Where should I go...

[VOX - DEI]

SD traffic is just too much for me to handle and I really enjoy a 24 hour community so...

I'm thinking of moving to Columbus and ~60th in Manhattan.

Of those of you who live in Manhattan below 90th street please chime in on problems you have...etc.

[archive_Caligula]

Go to hell vox.

hehe...that was fun! http://www.anabolicfitness.net/smileys/lol2[1].gif

nuttin but love brother... http://anabolicfitness.infopop.net/infopop/emoticons/icon_wink.gif

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[Monster]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="**-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Caligula:
Go to hell vox.

hehe...that was fun!
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Go f**k yourself?

Yore right, that IS fun! http://www.anabolicfitness.net/smileys/lol2[1].gif

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[GymRatNYC]

I don't blame you for wanting to move from San Diego... I hated it there. Beyond the weather (which isn't all that it's cracked up to be in the first place), the place is BORING AS HELL.

I'm in NYC, near the Financial District, within walking distance to Ground Zero. I love it here, and I don't miss driving a bit. The three biggest things to get used to is the noise level (traffic, construction, restaurants, clubs, etc.) at all times, the cost of living, and the fact that people are everywhere. There's a saying that a New Yorker becomes very nervous out in public when he is alone... since it happens so rarely.

I love the fact that I have everything at my doorstep. I love how virtually every restaurant delivers, and not just pizza. I love how if I or a friend gets blitzed at a bar (hardly happens), we don't have to drive home.

Is the city perfect? Far from it. But the positives far outweight the negatives for me. I'm having a great time.

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[archive_Ulter]

I agree with SD being rather slow compared to a real city. And the problem I have with CA is that even though there are many places to go and see a variety of lansdscapes and find many actitivities it takes forever to get there. But if you have the patience to sit in a car for 8 hours on a trip that should take 4.5 I can't think of anywhere with so many different experiences to have. The beaches, snow skiing, Mexico, San Franscisco, Napa Valley, Disney, Grapefruit League baseball, besides clubbin' make it a great place to live. But if you don't like to travel and you want your activities withing walking distance you've got to go to a real city. If you can't handle cold then Chicago is out but that's the best place to live, especially in the city. You should give NY a try, not my cup of tea.

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[archive_Mr. Nobody]

How come you didn't say Orlando? Are you thinking about moving again, Ulter?

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[archive_Ulter]

Florida kicks everyone's butt. But he was comparing NY to SD.
I have a friend in SD that is struggling to put together $600k to buy a house because they cost about $400/sf so he'll get about 2200sf on a small lot. You can get a brand new 5000sf home with a back yard, on a lake, with a pool, and 3 car garage for that in FL. With all the appliances. My sister paid $800k for 2200sf in San Franscisco. For what?? Shit weather half the year and nice restaurants?

The only thing that saves FL from being completely overrun is that people can't work and get paid the same as they can in other places because the pay scale is ridiculous down here. Which of course explains the housing costs.

I was going back to CA before we looked here. Newport Beach. Man am I glad we didn't do that. Florida kicks ass. Sunday we head to Sabastian for high surf and boogie boards, next weekend Miami South Beach (Sat see the Cubs-Marlins), the next weekend St Augustine to see the battle reinactment at the Fort and the Greek Festival, the next weekend Universal Studio's, the next weekend Mike Miller, Fitness Chick, Iron God, Kyle, will be here for the Bench Press championship.
CA, ya sure.

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[archive_Mr. Nobody]

You should have said that since sales are down, all you can afford for entertainment is to go shoot rats at your local landfill. Do I need to teach you everything?

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[archive_Killer]

Ulter,

You are right about CA. That is why I have never been to much around the state. So much traffic, no major highways around the state. It once took me over 9 hours to get back from LA. On a holiday weeekend, forget about it...

Add another thumbs up for chi-town http://www.anabolicfitness.net/smileys/banana.gif But so damn cold.

