What's it like where you live?

[Aaramus 449]

Across the pond from most people here in good old England! Where at the moment it's miserable and cold as it's done nothing but rain, especially down here in the South East. I'm about half an hour from west London so I'm in a nice patch of countryside, with far too many hills (the Chiltern Hills specifically).

 

Very nice little area, I'm in a relative peaceful village although some people are really stuck up and arrogant around here which can be a little annoying. Also we have a few towns surrounding us which aren't very nice places to hang out.

[Descant 1,897]

I also live in North Carolina, just west of Charlotte. It gets really humid outside in the summer, and it gets to the point that the atmosphere can only be described as "hot and sticky". It's almost impossible to do anything outside on those days. We get evening thunderstorms in the summertime, which cools out the air from the midday's heat. A lot of the time, after a rain, you can actually see steam rising off the roads.

 

We don't really ever get snow here, but we get ice storms. Close enough, right? The rain just freezes overnight. And we don't even get those too often anymore, the winters have been getting warmer and warmer...

 

The dirt is always red or orange, due to the high concentrations of clay in the soil. The weirdest part about traveling to other parts of the country for me is how the dirt isn't orange in upstate New York or Michigan.

 

We always take day trips into the Blue Ridge Mountains, usually on weekends. The rivers in the mountains of North Carolina are pretty consistently cold, the Nantahala being a constant 50 degrees Fahrenheit (I'm a whitewater kayaker, so I'm well acquainted with the rivers here). Lake Norman, which is within walking distance from where I live, is, I believe, the largest manmade lake in the North Carolina, and the longest coastline for a single lake in North America. I may be mistaken, however. The water there is pretty consistently a murky brown color. 

 

I live twenty minutes from Charlotte, which is not a beautiful city, but is one of the largest trade centers on the east coast. It's home to Bank of America, and Bojangles, and Wells Fargo's east coast branch, and several other nationwide companies. It's also home to the US National Whitewater Center, which is the largest self-circulating river system in the world, and is where Olympic Tryouts for whitewater slalom are held. My dad and I would go kayaking there every other weekend, if not more often, before I left to Raleigh for college.

Edited November 28, 2012 by Descant

[mycarhasaMoustache 449]

I live in the north of England in a town that reminds me of the town from my little dashie (it was nice but now its dump) It rains just about 24/7 we get about 2 days of summer and then the weather is appalling for the rest of the year If i was given the opportunity to move far far away I would jump at it and never look back.

[Winona the Dog 1,984]

I live in North Carolina so weather here is never truly bad at all usually mild days that can get too cold or too hot from time to time.

 

 

The actual town i live in is pretty boring and there is never really nothing to do unless i want to go drive downtown to Charlotte and do something there.

[Obsidian_Winter 1,159]

So... anyone else been to Oregon?

 

I was born there! I use to live in a lovely tourist town called Lincoln City. It was right on the Ocean so usually wet, cold and very little snow unless you went to the mountains. During the summers it was crazy busy because the town was build around the tourist industry. Around winter time, the city just died....while I was there I don't think I met a single kid my own age. I spent most of my time in the Casino where my dad worked. I have some rather lovely memories of the place. The nights were so clear it was like you could see every star in the sky and watch shooting stars for hours.

[angels_gal 204]

I was born there! I use to live in a lovely tourist town called Lincoln City.

 

I went there. really really nice place, went there twice loved it both times.  It was absolutely gorgeous the first time i went and i really wanted to stay  for another day  but I couldn't.  that candy shop in town is  omg I need to have a little self control in that place.  lol. 

 

 

Anypony here been to seattle before?  

Edited November 28, 2012 by angels_gal

[AngelofDeath 259]

I live in Colorado, where the mountains meet the plains. It's not a bad place here, except our OCD and 5-minute weather changes.  <_<  I sadly don't get much snow here even though i'm so close to the mountains. Actually there is like a bubble over the town I live in where weather (any type of weather) doesn't even hit us. It's ridiculous sometimes. Overall, not a bad state to live in.

[Colt 555]

Great topic BTW is really educational to learn about all this ways of living 

Battle Creek, MI. 

 Bonus ponts for kick ass name =D 

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

  Saludos compadre XD

 

 

 

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.

