Sunday, 5 May 2024
Life, the universe, pies, hot-pink bunnies, world domination, and everything
It all started with Tesseract’s civics class and a pair of Alaskan fish socks…and continued well past the limit of nested replies, so here’s a thread where you can talk about your state (or province or country): a chance to play mythbuster or mythmaker or just be silly about the state (or province or country) you call home.
Date: September 6, 2009
Categories: Life, Nonrandom Craziness, The Universe
So. Vermont. We’ve got cows and maple syrup and rednecks and lesbians and really I’m just furthering stereotypes, so I’ll stop now, but… One thing I did want to mention. Apparently there’s a brand of curry in Japan that’s extremely popular called Vermont curry. What’s special about it? It has apples, which is unusual (apparently).
So the Japanese thing we are a state full of apple trees and apple pickers and apples. Fun.
-A
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SoCal! The amazing place where the weather is strange but overall oppresively hot!
*musical song and dance*
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w00t! Alaskan fish socks! 
’tis all your fault, Lady Bunniful. 
So, Alaska……
24 hr darkness: Unless you’re in the very far north of the state (like above the Arctic Circle), you do not experience 24 hours of darkness. Sure, we have more hours of darkness than other states, but the vast majority of the state does not have anywhere near perpetual darkness in the winter
Midnight sun: Technically, again, except for the very very north, we don’t experience 24hrs of sunlight in the middle of summer. However, even in the more southern parts, while the sun is technically below the horizon, it’s still light enough to read outside at midnight, so for all intents and purposes, we’ve got 24 hr sunlight.
Common question concerning the above: How do you sleep? Easy.
Black-out curtains, they do a LOT, it’s almost as dark in your room as if it were dark outside…..
Penguins: Go see the South Pole (Antarctica)
Polar Bears: Sure, in the north of the state, I’ve only ever seen one in the zoo. The only bear I’ve ever seen not in the zoo was a brown/grizzly bear.
Igloos: We most definitely do NOT live in igloos, I’ve not even managed to successfully make myself one. Dad, my sis, and I were doing a pretty decent job of one one winter out on the lake many years back, but some ******* teen who lived around the lake came and kicked it in…..So, that project failed. 
TV/internet/etc: Yup, we’ve got all of it. I’ve been around computers/internet longer’n many of the kids I’ve met here at school.
Sarah Palin: You may hate her, but she had one of THE highest popularity ratings–which is probably more than you can say for your governor (or ex-governor, as she’s no longer governor, but whatever)
Moose: lots of ’em. Like deer in some of the ‘states. We’ve seen ’em in our yard lots of times, and I’ve seen ’em a couple times right smack in the middle of downtown Anchorage, as well (population: 300,000)
Population: Alaska: 600,000; Anchorage, the largest city: 300,000, other than that, I only know of the town where I live, which I don’t want to say, I’d rather not reveal where I live…….But Anchorage is the largest city, with half the population of the state, then comes Fairbanks up in central AK, and Juneau (the capital) is the 3rd largest
Uh……I”m running out of ideas, here, so I’ll stop babbling…….
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oh man…. I hope people don’t actually ask you about penguins. That’s sad.
Is it true you get paid to live in Alaska? I head that and it’s probably not true, but I thought I’d ask…
I’ve always wanted to visit Alaska! Someday I’m just going to take a trip where I keep going north until I get there, since I want to visit Oregon and Washington too.
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I think a couple people have mentioned penguins, or else I’ve just heard stories from other kids I know back home who claim to have been asked.
As for getting paid to live in Alaska, that’s actually true, in a sense. After you have lived in Alaska for an entire year, you become eligible for the PFD (permanent fund dividend). The amount you get per year varies, usually a few hundred dollars or so, although last year it was around $3000 (1000 of which was a so-called energy rebate). I think the original idea behind the PFD was that the cost of living in Alaska was higher, so they gave residents money to make it more affordable.
If I remember right, the amount a person got used to vary based upon whether the individual was born in the state, and the number of years which they’d been living there, but people thought that was unfair (probably people who’d just moved there and weren’t born there, and who, as a result, were getting less money) so now everybody who is eligible gets the same amount of money.
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that’s really interesting! And that makes sense too…I was under the impression you just get some kind of lump sum for moving there. This is probably the fault of the simpsons movie… 
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The capital of California is Sacramento
But everyone knows that LA and/or San Fransisco are the real capitals
I’ve never husked corn! I’m generally envious of other MBers and their rich, nature filled life.
Do people one the east coast really not have fences?? This has always intrigued me.
1- I want to visit Vermont. Apple curry sounds delicious!
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No, we don’t have fences unless we have a outdoorsy dog or such. For example, I don’t have a fence!
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Fences, as in, fences around your house? Some people do. But most don’t.
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I live in a Florida suburb, and only about half of the houses in my neighborhood have fences in the backyard.
We’re planning to move out to Las Vegas next year, though, and I think lots of people have fences there…
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Most don’t. I hardly ever see a fence where I live.
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I’m not on the East Coast, but…..unless you live in a subdivision, most people back home do not have fences. I”d say most people living in Anchorage (or the very subdivisiony parts, anyway) have ’em, and anywhere else with true cookie cutter like subdivisions, but the majority probably no.
If people have dogs, they usually tend to have one of those underground electric “invisible fences”, as opposed to an actual fence. Y’know, the dog wears a color with a little electronic box with prongs, and if they cross over the underground wire it beeps, and if they ignore it, it gives them a minor electric shock. They learn quick enough….
