I have no hometown anymore. My parents and I moved from my hometown when I was 14, moved to another town when I was 16, and then my parents moved again after I came to Iowa State. I can't claim any of those places as my hometown as I barely know anyone and few people remember me.
I rarely go to any of those towns, and have only been to my parents' new place 5 times.
Instead of "a man without a country" I am "a man without a town."

I pretty much had two small towns i grew up in in the same area as gphiangel lived. I grew up both in San dimas/ glendora area and also in Victorville( San Bernadino county).

I DETEST victorville and that is where i went t o HS and where i moved to when i divorced and bought my house. I also grew up and lived in the san dimas glendora area and absolutely love it there.

Victorville is getting to be purely ghetto and i hate it. No values or morals here and it is UGLY.

Where as Glendora there are morals and values with a small town family related feeling. When i sold my house last yr and moved here i was leaving a great church family , many perks to living in the san gabriel valley, and the feeling of safety , and the ease to get anywhere at a decent amt of time.

Where as victorville you have to COMMUTE.....no way around it.......the new houses up here are great and i LOVE my house , but i detest this place and the ppl here ...except for the few ppl i know that still live here.

Taualumna,

I hate Toronto too. I am so sick of this city and I really need to leave. I'm planning on moving out of the city...out of the country in fact when I finish my program.

Toronto is a hole. But for me it's not because it's too liberal...just a little too Liberal. The TTC is NOT the better way. It's far too expensive, it's making me sick. I just think I need a change of scenery, even if it's only for a few years.

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Okay, some places are "ghetto" and some are not. But...you're not going to find a place with "morals and values" or "no morals and values". It's about the same everywhere....immorality just shows up in different ways. Sometimes it is blatent and overt, sometimes it is subtle and covert.

I still live in my hometown of San Diego. I wouldn't say it's the problems with the town so much as the town not fitting the type of person I am.

1) San Diego is too laid back for me. I constantly need to be doing SOMETHING for some reason, and I think the city moves too slow for me.

2) Well, this is a bias standpoint, but of course, San Diego is a very superficial town.

3) This is NOT, HAS NEVER BEEN, NEVER WILL BE a sports town. SD is probably the most fair-weather sports city in America. There's just too much to do elsewhere to get religiously involved with sports, and I need to be around an environment where people actually take their sports teams seriously.

The positives (best weather on Earth, hottest women in California, most polluted yet still inhabitable beaches on CA) outweigh the negatives, but spending 21 yrs here, it's time for me to leave after graduation.

I can only hope Boston is the city I imagine it to be.....

I have only heard really good things about San Diego. I visited when I was 14 and really liked it. It's supposed to have the best weather during the winter when we in New York are covered in a foot of snow. San Diego is one of the few places to which I would consider relocating if the winter weather becomes too much for me to handle. :)

Where do you think you're going to go? My parents want to send me to China to take Mandarin for a year. It's not really something I want to do :(....I guess I'll have to look for something on my own.

If you're imagining that it's cold, very cold, and then colder, then your imagination is right on target.

:D

I live an hour north of Boston, and would trade you San Diego in a heartbeat. IMHO, it's far superior not only in weather, but in temperament of the people who live there.

(Geez, I guess I'm pretty cranky considering that it's only the first week of Standard Time and the snow hasn't even started piling up on the streets yet.)

There are some things about living in Vancouver that drive me up the wall, such as people who drive without licenses and people who refuse to serve you in English (or French), but it's nice living in a liberal, multicultural city (most of the time).

I think everyone has some issue or other with their city; if you lived in a city your whole life and outsiders come in and change its face its hard and vice versa, if people move to a city and it's not what they expected they make not like it.

I sweat very easily. A cold place would be the perfect setting to avoid this embarassment.

I'm also suffering through a long curse that's provided many let downs, so I think I can relate. In terms of temperment, I'll trade rudeness for superficiality, but that's just me.

The sun's over rated.......

You're going love it here then!

Just invest in some wool clothes and boots, you'll be good to go. :) Luckily, Trader Joe's finally made it here a few years ago, so it will feel almost like home.

Hope everything works out for you in Beantown.

I left the crappy transit system off my list - if you want me to go green build a sky train out my way and lower the cost of transit, oh and a bus route where I only need to take one bus would be nice... :p

I'm planning on moving to England. I can get citzenship through my mother, so really the only problem will be finding a job once I get there. Fortunately I have family that can and will help me out until I get settled. I really need a change and an adventure.

Find something you enjoy and go for it.

I've never taken any other transit system, so I don't have anything to compare it with. But right now, it's still not the better way.

I consider myself liberal, so that's not my issue with Toronto. I am definitly NOT, nor will I ever be a "big L" Liberal. But that's not really a Toronto things as it is an Ontario and Canada thing.