Best things / Worst things about where you live

[PC Dave]

Park City, Utah

Best:

-Stunning weather and scenery for much of the year
-Ski town with lots of outdoor rec. opportunities
-No pollution
-Sundance Film Festival - locals' tickets early, running into Liv Tyler at the coffee shop
-Small town (6k permanent pop.) but many excellent restaurants/etc., cheap locals' specials in the offseason
-Small town but 45 min. away from a Delta hub, so easy travel anywhere in the US/world
-Small mtn. town, but big city (SLC) 30 min. away for car repair, Nordstroms, etc.
-Low cost of living compared to NY/Boston/LA/Europe

Worst:

-Snow/slush for 5-6 months a year
-Arrogant/clueless tourists getting underfoot for 3-4 months a year
-Sundance FF - hordes of self-absorbed chain-smoking "industry" PIB's, running into Alec Baldwin at the coffee shop (hey, Alec, why aren't you in France?)
-High cost of living compared to SLC
-The rest of Utah

[Plantman]

Miami is the place I reside in and I love it for several reasons:

The most beautiful, although most are enhanced, women , or should I say variety of beautiful women in any large city I've ever been to.

I really love the weather. The heat and humidity I have gotten used to, it's the hurricanes that are very worrisome.

Miami has become a very fast, metropolitan city with a lot of different cultures, which has it's good and bad.

I speak Spanish so it isn't an issure for me, but I imagine some old time Floridians get upset when the clerks in every store speak spanish before English.

The traffic is bad, but name me a large city that has good traffic?

No decent public transportation is another issue altogether.

I love the beaches, the keys and did I mention the weather? I hate the cold man!

[GermanStar]

Fountain Hills, AZ

Good:
Incredible scenery/natural environment
Lots of wildlife
Sunny 300+ days/year
Amazing geographic diversity of AZ offers lots of great day trips/weekend getaways
No winter (although ski resorts are less than 2 hours away)
big city stuff (shopping/concerts/pro sporting events) less than an hour away in Phoenix

Bad:
Completely dependent on technology for existance (no power or water -- we're pretty much all dead)

[Rickg]

Zeitgeist - 9/16/2004 10:36 PM

Best:
Lots of rain
Beautiful verdant surroundings
Outstanding diversity of flora and fauna
Super public radio stations
Strong progressive grassroots political streak
Quality of life

Worst:
Lots of rain
No state income tax
Strong retrograde grassroots political streak
Beautiful environment attracts profit-sucking/quality of life destroying developers

'Z' pretty well summed it up.[:D]
I'll just add to the "worst" list:

An economy steered by Boeing
Fast rising cost of living
Seattle known for worse traffic jams than L.A.
Lot's of rain

[kuan1]

Best:

Winter
Southeastern trout
Great lakes Steelies

Worst:

Too much Winter
Lutefisk

[Jamison]

Best:
beautiful countryside
only an hour away from nyc and philly
lots of curvy backroads
lots of fopen space
no front license plates in PA!!

worst:
all the people from jersey moving in...
no decent eating establishments (behind the times)
horrible roads
terrible weather (rain all the time and humid as hell)
nothing to do

[lietuviai]

Best: Peaceful tranquility on 5 acres.

Worst: No cable or DSL internet available. Only @%#! slow dial up!

[cnd]

Sydney:

Best:
Beaches
Harbour
Weather – Warm, sunny all year round
Coastline
Scenery
Food
Entertainment
The people
Wildlife

Worst:
Traffic
Idiot drivers
Smog
Noise
$$$ Real estate

[shrimpton]

BEST STUFF:
No bombs.
No hijackings.
No Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Nuclear crap of any description.
No Presidential elections
4 genuine seasons
Normal - slightly boring - everyday type people
Scenery that is unbelievable until you get bored with how good it is.
WORST STUFF:
Too many normal boring - everyday type people.
A zillion miles from anywhere else on the planet.
Winter - it sometimes snows.

[AdMaven]

I live in the Mojave Desert:

Best:
Awesome sky day and night (no smog)
30 acres--no neighbors on top of me
Horses, pot belly pigs
Quiet--no traffic
My ponds
Work at home
Can see for miles if anyone is coming
My own well
Chukker
Quail
Roadrunners
Hawks
Cottontail


Worst:
Rattlesnakes
Dust (dirt roads)
No broadband
Hard to find companies to work out here
No local news (all LA stories)
Bobcats