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I’ve husked corn before, but only the type that comes from the supermarket. I doubt that counts as living a “rich, nature filled life”! 
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Florida. Stinks. For. Me.
New York ROCKS! I’m a New Yorker by blood, so I think my home state is more NY than Florida.
No, really, when I needed to do a collage for my world history about where I live, I did NYC. Not the place in Florida that I live in.
Sooo, I’m going to talk about New York and New York City. Well, more NYC, but still~
1. EPIC. ACTING. CAMPS.
2. Broadway~
3. The fact they have a basement in a shopping center that’s actually a Whole Foods.
And my brain’s not fully functional right now (for some reason, I watched Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde last night and it inspired me on one of my scripts) because I woke up 14 minutes ago, so…
New York =
Florida = 
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So, do you want to cover NYC here or can I contribute as well?
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0- Cool!
1- Is the skiing good? *has heard horror stories about icy slopes*
Austria. Vienna. Two random things:
1) I can’t yodel.
2) Schnitzel with noodles is disgusting. Schnitzel is eaten with small potatoes or- for the picky tourists- with french fries.
Sillyness;
Viennese should be declared a language.
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Austria: No Kangaroos.
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Haha I love that one!
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♩Oh, an AUSTRIAN went YODELING on a MOUNtain top high,
When aLONG came a KOOKOO bird interRUPting his cry.
Yo,De,Lah, Yodelah Kicky, Yodela Kickoo♪
I would totally learn Viennese.
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Oh, an Austrian went yodeling, on a mountain so high, when along came an avalanche, interupting his cry, yodelaih, yodelai-i-i-oh, *avalanche noises* yodelea!
Oh, an austrian went yodeling, on a mountain so high, when along came a pretty girl, interupting his cry *yodels* *makes kissy noises* *yodels some more*
Oh, an austrian went yodeling, on a mountain so high, when along came an elephant, interrupting his cry, *yodels* *makes elephant noises* *yodels some more*
That song can go on forever. I learned it at German camp this summer. (yes, a song about an austrian. yes, it was German camp)
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SFTDP, but I wanted to mention that at the “*makes kissy noises* part, the boys did the kissy noises and us girls were all laughing at the boys and saying “yuck!”.
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Go to http:// w w w. y o u t u b e . c o m / w a t c h ? v = K Y 0 0 R N 9 n p K Q for some really awful viennese. I should warn you, the language is a bit strong at times and they’re making fun of everyone but Boromir. I just love Boromir calling Aragon “aner, der in der Botanik z’haus is” XD.
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The skiing is fantastic. I’d say it’s good for casual skiers all the way up to the fanatic level – but when you get to that level, you go helicopter off to… Colorado, say, or the Alps, or somewhere.
-A
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There’s more than corn in Indiana-We have soybeans.
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What to say about Ohio? It’s flat, at least it it where I live, it’s still vaguely rural in some areas, it’s illegal to get a fish drunk on a Sunday, and the capital is Columbus.
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I’ve been to Ohio several times; there was a wicked good Suzuki camp up there. That was when we lived in SC, but when we moved to TN the drive just was too much.
Anyway. What to say about Tennessee? Well in Nashville you get a lot of people who are extremely prejeduced about things (ie this girl telling my friends that I mispronounce ballet because “her mom’s Japanese, you know”. Incidentially, the way I pronounce ballet is the way it’s pronounced on Merriam Webster…*shakes head*) Oh, and it’s legal to collect and consume roadkill. Here’s a funny conversation I had with my friends younger sister:
H: How come you’re not a bad guy yet?
Me: huh?
H: because you’re a Nash-villian.
Me: laughs hysterically
real conversation! LOL
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Pittsburgh people are indeed obsessed with football. The celebrations after last year’s superbowl were insane–there was a whole party-plan developed by Carnegie Mellon students involving multiple police distractions so the final event could be staged: lighting a couch on fire in the middle of one of the busiest streets in the city. Also, all schools had a 2-hour delay the next day. So, no mythbusting on the topic of football. It’s all true.
Also, Pennsylvania is not completely populated by Amish people. Yes, there are a lot of areas in the state which are predominantly Amish, but personally, I’ve only seen them at the hospital and the zoo.
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MA: The weather is completely random. Fortunately, there are so many weather stations, one’s usually right.
One time it snowed on April Fool’s day!
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Ooh, I remember that! It was so funny. I was in school, and some kid randomly screamed, “It’s snowing!!!!” Madness…
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It snows in the middle of April in Pittsburgh, too. Very strange.
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And in Vermont.
-A
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And in Alaska, although not always. April could go either way: Little bit of snow coming down, or all the snow melting and turning everything into a soggy mess.
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And never in North Carolina. Ever.
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Snow in CT stops (mostly) before March. After that it’s cold and soggy.
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And in Minnesota.
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Technically, I live in New Jersey but I do pretty much everything else in Delaware. A bunch of my friends are in the same situation, we live right on the border of New Jersey-Delaware but do everything (Including school and shopping!) in Delaware. I don’t know why we go to school in Delaware, but it is a wonderful no sales tax state which explains the shopping bit. Anyway, here are some random facts about DE that you guys probably will think are painfully boring but I’ll throw it out there and see…
Delaware’s capital is Dover, but the “real” one is Wilmington because that’s basically where everything is. Most (Or at least some.) Musers probably already know that, but oh well.
Yeah, we’re puny, but it doesn’t feel like we are. I mean, it’s not like I know everybody in the state or anything like that. I do run into old friends here and there but rarely.
