What are the downsides of where you live?

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There's no Walmart here and I consider that a plus.

I can't really think of anything horrible about where I live now. My opinion of the world outside my house has much improved since I moved.

Insects come around quite often.

Dim-witted drivers.

My "actual" home is in a backwards, 20's Devalarian-Irelandesque nightmare, that is full of dog s**t, pricks, is always cold and wet, and is in general the most awful place I've ever been.

1)All of the sidewalk slabs are out-of-sync with my natural stride. I have to shorten my step, Or walk in knights moves, to avoid the cracks.
2)The architecture in the town is very dull.
3)Very dull in general.
4)The only bookshop doesnt stock any books that are of interest to me, not even books by Tolkien, They have a entire damned* section labelled 'Vampire Fiction'.
Why they cant even order a book by Jrr Tolkien for me is infuriating.

*Intended to show irritation with the concept, rather than as an intended pon for vampire

Where I live there are to many drug dealers and I can't have kids until I can move out.

Weather changes at the drop of a hat
The downtown area is dead
Shopping malls are lame (at least that's what my cousins from California say)
Nothing to do here unless you like skiing/snowboarding in the mountains
People keep getting murdered/kidnapped on the Greenbelt (a bicycle path near the river)
Lots of meth users and pot smokers
Hippies

Charvers - Chavs...only spelled/pronounced correctly

Getting very specific - down to the town I live in rather than the wider area of Newcastle - it's humiliating and depressing to live where I live, I've been stuck here 5 years, it's not as bad as it was 10 years ago with nothing but run-down buildings, or 20-30 years ago when women couldn't walk round here without being raped, now it's still mostly just ugly council flats but some redevelopment has helped it improve.

It's a typical working-class/lower-class area.
The roads are made up more of potholes than actual road. We have crime, mostly just stupid charver kids or drink/drug related stuff, but the odd shop robbery by men running round with machetes. We only got somewhere to buy fruit and vegetables about four months ago, most stores here are cheap frozen food stores, betting shops, or takeaway's so it's a bit tricky trying to buy decent food. There's no where to walk and nothing to do here - I grew-up in a seaside town surrounded by smaller villages with lots of places to go walk, shops to visit, amusements, parks, etc. but here there's nothing in the immediate area, if you want to go for a walk then you've just got to walk round the streets a few times feeling like an idiot.

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Neither, just city life. Also I rent. If I talk on the phone in my room .. the people outside my room hear it. It's discouraging

the 35% unemployment rate.

All the non-whites and the whites that wish they weren't white

No jobs, cold, snow, crime, terrible public transportation, terrible public schools, I could go on. Maybe I should start with what's good instead...

Inbreeding with cousin's seems to be a favourite past time of the locals around here. Well that and snorting coke.

second highest rate of single parent teenagers after Nottingham

Theres an even bigger turd hole city 28 miles down the road incase you weren't depressed enough living here.

I'm not sure about the coke but those things are in my area to but probably not as bad as your area. There seems to be a lot of child-molesters & animal pervs in my area. I get sex-offender notifications in the mail every couple weeks. None on my street luckily. If I was religious; I would believe we get hurricanes because god is rightfully punishing us

Well for those of us who dont have a bank account they have the lowest check cashing service around.

plus, not to mention cheap clothes. i mean $50 for a pair of pants really isnt my thing elsewhere

*heat Heat HEat HEAt HEAT HEATTTTTTTT IT'S HOTTTTTTTTTTTT ALWAYS!! !! !! !! !

*Did I mention the heat

*no freedom

*boredom

Not a lot of choice in pubs.

Everyone knows everyone else.

The facile communitarian (that sometimes becomes authoritarian) attitude that dominates here, especially in the police and council. You're expected to be 'for the community' and not show any difference. People here are frightened of difference. So, yes, weak authoritarianism.

Most of the people here are conformist and not very individual. I'm not saying I'm the rugged individualist stereotype but people seem largely similar and stick with themselves these days.

But it's not a bad place to live really.