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willsomeonethinkofthechitlinsTracy Moore
4/05/15 2:28pm
I’m an American who lives in the UK. I have lived here for 13 years. I don’t hate the USA, but it’s a hard place to defend. I also have to defend Americans from the idea that a fair amount of Brits think we are fucking stupid.

What do I miss about the USA? The service in stores, a lot of the food, the fact that there are summers, Chicago (where I am from), the fact that people are fairly straightforward, houses with closets, driving down wide streets, boulevards.

I don’t miss the gun violence, the rampant fucking ignorance, the overly biased media, lousy radio and the near-worship of police.

But the USA is my home and I miss it loads. I hope to return to it one day.
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  HarvestMoonwillsomeonethinkofthechitlins
  4/05/15 2:37pm
  I’m an American who used to live in London and want to go back to live in the UK. Wanna trade?
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  geminigirl78900willsomeonethinkofthechitlins
  4/05/15 2:37pm
  That makes two of us. I’ve been here almost twenty years and am more horrified by the utter fuck-wittedness of so much of what happens in the US every year. Obama’s birth certificate was a particular low point, and you don’t want to get me going on the continued refusal to implement any sane gun control laws.
  
  But I still love the US. Though I won't be returning to live there.
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The GaysianTracy Moore
4/05/15 1:00pm
I miss my island home. Hawaii will have a special place in my heart, despite all the awful stuff that happened there, despite it being notoriously expensive, despite being stuck around people who didn’t want to leave the island.

It’s still home. I miss the ocean. I miss the beautiful weather, swimming with sea turtles, watching lava going into the ocean. I miss this.

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  SelmaJThe Gaysian
  4/05/15 1:10pm
  I've always considered Hawaii to be a bit trashy and overly typical, but I do admit that I enjoyed one of my visits. We saw an authentic luau and it was quite magical, my boys loved it
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  The GaysianSelmaJ
  4/05/15 1:12pm
  For me, I always felt uncomfortable at many of the luaus, but when me and my friends had genuine potlucks, woth local food made the way only locals can, it was da bomb brah.
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TemperanceTracy Moore
4/05/15 1:12pm
I’m from Scranton. Whenever I visit, which is not often, I’m reminded why it was once referred to as “the armpit of America”. It’s a backwards, anti-intellectual area full of cranky elderly people who stare out their windows to spy on you.

There’s nothing there for me. I’m trying to convince my sister to take her kids and GTFO to a more liberal area with better schools for her kids. I think it’s working.
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  ASnowdenofYesteryearTemperance
  4/05/15 1:19pm
  I’m from the Poconos, so I know exactly what you’re talking about. It really REALLY is not worth sacrificing your kids for.
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  Ladyheatherlee 2016 EditionTemperance
  4/05/15 1:59pm
  So my city is the armpit of British Columbia. Does that make us the Scranton of the North?
  
  *starts paper company*
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Ladyheatherlee 2016 EditionTracy Moore
4/05/15 1:03pm
I was born where I live now, but I was raised in a really small town on Vancouver Island. I love that place. Nothing shameful about it. It’s just beautiful. But now I’ve been living up north almost as long as I lived down there so I guess this is home now. And it is definitely conflicting. My city has a terrible reputation. We are known as the Armpit of BC. We have been named the Most Dangerous City in Canada. Yes. We have danger up here. People think this place is dirty and smelly because of the mills. They think gangs roam about shooting things at random. And it’s hard to argue with that given I’m the only person I know who has had someone shot and killed right behind her house.

But on the other hand, it’s been great for us. My husband found a way better job here and moved up the ranks more quickly than he would have in a larger city. Housing is affordable. Our new neighbourhood is quiet with a lack of shootings and stabbings. We have lots of friends with interesting and diverse backgrounds. My kids have friends. It’s actually very beautiful and surrounded by nature with wildlife of all sorts. We have a great life. So I guess I enjoy living in the Most Dangerous City in Canada. Only downside is that very few people want to come and visit. :(
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  HunterLadyheatherlee 2016 Edition
  4/05/15 1:28pm
  Where on the island did you grow up, if you don't mind me asking? My grandmother lives in Courtenay, and I spent my summers there as a child. Was always jealous of the fact that my mom grew up there
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  MezzoMeowsLadyheatherlee 2016 Edition
  4/05/15 1:31pm
  Prince George? Never been there myself, but I’m from Vancouver so some friends have lived up there for school and the like.
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Never_NudeTracy Moore
4/05/15 1:21pm
Austin, Texas native here. I’m one generation away from forced segregation. Both my parents attended “whites-only” institutions. I moved away 10 years ago, almost 11. I have family there, and friends I’ve known since I started first grade, and I miss all those people. I haven’t necessarily made the same connections in my new adopted home state.

Austin isn’t home anymore. When I was a young adult, Ann Richards was governor and the state was a much saner place. Growing up, Austin was a city that felt like a small town. You could wear shorts anywhere. The lakes had water. You could hike at Pedernales Falls State Park all day without seeing another soul.

There was a guy who sold flowers on the corner of South Congress and Oltorf. I’d see him on the way to lunch after church. He did tricks with the flowers, spinning them on the ends of his fingers. That guy was Max Nofziger, who later became a powerful city counsel person. Austin was a laid-back town full of cool people and promise.

