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Vancouver = Sushi restaurants.
There's literally one on every corner it seems. The main drag up from me has 3 or 4 in a 3 or 4 block radius and that's not unusual. Most are run by Chinese of course, the city is about 20% or more Asian but the Japanese population isn't actually all that large.
Texasgal
(17,047 posts)on every corner! I love it!!!
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)I hear it's fantastic but we don't get much up here.
Texasgal
(17,047 posts)here!
Sushi? Not so much!
AnneD
(15,774 posts)More than you can shake a tortilla at. But Houston is an international city and we have a wide variety. The only thing we need is Japadogs and Tim Horton's
cyberswede
(26,117 posts)it's a college town. It just made the list for top party school. So proud.
rurallib
(62,444 posts)per capita.
a la izquierda
(11,797 posts)are happy we got bumped.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)As you can see from my reply to the travelling thread I've done my share of travelling but ironically I've done very little in North America. I've barely done any of the US and Canada. NYC is near the top of my list for cities in NA to visit.
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)olddots
(10,237 posts)they moved in when we should have moved out but still the setting is worth it .
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)Locut0s
(6,154 posts)I do cherish the liberal atmosphere here.
You DO have lots of beauty and wonderful semi tropical weather though!
Scuba
(53,475 posts)Denninmi
(6,581 posts)Since there are so many Japanese transplants, we gave sushi everywhere. Restaurants, grocery stores, even gas stations (scary! - actually boring but safe enough I guess). The better grocery stores have actual on-site sushi chefs, Kroger stores here actually can make some pretty sophisticated sushi.
We also have an enormous Arab/Middle Eastern population, so tons of Middle Eastern food. Yum.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Very very yum!!
Billy Love
(117 posts)Practically in every corner.
And no I don't live in California.
nolabear
(41,991 posts)And alligators.
hack89
(39,171 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)It's a popular foreign vacation destination for Japanese honeymooners, for example (probably #2 behind Honolulu).
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,458 posts)The lumber yard and local bank are in collusion together by keeping them in circulation.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)(with "bills" being Federal Reserve Notes, United States Notes, or Silver Certificates)
Brother Buzz
(36,458 posts)I haven't seen any in decades.
What's the difference between Federal Reserve Notes and United States Notes?
Cost plus a SASE, I could send any reasonable number your direction.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)from the Civil War era until they were discontinued in 1971 and replaced completely by Federal Reserve Notes, which are issued by the Federal Reserve Bank. The last $2 United States Note was issued with the series year 1963, and is distinguished by its red seal, rather than the more familiar green seal used on Federal Reserve Notes. The $2 bills that are probably in circulation where you are probably feature the Signing of the Declaration of Independence on the back, a design that was introduced when the $2 bill was resurrected for the 1976 Bicentennial.
A couple of interesting notes about $2 bills-- they were never very popular because they were considered "unlucky". People used to tear corners off of them to ward off the "bad luck". Perhaps they were considered "unlucky" because so many of them were used to bet on losing horses at the $2 window. Another possible reason is that another word for "two" is "deuce", and "Old Deuce" is another name for "The Devil".
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I picked two up in of all places The Philippines when I exchanged money at the end of my trip last year. I plan on holding on to them.
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)graywarrior
(59,440 posts)livetohike
(22,157 posts)taterguy
(29,582 posts)handmade34
(22,757 posts)trees?? ...maple syrup... loons... tourists, right now... snow in a few months (or maybe weeks )
rrneck
(17,671 posts)laundry_queen
(8,646 posts)'cept in the last few years they suddenly added a bunch of lights (I think we're up to 8 now). And 2 new liquor stores. I think we have 6 now.
When I was growing up, it was gas stations. At the time we had a population of 2500, not near any major highway and were 10 minutes from a major city but we still had 4 gas stations. Now the population is 14,000 and we have...4 gas stations. LOL.
femmocrat
(28,394 posts)And yahoos.
pintobean
(18,101 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)As the son of two IU grads, I take umbrage!
pintobean
(18,101 posts)Any time someone from Indiana comes to St. Louis, this has to be explained to them. I think I was in my teens before I found out that hoosier also meant someone from Indiana.
vanlassie
(5,681 posts)Not a fan.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Arctic Dave
(13,812 posts)Used car lots.