 

I bet you get awesome night sky's, 

[Ubertacosupreme 1]

I live in northern Canada, it isnt that bad, sure we get really cold winters and 6 feet of snow and lots of bears, deer, moose, and all those other things wrecking yards. The weather in the summer isn't bad at all though we usually get tons of rain in June but after that It's +25C until late September.

[Obsidian_Winter 1,159]

Anypony here been to seattle before?

 

Yup! I use to work there. I lived in the outskirt towns and such like Issaquah, Kent, North Bend and Snohomish. I spent some time out in Mount Vernon too, but that was a pretty good drive from seattle. I remember Seattle has this massive and impressive public transit system. You can go anywhere. I remember they have a rather lovely Gay district, unlike Nashville where I live now. When I lived there I was an activist fighting to get the same rights as married folk through domestic partnerships. And now here you guys can smoke pot legally and have full fledge marriage. Maybe I need to move back?

[SPLinux 380]

I live on Long Island, New York an its pretty alright here. Since it is surrounded by water on three sides it is very cold here during winter and very hot during summer, which explains why i like moderate temperatures in the spiring. Like any place on the earth there are some good people and there are some not so good people. There are are some kinda scary people in my neighborhood but i don't go out much so it doesn't bother me. Theres some stuff to do here and there but i prefer to stay home most of the time. Too bad it's getting expensive here in long island so i don't think i would do to well here alone(i currently live with my family). Life is alright here, it's not amazing but it works.

[CloudsdaleCompanion 342]

I live in Germany. Basically, Summers can be very hot (40°C and more) and winters very cold. (-20°C and much less, we've had -40° once)

 

It doesn't rain that much, mostly in Spring and early summer, and it snows during winter of course. Some winters are milder, it varies more year to year. Worst thing about winter (apart from freezing to death) is the low humidity. Already in autumn my hands and lips start to dry out, it's painful at first and sometimes it starts to bleed, but you get used to it after a few weeks and don't even notice anymore.

 

Sunlight also dissapears once you hit October and it doesn't return until March/April though if you are lucky you might get some very sunny (but still cold) days in January. In overall it's very depressing but it makes spring/summer even lovlier.

 

I just live in a small village, I know my neighbours and their (crazy) little kids. Not much else to tell really. Nothing exciting ever happens. Just once, this September, a car exploded in someones garage. That's quite some thing to happen, especially in such a small village as mine. (About 100 people live here, more likely less) He was lucky and survived in case you were wondering.

 

So yeah, that's it, my boring and depressing life. I hope this all changes once I move to the US.

Edited November 28, 2012 by CloudsdaleCompanion

[Guest]

Hills. lot's of hills. about 200-400 people live in my village of all ages, i get the bus to school which is about 25 miles away and what we have here is windmills, a pub (or bar if you prefer), a hurling pitch and that's about it.

 

it's usually less than 15 degrees unless it's summer where the highest is 25 but usually around 18

 

a small village in Northern Ireland

Edited November 28, 2012 by Guest

[Zhooves 843]

Great topic BTW is really educational to learn about all this ways of living 

 

I bet you get awesome night sky's, 

Unless it's raining, snowing or just cloudy (the two first being quite frequent...) then yes. The sky's almost as clear as it can get... I even saw some north lights once or twice (I'm a bit too far south)

[ShadowMan 4]

I live in Southern Alberta

 

Temperatures are a bit dry with frost in the winter and decently hot summers. I live in a small town that's becoming bigger with a Wal-Mart, UFA, and Tim Hortons coming in in just the last few years, and now we're getting a Boston Pizza. I drive into a small city for college Tues and Thurs that's kinda a mix of city life and country life

 

Not the most exciting place to live though, it's pretty right-wing here with the drinking and teenage pregnancy/marriage that other people have said

Edited November 28, 2012 by slickster083

[Some_random_guy 1,857]

I live in a magical place called Shelby, North Carolina...

It almost never snows and is really nice in the summer.

Shelby is a town that is mostly a highway with a bunch of restaurants in it.

It's about an hour from Asheville and an hour from Charlotte.

I kinda like it here... Tis nice for the most part.

Edited November 28, 2012 by CrazyClay

[Tdroid 234]

Southern Norway, so it is pretty warm in summer and pretty cold in winter. Have had a most strange winter though, we haven't had snow before now.

