What do you enjoy about where you live and WHY?

[mesh control]

I just moved to the bay area and I both like it and hate it.
WHAT DO YOU ENJOY?

I ENJOY NOTHING.

Pros:
+ Active music scene. House shows in Oakland/bar shows in San Francisco. Decent record stores, but the internet has diminished stumbling on rare balooga-shocker-bonzers.
+ Good Food. I live on the edge of the Gourmet Ghetto in Berkeley. There's not much that I can afford anymore, but it's nice to have options.
+ Rain. I get excited when it rains like Blade Runner outside.
+ Hills for cycling.
+ Decent theaters. I've had the opportunity to see Django and some other Italian films on the big screen.
+ Fast Internet. (30 mb/s)
+ Dedicated Sci-Fi/Fantasy bookstore near Ashby.

- Everything besides Saturn Cafe and Bangkok Cuisine closes around 10PM.
- Expensive.
- Noisy, but that's the price you pay for living on boulevard.
- I take BART to school everyday. See: expensive.
- Downtown Berkeley should be firebombed.
- I live with 3 roommates and pay $570 for rent. The only area I can say is mine is my desk or my bed. There's no place to relax, except the laundry room.

WHY

[GaijinPunch]

I could go on all day for this, but...

TOKYO

+ Quality of most things... especially food.
+ Lunches are dirt cheap.
+ Variety out the ass.
+ Active electronic music scene... big talent flown in regularly.
+ Easy to cycle when you don't fuck yourself and smash into the concrete.
+ No last call. Liquor license = sell/serve any time you want.
+ Matched w/ the above, bars are usually open until 5AM at least.
+ Best public transit in the world.
+ Toilets shoot warm water up your ass.
+ If I was a total troll, I could still go out and legally buy a blow job. Not my thing, but hey, it's forward thinking.
+ Always a gaijin.

- Always a gaijin.
- Expensive as fuck, and even more so w/ the crazy currency.
- Houses the size of a shoebox.
- Bartenders suck. Drinks are weak.
- TIJ "This is Japan" / We Japanese (deserves it's own thread).
- Social laws are fucking archaic, and never side with the whitey if involved.
- Smoking in public.
- TV sucks shit.
- Economy in steady decline for 20 years (going on 30)
- The collective population won't wake the fuck up and fix it's problems. AKA... Japan is a timebomb

[Vexorg]

I live in Bellevue, which is just on the opposite side of Lake Washington from Seattle.

Plusses:
+ The scenery around here is quite nice
+ I have had little trouble finding good jobs in my field here
+ Most of my family is close by
+ Plenty to do, and I can find just about anything I need without too much trouble
+ I've got a really cool view out the window of my apartment (8th floor with a nice unobstructed East-facing view)
+ 100 megabit Internet, and I could get a gigabit if I wanted. It's not widely available, but I happen to be in the very limited service area for it. Oh, and Valve's HQ is 3 blocks away from here, so my download speeds off Steam are kind of ridiculous.
+ The three months out of the year where it doesn't rain are really nice around here

Minuses:
- My rent here is really expensive, and I have to pay for parking on top of it
- Commuting to Seattle for work is a pain (I either have to ride really crowded busses or pay $11 a day for parking and wade through traffic)
- Most of the politicians around here are idiots (not so much in Bellevue, but Seattle's got some pretty lousy ones.)
- It rains nine months out of the year
- After a few years of being decent in the late 90s up to around 2001, the Mariners have reverted to their typical cellar-dwelling form.
- Seattle is kind of isolated from the rest of the US, so traveling to just about anywhere besides Portland or Vancouver is at least a 2 hour flight or a 10+ hour drive

[rancor]

To add to GPs post:

+ Internet. Mine is faster than all of yours combined.
+ 100 yen shops. Everything you need to live your life can be had for ~$1.
+ Social safety-net. I get Y30,000 every month just for having a child under 15. He gets free healthcare. It is awesome having a kid here.
+ ARCADES!!


- Crowded. Holy fuck, is it crowded.
- Work. I will most likely never be promoted or make a higher salary than I make now. Not much upward mobility for foreigners unless you strike out on your own.
- Earthquakes. Big ones.
- Summer. I'll take Texas summer over a Japanese summer any day. Most buildings seemingly keep their thermostats at a cool 101F/40C during the summer months... and the humidity. OMG, the humidity. From my balls to my crack is wet all GD day, and that sweat is in turn soaked up by the tops of my socks. Gross.

[drauch]

Springfield, Missouri, USA.