ConcernedCanuk
(13,509 posts).
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I left in 1965 with my parents when they moved to Toronto.
Spend many days on the shores of Lake Ontario,
and swimming off the pier pictured below,
just a 10 minute bike ride from my old/first home.
Wintertime we would slide down the ice/snow that collected around the edges.
We were 4 kids within 3 years of each other,
All of us loved the outdoors.
Still do.
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Locut0s
(6,154 posts)I understand it's much better again but at one point it reached pretty icky levels.
ConcernedCanuk
(13,509 posts).
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Sometimes the algae/seaweed was so thick you had to push through feet of it to be able to swim.
Took us awhile to figure out that dumping our shit in it was not a good idea.
And we are the "master" race . . .
right . .
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u4ic
(17,101 posts)the thing I remember most about summer was the smell of dead, rotting fish. It was polluted with a capital P. Nobody in their right mind would swim there. I went back two years ago and it was blue. I don't ever recall seeing a blue Lake Ontario before.
lastlib
(23,271 posts)We even export it.........
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)NV Whino
(20,886 posts)alarimer
(16,245 posts)I'd prefer bars, honestly.
Instead we have every flavor or strip-mall type con-artist church there is, plus all the usual mainstream fonts of hypocrisy.
mnhtnbb
(31,401 posts)I live in the college town of Chapel Hill, NC.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,401 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,401 posts)He's received a Fulbright Scholarship to do a research project in Berlin
using archived works of the Austrian born actor/director, Max Reinhardt, from early 20th Century. He leaves Monday and will
be there until next July. Making grad school applications for 2014.
Are you connected to Yale?
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)with the city of New Haven. But Yale of course is the big player here.
Yale Drama School is renown, of course...Paul Newman, Meryl Streep, Jody Foster...so many luminaries, went there. Best of luck to your son. The School is super competitive, but it sounds like he has a good shot at it. His research project sounds fabulous...I hope he has a wonderful time in Berlin. From what I hear Berlin is a great place to experience!
mnhtnbb
(31,401 posts)He was a double major in college--German and Comparative Lit--and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He did a semester abroad
in Germany three years ago--and is fluent in German. His difficulty is that he is legally blind
due to a juvenile, genetic form of macular degeneration. But he has never let it stop him.
Today was a LONG day. He took the GRE--45 miles from here--and of course due to his vision
doesn't drive. So I took him. Applying for modifications for the testing process was a major PITA.
He applied in mid-June and they finally gave him a test date--4 days before he leaves for Berlin!
Then when he got there today--they tried to screw him on the screen magnification and only give him
enlarged print, but he prevailed and they gave him both the extra time and screen magnifications.
He left his GRE prep book in the car and I took a look at it. Wow. So different from when I took it 40 years ago.
All the testing is done by a private company. They've modified the test and it's now 3 hours 40 minutes. He had
extended time--due to his vision--and took all his extra time: 4 hours 50 minutes. Crazy. I thought it was
humorous that the test prep book said "All that the GRE tests is your ability to take the GRE." Apparently, it's a major scam.
Most of the schools he's applying to don't require GRE test scores.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)remarkable advances in genetic medicine, according to his doctor. He is 9. We are hoping for the best. It's funny, he's fluent in Italian and it's like his hearing is more acute as a result of his impaired sight. He speaks Italian with a near native Roman accent, we are told (he's never been to Italy, but his teacher is a native speaker from Rome).
All I can say about the GRE's is I'm relieved that I didn't have to take them for my MALS graduate program!
Sounds to me like your son will be well prepared for Yale. I hope he is accepted and it is what he hoped it would be!
mnhtnbb
(31,401 posts)Remains to be seen whether it will help him--since he had his sudden loss of vision at age 9--
due to how long the optic nerve will have not been functioning normally.
It was a personal reason we were so pissed at Bushie--setting back the clock on stem cell research--
as if there weren't enough other policy reasons to dislike the guy!
Hope the treatment for your grandson progresses quickly!
