POLL: Are you a city boy, country boy or suburbanite?

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Crazymofo

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country boy converted to a city boy! I would like to get out of the city someday though:D
 

GeekDrew

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I am a country boy even tho I pretend to be a suburbanite most of the time.
 

sparkyclarky

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Originally posted by: DeathByAnts
I had to vote the shire, because:

1984-1996 - Phoenix, AZ (city/suburban)
1996-2001 - Stilwell, KS (country)
2001-2002 - Long Island, NY (suburban)
2002-2003 - Phoenix, AZ (city/suburban)
2004-present - Oshkosh, WI (country)

Sloshkosh, hey? :)
 

SarcasticDwarf

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Originally posted by: sparkyclarky
Originally posted by: DeathByAnts
I had to vote the shire, because:

1984-1996 - Phoenix, AZ (city/suburban)
1996-2001 - Stilwell, KS (country)
2001-2002 - Long Island, NY (suburban)
2002-2003 - Phoenix, AZ (city/suburban)
2004-present - Oshkosh, WI (country)

Sloshkosh, hey? :)




unfortunately
 

Aharami

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lived in suburbia all my life. would like to experience the city life once though
 

digitalsm

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Ive lived in the country, small towns, big towns, suburbs, and big cities.

I prefer living in big cities. Eventually Ill make my way back to Dallas.
 

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I'm going to be getting quite a culture shock here very soon.

I'll be moving from a state of 3 million people to a CITY of million people. :Q
 

apoppin

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How about ALL of the above?
(except the girl) :p

;)

I live in the suburbs but it's VERY rural (on a dirt road) and work in the (nearby) cities 20-30 minutes away.
 

TommyVercetti

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Just remember, there no fast broadband access in the country. Even if there is, it has unbearable lag, and costs $200-300 just to setup.
 

Chaotic42

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Originally posted by: MogulMonster
Raised country boy. Now a city boy, that doesn't look like an idiot around the "country folk."
Same here. I can hold my own with any group. Such is the advantage of having a completely neutral accent.

 

SWScorch

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where I live, the cows outnumber the humans 3 to 1. If I see less than 20 deer a day, I'm surprised. I dodge skunks on my daily runs, and seeing a rabbit cross the road is about as exciting as waking up. Seeing a car that isn't a 1972 Ford F150 or a Jeep Willies, now that's surprising!

Just remember, there no fast broadband access in the country. Even if there is, it has unbearable lag, and costs $200-300 just to setup.

not necessarily true. :p I'm 20 miles away from the nearest city, but somehow I have cable access, and average about 350KB/sec download, 30KB/sec upload, and ping < 50ms to most NE servers. It helps that there's only a dozen of us on this node :) free setup, $40 a month
 

prvteye2003

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Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
Just remember, there no fast broadband access in the country. Even if there is, it has unbearable lag, and costs $200-300 just to setup.

negative! I have earthlink dsl in the country 1.5/256 and sustained speeds of 1440k/230k
 

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Originally posted by: prvteye2003
Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
Just remember, there no fast broadband access in the country. Even if there is, it has unbearable lag, and costs $200-300 just to setup.

negative! I have earthlink dsl in the country 1.5/256 and sustained speeds of 1440k/230k

Many rural areas are getting wireless set ups now. 500k up & down, ping times rivaling DSL.

Cool stuff.
 

kag

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I was born and raised in a 3,000ppl town, so I guess I'm a country boy. Right now for university I'm in a region that has around 100,000ppl but I don't really go downtown a lot. This is pretty much as much as I can handle. I would like to try a bigger city (I'm thinking maybe about Qu&eacute;bec City) but I'm afraid that everything would go too fast for me.

There's nothing like going in town (or in the next town, around 7,000ppl I'd guess) and drive with the windows down during the summer, look left and right for the hot girls and waving people you know in every few cars without worrying about changing lanes and missing exits and all that sh!t.