+People usually leave me alone.
+Still a lot of countryside and forests (although I foresee this coming to an end at some point.)
+A lot of things to hate.

-Religion is crammed down your throat
-Racism is tolerated
-Everyone is the same
-Everyone is white
-Other cultures are not tolerated
-Good jobs are scarce without trained skill
-Rising crime rate
-Intellectualism is non-existent
-No local stores worth a damn
-Destruction of nature: local fields, woods, streams, etc are constantly being destroyed for mini-malls, banks, apartment complexes, etc.
-People won't stop breeding; everyone has 3+ children.
-Weather is more and more unpredictable every year.
-Local "arcade" is shit. "Retro" gamers are scarce.

Sounds like I hate it, and I kind of do, but I'll probably die here. Fairly complacent through fiction.

[CMPXCHG8B]

Victoria, BC (Canada)

Pros:
- Greenery everywhere, all year round
- Impressive selection of wildlife (especially birds)
- It's an island, so ocean everywhere too (got an ocean view straight out my office window)
- Shockingly quiet at night
- Clear skies ~70% of the year and little light pollution outside the city (great for astronomy stuff)
- You can wear shorts and t-shirts all year long (which I do)
- Weather is optimal for heat pumps, which basically work all year long ($$$$ -> $$ on the utiliy bill)
- Downtown is a happening little place, lots of little shops and stuff
- We seem to get a lot of music bands down here (The Flaming Lips and 54.40 recently did a gig, they were both was amazing)
- Close to Vancouver, which is my second favourite place in Canada
- Nobody gives a shit about internet caps (even though we've apparently all got them)
- Cheap organic food markets everywhere (along with your usual big store shit like Wall-Mart or SuperStore/Loblaws)
- People are nice everywhere you go

Cons:
- Transit system sucks (no LRT, traffic can get pretty nasty)
- Ferry rides across to Vancouver are a pain in the ass (and ridiculously overpriced for vehicles)
- Not much in the way of "technology" running around, very old and antiquated city
- Crazy wind storms on occasion, which typically causes unstable power
- HST or PST + GST, I don't even know what the hell our sales tax is anymore (this was a major screwup in '11-'12), but it's usually 12%
- Scuba diving isn't really that impressive off the local shores
- No decent arcades (nothing with any CAVE games anyways)

-CMPX

[xbl0x180]

South Orange County, California

PROS:
- My family lives about 15 minutes from here. This is very, very important to me.
- It's really quiet and isolated. At night, all you can hear are the sounds of crickets, birds chirping, trees in the wind, rain drops, etc.
- Little to no crime. I don't lock anything. The only reason to close a door here is to not let the dust and leaves get in.
- Great community college (Saddleback Community College)

CONS:
- It is far from everything and the public transportation system is non-existent. You need an automobile to go anywhere and to work. The closest freeway is 20 minutes away. My commute to work is 26 miles and 45 minutes to 1 hour - each way.
- In order to fit into this community, you have to be white and affluent. I'm neither. I will never make friends here.
- Houses are expensive as fuck. I will never own a home.
- The result? There is no sense of belonging, which is alienating.

[Rob]

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[BryanM]

Oklahoma.

+ One day it will cease to exist.

- It still exists.

[opt2not]

Vancouver BC Canada

Pros:
- Hot Asian women everywhere
- Two awesome Snowboarding mountains 2.5hrs drive away, whistler/blackcomb and Mt Baker.
- Weed

Cons
- Rains a lot
- expensive city to live in
- night-life blows

[idchappy]

I stay in a quiet cul-de-sac , nice immediate neighbours and not much noise/trouble.
Also in the the right area for a really good primary school for the kids and still close to me folks

[Pyongyang]

Dublin, Ireland.

+ Rain.
- Rain.

[jasoncslaughter]

New York City

Pros:
Huge rent-controlled apartment
Plenty of live performances
Museums
The dirtiest public transit system on earth
All the rats you can eat

Cons:
Rent-controlled apartment is still outrageously expensive
Hipster infestation
In the city that never sleeps, everything that's not a bar closes at 10
Tourists blocking every sidewalk
General lack of trees, grass, other natural things

[Aguraki]

Berlin

Pros:
excellents clubs and bars,worth to see.
green city,lot of parks and lakes around.
clean city,I feel bad when i throw my cigs on the floor.
good public transportation but a bit confusing if you don´t speak german.
incredibly cheap city

Cons:
basically everything else,
snow
more snow
atrocious food (even worth than in UK)
thought they spoke english?
not a good city if you don´t like electro music.


next post in malta I leave in 2 days

[Skykid]

I can get away with doing two of these.