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)He has no depth perception as a result. His current doctor is very optimistic that there will be a breakthrough very soon and he will have much better vision, be able to drive, etc. The school is very helpful and he gets good support.
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)Thai restaurants
Pot holes
Somali immigrants (more than any other city in the U.S.)
Lutheran churches
Stucco houses
Recursion
(56,582 posts)My other hometown, Starkville, MS, has a lot of cowbells.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Very good food. Though the sour bread took some getting used to.
Recursion
(56,582 posts)They sell it in the bodegas in DC, and I miss that. There's something kind of like it here in India, but it's not quite it.
MiddleFingerMom
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... is that I can't find onion naan. The other big omission here is Korean kimchee.
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Recursion
(56,582 posts)And ghee naan with okra is the best breakfast ever. But sometimes you want that fermented, floppy Ethiopian bread.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)I love regular Naan, didn't know of onion Naan, nom nom nom And yes good Kimchee is very good.
elleng
(131,076 posts)Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)HarveyDarkey
(9,077 posts)I grew up here and moved away for about 40 years. The gurus, roos for short to the locals that are left have taken over everything.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Hamburger joints. Klunkers on the road. Vacant shops downtown. Wal-Mart shoppers. Houses being torn down.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)Just Small Town USA, in a state that has no vehicle inspection law, where Wal-Mart and urban sprawl have made downtown shopping a thing of the past, and where the city seems hell-bent on tearing down houses for some indiscernible reason (at least a dozen houses torn down in or near my mom's neighborhood in just the past year, for example).
They tear down a lot of houses in my neighborhood in Japan as well, but it's not the city that is going it-- it's the homeowners (at least 6 houses torn down in my neighborhood in just the past year). Sometimes they do it because the numerous earthquakes have caused too many structural problems, sometimes they do it because they want something bigger that covers the whole lot (like what the Hong Kong immigrants were doing in Vancouver), sometimes it seems like they just want a new house design that sticks out from the others.
fizzgig
(24,146 posts)we're nationally known for our beer.
we're also a college town, so we have the world's supply of bars.
RainDog
(28,784 posts)Nashville, TN
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Flowers in the summer, snow in the winter.
No Vested Interest
(5,167 posts)All quite nice.
BainsBane
(53,056 posts)MiddleFingerMom
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MiddleFingerMom
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Lots of musicians, artists, college students, LGBT and liberal folks -- I think of it like
West Berlin before the wall came down -- a big lake of Blue surrounded by an
endless expanse of Red desert.
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We're about to have a massive influx of snowbirds -- folks who just winter here.
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Now, growing up in Jackson, Michigan (1960's-70's 50,000 people, now about
35,000), the biggest thing we had were the Cascades -- I believe the highest
manmade waterfall in the country at the time. Beautiful lighting and every
night after the sun went down the local symphony orchestra would put on a
free concert -- synchronizing the color changes of the different levels and
sprays with the music. VERY cool.
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The backside of that hill had an official Soapbox Derby track (never entered,
but we made a LOT of dangerous, rickety and EXCITING Spanky & Our Gang
"cars" out of 2x4's and orange crates and tricycle or baby carriage wheels.)
Our moms would have FREAKED if they had seen us careening down that
hill, sometimes losing a wheel and skidding off into the big oaks and firs.
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The side of the hill -- right next to the falls was called Devil's Dip -- as it
followed the dropping of the falls themselves. We ruined many a toboggan
running headlong into the trees on the sides of the narrow pathways.
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During the day, we used to race each other to see who could climb the
concrete "steps" of the falls themselves the fastest.
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handmade34
(22,757 posts)"The Cascades" ...loved to see the lights play there when a kid
AngryOldDem
(14,061 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)their hometowns, schools they attended, places they've lived, year they were born, etc., etc., etc...
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Dash87
(3,220 posts)woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Lars39
(26,110 posts)that had compilation of facts, member by member that had been gleaned over a year or more. Downright creepy.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)I also know someone who was contacted out of the blue by a stranger who shocked him by reciting detailed information about his life, down to information about his children and coworkers, things he had said about his boss, exactly where he lived and worked, his recent personal issues, etc. The guy ended the call by saying something along the lines of, "You don't need to worry about me; I will never contact you again or use the information. I just thought you should realize how much about yourself you're putting online."
