Does anyone else live in a town where there isn't a damned thing to do

[Thtwudbeme]

except go out and shop for "stuff we need?"

Seriously...so dull that there isn't even a point to putting on makeup or buying nice clothes?

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Well, there might be things to do here...but we don't do them...

So I feel for you. :hug:

[Thtwudbeme]

5. I would like to say "But you have the kids to play with!"

Except that I know women who would PAY to talk to an adult on some days!
:)

[deadparrot]

2. Yes.

Yes. Yes. Yes.

[Fox Mulder]

3. Yeah.

I live in a town like that and it sucks.

[snacker]

22. Me too.

It's sooo small and boring that you really can't even shop here. We have one grocery store that closes at 8 on weekdays, 6 on weekends.

[GirlinContempt]

4. No.

[hfojvt]

6. I always live in towns where people say that

Of course, I never do anything, outside of the rare road-trip, so I am not sure what people are after. Sometimes they mention professional sporting events. I used to goto alot more plays when I was in Iowa, although I had to drive 20 or 30 miles to do so. Some were HS plays and some were community theater plays. I am not sure if I am not going to things these days because I work every Friday and Saturday night. I now live just six blocks from the community theater, but I have only been to one play.

What exactly would you like to do besides put on make-up and buy nice clothes?

[Thtwudbeme]

8. Go out with friends

Go to a nice, upscale restaurant with the girls and pretend we are young---and Bush isn't in office and we aren't in this stupid war.

Volunteer at a museum.

Work at a free medical clinic.

Go see baseball games and fantasize about Spring training.

Go down to SC and go bird watching.

Play golf.

Go up to the mountains and hang out, and get my groove back.

Go over to my folks house and bitch about how old we all have gotten, and talk about my grandparents.

Go to my sisters for a cup of coffee, and cigarettes from hell and talk about how cute the guy on Northern Exposure was.

Take the doggie for a walk in the park and watch other people taking their doggies for walks watching us--

Feed the ducks at the park.

Walk into the Harris Teeter and have the checkout clerk say "Hi Stephanie!" and I would say, "Hi! Have you put in anymore college applications?" or "How is your mother?" (Depends on the clerk) I would also talk to the wine rep and say, "I have friends coming over, can you suggest a nice $5 bottle of rotgut that they will think is good?"

Plan my annual Symphony Pops Party...except that it's not annual since we moved to this hellhole.

That's my list so far-

[hfojvt]

9. sounds more like a people problem

than a place problem.

There are parks in most places, although in the little towns where I live they are often empty (which is not all bad, at other times they have people who gripe about my unleashed dog)

Aren't there accursed golf courses everywhere? And I would think there are upscale restaurants everywhere, but admittedly a lack of them would be above my notice.

What is a Harris Teeter? A type of grocery store? Don't they have a Piggly Wiggly or Albertsons where you are?

Yes, I have found friends to be in short supply wherever I go. I think it is worse, because if I had a wife she probably would be better at making friends. Not necessarily I suppose.

[RandomKoolzip]

7. In Chicago, there's always TOO MUCH stuff to do.

I've missed about two hundred great bands since I moved here, managed to unintentionally avoid some wonderful movies, etc. Shit, I haven't even been to a third of the neighborhood attractions in Wrigleyville alone.

There's always a full plate here, sometimes so much so that I wished I lived in Nashville again just so I'd have an excuse NOT to go out.

[skygazer]

10. I've lived in all kinds of towns

From very large to extremely small (less than 800 people). And have never been without plenty to do. But then I don't really feel that I need a lot of outside shit to entertain me.

Boredom IMO comes more from within than without.

[In_The_Wind]

11. Sounds like my town.

Winter is especially bad.


That's why I have so much time to find smilies.

[China_cat]

12. Not now

but I grew up in a town with 2 stoplights, 2 1/2 cops (we had a crossing guard during school session) but no police station. The small theater, 4 lane bowling alley and skating rink closed for the summer and anything else that might have been 'something to do' was at least 15 miles away.

When we finally got a laundromat (I was a teenager at the time) we used to go there to watch the dryers. Town gossip even went into summer reruns. Biggest excitement while I was growing up was when the fire station burned down.

But...I feel sorrier for the kids there now. The theater's been closed for years and the bowling alley and skating rink have burned down. And the laundromat moved to the outskirts of town...too far to walk for those who can't drive.

[El Fuego]

13. Too much to do here.

And never enough time. I have a backlog list of things I want to do. (I have to say it because people are always knocking S. Fl!!!)

[huskerlaw]

14. Used to.

Now I live in a city where there's so much to do that taking time to buy "stuff I need" is a nuisance.

:hi:

[Ariana Celeste]

15. Pretty much how I feel about my town

I've gotten to the point where I just toss on pajama pants and a hoodie to go grocery shopping. ;)
Only time I ever bother with makeup or dressing nice is when I catch a ride from a friend to pick up the man at work. :D

[aclog]

16. right here

but then, buying nice clothes for me is a T-shirt that doesn't have profanity on it so...

[ForrestGump]

17. I live in Las Vegas

:D

But I've lived in places where many might claim there was nothing much to do. Places that weren't even of town stature. I like those places. There is always something to do. Anywhere. :hug:

[Nevernose]

31. I live there, too - and feel that way (bored) half the time

Maybe I'm just jaded, or perhaps I'm just broke, or perhaps the stuff on the Strip is just too overpriced.

Thank God I like camping and hiking. Vegas is close to an outdoorsman's paradise. If you've got a free weekend, and don't mind driving just a couple of hours, you've got some of the most fantastic landscape imaginable. Trees? WAter? Mountains? Streams? Rocks? Dust? Desert? Yeah, we've got it all. Especially if you don't mind scratching away a little bit for the Robert Frost places.