Nanning, Guanxi, China (current residence)

+ The laid back nature of people.
+ The winter weather regularly hitting 26 degrees.
+ That everyone I exchange words with tends to be really nice, strangers or otherwise
+ The incredible food and unbelievable range of choice.
+ The cost of things. If you want to, you can live for next to nothing and still eat well, eat varied and have change left to get drunk.
+ That whenever you spend more than the basic, the quality of service ramps up tenfold. Things like hotels, clubs & KTV being good examples.
+ Greenery everywhere, a city covered by a canopy of trees.
+ Absolutely amazing nightlife with tons of variety, and people who are always up for doing something.
+ The previous ban on pornography. It's allowed to get around now, but its historical absence seems to have had some impressive cultural benefits (this could be an essay tbh.)
+ The equality between the sexes and the respect for women. Groups of single sex friends don't really exist.
+ Stuff staying open very late.
+ Paying £1.70 for a Taxi to take me all the way from one side of the city to the other, and Tuk Tuks: they're fun n' cheap.
+ Electric bikes. Quiet, pollution free, and really smooth to ride.
+ Incredible club scene with serious DJ talent, never an entry fee in sight, and private tables as standard with complimentary food.
+ ENORMOUS ARCADES EVERYWHERE for as little as 5 pence a go that are well maintained, have great taste in games and no discrimination against 20 year old titles.
+ Never thought I'd say this, but... Asian toilets. They really are more hygienic.
+ Street cleaners. The job they do is amazing and never-ending. They deserve abundant praise.
+ Successful and affluent youth: they're everywhere, they're hard working and they're improving the standard of the entire country.
+ My girlfriend's parents, surely two of the loveliest people on the face of the earth. And they can cook like wizards.
+ Being surrounded by women I find attractive.
+ Getting loads of attention from women I find attractive.



- Having to jump through a VPN to access sites behind the great firewall/slow public wifi connections.
- Public toilets: 90% of the time, god help you if you have to walk in.
- Terrible typography. Stupid, but it niggles the designer in me. I can't abide people using Times New Roman for shop logos. Rrrr.
- Lazy bastard approach to English. Engrish I don't mind, but I can't understand misspelling the actual word, usually by rearranging two letters. It's so irritating, it almost seems like it's done on purpose.
- Lack of quality control (such as the above) and poor workmanship, maintenance in construction, paving etc
- Spitting. Young girls and guys with better upbringings don't do it, but everyone else seems to think it's some kind of rite of passage. Talk about a cultural revolution.
- The crowdedness, especially on weekends.
- The way unemployed people waste time crowding around beggars peddling junk or amputees singing bad karaoke.
- Western capitalist institutions being allowed to charge extortionate prices and grossly exacerbate the inequality issue.
- That the city governing body doesn't ban the sale of sugar cane from street vendors. People chew it and then spit it out on the floor, and it's everywhere.
- Littering. Although many of these complaints are class oriented, and people may assume I'm being prejudiced toward the uneducated and underprivileged, I can't abide people chucking shit all over the place, whether there's a bin nearby (often) or not.
- Thieves and having to be wary of them. It's a capital surrounded by mountain villages, where Xinjian and other peasants hit crowded areas to pickpocket.
- Women who take cock for cash. i.e, gorgeous young girls married to middle-aged fatheads with fat wallets.
- The custom of living with your partner's parents (although this is changing).
- Dumb superstitions, especially with numbers. I can't have that mobile number because it has a 4 on the end? Whatever.
- Drinking too fast. It's customary to down a shot as a mark of respect. When there are eight people at the table drinking 60% spirits all looking to return the favour, you're usually completely fucked inside of ten minutes and expected to carry on.
- Not enough western movies on in the Cinema: it's primarily Chinese, Korean and Japanese.


