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Misc 2018 Banter & Venting Thread

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Must be nice to be a Boston sports fan, between all those Super Bowl wins by the Pats and multiple World Series wins. :(
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Assuming the Red Sox win this series, that will be 37 total championships between the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics, and Bruins. Atlanta has a grand total of ONE
 
I was down that way this year and will probably be again in a little over three weeks and it slowed down in the area but I don't know that it was too terrible (my dad had already been driving for a while though so I might have been numb to being in the car).

Jacksonville on the other hand a couple years ago was terrible. Traffic was basically stopped for at least a couple miles. To top things off we were going to St. Augustine and we didn't even need to drive into there. Dad was not amused when he figured that out.

Edit: Nothing is ever going to take the cake of the time in which a crash on I-75 when I was on the way home from Lafayette caused a major delay for us. It was a traffic jam about 10 minutes after we got on to I-75 and we were not sure when it was going to end, and we probably spent 2 hours going maybe 30 miles and ended up eating lunch just outside of Atlanta. Another good one is the times in which there was lane closures on I-20 for construction, these out in the freaking country, and while these signs were well in advance, you'd get there and BOOM, traffic jam. There was a time or two in which my dad's temper was about to blow over that.
 
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I’m convinced Atlanta has the worst traffic in America. It’s like they didn’t start to upgrade their highway infrastructure until it was too late. Population grew but roads were never upgraded. Poor city management imo. Greenville will see a similar fate (on a smaller scale) if things continue
 
Jimmy Hypocracy said:
I’m convinced Atlanta has the worst traffic in America. It’s like they didn’t start to upgrade their highway infrastructure until it was too late. Population grew but roads were never upgraded. Poor city management imo. Greenville will see a similar fate (on a smaller scale) if things continue
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Well they certainly aren't learning very fast. There is a large growth of population around here and the highways are becoming filled with cars constantly. Used to be nearly dead on the highway in the evenings up here but its constant traffic now. They have plans to build another exit up along 400 and widen the highway but it'll take 4 or so years and they haven't started yet. And this is way up here. It only gets worse as you get down into the city.
 
Jimmy Hypocracy said:
I’m convinced Atlanta has the worst traffic in America. It’s like they didn’t start to upgrade their highway infrastructure until it was too late. Population grew but roads were never upgraded. Poor city management imo. Greenville will see a similar fate (on a smaller scale) if things continue
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Atlanta and the suburbs are the worst traffic ever!!!! I live in the suburbs and it takes me 45 min in the am to go 11 miles down a STATE ROUTE....and on the way home its about an hour to an hour and 15 min to get home....I can't wait to move just to get away from the traffic!!! The nonstop construction is insane as well. I pity anyone that drives from the outer metro counties to Atlanta!
 
SoutheastRidge said:
Have you ever experienced Nashville traffic ? Truly horrible.
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I don’t understand why some people think Nashville traffic is so bad. It is nothing and I mean nothing compared to San Diego and the west coast traffic. I’ve been through many rush hour traffic in Nashville and it is not that bad at all. Maybe you had a bad experience because of construction or an accident or something.
 
ForsythSnow said:
Well they certainly aren't learning very fast. There is a large growth of population around here and the highways are becoming filled with cars constantly. Used to be nearly dead on the highway in the evenings up here but its constant traffic now. They have plans to build another exit up along 400 and widen the highway but it'll take 4 or so years and they haven't started yet. And this is way up here. It only gets worse as you get down into the city.
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Traffic really growing here, been here 18 years and the growth is getting to be too much.
 
I hear North Dakota and Montana has no traffic, wish people started moving north and west again, what can I say... everyone wants to be in the SEC. I don’t blame them, great weather, cost of living is low and living on the ETS is a plus, plus the ladies in the SE are not bad to look at.
 
olhausen said:
I don’t understand why some people think Nashville traffic is so bad. It is nothing and I mean nothing compared to San Diego and the west coast traffic. I’ve been through many rush hour traffic in Nashville and it is not that bad at all. Maybe you had a bad experience because of construction or an accident or something.
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Every time I go to Nashville I get stuck in traffic in which at some point I have to come to a complete stop. If I have to come to a complete stop on the interstate then that's bad traffic IMO.
 
olhausen said:
I don’t understand why some people think Nashville traffic is so bad. It is nothing and I mean nothing compared to San Diego and the west coast traffic. I’ve been through many rush hour traffic in Nashville and it is not that bad at all. Maybe you had a bad experience because of construction or an accident or something.
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Nashville traffic is a cake walk to me
 
I have considered moving back to the south but it's ridiculous how expensive housing is in the south compared to the Midwest. People who say that the north is more expensive than the south have never been to the Midwest.
 
SoutheastRidge said:
I have considered moving back to the south but it's ridiculous how expensive housing is in the south compared to the Midwest. People who say that the north is more expensive than the south have never been to the Midwest.
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really, thats interesting

I dream of moving north often lol, if things ever go south here with my life in Dallas that's almost certainly my next move
 
Gotta love the double fantasy systems on the GFS.
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All of this traffic talk is making me none-too-excited about a wedding we are attending in Jacksonville on the 10th then heading to Orlando for a few days at Disney after.
 
SoutheastRidge said:
I have considered moving back to the south but it's ridiculous how expensive housing is in the south compared to the Midwest. People who say that the north is more expensive than the south have never been to the Midwest.
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Michigan is much more expensive vs down here


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Storm5 said:
Michigan is much more expensive vs down here


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Depends on what part of MI and what part of AL. Grand Rapids has much cheaper housing than Huntsville. I know there are a lot of other factors involved with cost of living.. Almost every one of these articles that comes out naming the cheapest states to live has Michigan, Indiana, and Ohio in the top 10. I doubt you will see any city in MI, IN, or OH that has an area that is as expensive as Nashville and Atlanta are.
 
I don’t know why anybody would want to live in Indiana!? Yes they get more snow than the SE, but they don’t get a ton in an avg winter. I wish I could put a house on the top of Mt Washington!
 
Tarheel1 said:
I don’t know why anybody would want to live in Indiana!? Yes they get more snow than the SE, but they don’t get a ton in an avg winter. I wish I could put a house on the top of Mt Washington!
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One reason why people move to Indiana is cost of living. Fort Wayne was named the most affordable city in America recently. Cost of living is a bigger factor for people to move than weather. Nobody moves to Indiana for the weather. And btw, parts of Northern Indiana do get a lot of snow. I think South Bend averages 80" or more.
 
SoutheastRidge said:
I have considered moving back to the south but it's ridiculous how expensive housing is in the south compared to the Midwest. People who say that the north is more expensive than the south have never been to the Midwest.
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Northeast Ohio is pretty cheap. If I ever do end up moving it will likely be somewhere in northern Ohio.
 
olhausen said:
Northeast Ohio is pretty cheap. If I ever do end up moving it will likely be somewhere in northern Ohio.
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Too much snow for me lol. I assume you mean the Cleveland area. Cleveland's snowiest winter was 2004-05 when they had 118" of snow. But i'm sure areas to the northeast of Cleveland had even more than that.
 
Whatever the two counties that are in NE Ohio, that get slammed by LES events, would be the place to live
 
Tarheel1 said:
Whatever the two counties that are in NE Ohio, that get slammed by LES events, would be the place to live
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Don't you think you would get tired of lake effect snow eventually ? Like Larry has said before, I think snow is more fun when you live in an area where snow is not as common.
 
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