Do you like your neighborhood?
 

Just thought i would start this thread because i'm in the process of moving house and i have been thinking about it a bit.For the record,my neighborhood is a mixture of ghostly faced junkies,hipsters,working class folks,black gettos,gay bachelor boys,lesbian activists,shouting kids,whistling bricklayers,pretensious arseholes,gun yelding homies,lost couples and vietnamese workers.Oh!and Pete Doherty!!The best thing as far as i am concerned was this little shop run by the kindest asian lady where literally nothing was available on sale.As it was right in front of my house i would pop in to buy a packet of ciggies and the only one that was on sale was 20 superkings sitting lonely on an empty shelf. Milk had a use by that went back to a couple of centuries ago,the food consisted of meat sticks that no hunger would go near in its sane mind and the only shelf that had anything to show or offer had plenty of greeting cards that had pre typed phrases faded out by years of inconsistent daylight.The shop has now been closed and the kind lady leans on the window ledge of the house above it looking out on the horizon for a possible customer that never materialized(apart from me,that is).

i have very mixed feelings about my neighbourhood, in the summer during daylight hours i think it's maybe my favourite area of london, after dark though it totally changes because it's kind of a nightlife district and it over run by total pricks. and when it's cold it's a bit miserable. but on sunny afternoons i love it.

where are you moving to pork?

in berlin i lived in a very nice area. prenzlauerberg is overun with cafes, bars and some pretty cool shops and clubs etc. the tram was just outside and the ubahn very close as well. also my favourute record shop is just around the corner. although having this wonderful area did bring in a certain amount of total pricks it wasnt like leeds or london and most people were very well behaved and not noisy. infact the only people that did annoy everyone were drunk tourists and they were pretty thin on the ground.

i love my neighborhood...i've been here almost 2 years & my neighbors are cool & i can play or listen to loud music... it's picturesque because I'm in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains here & you can see them through the trees. My yard has the best tree on the street right now. I have some sort of purplish-pink flowering tree in the front yard...i think it's an apple blossom(& there's sooo many types of trees...the neighborhood is like some sort of botanical garden or college campus in that respect)

the bad news is i don't know if i'm gonna be able to afford another eventual rent increase (i've fucked around & lost a lot of money recently) , or if i'm staying with my next lease...my landlord is from the UK & he is cool (we talk about cowboy Bush all the time), but he thinks this house is worth a lot more than it actually is...

my neighbor threatened to call the cops on me & the band while we were practicing. fuck that scumbag.

that sucks but is par for the course...when i lived in athens, ga during my turbulent twenties i had 20 different addresses in 11 years

Do you like your neighborhood?
No

i got used to it so in some way i like it although it's not that great

I like my neighborhood. I live just blocks from the Mississippi River, there are lots of bike paths, and it's not too "hip," but still a progressive part of town. Less dense population in my neighborhood too. We bought this house a little over 10 years ago, and we could never afford it if we wanted to buy it now, so I'm glad we're here.

mmm, i juess i like my neighborhood, the people are friendly enough and i live opposite a huge park and my college is minutes away and i dunno the weathers okay at the moment.
i wish there was more to do here though, most teenagers around here spend their afternoons and weekends wasted in the park, i think we would benefit greatly from a diner or a bowling alley or something.

then the teenagers would just hang around outside the bowling alley wasted, instead of the park

Are you saying that's no fun? I've enjoyed that activity quite a bit in the past.

truncated's neighbors like the fact that her presence keeps the rents low.

They do complain about the smell a bit.

I told you, you have to bury the bodies deeper.

Well, Ben Gay has a pretty strong odor....

I too live just blocks from the Mississippi River.

We bought our house about five years ago, it's in the cheapest part of a decent neighbourhood. At ine end of a our road is a major road, the boundary between Oxton (us) and Tranmere. Tranmere is not so nice. I have very easy access to great public transport; Chester is an hour away, Liverpool twenty minutes and MAnchester one and a half hours. There's a nice art gallery ten minutes walk away, an a nice park/rose gardens 15 away. I live a five minute walk from Oxton village (where I work), and I have to say the whole area is pleasanrt enough. There are just short of 100 houses in our street, and I know most of the residents to say hello to. I'm on friendly terms with a good number of them.

So, yes, I do rather like my neighbourhood.

i hate my neighborhood. i live in a suburban development in a town with next to nothing to do. the neighbors are friendly, but they're all uptight conservative Californians (i live in Idaho, by the way) who would rather not have any sort of teenage culture develop (the only place that held rock shows closed). the town i live in is a resort destination for many West Coasters.

0h same here atari(nice to see you on the board again by the way).I've lost count of how many times i've moved house for one reason or another.I'm pretty nomadic as a person anyway.

