Medford is nice. Home of Harry and David. I go thru 1 lb of chocolate a week. Ashland is nice too. Shakespeare festival. Nothing like a Shakespeare play after a hard 10-miler.
Medford is nice. Home of Harry and David. I go thru 1 lb of chocolate a week. Ashland is nice too. Shakespeare festival. Nothing like a Shakespeare play after a hard 10-miler.
1. a human society that has highly developed material and spiritual resources and a complex cultural, political, and legal organization; an advanced state in social development
I'm considering going to grad school in Ithaca, NY. Anyone have any insights on what it'd be like to live there? (I'm from MN, lived here all my life)
Nobody goes to Ithaca. They go away from Ithaca.
Have a trumpet-player friend from grad school from Ashland - he's a good egg, genuinely nice to the core dude.
Ithaca wrote:
I'm considering going to grad school in Ithaca, NY. Anyone have any insights on what it'd be like to live there? (I'm from MN, lived here all my life)
Ithaca is an extremely liberal town that exists to support the local colleges (Cornell and Ithaca College). There are tons of outdoorsy things to do (lake for boating, plenty of parks for hiking or running)... but that's about it. The town is an hour from the closest "city" (Syracuse). If you want to study and run and love the outdoors, you might love Ithaca. If you want any sort of urban environment, you may want to look elsewhere. It's a nice town, but it's not for everyone.
I've lived in New England my whole life and here is my input:
The winters suck, the falls are gorgeous, the summers are hot and humid but too short, and the spring is much welcomed after a long ass winter.
Life is a rat race. People are always in a rush. Things are not laid back. People have a short fuse. Fat people, many of them (not as bad as the south though). People size you up and judge you before you really get to know them.
Things are very, very close together. Many things to do within a short distance. Much less natural beauty than out west. People are less active.
The positives very much depend on the personality of the person.
When I think of the East Coast I think of the major metropolitan areas. Congested cities, people talk real fast, no fake common courtesy, wierd over abundance of dark haired people from nationalities you don't see much in the midwest or west, but a lot of excitement. Oh and crappy weather which you are used to worse in the midwest but but not in California.
Wasn't for me when I was competing.
I've heard Ithaca is Gorges
Yanqui wrote:
The only cultural stereotype I'll support is that New Jersey totally sucks, and most of the people you see misbehaving in midtown Manhattan are from there. You think we'd act that way in our own city?
Hey, f*** you. Don't lump in people from North Jersey and Long Island with the rest of us. Most of NJ is actually pretty cool: we're a few hours from NYC, Boston, Philadelphia, the shore's nearby, lots of jobs, excellent schools, some nice places to run, great Italian food - basically the experience of living in a city without the hassle. Also, the turnpike is the bomb.
WTF2 wrote:
jjjjjjj wrote:I think that he might be able to learn a great deal from watching situation comedies, and then there are a few novels that give the straight dope, e.g. The Rise of Silas Lapham (Boston), The Sotweed Factor (Maryland), The Lords of Discipline (Charleston), Bartleby the Scrivener and Bright Lights Big City (New York), and Billy Phelan's Greatest Game (Albany). Maybe throw in some Elmore Leonard (Miami) and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Savannah).
WTF??
That's my way of saying that a) we all know already what the stereotypes about the east and west coast are and b) it's idiotic to generalize about either.