What do you like or hate about where you live?

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The Seven Cities of Southeastern Virginia

Likes: Close to the bay, beach and sea, Green grass, lots of flowers and tall old trees, Virginia Opera and Symphony, Festivals and Art Museums, Four Seasons...
I like how the men around here open doors, pulls out chairs, offers their seat, or are ready to assist or help me and other women with anything, it's really sweet and I've noticed it doesn't happen as often back in Arizona.

Dislikes: Nor'easters, Hurricanes, Crime, I dislike all the black starless nights. The country where I live is flat and there are many water inlets and branches that smell of rotting vegitation and slimey sticky mud when the tide is out. The humidity is so thick and heavy in the summertime I become drenched in sweat just from walking a short distance.

TaupeyAna

I live in Riverside, Ca. I dislike the gangs and the red light cameras. I like that I haven't been shot yet.

I like it all (I'm basing "where you live" on the actual location and house, rather than the larger area), barring the fact that I do have some neighbors. It's pretty secluded, but it could be better in that regard. I'm not complaining though.

Neighbors bother me as they tend to wave, and it takes me a while to process that and realize I have to wave back to not be seen as odd, plus I can't shoot anything over a .22LR rifle with any regularity due to the noise (I can shoot whatever I want here legally, but I don't want to bother people).

MD

Likes

The abundance of Borders, libraries, and GameStops everywhere.
The seafood (I am a seafood addict).
The fact that my educational center is there.
Funland!

Dislikes
The shallow behavior of everybody.
How, on certain sides, there are Republican haters (my mom and sister are both Republican), and, on the other side, Independent/Green Party misunderstanding people (I'm in the Green Party).
How there is nobody in my church (nor anyone else in my religious areas that I've been to) with my interests.
How people know so little about autism (I've seen about 50 Autism Speaks/puzzle pieces decals on the car doors in a parking lot).
How people in my grade (that aren't in my educational center) assume that autism means mentally challenged.
The bigoted teachers (my old fifth grade teacher made fun of me, as well as my friend with ADHD and said that "Blacks may enslave whites one day, and if we lose the Iraq War, they will kill us, take our jobs, and make us work in factories," ect.).
The lack of things to do that are of my interest area (which means book clubs for teens=contemperary fiction or chick lit that I despise, very few anime clubs unless advertised in the library, no medical clubs, no Latin or Greek classes, no Japanese classes, no Budding Feminist clubs, and nothing remotely interesting for writing classes).
The overabundance of bugs.
The overabundance of bees.
The overabundance of obnoxious people.
The generally extroverted culture and society of Maryland.
The lack of arts things (that value and accept freedom).

I live in Stoke-on-Trent, England.
Likes:
The Midlands is close-ish to Wales so I can have holidays that take a short time to get there.
Got one of the best water parks.
The regional accent/dialect.
Staffordshire oatcakes.
Robbie Williams is from here, and his old songs are good.
The city centre (Hanley).

Dislikes:
Too many rough and chavvy areas.
In recent surveys Stoke is on of the worst cities in the country in various fields.
One of the fattest/unhealthiest cities.
One of the worst education wise.
All the pottery factories are closing down one by one, even though the pottery industry is what we're famous for.
Fat chav mums all over Longton (one of the towns) yelling and swearing at their toddlers.

I like the autumn/winter weather.

Likes:

-The stores in close distance.
-My favorite things to eat are in reach.
-My college is two blocks away.
-The freeway.

Dislikes:

-abundance of annoying humans, but shortage of jobs.
-Cramped traffic
-Churches that change their hours randomly.
-The wanderous abundance of people who drive like morons. Tailgaters (it seems like it can't get worse here), no blinkers, "go across four lanes to make a turn"- ers, texters, drunks, and other "safe" driveing prizes.