United Kingdom

+ Lots of space, fairly quiet (not overcrowded).
+ Lots of natural greenery, big parks etc.
+ The respect for the country's history and the protection of historical buildings, works etc.
+ Mild summers that don't force a siesta
+ Cafe culture
+ The healthy arts scene, incl. theatre, music and museums.
+ Fashion
+ Independent cinemas that show great movies
+ Not being allowed to smoke in public venues
+ General cleanliness
+ Drinking culture


- Drinking culture. No-one has the faculties to think of doing anything else to end their day, leading to rampant alcoholism.
- Yob culture: see above.
- No arcades left.
- Nothing to do. Most activities are generally unaffordable (even Cinema is crazy money) so people either stay at home or go drinking - which is also unaffordable, but it's the only thing available on the doorstep.
- The cost of things is plainly extortionate. Housing is unaffordable, food and other basic amenities are getting there. You rarely feel anything you bought provided you real value for money.
- Having a government that are a bunch of pussies, unable to ever introduce laws to clamp down on benefit abuse or immigration and improve the standard of living.
- Transport: The London Underground particularly, being hot, archaic, slow, never working, consistently late, yet remains the world's most expensive service of its kind.
- English people. Some are nice, some have values, some are intelligent, some have all of the above. The majority are rude, miserable bastards who should be shot for their ignorance.
- The shitty weather. Rain is cool now and then, but not all fucking year. Winter months are appallingly cold.
- Everything is grey. Including the people. It gets depressing.
- Violent crime, esp. in London and its poorer boroughs.

[evil_ash_xero]

Lookout, WV, USA

+ Beautiful scenery and wildlife
+ Nice and isolated, but near enough to civilization to buy stuff when needed
+ Low crime rate
+ Very relaxed atmosphere overall
+ Girls are pretty damn easy

- When you want to do something, you're out of luck(unless it's drinking)
- Rednecks all over the place
- Gun culture is really annoying
- Irresponsible hunters(shooting pets, poaching, hunting on "no hunting" land)
- If they're not rednecks, they're dumb hillbillies
- Pillheads are all over the place

[trap15]

Columbus, OH

Pros:
+ Cheap almost everything (or maybe I'm just comparing to SD prices, which are insane)
+ Tons of great food places
+ People around here know my stupid techy shit
+ People are good drivers on the freeway
+ FAST internet, at relatively cheap prices
+ SNOW!

Cons:
- COLD!
- Not much to do other than eat
- A fair drive to pretty much anywhere interesting
- People are shitty drivers off the freeway
- No local arcade (not even in a bowling alley) [unless you want to call that sadsack arcade with 2 360s, MvC2 and a broken Commando woody an actual arcade.]

[Adderall]

Whitehall, MI (just north of Muskegon)

+ the Michigan side of lake Michigan has amazing beaches. It's fresh water... no salt, no sharks, nothing dangerous. West Michigan has amazing sand dunes that are unique to this side of the lake... if you were to check out lake Michigan on the Ill/WI side you will find rocky shores.

+ West Michigan experiences ALL of the 4 seasons with winter being only a little bit longer than the rest. Spring is green and rainy, summer is hot and warms the lake enough to go swimming. Fall is amazing when the leaves turn. We get a lot of snow in the winter due to lake effect, but it doesn't get as cold as it does on the other side (Chicago/Milwaukee).

+ Wet Burritos

+ not Detroit (but you can get there in 4 hours if you really want to)

+ bike trails, cross country skiing, we just passed a law that allows snowmobiling IN TOWN during the winter

+ every bar is a "dive" bar around here

+ my house was ridiculously cheap to buy. When I told my co-workers in DC the price, they made strange noises...either laughing or crying.. I couldn't tell.


- some companies decided to really fuck up the environment over here (several superfund sites and possible cancer hotspots)
- everything closes early
- my current restaurant selection within 10 minutes of driving: 3 pizza places, 1 chinese, 1 mexican, 4 bars, 1 Itallian
- population doubles in the summer when the FISHTABs arrive.
- very few candy cabs around

[Obiwanshinobi]

Hidden village. Pic spam ahead.


+ Burial grounds.






+ The river, or should I say, the area's intimacy with water.





+ The concrete.






+ The women.





+ The family.




+ The youth. Being fairly academic, the village is populated by many young people.

- There's a brothel around the corner. I can pretend I don't know, but heard of some rather unpleasant scenes having occured nearby. People running the place have been keeping low profile recently, so the neighbours' petitioning did at least this much.

- The traffic. I participate once in a blue moon and it can be so mortifying that I wonder who the hell those other people in cars really are. If they do this every day, now that's what I call a timebomb.

[Vexorg]

- Dumb superstitions, especially with numbers. I can't have that mobile number because it has a 4 on the end? Whatever.

Apparently some of that makes its way over here, because the building I live in (which I understand was designed by a Japanese architect) is missing its 4th, 13th and 14th floors. Apparently this is a pretty common thing in China and Japan (to the point that some buildings will go straight from floor 39 to floor 50), and a lot of buildings here "skip" the 13th floor, but I think this is the first time I've seen one in the US that skips the 4th and 14th floors.

