NationStates Jolt Archive

I live in Oklahoma City, which I'm firmly convinced is the armpit of the world. Yes,I could move, but the rest of my family stubbornly insists on living here. So I stay here and bitch about it. I have some proof, so it's not just because I can't be pleased. (Which is true, but OKC still sucks) I invite you to find a worse place in an industrialized, democratic nation.
Try http://www.bestplaces.net/city/ccompare.aspx

my hometown doesn't suck. well... it's not really a town, either. more of a tiny little village :D

My little hometown for lo these past six years doesn't suck in any way, except perhaps for there being too many nosy people in it. Heh!

I really like that city comparison thing. It makes me love my real hometown, Topeka (AKA part of the moderate part of KS), compared to where I live now to go to school.

That webpage is cool but it doesn't have my hometown. I live in Minneapolis now which is fine and dandy. But the town in Iowa that I grew up in....ew.

My high school closed 2 years after I graduated because there werent enough kids. I graduated in 2001 with 15 other people. Yeah. Beat that.

My town contained the following:
2 bars
2 churches (one lutheran, one methodist)
1 post office
1 telemarketing company
1 welding shop
1 auto-glass repair shop
1 snowmobile repair shop
1 school (K-12)
1 traffic light (it flashed yellow at the 4-way stop to the 1 highway)
1 gas station (full-service)
1 farmers coop

Back in the day there was like a bowling alley, apartment building, movie theater, etc. They all burned down a long time ago. And I am not for certain if the snowmobile shop and auto-glass shop are still there. I try to avoid returning there as much as possible.

For the brits. Ever heard of a place called Chertsey? It is in the outskirts of the outskirts of west london, directly under the flightpath from Heathrow, Stuck in a triangle between the M3, the M4 and the M25. It does not have a direct train service into London, you have to change. The schools are so bad that my sister was sent to a comprehensive school 8 miles away, while I, being lucky enough to have passed my 11+ (I am showing my age here) was sent to a Grammar school 12 miles from home.
It does have a multitude of very bad Watneys pubs, or it did anyway. No cinema, no sports facilities, no social life whatsoever.
To get back from London by public transport you had to leave the centre by 21:00, to early to make London viable.

I vote for this as being the worst possible place in Britain for a middle class Brit to grow up.

(For the liberals, I know it was not moss side, or the gorbals, but I specified middle class, OK) :(

(mostly to bitchkitten)
i just moved to lawton after being out of america for a very looooong time. to hear the kids at my school talk about "the city" and their experiences there make it sound much more jolly.
i say lawton sucks more than okc...and it's unbelievable how it's considered the third largest city =\...

I live in Belfast, in Northern Ireland, and it doesnt suck at all

That webpage is cool but it doesn't have my hometown. I live in Minneapolis now which is fine and dandy. But the town in Iowa that I grew up in....ew.

My high school closed 2 years after I graduated because there werent enough kids. I graduated in 2001 with 15 other people. Yeah. Beat that.

My town contained the following:
2 bars
2 churches (one lutheran, one methodist)
1 post office
1 telemarketing company
1 welding shop
1 auto-glass repair shop
1 snowmobile repair shop
1 school (K-12)
1 traffic light (it flashed yellow at the 4-way stop to the 1 highway)
1 gas station (full-service)
1 farmers coop

Back in the day there was like a bowling alley, apartment building, movie theater, etc. They all burned down a long time ago. And I am not for certain if the snowmobile shop and auto-glass shop are still there. I try to avoid returning there as much as possible.


I graduated a year ago with 8 other people.

My town has

2 churches
1 old lava field
1 big farm
1 food store
1 tiny forrest
2 schools (upper and lower level)
1 abandond, very small port
1 old fort

But what I find funny is that I am going to school in Los Angelas CA in America next year and they have over 3 million people there. :D

You know Indonesia right now?

Slightly worse then that.

my town:
Population: 3100
Fast food restaurants: 0
Chain Grocery Stores: 0
Dunkin Donuts/Starbucks: 0
Bars: 0
Gas Stations: 1
Movie Theaters: 0
High School: Shared with neighboring town. Football (USteam:No Hockey Team: No
Hills: Hell yes.
Beach: no. one tiny beach bordering a nasty pond.
Arcade: no
Anything to do: Not really.
Tennis Courts: 2. Used by about 5 people. Board against tennis court fence often used for wallball.
Things in walking distance of my house: 0.
Video store: no
Ice Cream store: no
Churches: 4. Catholic, Methodist, Congregational, and something else.
Restaurants: 4, 3 owned by Greeks.
Farms: several
Traffic Lights: 1, a blinking red light.