The burbs of Atlanta

likes:
-beautiful scenery
-"Southern Hospitality"
-lots of cute little furry things, like raccoons
-never gets too cold
-everything you could ever want or need can be found in Atlanta
-all of my family are within an hour drive
-Six Flags
-Stone Mountain
-the worlds largest aquarium (Georgia Aquarium)

dislikes:
-people assume I am stupid because I am from the deep south
-I am surrounded by rednecks, racists, misogynists and KKK members
-OPOSSUMS
-traffic is a nightmare
-at the slightest flurry of snow, all markets are instantaneously emptied of all milk and bread, as southerners are convinced that snow means the world is ending
-year-round allergy season
-there is an actual LAW in the small town I live in requiring all residents to own at least one firearm. I wish I was kidding.

Portland, Oregon is a hidden paradise. There are so many things to like about this place!

Plus:

Hippies, hicks, queers, goths and overgrown children roam the streets freely. Weird kids are well-respected in this town (or if not well-respected, at least common). Artists and musicians abound. Liberals galore.

People are very friendly and will say 'hey there' to a stranger just to brighten someone else's day.

Big emphasis put on conservation of natural resources means we have a lot of food co-ops, dual-flush toilets and trees and parks everywhere! Urban gardeners are awesome, and chickens sometimes flock to the streets.

The mountains, the beach, and the desert are all within a day's drive from here.

Forest park: one of the largest inner-city parks in the country, and it's not your typical city park either.. it's something like 8 miles of pure forest in the hills overlooking downtown. You can walk from a neighborhood and, ten minutes later, not even know you're in a city.

Lots of book stores, garden centers and thrift shops. Vegan/vegetarian food spots to be found in most areas of town. Lots of craft breweries, delicious beer, lax marijuana laws and a medical MJ system that allows anyone with a qualifying disorder to grow their own.

Bike co-ops are everywhere, and drivers are usually pretty friendly to cyclists.

Public transit is very smooth and not overcrowded, and some of the bus drivers are not crazy.

10 months of rain (I love it! Bring on the grey!)

When it snows, the entire city shuts down (this is a positive in my book as it's mad fun to play in the street, but makes getting around difficult.) The City of Portland has 6 snowplows.

No sales tax. Minimum wage is over $8 an hour now.

Relatively low crime rate for a large city. Ethnic diversity without a history of race-related violence.

Minus:

The police are still a**holes to those with dark skin. Protests are mostly a mockery and feel like a rehearsal or something that was scripted based off of news broadcasts from a larger city.

Sometimes people are overly friendly. It's difficult to remain solitary on the bus at times (people want to chat with you a lot, and seem offended by silence moreso than in other places I've been because we have such a reputation for being nice). Drivers frequently spend a large amount of time waving each other on at four-way stops (You go. No, -you- go. Oh people please, someone go!)

Older neighborhoods are gentrifying rapidly.

Hipsters in flannel shirts and tight pants with ironic beards and huge glasses with no lenses (do those plastic frames help you see or just make you feel better about your face?) They LOOK weird but think very highly of themselves at most times. Everyone here wants to be weird and still gossip about how weird everyone else is.

Economy sucks (over 10% unemployment for the past long while). Businesses shutting down (just like everywhere else).

Mold, mildew, allergies, arthritis (plants and rain = good for the brain, hell on the body).

As a side note, many people here seem very simple and polite, and it is not uncommon to speak slowly and softly. I have met SO many folks that seem like they are on the spectrum. I think it could be because many of us have come to this city from much smaller towns and are not very well adjusted to city life. I also think it could somehow be connected to the grey weather and lack of sunlight here- many people get Seasonal Affective Disorder, and during the wintertime a lot of us just want to stay inside.

upstate new york -

PROS: I like the weather. I like the accessibility of products and goods.

CONS: I hate the rarity of aspies in this region. I hate how theirs no economically plausible opportunities open .. ( resume in at over 80 places, no job still ) I dislike the high product prices, and rising inflation prices in grocery's.