On the flip side of that, I live in apartment number 818, which seems to be pretty lucky by Chinese standards.

[Domino]

Jacksonville, FL

+Low cost of living
+Low taxes to deal with (just sales tax + the crap they take out of your paycheck)
+Companies bringing new jobs to the city
+Growing beer brewing culture
+Growing city with nice areas
+Nice beaches if you are into that
+A little bit of everything culture wise
+Good places to eat if you know where to go

-Spread out city, need a car to get anywhere
-Not so good bus system
-Downtown Jax is shit
-Parts of Jax (mostly Northside/Westside) are really bad and not safe for white folks
-Because of the low cost of living the new jobs are hiring people for lower cost per hour ($10-$14)
-Shitty football team if you are into sports
-Depends on where you live the traffic can be terrible during rush hour
-No arcades
-Tons of hipsters in certain areas of town

[AAA]

London (some of this applies to the UK more generally). I've lived in the UK since birth, am half English half Italian with a UK passport, and work for an international company where the job has a fair bit of travel.


+ High diversity of cultures/races.
+ Interesting architecture - a mix of old and new. The old buildings are protected and respected.
+ Linked to the above point - real history with character.
+ Appreciation for green spaces, and trying to keep them.
+ Very tolerable living temperatures and atmospheric conditions.
+ Understanding and preservation of creative arts & sciences, despite the onslaught against them - this is becoming more of a subculture over time however.
+ The English girls that are either English Roses (pale pretty redheads the best type) or Yummy Mummies (usually gymbunnies ideally with nice accents).


- Endemic Greed & Slavery. The spirit of the British Empire lives on, let me confirm that. This one is a massive negative, starting with banks and landlords and trickling down into every other part of British society. It's truly disgusting. The following points are mostly sub-points of this one.

- This may be a controversial one with some - I find many Brits to be very selfish, greedy and tribal; the ones falling into this group form cliques quickly and seem to love nothing more than a good landgrab be it literal or metaphorical.
- British Class System. It's still very much in effect. Posh guys hang out with other posh guys who play or played rugby or cricket; now normally this wouldn't be an issue as friends often have the same interests right, but here it's often always intrinsically linked to ulterior motives such as trying to get ahead in work/business. The UK is very far indeed from being a meritocracy.
- A government so plainly acting in their own interests, rather than the general population, that it's ridiculous. 'Jobs for the boys' doesn't even begin to describe it.
- The price of everything. No wonder they call the UK 'Treasure Island'. It's a ripoff and most people are broke especially the young. The UK economy is the next Japanese economy, unless there's a (needed) crash a la Spain, Greece, Ireland etc.
- Drinking culture. Too many people drink too much too often.
- Chav culture. Too many people are incentivised to do too little, and there's a distinct lack of taste in people's actions/style etc.
- Linked to the above, too many fat unattractive women. Hop on the Eurostar to Paris and it's like being in another world. Less pints needed, more running please.

[Dragoforce]

Malmoe, Sweden

+Great communications, buses, trains, airport
+Parks
+Inexpensive food (as long as you stick to middle-eastern)
+Lots of different cultures
+Fast internet, 100mb/s
+Lots of drugs

-Crime, basically a shmup on the streets. For a country that employs hard restrictions on guns, the amount of shootings here is ridiculous.
-Lots of drugs
-Ugly high-rise buildings
-Horribly social and racial diversion.
-Horrible weather. Three months of snow, five months of grey and four decent months.

[KAI]

Buenos Aires, Argentina

+Public Education (Free Universities)
+Free Hospitals
+Piracy
+Cool people

-Crime
-Politics
-The lower class' idiosyncrasy
-Public Transport, cheap but shit
-RIP arcades
-Crime
-Rising inflation rate
-Unpavimented roads
-Shit TV
-Trash everywhere
-Lots of drinks and drugs
-Crime

Believe it or not, I love this place.

[Rob]

-Ugly high-rise buildings

This thing? Yikes.

[Obiwanshinobi]

Heh...

