Lay off of Kansas! (Wichita, Lawrence: condo, loan, homes)
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I found the painting. It's actually called "Gray and Gold" by John Rogers Cox. I can't seem to attach a picture, but here's a link. Maybe someone else can figure that out.
Ya know, I look at these pictures of New Jersey and think, "that's why I live on the prairie!"
In the city, they don't even have a full view of the SKY!! That can not be good for the soul...
And all of those cars, buildings, and PEOPLE! Even their "country" is crowded! How can one appreciate their neighbors if they can't escape them for a while??
No thanks!!
Give me land, lots of land and the starry skies above...
You'd be suprised what we have in New Jersey's Urban areas....Jersey City allows there Resident's to use the Cities Urban Reservoirs for Fishing and other stuff....Newark has at least 9 SQ of Urban Parks with another 3 SQ to open by 2015. We have at least 120 SQ mi of Urban wetlands in North Jersey. Yes many people can see the sky in Urban / Suburban Jersey, unless the NYC Smog or Hazy is hovering over. Most people bike , use Mass Transit (1.6million ) and the rest drive. Hehe , yea sometimes i bump into my neighbors on the Trains or Subways As for the soul , theres so much Culture here , your soul is always fired up with excitement Many Urban people have backyards , yes they are small. But that is better then nothing. Only people in the Disappearing projects , High Rise Condos & Lofts , although some of them have rooftop urban gardens. The one thing we don't have in Urban / Suburban but in Rural is Starry Skies.
I took this photo form the Eagle Rock Reservation , look how peaceful & green it is. You would have never known , that underneath the trees are some of the most densely populated cities in towns in the entire state.
Many older East Coast Urban / Suburban areas look like that. Unlike out west in your state , where the clear the trees.
I found the painting. It's actually called "Gray and Gold" by John Rogers Cox. I can't seem to attach a picture, but here's a link. Maybe someone else can figure that out.
Very pretty pictures, Nexis4Jersey. Thanks for sharing!
One of these days, we're going to go to Jersey because my fiance's cousins live up there (in Jackson, I believe). It's interesting when he tells me about the laws they have up there, like you have an attendant pump your gas at the gas station and you make left turns through jughandles on the road.
That's so cool that there's actually reliable mass transit in NJ. Al tells me that when we visit New Jersey, we'll probably take the train to NYC and back.
I know a lot of people give Rahway crap, but isn't Arthur Miller from there?
Unlike out west in your state , where the clear the trees.
Your love for New Jersey shines through, that's wonderful!
Just a slight correction...while many western states clear cut for logging, Kansas isn't one of them. Most of the trees you see in Kansas were planted by someone. We don't have many natural forests around and almost certainly not of the kind that anyone would be interested in logging.
You'd be suprised what we have in New Jersey's Urban areas....Jersey City allows there Resident's to use the Cities Urban Reservoirs for Fishing and other stuff....Newark has at least 9 SQ of Urban Parks with another 3 SQ to open by 2015. We have at least 120 SQ mi of Urban wetlands in North Jersey. Yes many people can see the sky in Urban / Suburban Jersey, unless the NYC Smog or Hazy is hovering over. Most people bike , use Mass Transit (1.6million ) and the rest drive. Hehe , yea sometimes i bump into my neighbors on the Trains or Subways As for the soul , theres so much Culture here , your soul is always fired up with excitement Many Urban people have backyards , yes they are small. But that is better then nothing.
As mentioned, it's a good thing it takes all kinds.
To me, the little bit of green you see amongst all of the concrete wouldn't be enough to salvage it from being stifling.
I honestly find that little bit of remaining vegetation sad... Kind of like where they tear out trees for subdivisions and name the streets for the trees they tore out...
I simply can not fathom being happy surrounded by so little of Nature...
At the same time, you won't find me living in the midst of a city and complaining about how terrible it is, either. I'm sure not going to try to tell people who do like it that it's hell, or boring, or limiting, or that the people who live there must be backward.
For me, places like that might be fine to visit but you couldn't pay me enough to live there.
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Many older East Coast Urban / Suburban areas look like that. Unlike out west in your state , where the clear the trees.
"Clear the trees"?? lol
This would imply that the trees should naturally be here and they've been removed... Isn't it amazing how we manage to remove the stumps and roots and everything?
Almost as though they were never here!
Here's what's going on with the bashers, IMO. There's a very significant contingent of C-D posters who are here primarily to complain about some place they had to move to. (Yeah, I'm guilty of it myself - I absolutely abhor the [developed areas of the] Mid-Atlantic: the cuisine, the grease, the grit, the lack of "cute," the lack of open space.) If someone who moves to some place that isn't habitually mocked/bashed by national media and entertainment outlets and doesn't like that place, (s)he might just conclude something like, "Eh, I guess this place and I don't get along," or, "Maybe I'm not living in a particularly good example, community-wise, of this state/city/whatever." However, if someone moves to a place that bad B comedies and unfunny standup comics regularly use for target practice and ends up not liking that place, they'll be more inclined to think something along the lines of, "So THIS is why everyone makes fun of/hates this place. It's all true!! Now I've experienced the suckiness first-hand."
But, yeah, you'll find people slamming NJ in the NJ section of City-Data, too. Recently, it's become quite popular to mock the Garden State. (I can't deny that I've been guilty of this myself a few times - the Jersey Devil must really be out for my blood by now.)
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Hate to kind of jump in here, but I think people in this area take advantage of "nature" more than they do in Kansas (or Missouri for that matter).
A few reasons. There is more to do when you leave the city. You can drive to the beaches (commercial beaches or state park beaches), you have the mountain areas (nothing like CO, but a hell of a lot more to do than in most of the midwest). Since there are more people, I think people make use of the open space better since there is more demand to use it for soemthing rather than look at it form the interstate.
One thing about this area that I find interesting is that so many people have rack systems on their cars for their outdoor activities. Canoe racks, bike racks, ski racks. Many cities are like this, but this area might rival the Denver area which is surprising. I have always had racks on my vehicles in KC and I always felt like I was in such a tiny minority there. Very few cars in KC have racks. I think that is very indicative of what people do in their spare time. There are zip line parks and downhill mountain biking resorts here in the summer. Water sports are very popular. So is sailboating. Urban biking is far more popular, but there is nothing like biking on a boardwalk or around a bay either. I live in an area with far more trees and deer than I care to be around actually. Plenty of nature here.
I guess my point is that just because you have big cities everywhere, doesn't mean people don't enjoy and take advantage of outdoor activities.
Once again, life is what you make of it. But trust me, you can live within 30 minutes of 8 million people and still have more non-city stuff to do than you can in Kansas .
Again, not a slam on Kansas, as much as defending the mid-atlantic. This is a very active area in every aspect of life, not just rush hour traffic.
Shawnee Mission Park is nice an all and the Flint Hills are pretty, but .
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That can not be good for the soul...
Most people bike , use Mass Transit (1.6million ) and the rest drive. Hehe , yea sometimes i bump into my neighbors on the Trains or Subways
As for the soul , theres so much Culture here , your soul is always fired up with excitement
Many Urban people have backyards , yes they are small. But that is better then nothing. Only people in the Disappearing projects , High Rise Condos & Lofts , although some of them have rooftop urban gardens. The one thing we don't have in Urban / Suburban but in Rural is Starry Skies.
It is beautiful!
