Anthracite SC

I've been in New England this whole week for training for my job. What a horrible area. Rain, Snow, dirty roads, Triple decker homes...yeck. The outer area suburbs are quite nice actually.
One thing though is that people I've met were very nice too. Just that that the surrounding living areas are horrendous

Being a Northern California person, I was taken aback by the round about turns(we have things called stoplights and intersections..civil stuff), very tedious toll booths that VARY all the time(like it's a subway toll?), and the constant dirt, and gravel on the ground that would RUIN all the nice lexus's everyone has on this forum.

Even if I had a BIG horsepower car i'd be afraid to drive it around here.

How does anyone LIVE here???
I've been all over the country. Denver, New York, Jersey, Atlanta, Seattle, etc.

I think Texas, Nevada, and California are ideal places to produce big HP. Seattle COULD be the best if it didn't rain so much.

Oh, and another thing. The Patriots are garbage. An overrated football team. On a side note. Tom Brady went to my rival high school in Northern California, Serra High School. So the local new england hero is actually from my state.

Not really pertaining to the forum, but wanted to just share some side thoughts. Fire away on me new england fans!

MadMaxSC400

That's California in a nutshell, add the **** Highway Patrol and roads without snow, but have so many potholes you have to be rim-conscious at all times. The money for our roads usually goes to the illegals on state welfare or some other socialist program. They're introducing a measure that will force them to spend the road tax money on the roads.. but I can bet there will be 3 or 4 sniveling rat liberals on TV talking about how it's a plot to hurt the chillllllllllllllllldren.
I despise this place... the women in Porsche Boxsters.. the Chevy Suburbans and the people using cellphones from the time they get in their car till they get out again. The Sierra Club a$$holes and their nonfat decaf lattes.. Everyone thinks they're so damned important here.

All my resumes are going to companies out of state willing to relocate me.

Anthracite I see you're in the Bay Area, where are you? I'm in Marin, and I despise this place.

Anthracite SC

I forgot, California HAS become the pseudo imperialist, capitalist, metopolis that it once was NOT. I'm akin to the times when i was a young boy. walking around during the 70s when there was barely anyone here. The smell of FRESH seat water(yes..it was at one time), walking around in sandy thong sandals, and hawaiian shirts w/o worry of skin cancer, watching star wars and ET and when the chevy "jaws" looking vette was the car to have.

NOW...the California of the millenium, is exactly as you described. Prentious for no reason. 60% of the poeple have oversaturated the high tech boom(which is MY real theory for why it went down...too many underqualified people masquerading as programmers), Local Gov't extorting and laundering money so that we have the most expensive and abundant cars and homes, but some of the most shameful roads to drive them or live on.

I'm located just south of San Francisco...Max. I have family up in Marin in Petaluma, and a girl I date is from there too. Man is she gorgeous...too bad she has no mind so that we can't be anything more.

Also driving a lexus around here is not exclusive. Every well to do college kid or young professional or local drug dealer has one. It's like a honda civic in other parts of the country.

You should come to the next Clublexus norcal meet. We should have one sometime soon. I'm up for it.

Red93sc400

Yes, as a New Englander all my life, you are right on about your assessment of the uban New England area. Old homes (ugly) and nasty road conditions. Luckily I live in Connecticut, (I suspect you are in the metro Boston area from the sounds of it). where the areas "can" be more rural and pastoral. However the old cities like Bridgeport, Hartford, and New Haven are much like you describe, sans the tolls.

Now you understand why I run my stock wheels in the winter and keep the nice wheels for the summer! Thats also why I am waiting to install my new rotors in the springtime. Our winters with the ice, freezing rain, snow and sleet cause townships to dump literally mountains of sand/salt mix to keep the roads from becoming fully ice covered. If you have been reading some of my posts on winter tires, etc, that is why I have 200 pounds of weight in the trunk of the SC400.

In many ways, I should lay up the SC and drive a beater car in the unbearable months here in New England.

It does wreck havoc with paint, especially on front ends. Having just been to Las Vegas and Pheonix, I totally agree that the winter driving there is less treacherous. The sand is an issue as is the ice and snow. The northern latitudes are pretty much all the same. That is why I say to some we have 5 seasons...

summer, fall, winter, unbearable, and spring

Winter ends on the first of January.
Unbearable will last until March 15th or Saint Patricks day.
Then spring starts.