Since I live in New Jersey, I can’t go to Delaware public schools, but I do know that they suck. I know this is kind of mean, (Alright, REALLY mean!) but a lot of the kids at the DE public schools are messed up. So are the teachers. At least, that’s what I’ve heard, and that’s what I’ve experienced…my apologies to anyone on here who goes to a DE public school, because I’m sure that not all of you guys are crazy. Really. But I’ve heard that a large portion of them are. Anyway, one of the counties in DE has the highest amount of private schools kids in the country, which just proves the theory even more…
Myths us Delawareans have about other states:
Well, to us the West coast is heaven. Honestly. You can become ten times more popular in my school just by going to California. For some reason this group of girls in my class decided that guys from the West Coast are all “hotter” than guys on the East Coast. Why they think that I have no clue…. I guess mostly from the media, although I’m sure it’s not true. I don’t care about “hotness” or anything like that anyway but decided to post this because I thought it would get a few good laughs, especially to anyone on the West Coast.
As for anyplace on the South, we just kind think of them as a a hot place with an accent. Y’all probably will correct me on that now, won’t ya? Florida is cool, (Disney! Old people! Yay!) but anywhere else…not so much.
The Midwest? There’s not much to say, other than we picture it as a boring place with wheat fields. Lots and lots and lots of wheat fields. That, and tornadoes.
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Ok.. now is the time to reveal my lack of knowledge…..which of those categories would TN fall into? *feels stupid* *punishes self for saying “stupid”* *punishes self for saying it again* aah whatever.
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Well…we don’t have too many myths about TN, but I guess it could fall into the South category.
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Y’all need to know that we ahll hahve reahly awd accents, and say mom’n’em alot. As in, hows your mom’n’em?
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Hehe. one of the kids at a camp had an accent just like that.
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We-uhl, whe-are he frawm?
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Tennessee!
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*headdesk*
Well, that was a no-brainer. TN is awesome! Unfortunately I’m starting to pick up the accent from the rest of my dad’s family….
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Ah, the Midwest, my general area, where the land is flat and the lakes are big. I’ve really only seen corn and soybean fields, though. (However, being a Chicagoan…) I do indeed live in Chicago, which all of my friends from other places seem thoroughly convinced is limited to the downtown area, which is not true. There are plenty of quiet little neighborhoods, and I’ve never met anybody with a “Chicago” accent. Tornadoes, at least in my area, are uncommon. I don’t think there’s anything really exciting about Chicago, but considering I’ve lived here forever, it’s all very commonplace to all locals. The museums are really cool, though. The Museum of Science and Industry had the most AWESOME Harry Potter exhibit, where there were real props and costumes and sets from the movies. I was two feet away from Harry’s bed! And various costumes! Dolores Umbridge’s office set! And so much more! The Field Museum is okay, Shedd Aquarium is cool, and the zoo is nice. Northern Illinois is not boring, but outrageously expensive for all ye tourists’ information. And nobody likes the tourists either, they clog up the museums and streets and everything! (a taxi driver once said to us :”these darn tourists slow everything down!” but it sounded like he said “terrorists”)
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*sniffle* I wanted to go to that……But it wasn’t really feasible. *hopes it will go somewhere more convenient, which is not Boston, which I think is where it’s going next* *sigh*
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I’m sure it’ll do quite a bit of moving around, don’t worry. *chocklit anyway, because you’re so upset*
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Ooooooh, choklit? nomnomnomnomnom–scrumptious, thank you.
It’s going to several locations throughout the world, and so far I think they’ve only released that the next location will be Boston, and that Chicago was the only Midwest location.
Unless my some streak of luck it goes to either Florida or the Oregon/Washington area, it is unlikely that it will go anywhere particularly convenient for me, as I can almost guarantee it’s not going to go to Alaska.
Ah, well, I told my mom she’s gotta take me, even if it means taking me to Europe again……..
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I want to go to the Field museum……!
Sorry. I always want to go to the Field Museum.
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I want to go, too, so I can see Sue!
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The Field Museum is AWESOME! I got a behind the scenes tour once.
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Wheatfields? We don’t have wheatfields. We have cornfields. We do have tornados. That’s all true but people seem to forget about the cities in the middle. There are cities like Chicago and Minneapolis and Cleveland in between all that corn.
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Okay, New York City and the region:
Disaster magnet: No, we do NOT get invaded every other day by aliens, supervillains, or monsters wanting to climb the Empire State Building. We also do NOT get hit by a disproportionate number of hurricanes, tornadoes, floods, or meteors.
New Yorkers: A lot of people think New Yorkers are especially mean or unfriendly, but that’s not true. Unless you deliberately get in somebody’s way when they’re going to work or act very obnoxious, people will usually tolerate you and help if you’re lost.
Money: Yes, there are some very rich people here, just like any city. But there are also plenty of ordinary people like my parents who work as art gallery directors or social workers.
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You don’t get invaded by aliens every day? Well, I can cross that off my list for places to move when I grow up.
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NC! The most awesome state out there! It has the perfect weather! Not too hot, not too cold, with a most beautiful fall and spring you’ve ever seen! It’s a little humid, I will admit, but that’s just fine and dandy! Plus, we’ve got variety of landscapes! We have mountains, piedmont, and coastal zone all rolled into one state! Isn’t that great?
We may be plagued by Bev Perdue, but don’t get in a fuss! We all despise her just as much as y’all do! Unlike Palin, who was mentioned before by Lune the Lovely, Perdue has some of the worst approval ratings!
NC stereotypes: Apparently, Northerners just think that we’re a bunch of red necks. That’s not necessarily true. But the stereotypes of good eat’n are absolutely correct. Accents… I like my southern accent.
