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[Lowerdeck]

Like:
- The density, how major cities are in smaller defined areas compared to Jacksonville which is giganto and the entire county.
- The density of cities, how one major city's outer suburbs seemingly borders another city's outer suburbs.  You're never really that far from some urban center.
- The surroundings.  Even though there's a lot of blighted and rundown industrial centers and old neighborhoods, they still have some charm to them.  There's a sense of greenery somewhere in the cities, some sort of charm in the neighborhoods and the buildings in them.
- Many cities have some nighttime vibrancy in much of the downtown areas, some even 24 hours a day.  Other places, they die out at 10 pm.
- The weather.  Sure it gets cold, but not really that oppressively.  Sure it gets hot and humid, but not really that oppressively.  Nothing really seems to stick around for dominant amounts of the year.  There's always some variation, you never know what you're going to expect.  By the time you get sick of the season, it changes.  We also don't get tornadoes, no major hurricanes, nothing severe.  Just nor'easters and blizzards, tame to other parts of the country.
- Just so much to do and see around here
- Historical sense, many major cities and landmarks from all the things you learned in school

Dislike:
- The insanely high cost of living (esp. housing)
- The driving, especially the ones (usually NY or NJ) hitting 90 on the speedometer, weaving lanes, flashing their lights to get you to move, and talking on their cell phones in their huge SUVs.
- Industrial blight
- The New York Yankees, and quite many of their fans
- The politics and high taxes.  Can our politicans do anything right?

[runawayjim]

you live in the new york metro and don't like the yankees?  a mets fan i take it?

i think red sox fans are far more obnoxious than yankee fans.

[MadVlad]

runawayjim, on Mar 18 2007, 09:52 PM, said:

you live in the new york metro and don't like the yankees?  a mets fan i take it?

i think red sox fans are far more obnoxious than yankee fans.

And you basically live in the Boston Metro and like the Yankees.  Trust me, Yankees fans are WAY more obnoxious.  Red Sox fans have years of disappointment to temper their ego's, Yankees fans just think that 20 whatever World Championships allows them to say what they want when they want.

[runawayjim]

MadVlad, on Mar 18 2007, 11:22 PM, said:

And you basically live in the Boston Metro and like the Yankees.  Trust me, Yankees fans are WAY more obnoxious.  Red Sox fans have years of disappointment to temper their ego's, Yankees fans just think that 20 whatever World Championships allows them to say what they want when they want.

yeah, but i grew up much closer to new york. i don't change teams because i move.  i'm gonna have to say the fans that chant "yankees suck" during concerts and patriots games are more obnoxious.  that's something i've never seen at a concert in the new york area.

[Lowerdeck]

runawayjim, on Mar 19 2007, 07:03 AM, said:

yeah, but i grew up much closer to new york. i don't change teams because i move.  i'm gonna have to say the fans that chant "yankees suck" during concerts and patriots games are more obnoxious.  that's something i've never seen at a concert in the new york area.

It's a part of true New England culture.

And I'm originally from northeast Connecticut, a little over an hour outside Boston.  So I'm a Red Sox fan.  Now I split my time between there and Danbury.

Edited by Lowerdeck, 20 March 2007 - 12:20 PM.

[runawayjim]

Lowerdeck, on Mar 20 2007, 02:19 PM, said:

It's a part of true New England culture.

hardly... true new england culture is lobster, clams, good beer, foliage, beaches on the cape or northern NH, skiing in the winter, etc.  chanting "yankees suck" wherever/whenever you feel like it is just poor sportsmanship.  i've been to many events in the new york area and have never heard "red sox suck", even at yankee stadium (i've never been to a yankee/red sox game, so it's quite possible it happens then).

[Lowerdeck]

Well.  You're an outsider to the Red Sox culture.  So it's odd to explain, even for us.  We just do it the Red Sox faithful.  Got to figure though, after so many years of mediocrity and being second to the Yankees... we in Sox nation have grown to extremely hate the Yankees and everything about them.  Our passion against the Yankees is so strong, it spills into every day life and can lead to chants at concerts or other sport events or church picnics or anything.

[runawayjim]

Lowerdeck, on Mar 20 2007, 02:31 PM, said:

Well.  You're an outsider to the Red Sox culture.  So it's odd to explain, even for us.  We just do it the Red Sox faithful.  Got to figure though, after so many years of mediocrity and being second to the Yankees... we in Sox nation have grown to extremely hate the Yankees and everything about them.  Our passion against the Yankees is so strong, it spills into every day life and can lead to chants at concerts or other sport events or church picnics or anything.

funny... i know plenty of RI'ers who could care less about the sox... and many who love the yankees (yes, natives).  it almost seems that sox fans care more about the yankees losing than the sox winning... such as after they win the world series, beating some other team and chanting "yankees suck".  you never hear "red sox rule".  funny how that is.

RI culture is more hot weiners, clam cakes, stuffies, and south county beaches than it is the red sox.  i've been here long enough to know that.

[Lowerdeck]

Rhode Island is different than say Massachusetts in that regard.  There seems to be a lot of connection between Rhode Island and New York, leading to a lot of Yankees fans there compared to other areas.

[Cotuit]

Oh my Maude I'm bored.

Baseball sucks!

[runawayjim]

Cotuit, on Mar 20 2007, 03:28 PM, said:

Oh my Maude I'm bored.

Baseball sucks!

but it's part of new england culture... and you grew up in MA and live in RI.  you're required to worship the sox and hate the yankees.  

[Recchia]

runawayjim, on Mar 20 2007, 03:36 PM, said:

but it's part of new england culture... and you grew up in MA and live in RI.  you're required to worship the sox and hate the yankees.  

I loathe baseball.  Except for the PawSox of course!

[CtownMikey]

I dislike not having enough federal funding to keep our roads and highways nice and new

[runawayjim]

CtownMikey, on Mar 26 2007, 01:22 PM, said:

I dislike not having enough federal funding to keep our roads and highways nice and new

i dislike not having enough federal funding to have a superb mass transit system.     

[Spatula]

runawayjim, on Mar 26 2007, 01:23 PM, said:

i dislike not having enough federal funding to have a superb mass transit system.     

That's everywhere at least. Not exactly a regional problem.

[Lowerdeck]

Auto and oil industry has the government by the balls.  That's why we'll never see superb mass transit badly needed, especially in the northeast.