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-Mullets
-Yinzers (urban rednecks)
-No Ocean or big Mountains
-All the women are married at age 22.
-everybody is negative (even me!)
-We haven't built a new skyscraper above 500 feet for decades.
-Everybody only cares about a damn football team
-Our infrastructure sucks
-To many boomer aged people that bring no culture vibe
-everybody is either white or black. Not enough international culture.
I still love my city, but can get negatives of it.
I have also learned this living where I live. Sometimes a lower cost of living isn't worth the troubles you might find. For myself, I have learned this before the age of 18. Sometimes a place is cheaper because it doesn't have as much to do or see or it isn't as nice. Quality is something to look at.
outside of the posh places like sf proper, beverly hills, manhattan, nicer areas of other cities...yeah..that extra cost you pay give or take... if you plan on utilizing an area are definitely built into the cost.
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That is one of the biggest problems, if not THE biggest problem, in the South. It is SO difficult to get the older generation to try something different. They don't understand innovation or the rate at which it naturally occurs in human society. It's like "pulling teeth" (as they say) down here.
good observation, a lot of the new generation are just as progressive as other regions of the country, but the older generation which were alive when the south was mostly dirt poor in the 50s 60s here is still stuck in the good ol days and still control everything
oh and another reason I dislike where I live... the total lack of palatable food.
Seriously just woke up this morning, and there is a section in the paper called Limelight... it is for arts entertainment music and food going on this week. Front page article on it this morning for their weekly food review, 2 1/2 out of 4 hats ! for... Golden Corral!!!
This is seriously what most people here think good food is and it shows by the restaurants available here as well as obviously the local newspaper, which people actually hate it here for being too "liberal" LMAO
also in addition to their restaurant review of the week in the arts and entertainment filler... they have a small gourmet restaurant section with prices/hats/fare... this week is listed among the other crappy local restaurants they like to call food...... Chili's (3 hats), Ruby Tuesdays(3 hats), China First buffet(3 hats), CiCi's Pizza (3 hats), The Olive Garden (3 1/2 hats), Qdoba (3 1/2 hats)
1. When you run into someone's shopping cart at the store you just get stared at ,no words no apologies or smiles.
2. Everyone honks at everything.
3. "Oh my Gawd. Who's Cawling"
4. Rain ,thunderstorms,cold then 80 degrees the next day.
5. Smokers everywhere.
6. Never seen so many black suits
7. Some faces of color but goups not intermingling/talking with each other
8. Frogs peeping all night and waking me up every morning
9. Too much beef
10. Horrible Chinese food
also in addition to their restaurant review of the week in the arts and entertainment filler... they have a small gourmet restaurant section with prices/hats/fare... this week is listed among the other crappy local restaurants they like to call food...... Chili's (3 hats), Ruby Tuesdays(3 hats), China First buffet(3 hats), CiCi's Pizza (3 hats), The Olive Garden (3 1/2 hats), Qdoba (3 1/2 hats)
Eww. I could care less if I ever saw the inside of a Chili's or Olive Garden ever again. Chili's is one of the most popular night spots in Little Rock and it gets SO boring. And Its laughable they even consider Olive Garden "Italian" food. It's like Sbarro only 3 times the price. Little Rock actually used to have a few non-chain Italian places but most of them closed in the last year. People here don't do a very good job at supporting local establishments.
1. When you run into someone's shopping cart at the store you just get stared at ,no words no apologies or smiles.
2. Everyone honks at everything.
3. "Oh my Gawd. Who's Cawling"
4. Rain ,thunderstorms,cold then 80 degrees the next day.
5. Smokers everywhere.
6. Never seen so many black suits
7. Some faces of color but goups not intermingling/talking with each other
8. Frogs peeping all night and waking me up every morning
9. Too much beef
10. Horrible Chinese food
Eww. I could care less if I ever saw the inside of a Chili's or Olive Garden ever again. Chili's is one of the most popular night spots in Little Rock and it gets SO boring. And Its laughable they even consider Olive Garden "Italian" food. It's like Sbarro only 3 times the price. Little Rock actually used to have a few non-chain Italian places but most of them closed in the last year. People here don't do a very good job at supporting local establishments.
same I have seen here... there have been a few cool spots over the years... but they go out of business because everybody wants the chains. Drive by an applebee's, chili's, golden corral or on the border and the entire parking lot is packed with people waiting to get in.
was looking through that link again at some of the other "gourmet" restaurants... boston market 3 1/2 hats! red lobster 3 hats!, outback steak house 3 1/2 hats! There was also a huge local excitement anytime mcdonalds or something has a new special. Office email print out excitement, traffic jams excitement. The thing is I would like to go for a nice night out and be social, but everybody heres idea of going out social IS at applebee's or ruby tuesdays or something... *blarggg*
olive garden is some upscale stuff!!!
I hear valentines day here you have to make reservations weeks in advance at Red Lobster.
1. not enough foot traffic in some neighborhoods at night (leading to crime)
2. NIMBYs! (translation - "not in my back yard!!") - impedes development
3. poor city council leadership (even with mayore Nutter)
4. some neighborhoods outside of CC are very parochial, small minded
5. the delaware waterfront wasteland (a bigbox casino with a massive parking lot
was the solution). i'll still take it, because its been a concrete wasteland for 25 yrs.
6. can't go to a bar to watch other sports teams other than philly teams
7. bars/clubs/lounges close at 2 am (yeah, i know. but i don't want to go to an after hours club)
8. people calling "water ice" - "wooder ice"
9. NIMBYs!!
10. dirty - locals and tourists alike just toss garbage on the ground with no remorse. i actually wintessed
some tourists on south street laughing an calling it "filthadelphia" while tossing their wrappers on the ground.
no one's perfect
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same I have seen here... there have been a few cool spots over the years... but they go out of business because everybody wants the chains. Drive by an applebee's, chili's, golden corral or on the border and the entire parking lot is packed with people waiting to get in.
was looking through that link again at some of the other "gourmet" restaurants... boston market 3 1/2 hats! red lobster 3 hats!, outback steak house 3 1/2 hats! There was also a huge local excitement anytime mcdonalds or recently with kfc having a new food item, like the grilled chicken. The thing is I would like to go out and be social, but everybody heres idea of going out social IS at applebee's or ruby tuesdays or something... *blarggg*
olive garden is some upscale stuff!!!
I know what you mean. I am going to Chili's tonight and I can probably expect at least an hour wait. There used to be a nice upscale local seafood establishment in Little Rock, and it was the only place you could get raw oysters, but of course it couldn't compete with Red Lobster and folded a few months ago.
What makes me mad is when I am on vacation somewhere and my friends want to eat at the same chains we could eat at in Little Rock. I don't understand the mindset of never wanting to broaden your horizons.
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