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Southern accents are cool!!
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Are you serious? It gets much too hot here (NC) in the summer. I like weather in the high 60s, and by April it’s up in the mid-80s. And it almost never snows. It snowed twice this year, and that was the first time it had snowed more than half an inch for years. We got about six-ish inches on Inauguration Day, and probably about five or six at the end of February.
I do like being so near the mountains and the beach, though. It’s just a few hour drive in either direction. (Which region are you in, Kiwi? I’m in the Piedmont.)
I’m not from around here, so I don’t have a southern accent. There are a lot of nothern transplants in my city/town/whatever it is.
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And by the way, we should Kokon.
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Awesome! I’m in the piedmont too! Maybe we could Kokon!
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So is Koppar. So am I, for that matter.
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Hey, excellent! I’ll take this over to the Kokonvention thread, okay?
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You people and your lack of fences! This is highly irregular! Actually I think it wold be really nice, you know, having SPACE between you and your neighbor. A lot of new homes around here have about two feet between each other and ugh.
6- I’ve been to Austria! Except we didn’t go to Vienna, we went to Innsbruck and Salzburg. I guess that make me a terrible tourist though…
9–My dad was trying to explain how big sports are on the east coast. That’s crazy!
For some reason this group of girls in my class decided that guys from the West Coast are all “hotter†than guys on the East Coast
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Yeah, the East Coast is pretty big on sports, although I’m so used to it now that it doesn’t SEEM like we’re more into sports than anywhere else in the country. I guess now that I think about it we are though…there are tons of sports/Super Bowl parties around here. Do you guys have things like that on the West Coast or anywhere else in the U.S.?
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Well my dad’s family is from the east coast so they are big sports fans and there’s always a super bowl party to go to. I don’t know about anyone else! A lot of people seem to be into baseball or college sports, like stuff with UCLA and USC. I’m not much of a fan myself though….but yeah no one goes out and runs around in the streets, for the most part.
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I get the impression that the South and the Midwest are the big sports-crazy areas of the country — and Texas perhaps most of all. I could well be wrong, though.
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Probably depends on the specific region more than anything else when it comes to sports craze. We have certain neighborhoods and areas around here that are more obsessed than others, just like I imagine it is in other places around the country too.
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Warm winter PA. Woo. Hoo. We hardly get any snow during Christmas anymore. We have a green Christmas. I don’t particularly like sports so Phillies.**** Pennsylvania.
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Really? That’s so strange! Our winters are frigid.
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It’s usually below zero in the winter here.
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Yeah, I live near Pittsburgh. Do you know where that is? There’s Hannah Montana, JB, and video games, yes, there sure are video games. On the bright side, there are rather excellent resturants.
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The first white Christmas I have ever had occured two years ago. Plus, my cousins from California got to see snow fall for the first time!
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If you want snow, visit Northeastern Oregon in Janurary. But sometimes there’s no snow, but sometimes the weather’s just weird.
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If you want snow, visit Valdez. I’ve heard they get snow up to the top of the houses. *is envious*
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I can’t remember the last time we had a white Christmas. Our Christmas’s are always green! (By the way, I live in New Jersey, so we’re probably pretty close if you live in PA.)
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Ok, so what myths/stereotypes do people have of New Hampshire? Throw them at me and I’ll tell you what it’s really like (in the southern part of the state, at least).
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My picture of New Hampshire is that its a quiet state with not much going on.
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I can’t think of anything bad about Northeastern Oregon other than the random weather in the spring, and the seemingly endless winters. By Feburary I’m sick of snow. Fortuneatly, it normally ends by March, and then the rain starts.
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Oh, you want to go to OREGON!
We just turned 150!
Our state fair is TOO BIG TO MISS!
We put on corny MUSICALS
People who go to them think we’re WEIRD!
It usually snows in the WINTER
Unless you live out EAST!
(Then it’s really DRY)
The only two famous THINGS
Are the Oregon TRAIL
And Crater LAKE!
We love to chop down WOOD
(Though not me PERSONALLY)
For people’s HOUSES!
And then we plant more TREES
So our lovely state can be more BEAUTIFUL
Than it already IS!
That’s all I have to say about Oregon, summed up in a not-so-well-written poem.
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Oregon Trail! I loved that game!
I have a friend who used to live in Corvallis.
(It’s a beautiful poem, by the way. ;))
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I never liked that game…..I always felt to, I dunno, premonitiony when someone died. Like, you or someone you knew’s namesake dying in the game had real-life ramifications. it scared me.
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Once I named everyone after MuseBloggers, and they all died, except for Armada, who dissapeared.
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That’s funny! I wish I could find my copy and try to play again. I think the farthest I’ve gotten is about halfway through; I remeber screaming and yelling for my mom to come and look when I got a notice saying to put the third disc in to continue.
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I can’t play it any more… the software isn’t compatible.
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Get the latest edition.
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Disc? Disc? Wow, ours was on a floppy……Oh, wait, floppy disc/k…..*headdesk* A floppy is a disk too……I need food.
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Wow!!! Did you have the FIRST VERSION? I have the third.
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I have the second and fourth.
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I have no idea…..All I remember is we had it on floppy, and that at some point during my public school career (K-2) we had it, because my sister was addicted and was playing it in the computer lab at school.
I think the absolute latest we could have gotten it was ’96 (when I was six, starting 1st grade), but more than likely we had at least as early as ’95. I don’t remember when we got our computer, but we had it already at that time. I think I may have been three when we got our computer (not the one we have now, but the first one we had), so absolute earliest we got the game was ’93.
come to think of it, I guess I wouldn’t be at all surprised if it was the first version.