[GymRatNYC]

And Chicago is easy to get around? Have you actually tried driving in the city? Talk about a pain in the ass...

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[archive_Ulter]

Well yes actually. I owned a delivery service there for 20 years so there are few people who know more about it than I do. Chicago's moves like Dayton compared to CA and NY. I closed our office in CA because of the traffic and no other reason. And there is no comparison to the ridiculous traffic in NY. I went JFK in June and spent over 3 hours getting back to Elizabeth. AT MIDNIGHT!!! Phuck that.

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[GymRatNYC]

That's why you take the TRAIN.

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[archive_Ulter]

They wouldn't let the rental car on.

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[GymRatNYC]

Then fly into Newark, which is, well, right next to Elizabeth.

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[archive_Ulter]

Thanks, but there were no flights left the night I went. But my point was about traffic in NY not buses or train or planes. Your answer to the traffic in NY is the train. I could make the same arguement for Chicago, take the train. But then Chicago is nowhere near as bad so you don't have to.

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[GymRatNYC]

The fact is that traffic is bad in virtually every major city today, and it's only going to get worse as urban expansion far exceeds the supporting infrastructure. Fifteen years ago, San Diego was very easy to get around. Today, it's a nightmare.

I do have to give NYC kudos, as it's the only U.S. city where it's not a burden to be carless. The subways are not pretty, but at least the planners had foresight building them, some of them over 100 years ago, to make the city quite accessible without the need to jump in a vehicle.

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[archive_Ulter]

I agree. You have to go to Europe to see a transit system as vast and easy to use.

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[archive_Bjaarki]

If Bush wins in November, VoxDei, you should move to New Zealand. Plenty of work there for dudes like you. Peter Jackson is always looking for gearhead bodybuilders to play Orcs in his movies .....

If Kerry wins, why in the world would you want to live anywhere other than Southern California? Not the cities like SD or LA, but nice university towns with plenty of hot chicks ... Santa Barbara ..? San Luis Obispo ..? Or maybe something a little lower key. Ojai ..? Montecito ..? Paradise Canyon ..? You're already accustomed to the earthquakes, they can even be kind of fun, I have some good stories about a few of those.

Tell me: Can you really beat a Mediterranean climate like Southern California's? And while Florida keeps changing the names of its strong winds (Edward, Charley, Gloria), in SoCal they always use the same one: Santa Anna.

MMMM - mmmmm! Sitting on a sandstone outcropping with your woman, up in the Santa Ynez range on a night with a full moon ... A strong Santa Anna blowing down the canyon at your back, redolent of sage and the desert ... the sea sparkling in the moonpath so far below you that it's like you're seeing it from an airplane ... The Channel Islands so far away and mysterious-looking you'd swear they're feudal Japan ... the ember of a nice little "j" winking out in your fingers .....

..... and it's only a daytrip the "granarias" in TJ where the gear is cheap as salad oil and all lined up on shelves for you like aspirin at a QuickCheck.

On the other hand, you can't beat the scenic splendor of the Northeast .....

[archive_Mickey]

<BLOCKQUOTE class="**-ubbcode-quote"><font size="-1">quote:</font><HR> If Kerry wins, why in the world would you want to live anywhere other than Southern California? Not the cities like SD or LA, but nice university towns with plenty of hot chicks ... Santa Barbara ..? San Luis Obispo ..? Or maybe something a little lower key. Ojai ..? Montecito ..? Paradise Canyon ..? <HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

Are these places just as expensive to live?

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[archive_Bjaarki]

Yeah, they are, Mickey. Montecito is probably one of the most expensive places in the world to live. I used to manage an avocado ranch there in the mid-1970's. For some reason they're called ranches, not groves or orchards, I guess because the little green bastards are so much harder than oranges to hold down and punch with a branding iron .....

Paradise is just over the San Marcos pass behind Santa Barbara. Very cheap to live there, because it's in a national forest, you can camp there year round, and a lot of people do.