What's it like where you live?

[Pr3datorTaco 169]

I live in Topeka Kansas. It kind of sucks here, but the people I know make it a beautiful place. I mean, it's not ALL bad. I am not a part of the crowd that parties or anything, which some people find strange because there isn't much else to DO here! But My boyfriend and I and his friends find our own fun. We make trouble in Walmart and play with Nerf guns and do water balloon fights during summer. It's always a harsh summer and a harsh winter..... Although we haven't gotten much snow in the past couple of years..... Haha. SO yeah, Midwestern life..... It is what it is!

 

Topeka sudden flash backs to fosters home for imaginary friends. "It is hoooot in topeka" hahaha good times well its great that you can pull that stuff off here I'd get arrested for that maybe i dunno but its still cool you've got friends like that!

[Z Star 189]

Topeka sudden flash backs to fosters home for imaginary friends. "It is hoooot in topeka" hahaha good times well its great that you can pull that stuff off here I'd get arrested for that maybe i dunno but its still cool you've got friends like that!

 

Yeah, Bloo made us famous! IT'S TRUE IN THE SUMMER TIME! lol But yeah, we try not to push it too far, but we are a pretty mischievous group.

[One 498]

Well, let me tell you a story. The story of where I live. It's in a not so magical place called the United States of America, many butthurt people like to insult the civilians there, even though the civilians didn't do anything wrong. Anyways, as you may know the U.S.A. has 50 states. I live in one that's close up north next to Canada (although the French speaking part of Canada isn't above us really, so we don't have French integrated into our language). The state I live in is Minnesota, a also not so magical location, that has lots of snow. Minnesota is a (glorious) place where children laugh and play, the teenagers try to rustle people's jimmies online, and the grown-ups have a job and doing boring grown-up stuff like paying taxes and bills, and going to business meetings.

 

UHG! Story telling is so boring, I mean c'mon! You have the Internet... Just look it up...

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota

 

(Actualy no need, I have a link right here, just to be nice)

 

Also another thing (that I've just gotten use to, but I realize isn't everywhere) being the "land of 10,000 lakes" (when there's over 11k) just about every city has a lake or two in it... Just a cool thing I thought you may like to know.

Edited November 28, 2012 by One

[Rainbow-Crayons 44]

I live in good ol' Connecticut. Yup, pretty lonely state.

We get pretty normal Summers, getting up to 100 degrees sometimes, and in the Winter... well lets just say today was about 30 degrees maybe, and it was snowing. I like the weather in Spring the most, due to being able to wear T-shirts and shorts, but it is still pretty cool. And in fall, ooohh the leaves are beautiful!

But the life style is pretty normal, we have our good people and our bad. And lots of forests and such.

 

Same old, same old. Though It upsets me that I have not been able to meet any other bronies other then my friends from school in CT. :c

Edited November 28, 2012 by Rainbow-Crayons

[SrFrog 927]

First off, Sedro-Woolley is a strange name for a town/city, but you get used to the name. Since this is the pacific northwest, it's either raining or cloudy most of the year, not to mention all you can see is tree's for miles. Unless you're the outdoorsy type, you won't find much to do around here.

 

Complete opposite of my life in the Tijuana-San Diego area, completely different.

[Loona 287]

Western Canada. Warm during the Summer, cold during the Winter. And Spring and Winter is just confusing. One day it's snowing the next day the sun is shining. But I like it here. Lots of forest all around.

Edited November 28, 2012 by Lunatia

[angels_gal 204]

I live in seattle, it's cold tonight but about to get wet and windy tomorrow and for the next couple of days. We've had it rough pounding rains last week and after a short dry break it seems we're going back into a stormy period.

[Abstract 832]

I'm going to write this a bit like something out of a fanfic.

 

I live in a rather secluded place, away from the noises of the city and the usual traffic congestion that accompanies it.

 

Our home is situated on the top of a small mountain, and if I need a picturesque bit of scenery to calm my nerves, I can simply grab a cup of hot chocolate, recline on our back deck, and look out over the hundreds upon hundreds of miles of relatively untouched, deep green forests. On the 4h of July (as I live in the U.S.), one can look out over the world and watch hundreds upon thousands of mortars fly skyward, bursting into innumerable, sparkling masses.