Wow.
Since I was 18, I have lived in a grand total of 5 places.
I really hate moving.

Since I was 18, I have moved nearly once a year.

I am a minimalist when it comes to furnishings, so I can get the job done in one trip with a pick-up truck.

You can probably get a permit to play until a certain time. You should do some research and find out what you can do, go to like city hall or something.That is pretty much me too, except I live in California. The people are nice. And the neighborhood is ruled by 2-7 year olds. There isn't anything to do. There is a cold stone near my house...that is as good as it gets, I have to walk several miles to get to anything I'd like. I guess I can't complain, but I don't really like it.

like mine, but not where it is. Its about 20 farther from everything than my last place, when walking.

I live on an area that's mostly my age and middle school. The next block over is mostly small, old houses and the kids are those smoking drop-out kids who are convinced they're gangsters. It means there's always something to poke fun at, but there's nothing to do in my town except drive over to Daytona Beach. We can't move because I'm basically almost through school, and my dad's convinced this is a kickass town.

ny neighborhood is cool.
it's a students' zone in ferrara, a quite small university town.
this means there are a lot of students living here, but also poor people and africans. Plus in my neighborhood I manage somehow to fuck a lot .

is the record shop on Danziger Strasse? i discovered one there that has a lot of good stuff...

i live in Prenzlauer Berg at the moment, i can see Helmholtplatz from my window, it's nice... unfortunately, i might only be able to stay two months in this apartment, and then i will have to move somewhere else...

today i went to Friedrichshains Park, it was lovely... i have only been here for one week, but i think i already love this city... i wish i had my bike with me at the moment, though... i left it in Munich with a lock, i need to return there to get it back and bring it here.

My town, Barnet in north London completely stinks, i dont like it. Literally....Its inhabited by chavs and oldies and every saturday night you need 2 be home before you get beaten up by the new british ruling class. The sky is perminantly gray or a cold windy atmousphere that makes my nose glow red. Thers hardly anything to do, except see my girlfriend, and in the summer i like goin out to the woods and geting drunk. My friends have had some wild friggin partys that have scarred me for life lol..thats the only time i go out, except to trek to school, and buy cigarettes - which have now been banned in pubs!!? WTF, if you want a ciggy with your pint, you have to go outside, freeze ur ass off, lose you seat, get your drink spiked....but thers two sides to the argument i know...Anyway, sidetracking.......I dont like this town, ive lived here all my life.....id like to move and start again where people dont know me...prefrabley abroad....in the sun.

Edit - oh yer...thers not a record shop in a 5 mile radius

Erm,I thought the ciggie ban was going to start next year as far as i know(i've just been to a pub in shoreditch and i havent seen a trace of it).I know what you mean in a way.We are not allowed to smoke in the building where i work at all but i do'nt mind that much cause it means i smoke less incessantly than i do.

i gave up smoking in february, and i'm looking forward to the ban! and hyperstation, if you are still at school, what are you doing in the pub, eh?

I like my neighbourhood, however my city is too small and not alot to do so I spend quite a bit a time travelling to melbourne and sydney for weekends so there is something interesting to do. I really should move.

I dig my neighbourhood. Like PorkM's, it's sort of a blend of artists and bohemian sorts living side by side with the long-term inhabitants of what used to be a place that made toursits feel like they made a wrong turn. Old buildings everywhere, lots of churches (I'm not religious but I think lot's of different churches in close proximity creates a nice ambience). There's free internet at the cafe down the road, right next to a ten acre park and a healthfood store. There's a police station two blocks from my house, so there's not much crime but the cops can manage to leave alone. It's quite a lovely place.

I'm okay with my neighbourhood. All old folks....you just gotta say how cool their little pet is and you gain the reputation of a nice young man ;-)
so I'm cool with that.

I just moved to Westminster.I'm staying with a friend for a while till i get a place.I was thinking of getting a studio in Islington/Angel.It's one of my favourite spots in London apart from the graphic design crowd that you get there.Where do you live yourself Toilet & Bowels?

**yeah i do.. but my neighbourhood doesn't like me:)

My neighborhood is boring. It's full of people who I find annoying. There's a couple who make it an enjoyable place, but it pretty much sucks altogether. Luckily, I finally got my license and I can leave this island anytime I want. Kent Island, Maryland. Ew.

hey samuel! :)

I quite like my neighbourhood. It's a quiet suburb, the people are friendly and it has a nice environment. It has a train station, like most suburbs, so I can just catch a train and go into the city. Although the train system in Sydney is god awful. CityRail sucks!

hackney road

Yeah it does start next year, but still.....its a load of crap. Pubs will loose so much income.