Ldub, thanks for the lift

[WormGod]

And us east coast folks get left out to dry. I understand. Tomorrow, I shall divide the states at the Mississippi River and call it a day.

[Ldub]

LMFAO, I was just poking at you...I guess now I can say that Southern Californians are way too sensitive? Although my sample group (VX owners) would not be a good representation, VX owners are not "normal".

The only reason I mentioned it is that I just moved here to SC from San Diego 1 year ago this week. I lived in San Diego three different times. I was in Rancho Bernardo, Chula Vista, and Pacific Beach. At every house we lived in, we would go talk to our neighbors, some of whom had lived there for years, and none of them knew each other!!! How do you not know your neighbors? My wife and I are both from Missouri, and my wife's closest neighbors were 1/2 mile down the road, and they still knew all of them within a few miles. I guess it is just a cultural difference.
Relax So Cal brothers and sisters, it was just good natured ribbing. Being in the Navy, I have met people from everywhere and get along with just about everyone. When we get new students, they have to write an essay about where they are from, their hobbies and so on. It enables us to profile, so to speak, and identify the ones that may have problems later on. When I read the San Diego kid's essays, it never fails that hobbies include :shopping, tanning, water polo, surfing, texting...I didn't know tanning was a hobby?! They also have really bad habits about saying "LIKE" and "DUDE". LOL

LIKE DUDE...you sure know how to stir the pot...

I think "texting" as a hobby is hilarious, whatever happened to just TALKING to people?

It is my fervent hope, that the stoop @ the ROCK doesn't degenerate into "fight club" when alcohol is added...
Anyone in the mood to get "scuffed up a bit", will no longer be welcome near 112...

And us east coast folks get left out to dry. I understand. Tomorrow, I shall divide the states at the Mississippi River and call it a day.

And me, the "midwest poster boy" here in the middle...I can drive for about two hours (N E) & literally WALK across the headwaters of the Mississippi.

[nocturnalVX]

DUUUUDE! How can you get to know your neighbors in the Midwest when very few of them speak English? I moved out of a condo complex because I felt like I was in an east block country and now that I finally moved into a "nice neighborhood", neighbors on one side still don't speak English and the neighbors on the other side are gold medalist A-holes. The house two doors down is renting out every room in their house, the garage is converted into another apartment, and they're trashing the block (piling up dog crap in the alley, cigarettes, beer cans, fast food trash, did I mention they have 8 or so different cars that they can't park on their own property)... yeah... Midwesterners are the BEST!!!

[nfpgasmask]

DUUUUDE! How can you get to know your neighbors in the Midwest when very few of them speak English? I moved out of a condo complex because I felt like I was in an east block country and now that I finally moved into a "nice neighborhood", neighbors on one side still don't speak English and the neighbors on the other side are gold medalist A-holes. The house two doors down is renting out every room in their house, the garage is converted into another apartment, and they're trashing the block (piling up dog crap in the alley, cigarettes, beer cans, fast food trash, did I mention they have 8 or so different cars that they can't park on their own property)... yeah... Midwesterners are the BEST!!!

There you have it folks. Another Chicagoan who feels the same way. I got SOOOO SICK of EXACTLY what Gill is talking about after living in the city for nearly 10 years. It's just TOO MUCH. Leaving that place was a MONUMENTAL LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE. But you know, Chicago has some nice suburbs, if you can afford them and don't mind commuting for 3 hours a day.

Bart

[CrnCnn]

How did we highjack this thread so bad?

I feel it's more a city size thing sometimes. I was born and raised in Tucson until I was 21 and most of my neighbors spoke English when I was a kid and I had other kids to play with. As time went on and people left, new people moved into the area we had less and less English speaking people. As well as lots of people that wouldn't maintain their yard's and would keep their dog tied to a 10ft chain in the back 24/7 barking ALL the time.

That was my "South" and people were on the go and click oriented too, I think everyone a little. Moving to Reno was also a major change for me. I have grown and become more of an individual here than I ever was back home.

People get stuck in their Day to Day and don’t care about anyone else back there. My father-in-law just crashed his motorcycle a month ago in Tucson because some lady ran a red light. NO ONE stopped to help him. NO ONE!!! He was OK and everything but he was having a hard time getting the bike up and getting out of the way and no one did anything...

How did we highjack this thread so bad?

[Ldub]

Here in dinkycoldville (Fargo, right around 100k) I live in an old house that's been converted into six apartments. I know every one of my neighbors by their first name, including the elderly couple who live in the house next door.
Four out of the seven other people who live here, regularly come to hang in "Larryland" (it's on my door), and the two noobs who just moved in, have already been invited to join us around the fire pit on summer evenings...
I still maintain friendships with at least four people who formerly lived here.

There's one I won't hang out with at all, he's on the long list...

I regularly patrol the yard & boulevard to keep trash at bay...the ghetto is right across the street in two directions, but I'll keep it there as long as possible.

All in all, I feel like a pretty lucky guy.

And yeah, we did jack hell outta this thread, my apologies Mark...

[MSHardeman]

Thread jack doesn't bother me any. The original post was just to thank you (Ldub) for the work on Vicki last year. I never got to wheel her in Moab with the lift, so I'm looking forward to getting back there this year to see how the lift helps.

Oh, and I agree....the Red Rock porch is no place for feudin'. Only good natured ribing, tall tales, and swash buckling stories coupled with some adult beverages will be tolerated.

[Solitude]

An Epiphany I have had over the years of traveling coast to coast in the last 15 years (2 million Miles)

Illinois is a great place to be FROM!!!!

and if you actually gauged the separation of the country according to attitude... The Mississippi river is about right.

just my 2 cents minus emoticans

Jeff