 

On some mornings a heavy fog will envelope the hillsides, creating a massive wall of clouds that separates us from the rest of the world. It dims all incoming light from the sun, and it's comparable to living in a snowglobe for a short amount of time.

 

And now that I mention it, the snow! It's almost always cold, cloudy, and raining here, but if it starts snowing, nature tends to go perfectly silent - no birds chirp, no animals move, and nothing ventures very far. The evergreen trees are bathed in a bright white as far as the eye can see, and you can walk outside and experience perfect silence. (Trust me, even if you're sitting at home thinking it's quiet, you don't know the meaning of "perfect silence" until you're in a world of white, where the sounds of cars can't reach you and any random noises are absorbed by both the unending grey veils of noise-absorbing precipitation and the blanket of snow layering the ground.)

 

We're close to nature, and we see deer, cougars, bears, coyotes, and all sorts of interesting animals, all from our backyards. One could go hunting in their own backyard if they were so inclined.

 

Granted, all of this means that we have to travel a bit further to go shopping and such, but I love it here, and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else.

 

This is Washington State by the way, west of the Rocky Mountains, and by no means was that description exaggerated. I meant every word of it.

 

Maybe I'll expand upon that later...

 

First off, Sedro-Woolley is a strange name for a town/city, but you get used to the name. Since this is the pacific northwest, it's either raining or cloudy most of the year, not to mention all you can see is tree's for miles. Unless you're the outdoorsy type, you won't find much to do around here.

 

Complete opposite of my life in the Tijuana-San Diego area, completely different.

 

I live in seattle, it's cold tonight but about to get wet and windy tomorrow and for the next couple of days. We've had it rough pounding rains last week and after a short dry break it seems we're going back into a stormy period.

 

I envy y'all so much, the northwest is beautiful. It isn't my absolute favorite place in the world (That would Arkansas, by a huge margin) but it's definitely a solid second. I'm actually hoping to maybe perhaps make my way up there sometime next year, somewhere around Seattle and settle down for a bit. Can't wait to get the buck out of this place I currently reside in. Which reminds me...

 

I live in Texas. Contrary to some belief, we do not ride horses to work or lack access to electricity. Well, most of us don't anyway. In any case, I reside in a little town called Comfort, which to put in perspective, is about 45 minutes NW of San Antonio, right along I-10. Now, the town itself is actually OK as far as geography goes. It resides in the Texas hill country, which some tell me is a fairly famous region of the state, but I wouldn't know anything about that. (It is beautifully picturesque in certain areas though, I'll give it that.) So no complaints there, really.

 

Obligatory Google Image picture.

 

However, I take issue with the weather. Texas weather is notoriously fickle and unpredictable. It is not uncommon to be sweltering hot in the afternoon, only to have the temperature drop 50 or 60 degrees to below freezing by nightfall. Likewise, you'll freeze your buns off at sunrise, only to be near heat stroke by noon. Not to mention that during the summer, it rarely drops below 90 even in the dead of night. I'm so tired of it all.

 

Perhaps even more irritating, is the people. I can't stand ignorant, extreme right-wing closed-minded rednecks. Unfortunately for myself, that is the large majority of the population in the area. And when I say "redneck", just imagine every stereotypical thing you've ever heard about that faction, and you already know the lives of my fellow townspeople. Honestly, I'm exaggerating, but by such a small margin it hardly deserves mention. Seriously. I don't get along with anyone here, I'm constantly being ridiculed and harassed for my political and social views. Not to mention what passes for fun around here (animal abuse, drinking yourself stupid and getting 16 year old's pregnant) isn't exactly my cup of tea.

 

TL;DR: Don't ever live here.

Edited November 28, 2012 by Abstract

[thor9356 540]

I live in Janesville, Wisconsin and it is a quiet city. It's a pretty boring and peaceful place but still I guess it's no big deal. It's not a long drive to Chicago but I still go to some meetups in IL and that's always enjoyable.

[CloudFyre 848]

(Wall of text.)

 

I was just in Texas last week! I was visiting a college that I'd loooove to go to, and it's not too bad over on the eastern side. It wasn't terribly hot, and wasn't terribly cold, but the native Texans told me that I had basically shown up on the perfect weekend. In the words of my cousin: "You live from air conditioner to air conditioner for the first few weeks of the fall quarter, and then it becomes more manageable."

