Bonding time everyone whether you like it or not! In this sexy-ass thread, you basically just describe about the general are where you live starting from largest area to smallest. (Ex: country, state, then city) If someone else said everything about the area you live in, don't be repetitive, but feel free to add on to what they said based on your own experience or completely disagree with what they said. After all, everyone's experiences in an area are pretty much different. Don't be afraid to post walls and if you don't like walls, then leave because that's going to be nearly every post here. Entire regions are pretty hard to condense into a mere few sentences. Oh yeah, one more thing, if you've moved around a lot, talk about where else you've lived as well if you want to.
So, to start off, I've lived in the U! S! A! for my entire life so far and do not plan on moving ever really. The US is a pretty decent country besides all that you may hear about it. Money may be unequally distributed by a lot of course, but even the poorest people here have more money than the richest in most countries. Economically we're bad for here, but let's be real, the US has it nice. Freedom-wise, we have a lot, but of course there's always room for more because of privacy intrusions like the Patriot Act, the "war on drugs", and gay marriage still being an issue (that's being fixed now though which is rather nice.) I can't say much about the US as a whole based on climate since it's so diverse here (from sea to shining seaaaaaaa). The culture here is also very variant so I can't make any generalizations on that.
Now for the good part. I live in Las Vegas in Nevada. I know what you may be thinking and it's what many do: "How does that even work? Do you live in a hotel?" Vegas is a city, not an amusement park or a giant resort, so most of it is suburban. The strip is simply one large street that spills over a bit, nothing more. Well, the spill-over is pretty significant since there are minor casinos randomly scattered around outside the strip and there are slot machines everywhere, including in grocery stores. I'm used to it so I think nothing of it, but outsiders are usually dumbstruck at this. As for climate, it's an oasis in the middle of no where. If you fly over Vegas you see pretty much a few square miles of civilization and then it's endless brown everywhere else and it's all enclosed by mountain ranges. In the winter, 50 F (10 C) is pretty much as low as it'll go (It's cold for us though because that's what we're used to) which is heaven for people living elsewhere. In the summer, it can get above 110 F (43 C), but with some good clothes and air conditioning and as long as you don't stay outside out of the shade for too long it isn't unbearable (because it's only dry heat the shade can be like 80 F (27 C) with the wind chill and it's delicious). So overall, weather here is good. In fact, it's what I love about Vegas so much. What I always say about the region is that nature is kind to us here, but the people are not. about the people of Vegas and pretty much the entire state, we're notorious for being shitty at everything. We're nearly last in education, most teen pregnancies, highest crime, etc. We're hella paranoid here due to the crime. Anytime you leave your car you need to hide everything in pockets or under the seats because if someone sees some good stuff, they'll break into your car just to get it. On the news there's a murder every other day and we're so used to it we don't even think twice when seeing it. Same with deadly car accidents. With the nature of the area though, as I said, the extremes aren't too awful, and better yet, there's pretty much no unpredictable danger at all. No tornadoes, hurricanes, powerful earthquakes, or deadly creatures of any kind. You might meet a coyote once in a blue moon if you're unlucky but they usually don't mind people (Interesting fact though, if you live on the outskirts, coyotes are common and people never leave their pets outside due to this). The max danger here from creatures are probably black widows and minor scorpions, but these are still pretty easy to avoid and are rare. I've never even seen them anywhere near my neighborhood.
So, about the culture and politics of the area, we're pretty liberal here and like freedom, and I am the same way so it's all good. Nevadans don't like the government screwing with our shit, so the state stays out of our business (We have teh ghey legaized here as well as medical weed, and I'm betting recreational use is coming pretty soon.) We still have some federal intrusion as I've mentioned with my summary of the US, but on the state level we're pretty good besides our shitty-ass education which even Texas laughs at.
