What is your opinion on the United Kingdom?

[Moliphino]

I have an aunt and cousin out in CA.

 

[NYCgrrl]

NZ and Australia. Not sure which of the two countries is further from the east coast of USA.

 

[MamaMermaid]

Ohio... not the most exciting.

 

[China Expat]

Better

 

[smokeyblue]

Putting up with BS. I've run out of patience and tolerance for crappy behavior.

 

[luvnwdwgal]

About an hour away.

 

[Orion Nebula]

Everywhere in your town? Not just in mobile home parks or the gated senior's communities? Why?!? That right there sounds like the recipe for road rage.

You would not believe how much flack I have gotten for arguing against it. We had a vote, people wanted to drive them outside of the country club. So they are now allowed to drive them inside subdivisions. My point was the fact that when people park on the street sometimes you have to wait your turn then go around the car. Only you get surprised by a family on the other side. So I ALMOST have hit people. I have been told "then don't speed" but I don't speed. It's legit a hazard, especially in the late evenings. We don't have even senior communities or mobile home parks... it's just a boring suburban town.

 

[RogueX]

I've never had stamina, I was born exhausted and anyone trying to mug me would have an easy time because I can't run far or fast.

I used to be able to eat spicy food with no problem, but forget it now. My mouth burns so badly, it's horrible.

 

[MIGrandma]

Texas. Lots and lots of cousins. The aunts and uncles are all deceased though.

 

[Moliphino]

I have no idea. I've only ever waved at them if we're both out at the same time.

 

[ronandannette]

You would not believe how much flack I have gotten for arguing against it. We had a vote, people wanted to drive them outside of the country club. So they are now allowed to drive them inside subdivisions. My point was the fact that when people park on the street sometimes you have to wait your turn then go around the car. Only you get surprised by a family on the other side. So I ALMOST have hit people. I have been told "then don't speed" but I don't speed. It's legit a hazard, especially in the late evenings. We don't have even senior communities or mobile home parks... it's just a boring suburban town.

You have my condolences - that sounds super sucky. Our City has recently passed a by-law lowering all residential speed limits from 31 mph to 24 mph (converted from metric; 50 km/h to 40 km/h) ostensibly for "safety". I'm not sure anybody's any safer but the municipal coffers have definitely benefited from all the speeding tickets now being issued.

 

[TipsyTraveler]

Please list some of the benefits because they must be doozies to trump dog-rats, tent cities and car jackings.

No snow.

 

[ronandannette]

No snow.

If that's all ya got, I'll buy you a toque and a snow shovel and you can pack your stuff and head on up to the safety and serenity of the dog-rat free Rocky Mountains.

 

[mi*vida*loca]

Pot holes that can swallow your car, pumps that are chronically out of service despite the fact that the only way to get rainwater out of the city is to pump it out, nutria (swamp rats the size of small dogs), carjackings, swarming termites, flying cockroaches, drunk tourists, tent cities, random shootings, and most recently garbage that wasn't picked up for almost three weeks because the contractor didn't want to pay a living wage. But the benefits FAR outweigh the problems, and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else on earth.

I saw an episode of bizarre foods where they cooked up nutria. Andrew said they weren’t that bad.

 

[mrodgers]

I originated in Pittsburgh, parents moved us about 35-40 miles north. My brother recently moved back to Pittsburgh and Dad passed nearly 30 years ago. So my mother and I are still in this town (I moved back close to work when divorced) and everyone else from my family is in Pittsburgh.

 

[MamaMermaid]

Another vote for church.

 

[Aladora]

i have family in South Africa

Same, also Australia and Israel.

 

[Kittyblue]

News and talk radio.

 

[aprilgail]

church and going to relatives house since no cousins were anywhere near my age.

 

[Praying Colonel]

DS just got back from Japan in April. So for family I know, currently the most distant is in New Mexico, about 1300 miles away.

I've done Ancestry DNA and learned I have relatives currently living in Europe (UK, Denmark, etc.), but I don't know them.