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Title: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Van on Mar 31 08 07:31
Thought this would be a good place to ask sports about East St. Louis. Is East St. Louis a seperate city, like the one in Illinois? Or are you referring to a neighbourhood of St. Louis?

  My favorite city I have ever visited was Portland. It was just so cool. Great indie rock, great coffee shops, a city in a forest. Well planned too, I am told. It was like a toned down version of Seattle! LOL.
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Sportsdude on Mar 31 08 08:36
Yeah East St. Louis is a city/ghost town across the river in Illinois. If I say North St. Louis, that is St. Louis. Its like West Van, North Van.

hmm favourite cities
Vancouver
Victoria
Seattle
Portland
Boston
D.C.
Chattanooga
Salt Lake
I want to love Denver but I can't for some reason
Chicago- in the summer

Towns that make me laugh
Boise (chicken dinner road)

Cities I don't like
New York. Its only in the negative because I went there a year after 9/11 and a year before 9/11 and on a cloudy day, the city just feels gloomy.

Atlanta. This is quite possibly the worst city in the south. It doesn't have a culture. If you are ever driving through don't go there, the place will give you headaches. Its a sprawl city, its split between north fulton and south fulton. North Fulton County is the rich part, South is full of thousands of homeless and a really poor neighbourhoods (mlk's church is in the peverbial ghetto). The city is not safe.

Tampa. For the same reasons as Atlanta. Its car based, highway dependant. Its too flat for me and I don't understand the fascination people have with Florida, but that's me.

Kansas City MO/Kansas City KS
They're two different cities but if you want to know what Los Angeles is like on a larger scale this is the place. It has the most highways per capita then any other city in the country. These highways carve up neighbourhoods and make the city feel distant. KC MO otherwise is a great town. Good food, etc. but what really knocks it down is its transportation planning.

Los Angeles
I don't think i need to say much here. My idea of a city is not to sit in a car all day in traffic.

Phoenix
Its in the desert, its really unhealthy hot in the summers and you have to deal with dust storms. Its a dusty place that is over populated that it can't sustain itself due to short water supplies.


favourite regions
Pacific Northwest
Mountain West
Prairies
Midwest
New England


 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Van on Mar 31 08 09:30
 [FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Least:[/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]I don't have a lot of least favorites. Usually when I visit a city in the USA, it is too short termed to really know if it is cool or not.:[/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Kelowna. SUCKS!! Trying to figure out the hype? But the more people go there, the less they are where I want to go.[/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Minneapolis. Never been so scared visiting a city when I took a wrong turn and ended up lost!!...cold and very flat too. [/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Prince George BC: 3 pulp mills surrounding a town at a valley bottom. They say after 56 years, you start to get used to the smell.[/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Cranbrook BC: Looks like they took a chunk of a ghetto and placed it in the East Kootenays. At least it is in a nice area.[/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Lethbridge AB - The town isn't even bad, it is the wind that drives people to jump off the bridge there.[/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Great Falls Montana - not much to say about that one.[/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Philadelphia - Yikes! Again, scary![/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008][/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Favs: [/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Boulder, Colorado - Cool college town right by the Rockies[/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Riondel, BC - Actually, it sucks, don't go there and tell people to stay away!![/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Portland, Oregon[/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Santa Cruz. California (there is cool, then there is Santa Cruz cool)[/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Nelson, BC[/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Salmon Arm, BC[/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Kimberley, BC[/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Chelan, WA[/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Calgary -  Met too many sweethearts in that town to hate it. [/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Boston. As far as cities go, I loved Boston!! [/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]NY - Loved every second I was there. Didn't hurt my feelings to leave either.[/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Maple Ridge, BC (if you wouldn't have to commute into downtown).[/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Denver. I had a great time in Denver one time a couple years back. Too big for me to live in though.[/SPAN][/SPAN][/FONT]

[FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Vancouver: I love Vancouver, but I am just done with living in cities in general. Still, Vancouver is sweet![/SPAN][/SPAN][/FONT][/DIV]
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Michel on Mar 31 08 09:57
     
 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Van on Mar 31 08 10:14
Oh very true Michel. I was just thinking of a thread for discussing different towns.  More of a visiting review.

