where are you from, and what it's like?

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Tel Aviv vicinity, horribly hot in summer, rain in winter. Rude and loud people, horrible drivers. Long wait in supermarket because the cashiers are few and lazy. Same in banks and post offices. Good hospitals, but the police takes forever to show up and then almost never catch anyone. not patrolling the streets either.

crowded city with few homes and mostly buildings, a zillion feral cats, and the few animals shelters are almost always full. some people are superstitious about black cats, and many are scared of dogs. palms and cypresses, and a few cactuses. I live near the bus stops, and the buses show up every few minutes.

Jobs are rather easy to find, especially phone surveys jobs. Can find a job like this in a few days. bus drivers have a nasty habit of sharp stops every few minutes, throwing passengers forwards and backwards. buses are sardine boxes in rush hour. you can never find a place to sit, and you can be stuck in traffic jams till it takes two hours where it should've taken an hour and a half.

Moved to Snohomish County, Washington, USA a year ago. Live next to the sea and nearby forests. Oh and miles of farmland too. The weather is perfect for my taste. The town itself is very nice and interesting. I love the place.

Your original post interested me felinesaresuperior, because when I have watched news reports featuring the Israeli army, I've tended to assume the whole country is run in a similarly ruthlessly efficient fashion. Your local police force seems almost as inept as ours...

I currently live in the Greater Manchester area, which is also where I was born and went to school. The weather is generally poor, rain most days of the year, not many warm dry days. Transportation is also an issue - I don't drive at the moment and the buses, trains and trams are horrendously expensive and not very reliable.

Finland.

+ politically stable
+ no natural disasters
+ peaceful
+ gorgeous nature

– culturally isolated
– geographically rather isolated from the rest of Europe
– we always have to take Russia into account
– uncommunicative nation (which doesn't really matter if you're autistic)

I live in a small town in Ontario, Canada. The summers are warm and pleasant but the winters are long, dark and harshly cold. Usually we get around 50 centimetres of snow in Janauary, February and March. Trees begin to grow leaves in May and lose them by November. Everyone goes outside from May to October, and stays inside from November to April.

The people here are usually educated, quiet and polite. Almost everybody is Caucasian/White and either Atheist or Christian. People here love animals and don't let feral cats or dogs wander around lost, and most families have pet cats or dogs. Buses come only once an hour in this town so it's better to drive, but the buses hardly have anyone on them so you're never crowded. If you like walking, you can just walk to almost any store you need to go in under an hour.

There are lakes and forests nearby so I go walking along the lake shore or hiking in the forest almost every day until winter. Camping is very popular here in summer time. In winter the lake freezes over and people drive out on the ice to go ice-fishing or snowmobiling. People build small wooden huts on the ice to sit inside them while fishing, so in winter it looks like a small town has been built on the frozen lake. Most people here love to go fishing or they have a boat. There are many nice small beaches here, and they are never crowded, but the water might be too cold for swimming until July and August.

People's favourite food here is pizza: there is a small pizza restaurant on almost every street. People also love to eat fried chicken wings, and all these pizza restaurants also sell wings. Each restaurant will deliver food to your house, so you can stay at home and order food by phone if you don't want to go out.

P.S. We don't have an alcohol problem, but most people smoke marijuana even though it's still supposed to be illegal, but the police no longer care about marijuana and won't stop you from smoking it as long as you're not selling a large amount.

I currently live in my hometown, Las Vegas,NV.
It's quite small and it's literally minutes from anywhere in town (if you drive a car) but the summers here are horrible! Can get up to 110!
Also lots of entertainment (of course!)

I live in Brecksville, Ohio. My house is not too far from the Metroparks. The trees there are beautiful, especially in the fall. The city itself is amazing and has some great places to go to eat (not counting fast food restaurants). The weather isn't too bad, either.

I won't say where I'm from, but here's what it's like. It rains incessantly for nine months of the year, and then for the other three it's hot. The people are really obnoxious in my opinion, they'll go past my window at five in the morning walking their dogs or some s**t and talking really loud. Everything and everyone looks the same, little happy families living in their pastel-colored box houses. You can drive for ages and feel like you're getting nowhere. Endless swathes of pawn shops, supermarkets, car dealers.

The only thing I really like about being here is the nature. Not the parks in the city, for they are all polluted and being taken over with ivy and invasive plants, but the places way out in the mountains. When I'm walking through acres of forest, I feel more content than anywhere else.

I hope to move to somewhere in Europe when I grow up. I've been to a few European countries briefly, and I really liked how it was there. Or Mexico. I've been there too and I also enjoyed it. Or maybe someplace else, I don't know yet. Whatever the case, I don't want to stay here. Place f*****g sucks

From the Paisley area of Scotland. Economically,like most parts of the UK,things could be a little better.The textile industry that gave the Paisley pattern its name is one of the manufacturing industries that have gone.Geographically it's part of the Glasgow urban area with all its world-class facilities,but also within an hour of country parks and coastal resorts. The weather is typically Scottish ('interesting' if you're a meteorologist) - it's meant to be summer but in one day last week there was sunshine,rain,hailstones and thunder & lightning. The temperature has only reached 18c in the past few weeks,compared to a high of 27c in London,which is invariably much warmer although only 400 miles away.

Hot dry (40+ sometimes) summer. Rather wet mild winter.
Lots of eucalyptus trees and other hardy native plants.
Shítty public transport operated by incompetent, irresponsible and lazy people.
Lots of trashy people causing nuisance in public.
Lots of graffiti and vandalism.
Lots of superficial people pretending to have goodwill and trying to hide their selfish/racist/sexist/homophobic etc attitude.
Lots of obese people.
Places are spacious.
Not crowded.
Beautiful natural environment.
Beautiful night sky.

Originally from south Louisiana. It's hot, humid people are hard-care conservatives who believe in slashing all the government programs except military as much as possible.

I live in Vermont now & it's like the opposite. Not too hot or humid, & people & government are alot more progressive.