10 yrs next to Lake Mary, really big income for FL. Guys were so "trophy wife" oriented; old guys looking for young blondes. It was gross but it happened right and left. I wish I had some pics! No wonder I had no interest in them. And I wasn't tall or blonde enough for them to have an interest in me. Good thing, I guess. All the trophy wives I knew got dumped (70 y.o. guys with 25 y.o. women, there is something really wrong there...)/
Originally posted by illinoisplanner
Wait till you see my new AV,
Sorry, but the day I made that earlier post, I got cut off by some prick in a Yuppiemobile on the Dan Ryan on the way to Madison. Nearly caused a wreck. Bastard was weaving in and out of traffic at Rush Hour. I hope he gets T-Boned by a semi some day.
Goddamn tolls all the way to Rockford. I have no objection to toll roads in theory, but you should just pay once: Take a ticket at the beginning and then pay when you exit. Like Ohio. But they nickel and dime you to death all the way to the Wisconsin State Line. It's the biggest goddamn scam in the history of the Interstate Highway System.
The Illinois Toll Authority are a bunch of FIBS as far as I'm concerned. Yeah, that little prick that cut me off may (hopefully) get splattered all over the toll road some day, but who can take down the Authority? They are unanswerable, unstoppable and unspeakably corrupt.
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At least IP is no FOB! (ducks!)
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Off-topic:
Interestingly, the Northwest Tollway (I-90) was originally set up that way. The 'ticket' section ran from the Elgin barrier to the Wisconsin state line. It was converted to all barrier tolls in the mid-1960s. If you make lots of trips to Illinois, get an I-PASS, they cost nothing to hold, offer 50% discounts on the Illinois Tollway system's cash toll rates and are accepted at ALL 'E-ZPass' tollgates nationwide.
Also, even at the cash rates, the Illinois tollways are DIRT CHEAP, and the recently rebuilt part of the Tri-State Tollway (I-94) in Lake County is the very BEST road that I have ever driven on. Try driving around in the northeastern USA, especially in the I-95 corridor northeast of Washington DC, and see what REAL tolls are - even the $2 toll on the Chicago Skyway (I-PASS/E-ZPass accepted) is CHEAP compared to the northeast!
Mike
Well, I only go to Wisconsin about once a year, and I don't even know how to get I-Pass. The problem is, when I pull a camper, they bend me over for $2.20 a pop instead of 80 cents for cars. One of the toll barriers even charged $4.80 vs about $1.60 for cars. I don't object to paying a little more for a third axle, but three times a much is criminal. By the time the whole thing was said and done I had paid over $20 in tolls from Indiana to Wisconsin.Off-topic:
Interestingly, the Northwest Tollway (I-90) was originally set up that way. The 'ticket' section ran from the Elgin barrier to the Wisconsin state line. It was converted to all barrier tolls in the mid-1960s. If you make lots of trips to Illinois, get an I-PASS, they cost nothing to hold, offer 50% discounts on the Illinois Tollway system's cash toll rates and are accepted at ALL 'E-ZPass' tollgates nationwide.
Also, even at the cash rates, the Illinois tollways are DIRT CHEAP, and the recently rebuilt part of the Tri-State Tollway (I-94) in Lake County is the very BEST road that I have ever driven on. Try driving around in the northeastern USA, especially in the I-95 corridor northeast of Washington DC, and see what REAL tolls are - even the $2 toll on the Chicago Skyway (I-PASS/E-ZPass accepted) is CHEAP compared to the northeast!
Mike
The Indiana Tollway on the other hand, only charged me 90 cents for the car with trailer vs 60 cents for just cars at one of their barriers.
I am absolutely fed up with Chicago. The Tolls, The Yuppie Assholes, the stop-and-go (mostly stop) traffic all they way to Elgin. THE GODDAMN ENDLESS CONSTRUCTION.
This is the last time I take I-90 to Madison. Next time I'm taking 80 to 39.
Now you're thinking like a local. I try to avoid taking the Dan Ryan, Eisenhower, or Tri-State at all costs. I like to take I-355 when going between I-90 and I-80 since there's less traffic and less tolls, but like you said, it's under construction.
