What Is Your City Like?

[nol 0]

What is your city like? Is it violent?I live in a small city, but I used to live in Milwaukee. We have so many gangs there, such as Mara Salvatrucha 13 (MS13), Latin King, 21, etc. About 3-4 people die each day due to murders, grafiti everywhere, drug dealers, prostitutes, etc. So I left there, because my parents didn't want so much gang influence in my life. Anyways, how is everybody elses citys?

[Smack 0]

I live in a small Texas town. Basically, that town that you see in all the killer movies set in Texas, you know, that one with less than 5,000 people in it. Our biggest store is a Super Wal-Mart and we have the most drug trafficking in Texas. (My county had the darkest color on the Texas map at NORML.org!) There aren't 3-4 people dying here each day, in fact there doesn't seem to be many murders. But there are lots of gangs and I'm sure there is a good number of prostitutes.But it's a small friendly town as well. Everyone knows your name, if you need some kind of help all you do is have to ask, and the teacher to student ratio is good in the schools. The mayor is a coke user and dealer (rule #2 broken - haha). And there is not many things here for the youth to do but drugs - I mean c'mon, some kind of youth hangout is seriously needed in this drug town of Texas.

[sylenzednuke 0]

I live in Mumbai, India. It's one of the biggest cities in India and also the commercial capital ... what New York is for U.S.A. is what Mumbai is for India.Here there's hardly anything you will not find. From everything bad to everything good. I live in one of the Northern suburbs and it's pretty good here too. Gang's and all are there, but not small-time, all work under utmost secrecy and all have their Godfather in the name of Dawood, the big time gangster who is supposedly hiding in Dubai right now. Many number of schools and great colleges too. Drugs and prostitution is rampant over here too, but almost everything here is rampant, every little thing you can possibly think of.US residents might know how it is in New York, it's basically the same here with not much difference. We have tall skyscrapers to a huge slum area, the biggest in Asia at Dharavi, it comes somewhere in the central part of Mumbai. The Southern side of the city has mainly old buildings which were made by the Britishers and is now the working force of Mumbai, all the offices and everything is there but it still is a quite moderate residential area. The Southern side are basically suburbs and residential areas with not many big corporations here and the Central side is mainly completely residential area with slums on one side and one of the best area on one side.It's pretty big so it has got everything, you can't really list down everything. Everything from gangs to good schools, from local tea shops to big malls.

[arza1 0]

i live in a small town in indiana where everybody thinks that they are thugs or hicks but they really are not. everyone here either starts crap with people just for the fight or are the people getting put in the situation where you might get picked on for being whomever they are starting the fight with. i really like my town it is nice but there are just alot of stupid people. i am lucky to have found the friends that i have. they are pretty much the only ones with levelheads. there is alot of drug traffic for such a small town. alot of kids in my highschool like to brag about how they did a shitload of coke over the weekend. you can here people selling in the halls. but i really have never heard of any fighting over drugs. wierd huh. my friends and i have decided to not do drugs. i am glad they did because i would be the only one in our school that doesn't. well maybe not the only one.

[master_bacarra 0]

my city isn't really called a city (literally), and plus it still looks like a province (well it is a province). it's still a long way when it comes to the infrastructures. we only have some malls but it's very known to most of the people in the metro. there aren't many huge houses too. most people aren't that much rich (in our standards, of course). we don't have that much crimes and violent stuff going on. only those people who come from other places who try to destroy the silence. but that rarely happens.

[salamangkero 0]

My city, Caloocan, is kinda odd, in some sorta way. See, it's geographically split into two non-adjacent areas, hugging the largest city in the Metro, Quezon City. Sometimes, it's a bit confusing telling people where I live since, after all, we have the Northern and Southern Caloocan City separated by a considerable distance. I have no idea how it came to be.

 

I live in the Northern part, where an edge butts up against a province. It's a suburban area characterized mostly by an unruly invasion of greenery. By unruly, I meant disordered meadows, not prim and trimmed lawns. We also have a fair share of paper, cotton and acacia trees dotting our concrete fields at random. The air in our place is sorta fresh but, in less progressive areas, it smells a lot like piss. Human, bovine or canine, I have no idea but I think it's all three.

 

The Southern part, on the other hand, is surrounded by urban areas. The atmosphere there is gray to black, full of carbon emissions. The streets are kinda narrow and even the major highways seem a bit too tight for traffic. My parents lived there so I get to visit the area from time to time. The progressive areas there smell like engine exhaust fumes while the poorer areas smell a lot like an industrial sewer. By industrial sewer, I meant vaporous synthetic chemicals like detergent, varnish or thinners, not sludge and $#!+

 

Southern Caloocan has a richer culture, when it comes to Filipino traditions. The languages of profanity are also, undoubtedly, much more colorful there. The houses are commonly made of wood, unlike the cement and concrete houses here.

 

When it comes to crime, I don't really hear much about grave crimes. Sure, there must be some petty robberies or holdups ever and anon but usually, people in Southern Caloocan just settle things over alcohol, mahjong, sakla (another form of gambling) and the traditional fistfights. When the next dawn rises, people wake up sober and all is well with the world again.

 

Northern Caloocan, however, has a fair share of robberies and holdups, most probably due to the proximity of several commercial establishments in Caloocan City. Suffice to say that our banks and houses invite more robbers. I would very much like to point fingers at the citizens of nearby Quezon City and Bulacan province but I, myself, have to admit I have no idea where all those people come from.