  True though. Example: I didn't like Minneapolis, but maybe someone could write some cool things about the place?

I am far from being an expert on any places I have visited.

    I forgot to add Dublin to one of my favorites.  
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: P.C. on Mar 31 08 10:52
I love San Diego, Carmel, Monterey, Big Sur and Cannon Beach.  There were lots of little towns through the Redwoods that I loved to, but don't remember the names.

  I don't like anything on the prairies.  Give me ocean and give me trees please.    
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Van on Mar 31 08 12:54
P.C. wrote:
I don't like anything on the prairies.  Give me ocean and give me trees please.     I agree, except I prefer a nice lake over the ocean.

 I never spent much time in San Diego. Looks so nice!

 There are a lot of cool little towns on the northern coast of California.Unfortunatly, last time I drove through, it was too foggy to see too much from Eureka to Crescent City.

 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Lil Me on Mar 31 08 01:05
  P.C. wrote:
I don't like anything on the prairies.  Give me ocean and give me trees please. --
 Ditto.  I do like the foothills, though.
 
 I dislike any town that's ugly and/or has a bad smell...
 Port Alberni
 Powell River
 Kaslo
 Chilliwack
 Sparwood
 Vernon
 P.G.
 Hedley
 Britannia Beach
 Fort MacLeod
 Brooks
 Sylvan Lake
 Hinton
 Edson
 that stupid 3 Valley Gap...and most of the Shuswap towns...
 ...and anything north of Edmonton that's swampy
 
 
 I'm all for anything that's near water, mountains
 anything on the coast of BC, WA, OR, CA
 gulf islands
 Kootenays (particularly liked the vibe in New Denver)
 South side of Okanagan Lake (Penticton to Peachland and Penticton to Naramata)
 
 
 
 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Van on Mar 31 08 01:21
I love the Island. Not crazy about Victoria though.

  Hey! What is wrong with Kaslo? LOL!

  Oh, and I wasn't trying to start a DV style "This Town Vs. That Town", thingy. Just curious about some cool and not so cool towns.

  sports, Kansas looks cool. Lots of music and food!
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Lil Me on Mar 31 08 01:26
I'd really like to live in Cicely, Alaka (the ficitious town in Northern Exposure).
 
   
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Sportsdude on Mar 31 08 01:30
 I think I forgot to add Victoria to favs.

Got more likes and dislikes
South:
Memphis - not the nicest town, elvis lives in the ghetto, and other then the riverfront the town feels too much like st. louis for me. Has the same sort of vibe.
Nashville- better city of the two major Tennessee metros. The layout is nice, if you like live music they've got a ton of music venues. You don't have to be a country fan to like the music there. The neighbourhoods are really nice. Nice old southern homes.
New Orleans- don't bother now really. Unless you want to go on a humanitarian mission. Its sort of ironic that the hurricane knocked out on the poorest areas of the city which were some of the poorest in the United States. French Quarter is nice but the city used to have a lot of life.

Biloxi- Its gone, it died, makes me feel really sad, the people there are super nice but poor. Hard working too. Mississippi in general is a no go unless you go to Oxford or on some sort of guilt trip. The whole state is extreme poor. All they had was the Gulf Coast and that's all gone now.

Alabama:
There's Northern Alabama and Southern Alabama. The joke my cousin would say is Southern Alabamans go "hey look at what I'm doin, check this out'" and end up in the paper the next day.
Huntsville is nice, Birmingham is an old industrial town, high crime but excellent history. Vulcan Statue is really cool.

Mobile- port town, has its own vibe from the other two big cities in Alabama. Again nice people, nicer scenery.

Georgia
Atlanta- Sherman burned it to the ground in the Civil War, there's no history in the place other then 20th Century history. This is just a modern looking city, Vancouver has more history then Atlanta and Atlanta has been along a long time. (thanks to Sherman though its got nothing)

Savannah - very nice

South Carolina- Charleston is the must see here. Sherman didn't burn Charleston, he let it be. So if you want to see what the South used to look like, Charleston is where you want to go.

