Where is all the positive energy?

Discussion in 'The Good Life' started by Rusty blade, May 25, 2016.

  1. RyX

    RyX DoH!

    Cali is a big place. Your weather goes from sunny to brush fire hazy?

    Having lived in or near Chicago, Atlanta, Orlando, & New Orleans traffic is a mind over matter issue. If you don't mind... it still sucks. I do enjoy living in a smaller metro area where the longest traffic delay is when someone isn't paying attention at a traffic light, so you wait until the next green. I hardly ever hear gun fire. Usually only on Friday or Saturday nights.
     
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  2. Eeyore

    Eeyore Well-Known Member

    Edit: I know nothing about traffic in America ...
     
    Last edited: Sep 14, 2016
  3. RyX

    RyX DoH!

  4. ohbrian

    ohbrian Well-Known Member

    My commute is 90 minutes by train and eleventy billion hours by car.
     
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  5. Bama Samurai

    Bama Samurai with Laser-like Focus

    Horrible in the cities.
     
  6. Eeyore

    Eeyore Well-Known Member

    Surprises me, since American cities were built around cars, right?
     
  7. Bama Samurai

    Bama Samurai with Laser-like Focus

    Lack of central planning and low density suburbs result in gridlock. America has outgrown in road system in many places.
     
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  8. Erik Redd

    Erik Redd Lizabeth, baby, I'm comin' to join ya.

    Houston has had mayors who actively opposed road improvements that would aid traffic flow to the suburbs. They believed it gave people incentive to stay in the city and contribute to the tax base.
     
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  9. Bama Samurai

    Bama Samurai with Laser-like Focus

    Be careful who you vote for.
     
  10. Erik Redd

    Erik Redd Lizabeth, baby, I'm comin' to join ya.

    Those living in the suburbs weren't Houston voters, so they didn't have much input. Of course we have to pay sales tax in the Houston Metro district that extends across multiple counties, but for some reason all the money seems to get spent in Houston.
     
  11. RyX

    RyX DoH!

    I spent 20 years mostly near, and a little while in Atlanta.
    I feel your Houston pain.
     
  12. Erik Redd

    Erik Redd Lizabeth, baby, I'm comin' to join ya.

    Of course I shouldn't be posting the above in a thread about "positive energy" :)
     
  13. wristwatchb

    wristwatchb wristwatch "danger" b

    It's easy to pass the blame for negativity in the world to someone else, but if I'm being honest, it starts with me.

     
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