Hey, Gump: You haven't always lived in Vegas, have you? Isn't that relatively new?

[ForrestGump]

36. I've been too busy to really look around the place,

even within the city, but I do love that this odd town is so well placed to offer access to such beautiful parts of the Southwest. Yep, I've only been here about 18 months...I don't do much on the Strip, either, partly because I work there (just want to get out of there once I finish) and partly because, like you, I usually can't afford the once-affordable offerings there.

If I was a more social animal I'd probably be jaded by now, anyway -- I went to one of the Ultra-Lounges, just because I knew one of the hostesses, and I failed to see the excitement of standing around, being trendy, and trying to yell at each other over really loud and really bad nouveau-disco music. Sure, I can appreciate provacatively-dressed 20-something babes dancing on tables, but it otherwise seemed a monumentally pointless allocation of time and hearing loss. Bleh...not my scene. I don't gamble (barely, anyway), never do the club thing, and usually only go to see shows when I get them comped, but Vegas remains an interesting place to me and I think you can have a fair bit of fun within the glitzy areas without ever doing any of that stuff. And, if you're into live music (and had the time and money) you could catch a truckload of greats from the past playing at less 'prestigious' casinos off the Strip for a tiny fraction of the cost of something like Celine Dion's overpriced extravaganza. For sure, if I wanted to do another PhD, I'd probably center it on human behavior as observed from my perspective, on the street of the Strip and Downtown...it's all there! :-)

I'm glad that at least you cna escape the neon-streaked confines of this expanding city, for the wild places that still aren't so far away. I'm hoping that my fiscal and related circumstances will soon settle down enough, assuming I stay here a while longer, that I can ride my bike out to Mt Charleston and Red Rock (never been to either), or to places I haven't visited since the late '80s, and tool around a bit. If I ever get my stuff from storage (in Los Angeles), I might even go backcountry! :D

[Dave Reynolds]

18. Given some imagination and a sharp machete,

there is *always* something to do.

[swag]

19. I used to live in such a town, but I got the fuck out of there as soon

as I could.

[samplegirl]

20. I live in a small Rural town in Ohio

and its as boring as it gets. Shopping seems to be the only outlet. Winter is dreadfully boring. Spring is not so bad
as they seem to always have something going.
I do alot of car shows so I look forward to those.

[supernova]

21. Well, there is nothing to do in Charlotte

:P

Aside from working at Bank of America.

:hide:

I live out in the quasi-boonies and am always as occupied as I care to be. :-)

[Thtwudbeme]

25. Did you somehow miss the symphony, the Imax theatre, the Nature Museum

the Mint Museum, Freedom Park, the Hornets/Bobcats/Panthers/Knights/Checkers,

The classes to be taken at CPCC?

The used bookstores?

The coffee shops?

The restaurants?

The proximity to Hendersonville/Asheville?

[supernova]

28. HaHa! You're the one complaining

I was joking. And yes I did all that stuff with I lived there. I even taught a semester at CPCC. :D

[Thtwudbeme]

29. Oh, sorry....I didn't realize you were joking

my bad!

Rats...

Sorry!

What did you teach? They have some neat classes; I want to take the kayaking class next-

[Lydia Leftcoast]

23. I don't now, but I used to

a small town in Oregon.

All there was to do was shop and eat out at a limited range of restaurants.

[djeseru]

24. I left the one I used to live in,

a mere 5 months after graduating high school. It was stagnant there, in the worst way. No liquor stores, no school dances - I felt like the lead character from Footloose when I moved there my junior year. x(

[Jamastiene]

26. You sound like you must live in Rockingham, NC.

You described the place where I live pretty well, at least. I despise this place. Everything here is torture. On top of all the crime, poverty (from the serious lack of opportunities here), our streets are not even named right. In most cities, the streets are at least named logically. Not to mention that they can't even address houses in any numerical order of any kind. There is a house with the number 818 sitting right next to a house with the number 824. There is no 819 or 820, but there is a 907 directly accross the street. Let's not even get into the fact that there are avenues that cross each other and roads with no names, paved major roads at that. There is no logic whatsoever to how this place is laid out. Downtown, there is a Perdue chicken killing plant right next to a nursing home and our hospital too. The people who run this town are idiots. And that is giving them too much credit.

[Thtwudbeme]

27. I am close!

I didn't realize you were a fellow North Carolinian.

Yep. I hate Rockingham....I feel for you. Seriously. I would feel more, but am wallowing in my hatred of this place right now.

;)

[Jamastiene]

30. We can vouch for each other, because NC sucks in general, except

a tiny little enclave around the Raleigh/Cary area. Even that could use some more stuff to do. Rockingham is the pits for me though. Seriously, if I win the lottery, it's adios half horse town Rockingham, and hello somewhere else. Where? I don't know yet, but I'm totally in love with the cultures of both Seattle and San Fransisco.

[Broken_Hero]

32. Yep....

I live in SW Missouri...nothing but little ass towns, and lots of country....:) the town i'm in i believe is 400 population...

[Montauk6]

33. New York City

OK, I'm joking, actually there wasn't a whole heckuva lot to do back in Inkster, MI.

[Shine]

34. No, but I used to and then I moved....for obvious reasons.

actually, to go to college...

:hi:

[NMMNG]

35. Yup

You can't even shop for anything but groceries, prescriptions/medications and sundries. For clothing, sporting goods, office supplies, electronics and anything else you have to go out of town. There are no parks, movie theatres, community centers, malls or any place for activities. There are a few fast food restaurants and some family eateries but no big-name places.

Oh, but if you want to by porn videos or sex toys we have a store for that.

[liberaltrucker]

37. Yep. Small Town, Alabama

Dry county, no less:(