Florida
meh
Every coastal town is the same. Long blvd that's hard to navigate, high speeds and a shrinking beach because they built the towns and cities on the beach. Avoid in the summer go in the winter. Some places are worth mentioning they're super small though.

Orlando- never liked, don't understand why so many people want to live there.

Miami- bring a ton of shirts, most humid and sweatest city in the country. Totally different culture though then the rest of Florida. Some get turned off by it while others don't mind. Spanish is predominant



   
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: michaelday77 on Mar 31 08 01:49
Seattle is my fav city in the US  that i've been too ( which is why i'm moving there in exactly 120 days. (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/19.gif)  ) . Chicago being second.  
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Van on Mar 31 08 02:18
Cool! Chicago looks like an exciting town.

  sports, is Orlando booming? Besides Mickey Mouse, you don't hear much of Orlando? I know Florida is growing too fast for the water supply.  
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Sportsdude on Mar 31 08 02:43
I've been going to Orlando since I was 5. Its unbelievable how its just blown up in that time period. Although the long strip that is by Disney World is now a ghost town thanks to a couple hurricanes. Its just an ugly place though. I've never understood its attraction. Florida's bad news anyway since its all going to go under. lol  
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Van on Mar 31 08 08:12
Never thought about that about Orlando. Also, never thought about St. Louis being the way it is until you got me reading about it.  

I do remember Chevy Chase stopping in St. Louis in Vacation! LOL. awesome.

  I am not crazy about the praries, but I seen a August sunset in Medicine Hat, AB that blew me away. It was surreal, like something out of science fiction. Harvest season, and really dry and dusty made for a sunset that looked like Mars was crashing into the horizon.
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Sportsdude on Mar 31 08 08:20
prairies are great if you like open spaces or grew up in or around a rural type setting. The draw to the prairies are the low land hills in the grasslands and you're the only tall thing around.

 [img style="width: 601px; height: 398px;" src="http://fig.cox.miami.edu/Faculty/Dana/50-16e-TempGrasslands.jpg[/img]

[img style="width: 551px; height: 414px;" src="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/Grasslands-menggu.JPG/800px-Grasslands-menggu.JPG[/img]

(http://www.picturescanada.com/images/Saskatchewan/saskatchewan-0021.jpg)




 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: P.C. on Mar 31 08 08:21
I remember a trip from here to London Ontario......we went through the prairies..of course.  I remember weeping at the thought of having to do it again.  It was so boring, I felt like gouging my eyes out.    We ended up doing a SUPER detour down through the states. (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)  
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Sportsdude on Mar 31 08 08:29
hahaha. I take it P.C. you don't like the desolation?
not a fan of little house on the prairie growing up I take it? lol
 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: P.C. on Mar 31 08 08:35
hahaha. I take it P.C. you don't like the desolation?
not a fan of little house on the prairie growing up I take it? lol


I don't think it's the desolation.  It's just the dullest landscape ever, (to me).  As if someone intentionally designed it to have absolutely no interest.  
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Sportsdude on Mar 31 08 08:39
lol well you can thank the glaciers they did it. All that good soil that is in the U.S., it used to be in Canada. Glaciers came, pushed all the good soil out, hence we have the shield and trees. Only places where the good soil stayed were in the Fraser Valley and Southwest Ontario.


 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Lil Me on Mar 31 08 09:17
 P.C. wrote:
It's just the dullest landscape ever, (to me).  As if someone intentionally designed it to have absolutely no interest.
 --
 My friend from SK said, "It's like they levelled and forgot to build..."
   
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Lise on Apr 01 08 05:54
Well, I'm quite partial to Sydney and some parts of Scotland. I love being in Glassglow because it was so beautiful and the people, OMG, so sweet and helpful even though I can't understand what they're saying half the time.

