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Is where you live a reflection of you?

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Regrettable Juvenilia

14:54 / 09.03.04

Indeed, and the one time I went through a phase of being disillusioned with London, it was Brighton I considered moving to. But then I realised that a) this was partly novelty value, and b) I wasn't really sick of London, I was sick of being poor in London. Once I got a little bit more in the way of disposable income, I remembered what I like about the place...

Goodness Gracious Meme

15:01 / 09.03.04

well yeah, but for the foreseeable, i don't have access to that income. and my plans for goodness unfortunately involve me being very poor for several more years before the minty green goodness starts rolling in.

and yeah, i think the things you really like about it are best sampled on reg'lar visits. living here's a whole different thing

which works for me totally in reverse. i get to go to London 'on holiday'; see friends, do some reviewing, hang out, go for food/drinks, and before the evil soul- destroying commute hits I'm back by the sea...

Things i'd change. make the queer scene more diverse. Add,as i've said, zillions of non-white people. install a transporter between my flat and, say, Angel's .

Goodness Gracious Meme

15:08 / 09.03.04

Actually, Smoothly, it's the 'brash' in that sentence that's the clincher. If you replaced it with 'hippyish', you'd be down here with the rest of us.

Mind you it could be A Lot Worse.

HCE

16:27 / 09.03.04

I wish I could live where histrionic whack job lives. It sounds perfect, but I think I am not yet that person. Someday, hopefully.

EvskiG

16:27 / 09.03.04

I've found just about the perfect fit for my tastes.

I'm on the 12th floor of an East Village apartment building in NYC designed by Tibor Kalman. Funky clock and big statue of Lenin on the roof. View of the whole Lower East Side. A nice little balcony that the dog and cats seem to appreciate.

I've lived here on and off for more than a decade. The neighborhood has gentrified like crazy, with mixed consenquences. Rents have gone up, the crackheads and junkies have vanished, and a zillion or so upscale restaurants and boutiques have popped up on every corner.

Still, plenty of great restaurants, bars and shops of every description in the area. St. Marks Books, St. Marks Comics, and The Strand are a five-minute walk away. NYU, Astor Place, Union Square, and so forth are just a little further. Busy nightlife on the weekends.

Only thing is that at 35 I'm now too old to properly enjoy it.

salix lucida

18:08 / 09.03.04

I live about fifty miles from the ocean; always have. The water's very important to me, and when I'm stuck with a bunch of pagans trying to fit people into four-element slots, that's what I am. I'm "too close to DC", says my profile, and I'm just a bit too concerned with US politics for my own peace of mind. I'm also close to Baltimore, a city of kitschy, brightly colored, and self-aware gothic self-loathing. An old ground-floor apartment that smells a bit of plant life when I don't clean it often enough, scratched hardwood floors and rounded archways, forest nearby. I AM this place.

pachinko droog

19:55 / 09.03.04

I have a love/hate relationship with my small city. Its convenient in many repsects, its safe, lots of interesting people, very diverse, and yet, at the same time...its a weirdo magnet, its getting very gentrified, there's nowhere to fucking park, the rents are too high, there's too many self-involved arty-pretentious types, the restaraunts are way too expensive, drivers don't stop for pedestrians on the crosswalks, people never curb their dogs, and dealers charge way too much for a 1/4 ounce bag.

And the Kucinich supporters tend to get in your face a lot. So do the panhandlers.

Yet, I have lived here long enough to be considered a local. A local what I don't know...But a local nonetheless. Good local bands, cheap Mexican food and microbrews though. And martinis like you wouldn't believe.

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