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Mine the 5th edition, so there’s only one disc.
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Does anyone else live in the Bay Area? (San Francisco, Oakland, thereabouts.) If so, high five! If not, what are people’s assumptions and stereotypes about there? I sort of get the idea that people think we’re surfing moviestar hippies, which I don’t really want to discourage, as I’d love to be a surfing moviestar hippie.
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I don’t think you’re all surfing moviestar hippies. I think you’re either surfing moviestar hippies or super smart robotics and physics surfers.
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Australia in general:
Kangaroos
Bunnies
Bogans
High schools that go from Year 7-12 (there are exceptions, and some states have year 7-10 schools and 11-12 ‘colleges’)
Me
Adelaide, SA:
Heat
Massive flying cockroaches
Queensland (not my state, fortunatelty. NSW is fairly normal):
8-metre-long pythons
saltwater crocodiles
*has to go, the bell just went*
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Massive flying cockroaches…. Cool!
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Massive flying cockroaches…not cool!
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Massive flying cockroaches…. Delicious!
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Massive flying cockroaches…DELICIOUS?!?!?!
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If you’re a giant lizard or something……….
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soccer starr agrees with me….
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Massive flying cockroaches?!?!? 
*shudders* We had a roach infestation once, and I have never taken kindly to the creatures since.
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Sadly, I was about 4 when we left Adelaide, so I can’t remember them and my parents had to tell me all about them. Probably just as well…
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6.3- *comes from a long line of ski fanatics*
14- Nah. Vienna sucks in the summer, since no-one bothers with air-conditioning. When you’re knee deep in snow (ankle-deep in the inner city), you feel fairly stupid.
20- Cool.
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16- Let’s see, New Hampshire… the presidential primaries, farmland, mountains and Alan Shepard.
18.1.1- Same here.
19- Hmm, I think of the Golden Gate Bridge, Alcatraz, earthquakes, and beachy-type people.
20- And pranks. The Australians I met, at least.
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Okay, so:
Presidential primaries: Yes. We are rather proud of our first-nation-in-the-country-because-Iowa-has-a-caucus-not-a-primary status. Of course that also means that the presidential election season runs here for about three years, because anybody who even ever considers running for president will make a visit to the state before they officially announce their candidacy.
Farmland: In the northern part of the state, where there aren’t mountains, mainly. But my school (in the southern part of the state) has a fully functioning farm. With cows.
Mountains: Lots of nice mountains, good for casual hikers and also for more extreme types. We also have Mt Washington, which holds the all-time surface wind speed record (231 mph), and is known as the home of the “World’s Worst Weather”.
Alan Shepard: Yes. And some other recognizable names (people who were born or have lived in NH): Ken Burns, Robert Frost, Horace Greeley, Sarah Josepha Hale, John Irving, Dean Kamen, Christa McAuliffe, Franklin Pierce, J.D. Salinger, David Souter, Daniel Webster, Adam Sandler, Chris Carpenter, Bode Miller, Mandy Moore, Sarah Silverman, and Seth Meyers.
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Oh, and also, there are a few good farm stands around where I live, which means that I haven’t eaten supermarket vegetables in quite a few months.
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Lucky. Supermarket veggies are somewhat tasteless.
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Connecticut:
There are lots of woods and lots of farms and lots of hills. And a bunch of cities dotted out across the state. And there are a lot of first thingys; the first newspaper, the first art museum, the first lollipop, etc.
CT has a semi-strange motto (Qui transtulit sustinet (He who transplants still sustains))
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And, most people in Connecticut bake (not as in food, as in themselves) in the summer and freeze in the winter. We get wet fall days. (Which I really hate.) Spring is wet, too. And in summer we get humidity and the occasion thunderstorm. But besides when there’s bad weather, CT’s a good place to live. But it can be boring sometimes.
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New York…
when I tell people that I’m from New York, they assume I’m talking about the city, and start blabbing about how cool that is, until I stop them and say that I’m from Upstate.
Their response:
Oooohh.
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Nobody’s done Texas yet. Interesting.
Texas:
We do not all have accents. All right, we do say y’all, but really, it’s a useful word. Actually, I haven’t met anyone with a real accent around where I live. Okay, my dad says howdy sometimes. Still. We don’t have heavy accents.
And we don’t ride horses everywhere either, which I’ve heard some people think, though I’ve never encountered that before myself. I’ve ridden a horse, yes, but it was in Wyoming.
It is hot here.
It doesn’t snow here. Ever. Although we did get a picture of a snowflake on the forecast last winter, but it went away all to soon, and it never snowed.
We do not see coyotes, or other wildlife every day.
I’m not sure how popular sports are around here, as opposed to other places. We usually pass a fair number of Super Bowl parties around Super Bowl time, although I assumed that happened everywhere.
There you go, more information then you ever wanted on Texas. Specifically, my part of it. If anyone has any questions, I’ll be happy to answer them.
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Wait, wait, wait. That’s not quite right. I know my mom was in Texas a few years ago when she was having back surgery–Houston, I believe. I’m quite sure I recall her saying that it snowed one day. It was February, or something. Not saying it was a lot of snow, but apparently it was icy, cuz her mom and sis were freaked out she was going to fall, having just had back surgery a few days prior……And that would’ve been bad.
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WHAAAAAAAAA?????!!! Why does Texas get snow/ice when PA doesn’t???NO FAIR!!!
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I just don’t understand! I didn’t think there was any part of PA that didn’t get snow and ice. Maybe you live in a little secret magical desert oasis place.