Claim to Fame: We have a big fair in September. It kicks ass. Also, being flooded by people in december so they can get stamps that say "the christmas town, bethlehem ct."

Ok im going to copy what Smoltzania used:

my town:
Population: 400,000
Fast food restaurants: loads
Chain Grocery Stores: 15 i would guess
Dunkin Donuts/Starbucks: 1 and 1
Bars: thousands
Gas Stations: loads
Movie Theaters: 10 maybe
High School: hundreds i imagine
Team: various football (soccer for those who insist on calling it that), GAA and rugby grounds
Hills: loads. some quite big as well. One inspired the book ofgullivers kingdom...
Beach: no
Arcade: many
Anything to do: loads
Tennis Courts: dunno...more than 200 at least
Things in walking distance of my house: half the city
Video store: hundreds
Ice Cream store: very many
Churches: hundreds
Restaurants: thousands
Farms: 1. owned by the National Trust
Traffic Lights: thousands i would say

Claim to Fame: getting bombed alot by the IRA a few years back. Oh, and pneumatic tyres were invented here. and the titanic...actually theres loads, but i wont bore you with the details


not very helpful, but its a big enough place and i dont know some of the more details stats

My (high school years) hometown is the center of lily-white suburbia. And it sucks. It has nothing to do besides eat and watch movies.

There's no diversity besides a handful of Asians and Jews. I'm not joking.

The stifling uniform political beliefs of the town are annoying.

And our old mayor had repeated stupid-ass scandals.



And now it's going to suck even more because the main employer is leaving.

my hometown doesn't suck. well... it's not really a town, either. more of a tiny little village :D

How many people? Mine is about 70-75.

my town:
Population: 2,000
Fast food restaurants: 1
Chain Grocery Stores: 1
Dunkin Donuts/Starbucks: 0 / 1
Bars: 1
Gas Stations: 1
Movie Theaters: 0
High School: 1
Team: NA
Hills: yes
Beach: yes. On a river upon which I kayak.
Arcade: 0
Anything to do: loads
Tennis Courts: 0
Things in walking distance of my house: everything mentioned
Video store: 0
Ice Cream store: 2
Churches: 3
Restaurants: 4 or 5
Farms: lots
Traffic Lights: 2

My town contained the following:
1 bar
0 churches (theres an abandoned one, now a storage shed)
1 post office
1 alternator repair shop
0 schools (one K-8 closed in 1999 now the town hall)
1 gas station (self-service) closing in march

my town:
Population: 3100
Fast food restaurants: 0
Chain Grocery Stores: 0
Dunkin Donuts/Starbucks: 0
Bars: 0
Gas Stations: 1
Movie Theaters: 0
High School: Shared with neighboring town. Football (USteam:No Hockey Team: No
Hills: Hell yes.
Beach: no. one tiny beach bordering a nasty pond.
Arcade: no
Anything to do: Not really.
Tennis Courts: 2. Used by about 5 people. Board against tennis court fence often used for wallball.
Things in walking distance of my house: 0.
Video store: no
Ice Cream store: no
Churches: 4. Catholic, Methodist, Congregational, and something else.
Restaurants: 4, 3 owned by Greeks.
Farms: several
Traffic Lights: 1, a blinking red light.

Claim to Fame: We have a big fair in September. It kicks ass. Also, being flooded by people in december so they can get stamps that say "the christmas town, bethlehem ct."

dont worry fair american friend, I am sure in the future your small town will have a Tim hortons, a canadian donut chain (has food as well) to support your donut/fast food cravings. I am not just a fan of timmys I am a share holder so feel free to google about TIM HORTONS and send them a email about getting a fine donut shop set up in YOUR area!!

I actually lived in a little town in eastern Oklahoma with 325 people.
2 gas stations
2 restaurants ( one was actually just a malt shop)
0 stop lights
5 churches
1 grocery store
1 school that included kindergarten to highschool
14 students in graduating class
But at least it was pretty- OKC is ugly and has an outrageous crime rate. Worse per capita than any other city I looked at, inc. NY and LA.