Anthracite SC

Yeah, I'm actually staying up in Natick right outside Boston.
I drove and walked through Boston and Cambridge yesterday. Saw Harvard, and BU, and MIT. Went through downtown boston.

The best place and most frequent place I've been too is Natick's shopping mall and movie theater. Not a lot of people, but some cute ladies around.

Very pretty blonde girls here if you look hard enough. (they grow em big here!). I noticed that white girls are tall and beautiful out in the south in Atlanta and up here in new england.

The white girls in california are more plastic looking. But the latina girls in Cali...Oooh. baby.

Ok..back to the cars. yeah, I wouldn't drive any nice cars out here in the winter. If I lived here, i'd have an SUV for 65 months out of the year and a luxo car/coupe the other half. But that's IF i'd live here and that's a LARGE presumption.

I like the people, and everyone's nice...but I'd love to see such nice people living under better circumstances.

Anyhow...happy driving.

Camshaft

Everynow and then, I run across someone from Cali or from a really Northern state. The funny thing is, as many jokes are made about Arkansas, people come visit, stay, go home, and then 6 months later, move here. Yes, there is such thing as good old southern hospitality, Football is KING (SEC!!), and decent clean air. I drove to Virgina Beach and realized how much I love this state, even after living in Texas, North Carolina, and Colorado. Got to love the fact that there are no toll roads, decent highway laws, no sniffer tests, no hours spent going to work, no salt damage, and clean communities. I have yet to see a photo radar system, and every drive is a scenic one. We have our problems, but they seem trivial next to some places'.

"We farm folks know how to grow those women!"

Camshaft

Almost forgot, a $150,000 house in Chicago is like 2 bedrooms and one bath, right? In Arkansas its a 2 story, 5 bedroom, 4000 sq ft fat pad with a 3 car garage, shop out back, 10 acres, paved driveway, and a nice view. And one dog.

messysc

I lived in Fairfield county CT most of my life and the roads there were a little better then our neighbors in NY, NJ, etc. Probably all the taxes we paid actually went to fix the roads...
Now I am in NW Arkansas and I haven't had a more fun commute to work in my life.
I drive a 40 mile stretch every day that is made up of the roads you see on those sportscar commercials. Beautiful scenery awesome curvey roads and no cops!!

Camshaft

Yeah, I have heard of car commercials being filmed near Lake Ouachita, Greyson, and others. A friend of mine in high school went hunting and got lost somewhere on national forest land. The call went out and practicaly the whole county mobilized looking for him. Found him with a broken ankle in a ravine way the hell out in the sticks. Sorry, but no one in Jersey is going to do that for a stranger.

CmputerWiz

Sounds like Miami. You're lucky if the cashier gives you the correct change, and if you ***** at the manager, you're lucky they don't call the police....LOL

Everyone here is out to get somethign from you, there's nobody that's trying to help. Overpopulation does it every time. As well as other factors...lol

I did prefer people in North Carolina....friendly, honest, etc. But it stays warm here. Oh the tradeoffs. :/

SR

SupraCoup3

Anthracite SC I just got back from Natick (GF)... took the mass turnpike (the state troopers are driving unmarked mustang GTs now... that's not cool) Anyhow. PM me. If you're around a bit longer, maybe I'll stop by.

Anthracite SC

SupraCoup, I wish you had msged me earlier in the week. I am back in San Fran now as of Friday night.

So you went to Natick to visit the GF? Very cool. Was she one of those tall pretty blondes I saw all over the place?

Could you have introduced me to her friends? j/k

I had a nice week there in Natick, Bostown, and Cambridge.
saw a couple movies, and had dinner w/a friend of mine from Jersey, but most of the time, just drove and walked around. Didn't know anyone, and didn't have much time, since I got off work at 5 each day.

So Supra, what do you and your GF do for fun out there?
Tell me all the happs. =)

Anthracite SC

SupraCoup3

Hey Ath. I went back over tonight (GF's birthday) and her dad backed into my parked car, with me + the entire family in his car... Read my post for details --- "Kaaabaaam (I've been hit)"

MaineLude

I hear that about the New England roads. I live in Central Maine and we have the absolute worst road conditions in the country. Driving down our streets is a constand battle of dodging potholes. Not to mention too much damn snow. The women here are ugly too. If you find someone under 200 pounds, she's a keeper. I can't wait to get out of this hellhole in a year or two!

Camshaft

We know how to grow 'em down here, and any Southern member will tell you the same.