  I'm not overtly fond of Kuala Lumpur as it's not exactly the cleanest city in the world. I'm talking about smog and the fact that the public washroom is for show only. I don't pee well in Asia. (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif) The food, however, is to die for. Love eating like a pig there.
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Van on Apr 01 08 07:37
Cool! I have been to Glasgow too. I had a great time.

Sydney looks cool. I used to work with an Aussie that said Melbourne was the place to be. I have never been.

  PC, I could imagine driving across the praries would be long. It is such a huge land mass.


Funny, we used to have cousins come to Vancouver from Sask., and they hated the mountains??!! They felt closed in and closterphobic (sp?).  I guess it is all where we are raised?
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Lil Me on Apr 01 08 07:46
One other town I like is Field, B.C.
 Beautiful mountains, cool vibe.
 (nearly ran out of gas there---no gas station)
   
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: van_guy on Apr 01 08 09:58
 Van wrote:
 [div][font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Least:[/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]I don't have a lot of least favorites. Usually when I visit a city in the USA, it is too short termed to really know if it is cool or not.:[/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Kelowna. SUCKS!! Trying to figure out the hype? But the more people go there, the less they are where I want to go.[/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Minneapolis. Never been so scared visiting a city when I took a wrong turn and ended up lost!!...cold and very flat too. [/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Prince George BC: 3 pulp mills surrounding a town at a valley bottom. They say after 56 years, you start to get used to the smell.[/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Cranbrook BC: Looks like they took a chunk of a ghetto and placed it in the East Kootenays. At least it is in a nice area.[/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Lethbridge AB - The town isn't even bad, it is the wind that drives people to jump off the bridge there.[/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Great Falls Montana - not much to say about that one.[/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Philadelphia - Yikes! Again, scary![/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"][/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Favs: [/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Boulder, Colorado - Cool college town right by the Rockies[/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Riondel, BC - Actually, it sucks, don't go there and tell people to stay away!![/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Portland, Oregon[/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Santa Cruz. California (there is cool, then there is Santa Cruz cool)[/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Nelson, BC[/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Salmon Arm, BC[/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Kimberley, BC[/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Chelan, WA[/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Calgary -  Met too many sweethearts in that town to hate it. [/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Boston. As far as cities go, I loved Boston!! [/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]NY - Loved every second I was there. Didn't hurt my feelings to leave either.[/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Maple Ridge, BC (if you wouldn't have to commute into downtown).[/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Denver. I had a great time in Denver one time a couple years back. Too big for me to live in though.[/span][/span][/font]
[font face="Arial" size="2"][span class="571565815-31032008"][span class="571565815-31032008"]Vancouver: I love Vancouver, but I am just done with living in cities in general. Still, Vancouver is sweet!

Van,

We have very simmilar tastes in cities.  Have you ever bben to Atlin BC?  very funky place - i knew 1/2 the town in 3 days .  only place i;ve ever been where someone walked into a crowded bar and yelled a round for the house!!

My favorite city is Dunhuang - in western china near the stans just north of tibet.  fab food - great smells - the only place i've ever seen a human skull for sale as a bowl -  amaaaaaazing art Magao caves with 10,000 bhuddhas - hindu - muslims - buddists all living in peace.
[/span][/span][/font][/div]
 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Michel on Apr 01 08 10:28
     
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Gopher on Apr 01 08 10:53
Lil Me wrote:
P.C. wrote:
[SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"] It's just the dullest landscape ever, (to me).  As if someone intentionally designed it to have absolutely no interest. [/SPAN]
--
My friend from SK said, "It's like they levelled and forgot to build..."
...............

 

 I find something majestic about the prairies , as if one's standing alone between heaven and earth  with nothing to intervene between Maker and Man.


 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: P.C. on Apr 01 08 11:30
 I find something majestic about the prairies , as if one's standing alone between heaven and earth  with nothing to intervene between Maker and Man.