Data mining is big, profitable, and often extremely disreputable business, even apart from the personal creepy risks of putting your life online. I dislike the constant stream of threads here that tease out personal information.
Thanks very much for your post.
patricia92243
(12,598 posts)Chan790
(20,176 posts)DC has an entirely appropriated from elsewhere culture...it's a mixing pot of the cultures of everybody who comes to DC from all over and stays; but it really has no culture of it's own. There are more Red Sox and Yankees fans in DC than Nationals or Orioles fans.
We have a lot of jumbo slice...that's a DC thing. For decades, pizza in DC stunk (somewhat by intent, better pizza places would open and nearly immediately fail. Meanwhile, Pizza Boli, Pizza Hut and Papa John's won the reader's choice award in the Washington City Paper between them for about 20 years straight)...so these two brothers who own competing pizza restaurants in Adams Morgan one block apart decided that if DC couldn't be known for good pizza, they'd be known for massive pizza. So one started selling large slices of pie, the other started selling larger slices of pie, then the first one went bigger and stayed open all night, so the other one also stayed open all night, then other pizza places got in on the act. 15 years later, DC is known for it's giant slices of pizza. A typical DC jumbo slice weighs 2lbs. measures 16" in length, is 1/6 of a 32"-diameter pizza, contains ~2250calories, comes with a can of soda, does not come with your choice of toppings, can be purchased somewhere in DC 24/7/365 and costs ~$6.
DC is now considered a hotbed of artisan pizzas...but the huge low-quality jumbo slice persists as a DC icon.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)Lol does indeed look low quality.
Chan790
(20,176 posts)I hear it's spreading to other cities now too.
mucifer
(23,559 posts)Believe me back in the 70s and 80s there was a lot more hot dogs and Italian beef and almost no vegetarian restaurants.
Chicago is changing:
http://www.happycow.net/north_america/usa/illinois/chicago/
Vegetarian restaurants are everywhere including the south side and the west side.
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)This is Wayne NJ, where I lived from first grade through the end of high school.
murielm99
(30,755 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)Orlando good things:
Lakes
Restaurants, all kinds
Trees
air conditioned places
I could think of more but I'm feeling lazy lol
Not so good things:
Strip Malls
traffic
Heat
Humidity
Roaches
Kali
(55,019 posts)the nearby town "power structure" has a lot of desire for growth no matter the actual cost. that was one good thing about the economic collapse. holding steady at 3 stoplights and one walmart for now
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)If there were a Grand Theft Auto: San Jose, you'd pass one about every fifteen seconds.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)That and box stores.
Broken_Hero
(59,305 posts)early May til the beginning of September, plus a lot of churches.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)They have big freaking calf and upper leg muscles.
Heh..
Just kidding. (TAXI!!!)
steve2470
(37,457 posts)just to avoid taxis and lots of hill climbing
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)That will deliver food to your door. Not just talking about Pizza. I mean all kinds of stuff from Falafals to Sushi and Dim Sum. You can find almost any ethnic kind of food place that will deliver to you.. such as Chinese, Japanese, Indian, Italian, Turkish, Greek, and even Brazilian!
steve2470
(37,457 posts)I could rent but I could never own. I would have to move way out east of SF to own anything.
Lucky you
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)My parents sold our house years ago, and moved back east. I have my own little apartment on the garage level. Thankfully my upstairs neighbors are considerate enough not to let their car idle in the garage pushing exhaust fumes into my place. But a few years ago I had then neighbors from hell upstairs. I could tell you a ton of stories, on what they were like. God, so glad they were forced to leave.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)I'm sure you have many bad stories, I have a few of my own lol (apartment neighbor stories).
Bunnahabhain
(857 posts)bars that cater to US teenagers, strip joints, Asian restaurants (yum), and closed factories. Not on every corner the the casino cannot be understated either.
madamesilverspurs
(15,806 posts)Seriously. The town is known for its, um, olfactory essence. It's much better since they moved the cattle feedlots out east of town, but it's still noticeable to people who aren't used to it.