 

Coming from a naturally cooler climate, I'm not sure if I like the sound of that...

[Silver Bells 78]

ooh, the northwest is really pretty! i think the bay area is located in the northwest and it's really beautiful up there. waaaaaaay more prettier than socal by a long shot.

[Creamy Arty 6,252]

Where I'm from originally:

 

Calling it rural would be an understatement. I was born and raised in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of the woods. Lovely place. Everybody has a big yard and you're secluded, which allows you to do whatever you want. You can even walk into your backyard and start urinating and nobody would notice. Even if they did, they wouldn't care. That's just how it is out there. Scenic, peaceful, and everybody minds their own business. Unfortunately you're looking at a minimum drive of half an hour just to go grocery shopping, see a movie, or do pretty much anything. DSL and cable aren't options out there, and you'll pay about $90 a month for a POTS line. Forget about using your cell phone instead; there's no service out there for Sprint or AT&T, and if you're a Verizon Wireless customer you'll have to sit in a window sill or stand in a field to make a call. The summers are sweltering. You're looking at 100-110 degrees and 100% humidity most days. Having grown up in it I'm not bothered by it, but I still prefer extreme cold. One boon to having become acclimated to such heat is when I go north for conventions and meetups. People at Bronycon in Secaucus were sweating, complaining, and a few were on the verge of passing out from the heat. I was probably the only one who was entirely comfortable.

 

As lovely and serene as the place looks, I have a lot of personal issues with it because of the people I grew up with and my family's legacy. For me, the place felt very oppressive and the isolation made me depressed. After getting into this fanbase and meeting with bronies both online and irl, which were my first real social events, living there became painful. I had to go to civilization.

 

Where I'm at now:

 

This has been a bit weird for me. I live in a subdivision containing approximately 668 houses, my neighbors' kids can be heard playing next door and sometimes stray into my yard due to the proximity of houses; I can't yell across the front yard to somebody else because they're right in front of me, and I obviously can't shoot my guns anywhere on my property. What is likely a normal lifestyle and environment for most people on these forums is like a completely different world to me. When stepping out on my porch I feel like I'm being watched.

 

I'm adjusting. As odd as it is for me, I love it. It feels great being surrounded by people and not having to plan my entire week around a trip to Walmart; everything is convenient. My drive to meetups is now much shorter, and I know I'm only going to love my situation more as time goes on.

 

 

So come here to Iowa, you want corn, you NEED corn, you LOVE corn, you MUST come to Iowa!

Build it, and I'll come.

 

 

But seriously, the area I come from in Virginia is mostly cornfields, except for the forested areas.

Edited November 28, 2012 by Artemis

[Abstract 832]

I was just in Texas last week! I was visiting a college that I'd loooove to go to, and it's not too bad over on the eastern side. It wasn't terribly hot, and wasn't terribly cold, but the native Texans told me that I had basically shown up on the perfect weekend. In the words of my cousin: "You live from air conditioner to air conditioner for the first few weeks of the fall quarter, and then it becomes more manageable."

 

Coming from a naturally cooler climate, I'm not sure if I like the sound of that...

 

It was indeed fairly comfortable around here the last week or two. This week, it's freezing.

 

What a lot of people don't understand about Texas, is exactly how the cold works around here. Temperature wise, it rarely ever drops below 30F (In my part of the state), though it has been known to. But the cold here is different. I've been to many a snow skiing resort in my lifetime in many different states, been in sub-zero weather and what have you. Not like that's a bragging right or anything, but my point is; even in these places where it drops below zero, it still doesn't feel as cold as it does in Texas when it's 40F. I don't know why that is, but most out-of-stater's say the same thing. The temperature is very misleading when it comes down to how cold it actually feels, and most northern travelers get quite a shock when they don't bring their winter clothing when it's 50F here, because they think they can handle it with no problems.

 

And yes, it's pretty common to run the A/C from March to October in Texas, it's simply unbearable without it. (Except when the temperature drops like a rock and you're huddling around the space heater/what have you and you wake up in the middle of the night because suddenly it's back to 80F outside and-I HATE THIS PLACE)

Edited November 28, 2012 by Abstract

[SrFrog 927]

Perhaps even more irritating, is the people. I can't stand ignorant, extreme right-wing closed-minded rednecks. Unfortunately for myself, that is the large majority of the population in the area.

