On this day when some feel it is necessary to celebrate something people are supposed to do, I am thinking of going to grad school and finish this time. Finally all of my parental units have died and I have money to pay for grad school. That sounds more bitter than I intended it to sound.
I have lived where the teams are either too expensive (U of I for people not associated with the university is/was outrageously expensive) or there has been no team for too long. I want to do laps with others who want to do laps. I don't want to do laps where people don't complain about me swimming in there way as the piddle (my father's favorite word) down the lane doing something that looks like a *** stroke.
Here are the choices. I want to hear opinions -both good and bad.
Indianapolis (have friends)
Cleveland (as a kid a big Indians fan)
Phoenix (Did everyone see that they increased both their football & baseball budget? How does Ms. Love justify that?)
Northridge, CA (quaint)
San Francisco, Ca (looks like it might be more fun than it really is)
Portland, OR (Seattle-want-to-be)
Kansas City, MO ()
Denver, CO (Good friend lives there)
(The statements are from some one else not me)
The furthest west I've ever been is Iowa City, Topeka, San Antonio. I've lived in a small towns (Galesburg, IL the center of the universe and home of the Ferris Wheel), university/intellectual towns (Champaign/Urbana & Topeka, when Menninger was still there) and center cities with lots of suburbs. (DC, St. Louis, Houston). I've never lived in a suburb.
I think of the list only Northridge, CA is a suburb. I think Kansas City, MO is considered central city. To do this I am also thinking of buying a car. I'm 50 & never had one. I've been to Indy, Cleveland (it really has become a beautiful city), and Kansas City, MO (not the center of the universe as LDSers think).
Any response will be most welcomed.
Thanks a bill,
Craig
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I'm starting a narrowing down movement. Here is what I think is left. San Francisco State, surprisingly cheap for out of state. ASU - Phoenix,, even thought they closed men's swimming and increase both the football and baseball budget. U Delaware. It has a wonderful international section to its nonprofit management course. Not may responses about it. also what abbout Rutgers? this is new to me and I have't really explored it. Portland State. I'm not sure why but one reason might be because they are very responsive when I've aske dquestions of them at the school. One really bad thing is that anyone who wants to live on campus goes into a big lottery. It means that me in a single suite could be living next to 6-8 freshman in their suite. Johns Hopkins though too expensive. My stepmother left me a wad but not that big of a wad. CSU NOrhtridge where I shall also begin my pronographic career. I'll have to come up with a good name. That's another thread.
Indy is very hard for me to think about although IUPUI is the best in nonprofit management in the world. I still remember when Richard Lugar, then mayor, said that what (he used a word I'm not going to use) .....,do is none of his concern. He was talking about African Americans living in the city he governed. The town is very conservative. And I am very not. That also makes me wonder about Phoenix. Also, i hate all of the Indy teams, especially the Colts.
Another place I really like is Delaware. I looked up the cities' standings in different things dealing with health. They are almost all on the bottom of the list. I've always thought Dover, Wilmington & Newark were very neat.
Illinois does receive a lot of rain. However, the U of I weather profs are still sticking to their guns about ending the year in a drought. But it also goes through long times of drought. When I was in college, Illinois was under a state wide drought that really got bad. Then it rqined a lot in 1992 and the entire levy system broke down like it is now. I lived in St. Louis. It rained there every day for the first 57 days I lived there. I hated that and also how little the people who lived there appreciated the city's beauty. One thing about Portland is that the people who've responded here and other threads on other discussion boards are so positive about the city.
I'm starting a narrowing down movement. Here is what I think is left. San Francisco State, surprisingly cheap for out of state. ASU - Phoenix,, even thought they closed men's swimming and increase both the football and baseball budget. U Delaware. It has a wonderful international section to its nonprofit management course. Not may responses about it. also what abbout Rutgers? this is new to me and I have't really explored it. Portland State. I'm not sure why but one reason might be because they are very responsive when I've aske dquestions of them at the school. One really bad thing is that anyone who wants to live on campus goes into a big lottery. It means that me in a single suite could be living next to 6-8 freshman in their suite. Johns Hopkins though too expensive. My stepmother left me a wad but not that big of a wad. CSU NOrhtridge where I shall also begin my pronographic career. I'll have to come up with a good name. That's another thread.
Indy is very hard for me to think about although IUPUI is the best in nonprofit management in the world. I still remember when Richard Lugar, then mayor, said that what (he used a word I'm not going to use) .....,do is none of his concern. He was talking about African Americans living in the city he governed. The town is very conservative. And I am very not. That also makes me wonder about Phoenix. Also, i hate all of the Indy teams, especially the Colts.
Another place I really like is Delaware. I looked up the cities' standings in different things dealing with health. They are almost all on the bottom of the list. I've always thought Dover, Wilmington & Newark were very neat.
Illinois does receive a lot of rain. However, the U of I weather profs are still sticking to their guns about ending the year in a drought. But it also goes through long times of drought. When I was in college, Illinois was under a state wide drought that really got bad. Then it rqined a lot in 1992 and the entire levy system broke down like it is now. I lived in St. Louis. It rained there every day for the first 57 days I lived there. I hated that and also how little the people who lived there appreciated the city's beauty. One thing about Portland is that the people who've responded here and other threads on other discussion boards are so positive about the city.
