny smells. Decent nightlife and lots of college aged people to hit on.
New Jersey: Just No. Unless you like gambling, in which case Atlantic City is a great place to blow your salary.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:27:38 EDT (#)
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Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:19:11 EDT (#)
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hooking her up with berty will only create confusion (long hair, feminine hands, smells like flowers)
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come to think of it, he does smell pretty good for a smoker.
you're just going to lie to her for a year, that's pretty cruel. you should at least have a talk with here, if neither of you can afford to move away right now it won't matter she can't leave you with the rent if her name's on the mortgage too.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:27:31 EDT (#)
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As the good Lord says, love thy fellow man as you love yourself, unless they are Turks, then kill the bastards
Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:27:02 EDT (#)
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:)
obviously.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:24:05 EDT (#)
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split = so you're qualified to be a secretary...do you look good in a skirt?
berty = fat doesn't work anymore bub, i've lost roughly the equivalent of your weight over the last year.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:22:00 EDT (#)
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Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:19:11 EDT (#)
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hooking her up with berty will only create confusion (long hair, feminine hands, smells like flowers)
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I'll have you know that I smell, rather acutely, of myself.
Besides, you're just jealous because last time you used a trampoline astronomers panicked thinking a vast meteorite was going to smash into the earth.
Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:22:00 EDT (#)
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Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:17:58 EDT (#)
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you guys could act like adults and say this isn't working out and how can we both move forward in a mature fashion
but that's not the human way, everything must end in dramatics.
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that's crazy talk
Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:21:03 EDT (#)
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Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:15:28 EDT (#)
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what kind of skills do you have?
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I did a few months as manual labourer in factories.
I've done retail through education.
6 months as a top salesmen and then team leader for an electricty company.
1 year working for a wholesaler and creating/ designing the first online brochure and other stuff.
3 months working in Business Development starting up a brand new part of that.
1 years customer services tema leader job.
trained (i know, it's gay) in word and powerpoint, and I can use excel pretty well.
I got 11 GCSEs C-A* and 3 A levels (4 AS levels).
I have a cerificate in food hygiene somewhere and I got a silver in the duke of edinburough award shit.
err... I can use Sage and have experiance with most CRM software.
Yeah.
And Computer skills... couldn;t resist.
Submitted by EmissionImpossible (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:20:24 EDT (#)
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That would be as hard as finding a piece of hay in an incredibly large stack of needles
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:19:11 EDT (#)
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hooking her up with berty will only create confusion (long hair, feminine hands, smells like flowers)
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:18:03 EDT (#)
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If you love her then it's all the more reason for you to usher her into the arms of a skilled lover to help her get aclimatised to being screwed by strange men again.
So chop, chop with the pictures.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:17:58 EDT (#)
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you guys could act like adults and say this isn't working out and how can we both move forward in a mature fashion
but that's not the human way, everything must end in dramatics.
Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:16:13 EDT (#)
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Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:12:46 EDT (#)
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Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:07:00 EDT (#)
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It will be me on my own, OR with a mate.
I'd be breaking up with the misses. Hence why she can't know.
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why aren't you breaking up with her right now?
you're gonna drag her along for a year and then dump her?
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lots of reasons. Put it like this, if things dramatically changed, then I'd consider taking her.
However as it stands we can;t afford to break up atm. It's just a fact.
I think we both want to. We just can;t afford to atm since we are very early on in the 'we just got a mortgage' stage.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:15:56 EDT (#)
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san fran's more expensive than nyc.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:15:28 EDT (#)
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what kind of skills do you have?
Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:14:28 EDT (#)
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neither mate. I love her, but it's time to move on.
It sucks, but I'm dying where I am.
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That's a fuck load of tax inion! I get taxed just aunder a 1/4 here.
Ok, so i need to start setting up interviews for like the day after I arrive.
My plan atm
is
Holiday Visa (3 monthS)-----> 3 month rent in NYC (or wherever. What's San-Fran like?) -> hunt for jobs---> find job with money/ that will pay for green card.
doesn't sound too hard.It's not like it's the first timee I've had to get a job or be out on my arse... so not fussed on that.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:12:46 EDT (#)
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Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:07:00 EDT (#)
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It will be me on my own, OR with a mate.
I'd be breaking up with the misses. Hence why she can't know.
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why aren't you breaking up with her right now?
you're gonna drag her along for a year and then dump her?
Submitted by Shlongy (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:11:38 EDT (#)
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I've just decided- I don't give a fuck where you live.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:10:20 EDT (#)
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Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:07:00 EDT (#)
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It will be me on my own, OR with a mate.
I'd be breaking up with the misses. Hence why she can't know.
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Coolbeans, in that case you shouldn't move to Queens at all.
So, is she hot? Or is she so large that when she takes a dump it's a danger to shipping?
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:07:26 EDT (#)
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under 25 you're in the 10% tax bracket for federal but that's not even corrected til the end of the year.
however nyc has city and state taxes on top of that plus medicare, soc ins.
so figure you're losing a quarter to a third of your income at the check and you only get part of that back in april.
Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:07:00 EDT (#)
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It will be me on my own, OR with a mate.
I'd be breaking up with the misses. Hence why she can't know.