Couple years back our DA ran for Senate, asked for votes because "I don't wear high heels." That was a dig against his primary opponent. He continued that he'd go to DC "wearing boots covered with good old Weld County bullshit". The bumper stickers wrote themselves. He lost. But he's trying again. The bumper sticker people are smiling. His bullshit is their gold.
mnhtnbb
(31,401 posts)Neoma
(10,039 posts)Bleh.
DebJ
(7,699 posts)and a lot of high and mighty rednecks dragging it lower and lower.
On edit: that is the town I have lived in now for 10 years.
Aristus
(66,446 posts)For the other 48 weeks out of the year when the Western Washington State Fair isn't going on, the fairgrounds host a diverse series of shows and exhibitions; knitting conventions, paper dolls collectors' meets, car shows, etc.
But the most numerous and popular of the events are the gun shows. For the space of a weekend, my quiet small town just east of tough, working-class, progressive Tacoma is overrun by pickup trucks bearing big- bellied, baseball-capped gun enthusiasts and their steatopygous wives.
I stay out of their way. Best to be invisible to people for whom everything is a potential target...
HipChick
(25,485 posts)prob before then too..
King Henry 8th rode through it once, liked what he saw..decided to stop off overnight, found there was a monastery nearby..ordered the all the monks killed and have their gold stolen..their ghosts are still seen today..some are headless bodies carrying heads..
Nice chap..
Bertha Venation
(21,484 posts)Lady Freedom Returns
(14,120 posts)Joplin, MO= Hardcore Republicans
Tucson, AZ= People who say they are conservative, but they are more liberal than they really know!
kwassa
(23,340 posts)The local schools will have kids from 90 different nations.
Suburbs of DC.
LadyHawkAZ
(6,199 posts)and all their associated noise pollution.
OxQQme
(2,550 posts)There's a small one right inside of the city limits that's a city park.
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pps.org/graphics/gpp/mt_tabor_2_large&imgrefurl=http://www.pps.org/great_public_spaces/one?public_place_id%3D566&h=287&w=359&sz=43&tbnid=Ca-Cayg5Ll2MoM:&tbnh=90&tbnw=113&zoom=1&usg=__xVgve7FvUq68dAj3_OoWp_WuHlQ=&docid=9jZ98X8RvKlJfM&sa=X&ei=zzUnUsaQE8LliALMg4Ew&ved=0CC4Q9QEwAQ&dur=599#imgdii=Ca-Cayg5Ll2MoM%3A%3B8-b7ntTuZJa5AM%3BCa-Cayg5Ll2MoM%3A
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)IDemo
(16,926 posts)Myrina
(12,296 posts)n/t
hunter
(38,325 posts)Field workers, packing house workers, refrigeration mechanics... Every other person in our city works in some job connected to agriculture.
There are many Mexican restaurants too, everywhere. Push carts and folding chairs, catering trucks, small little places with a few seats, and bigger places with dozens of tables. And most of them are very good.
My favorite story: I was walking along when a tourist family driving a nice car stopped and asked me where a Mexican Restaurant was. I was sort of dumbfounded because I could see a few from where I was standing, and they must have seen a few more just driving along. Then they said, "You know, like a Chili's..."
I think they stopped and asked me because I was the only white guy around.
I directed them to the shopping center on the other side of the freeway, the one with the Outback Steakhouse, Chili's, and other chain restaurants.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)I'm always a little amused and frankly pissed off by those who refuse to challenge themselves to try the really authentic stuff. I'm really adventurous when it comes to food and I'll eat anything at least once. For me I'm always looking for the most authentic dinning experience. I hate chain ethnic food restaurants.
hunter
(38,325 posts)... but that's a novelty for them because it serves "Chinese Food" American style which is nothing like the food back home.
The menus are Chinese, many of the people working there speak some form of Chinese, but the food is something else again.
In the process, cooks adapted southern Chinese dishes such as chop suey, and developed a style of Chinese food not found in China. Restaurants (along with Chinese laundries) provided an ethnic niche for small businesses at a time when the Chinese people were excluded from most jobs in the wage economy by ethnic discrimination or lack of language fluency.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Chinese_cuisine
My parents will not eat in chain restaurants if they can help it. As kids traveling in Mexico or Southern Europe (very, very, inexpensively...) we ate some amazing food. Some of it amazing in very delicious ways and, rarely, some amazing in unpleasant ways.