[Runty 41]

South Africa - i could tell you of the two areas i've lived in here.

The east coast, next to the Indian ocean, it has a subtropical climate. Meaning very hot and humid, with rain, about every 20 minutes or so it alternates raining and sunshine.

Gauteng, the inland province, winters are cold (from my perspective) sometimes dropping below 0 degrees celcius. We had snow this year which was quite an occasion. (yay snow! first time i've seen it properly) Winter is very dry here, normally no rainfall for gauteng during winter. Then the summer rainfall and hot summer arrives.

All around it is usually very hot and heat waves over 50 degrees celcius aren't unexpected.

I live down the road from my school, though i do rarely venture out, being my shy self, and aware of the high crime rates.

Unfortunately, few people know about MLP here though.

[Lightning Fluttershy 1,844]

I don't know what Toronto is like in the winter. During the winter months I usually go up north to my grandmother's house in northern Manitoba where it's freezing. Like not even enjoyable cold. Just nasty, make you want to light yourself on fire cold.

 

In the summer though Toronto is alright. I can't really say that much interesting about it.

Edited November 29, 2012 by Death the Kid

[Starshine 16,333]

The place where I live can be described with just 4 simple words: Either freaking hot or wet.

 

We don't have any kind of seasons in here, our weather only knows pouring water like she owns the place, or bringing that blazing deathball of her and use it to fry what left of our sanity.

 

About the people... Can't really say anything, we are like a zoo here. Everyone is so colorful you can find any spectrum of rainbows in here. From the dastardly muggers to the wealthiest tourists, we all stand together trying to survive the heatwave.

 

The traffic is awfully stressful, though.

[StargazerDC 24]

I live in Italy, we have a hot summer and rather cold winter but it depends in what side you are. North and South have a little different climate.There are some amazing places like Rome, Florence, Milan, Naples. Personally I like Sardinia, a island between Italy and Spain, for the landscape and the sea.A thing I hate in my country are some people whom usually are close-minded, but there are amazing people too that I love, luckily. 

Edited November 29, 2012 by Dan Sparkle

[#Sandylootcrew 2]

I live in Maryland, US, we get hot summers, cold winters that usually dump tons of snow (lol snowed in october last year), mostly surrounded by forest and houses. People are mostly diverse, on the northwest and northeast sides of where i live there are huge farms and woods, tons of deer, and all that crap. Baltimore is nice (exception of the shooting or arsen of the day lol),  I don't live very close to it, so not much crime, but I will say the downtown is still nice.

Edited November 30, 2012 by #Sandylootcrew

[Awl60 1]

I live in this tiny town that pry has around 500-600 people in it. And the best part about it is that at 9 all but 2 stores close. And those 2 stores close at 10. Then we dont even have a decent place to eat here but a subway which practically runs the town. There have been 4 diffrent pizza businesses that have gone out of buisness because we had 2 at a time the whole time until the main one aslo went out of business. My town name is franklinville by the way. The thing that is good about it are the people are nice. And since its a small town its hard not to know people around town.

[Luckyy 31]

I live in Connecticut. I'm not going to mention my town, but I'm about an hour from the capitol of the state. I go to a school a lot like yours which is a brick building with three floors. They're WAY to many elementary schools in the area. About five? Only one high school and middle school which makes it really cramped. My town is considered a city I guess? It's a nice city where they're rarely many crimes like other towns in the state. On the other hand it's boring. It's small, but not small enough to know everybody in the town. Our spring and fall weather is manageable. Our summer which can get to one hundred degrees luckily not to often, and we usually get really cold winter's which can cause quite a few snow days.

Edited December 2, 2012 by Luckyy

[PepsiAl 0]

I live in a New Jersey apartment complex. Like any place, there are some good people, and there are some jerks. The apartment I live in tends to get so hot from late fall to very early in spring, that I probably wouldn't stand it without cracking a few windows open. I've lived at this place for most of my life. Unfortunately, it started getting expensive around June. My family talked to the housing manager to reconsider raising the rent, but she didn't want to hear it. And with my Dad out of work for a long while, it's very taxing. (I currently live with my folks.) The fact that I have been unemployed too doesn't help. Dad just ended his unemployment time recently. And I hope to the same to mine.