I was born in the south. My grandparents (reluctantly until they're able to leave) have lived in metro Atlanta for work as long as I can remember. As such, we've moved back with them temporarily and visited throughout my life, and I've gotten to see the dichotomy between there and the various other places I've lived and gone. (Most of the Midwest and to the east of it). Just recently, we lost a job and had to move back with the grandparents again until we can pick ourselves back up. Previously we were in a somewhat small (10k) relatively walkable for the US, town in kansas.
Coming back to metro Atlanta, I just say I hate it. There are granted, certain things I like–there's a fantastic Korean market we enjoy going to, and the mall of Georgia is the best I've seen. But I miss being able to walk somewhere if I wanted—as a new adult who doesn't have a licence yet, I so appreciate the freedom and independence of riding my bike to the store, or the library. I'd never ride a bike on the roads out from this suburban neighborhood, it's a death wish. Forget walking anywhere—even if there were enough sidewalks, everything is 10 miles away.
The people, while polite, are rude in their own way. I will say that here at least, I chalk that up to the hectic nature of the city, I understand getting tired of it over time and being ruder than you mean.
I think it's also important to point out that when I lived in northern Georgia (everyone that lives there always calls it "north Georgia" because of how different it is.) Many of these problems weren't there. Sometimes it doesn't matter what region you're in, or even what state, but what town.
Generally, if you live in the south and can't move at the moment, make the best of it. Eat some chicken and waffles.
Coffee is very cheap if you actually just make it. Maybe not cheaper than 4¢ tea bags sure, but cheap.
Edit: if anyone is curious about making coffee simply at home, buy a French press (fancy doesn't matter, get a $15 one on Amazon) and some coffee grounds (taste is just an experiment of what brand you like. Eventually you'll want to grind your own beans but don't worry about it for now. If you can, get medium grind grounds, as that's supposed to be good for French presses) follow a guide online for making it. You'll need a way to measure hot water like a kettle, but that's the same for tea so hey.
Used to use Brave, but it became more and more bloated as time went on. Also, I realized that I wasn't opposing Google as I wanted, but choosing an alternative of Google, as brave is still based on chromium. I enjoy Firefox very much now (don't know about the performance issues people talk about at all cause it seems better than all chrome, brave, opera, and opera GX I used in the past) although I'm looking into even further simplifying and privatizing that. Any suggestions for modified Firefox browsers that keep the functionality would be appreciated.
Android auto and always been a buggy mess. I was very disappointed when I first tried to use it, and the consecutive two months, until eventually I gave up and went back to normal bluetooth
Gosh can we focus on the important stuff? No one should care about the shoes he's wearing, he's a politician not a fashion model
Focus on the crooked politician stuff
Can't tell you the amount of times someone has acted astonished when I tell them I drink coffee because I genuinely like it—i just drink it in the morning because if I drank it later it'd keep me awake.
A lot of people drink it purely to stay awake and I do not get that. Get some caffeine pills or something.
As much as I hate trump—and I really do—please people actually read the article. He didn't say he should have been executed, he said used to in 'times gone by' he would have. Whether I agree with that or not is one thing, but people are talking like he said "we should kill him!"
Using connect cause it's the first one that popped up on a search when I originally switched. Can anyone give me good reasons to use a different one on this list?
I think it's definitely true that Americans get defensive when you criticize the US. I also think it's true that a huge reason for that, is because the only thing the internet seems to enjoy doing at the moment is complain about the US—no one likes to hear their country that they're living happily in trashed on constantly.
And I say that as someone who deeply enjoys complaining about the US
I was born in the south. My grandparents (reluctantly until they're able to leave) have lived in metro Atlanta for work as long as I can remember. As such, we've moved back with them temporarily and visited throughout my life, and I've gotten to see the dichotomy between there and the various other places I've lived and gone. (Most of the Midwest and to the east of it). Just recently, we lost a job and had to move back with the grandparents again until we can pick ourselves back up. Previously we were in a somewhat small (10k) relatively walkable for the US, town in kansas.
Coming back to metro Atlanta, I just say I hate it. There are granted, certain things I like–there's a fantastic Korean market we enjoy going to, and the mall of Georgia is the best I've seen. But I miss being able to walk somewhere if I wanted—as a new adult who doesn't have a licence yet, I so appreciate the freedom and independence of riding my bike to the store, or the library. I'd never ride a bike on the roads out from this suburban neighborhood, it's a death wish. Forget walking anywhere—even if there were enough sidewalks, everything is 10 miles away.
The people, while polite, are rude in their own way. I will say that here at least, I chalk that up to the hectic nature of the city, I understand getting tired of it over time and being ruder than you mean.
I think it's also important to point out that when I lived in northern Georgia (everyone that lives there always calls it "north Georgia" because of how different it is.) Many of these problems weren't there. Sometimes it doesn't matter what region you're in, or even what state, but what town.
Generally, if you live in the south and can't move at the moment, make the best of it. Eat some chicken and waffles.