Today, it’s unrecognizable to me when I visit. There’s sprawl everywhere. It’s been taken over by people without a sense of its history. Old places full of personality are pulled down in favor of generic malls or high-rise apartments. Quaint streets where harmless hookers plied their trade are now stocked with cool bars and bistros; places to see and be seen.

Progress is inevitable, I get it, and I moved away for a reason. But it does make me sad to go back because it’s not only different, it’s another place altogether.

Also, the current state government is driving the place toward the bottom of the good lists and the top of the bad lists in all areas. Buncha assholes fully of crazy. That former generation of segregated lunatics is now in power and doing all they can to take Texas back in time to the 19th Century. I can’t imagine living there again.
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  Kathleen Burner OverdriveNever_Nude
  4/05/15 1:36pm
  I feel the same way about Austin, which I left three years ago. I’m not even a native, but I moved there in the 90’s when I was young. It was wonderful and magical and appealingly shabby. By the time I left it was well on its way to becoming a drag version of itself: a sort of self-congratulatory hipster themepark run by Californians where the people who made it cool could no longer afford to live.
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  Never_NudeKathleen Burner Overdrive
  4/05/15 1:40pm
  Your description is perfect. One of my old friends who still lives there said almost the same thing. People who destroyed the place they lived (LA) moved to Austin, with plans to do the same.
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Omar Bradley LittleTracy Moore
4/05/15 1:00pm
My hometown, Albuquerque, has been described (rather accurately) as a large bumpkin town. It occupies a lot of area, does not really have an appreciable city center or downtown, and is perpetually stuck in about 5 years in the past. The crime is sky high and the populace is generally poor, but I love it to death. I can’t get a good breakfast burrito anywhere else, and I’ve gotten into shouting matches with people about what real chile is. The food is amazing, the people are churlish, and the city government refuses to improve anything. But damn it, it’s mine!
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  dumbledoresgirlOmar Bradley Little
  4/05/15 1:07pm
  I live in Santa Fe now. My dad’s family is from here and my mom’s is from the south. I’ve never felt more at home than in Norther New Mexico.
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  Omar Bradley Littledumbledoresgirl
  4/05/15 1:33pm
  Northern NM is a whole nother world. I love Santa Fe, and my girlfriend is from Los Alamos (don’t love that so much). People still get weirded out when they find out the New Mexico isn’t all desert and dirt.
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SelmaJTracy Moore
4/05/15 1:01pm
I love-love the place I’m from. There is so much history, and it’s a very beautiful place, both in scenery and in the people who live here. It’s not too PC, and you can let your hair down and talk about whatever you want. It’s also very wealthy, which means the people are very smart, so you are never far from an interesting person. Grosse Point is amazing
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  Cocopop!SelmaJ
  4/05/15 1:23pm
  
  GIF
  
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  DieselDamselSelmaJ
  4/05/15 1:29pm
  Love it so much you misspelled it! Must have gone to North.
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courtTracy Moore
4/05/15 12:52pm
My father retired as a colonel in the marine corp after 26 years and four wars. I have lived in virginia, missouri, new jersey, california, hawaii, baltimore, dubai, and shanghai. I miss and love all the places I can remember. But Baltimore, the first place I CHOSE to live will forever remain in my heart. Natty Boh and the Orioles forever, hon.
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  dumbledoresgirlcourt
  4/05/15 1:05pm
  GO O’s! SO EXCITED MACHADO IS BACK! SO DEVASTATED MARKAKIS DEFECTED TO THE BRAVES THAT I CAN’T EVEN!
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  courtdumbledoresgirl
  4/05/15 1:07pm
  We’ll keep proving the doubters wrong!!!
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treacleTracy Moore
4/05/15 1:02pm
Hi, I live in Seattle and I hand-craft artisanal hatred for it.
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  Werecurmudgeontreacle
  4/05/15 1:25pm
  I love spending time in Seattle, but after a few days I am more than happy to return to my island full of old hippies and non-hipster artists.
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  Andrew DaisukeWerecurmudgeon
  4/05/15 2:41pm
  Vashon?
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fighting polish is David Schwimmer as Rob Kardashian SrTracy Moore
4/05/15 1:20pm
I read that piece on Indiana the other day, and it resonated with me so hard (to be clear: i’m a flaming liberal, hetero dude). I get upset with the dumb shit my elected representatives do. I’m personally doing whatever is in my power to make it better.

But when people say “boycott Indiana” or “fuck Indiana” or “why would anyone live in Indiana”? Well fuck you. That’s my home, dickbag. And I’ll love it till the day I die.
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  dalilafighting polish is David Schwimmer as Rob Kardashian Sr
  4/05/15 7:21pm
  This is how I feel when people criticize my family (to be specific, my dad’s inane rants on Facebook that I talk about on here from time to time). My family is strange and has terrible opinions and I rag on them freely. But when other people do? Fuck off. My sister is annoying af sometimes and I like to bitch about it. When other people do? Fuck off.
  
  Shrug.
  
  Indiana has a delicious gummy candy factory, so you can really only hate them for so much.
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  fighting polish is David Schwimmer as Rob Kardashian Srdalila
  4/05/15 7:30pm
  Albanese? SO GOOD.
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