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BubbleChog Jan 27th 2014 7:06 am

Where do you live?
 
http://newsfeed.time.com/2014/01/27/...e-stereotypes/

Georgia is backwards tee hee

Speedwell Jan 27th 2014 7:11 am

Re: Where do you live?
 
For Texas, I got "hot/important/big/cheap". Huh. Houston has "boring/ghetto/big/cheap". Damn.

Pulaski Jan 27th 2014 7:21 am

Re: Where do you live?
 
For NC, I got cheap, boring, and backwards. :unsure:

For Yorkshire, I got great, big, and good.

For Sheffield, I got hilly, windy, ...... and crap! :frown:

Hotscot Jan 27th 2014 7:21 am

Re: Where do you live?
 
Yeah but the Google auto suggest changes for variable reasons.

Lord PercyPercy Jan 27th 2014 7:24 am

Re: Where do you live?
 

Originally Posted by Pulaski (Post 11099619)
For Yorkshire, I got great, big, and good.

And modest?

I have hot, stupid and humid. Sums it up really.

DebzinUS Jan 27th 2014 7:42 am

Re: Where do you live?
 
Virginia - strict, boring, humid, and racist.

Pulaski Jan 27th 2014 7:48 am

Re: Where do you live?
 

Originally Posted by Lord PercyPercy (Post 11099626)
And modest? ....

No, I saw nothing about "modest". :lol:

.... I have hot, stupid and humid. Sums it up really.
It was certainly hot and humid when I was there, but "stupid" goes without question. :nod:

scrubbedexpat099 Jan 27th 2014 10:50 am

Re: Where do you live?
 
Fit

There are some very obvious exceptions.

nethead Jan 28th 2014 1:28 am

Re: Where do you live?
 
Vermont is 'liberal'.

SultanOfSwing Jan 28th 2014 1:30 am

Re: Where do you live?
 
Illinois = corrupt is quite a good one :lol:. It's a bit boring as well, on a larger scale. Not much going on compared to a lot of the rest of the states.

markonline1 Jan 28th 2014 1:49 am

Re: Where do you live?
 
California - expensive, bankrupt

scrubbedexpat099 Jan 28th 2014 2:24 am

Re: Where do you live?
 

Originally Posted by markonline1 (Post 11100788)
California - expensive, bankrupt

and dry

scrubbedexpat091 Jan 28th 2014 2:51 am

Re: Where do you live?
 
Google Canada gives me for California my home state:

Why is California so expensive/ broke/populated/a republic/called the golden state.

For British Columbia where I am now I get, expensive/why is it a good place to live/why is BC named BC and why is BC called BC.

Hiro11 Jan 28th 2014 3:45 am

Re: Where do you live?
 

Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing (Post 11100757)
Illinois = corrupt is quite a good one :lol:. It's a bit boring as well, on a larger scale. Not much going on compared to a lot of the rest of the states.

Paying taxes here feels a bit like a shakedown. Property, income and excise taxes are all absurdly high here. Adding insult to injury, you constantly get nickle-and-dimed for everything from on-street parking to Metra to the highest gas taxes in the country to garbage collection to special airport fees to hotel taxes to ~10% sales taxes in many towns. And yet, despite all of that revenue, this state is the biggest fiscal basket case in the country. It's infuriating.

SultanOfSwing Jan 28th 2014 3:51 am

Re: Where do you live?
 

Originally Posted by Hiro11 (Post 11100988)
Paying taxes here feels a bit like a shakedown. Property, income and excise taxes are all absurdly high here. Adding insult to injury, you constantly get nickle-and-dimed for everything from on-street parking to Metra to the highest gas taxes in the country to garbage collection to special airport fees to hotel taxes to ~10% sales taxes in many towns. And yet, despite all of that revenue, this state is the biggest fiscal basket case in the country. It's infuriating.

Actually, it's not so bad up by me compared to closer to Chicago. Lake County is nowhere near as bad as Cook. Our petrol is a bit cheaper too, being so close to the state line.

Which is nice.


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