 

Actually, the area in which I live is notorious for having a large redneck population. Aside from the political viewpoints, they seemed nice enough, or maybe that's the pacific northwest in them.

 

ooh, the northwest is really pretty! i think the bay area is located in the northwest and it's really beautiful up there. waaaaaaay more prettier than socal by a long shot.

 

From personal experience, I prefer SoCal. I mean, if it wasn't for some of the attitude the people there had, it might had just be my favorite place. Edited November 28, 2012 by SrFrog

[Guest]

I live in Denmark. If you don't know what/where that is, let me explain after I've cried in that corner over there. (protip: Northern Europe)

 

I like living in Denmark. At summer the warmest day you can hope for is about 26 degrees Celcius. At winter it can go down to as far as -10. We don't get too much rain in Denmark, England takes most of that.

I live in a town with about 20000 people. I go to a school with about 500 students and it's quickly growing too. The school was built like 3 years ago. The people at the school are rather uninteresting IMO, hence me being on the internet a lot.

I also work at a supermarket just about 10 minutes away from my house. 

[Crispy 5,563]

Wisconsin's a beautiful place.  Bit boring, sometimes, but beautiful year round.  It's 25 degrees out with a full moon and I can see the stars like crazy when I'm out on a quick smoke break.

 

Basically, grab a beer and come out here.  You'll probably like it.

[Fridge 382]

Well it looks like I'm the first Brit to post up, didn't expect that.

 

As I've mentioned, I'm British. English to be precise. Hell, Salopian to be insanely accurate.

 

I live Shropshire (or Salop in old English) in the largest and greenest county in England. My home town is a new town called Telford, its only... I think 40 years old? But its a new town made up from lots of old villages, so if you travel more than 3 miles the accent changes, sometimes hugely.

A great example of one of the local accents is this "ha bist thee jockey?" meaning "How are you?" or my favorite "Ya bin, ya bay, ya cor, ya caa. ya cor say tha ya a a Dawley mon" which translates as "You do, you don't, you can, you can't. You can't say that, you ain't a Dawley man."

 

Its quiet here for the most part, lots of woodland to explore and when you learn to drive Wales is only a 30 mile journey or if you fancy visiting a city Birmingham is about 40 miles away and Manchester 70.

 

Sadly this place is also rife with unemployment and the regular people tend to be a bit small minded. Especially when it comes to new or controversial things. Seriously every gay bar except one has been burnt to the ground. The only reason that one hasn't been touched is because a local biker group called the Lost Boys hang out there and have done since before the new owners came.

Edited November 28, 2012 by Fridge

[Drehgunklew 136]

I live in Sweden in a city called Umeå, the city of birches for some reason.

It's a quiet city anyway where I live. It's full of kids everywhere daytime but at night it's not a single person outside. Downtown it's of course more people but not so many.

The safety here sucks anyway. The police doesn't care about anything. And it gets cold here. When it's summer it's around 20 degrees Celsius. Winter, well, below -30 degrees Celsius.

I want to move to Finland though.

[Flow 1,624]

I live on a tiny island in the pacific called Guam, it is hot all year long, but the island has a lot of commodities that one could find in the U.S.

[bigrigdave 22]

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Edited July 2, 2018 by souljabri557

[Zhooves 843]

I live in a valley (Population: 2000), in a fairly spread-out village near the city of Gjøvik in Norway (And thus, the entire Scandinavia is now present!).

 

 

The temperatures here vary HUGELY from summer to winter (35C (95F) to -30C, sometimes even -35C (-31F)), and it get's really dark in winter, and really bright during summer - During winter, I leave for school under the stars, and return after the sun's set again, and during summer it feels like it never gets dark...

 

It's a nice and peaceful place - if you ignore all the under-aged drivers, tractors and all the unsettling (speeding, drifting) traffic in general. Engines and tractors seems to be a common hobby or something among the guys here, and I'm clearly a HUGE exception (I don't like that stuff at all - I'd rather learn how to sew properly than getting into that stuff. And I'm not even into sewing.)