 

We don't usually have gangs in Northern Caloocan City; I'd say, the Southern part has more of them. However, in fairness to them, those gangs are no more than fraternal bonds among boys of the same age. They drink together, get smashed together, sing rowdy songs and wake up the neighbors together but I'm sure they have enough sense and morality not to go killing people.

 

Prostitution is not Caloocan City's main trade (A lot of them are in Malate and Quezon City) The same goes for drugs (Uh, Quezon City and Manila?)

 

So, I guess that's it about our city. Nothing too interesting, apart from the oddity of having two separate places

[insaneinnovations 0]

I live in Eureka, CA. It's in Humboldt County, and if any of you are form the northwestern US, you'd know what we're famous for. EVERYONE'S A STONER!! lol, thats right!! You can walk down the street and just smell a big wave of weed just spill over the whole city. It had an official city population of 26,128 in the 2000 census. The Greater Eureka Area then had a population of more than 42,233.

[TypoMage 0]

I live in Waterford, Maine Lets just say that there is one house every 5 miles! Walmart is like an hour away I hate it how we had to move here! I used to live in the best town ever East Wareham, Massuchusetts.

[csp4.0 1]

Well, I live in the small town of Hamilton (not in the Northern Hemisphere) well, there sn't much crime, but there are alot of boy racers ( I'm not one of them), and there are plenty of sup;lies, the water is free, energy are rock bottom, and is a good lifestyle city to live in

[dabl_di 0]

I live in a Kraljevo,Serbia...That is a one city that lies on two rivers Morava and Ibar.It's a beautifull city with a bautifull girls.Chicago and Kraljevo are two cities in the world that have a streets that are straight and leads to a center of a city.Come visit me...

[robocz033 0]

i live in a rich village by milwaukee. so there is only problems with drugs, but not that bad. i hear about milwaukee murders daily. its pretty bad. but where i live, its mainly rich kids you have to deal with, however, i am not that rich, so its alright. i like going down to chicago to meet a bunch of my friends and stuff, and my aunt. but otherwise not much to do.

[michaelper22 0]

It's kind of difficult to describe New York City in words, but it's also almost unecessary. NYC is a mix of lifeless commercial areas, "suburbia" (tree lined streets, but not really rural because there are stores within walking distance), "the big city" and other types of residential and commericial neighborhoods.Manhattan is basically where tourism is centered around, but is also the most expensive place to live with NYC. Rent is amazingly expensive, which means housing and goods cost more. However, Central Park is close to many residential areas, with other nice parks scattred around in other areas (Bryant Park, Riverside Park, etc.).Quick fact: The borough of Queens is the most ethnically diverse 115 square miles on Earth.

[ZPGames 0]

Almost my entire city is under consruction, downtown is almost completely torn down, you can barely get in or out of the city because the freeway system is so torn apart right now, three of the elementary schools, one of the middle schools, and two of the high schools are getting torn down and rebuilt, while Ogden High is just getting gutted and completely remodeled, houses all over the city getting torn down and rebuilt. I live in Ogden, Utah. The government calls it "A Revitalization of Ogden". You really don't hear about a lot of problems, the occasional domestic disturbance. It really is a nice place to live, mountains to climb, rivers to kayak down, old victorians to restore, or brand new houses to buy for pretty cheap.

[Mich 0]

I live in a small town on the east shore of Lake Michigan. It is 8,000 population and in the midst of a National Forest. Known as the Victorian Port Village; we still have shipping on a regular basis during the spring, summer and fall. Fortunately I live on the bank of the river channel and get to watch them navigate into our local lake. We have some problems with substance abuse, but it is more with alcohol than anything else. The young people get bored because they don't have all the recreational activities of the bigger cities. Our one movie theater is struggling to stay open. We have a casino north of town for the adults. But, we just built a big new High School which made the students very happy. With open selection in our state, students can elect to attend it even if they don't reside here; so we draw from outside because of the new educational facilities. We hope this in itself helps the local teens function better in more diverse social situations. Because of our small size, some of our children have trouble coping with the big, wide world when they venture out into it. Edited June 19, 2007 by Mich (see edit history)

[FolkRockFan 0]

I'm a Texan. I live in the middle of nowhere. My property is so far out that we aren't incorporated into any city. The nearest community is comprised of several very small towns (populations of just several thousand each, if that many) that surround a giant lake. So we have a lot of tourism out here. Weekenders come to play on the lake and visit the flea markets. But we locals don't have much to do. We can go to Wal-Mart or the four-screen movie theater, but that's about it. There isn't even a record store out here, oddly enough.And I love it. For the most part, life out here is peaceful and quiet. We rarely have murder or other serious crimes. The big crime here involves meth. My county has a task force assigned to breaking up meth labs and helping gather evidence to prosecute meth addicts (many of them steal other people blind to fund their drug habits). The task force can only do so much, but at least they're trying.And life out here is better now because the meth lab that used to operate up the road finally moved out a few months ago. The task force never got around to investigating that lab because there are so many others in this part of Texas. But I'm glad that the lab moved because, seriously, the constant "traffic" was getting old. That and the cook was crazy. He thought that everybody was out to get him. He would rip off anything that wasn't welded down. Et cetera. He's in the later stages of addiction too, so...yeah.Overall, the best part about being out here is the space. I live on 13 acres, so there's plenty of room between my place and my neighbors' places. But we're close enough that, if we want or need something, we can go see each other.