What kind of area do you live in?

[KR]

So i would like to know what kind of area you live in, is it a good place to live? Do you like living there? You know that kind of thing.

[Agathor]

Harpenden.
Come at me.

[Sasha]

turn of the century Jewish working-class neighbourhood now a majority maroccan/turkish immigrant workingclass neighbourhood rapidly gentrifying into white midle class.
This is what the hood looks like: http://biodata.asp4all.nl/andreas/2009/09012f97805f68e4/09012f97805f68e420480.png

[Omsk]

Psycho you live in the Kremlin compared to me.

[Os Cangaceiros]

Rural/Wilderness.

Currently urban, though.

[Bad Grrrl Agro]

College town. I don't go to college, but A2, MI is a college town.

[Искра]

My hometown:
http://croatia.hr/Images/t900x600-926/croatia_slavonija_osijek_0001.jpg

City I live in right now:
http://forum.croplus.net/files/zagreb_02_101.jpg

[Ostrinski]

Suburb of Lexington, KY, right outside the city. Can't stand rural areas. I feel so dead and displaced from everything there.

[The Douche]

Suburban, essentially, my town is the biggest "city" in our geographical region (I live on a peninsula) but its still pretty small.

We have all the problems of a city (gangs, drugs, crime) but none of the benefits (art, museums, culture, entertainment).

[Искра]

In my town there are no gangs (only pimps and drug dealers), there's art, culture etc. but it's crap... and there's no entertaiment (except clubs which play Serbian turbo-folk music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e5x1qss5OQ), which is the biggest crap in the world). Anyhow, you can see from the picture that its fucking sweet and nice, with a lot of parks etc. It has less then 100 000 citizens, so it's nice place to live.

On the other hand capitol if fucking shit and still there is almost no fucking fun. But then you have to create your own fun... and sometimes there are good gigs and stuff.

[Ostrinski]

We have all the problems of a city (gangs, drugs, crime) but none of the benefits (art, museums, culture, entertainment).This describes my city exactly.

[Fawkes]

P_DLD7OMUns

[mykittyhasaboner]

Some fucking capitalits had a brilliant idea: lets build a suburban shithole on a swamp and sell it!

http://www.residentialsouthflorida.com/Images%5CSouthFloridaSpace.jpg

[mykittyhasaboner]

My hometown:
http://croatia.hr/Images/t900x600-926/croatia_slavonija_osijek_0001.jpg

City I live in right now:
http://forum.croplus.net/files/zagreb_02_101.jpg

i know the second one is Zagreb, but what town is the first picture of? In Yugoslavia i generally prefer small towns like that one. It looks quite nice.


(except clubs which play Serbian turbo-folk music (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-e5x1qss5OQ), which is the biggest crap in the world).

LMAO "propadas jer se drogiras"! hahaa what crap.

[ellipsis]

San Francisco is cool, city life kinda bugs me out, but i love it.

[NewLeft]

I live in a commercial district.

[bcbm]

mixed student/worker/yuppie gentrifying downtown neighborhood of a medium sized university city

[Misanthrope]

Predominantly white "middle" class suburb of Chicago. An hour from Chicago, an hour from Wisconsin.

[A Revolutionary Tool]

I don't know how to describe it. It used to be rural but it's not really anymore. Almost 70,000 people, in between two dangerous and impoverished cities. Maybe suburban.

[RedAnarchist]

I live in a town on the outskirts of Preston, a small working-class city in Northern England. It's a town of around 12,000 people who mostly live in Victorian terraced houses (my house was built in 1893 and we had the old outside toilet until 2010, although it hadn't been used for years. The house didn't have a bathroom until the mid-1980's, when one of the bedrooms was converted into a bathroom and smaller bedroom, which I use - it has a window into the bathroom using that patterned bathroom window glass to let light in. I don't have to go through the bathroom to leave my bedroom, though - the two rooms have doors which open into a small area next to the landing) or semi-detached houses. The main road is full of hairdressers and pubs, and generally people are working-class. Crime is generally low and whilst people aren't rich, it's no deprived council or inner city estate. Most people tend to be in the centre or apolitical, with Labour being more popular than the Tories.

The attached picture is information about my area from checkmyfile.com, which can give you some information about social class in various postcodes.

My postcode has the social classifications C1C2D -

Social Classification 'C1'
Typically comprising nurses, technicians, pharmacists, salesmen, publicans, clerical workers , clerical officers within the civil service, police sergeants and constables and senior non commissioned officers within the armed services.

