Snob Test. Where Would You Live?

[Gori the Grey]

I think most people here have picked Blackpool assuming you had to move.

Here's why I made that assumption:

You have to relocate somewhere.

 

[Synobun]

I definitely wouldn't want to live in Blackpool. It's in the middle of nothing, the weather likely is dire there and it's a small town (around 140.000 according to google).

140k is a small town? I grew up in a town that had <2k.

 

[Kyriakos]

140k is a small town? I grew up in a town that had <2k.

It's clearly relative ^^ I am from a 1 million people city and only lived for extended periods of time elsewhere in London and Athens. In my first three months as a student in the UK, I was miserable in Colchester, which was in my eyes dreadfully small and provincial (and it has around 250K people).

 

[Gorbles]

Colchester is a city, not even a town nevermind a village

Famous for Roman history, too.

 

[Kyriakos]

Colchester is a city, not even a town nevermind a village

Famous for Roman history, too.

Its overall shape doesn't help either, with a small center and rows of suburbia ^^

 

[Zardnaar]

Everything's subjective small the place less amenities is generally how it goes.

Here once you hit around 100k+ you have everything you need. Bigger the place more variety.

Smaller the joint things like stadiums, hospitals etc start disappearing. Once you get down to small towns/villages you might be giving up gas stations and general stores or a pub.

 

[Valka D'Ur]

Ruatoria 750-900, Holmes county 2200 or smaller.

Synobuns winning so far, you might be losing. I think most people here have picked Blackpool assuming you had to move.

If I didn't have to move, the place where I'm sitting right now would suffice. I'm up the hill from a high-crime neighborhood, and I wouldn't walk around this neighborhood after dark.

140k is a small town? I grew up in a town that had <2k.

It was nice when Red Deer overtook Lethbridge as the 3rd largest city in Alberta. We got bragging rights. But we really don't need to be any bigger, and our sociopathic premier was rambling on some months ago about growing the population here to a million or more.

Which brings the question of where she thinks she'd put all these extra people without utterly destroying all the farms, ranches, wetlands, and forests that are between us and the nearest towns? Red Deer can't exist without all that, and building upward would mean a concrete and glass jungle like downtown Calgary. Calgary has some nice areas, but the downtown is a smog-filled horror. Even in the 1980s you could see the brown cloud miles away on the highway. My annual convention weekends there always included a headache.

Back when I was first old enough to read road signs (about age 5) I'd drive my mother nuts by reading all of them out loud during our trips from the acreage into town. Red Deer had 26,000 people back then. The "neighborhood" where the acreage was consisted of two acreages, a farm, and the gas station on the service road next to the highway. The back part of our property bordered a motel. That's all paved over now and is light industrial. They destroyed some good wetlands for that.

It's clearly relative ^^ I am from a 1 million people city and only lived for extended periods of time elsewhere in London and Athens. In my first three months as a student in the UK, I was miserable in Colchester, which was in my eyes dreadfully small and provincial (and it has around 250K people).

Is your list of requirements still the same, if you'd move to Canada? The only thing we can't supply is a 100% snow-free winter, but the closest you'd come is either Vancouver or Victoria, in BC. They get rain in winter instead of snow, at least in that part of the province.

Everything's subjective small the place less amenities is generally how it goes.

Here once you hit around 100k+ you have everything you need. Bigger the place more variety.

Smaller the joint things like stadiums, hospitals etc start disappearing. Once you get down to small towns/villages you might be giving up gas stations and general stores or a pub.

Once you no longer have a gas station or general store, you might as well pack up and leave and declare the place dead.

 

[danjuno]

Is your list of requirements still the same, if you'd move to Canada? The only thing we can't supply is a 100% snow-free winter, but the closest you'd come is either Vancouver or Victoria, in BC. They get rain in winter instead of snow, at least in that part of the province.

Don't know about Kyr, but cold weather and UHC sound mighty good to me.

 

[Zardnaar]

If I didn't have to move, the place where I'm sitting right now would suffice. I'm up the hill from a high-crime neighborhood, and I wouldn't walk around this neighborhood after dark.


It was nice when Red Deer overtook Lethbridge as the 3rd largest city in Alberta. We got bragging rights. But we really don't need to be any bigger, and our sociopathic premier was rambling on some months ago about growing the population here to a million or more.

Which brings the question of where she thinks she'd put all these extra people without utterly destroying all the farms, ranches, wetlands, and forests that are between us and the nearest towns? Red Deer can't exist without all that, and building upward would mean a concrete and glass jungle like downtown Calgary. Calgary has some nice areas, but the downtown is a smog-filled horror. Even in the 1980s you could see the brown cloud miles away on the highway. My annual convention weekends there always included a headache.

Back when I was first old enough to read road signs (about age 5) I'd drive my mother nuts by reading all of them out loud during our trips from the acreage into town. Red Deer had 26,000 people back then. The "neighborhood" where the acreage was consisted of two acreages, a farm, and the gas station on the service road next to the highway. The back part of our property bordered a motel. That's all paved over now and is light industrial. They destroyed some good wetlands for that.


Is your list of requirements still the same, if you'd move to Canada? The only thing we can't supply is a 100% snow-free winter, but the closest you'd come is either Vancouver or Victoria, in BC. They get rain in winter instead of snow, at least in that part of the province.


Once you no longer have a gas station or general store, you might as well pack up and leave and declare the place dead.

Such places generally have a larger town or city nearby sub 1000 population. At least here.

 

[amadeus]

Feel free to suggest elsewhere.

I’m sure there are much more dangerous, unhealthy places than the rural south. That aside, what’s your point?

 

[Kyriakos]

Vancouver looks nice