Hi there! 👋 What HAVE I done?

[Gedunker]

Greetings, everyone.

I am not much of a "joiner", but I have been reading the posts since I recently discovered cyburbia and believe (naively, perhaps?) that this site may be useful. Certainly, I already know it to be fun having browsed the posts.

I am Chief Planner in a small riverside city of about 40,000 in the midwest. I have been here for 15 years. We are a very small staff and very much generalists, from current to future planning and a host of other tasks.

I should point out that I am the low man on the totem pole and have been all 15 years I've been here. (Thought: if there are no indians how can there be a chief?)

I am alternatively frustrated and satisfied with my career choice and adopted city. I expect that those of you who are in the profession already know what I mean. The rest of you can probably relate.

May this be the start of something ....

 

[NHPlanner]

Welcome! :b:

 

[Budgie]

Greetings, everyone.

May this be the start of something ....

worth a damn?

 

[SGB]

Welcome home!

Pull up a chair, grab a beverage of choice, and enjoy the conversations.

[OT: Would the midwest recruitment team please take a break? ]

 

[Michele Zone]

Welcome! Daddy was a Hoosier (from Indiana -- Terre Haute or thereabouts). So we are practically related by virtue of your adoption of a city in a state where a relative of mine grew up! (Don't mind me -- everyone knows I am an overmedicated insomniac trying to entertain myself until the Grim Reaper comes to take me away from it all.)

 

[Cardinal]

Wow... fifteen years and still the newbie. That's gotta be rough. Welcome, newbie.

 

[H]

welcome

what to the put in the water in the mid-west to breed so many planners?

 

[Duke Of Dystopia]

what to the put in the water in the mid-west to breed so many planners?

Its the beer, makes you think you can do anything

 

[Zoning Goddess]

Welcome from Florida. Hope you enjoy Cyburbia!

 

[biscuit]

Its the beer, makes you think you can do anything

So that's it. You mid-westerners didn't become planners because you're well educated or particularly civic minded, you're just all drunk. That's good enough for me.

Welcome!

 

[JNA]

greetings from down stream, same state.
I am almost in same situation outsider, generalist, only 10 yrs.
welcome to the association for planners angst.

 

[michaelskis]

Its the beer, makes you think you can do anything

What??? Are you saying we can't do everything?

Oh and welcome to the party

 

[Duke Of Dystopia]

What??? Are you saying we can't do everything?

I didn't say that at all If it can be contemplated, it can be completed

 

[Plannerbabs]

Greetings from the middle of Indiana, crossroads of America. The beer helps, but it's really all those wide-open cornfields. We look at those and think, wow, there really should be a subdivision there....and maybe a supercenter of some kind....it's inspiring, you know?

 

[SW MI Planner]

Howdy from Michigan

 

[Chet]

Welcome. Post early and often.

Cardinal - add another dot to the map

 

[SkeLeton]

Welcome..

enjoy the madness

 

[j_deuce]

welcome...

 

[PlannerGirl]

Welcome to our cyber nut ward. We vent here a good bit and offer many shoulders to lean on.

We look forward to your posts.

 

[moose]

welcome from Oregon (am I the only Oregonian on Cyburbia, or even the only west coaster?)

 

[Habanero]

Welcome, from a state that doesn't "do" daylight savings.

 

[michaelskis]

I didn't say that at all If it can be contemplated, it can be completed

But how do you know if it can be completed if you don't try to complete it, which would indicate that we do not complete everything.

Ok... I just got way to Philosophical 20 min before a 10 hour drive. *that should happen some around Ohio.

 

[Seabishop]

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I am not much of a "joiner" ...
May this be the start of something ....

That Gedunker is such a joiner! I just can't make it to all his crime watch and gardening club meetings.

Welcome.

 

[PlannerGirl]

Hi Moose nope there are a good number of west coast and OR posters here

post your intro so folks know your new

welcome!

PG

 

[Rem]

Hello and welcome.

 

[JNL]

Welcome from New Zealand, home of the Kiwi bird and Kiwifruit (before those no-good Chileans nicked some vines from us, eh SkeL?)

 

[Cardinal]

Gedunker - I'm putting new dots on the map. Where does yours go?