 Oh sure.....you can dress it up with pretty speech, but it'll still be a barren wasteland to me. (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/12.gif)

Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Gopher on Apr 01 08 11:32
Hmph! You ever been dressed up in pretty speech, PC?
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: P.C. on Apr 01 08 11:36
Why yes I have Gophie.....and although I clean up pretty good, I yam what I yam. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/frech/a030.gif" border=0]

  .....and let me add.  It's still darned cold if that's all your wearing.
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Michel on Apr 01 08 11:36
     
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Sportsdude on Apr 01 08 11:37
(http://www.agriventurecanada.com/sask_pics/hay3.jpg)

I know a lot of people that would think this^ was heaven.
 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: P.C. on Apr 01 08 11:42
Michel wrote:  Some parts have been preserved wild and are amazingly beautiful. Bisons and pronghorns roamed Custer State Park...

  They're not roaming.  They're searching for a tree.  Oh sure....they look all casual, but that's actually boredom.
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Gopher on Apr 01 08 11:43
P.C. wrote:
 Why yes I have Gophie.....and although I clean up pretty good, I yam what I yam. [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/frech/a030.gif" border=0]

  .....and let me add.  It's still darned cold if that's all your wearing.[/DIV]
 .......

  [FONT color=#6000bf]even if I compared thee to a summer's day?[/FONT]  
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Michel on Apr 01 08 11:50
     
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: P.C. on Apr 01 08 11:51
Why Gophie, you sweet talker you !  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/more/bigs/c018.gif" border=0]

        [FONT size=1]*I still don't like the prairies.[/FONT]    
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Michel on Apr 01 08 11:52
   
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: P.C. on Apr 01 08 11:53
LOL I could show you pics that would make you wet your panties young lady.


  All this talk of Cities and Towns is getting rather steamy.  [img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="http://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/liebe/g038.gif" border=0]  
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Michel on Apr 01 08 11:55
   
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: P.C. on Apr 01 08 12:01
Bison are virile, very virile... remember that classic movie [SPAN style="FONT-STYLE: italic"]Michel do Montana[/SPAN] lol

  You'll get no argument from me that the bison are beautiful. They just have lousy taste in where they choose to hang out. There's no accounting for some peoples' taste.

  Now this guy is trying to get a loan, so he can move to where it is beautiful.

    (http://www.dependablerenegade.com/photos/dr_pix/bison2.jpg)  
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Michel on Apr 01 08 12:03
   
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: P.C. on Apr 01 08 12:05
[FONT color=#8b8b8b]I'm pretending it's a bank.[/FONT]
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Sportsdude on Apr 01 08 12:12
uni of texas and uni of colorado have live animals as mascots. A longhorn and a buffalo respectively. At a football game a few years back the longhorn left a present on the football field. lol  
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Van on Apr 01 08 01:48
I seen some beauty on the praries too. But I think you would have to be raised there to truely appreciate it.
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Van on Apr 01 08 01:49
Michel wrote:
Now that's a pet friendly hotel ! He's surely not in BC where you can hardly even buy a condo if you have a cat lol !
 
  HA! It is hard to have a condo in the Lower Mainland even if you don't have a cat! lol!
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: purelife on Apr 01 08 03:44
I have absolutely nothing to add to this thread because I've only really lived in Vancouver.  Does it help if I say that I don't like Whalley?
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: P.C. on Apr 01 08 06:30
lol...it's VERY helpful purelife.  You may have upset the Beav though.
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Van on Apr 01 08 07:44
There is a burb of Vancouver or two I am not crazy about. One in particular, rhymes with Slurry. Although, it isn't much worse than a few others.

