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I am getting pretty fed up with living in the same area for so long, there seems to be a very predictable lack of any community.

In the Bay Area of all places I would expect to be able to meet more people in a way that didn't involve incense and huge crowds of people. I actually like incense but hippies just lack the ability to compromise on the overcompensation factor... some of them smell like patchouli and funk... not a bad smell, but damn do I really need to get to know you by smell alone?

Think about this for a minute, (this is a sub rant, and a jesting one at that) smell is apparently the most "memory-sensitive"... sense. There has to be a better way to say that. So I am basically being forced to remember a very smelly person, and they smell like patchouli. Patchouli is good in moderation, or applied liberally on the battlefield so your not shot by your own guys. "Hey, ted is over there guys!". Trust me, it is patchouli and it practically has a visible scent trail, which can also serve to confuse the hell out of your enemies noses, dogs too I think.

So on and so forth, most people are just fitted with super sized britches out here, and they just don't eat enough meat to fill them out. It is a odd place to live.

Anyway, before I lose faith in humanity tell me about how much more awesome (or much more not awesome ) your communities are. Having a whole block of friends that you have known since you were kids to hang out with trumps any boredom hands down.

"Note"
To be fair I am talking mainly about the Berkeley/San Fransisco area, haven't spent all that much time anywhere but up north in the "not actually part of the Bay Area, but they like to think so" area.

I don't know my neighbours. My nearest acquintances live down the road, nearest friends a bit further. We're not close-knit as a community, nor as a neighbourhood.

It's gak, but nobody's proactive enough to fix the situation, and I personally don't want to be associated with a load of rotting post-Yuppie snobs and drug addicts -- the mixture goes along surprisingly swimmingly.

sA

The Philly area is ok. I've lived here all my life except 2 years in L.A. and about 1 year in Columbia MD (1/2 hour from Baltimore). If I had a choice of the 3 I think I would go back to MD. Just seemed nicer all around.

What I like about Philly most is the food. I love cheesesteaks, and I often joke around that they're the reason I moved back home. A lot of folks in other cities really try hard but they just can't match the steaks here at home. Soft pretzels too. They have em elsewhere, but they just seem better in Philly. Also pizza. I've had pizza from all over the place, but for some reason I just like it around here better. The pizza flat out sucked arse when I was in L.A. Philly sports teams suck pretty much all the time, but at least they're consistant with their suckiness, except that Phillies fluke with the world series. But they only won because Comcast fixed the Curse of William Penn. Or did they?

I haven't lived within the city limits since college, but I know there are a lot of real nasty areas. This is true in any city but for some reason Philly just seems worse to me. And, the badness is really starting to spill over into the neighboring burbs. 20 years ago, I had friends that lived in the Upper Darby area (right next to Philly), now it's almost scarey driving around some of those old areas. Maybe I'm just getting old...

I just recently moved away from being right near the city to Norristown, which is about 30 minutes from Philly, with it's share of yucky areas, however I'm far away from that. I live in some nice condos right off the Schulykill river. About 90% of the residents there are over 60. It's real quiet and surrounded by golf courses which are also full of old people. And I got it pretty cheap too, and desipite the cheap price, I haven't seen any riff raff in the area at all. I feel like I can leave the top off my jeep for a week and no brats will throw crap in it. Birds on the other hand........

One day, I hope to win $300 million in the powerball and move even farther away from civilization, because I just hate people.

I don't know many of the people in my town. Most of the people my age I recognise from when I was in primary school with them, and I've gotten to know the people who work at Video City.

Other than that, I don't interact with the community. There are a lot of bogans and hoons down the road from me, so I have to wear a greatcoat and my hat when I go for walks in the dark. The hoons are really part around these parts; they zip up and down the road at night doing wheelies and yelling out the windows at people.

The only other people I'm familiar with are the people who go to Church, and I don't go very often.

my town...
hm
go to just about any church in the county- stand at the front door- you can probably see another church.
I really don't know many people in my town, most of the people i knew from highschool have either moved away, or dropped off the map to have kids or something.

I've lived in the Kansas City area all my life, and it's nowhere near as fun as it used to be. Half the malls my friends and I used to go to have shut down, as well as most of the hobby shops and comic book shops that used to be our source of GW and D&D stuff. The politicians are corrupt, the infrastructure is crumbling and generic strip-malls are everywhere. What Roz said about churches, in my town that's true with payday loan and title loan places, and places where you can wire money to Mexico. I am glad to drive 15 miles through gakky traffic to game because I don't want anybody to have to deal with my neighborhood. I only stay here because property values are really low.