Social Classification 'C2'
Comprises skilled manual workers who have served apprenticeships; foremen, manual workers with special qualifications such as long distance lorry drivers, security officers and other non commissioned officers within the armed services.

Social Classification 'D'
Includes semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers, including labourers and people serving apprenticeships; clerical assistants in the civil service, machine minders, farm labourers, laboratory assistants, postmen and all other members of the armed services.

[Arlekino]

I live in snobbish are where is nothing going on. Only we say hello with big smile even we don't know the names whom living next door, ah that is sad live we living now. Not like before I used lived in communist block of flats when in those flats was everything kitchen, bedroom, parties, disco, children play spaces, meetings how we manages to put all activities in one flat. Oh we become too posh we need bigger rooms more furniture.

[Agent Ducky]

I live in a suburban home because I want to be classified. I want to be stereotyped.

Meh, suburbia is alright. I don't have anything else to compare it to. I guess I'll find out later on when I move around. There's a lot of annoying conservatives around and our local schools reportedly suck. I never had to attend them though. I dunno. Orange County is pretty suburban sprawlish in which they aimed to take up as much space as possible with a lot of pointless stuff so you have to have a car... I guess it's alright. I can't really complain.

[Landsharks eat metal]

I live in a rather well-to-do neighborhood (in the woods) in a rural area. There's definitely worse places I could live, but there's absolutely nothing to do. A lot of the people in my neighborhood aren't exactly rich but try to create the illusion that they are. Outside the neighborhood, most of the people I've met are racist conservative assholes.

[Искра]

i know the second one is Zagreb, but what town is the first picture of? In Yugoslavia i generally prefer small towns like that one. It looks quite nice.
Osijek.


LMAO "propadas jer se drogiras"! hahaa what crap.
Yeah... :D For people who don't know Croatian song is called "You are falling apart because you take drugs" hahaha

[ColonelCossack]

It looks sort of urban but it is, in actuality, suburban, where I live.

[Ele'ill]

I live just across the river from the city so I guess it's suburbs.


checkmyfile.com is only for the UK

[Pretty Flaco]

You can use city-data.com for the U.S. if you want enough info to drown in. :rolleyes:
Search a city and see what I mean.

The elementary and middle schools I used to go to, in Daytona Beach Florida, both got rated a 10!... out of 100. Yeeeeeaaaah booooyyy.

My old district of Daytona is also rated in the top 10 in florida for burglaries, car thefts, number of sex offenders, violent crimes, and amount of people below the poverty line.
Not even a big city but kind of fucked up.

About 2 years ago I moved into the middle of nowhere in Indianapolis. I live in one of those quickly developed neighborhoods that's in the middle of a cornfield. Our neighborhood is suburban but it's literally in the middle of nowhere and I go to a school in one of Indy's larger suburbs. The suburb is really nice and it always makes me jealous. :(
But I guess where we live now beats where we used to live. Here you don't got to worry about nothing too bad and our house is soooo much better. Almost any house beats a trailer. I didn't realize how much they sucked until we moved out of it.



EDIT
here's a comment from the site about my city
"If I had to name a town that is downright the worst Florida has then it would be Daytona Beach. Run down, dirty etc. the town needs to clean up their act as they are an embarrassment to other beautiful Florida towns."
You can tell it's a great place.

[X5N]

A suburb of a suburb of Los Angeles.

The immediate area I live in is okay, but completely boring as fuck. It's full of old culturally conservative people.

[Le Rouge]

I live in a rural area. Farms, fields, the smell of nature is everywhere, etc. We own a small milk farm. I live near the village center and we are pretty much encircled by farms... Things are always calm and peaceful. My village has 1500 inhabitants and everybody knows everybody in the village. :) I live south of Montreal and near of the Canadian-U.S borders. Too much info? :D I don't fucking care.

[Zav]

So i would like to know what kind of area you live in, is it a good place to live? Do you like living there? You know that kind of thing.
...


Seriously, is no one else put off by all the personal question threads new members are posting? Where do you live? What's your weight? How tall are you? How old are you? This person has 32 posts since November, and other members are giving hir pictures of their neighborhoods. Do you people have any idea how much pigs could do with that kind of information?

EDIT: Kier was also the one who posted the thread asking how many Anarchists were part of the Punk subculture, i.e. 'How do you dress?'.

[black magick hustla]

I have lived in a few places. My homecity is in Mexico and it is a northern industrial hometown, which was ripped appart by the cartels and the gangs. It was a "big" city. I then lived in Lansing, which is the capital of MI, and today I live in Calgary which is like the canadian version of Houston TX, lots of people employed by the oil sector but there are actually a lot of blue collar workers here as well.

