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Eilat, Israel
1. Year round weather averages 32c;
2. The Red Sea is a great place to scuba dive or snorkel in;
3. The view of the red mountains of Jordan takes your breath away;
4. The yearly Eilat Triathlon;
5. prime training ground for running, cycling and swimming;
6. People pay thousands of dollars to enjoy this town and I enjoy it for free.

I'm a Queens girl myself! -- (Although I now live on God forsaken Long Island) I agree with all of the above and would like to add:

You can find any food from any country.
Our subways run all night long....go out, drink, there's still a way to get home.
Central Park
The ball drop at Times Square
The Met, MoMA, the Hayden Platenarium.....
And my favorite thing about NYC has to be the guys who sell hot roasted nuts on the street in the winter...yummmm!

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
Good things
1) 4 distinct seasons.
2) Hockey (not the NHL variety, to know my thoughts on the NHL/NHLPA, see the "cup of joe section")
3) Only 2.5 hours from the Rockies. And skiing!
4) A ITU race in our amazing river valley (and this year the world masters games!).
5) A thriving tri community, with a good variety of races that are never so oversubscribed that you have to be registering the first day it opens, or you don't get in.
6) A great volunteer base in the community.

Not so good
1) Winter....
2) Crappy drivers (but they one old guy who hit me did end up buying my new bike)
3) Its 550 miles to the closest Ironman....
4) There's only three 1/2 ironmans in the area (within 75 miles), and all within 5 weeks of each other.
5) Having to go to work to support my triathlon habit, but I guess that would be wherever I live.

Another Shout-out to San Diego. I love....

* Living in a Triathlon Mecca
* Being able to WALK to the new North County Trek store during lunch...it's right across the street
* Watching Michigan football games at 9 am during the fall
* Cafe Sevilla in the Gaslamp
* PB on a Saturday afternoon
* The year-round sunny weather (other than the past 2 months)

What I miss about Detroit.....
* The passion for sports (Lions, Tigers, Pistons, Red Wings, Michigan)
* The great variety of ethnic food....I can't get good Middle Eastern food for the life of me out here. It's hard to even find pita bread!
* You can drive 85 on the freeways and the cops are still passing you
* Cider Mills in the fall
* The first snow
* The first nice day in the Spring (especially on the porch at Dominicks in A^2)

the Chicago area. Umm.... Hmmm.....I'm still thinking..... Give me a second here, I'll think of something.....
It's flat so bike rides are pretty easy.
Most of my family lives in the area.
The Chicago Wolves -AAAAWOOHHHH!!!!- Forget the N (no) HL. AHL all the way!
My friends and the hockey team I'm on.
OH! Deep dish pizza!! MMMMM


That's all I can think of right now.



Edited by bmax 2005-02-27 11:39 PM

Coranado Island (& the Silver Strand)

The trail rides in the east county desert

Sand Toys

Donavans Steak House

Seaport Village

Mission Bay Park (Xterra Tri - May 1st)

Best Mexican food around

Oh.......the weather!!

Long Island....

Love:
Proximity to the Ocean and other water bodies (Long Island Sound, and the Atlantic) just a 10 min by bike).
Proximity to NYC, 1/2 hour by train for me.
Best Pizza and Bagles.
Some of the best Sea Food.
Some of the best routes for road biking ( Montauk Highway past Mastic/shirley all the way out to the Light house, 25a on the north shore to orient point).
Not to hot in the summer, not too cool in the winter.

Hate:
The Accent, how anyone can add a w to coffee is beyond me. It drives me up a wall.
Taxes and Property Values (some of the higest in the nation)
Traffic, everyone owns a car here, and it shows.

I know there are other New Englanders on the site; I'm surprised no one has chimed in about Boston.

Love:
You can walk across the city in a few hours yet it contains almost anything you'd ever want to do: world-class symphony, thriving theatre district, awesome green space and arboretum, people-watching on Newbury street.
Living history (there's a 300-year-old cemetary right next to my 35-story office building).
The incredible number of colleges in the area means lots and lots of cool free activities.
Pretty decent and cheap public transportation.
Great running along the river and through the parks and ponds in the area.
Lots of distinct little neighborhoods with local eateries that sometimes knock my socks off.
Close proximity to the Berkshires, Green, and White mountains.
Incredible fall foliage.

Hate:
I HATE BOSTON DRIVERS! Coming from the midwest, this is still a thorn in my side after a dozen years out here.
Everything is so damn expensive. Because I don't want to spend 2/3 of my salary on my mortgage, I keep getting priced out of my old neighborhoods as they get too pricey.


(I'll let someone else get into the sports and the beer ...)

Hey! I didn't know we had another Islander here! I read your list and it made me feel bad...there are some good things about God Forsaken Long Island......and then there's the traffic on the LIE.....

Hope to see you at a race some day....

Calgary AB CANADA

1. It's Canada.... what's not to love.
2. It's not Edmonton... (very important to remember)
3. 1 hour from Banff and some sweet snowboarding
4. Almost 4 distinct seasons....really a lot of winter though.
5. People in Calgary can drive in the winter, we're used to it.
6. The Flames almost won the Stanley Cup last year, and they have a long record of suckage.
7. People are incredibly friendly.
8. The Stampede.
9. Lots of green space, parks, paths, outdoor concerts, plays etc.
10. Tons of stuff to do, in or outdoors.
11. Alberta Beef Baby!!!

