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What are some up-sides and down-sides to living in your area?

What are some up-sides and down-sides to living in your area?

8 years ago by kiltman with 5 comments

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  • spaceghoti
    +11

    Upside: fabulous mountain views
    Downside: limited fresh seafood

    Upside: fresh mountain air
    Downside: it snows in winter

    Upside: excellent services and cultural opportunities
    Downside: high cost of living

  • Gozzin
    +7

    Upside:

    Beauty..Rivers,parks,quaint downtown, fifty miles from the ocean. Great food,local events,farmers markets and the blueberry farm. Small town,nice neighbors. Low crime.

    Dowside:

    When the weather is bad,it makes the national news as in hurricanes. Conservative religious types want to drag everyone back to the bronze age. The thieving raccoons. Our state bird is the mosquito. That pretty much sums it up.

  • IridescentOak (edited 8 years ago)
    +7

    Upsides:

    - Cheap property
    - Low taxes
    - Everybody knows everybody~
    - Doesn't get super cold, but still gets cold enough to snow for a day or two every other year
    - Halfway between state capitol and county seat, yet still a small town
    - Second cheapest gas in the state
    - Has a library
    - 27 churches in this zip code
    - Actually has stuff in town, but not too much stuff
    - Like, 2 hours from the undisputed best beach on the East Coast, and 2 hours from the mountains
    - Drugs not hard to get, if you're into that
    - Lots of old timers who love to tell you about their childhood
    - Ground is absolutely fantastic for growing tomatoes
    - We have this awesome annual festival called the Catfish Stomp in December.
    - Two parks in town, about 1 acre each in size and very unknown

    Downsides:

    - Hicks everywhere
    - All of Ohio seems to want to move here.
    - That one curve on the highway that everyone dies on
    - People keep moving in from the capitol, seriously, leave us alone, strangers!
    - Low taxes = roads and schools falling apart
    - You will melt in the Summer, if you don't catch on fire first.
    - Pine trees, sand, red clay, and interstate for miles and miles, until you either hit farms or foothills
    - All 27 churches are protestant, nearest mosque/synagogue/temple is in capitol ~30 minutes away
    - Spring and Autumn? What are these mystical times you speak of when the seasonal weather is reasonable? All we have is WINTER and SUMMER.
    - Bipolar daily weather refuses to take its meds
    - Everyone dips, then spits it out on the ground.
    - Flooded really badly in October, some areas still not recovered
    - There's this major fault-line that's been too quiet for too long.
    - Good luck finding work actually in the county, unless you're a teacher.

  • Bastou
    +7

    I've already written a few paragraphs about that here six months ago. I figured I'd give a shout out to the /t/SnapzuDiscuss tribe at the same time.