(mostly to bitchkitten)
i just moved to lawton after being out of america for a very looooong time. to hear the kids at my school talk about "the city" and their experiences there make it sound much more jolly.
i say lawton sucks more than okc...and it's unbelievable how it's considered the third largest city =\...
Yes, lawton sucks, but OKC sucks too, and is bigger. Lawton might = if it's suckiness per capita

My hometown's this little, crappy, tiny town called Drumheller. I HATE that place. The people are ignorant, all the teenagers are stupid jocks (no, I'm not generalizing, the vast majority of the jocks in that town are thicker than planks) or painfully angsty druggies who think they're rebellious because they get high on weeknights... I am so glad I don't live there anymore. :headbang:

Oh....I also don't have a target or anything like that within 150 miles. Yeah....but yet, there are 2 super-walmarts within a 25 mile radius. And that is pretty much it. there is a pathetic excuse for a mall (jcpenney, buckle, maurices) about 25 miles away (across from one of the superwalmarts of course), and the towns with the superwalmarts also have grocery stores and some fastfood places.

This is my town...if you zoom out, you can find the towns nearby that actually had stuff.

http://www.mapquest.com/maps/map.adp?ovi=1&zoom=8&mapdata=G6Vn1dgh11WpnAQVhvbXLeamzeyVM3bq2lqX3jnr%2fVpnn5ehXuC%2bzeXXbFwjwV%2fJNQ7TOKaMcvfd7bdPDAdZcr RPoSSYZsTX%2fkc2Z%2fHHGqUAvxvDkfwhFdOpJApW321rRpZbXo%2b9hPQHswgUYEyflE6oDKTNkN0hUQCOW%2bwyg99PYnSEoF %2fYl%2bJcliqPhKyfNRhrTDoOrrxTIqTK07IPmkTynKg1bLT37AXFG3qKYjolTdcP0moFfpZzidi8U9YoBm6TlpYQCrKFR3nuFX C9llMSQJYwAjLN%2f8I6ZSPMBBDihZzfJfbWDEkDIyjne0JX3ssVHEtHUF0%2fP59pYwkBjjfbjx%2fHHfFTffoXXr07QxWiuunU BItTzaWrT61yZs%2bwgBUZtXkjuOfqqHNFNGHdS2Zp5BrOHzr7

haha, I saw this again and thought someone had made a parody topic called "How Bad Does Your Homework Suck"
But anyway I love all my hometowns, they're small but beautiful.

Cleveland's alright. It has its ups and downs. Down's definitely being the god-forsaken school system that the devil of a superintendent has ruined and yet she gets paid around 300k a year!!!! She's the second highest paid school superintendent in the US and is running one of the worst school systems!!!! Someone please either kill her (preferably) or force her to take a pay cut!!!!

She's the second highest paid school superintendent in the US and is running one of the worst school systems!!!! Someone please either kill her (preferably) or force her to take a pay cut!!!!

Come on up to Canada!

... our school system sucks just as much, only in different ways. :)

(mostly to bitchkitten)
i just moved to lawton after being out of america for a very looooong time. to hear the kids at my school talk about "the city" and their experiences there make it sound much more jolly.
i say lawton sucks more than okc...and it's unbelievable how it's considered the third largest city =\...

Compare the crime rates!

My hometown's this little, crappy, tiny town called Drumheller. I HATE that place. The people are ignorant, all the teenagers are stupid jocks (no, I'm not generalizing, the vast majority of the jocks in that town are thicker than planks) or painfully angsty druggies who think they're rebellious because they get high on weeknights... I am so glad I don't live there anymore. :headbang:


AHAHAHAHHAH how could you hate the drum?? You can always hang out at the dino park!!!

Fairbanks, Alaska

I found it amazing how many of my peers couldn't wait to leave once they graduated high school. This is funny 1) because I love the place and 2) because so many of them have come back within 2 years of leaving.

As for size, think 80,000 people in an area teh size of New Jersey. Granted the actual city is smaller than that, both in size and population, but that's the borough (think county). We have 1 university, 2 near-by military bases, and not a whole lot interesting besides that.

I have grown to love my big campus university.

Come on up to Canada!

... our school system sucks just as much, only in different ways. :)

Well you are right across the lake. But I'm in college now. But thanks for the invite, eh. (Sorry, couldn't resist)