[KR]

...


Seriously, is no one else put off by all the personal question threads new members are posting? Where do you live? What's your weight? How tall are you? How old are you? This person has 32 posts since November, and other members are giving hir pictures of their neighborhoods. Do you people have any idea how much pigs could do with that kind of information?

EDIT: Kier was also the one who posted the thread asking how many Anarchists were part of the Punk subculture, i.e. 'How do you dress?'.
Maybe you should relax a bit? I did't ask people where they lived, which is probably why most people did't actually mention a location, and only one poster posted a picture of his neighborhood. The reason i asked the other question was because i sometimes seems like anarchism is sub-culture of punk or something at least where i live, so i was interested in knowing if that was different elsewhere.

[Rocky Rococo]

At the intersection between an old suburb and a long agricultural area just starting to go exurban. Right in the middle of all that, one of America's largest amusement parks.

[NoOneIsIllegal]

Suburbia

My hometown and where I have lived most of my life:

http://gnrworld.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/omaha1.jpg


http://www.wunderground.com/data/wximagenew/b/burlington/39.jpg

http://childrensomaha.org/images/building/OmahaChamber_HenryDoorlyZoo3%201.jpg

[Olentzero]

Oh man, that second picture takes me back to my days as a toddler in front of the TV with Marlon Perkins. :lol: I remember thinking the jingle went "Mutual of Omaha is people you can count on when you're gonna interrupt."

Who you callin' Grandpa?! Get off my lawn, ya damn kids.

Anyway... I suppose I live in the suburbs, but there's so much forest and stuff around that it's borderline. I mean, we have a Coca-Cola factory and a shitload of apartment buildings, so it's not rural, but it's a good half-hour by train outside of Stockholm and I can walk for twenty minutes in almost any direction and be out in the middle of nowhere. Kinda hard to call.

[Le Rouge]

...


Seriously, is no one else put off by all the personal question threads new members are posting? Where do you live? What's your weight? How tall are you? How old are you? This person has 32 posts since November, and other members are giving hir pictures of their neighborhoods. Do you people have any idea how much pigs could do with that kind of information?

EDIT: Kier was also the one who posted the thread asking how many Anarchists were part of the Punk subculture, i.e. 'How do you dress?'.

I don't fear the police. I have nothing to hide.

[Crux]

So i would like to know what kind of area you live in, is it a good place to live? Do you like living there? You know that kind of thing.
A boring area in a boring town surrounded by dying industries. It's my hometown though so I do have some sentimental affection for it.

[9]

I live directly up the ass of Boeing.

[Zav]

Maybe you should relax a bit? I did't ask people where they lived, which is probably why most people did't actually mention a location, and only one poster posted a picture of his neighborhood. The reason i asked the other question was because i sometimes seems like anarchism is sub-culture of punk or something at least where i live, so i was interested in knowing if that was different elsewhere.
Sorry. Perhaps I was being a bit paranoid. Still, it's a bit creepy.

[Pretty Flaco]

...


Seriously, is no one else put off by all the personal question threads new members are posting? Where do you live? What's your weight? How tall are you? How old are you? This person has 32 posts since November, and other members are giving hir pictures of their neighborhoods. Do you people have any idea how much pigs could do with that kind of information?


Hey what's your favorite color? What's your mother's maiden name? What's you're favorite pass time? Do you have a credit card? What's your social security number? :rolleyes:

But yeah, he needs to be careful with what he asks.

[TheGodlessUtopian]

Small town, rural... it can be a drag but thank science for technology!

[PC LOAD LETTER]

I spent most of my life in a suburb of Atlanta, technically. One of the working-class ones. It's kind of hard to call it a suburb when it looks no different from the rest of Atlanta and you have a train stop .... Most neighborhoods have some kind of corner store/gas station, a couple of random restaurants, some apartments and small houses (my house was around 800sq.ft).

Most of my family lives in rural areas here in the south. I like it there, too. It's nice to be out and away from everyone. To be able to drive down the street, camp out for a few days in the woods, and not see a single other person than who you're with. It lets you see the earth's beauty without skyscrapers sticking up like a knife in its gut. All the wildlife out there ... a feeling of unrelenting freedom. Yet an area where racism and ignorance is so pervasive. In Atlanta, I never heard anyone say "nigger." Where most of my family lives, I hear it several times a day. It disgusts me.

I'll be back in Atlanta soon after a month-long vacation. It's a bittersweet reunion, because I could live in either place if I wanted.