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Yes, but I've lived in Chicago itself for a few years, and I've never seen so many "ugly" people before. Obviously the poorer sections have more of them, meaning fat, old, sick, badly dressed, yucky people.
I guess I've been unlucky. It seems no matter what neighborhood or city I move to, the people just don't seem to be as attractive as I am.
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Another addition to the list: Skaneateles, New York. It's very similar to the quainty-quaint villages around Buffalo; well heeled, very WASPy, and more New England than Upstate New York in feel. Whenever I visit, I get the sensation like I'm in Lake Wobegon; everybody is just a bit above average. The Upstate New York accent is nonexistent. The village seems to have a dress code for its residents; L.L. Bean, Orvis, Talbots, and Coldwater Creek only.
Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell. -- Edward Abbey
Newton, MA is the New England equivalent to me. I've never seen so many people jogging outside of a formal race. I don't think the city has a single ugly house never mind an ugly person.
I just seem to live in ugly places. Maybe that says something about myself.
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Whatever neighborhood I am in at the time is guaranteed to have at least one more beautiful person.
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Another one for the list that I just thought of. Chagrin Falls, Ohio, east of Cleveland. It's another comfortably middle- to upper-middle class, preppy picture-perfect traditional American village.
Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of the cancer cell. -- Edward Abbey
I don't know, they did allow the mulleted biker dude.
The mullet dude has to leave by sundown.
Oh yeah, I definitely agree. Chicago is kinda ghetto in that way, where the people sometimes match the blight around them. Conversely, if you're in one of the wealthy, gentrified, hip neighborhoods along the lake or on the north side, like Lincoln Park or something, you will probably find more good-looking people.Yes, but I've lived in Chicago itself for a few years, and I've never seen so many "ugly" people before. Obviously the poorer sections have more of them, meaning fat, old, sick, badly dressed, yucky people.
And the younger and more well-to-do suburbs seem to have abundant amounts of attractive people. I just got back from a bar in downtown Naperville and just about everyone was good-looking.
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But the flat top straw hat guy he is with can stay!
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I'd add Batavia to your list. Algonquin, on the other hand, has its other side...
True, although I'd say the "down by the River" hillbilly types in Algonquin are dwindling fast. Not only are they now vastly outnumbered by wealthy good-looking suburbanites, but many of them are now "white-trash-with-money" types and have upped their image to keep up with everyone.
Batavia is sort of similar, in that most of the population is good-looking, but there is a small, dwindling percentage of people that aren't. These tend to be the really dorky scientist and academic types that work at Fermi Lab or at one of the high-tech places along I-88. Regardless, many of these people are now good-looking as well, and people in Batavia seem to be very fitness and health-oriented. I think all the bike trails and the convenient location of their downtown (walkable or bikeable from most parts of town) helps.
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Right around UT campus near Tarrytown there are lots of attractive students. Of course, Tarrytown and that whole area is also near the lake so it's great place to be.
Scottsdale, AZ is full of trophy wives, wealthy entrepreneurs, CEO's, fitness buffs, and "MILF's". Not too many ugly people around. The area right around ASU campus in Tempe is full of hot, scantily clad co-eds and tanned gym rats.
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I would have to agree, but after living in small town Kansas for a while, most of the Phoenix area has beautifual people. I'm getting used to larger, older, way out of style, and overall wearing people. It's not all of Kansas, but I'm sure that stereotype covers a good portion. I noticed this a little more with a trip to Lawrence a couple days ago and seeing beautiful people again.
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I liked Algonquin's other side, the seedy bars, the Texan! Port Edwards just goofy. Who wants to eat in a boat sitting in a lake inside a building?
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Some of the beaches here are just show-off zones for abs, tans and egos. Then there is Yaletown and West Vancouver, where botoxed divorcees and "augmented" young ladies hang around older men with too much spray-tan and freshly replenished hair-plugs.
As far as Vancouver goes, I think it has a lot to do with access to plastic surgery and other enhancements (such as those listed above.. heh). Plus more free time and money to work out, eat well, go to the spa, dentist, dermatologist, ect.
If I had money there are a number of cosmetic procedures I'd consider...
First thing I'm purchasing when my pay-cheques are large enough is a set of those invisalign braces.
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