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Skippy · #46 10-21-2011, 12:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Hatterasguy

I noticed that in my recent and brief visit to the midwest. As a New Englander who is used to stuff being old, and well New Haven, Boston, and New York, I was a bit shocked. Everything is new, history what's that? We have sidewalk bricks far older than the oldest western structure out their. Heck my church was built when the French owned that part of the country.

The oldest house in Carson City was built in 1859. There are probably entire blocks of buildings in your area older than that. Here, anything older than about 1920 has an excellent chance of being on the NRHP.

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The lack of an international culture really bothered me, in bars you meet farmers. But no Chinese on student visa's, no recent Polish or Russian immigrants, nothing. The only language you hear is English. I miss meeting people from every country you can think of, and the culture that goes with it. In general it seems the population is extremely conservative and I got the feeling to "fit in" you had better fall in line. Vote republican, go to church, don't say anything bad about the war, and oh drive an American car. Mercedes are super rare!

My acquaintances include a German, a Brit, a Scotsman I haven't seen for a while, one guy from Thailand, two or three from the Philippines, and various Mexicans. We aren't New York City, but we aren't Fitzgerald*, GA either.

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Lastly the beer and scotch selection sucks, but than again its hard to top the East Coast when it comes to food and booze. CA does Spanish food better than we do, but we own pizza and import beers that you simply can't get in Nebraska where I was. FL is just as bad, what really gets me about FL is their water is undrinkable. I'm not used to having essentially 3rd world quality tap water, even when I go out to eat when the restaurant gives me water I can't drink it unless its bottled.

Its hard to have a bad meal in NYC or New Haven.

Spanish food? I can't remember ever seeing a Spanish restaurant in Cali. We have quite a few Basque places around here (ok but nothing to write home about), and no standard Spanish places.

It's true about the booze selection here as well. I went to college in Atlanta and even the quickie marts carried Guinness. The Scotch selection in all bars save one leaves much to be desired. There are some good NorCal brews available here.

Atlanta had an awesome selection of international dining. Here all you can get that's good is Mexican and Vietnamese.

It's the perfect climate, easy going non-judgemental people, and general libertarian character** of the place that keep me here.

*One of my good friends in college is from Fitzgerald. Unless you have family there, there's ZERO reason to ever go there. It's bad.

**No silly blue laws. No gun laws to speak of. Legal gambling and prostitution. No state income tax. But if you're reading this and considering moving here from California, don't. You won't like it here.

Hatterasguy · #47 10-21-2011, 01:13 AM

1859 is rather young, around here its not that old unless its from at least the 1700 hundreds.

Pre or post revolution is a good guide, their is a house down the street from me that was built in 1733.

My project that I'm building now is right below an old farm that was bombarded by the British Navy.

Txjake · #48 10-21-2011, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by TylerH860

If it was a good job with plenty of paid vacation and you didn't mind being far away from anything interesting it might be worth considering. You can buy a nice 5000 sqf house in a nice neighborhood for 200-300k.

If you like any outdoor activities this is not the place for it. Miserably hot summers and bone cold winters where the constant wind bites at you. Regular threat of storms producing large hail damaging your vehicle and roof, plus the occasional tornado. Many areas in the city and surrounding prone to flooding. All flat land or rolling hills, so no dramatic scenery or any interesting natural water or rocky formations. No big or successful sports teams. Poor cell phone service coverage outside city limits. They try to have festivals and such but its pathetic in comparison to say Kansas City, Denver, Dallas, or Austin. We totally lack any culture, and our only claim to fame (Air Capitol of the World) is now just a title since we regularly lose airplane production jobs to other states and countries. Voting turnout is low except for the Neo-conservatives who elect total nut jobs to run the state. People gave up voting since a reasonable person (R or D) can't get elected. We never run into any budget issues, but everything else is a nightmare government wise.

People aren't mean, but not very social. Its not easy to meet new people outside of who you already know, possibly because there's so few places that provide an environment conducive to socializing. Lot's of overweight/unhealthy people because there's not much incentive to go outside and do something.

jeesh, sounds like OKC, only smaller..........

The job pays very well, but it sounds like more of the same for the surroundings