  Tacoma, Washington too. I love the beautiful reactors on the countryside. I would take the middle of the prairies over it.
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: P.C. on Apr 01 08 07:54
If I absolutely had to move back to the mainland, there are a couple areas I wouldn't mind.  (of the ones that are almost affordable)....Walnut Grove or some areas in Langley are quite nice.
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Van on Apr 01 08 08:09
van_guy wrote:
 [FONT face=Arial size=2][SPAN class=571565815-31032008][SPAN class=571565815-31032008]Van,

We have very simmilar tastes in cities.  Have you ever bben to Atlin BC?  very funky place - i knew 1/2 the town in 3 days .  only place i;ve ever been where someone walked into a crowded bar and yelled a round for the house!!
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Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Sportsdude on Apr 01 08 10:32
i liked old town tacoma.  
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: van_guy on Apr 03 08 08:49
Yeah by looking at some of your other fave;s i'd have to say you'd like atlin - but go in the summertime - there are some strange mating rituals in the fall (beofre the winter season) then in the spring it gets kinda whacky - but sumertime is awesome.  something like 18 hours of sunshine per day...

sorry for not getting back to you - internet in vietnam sucks - i often can't load DS.
 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Van on Apr 03 08 08:52
van_guy wrote:
Yeah by looking at some of your other fave;s i'd have to say you'd like atlin - but go in the summertime - there are some strange mating rituals in the fall (beofre the winter season) then in the spring it gets kinda whacky - but sumertime is awesome.  something like 18 hours of sunshine per day...

sorry for not getting back to you - internet in vietnam sucks - i often can't load DS.
 
 I bet I would like it. I have never been into Northern BC or the Yukon. Sounds like a good summer adventure. Alaska too!

No worries about getting back to anyone. Between being busy and bad internet connections, it isn't always easy for anyone.
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Michel on Apr 03 08 09:10
     
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: van_guy on Apr 03 08 09:20
 Michel wrote:
 there are some strange mating rituals in the fall (beofre the winter season) then in the spring it gets kinda whacky - but sumertime is awesome.  something like 18 hours of sunshine per day...

Mating ? Can you extrapolate ?

Those long hours are great for taking pictures of nocturnal animals in the wild that are nearly imposible to see or photographed lower in the south since they only come out at night.

i was actually referring to the human mating rituals.  if the days are 18 hours in the summer that means 18 hour nights in the dead of winter - long boring nights with little to do - i think you are catching my drift here - so in the fall any and all single (and some married?!?!) humans will do nearly anything to entice a mate into the cabin before the snows come - and much like a mating moose you don;t want to get between the bull and the cow - even accidentally - it's best just to stay clear.  


   
 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Michel on Apr 03 08 09:24
   
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: van_guy on Apr 03 08 09:26
  Van wrote:
[em]van_guy wrote:
Yeah by looking at some of your other fave;s i'd have to say you'd like atlin - but go in the summertime - there are some strange mating rituals in the fall (beofre the winter season) then in the spring it gets kinda whacky - but sumertime is awesome.  something like 18 hours of sunshine per day...

sorry for not getting back to you - internet in vietnam sucks - i often can't load DS.
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 I bet I would like it. I have never been into Northern BC or the Yukon. Sounds like a good summer adventure. Alaska too!
No worries about getting back to anyone. Between being busy and bad internet connections, it isn't always easy for anyone.
thanks - sometimes i'll try for a week to fire ds up- but alas nuthin'
yeah you owe it to yourself ... people are great - scenery is beeeeutiful - cool animals - some bars in whitehorse are open 23 1/2 hours per day- law says you have to mop the floors - so really drunk people and wet floors - not a good idae - so they close up - mop up and swing the doors open again.


 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: van_guy on Apr 03 08 09:33
 Michel wrote:
lol, ok and me who was naively thinking about my mountain goats that I never saw there lol

That's it, I'm out of here, time to put the camera down and go read a book about the birds and the bees ah ah !

yeah there are strange mating rituals all over the world for many species - perhaps none stranger than the human species "hiya baby ... buy ya a drink?"

Damn mountain goats - I'd be hiking around and i'd see them waaaaaaaaaaaay up there on the cliff above - and i swear they'd line you up and "boot" kick a couple pebbles  - they would watch the rocks careening down the cliff - if they missed ... the goat would realighn and "boot" kick a few more pebbles - watch the trajectory ... and so on ...

Plus you try to photgraph them - well as soon as you get close enough that they show up as anything more than white specks - they run off to the next peak.
 