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No, we get snow and ice, just not at Christmas time. Sorry! Incidentaly, I’m thinking about changing my MuseBlogging name. Any suggestions? Nice name, by the way, Purple Panda.
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BigBasementKitten
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Well, it doesn’t snow where I live. Actually, it snowed the year we first came, but it didn’t reach the ground. It does snow though, you’re right. Sorry.
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That’s alright–I was just confused…..
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5- New York City makes me really irritable. The subway is gross, the streets are packed….. but when one actually gets to the place one is going, it’s pretty nice. And the food is good. Also: pedestrians don’t seem to wait for the light before crossing the street.
Canada. It is always cold and snowing. I ride a polar bear to school and live in an igloo. Everybody plays hockey. LIES. Most of our population lives in very close proximity to the boarder. Ontario, one of our ten provinces (HAH! I only have to memorize 13 provinces/territories, while you have to memorize 50) is a lot of farmland and cottage country. It also has many big cities.
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How cool! I ride a polar bear to school and live in an igloo as well! XD
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I only have to memorize 8! 
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It is always cold and snowing. I ride a polar bear to school and live in an igloo
I KNEW IT
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Ha ha, when I was little I really thought that everybody in Canada really did live in an igloo and were Eskimos with big furry coats trekking about in sleds and with knee high snow everywhere. I never could picture Canada with actual buildings or roads or anything, those were always covered with snow in my mind. Since then I have visited Canada several times and actually did live in Canada for a year when I was five because my dad was transferred there for a while.
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25.1.1.1.1.1- Uh, no. Something completely different.
In Canada, the temperature never goes above 80, but the snow melts. Quebec is a really nice French-speaking city in Canada. Oh, and my cousins live in Montreal, another nice French-speaking city in Canada.
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I believe that 80 degrees Farenheight is about 25 degrees Celcius, and I’m pretty sure it gets hotter than that, Little Basement Kitten.
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Oh. *headdesk* Im horrid when it comes to Farenheight to Celcius and all that. But the snow does melt in the spring and summer.
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Nooooooo. The snow never melts up here. Didn’t I just tell you we lived in igloos? Where would we live if the igloos melted? Honestly! Weren’t you listening????? 
I’m joking of course. 0 degrees Celcius is the point that water freezes, so , of course, if the temperature goes above that the snow and ice melt.
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*gasp* Really?!?!?!?! But….but…..where do we all live when that happens? All us poor little igloo dwellers like you and me!??!?!
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You melt as well! Don’t you know? Every spring all the Alaskans and Canadians melt with their igloos, and in the winter, they’re frozen back to normal!
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No wonder I couldn’t recall an instance of the temperature going above freezing and our wonderous icy abodes melting.
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26- That is true, people don’t always wait to cross.
22.1- I knew Webster and McAuliffe, but not the others. Thanks!
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28.1.1 to 28.1.1.1.1.1- Ha, ha you guys. I have made a snow fort before. It’s really fun. And then me, my brother, and my dad wage snowball war!!! 
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I love Canada. Yes it does go above eighty sometimes! In the summer!
Speaking of Canada you can search “Canadian Please” on Youtube and it is funny stuff >:)
I live in somewhere called **** ( name changed, GAPAS ) [Not nearly enough. –Admin.] no one’s heard of it but whenever new Canadian friends hear the name they go “THAT’S SO CUTE!” and imagine it’s a happy place where everyone’s happy all the time.
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Louisiana… lots of swamps and alligators. The capital is BAton rouge but the real one is NOLA (New Orleans) of course. I definitely recommend a trip to New Orleans during Jazz Fest! We also have awesome food… snowballs and Po boys and crawfish, the last two of which you can eat with your hands .
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I’ve been to New Orleans! That was…..9 years ago. It was nice. We stayed in a nice little hotel/motel in the older section of town, I believe….Sorry, i was 10, don’t recall precisely.
I got an alligator head as a souvenir, and a pawfoot?
And I tried alligator, too. Wasn’t impressed, but then, i was 10, and it was some sort of spicy dish, and I don’t like spicy, even now….
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Dangit. The strike was supposed to end after “paw”.
[HTML gnome to the rescue.]
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I haven’t ever tried alligator either. Would the older section of town be the french quarter?
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Evidently alligator is just for tourists.
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And sometimes vice-versa.
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*rimshot*
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I was there right after Mardi Gras this year! It was my job to keep the crawfish in the bowl while we waited for the water to boil.
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It snows here a few times a year, but not as much as the surrounding area (darn urban heat island effect). Lucky Long Island and New Jersey kids.
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Is no one else from the non-Chicago areas of the Midwest?
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I am. (Eastern Nebraska.)
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26.4- (Soccastaaaar) That’s hilarious!…. and also kind of sad. I thought Toronto had hot summers, but then I visited Washington D.C. and it was a blazing inferno. I was honestly always covered in a layer of sweat. Despite that, Washington is one of my favorite places in the world.
30- (bubbleB) Are you Canadian?
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Yes, I was a very…err…interesting little kid, so to speak. I also had a poster with pictures of the different planets on it, and one time when I was very young I can remember asking my parents which planet my aunt lived on.
Oh yeah, and I really like the whole soccastaaaaaar thing!
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34- Washington DC ROCKS.
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I need to go back there soon. My grandparents live in the area and I’ve not been there since 2007. (I’ve seen my grandparents, though.)
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(34, 35) I think so, too. *works there*
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36-(Robert) Awwwww! Lucky! (the subway is my most favorite place)
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I ride it to and from work about 200 times (each way) a year.
