What do you hate about where you live?

[Trev]

[Sam Milby]

sound of speeding buses and superbikes worsened by their continuous humming of horns! makes me wanna screeeeaaaaaaammm!
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[melisamorris]

Well, I wrote my little excerpt about what I love about living in Florida and now I have to say what I hate....

I hate the traffic! I'm in central Florida and the main road is I-4. This interstate was not built with any assumption that there were be the type of growth in population that we have experienced. Way back when it was assumed that Florida would simply be a tourist destination and of course all the parks were built smack in the middle of the state. The interstate was built to get people in and out but not to withstand the amount of traffic we have on a daily basis because we have grown so much. I mean, why would anyone not want to live here? The downtown area and close areas have grown so much that residents have continue to spread outward. A great number of us now live 20+ miles away from the center of town and we commute every day. That doesn't sound like too terrible of a drive but when everyone is going in the same direction and you add in there tourist traffic, it is barely tolerable.

So if you come to central Florida please understand that we are trying! We have been building toll roads that circle the city but most people still use I-4 because it is the most direct route. We have even widened I-4 in the last 5 years and I hear we're about to widen it again... but it seems like we don't ever widen enough lanes to anticipate the growth.

Sorry!!!
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[ooen]

Delhi, India.

This is the capital of the most populated country, which is also the second fastest growing economy in the world, so you can get more or less whatever you want. India has a lot to offer as a country. However, traffic here is bad. I've been to quite a few of major cities around the world including New York, Amsterdam, Tokyo, Seoul, Singapore and Hong Kong, but Delhi is by far the worst. Mixture of cows, dogs, horses, rickshaws, bicycles, motorcycles, cars and people (in particular, in north Delhi) is pretty bad, but what makes this a lot worse is honking. Indians honk like crazy, and it's very unproductive. It doesn't make traffic move any faster, and ... it's a bit irritating.
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[ooen]

[wheretonext]

i wrote what i like about Sydney. now what i hate.

the traffic is appalling. especially where i live on the northern beaches, as we do not have trains, or major highways to clear people out in the peak hours. peak hour traffic is meant to last from 7am to 10am, but goes from 6 - 11mostly, especially becuase the lanes change back and the traffic doesnt dissapate.

my favourite thing to hate is the trucks. my plan is to lobby for them to only be on the road when i dont want to travel, say midnight to 5am, all deliveries or transit to be done in those times. lol.

i both like and dislike the distance of australia from most other places overseas. but when we go, it makes it more exciting.

i really dont like the lack of rain, as we have so much drought, and water restrictions, and i am a little scared.

I dont like the difference in exchange rate between the australian dollar and the canadian, and US and especially sterling and the euro. another thing which makes travel more expensive. our government, puts the brakes on if our dollar gets too close. that sux, and i know it is to do with the export market.

oh not to mention politics, BUT i dont like Australia after 10 years of Howard government stuffing up the country and our compassion towards anyone really.
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[rentalo.com]

Well... rather than pointing at things I don't like from where I live, I'd like to tell a couple of things I like that are not present wehere I live.

1) People speaking different tongues in the public transport, and people considering it normal. I love that from big, international cities, such as New York or Paris. In Bogota, on the contrary, should anyone speaks something other than spanish in Transmileio (our main public transport, it's a kind of bus system, but with metro-like stations), everyone would just stare at them as if they were Martians, or something.

2) It's related to the above. In Bogota you see a muslim veiled woman once every... six months!!! In even the little cities in France I saw five veiled women every half an hour, proving it's a truly multicultural country. As in Colombia there are not that many inmigrants, you perceive a rather homogeneus population in Bogota.

3) Civic culture. Even though we use to respect the place of handicaped and elderly people in Transmilenio, people don't wait until the people inside the bus get out to start struggling to get in. And, even if you want to respect the right of people to get out of the bus first, you can't, ecause people behind you woud push you beyond possibility for you to get in when they want to. It's terrible, once you are used to it, to get to New York and, out of habitude, get in before people gets out. You realize you have been incivilized for sooo long!!!!
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[paul]

[rentalo.com]

[paul]

Oh, I'm sorry... I mis-read that as:

[rentalo.com]

It's ok

Thanks Paul
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[Jochen]

Belgium. I hate...

- The weather (seems like it rains every day, except when the skies are just grey)

- Tax levels

- Tax levels

- Tax levels

Ciao,

J.

PS. almost forgot to mention; tax levels!

[paul]

What is the rate of tax in Belgium?
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