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Yes, I'm aware of when it was legalized. That's irrelevant, however, to what I actually asked for.
Well, it's driven the crime rate up in Denver and Seattle, which used to be great cities to visit. You should think twice about it.
Crime Rates Are Soaring in Seattle and Denver -- Is Marijuana to Blame? -- The Motley Fool
Well, I guess that's one way of looking at being forced to move to a cheaper place! :lamo
I'm good with that if it's enforced, along with public intoxication laws.
I'm happy after all these decades that pot is finally getting decriminalized. I'd also like to end the insane War on Drugs.
I just don't want to deal with dope smoke or stoned tokers, as I go about my public business. If so, then we're all good and I wish the kids well!
You know, I think I might agree with that - but preferred if I move under my own terms.You'll enjoy going local, if you choose right.
Yes, I'm aware of when it was legalized. That's irrelevant, however, to what I actually asked for.
Do you know what index means in this context? Secondly, that's quite a big sample size to draw your opinion from.....
Yea, you want proof of my opinion. :roll:
You know, I think I might agree with that - but preferred if I move under my own terms.
The problem is I'm too urban, and nice urban areas *anywhere* seem to cost ...
I like really big cities, world class (or close) and multi-cultural.Urban? I would have thought urbane more fitting.
PS:How large does urban need to be urban?
I like really big cities, world class (or close) and multi-cultural.
Then I live just outside, in a quiet suburb with close easy public transport access.
This is my preferred living arrangement, and pretty much what I've got now and consider it the best of all worlds. The only thing missing would be a really big chunk of land, but that comes with a very steep price in the nicer suburbs of very large cities, supply & demand being what it is.
I've come to believe my being raised in a very large diverse city has greatly influenced my life (and now my kids, too) in a very positive & enriching manner, but I don't want to deal with the 24/7 constant bombardment of cacophony and a mass of humanity anymore, as much as I love it when in the mood.
It may sound snobbish, but I like to have a cosmopolitan experience from time to time, and make no apologies for it. A 5 minute walk and 18 minute train-ride, gets me there.
Interesting you say that!Athens, Barcelona or Lisbon might fit including the land
Interesting you say that!
I've though about Lisbon from time-to-time, and the cost of Portuguese living is reasonable and I like Portuguese food! Crazy as it sounds, back a while ago there was a substantial contingent of retirees from my city expating to Portugal for those very reasons, and one of the local newspapers did a Sunday story on it. Apparently the USD goes pretty far there.
And Barcelona (and it's seafood) is on my bucket list!
As good as they sound though, I'm not sure if Lisbon or Barcelona would have the true wide-ranging ethnic diversity of a world immigrant American destination city like Chicago or New York? Particularly Lisbon?
I do very much like living in America though, (for now).
Hah!
Barcelona is about the only city where I've never heard anyone saying *anything* besides, "I love it there".Probably not the diversity of NY, LA or Chicago, but Barcelona certainly has diversity and is very lively.
Barcelona is about the only city where I've never heard anyone saying *anything* besides, "I love it there".
Don't know what is is about that place.
'Well, it's driven the crime rate up in Denver and Seattle, which used to be great cities to visit. You should think twice about it.
Crime Rates Are Soaring in Seattle and Denver -- Is Marijuana to Blame? -- The Motley Fool
Barcelona is about the only city where I've never heard anyone saying *anything* besides, "I love it there".
Don't know what is is about that place.
Barcelona is about the only city where I've never heard anyone saying *anything* besides, "I love it there".
Don't know what is is about that place.
Haha!Great city.
in Italy in September we are discussed in parliament, whether to legalize cannabis.
What do you think, Italy is right to engage these issues, do you think the Italian parliament will still be able to engage this discussion, as you do in America?
Haha!
You've just proved my point!
*Everyone* always loves Barcelona!
It's unnerving! :mrgreen:
I've spent LOTS of time in both cities, particularly downtown. Now, you can't walk down the street in downtown Denver without wasted potheads roaming around all over the place, smoking openly.
It used to be very family friendly down there. Now, nobody wants to take their kids downtown.
That's a great story Mr. Person, and you write it well.The wife and I met in the second week of college. She stayed on for a Master's to start, and the second part was a semester abroad. She went to Barcelona.
I went to Hell.
"Hell" being the first year of law school, taken much more seriously than I should have (I read, took notes on, brief, every single page of hundreds per night. 3.5-4.5 hour per night = insanity 3 months later. I suppose it paid off though. Got into whatever internship I wanted... ).
After I walked through hell and won (the first semester), I went to visit her in Barcelona, before accompanying her home. The bliss of relief, the meeting after months (for a 22 year old), the freedom......
..... never will taste so sweet a nectar.
Beautiful city. Nice people, excluding the Catalonian ***hole who decided that he didn't want to serve two persons (one white American/Russia/Jew, one white American/Jew) their drinks or calamari. But, the jamon. The market. The buildings, built with the blood of millions of peasants. The churches.... blood of Christians followed by blood of Muslims, bolstered with Aztec gold, oh... but at least some of it went to something beautiful. One can stand in the same place for hours at end and trace with his eyes those myriad designs in woodwork, spiraling up thirty nay fifty feet, and not reaching the ceiling; how many lives spent carving that one column?
Hell, I even learned to navigate by the sun in Cordoba given the maps with unlabled streets, but with their shapes accurate.
One night we went to an absinthe bar (at midnight) and left at 4 AM. Fortunately, we weren't mugged....stumbling down roads lined with walls built by the Roman Empire some 2,000+ years ago, lit with lamps that might as well be torches. Such scenes, burned into memory.