 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Michel on Apr 03 08 09:37
     
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Michel on Apr 03 08 09:39
   
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: JJ on Apr 03 08 12:44
If I could live anywhere and not have to worry about employment I would move to Salmon Arm and if you had to send me to hell on earth that would be Trail / Castlegar.
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Lil Me on Apr 03 08 02:03
hahahaha.  My hell on earth is anywhere with a bad smell!  
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Michel on Apr 03 08 02:34
   
 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: JJ on Apr 03 08 03:12
Lil Me wrote:
hahahaha.  My hell on earth is anywhere with a bad smell!  


 

 That would include Castlegar then as it has a pulp mill!

 


 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: purelife on Apr 03 08 03:53
My land is your land.... is anyone else humming this song?

      I guess it's only me.        
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Michel on Apr 03 08 04:01
   
 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: purelife on Apr 03 08 04:03
ah...close enough.  Maybe I've got the wrong lyrics and I just made it all up.. :)
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Michel on Apr 03 08 04:05
   
 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: purelife on Apr 03 08 04:14
Are you talking about that "my bonnie lies over the ocean, my bonnie lies over the sea.." song?  
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Michel on Apr 03 08 04:19
   
 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Lil Me on Apr 03 08 04:26
 Michel wrote:
lol Venezia seen as hell. (http://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/2.gif)
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 Indeed!  I've never been to Venice, but I've been to The Venetian in Las Vegas....lol...no bad smells there.  There's chlorine in the canal water.
 
 Seriously, I think I would choose a boring place (Flin Flon, MB?) instead of somewhere with a bad smell!
 
 
 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Michel on Apr 03 08 04:51
     
 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Sportsdude on Apr 03 08 05:01
Rawlins Wyoming is pretty cool
Salina, KS is the biggest dump on the planet. yet somehow 45,000 people actually live there.
 
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: P.C. on Apr 03 08 06:45
 Michel: Well he flew not lies as far I remember... lol

  Meeeeeeep!!!!  It is in fact 'lies'.  That's 10 points for the lovely purelife, and Michel....you have dropped into last place.

       
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: 49er on Apr 03 08 07:10
The water in the canals in Venice do smell and its impossible to avoid stepping on pigeon shit anywhere.  
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Post by: Michel on Apr 03 08 08:10
     
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Post by: P.C. on Apr 03 08 08:25
I had always thought that it meant he had died 'there'.....away from home, away from his lover. ????
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Lil Me on Apr 03 08 09:13
I always had visions of a burial at sea.  Like Bonnie died on a boat and was literally put to rest "over the ocean".  
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Post by: P.C. on Apr 03 08 09:22
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Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Michel on Apr 03 08 11:01
   
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Post by: van_guy on Apr 04 08 06:17
Michel wrote:
lol indeed, I have maybe 40 shots of mountain goats famillies climbing up hills taken mainly in Denali.He he I can add any amount of mountain goats you want on these pics with photoshop, and nobody could ever be able to see a difference. White spots are white spots after all.  
   Michel,

Don't feel bad - I've spent months in the mountains of N. BC / Alaska and never got a shot of more than white specks.  I've accidentally snuck up on one or two - but by the time i get my pack off / camera out --- white specks.

  At $1,000 / hour plus fuel - helicopters make a nice but rather expensive way to get good goat shots.  The goats and sheep in Jasper are far less skiddish than in alaska - I'd save my chopper budget and go for a nice holiday to Jasper.  
Title: Re: Favorite and Least Favorite Cities and Towns
Post by: Van on Apr 04 08 06:42
JJ wrote:
If I could live anywhere and not have to worry about employment I would move to Salmon Arm and if you had to send me to hell on earth that would be Trail / Castlegar.[/DIV]
 Too true. Castelgar for the same reason I dislike Prince George. Rotting Pulp smell.

As for Trail, omg! nothing like a beautiful lead smelter in the middle of the town. You can't tell the industrial area from the business area.

  Both close to cool places though. Christina Lake is gorgeous. Warmest tree lined lake in Canada.

Also, Trail is close to Rossland. I LOVE RED MOUNTAIN!