Poll: What time zone are you currently in?

[Slappy]

Ah, Morpheus. Another of the Navarre Elite. It looks like someday all the officers of the Dominion will live in the same time zone.

That's good. It will make it easier for us to conquer...um, assist, the world if none of us have to stay up late.

I guess that is why I am a contrarian, I am East Coast.  Jersey Born & Bred.  We tend to do things our own way.

[Navarre]

Jersey sure gets ragged on a lot. People always joking about it.

I've never been there. Is it better than all that?

[Slappy]

Absolutely better.  The Jersey Shore has people from NY in it and shows one of the worst beaches in the state.  They stay in Seaside or what we call Sleazeside.  Most of the beaches are really nice with very expensive houses.
Nowhere in the United States can you be one hour from 2 Major Cities, The shore, some of the highest Mountains in the East, have farmland, vinyards, gambling resorts, Multiple fine educational institutions and still have a house in a nice neighborhood.
It is expensive, but it isn't just the Sopranos meets Atlantic City meets The Jersey Shore.  NJ Also has two NFL teams playing in the state, 1 NBA, and 1 NHL.
There is something for everybody here.

[Navarre]

That's good to hear. Too bad it gets so much ridicule.

West Virginia deserves what it gets, for the most part. The level of ignorance here is unbelievable.

But no person can be judged by where they live and no place is either paradise or hell.

[andrew wiggins]

slappy you ever been to red bank

[Slappy]

Yes.  About 45- an hour from me depending on traffic.
Never did much more than drive through a number of times.

[Alisha Mynx]

But no person can be judged by where they live and no place is either paradise or hell.

Although I do affectionately call Illinois "Hellinois".  It's not really a bad place to live, it just isn't an ideal place for me personally due to several factors.  And it isn't even the whole state, it is mostly the small towns and small cities I've lived in for the most part.

[Navarre]

I don't think "small town" Illinois means the same as "small town" West Virginia. Like I've said before, my entire county doesn't even have a stop light.

Here is my home county:



You will notice by the magnifier on the left that this is not a huge terrain shot but actually a relative close-up. The distance between Millstone and Sand Ridge across the center of the map is 2 miles. The whole county looks like that.

The markers do show 2 roads that go through the county (33/119 and Rt. 16). They are both paved so we have that going for us. They are the most exciting thing on the entire map.

[Navarre]

This thread has compelled me to search out my childhood homes. Always fun to revisit Hell once in a while, right?

The first house I remember (ages 3-12):



The next house, a mile away (ages 12-20):



If Satan built a couple summer homes in the godforsaken backwoods, here they are. They don't look any better or worse than when I saw them last. I don't think time moves there, seeing as I'm still trying to escape the place.

Anyway, Enjoy! 

[SpiderLover]

I live in jacksonville FL, home to Lynard Skynard, crime, limp biskit, crime, yellow card, crime, red jump suit aparatus, crime, beautiful beaches, Jacksonville jaguars, and did I mention the crime?

It really isn't a horrible place to live during the daylight hours.

[Slappy]

I live in jacksonville FL, home to Lynard Skynard, crime, limp biskit, crime, yellow card, crime, red jump suit aparatus, crime, beautiful beaches, Jacksonville jaguars, and did I mention the crime?

It really isn't a horrible place to live during the daylight hours.

Perhaps you should don a mask and take back the streets with your faithful ward Rudolpho?

[Navarre]

and did I mention the crime?

I dunno. You had me convinced at "limp bizkit".

[Alisha Mynx]

I don't think "small town" Illinois means the same as "small town" West Virginia. Like I've said before, my entire county doesn't even have a stop light.

For a few years I lived in an area of Missouri that was pretty barren and also didn't have a stoplight in the county.  But it was almost the happiest time I'd ever had (I met my late partner there as well as some of the best friends I've ever had).

The small towns in Illinois may not be as bare, but they stunk bigtime.  I don't mean "It stinks" as in "It's stupid", I mean they actually smelled awful.  While most of them were surrounded by cornfields, it was the few animal farms outside of town that made the air most foul.  I don't mean normal bad smell farm smell, either, this was epic bad stenches of biblical proportions.  So I either had epic allergies or epic stenches to look forward to. 

And then there was the schools...  Not only were they way behind the times (in part due to under-funding), they assumed everyone was training to become a farmer.  Most classes revolved around some aspect of farming and we even had to do things that might be considered child labor.  On the plus side of that, though, I did get a pet pig out of it (I refused to cut and tag the poor thing and ran home with it and the owner thought it was hilarious and let me keep it).

[Navarre]

Sounds like quite a place.

It would be something to see how we would be different if we had different childhood experiences; sort of the alternate-universe versions of ourselves.

I used to think maybe one of the things that would happen for us after we die is that we not only get to rewatch our entire lives (kind of like a movie) at whatever pace we want but that we could take any moment and see how a change in that moment would have affected the rest of our lives.

I would have been in a much different place today if I had understood what was being done to me as a child.