well, that's the problem with your story right there. there is no airport in san diego. san diego doesn't actually exist. it is like the moon landing - all done on a sound stage in burbank. clever tourism professionals created the myth of san diego to fool those clever australians into thinking there was at least one good thing about america.

lol...where the hell did I fly into then? I remember getting off a plane, I remember getting on a shuttle. I remember my room at the Holiday Inn right across from the Maritime Museum...

I'm direction dyslexic and really bad at geography...maybe I was actually in Reykjavik. :blush:

you were actually picked up from John Wayne International airport and whisked away along a very well staged path to the soundstage in burbank.

Well how did they fake the ocean, then? I done seen it, I swears I did.

what's an ocean?

Walt Disney and NASA, you connect the dots.

Like the stars in that Lion King scene? We all know what we got when we connected those dots!

I'd agree, San Diego is really nice. I like that whole area really, LA south to the border. I'm pretty sure that if I could afford to live there I would, despite all the ants, fires, earthquakes, landslides, illegals etc....

You forgot the CIA and the Illuminati. They are in on it too. Oh, and the Jews too.

I picked up a real estate magazine while I was there. I found a lovely little starter home: $690,000. Yikes.

But it is beautiful. I can see why people deal with the cost of living, the ants, fires, landslides, illegals, etc!

Florida... It's humid and filled with tourists. The parts without tourists are filled with craptastic drivers (old people and/or New Yorkers [sorry, folks!]).

People have a bad impression about Detroit from the news. What you see on the news tends to be in neighborhoods where visitors never venture. (That's not to justify it in any sense, rather it's to say that visitors need not worry about being hit by stray gunfire.) It's actually not a bad place, and I say that as someone who grew up in the suburbs where it is not rare to encounter people who haven't been downtown in a decade.

psst....Florida is a State!

and welcome to the cellar......

I'm aware, but Florida still sucks.

I beg to differ. The places you visited in Florida may have sucked, but there are 10 places I can name you most likely never visited that are wonderful, have minimal tourists, and the people are all pretty nice. But hey, I am nearly a local.

Worst City: Newark, NJ followed closely by Paterson and Elizabeth, NJ.

I hate Los Angeles out of principle, and I've been there once, so I'll go with that.

pretty much any 'city' in West Va.

There are cities in West Virginia? I was under the impression it was just full of sheep, and the fuckers thereof.

like this? :sheep:

I lived in WV for about a year. It was right on the Maryland border, my house almost backed right into the Potomac. Ironically enough it's actually called Shepherdstown :rolleyes:

Anywho, the town is small enough that you had to either drive 15 minutes east into Hagerstown Maryland or 15 minutes west into Martinsburg WV if you wanted to buy anything. Hagerstown was almost yuppie-ish. Martinsburg was like a freaking trip to Wal-Mart. The stereotypes are correct.

I will always maintain that Kentucky is worse than WV, however. I literally (and I mean the literal use of the word "literally" here) saw a guy at a Wendy's there that had more UK Wildcat commemorative pins in his hat than he had teeth in his head, and it wasn't even close.

West Virginia. 2 million people; 3 last names. :3eye:

whale, iffen she ain't good enuf fer her own family....

Is having a lot of teeth a sign of intelligence?

No. It's the sign of the Dentist.

I'd argue that having the foresight to spend one's money on dental hygiene instead of commemorative pins for a hat is one of the most basic requirements for other people to think you're capable of intelligent thought. But that's just me.

With respect to West Virginia, this from the ABC exit poll was pretty devastating I thought:

"Ninety-five percent of voters in preliminary exit poll results were whites, just under a third were college graduates - among the fewest in any primary this year - and 55 percent had household incomes under $50,000, among the most in primaries to date."

Now none of that suggests that these people's views should not count, but they are not on the cutting edge of America's future nor of the Democratic party's future.

Democratic strategist (and Clinton supporter) Paul Begala warns the party off the idea of relying on "eggheads" and African-Americans as the only way to go, but the fact is that Obama could write off West Virginia and concentrate instead on, say, Colorado, or even Virginia (a much bigger prize).

Eggheads, African-Americans and suburbanites would be a perfect coalition and a winning one. Don't believe me? Go back to the wonderful www.270towin.com/ and do your own math(s)!

--Justin Webb, BBC News

I agree. :D

Garabaldi Oregon.....the most ugly wet windy never mind the ocean, place I've ever been to.

Syracuse NY- Rude drivers, crappy traffic management, crime. I used to work there, and every day I was driving in the city, I saw someone getting beat up. They still have parking meters, and somehow have enough parking cops to tag you the second the flag pops up. Parking is expensive and hard to find.

Toronto is a beautiful, clean and exciting city. One of the few cities I'd like to spend more time in.

Dingle said "teeth in his head." He didn't mention the string the guy had around his neck.