Long Island, NY SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! It SUCKS! ARGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!

7/21/2004 | lowbridge

[Ditter]

Lowbridge, I'm shocked that you would want to leave. You are so close to the center of the universe (NYC) the BIG apple, the most enlightened of all places (NYC). Why would you want to leave a place that is in the glow of NYC?

Just teasing ya' but so many feel that way or at least they did. There are lots of great places with great friendly people I hope you find one of them and settle down, but 5 to 10 years is a long time to be miserable there. I lived in a town that I hated for 16 years and that's way too long. Maybe you should just bite the bullet and get out.

[uglybiker]

It SUCKS!
heh-heh-heh!
NY SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lowbridge]

I am stunned at this coming from you lowbridge, and laughing as well. I know how you feel, we live in a resort area of California!

I visited California (Los Angeles) back in 2001. The fast food sucked. The air conditioner in my cheap motel room didn't work properly. Normally they have a dry heat, but for my visit, they had high humidity. Still, I got to meet many wonderful FReepers which made the trip all worthwhile. :-)

[lowbridge]

I remember when we moved from Long Island (I was 4), my Dad extended the middle finger out of his window as we drove down the LIE several times on the way to Pennsylvania..... Of course, he did the same thing on the way out of Pennsylvania too...

Kinda sounds like my Father (a former truck driver). Only he didnt use his middle finger. He'd just yell out of his window at the other drivers. My parents split up, he moved to Pennsylvania, and I didnt see him for almost a decade. Then we hooked up again, he drove me to his home in PA, and on the way there, still yelled at the other drivers. He still ives in PA.

[Cvengr]

Actually Sam Kennison, (the photo of the now dead comedian, began his comedy career in Houston, then to LA. A former southern evangelical minister.

My favorite sketch by Sam was his simple solution to drought and starvation represented in world hunger which the Nomadic tribes of Ethiopia always seemed to endure. Rather than spending millions of dollars feeding the starving masses in Ethiopia, simply point out to their elders that they should do what their forefathers had done before them, also a band of nomads, that is a wandering desert tribal transient nation did, ..If you don;t want your crops to dry up and die every year from drought, then MOVE OUT OF THE STINKIN' DESERT!!!!

[ThomasThomas]

Suggest you get your tighty whities one or two sizes larger.

[slugbug]

Long Island ping!

[MikefromOhio]

LOL

he wasn't yelling at drivers though.

He was yelling at Cuomo :)

[Petronski]

Sardine can ping!

[Not A Snowbird]

I felt the same way about Southern California. I took a job in Seattle, sold my condo for an obscene profit, and haven't looked back.

[cyborg]

welcome to FR! oldie but a goodie

[lowbridge]

I wear boxers and Long Island still sucks.

[Rome2000]

When I get my chance, I'm moving south and joining the confederacy.

You better not wait tooo long.

The price of land in the most obscure places in TN, GA, AL is ridiculous.

50K an acre in Murfreesboro?

May have to retire in Mexico.

[ThomasThomas]

I just up a moved cross country twice now. Once after college and then the last time back to a red part of So Cal. It took me five years to buy a house and four more to get furniture in all the rooms. I still have a move or two in me.

[lowbridge]

There are lots of great places with great friendly people I hope you find one of them and settle down, but 5 to 10 years is a long time to be miserable there. I lived in a town that I hated for 16 years and that's way too long. Maybe you should just bite the bullet and get out.

I cant. Got too many obligations here, plus I want to have a few bucks in my pocxket when I leave. Right now I dont have a dime. So, I try to make my stay here as less miserable as possible.