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*is envious*
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*is also envious* The subway in my city is pretty clean (if you compare it to New York’s), but once you go to Washington, there’s no going back to the TTC…
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*is still envious* I wish my city had a subway….
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There is nothing worse than public transit rage. People pushing and shoving, yelling to let them on the already overcrowded streetcar at rush hour.
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*cowers*
In Boston, they always let people off before they let people on.
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Yes, DC’s subway is very nice. Here, I personally prefer the bus whenever possible.
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*shudders* I can’t quite enjoy the viennese subway since it tends to be filled with …unpleasant people. But I agree that D.C. is awesome.
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The Boston subway is pwnsome.(Or at least I think it is.)
37.1 *is the third envious person*
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I go to college in a midwestern state and I originate from Minnesota. Ask me about the Midwest!
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Are you all Republicans that want to kill Obama?
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…
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wow that was really unnecessary
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I meant it in a joking way. I know they aren’t all Republicans who want to kill Obama.
And, I wasn’t saying anything about Republicans.
Sorry to those who might take offense
*virtual chocklit fine*
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I scored a 52.5 out of 60, 60 being totally liberal and Democrat on a test. Which I find really weird.
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I can play the Canadian National Anthem on my French Horn, and the Australian National Anthem. I can’t, however, play the American National Anthem.
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I can play the American national anthem on my flute, but not the Canadian or the Australian.
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Well, I got here using the random button, so let me just post and see if I can partially revive this thread. (I wouldn’t dare hope for all the way)
I live in Michigan. Otherwise known as the state that’s home to Detroit, which is something like the most violent and economically troubled city in the country. Really, the economy sucks here, though it seems to be stabilizing. The Big Three (Ford, GM, and Chrysler) aren’t announcing factories to be closed every other week now…In SE Michigan, everyone knows someone who works for the Big Three. Likewise, everyone knows someone who is very, very worried about their job, though like I said, now that the companies have gone through them, if you’ve managed to hold onto your job, you’re in better shape.
Also, in Michigan, soda is pop. No exceptions.
I’ve also live in Wisconsin, where soda was soda, lollipops suckers, and water fountains bubblers. And the only cheese you could buy in the stores was Wisconsin cheese. I moved to Michigan and was shocked ate variety of cheeses. French cheese, Vermont cheese, Australian cheese…Wow.
Seeing as they are both Midwestern states, I figure I could add something to that Republican comment above. Michigan traditionally goes Democrat, because we had a very strong union in the form of the United Auto Workers. Also many minorities in Detroit, etc. And Ann Arbor, a college town noted for having the first teach-in about the Vietnam War. However, there are a lot of more rural communities and suburbs that lean heavily Republican, if the signs I see outside of them are any indication.
Wisconsin’s a swing state. I think it’s split between liberal urban areas and a more rural conservative vote, but it’s been a while since I live there and back then I wasn’t all that interested in politics anyhow.
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Wisconsin generally goes blue due to the cities. Rural areas are generally red. Same with Minnesota but Minnesota is more liberal and always goes blue.
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I totally forgot I posted this, you know? It seems so weird to get a reply back after all this time.
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Yeah. I seem to have some really old posts on this thread too.
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can i ask you all what public/mass transit is like in your state? it is not very good in my part of california which i find extremely frustrating.
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I don’t live in a state, but the public transportation here is excellent. If you’d like me to go into more detail, I will, but for now I don’t really know how much information you wanted. Or perhaps this whole answer is irrelevant because I don’t live in a state.
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I know what you mean about California (although it’s still freaking awesome).
I live in Singapore where the public transit is great, and really cheap. You can get all the way across the island for US$2. And it’s not ridiculously crowded like in Tokyo. Still a bit stuffy, but they don’t have people-pushing guys on the platform.
The one time I rode the bus alone in California I was sandwiched between a homeless woman who was shouting to herself and a drunk guy who kept hitting on me. Fun times.
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I live in central Texas, and our public transport amouts to buses. Apparently they’re rather pathetic as well, but I’ve never been in one, so I really can’t say.
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In the Twin Cities area of Minnesota (a metro area bigger than 1 million people, GAPAs) there are busses that go over the place fairly frequently (except at night) and there is one light rail. I wish there were more light rails. The light rail is an above ground subway type train. It isn’t elevated, though. I wish we’d have a subway.
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…And when I said “go over the place” I meant “go all over the place”
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In my part of the world, they usually stick to their scheduled routes. But maybe things are more casual where you are.
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Okay, okay. I mean the /routes/ go all over the place.
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At home, in Texas, there is no public transportation. Not even buses.
Here, in mid-Ohio, it’s pretty regular although a bit slow and the buses don’t always come as often as I’d like. Still, quite usable.
I’ve always been fond of BART…
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‘Kay, I’m in Vienna, but I’ll yatter on anyway. MT is very good in the city & surrounding areas. Trams, busses, subways. Outside the city, you can take the train fairly inexpensively, but it isn’t very reliable (read: usually 15-60 mins late) anywhere mountainous.*
*which is somewhere around 70% of the country, not counting the place you’re leaving from.
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I’m curious now, how long does it take to cross the country?
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In New York City (I’m talking about Manhattan specifically, but this applies to the other boroughs as well) public transit is good, but dirty. Subways can get you most places pretty quickly, as well as connecting to regional train services. Above ground the buses run anywhere the subways don’t. The roads are being repaved to include a bus only lane and a bike lane, which nobody seems to think is a good idea or the right way to go about things. I don’t know.
