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I live in a large city which stretches over an isthmus which lies between two oceans. On one side is the Tasman Sea, and on the other, the Pacific Ocean.

It was host city to the America's Cup twice - sailed in our most beautiful harbour (on the Pacific side). I am fortunate to live here - no terrorism, no fear of being shot by a bitter and twisted killer on a gun rampage, and clement weather that varies from sub-tropical to temperate. The traffic is awful though, too many cars, not enough road capacity, everyone hates it.

Very poor. The electric trains travel very few routes, the bus system means being stuck in traffic jams (along with all the frustrated drivers of cars). In geographical terms, this is a very large spread out city and you really need a car to get around it. It's actually quite a difficult city to navigate too, if you are a stranger. Even born here old-timers of me get lost sometimes.

It's loud. It's currently a huge, overpopulated capital city and I am sick of the noise, and people's carelessness about noise. And I'm leaving ! Hoorah !

gosh, B19 after hearing your crowded traffic-knotted city woes, i'm glad to live in a county [not just a city] that it literally is impossible to get lost in, nor is there ever any real traffic jam other than when the train goes through town, that knots things up for about a half-hour or so then quickly disperses itself.

i live in bushland near a town called "wentworth falls" in the blue mountains, west of sydney.
life is very slow paced up here in the mountains.
the population is mainly caucasian (more than 95%) with very few other nationalities like they have in greater sydney.
there are some chinese people i see at the chinese restaurant, and there is an indian man who is the cashier at a locasl service station (gas station), but apart from that, they are all white. i never saw an aborigine in these parts even though it was a sacred ground for them for thousands of years in the past.

the sun seems brighter up here in the mountains on a sunny day than it does down in sydney.
the white lines on the road look so clean and bright and everything is crystal clear, whereas down in sydney at midday, it looks like about 3pm in the afternoon up here on the same day.

the types of people that live here are mostly eccentric "artsy" type of people and they dress in eccentric ways.
there are many coffee shops that are in little stores over 100 years old where people debate and play chess and engage in intellectual conversation (as i hear while i wait for my takeaway).

there are not many blue collar people up here compared to sydney, and people up here are mainly either retired, or self employed in ways they can work from home, because we are about 80 minutes drive from sydney up here and there are not many jobs available due to the small population density.

it is interesting how many people live up here who have retired at an early age like 35 "year olds" (grammar necessity) who have made enough money to buy a house with views and just live the rest of their lives in peace.
i own my house here and i owe nothing on it and i am glad i chose to live here.

i do not socialize because i do not want to, and i know nobody here, but they have seen me many times at the shops and they just do not care. down in sydney or in other places that are more urbanized, people notice my isolationist nature and would think ill of it.

like when i lived there, if i went to a shop for the first time, the cashiers smiled at me and tried to engage me in social chat, but i bluntly ignored it and just spoke in short terminal sentences (sentences not designed for replies) and the next time i went there they were often rude and terse toward me because they thought ill of me. like i was a snob or something.
but up here, i act the same way, and they seem to understand me well and they are always cheerful and take no notice of my eccentric nature. it is nice. maybe they are more broad minded and accepting up here, i do not know.

anyway.....
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wentworth ... outh_Wales

Fast food outlets like McDonalds are all over the place in my city, however in the area I live there are none as they are banned completely, not even a pizza place has got in, it's an historical area and one of the oldest parts of the city with old mansions and very particular about maintaining old standards.

Oh, and one thing I forgot to menton, the train that passes by here goes to a big, beachy city! Its soo pretty!

Not much to say

Rural area (outside of rural towns)
lots of trees
not many people around
lots of native wildlife
planes fly over
you'll hear several gunshots daily from the various people that like shooting around here
hot

Run-of-the-mill outlands setting.

IMO, Baltimore is a VERY cool city----very historic. Baltimore was part of the war of 1812, and The Star Spangled Banner was written here. Babe Ruth was born here, and Edgar Alan Poe, died here.

Baltimore is home to the first black-owned shipyard, the first U.S. umbrella factory, the first post office system, first dental school in the U.S., the first telegraph line, America's first Catholic cathedral, snowballs (grandfather to shaved ice, snow cones, etc) were invented here, etc.

In modern times, "Misty Harbor", the greatest / largest competitor of "London Fog", was headquartered here, as well as "Hutzler's", "Stewart's", "Luskin's", and "USF&G". The Social Security Administration, for the entire U.S. is headquartered here, as well as "Under Armour", "Cover Girl", "T. Rowe Price", "JoS. A. Bank Clothiers", "Royal Farms", and "Super Fresh". We're also home to the second jewel in "The Triple Crown".

We are very "arts and culture-centric", here----and, have often been called "Little New York" (I wish we had the Fashion District that NYC has, though). We have two fairly large artisan communities here (that I know-of), and I can't get enough visitation, there. We also have the theatre / museum district, the Science Center, Aquarium, and harbor (where the last afloat ship, during Pearl Harbor, still stands). Our harbor, BTW, is "fed" by the Chesapeake , which, in turn, is fed by the Atlantic Ocean. It is said that, aside from Virginia (which is also on the Chesapeake), we have the BEST crabs in the country (blue crabs----even people from California, have written about them; come, all-the-way, here, for them); also, Baltimore is said to have the best crab CAKES, as well (possibly due to McCormick spices [Old Bay], being here)! !

This summer it's now free to take the bus anywhere.

But the buses are so far apart from each other, it's so far to walk to the nearest bus stop, and the drivers really don't care about being on time so it's usually not worth it. Today even a cab driver complained about it as he drove me home from Walmart. Yippee, the buses are free, too bad if you miss one you'll have to wait at least 40 minutes for the next one, or they stop running after 5 PM, and they don't run on Sundays because the entire world stops on that day.

I'll bet soon there won't be any buses at all, and the traffic and pollution will worse than ever. Although the college students seem to rely on them, so that may be the reason we still have them.

Portland is also known as "Pornland" because of many places that are sexually explicit in nature that I don't want to go into much detail about them.

Many UNESCO World Heritage sites, many foreign tourists coming to enjoy vacation all the time.

But I'm not happy because I can't enjoy here, I must work, pay bills and get stress all the time.

Portland city leaders don't care about the needs of the people. They only care about making Portland more like NYC with new developments only for rich people.