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headkicker_girl · 2007-12-04 23:04:05

...or maybe not.

We should start a separate thread on places we wouldn't want to live. Been to Bakersfield once; no desire to EVER return.

fnord · 2007-12-05 02:15:42

I also would not want to live in Bakersfield or anywhere in California’s Central Valley. I nominate anywhere in Florida as being a horrible place to live. I know, because I’ve lived there and once my parents were gone, I haven’t been back.

Decadence · 2007-12-05 03:03:46

Headkicker wrote:
We should start a separate thread on places we wouldn't want to live.

Should I ever find my ass in South Korea again in this life-time, I'd best be deceased; Or, somebody is losing a vital organ.

I was attempting to bring up an image of a typical South Korean hovel; However, this came up instead (I don't know much about "art;" But, . . .):

Lurker · 2007-12-05 07:05:41

Portola, California is a place I would never live. Growing up, we called it Poor-toilet. (not to be confused with Portola Valley in the SF bay area) All the kids there look the same...I guess Uncle Dad really got around.

Taint · 2007-12-05 13:01:31

California's central valley is a cesspool. I can't imagine having to wake up every morning with the knowledge I had to face another day in Sacramento, or Stockton, or Modesto, or Fresno, or Bakersfield... *shudders*

kim · 2007-12-05 15:14:01

Taint wrote:
California's central valley is a cesspool. I can't imagine having to wake up every morning with the knowledge I had to face another day in Sacramento, or Stockton, or Modesto, or Fresno, or Bakersfield... *shudders*

I work right in Chatsworth. It is terrible. Lucky for me I don't live in any areas like that ... they are just near by.

Taint, my forbidden love, did you go to school for what you do now for a living? I don't know the details but I believe you work for a catering company or?

Taint · 2007-12-05 15:30:04

Kim, I did, indeed. I've been studying in the culinary arts program at City College of San Francisco. It was a good move, and I can't speak highly enough of the instructors or the program.

I've been doing catering up until now. I've just started cooking for a small chain of high-end markets that specialize in take-out foods and entrees. I'll do the occasional catering gig from now on, but my major concentration will be on the markets and several writing projects I had postponed until I finished school.

MSG Tripps · 2007-12-05 15:53:27

kim wrote:
Taint, my forbidden love

Hey Taint, is there a drill to follow?

choad · 2007-12-05 17:19:52

Lurker wrote:
Portola, California is a place I would never live.

I lived there myself and see your point but it doesn't hold a candle to such stellar shit holes as Gillette, WY, Topeka, KS, Gary or Indianoplace, IN.

edit: Right, wrong Portola...

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Dirckman · 2007-12-06 00:19:26

Gillette, WY is such a dark dirty scummy place full of pissed off angry people....... I grew up about an hours drive from there and never liked it.... However.... I think the one place I'd never live is Grand Forks, ND..... I've never known a place so miserable and cold full of miserable and cold people.... There is a reason it was recently nominated worst town for per capita alcoholism in the U.S........

Taint · 2007-12-06 01:01:18

Wasilla, Alaska. I lived near there for several years. Its only redeeming features are a) it's in Alaska, b) the surrounding country is spectacular, and c) Palmer - a wonderful little town - is only about 10 miles away.

Wasilla is a miserable excuse for a town clustered along the highway en route to far more interesting places.

Johnny Rotten · 2007-12-06 08:02:16

I did a project in Gray's Harbor WA in the early 1990s. That place gave me the creeps big time. There is something about the 3nd and 4th generation in a boomtown long past its prime.