[powersoul]

Singapore aka Little Red Dot on the map

+Being afraid of heights sounds really wrong here, as we live mostly in high-rise apartments
+Food here is pretty diverse. You can find lots of ethnic foods around
+Lack of natural disasters (unless you count occasional flooding due to extremely heavy rains in town)
+Getting from one end of the country to another in an hour or so
+Raging drivers who get caught in traffic jams that are not even comparable to the ones in other countries (sadism)
+Clean... well, in my opinion.
+Multi-racial
+Fair laws... as long as you aren't really extreme

-Education system (what? Failing English means the end of the world? In here, if you fail English, you fail EVERYTHING aka the whole year)
-Politicians
-Democracy... with a twist
-Living expenses. I know I can't compare mine with some of you guys here, but it is high.
-No love for gamers. We were taught since young that games ruin lives
-Conscription for army. You get the idea, go google about our laws for 'National Service'
-Talents will never get discovered since it's a thumb of the rule that if you flunk school, you are worthless, no school here will take you for a higher education
-Lots of 'foreign talents'
-The roads are safe. Well... not THAT safe after this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhKaedPTtTg
WARNING: VIDEO NOT FOR THE FAINT HEARTED You can read up on this, known as the Ferrari Accident.

[idchappy]

Edinburgh:
+ Great buildings and history
+ Decent transport service
+ Nice folk in the decent area's
+ Good schools(for the most part)
+ Excellent culture stuff and the festival

- Terrible wastes of money in the Trams and that fecking awful parliament building
- A fair few Chavs/Neds/Hoodies
- Parking is expensive
- Pretty shitty summer weather
- Driving through town is a pain in the cock since they have been ripping up roads for 3 years for the trams

Overall, I love it, it's home and always will be (probably)

[BulletMagnet]

Morris County, NJ, USA:

+ Not much crime or the like to worry about, at least where I'm at
+ Few "extreme" weather occurrences (tornadoes, floods, earthquakes, etc.), though Hurricane Sandy was a recent exception
+ Still some patches of woods and such around
+ Not much excitement, which would be bad for some people but I prefer the quiet
+ Short commute to work

- A dense concentration of rich snobs who can and will make your life difficult if they get the notion
- Nothing will likely destroy your house, but it can get quite hot in summer and cold in winter, with relatively brief periods in between
- Said woods mean lots of deer causing car accidents...and 50-foot trees taking out power lines and/or falling on your house in a bad storm
- Said job pays slave wages, and nobody around here thinks twice about it
- Very high property taxes, though I can't afford my own place anyway
EDIT: - Almost forgot, but as others have said, if you don't have a car you can't get anywhere.

[kamiboy]

Denmark:

+Socialist Paradise. If old Karl was still around a single tear of joy would roll off of his cheek and he would forget all the atrocities other countries have comited in his name.

+Free Education? Pfft, how about getting paid to be educated. If you are 18 years old and up the goverment will pay you a monthly sum if you are in education. If you dont like your station in life then you only have yourself to blame.

+Free healthcare.

+Lose your job? No worries, the social system has your back.

+Amazing public transport system.

+Danish goverment hates cars, owning one is taxed to hell, so everyone uses either public transport or bicycles via the unbelievable infrastructure existing everywhere to support cycling.

+A real working democracy. Many parties, none of them can run things singlehandely, they have to make compromises and agreements with other parties, even if their ideology differs, so everyone gets to have their say.

+Green pastures, trees, shrubs and grass everywhere. Danes love their unspoiled nature.

+A lot of turn of the century brick buildings give cities a european rustic atmosphere.

+Danes are a laid back, fun loving people and social classes are an unknown concept over here.

+Even though the lowest tax bracket is 39% no one complains because even after that salaries are so high that you live comfortably no matter what your job is.

-With all those plusses something has got to give and that is the weather. I wouldn't mind the constant rain if it didn't mean that everything is covered in a blanket of drab grey. Sometimes seeing the sun compells you to fall on your knees and praise almighy Rah for his rare patronage.

-Foreigners. Being one myself I have to say I sympathize with the sentiments of the odd Danish racist. European refugee policies means that there is a steady flow of people from worse to do nations coming and seeing nothing but golden opportunities for exploiting the good thing Danes have going here. I am ashamed to be associated with the reputation these rotten apples have built up over the decades.

-Kind of boring here with nothing much to do for fun. But that is where videogames come in.

Canada's Ghetto, New Brunswick:

+Friendly people.

+You like maple syrup?

+Nice diverse set of restaurants.

+Quiet and green.

+Multicultural means you never feel like a foreigner.

-Winters.

-Lose your job? Good luck finding another one even after hundreds of resumes. Better hurry though.

-Life in the poorest province means every other person you pass on the street looks homeless, whether they are or not.

-Booooooooooring. Thank god for videogames.

-Ugly, tacky old wooden houses and building's everywhere.

-Public transport. If you do not have a car then you must be poor, right?