Annoying thing about your town/city

[Jazzy]

What's the most annoying thing about your town/city?

 

[Lamb]

Meter parking in the tiny downtown. It's a small country town and they make you pay to visit their businesses. I don't go there often for that reason. They even spent millions on a parking garage that gets used once a month (when it's free) for their 1st Friday events.

 

[Josiah]

Southern California is kind of one big city with over 30,000,000 people.... BUT it has very distinctive areas (not always separate cities) with distinctive cultures, economies, etc.

As a whole, I LOVE it. I love the diversity, the opportunities, the weather and so much more! BUT.... the government sucks, it's often crowded, and it's expensive (especially taxes and housing).


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[tango]

Meter parking in the tiny downtown. It's a small country town and they make you pay to visit their businesses. I don't go there often for that reason. They even spent millions on a parking garage that gets used once a month (when it's free) for their 1st Friday events.

Reminds me of a little town I visited, that had parking meters. The cost to park for 30 minutes was 5c. Yep, you had to feed a single nickel to the machine. I often wondered how it could be cost effective to pay someone to collect the nickels, or how much business the area might have lost if people were afraid of getting a ticket if the parking ran out.

It's not like you can't afford to feed another nickel to the machine, it's just a pain to be trying to deal with something only to find you have to run out and feed another coin to the machine. You could feed it a quarter and get over two hours but it still didn't solve the problem.

 

[Fritz Kobus]

Too many Democrats.

 

[Lamb]

Reminds me of a little town I visited, that had parking meters. The cost to park for 30 minutes was 5c. Yep, you had to feed a single nickel to the machine. I often wondered how it could be cost effective to pay someone to collect the nickels, or how much business the area might have lost if people were afraid of getting a ticket if the parking ran out.

It's not like you can't afford to feed another nickel to the machine, it's just a pain to be trying to deal with something only to find you have to run out and feed another coin to the machine. You could feed it a quarter and get over two hours but it still didn't solve the problem.

Well, one of the reasons I'm told that they charge in my town is because the residents would use up the parking spots. I'm wondering where THEY are supposed to park? That's the bad set up of an OLD town where there is one road into it and one road out. Everything is built around the center of the town and that was great back then but in modern society, it's an awful set up.

 

[tango]

Well, one of the reasons I'm told that they charge in my town is because the residents would use up the parking spots. I'm wondering where THEY are supposed to park? That's the bad set up of an OLD town where there is one road into it and one road out. Everything is built around the center of the town and that was great back then but in modern society, it's an awful set up.

Just be thankful you don't live in a growing suburb. At the place I used to live there was street parking only with no restrictions. It was OK when we moved in but by the time we moved out all the local kids had cars. When each house has one car, a few have two and a few have none, it works. When multiple houses have 2, 3, 4 cars it doesn't work any more.

For good measure the geniuses in the local planning department turned just about every available patch of land into apartment blocks. Needless to say they didn't provide parking for the apartment blocks, or there might be 5-6 spaces for a block of 30 apartments. So all those cars ended up on the street, displacing people further and further. By the time we left it was far from rare to be parking two or three streets away if you got back home late at night.

There were many times we got home late and just blocked the road with our four-ways flashing while we unloaded the car, then went to park it somewhere. I don't care what anyone says, I'm not making several journeys from multiple streets away in the middle of the night, all the while hoping nobody decides to break in to relieve me of whatever I had yet to carry.

 

[Jazzy]

My town doesn't have a Police Department. We have to rely on either the State Troopers or the Sheriff's Department. They cover a large area so when you need one, it can take 5 minutes to an hour for them to show up depending on where they are when the 911 call comes in and they're dispatched to your location.

 

[Josiah]

My town doesn't have a Police Department. We have to rely on either the State Troopers or the Sheriff's Department. They cover a large area so when you need one, it can take 5 minutes to an hour for them to show up depending on where they are when the 911 call comes in and they're dispatched to your location.

I hope you have a gun.... and know how to use it.



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[atpollard]

The mayor getting arrested for drug trafficking following a shootout with his police force was sort of a low point.

 

[tango]

The mayor getting arrested for drug trafficking following a shootout with his police force was sort of a low point.

I think you win this thread...

 

[atpollard]

I think you win this thread...

The funny part was I almost applied to replace him. The City Commissioners held a special session to select a new mayor to replace him, but were having trouble finding a candidate who could pass the requirement of having no criminal record or ties to the previous administration. I thought that it would be funny if I became mayor (since I met those criteria) … but alas, I was disqualified because my house was outside of the official “city limits” and technically part of the unincorporated County. I just shared the City Post Office (giving me an address listing that City). So no mayor Arthur.