Submitted by Berty (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:06:21 EDT (#)
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Manhatten would be okay, but Queens might be better. It all depends on how heavy your girlfriend is.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:04:02 EDT (#)
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figure around 26 -33 percent for taxes, i'm assuming
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2007-10-23 11:01:50 EDT (#)
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Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-23 05:42:20 EDT (#)
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also, how does tax work from wages? etc.
I think my mate just pulled out... so I guess I'm doing it on my own.
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I claim no dependents so I can get a tax refund. At 25k gross, I take home a little over 17k as a single non-homeowner.
BOOO.
Refund is usually about 1k.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:59:05 EDT (#)
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don't go to Baltimore, have you seen The Wire....shameful things happen there.
Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:58:19 EDT (#)
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hmmm.
What about Manhatten?
Submitted by shadow (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:58:13 EDT (#)
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I found New York City to be a fun place to visit, but nowhere I'd want to live.
Of course, I said that about Baltimore three years ago and here I am.
the weather is brutal city heat in summer, cold as a witch's tit in the winter. Fall is lovely, spring is chill but colorful.
I can't get into a museum in NY state without getting felt up, so I'm a little miffed at them.
I hear-tell the job market is shite at the moment, but the ground fell out beneath the housing market making it a good time to buy. I'd be four hours south of you making $25k in a mediocre office, and no that's not really a living wage around these parts but I have "some college" with no degree, and you'll have a sexy accent.
Americans tend to think Brits are more intelligent due to the accent (i don't know why) so that alone may get you a salary boost.
New York is an expensive city, if you're living in the city of course. Everything in my area between MD and VA is expensive do to the government industries and what not, so you might be better off in the northern regiion. Of course our unemployment rate is lower. Go figure.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:57:50 EDT (#)
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or the 50 year old lady with the big hair and fake gold that dropped a bucket of Chanel over her head before she walked out the door
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:57:41 EDT (#)
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you really shouldn't talk about WillZone that way, he might punch you in the face
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:56:41 EDT (#)
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or you get that one guy that wants to ride just a LITTLE too close to you and smells like onions and armpits.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:55:23 EDT (#)
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yeah but with public transportation you have to ride asses to elbows with stinky greeks...and they constantly want you to stick things in their butts
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:53:47 EDT (#)
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I know a lot of people who don't own cars in NY and they get by just fine. we have the best public transportation in the world, aside from Japan, who has those stand up head rest thingies you can lean on and sleep
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:53:33 EDT (#)
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Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-23 09:49:15 CDT (#)
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i wouldn;t touch New jersey with a barge pole from what i hear it's fucking grim.
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As long as you stay away from Valkenvania it's okay.
NOTHING BUT TROUBLE
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:51:20 EDT (#)
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its not really that bad, I have a nice house with almost an acre, nice family, get paid well and the cost of living isn't that bad. i belong to a club with exclusive rights to 3200 acres of woods within the state so I've got most of what I want here in Jersey and like i said I can get to anything else in just about 2 hours
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:49:44 EDT (#)
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ok owning a car in new york is a whole nother animal. especially since they're talking about adding congestion tax and stuff like that.
make friends with cars, pitch in for gas.
Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:49:15 EDT (#)
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i wouldn;t touch New jersey with a barge pole from what i hear it's fucking grim.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:48:30 EDT (#)
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yeah, Jersey blows
have i mentioned that...ever...on this website...ever?
Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:48:06 EDT (#)
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I've always lived just outside a city. I want to live right in it. Queens/ brokly/bronx all sound about right to me!
I would rather drive to the other stuff though.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:47:04 EDT (#)
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well avoid jersey at all costs. it's called the armpit of america for more reasons than its geographical location.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:46:14 EDT (#)
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287-684-84-91-89 = vermont
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:46:00 EDT (#)
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read what i wrote you fuckin monobrow, you can't do all that stuff in the city, you have to include the state to get it all in
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:45:14 EDT (#)
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actually you can take a train to nearly anywhere from nyc. he wouldn't need to drive. you amtrak and mta.
http://mta.info/
Submitted by Method (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:44:56 EDT (#)
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How can you not do all those things in NY state? Last I checked, NY is pretty close (a few hours) to all sorts of shit like snowboarding and felching and the like
Submitted by CaptainThorns (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:43:22 EDT (#)
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Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 09:38:42 CDT (#)
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to be fair Method, you have to include the whole state if you wish to make all those claims not just NYC.
i can't fucking climb a mountain there
i can't snowboard there
i can't swim in the ocean there
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Muddy raises a good point. A big city is a big city, and ask yourself: do I want to do/experience things outside of the city, ever? I think that there are far more states with recreational variety than NY if you're willing to leave the city stuff and drive an hour or two in any given direction.
Submitted by inion_de_trua (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:42:47 EDT (#)
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method forgets that to the rest of the world "the city" is made up of all five boroughs.
he's right though, it's cheaper in like brooklyn or the bronx. my broke ass brother is moving to brooklyn next weekend and he hasn't even found a job yet.
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:40:00 EDT (#)
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you could live over here around Paterson NJ. it fucking blows here but NYC is only 30 minutes away and the cost of living is a little less
did i mention it blows
Submitted by MudWhistle (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:38:42 EDT (#)
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to be fair Method, you have to include the whole state if you wish to make all those claims not just NYC.
i can't fucking climb a mountain there
i can't snowboard there
i can't swim in the ocean there
Submitted by splitperson (user info) at 2007-10-23 10:37:18 EDT (