The suburbs, however, are abysmal when it comes to transportation besides by car.
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I live in a town that has under 5000 people, has a main street that’s three-and-a-half blocks long. Our public transportation consists of carpooling and walking; we’re kind of spread out. In town-nearby-which-I-also-consider-my-town-because-like-I-said-we-have-three-blocks-of-stores-and-stuff, I would say the ferry but that’s really not what you’re talking about, is it?
So, basically, we have no public transportation.
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New York subways and the Long Island Railroad. Oh my god. Horrible.
Anyways, I’ve been meaning to tell about my town for a while. I don’t think you can really understand a person until you understand what it’s like in their town, so here goes:
I live in a small, middle class suburban town. We have a small nature preserve where all of the teens drink and smpoke (which is a shame, really, it’s quite beautiful), about seven pizza places, a beer distributor near the high school (AHAHAHAHAA), also near the high school, a dinky bowling alley, a large grocery store, a few food places, an old run down gas station. There’s not much that’s really worth noting in my town, except for an overcrowded beach nearby, and more preserves in neighboring towns. It’s a really, really nastily suburban place. Suburban to the extreme; Little Whinging, but not as quaint. The people all think they’re better than each other, and prove it through “luxury” cars, obnoxious houses, and designer clothes. Everyone needs to fit in. Everyone needs to have the latest trend, and it just trickles down into our generation. (Just a side note, most of the people who live here were born and raised here, and their parents lived here, and so did their parents.) You can see why I feel stuck at times… I don’t want to be one of those people who comes back, and settles down with their luxury cars and “big fancy” houses, and new trends. It would be nice to break the mold.
(This is where I add in details as they come to me….)
Hardly any trees anywhere, the people believe that they’re evil or something. Also, to the people here, all wildlife is diseased and germ filled, and all things that have to do with nature are shunned. A lot of people just pave over their yard. The overwhelming majority of the people here are white, there are only about twenty or so kids in my school that aren’t. The beach is a big thing here since we’re so close. How can you not love the beach, though? That’s rhetorical, let’s not do this again… If you’ve grown up with it, you understand.
I’ll move on to the kids in my school. (This is a generalization, there are a lot of exceptions.) They basically fit the mold of their parents, but smaller. Most have a lot of potential, but push it down and get stuck in regular classes. Everyone drinks, a lot do drugs, and many smoke. My friend sent me a link to somebody’s picture on facebook- a table filled with 4 loko and beer cans- and wrote, “Typical Friday night in -town’s name-…” Sports are HUMONGOUS here. Teachers even favor good athletes. It’s sickening.
On to the exceptions: most of the exceptions are my friends. Uhm. We’re a strange bunch, hard to describe. We’re the nerdy, go out once in never, band/orchestra, reading is fun group. I can’t really describe us any further without going into individual people, because we sort of mesh in with a few other groups, and I don’t want to explain all of them right now. It’s really complicated.
I don’t know where to add this in, but I think that living on an island really affects the mentality of a lot of people here. We seem to think that we’re better than everyone, and that might stem out of the fact that the only way out of this place is through the city, and everything we need is here. It’s rather difficult to get to other states. It definitely affects the people here, me included, but I can’t exactly put my finger on it.
And… That’s my town. A long post about my town.
Okay, back to studying. I see that banning myself from the computer has worked well.
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Forgot to mention this: That post was just focusing on the negative. It’s a nice town–safe, clean–I just hate the suburbia mentality. Can’t stand it.
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Hey, neighbor.
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I guess I take for granted the fact that my area has a lot of trees…which I really love.
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I don’t think anybody’s done anything about Maine yet, so I shall tell you about my town/the area where I live.
Well, it’s very small. Very very small. And nice. There’s not a lot of suburbian development; it’s quiet and small and I love it. It’s also pretty spread out, although not to the extremes of a few other towns near us (two boys in my class are neighbors, and they live five miles apart; nothing but trees between them). Um…what to say? Oh, we’re on a river (brackish, so there’s seaweed too, because we’re pretty near the ocean) , so it’s really pretty. I love my town.
The “city” also next to us is very cute and smallish; 10,000 people. Their school has, hmm, 100 people per grade? Ours has 50, at the most. The funny thing is that [city] used to be part of [my town]. The ocean is right near us, so I go to the beach a lot, and a ton of tourists come to [town] because of it. Don’t know why, most of them are wimps and can’t swim in the water. it’s cold, but still. I dunno, Maine is just beautiful, for the most part, so’s where I live.
Meh, Walmart is trying to move it. GRAH.
What are myths people have about Maine?
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K, I’m moving to your town.
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Myths…Hmm, let’s see, lots of lobster? And ships?
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And moose?
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Well, we’re not covered in them? Some of my friends haven’t seen a moose before…
However, for the lobster and ships, we have plenty. Where I live anyway. *laughs* I’m not doing a very good job dispelling myths, am I?
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Um, uh, Washington. We have rain! Lots and lots of rain! And hippies! And everyone drinks too much coffee!(okay, that one’s close to the truth…)
Note to people not living here: Washington is not Seattle. And not all of Seattle is like that either.
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We also do not have vampires or werewolves or anything of the sort.
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Or wolves, period. At least not on the Olympic peninsula.
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Actually, I think there were a couple of packs moving into the state from Idaho and Canada. But not on the peninsula, correct.
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Yeah. *factcheck* At least not for a long time. I was going to add that but I wasn’t positive.
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Does your country/state/city/whatever have a local food specialty?
I don’t count Singapore as my country of residence, because I hate it so much- but CA has California rolls and fish tacos.
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