It seems to me that being "safe" doesn't really reduce the chances of an unpleasant experience, but it does reduce the chances of an amazingly delicious experience.
I'm glad my parents taught me that.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)not the one I claim because I hate it (long story), then the answer would be racists. That may explain why I don't claim it as my home town.
Locut0s
(6,154 posts)I absolutely despise racism to the core of my being.
davidpdx
(22,000 posts)I was old enough to recognize it and know what BS it was. We had very few minorities even in my HS years. One of these days when I get my hands on my yearbooks again (they are sitting at my mom's). I'll have to look through it to remember for sure. My 25th is next year. I almost went to my 20th, but ended up changing my mind a few days before (I skipped my 10th too). Fortunately there are not many people I care to see so it's no huge loss. While I'm sure it would be more accepted now, my wife is actually Korean.
sagat
(241 posts)Phentex
(16,334 posts)and bad drivers.
av8rdave
(10,573 posts)NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)magical thyme
(14,881 posts)river meets ocean here.Cows, ponies, llamas and alpacas. Also lots of falling down farmhouses, shacks and trailers. Poverty. Wealth. And we got our very own 1%-er a few years ago when he took early retirement from CEO of Putnam financial and bought an oceanfront estate.
And on a clear night, lots of stars. Billions and billions of them...
PasadenaTrudy
(3,998 posts)South Pasadena is a Tree City USA award winner.
GoCubsGo
(32,086 posts)Oh, to be in Vancouver...
bunnies
(15,859 posts)Heh. Go figure.
Jamaal510
(10,893 posts)BlueJazz
(25,348 posts)Rhiannon12866
(205,858 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)DFW
(54,436 posts)It has grown a lot since I lived there as a child (population now in five digits!!), but most people have still never heard of it except for a vague reference or two in adventure novels or detailed Civil War stories that take place in the northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, DC.
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krispos42
(49,445 posts)Lots and lots of pizza.
I think nearly all of them are independent, too. Or at least a local franchise.
And of course, there's a Dominoes.
The rest seem to be independents.
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Today I went out walking and came across a house for sale.
House is pretty small, maybe 800 square feet. No basement, and in Cd'A they will tell you if there is one. Neighborhood not the ghetto but also not spectacular.
Lot is pretty small too, probably 40 x 75. The front yard is MAYBE eight feet deep.
Roof not in stellar shape. Cheap-ass vinyl siding that needs replaced, and is totally out of character with the neighborhood. Windows not great. No fence. No garage. Twenty blocks from the lake (the reason people move here) and across the street from an office building. Landscaping consists of lawn without shrubs or flowers. Doors okay but not wonderful. The realtor had a picture of the kitchen on a printed flier stuffed in an info-box hanging on the "for sale" sign; the appliances looked like what you would have gotten ten or fifteen years ago by going to the appliance store and telling the lady to sell you one step up from the cheap stuff, and the cabinets looked like the MDF ones from Lowe's.
Price: $205,000. The same house in Spokane, 30 miles to the west, would be about a third of that.
GreenPartyVoter
(72,381 posts)steve2470
(37,457 posts)School bond issues are routinely voted down in my neck of the South.
The tea party was out demonstrating their hatred today.
Raine1967
(11,589 posts)coffee shops. I found out today we are now going to have 6th coffee house. I joke today that we are becoming the Seattle of the East.
Some of the strollers here are more expensive than the dogs.
I live in the Del Ray area of Alexandria, Virginia.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)3 of them excellent and another is so so.
Common Sense Party
(14,139 posts)HeiressofBickworth
(2,682 posts)by freeway, side streets and bus into Seattle where there are many, many attractions. Just availed myself of this attribute today -- took the bus to Seattle where I went to two (yes 2) movies. And then took the bus home. Sure beats driving and trying to find a place to park.
greatauntoftriplets
(175,749 posts)I'm not in Ireland.