 

It's pretty much forest on one side of the valley, and a combination of forest, a road, houses and farms on the other side, and a long lake in the middle at the bottom.

 

It's like one store and the obligatory gas-station around the middle on the populated side, and neither are exactly cheap.

Other than this, the internet sucks here because Telenor, who claims to give good service to everyone in Norway (and is the leading provider of both internet and phone-coverage), has pretty much not given a flying feather about those of us here who's addicted to it~

 

All in all, a nice place, but I'm most likely going to move to Gjøvik where all most of my local friends live (and better internet and stores!)

[TailsIsNotAlone 3,695]

(Me, 6 years ago, St. Croix River)

I live in Minnesota. We have hot summers and cold winters. It's a beautiful place with lots of trees, parks, and of course lakes. The weather is iffy and a frequent topic of conversation. The crime rate is low almost everywhere (just stay out of north Minneapolis), so it's a great place to start a family, if unlike me you have such inclinations. Disclaimers: we're not hicks, we don't all go fishing, and we don't talk like Canadians. We do try to be nice, though, and those of us who were born and raised here seem to share a quiet, tolerant respect of one another. We have an unusual mix of traditional values and progressive ideas, striking a balance that's uncommon for much of the U.S. Oh, and the women are hawt.

 

Wisconsin is cool too, but they're Packer fans.

Edited November 28, 2012 by TailsAlone

[Lupus 127]

Well, I live in Wales and its pretty wet. It would be exaggerating maybe to say it usually rains, but it certainly rains a lot. There are a lot of hills and small rivers, but not many buses when you need them, though other parts of Wales are even worse than the part I live in. Some people speak Welsh, which is kinda nice but a bit weird when they seem to do it to exclude you from understanding. My small town still has most of its shops despite large supermarkets opening nearby, so hopefully we can keep that going. Its getting dark soon after 4 now

[Colt 555]

Mexico City is the stage of my life. And let me tell you guys this place is very different from the "usual" way people think of Mexico.

 

This is in immense city with more than 22 million souls having their day to day here. Is a busy with tons of traffic jams and people with savage way of driving, what makes it kind of fun. There is never a day same as another and news can be kind of “entretaining” if you it with the right amount of irony place sometimes it can take you hours to reach certain places and most of the time y choose the subway as the best way to cross the city.

 

I live on the south part of Mexico City the area is called Coapa a district full of commercial activity so stores / cinemas / malls / schools / stuff to do is at a very close reach so normally I’m walking around the district to do my stuff. My office is 1 mile from home so I walk to every place on my daly life. The area is also the home of the Estadio Azteca, A..K.A. Santa Urzula’s Colossus, can hold up to 110,000 spectators and is the grand bastion of Mexican most popular sport Futbol ß That’s right

 

There are 2 hoods that I cross to get home everyday the rich one and the not so rich one. One is nice in architecture but no so much in attitude the other one is an awesome place to spend time, the bros play sports on a public area (hard core fronton players) the old guys tell stories, the barber shop have always a friendly chat, and the merchants take it to the human side so is a more “of a town” there. Fuck the rich guys I say.

 

My house is located inside a multi-house condominium all houses are the same and is an awesome place to live. Safe and quiet like a safe ground for the city constant ruckus. Kids are playing all day long and on vacations till late night, the dudes gather to chat some times have some drinks and right now on my the front door of my house the key is hanging right outside at plain sight. That’s how safe and peace full it is there.

 

Now its Picture time. 

 

 

 

 

Azteca Stadium at sub 17 World Cup's final

 

 

 

A spot where the seting sun shines every day

 

 

Edited November 28, 2012 by Colt

[Sequinox 48]

I live in South Alaska.  Right now its cold and dark.  We're only getting about 6 hours of daylight right now.  There really isn't too much else to add that everybody else that live in the northwest hasn't already mentioned.  We're having a really cold, dry winter right now with only a quarter of the usual snow fall.  I really wish we would get some more snow so it could warm up a bit. 

 

Really, if you have cable, you can turn on TLC or The Discovery Channel and there will probably be some show on about Alaska.  I really don't know why Alaska is in the media so much now.  It never was that way before.  We were always just that big ass state way up north that most people forgot existed.  (Or, depending on the map, we're hanging out with Hawaii off the coast of California. xD)