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[protege]

Damn, Blas...you just described several areas in Pennsylvania

Seriously, our state flower is the orange and white construction barrel. They tend to outlive the orange cones by months. Usually, the flowers pop up in the spring, and hibernate during the winter. Unless you're on the turnpike...where they bloom all year long!

Around here though, you don't see any mullet-sporting idiots in crappy cars. Usually, they're in a rusted-out 1978 Chevy pickup...with an exhaust so loud, you can hear it in the next county. No, the idiots in crappy cars...are stupid kids in riced-out Civics. The majority of those kids (who are *white* kids from the 'burbs), all walk around with a fake limp, wear pants about 52 sizes too big, and end every sentence with "you know what I'm sayin?" Same kids usually crap themselves if they venture into certain local neighborhoods...

[DesignFox]

I also hate the ridiculous amount of benny's that come to my area when it gets warm out. They think they are the best thing to ever be born on this world and act like it. I'd really like it if they could keep the hell out of my state.

Benny stands for Bayonne, Elizabeth, Newark, New York.

So, some of them ARE from our state...just parts we prefer they STAYED in. There's a reason no one goes to Elizabeth (or Newark or Bayonne for that matter) on holiday.

Yes, I wish the Staten Island idiots would stay there. They cause so many problems on the Parkway and Turnpike it makes me want to scream. (Blocking exit ramps comes to mind...)

Ah well...as long as they spend their money here, we can't complain too much.

But, I do hate the constant building and over-development. I hate that it costs so much to LIVE here. And a lot of people here tend to be very self-centered...at least in the central/northern zones.

I do like that our state is fairly diverse... It's interesting how South Jersey is basically a separate country from North Jersey.

But some of the places in Jersey you NEVER want to go to, especially after dark...interestingly, some of the WORST areas directly border the best...and some towns, it's ok to stay on one street, but don't turn the corner after dark!

The good thing is...At least our state is close to just about everything you could want- airport, NYC, Philly, the beaches, racetracks... We have everything and nothing here.

Eh, despite it's downsides, it's home and I'm happy. We do have the Horsepark, and a pretty active horsie community, afterall!

[protege]

But, I do hate the constant building and over-development. I hate that it costs so much to LIVE here. And a lot of people here tend to be very self-centered...at least in the central/northern zones.

It's like that here too. There's very little redevelopment inside the city limits. Not surprising, since quite a few of those neighborhoods are shitty. Now though, people are building further and further out of town, squeezing out people who have lived there for generations. These newcomers are usually rich assholes who think they own everything, and are usually hated by the locals. Can't say I blame them.

I still don't see why we need an endless sea of shopping malls and parking spaces. It's not like we have an endless group of tenants to *fill* them. All that's going on, is businesses are moving from one new mall to the next...meaning many strip malls resemble ghost towns

I agree that South Jersey is pretty much a separate country from the northern part. It's pretty flat down there, and filled with small towns. I'm a bit biased, since I've spent many happy summers down in Cape May

[Depot Denizen]

I live in Burlington, Vermont - more specifically, Winooski, which is right across the river. It's the largest metropolitan area in the state; roughly a third of the population is around this region (Burlington, Colchester, Shelburne, Winooski, Essex/Junction). Burlington and Winooski aren't bad places. I can walk from my apartment to downtown in probably 40 minutes or less at any time of the day and feel perfectly safe. It'd say probably 2.5 miles from my apartment to Church St, I was five minutes away a few summers ago. Anyway.

Vermont itself sucks sometimes. Insurance rates are a bit weird, and student financial aid sucks. The cost of living it stupidly high - supposedly you need to make at least $13 an hour to survive. I believe it. Though if I had no bills I'd have plenty of money. Houses are very expensive, but I think after the housing market imploded it'll fix itself. We have a lot of yuppies from Massachussets and New York buying property to "get away from the city". Which means that they come up here and do the exact same thing that they did back home *shakes fist*.

That said, I like living here. I just wish that the drivers weren't so insane. Winooski installed a traffic rotary a few years ago and people still don't know how to use it. It has two lanes in the circle, and four entry spots. Traffic gets backed up because people are too dumb to merge. I don't care if I'm walking, but it's a pain when I'm on my motorcycle.

[McDreidel09]

What I hate about SB,IL is the school system's priorities. We supposedly have a tight budget, so we have to cut classes, but keep up to date with all of our sports stuff and have even planted trees all over the place. Ummm...hello? We were on the Academic Watch List and are still criticized for being dumb. We can't do anything about improving our studies, but we can spend a shyteload on our sucky sports teams (I'm in Track and I still say we suck) and hundreds of dollars worth of trees? We hang onto the glory that we experienced in 2001 as Football state champs, but we need to face the fact that we will most likely never have that again. Instead of focusing on those other things, we need to bring back classes that were cut and bring in more for the cirriculum so we can improve our education and possibly give our school a better name.

[Shangri-laschild]

The humidity here in Illinois causes me all sorts of problems with my allergies. I don't know what it is that starts the problem, but my breathing is always worst when there's all the humidity. It's not enough of a problem to be life threatening. Just irritating some times. Oh yeah, and having long hair with high humidity sucks too but it's worth it to me so oh well