What I love about Sonoma County, CA:

1) People pay money to come vacation here.
2) Said people pay money to vacation here and ride their bikes here.
3) Summer starts in May and ends in Oct. With not a drop of rain inbetween.
4) Hot days, cool nights.
5) Half an hour from the beach.
6) Three hours from the mountains.
7) 10 minutes from a Redwood Forest.
8) Vineyards everywhere producing some of the best wine to be had.
9) Excellent food to go with said wine.
10) A taqueria on every corner serving authentic Mexican tacos and burritos.
11) An hour from San Francisco.
12) A real, live country atmosphere complete with cows, sheep, llamas and emus. I even saw a camel the other day!
13) Yahoos and Hippies and Dinks and Greens and Republicans and everyone else living in the same area, reasonably well together.
14) Did I mention the wine? What about the apple orchards? Peach orchards? Melons? Plums? Almonds? Olives? Oranges? Meyer Lemons? Hops? Prunes?
15) Being a half-hour away from the ocean means one thing: fresh seafood! Mmmmmmm........ Crab!

ok, I move to Winnemucca and even BT changes!

Here are a few reasons I love Seattle -

7000 bicycling commuters, with bike lanes and paths to support them all into downtown from allmost anywhere in the Seattle area.

Seeing the water AND the mountains (Cascades and Olympics) on the way into work everyday :-)

Alki beach, the waterfront, pioneer square

Music - all types, arts - lots of galleries and a few great meuseums, and sports - with 2 great new stadiums. Of course, all our teams can get close to a championship, but they never make it all the way.

Getting outdoors is easy! An hour to the snow, 30 minutes to great mountain biking, or 2 hrs to climb a mountain.

And about the rain - it builds character :-) After training in the fall and winter drizzle, you really get motivated to get up run and ride on the nice days. Also gives you a reason to stop by the best coffee place on the planet - Uptown Espresso - during the wet rides.

Dog parks.. lots of dog parks.

It does sound a bit braggy, doesn't it? But I can't help it, I pay an arm and a leg for rent so I can have the right to brag a little:

What I love about living in San Diego (specifically Pacific Beach)
-Walking two blocks to the beach
-Having dozens of great restaurants and bars practically on my doorstep
-Rolling my bike out of the yard with the possibility of a great long ride in any direction I go
-The solitude of Mission Bay on a sunny winter's day
-Watching my puppy play in the surf at sunset
-Nice, laid-back folks--'cept when in their cars
-Not having to get in my car for days at a time--all the amenities are a walk or bike ride away and I work at home
-The Zoo!
-Sunshine, the great motivator

What I miss about Seattle
-The view from the top of Tiger Mountain
-Riding 'round Lake Sammamish
-The North Cascades (Winthrop, baby!) and the Olympics
-My friends, colleagues and family

All in all, I'm happier where I am and all those things will still be there when I visit Sea-town

Ericka

What I like about living in Atlanta

-It's the South
-My little neighborhood where I can walk to the grocery, restaurants, movie theater, bike shop, health club with pool and running shoe store.
-The Peachtree Road Race runs right by my house, and I can run down Peachtree any day I want. Oh, the things I see!
-The Silver Comet Trail...Best use of taxpayer and private funds for public use EVER!
-The Fabulous Fox
-Cheap airfare to anywhere
-The Varsity

Things I hate about Atlanta

-It's the south
-The traffic
-The polution

what i love about living in minnesota, and in st. paul...i love it here, but am grouchy with the state powers that be at the moment, so i apologize for any irreverence in advance...

+ family & friends (my parents, brother, sil, nieces, lil' bro and his wife moving back, brother-in law and his wife, several of my best friends have moved back in the last couple years)
+ our neighborhood (urban, know our neighbors, can walk everywhere, keeps us humble)
+ easy to get around w/o a car (even in winter)
+ cold weather keeps the whiners out
+ fall on the north shore of lake superior
+ the boundary waters canoe area
+ the state park system (at least the parks that remain open! grumble)
+ clean air & water (for now)
+ open water swims in calm, fresh water lakes! (clean, 'cept for all the mercury)
+ our thoughtful political leaders (said with complete sarcasm)

Capitol of the world?????????? .... I don't think so sonny Jim! Thats WAAAYYYYY to egotistical for this little balck duck to cop on the chin and smile. It might be considerd the "capitol" of the US...even though Washington DC has some role in that...but it is in NO WAY, NOT EVEN BY A HORSES ARSE HAIR , THE CAPITOL OF THE WORLD. It IS an amazing place I will enthusiastically say,............ but the capitol?????.....emphatically NO NO NO and NO!

What I love about living in Townsville, Queensland, Australia.....

1/ affordable housing
2/ great job oppourtunities
3/ rainforrest 1 hr to the north
4/ the bush 20 min to the west
5/ some great natioanl parks all around
6/ THE GREAT BARRIER REEF to the east
7/ the Yongala ship wreck.....independantly considerd to be in the top 10 wrecks in the world for caral and fish life.....amazing dive.
8/I met my partner here
9/ some great food outlets
10/ its about as far away from Perth as you can get....my mother lives there.
11/ the coldest it ever gets is about 9 deg celsius and the hottest it ever gets is about 38 deg celsius.
12/ about 300 days of sun a year.

I love Montreal:

- hundreds of kilometers of bike trails
- beautiful architecture
- the city is incredibly vibrant night and day
- you don't need a car (in fact it's a hastle to have one)
- an incredible array of good food
- a beautiful variety of neighborhoods
- it's a very safe city to walk around in (pretty much everywhere)
- Mt. Royal is a great park for biking and running
- it's cheap to live here
- summer here is great with all the festivals and people
- I like 4 distinct seasons
- I've never been anywhere I've liked more (although being near the ocean would be good)

Matthew

What I love about living in Templeton (north-central) Massachusetts:

Everywhere else looks better.

Actually it's not that bad, since we do have some of the nicest biking roads around. But if I had my choice, I'd move to central or northern New Hampshire to be closer to the mountains. Live Free Or Die baby! Wooooooooooo!