enjoy the ride

[lauralh]

[Poll #654166]

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[joblessmusician.livejournal.com]

Redmond.

[langston.livejournal.com]

San Fran, for the mass-transit.

When this seattleite dies, hopefully the destination will resemble a warm sandy island in the tropics.

[jette.livejournal.com]

wtf Our mass transit sucks.

[chris.livejournal.com]

you're kidding right? at least the busses run at intervals more than half an hour, and you've actually got rapid-transit.

[langston.livejournal.com]

ever tried to commute up here? I'll trade you our Sound Transit debacle for your BART any day.

[jette.livejournal.com]

People always talk about the BART, which is a totally different (and more expensive) system than our Muni, and DOES NOT go everywhere you need to go when you actually live here.

It can take well over an hour to get across town, and it's only a seven-by-seven-by-seven mile patch of land.

[langston.livejournal.com]

I've spent some time in the Bay Area and have found that a bicycle, Muni Pass and (maybe) a BART trip to the eastside can be effectivley used to be much more efficient than a passenger car.

The minor inconveniences of commuting is the difference between MASS transportation and ME transportation.

[jette.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

I have never even owned a car, so whatevs on the "ME" transportation. You don't live here - trust me, the Muni is NOT all that.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

massachusetts and maine?

[langston.livejournal.com]

hmmm good one. Boston has gotten much better with it's urban transportation planning while Maine is still in the backwaters of "build more roads to solve traffic problems"

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

well, maine also has fewer people than Boston.

but I didn't think that was what you meant...

[langston.livejournal.com]

nope. Just bored at work, running with you. Want to buy an ad?

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

I prefer to sell things on the black market.

[langston.livejournal.com]

works better than my paper. All the fun stuff is black-market anyways.

[candid.livejournal.com]

In regard to the above commenters, I sincerely hope that after you die you don't have to use mass transit.

[jette.livejournal.com]

Agreed. If I lived in Seattle I'd certainly want to go somewhere sunnier than sf after I died, anyway.

[candid.livejournal.com]

My "another city" vote was for LA.

[jette.livejournal.com]

LA can be okay. I wish I could live in 1970's LA or 1950's SF.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

dude, seattle people don't think SF or NYC are better cities b/c of the climate.

[jette.livejournal.com]

SF is not a better city than Seattle in oh so many ways. People have a real grass-is-greener thing about SF for some reason.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

Yes, my poll was snark.

[jette.livejournal.com]

Good you had me worried there for a minute.

[stonecollector.livejournal.com]

whoever answered NY needs to get the fuck out of my city because they're missing the goddamn point. if that's your heavenly city, you're really really really looking in the wrong place. so hop on over to jersey and get in line with the other wannabes.

my 'other city' was VANCOUVER BC.

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

well, yes, obviously I'm going to murder everyone who answered this poll in any seriousness.

[skiplogic.livejournal.com]

wherever you go, there you are

they're all places with streets, sidewalks, buildings, cafes, bars, traffic problems, air pollution, junkies on the dole

[tyrven.livejournal.com]

Yeah, totally. At least in context of the United States.

Oh, and don't forget Walmart and McDonalds.

[skiplogic.livejournal.com]

good call in the US restriction. I'd imagine life would be pretty different in Gaza or Somalia or a tiny island off Belize.

can I please forget Walmart and McDonalds?

[tyrven.livejournal.com]

Two years ago (and before) I'd have said San Francisco. Last year, I'd have suggested New York.

At this point, I really don't know. It's "another city" for sure, but hell if I know where.

[asabass.livejournal.com]

BALLARD

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

totally

[ashlin519.livejournal.com]

White Center, all the way, that way I can get crack in heaven

[vileinfestation.livejournal.com]

"When good Seattle-ites die, they go to Starbucks."

that's the bad ones

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

no, caffe vita (http://www.caffevita.com/)