Ghetto living

[quicksilver555]

  I have been exposed to the city my whole life.currently i am living way deep in the bridgeport ghetto where gunshots wake you up at 2am and mexicans sell drugs on your front porch.P.T. barnum housing project is across the street(this is a place where if you dont belong in there,you'll get arrested on sight since the only people who go in there

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[laura_seabrook]

So can you move?

[quicksilver555]

we are planning on moving as soon as the money is there.I will be working in new york city and living in connecticut and i will be making very good money soon(i just got this job starts jan14)
my boyfreind is a carpenter and unfortunatly out of work until january as well(he's doing a job with me thurs though)so as soon as we can,we are going to move to a more rural area.i'm just so danm broke and living in complete poverty right now with no insurance,no nothing and no help from anyone,but i KNOW we will do well as soon as the money comes back,probly be in bridgeport until next summer or so
what is it like in australia?

Australia

[laura_seabrook]

so what is it like in australia?

Golly, where to start? I used to live with an American who came from New York / Baltimore (or 'Ballimuh' as she called it), and last year I was in Upper State New York, so I have some idea about the differences.

The big big difference is climate. Australia's in the Southern Hemisphere so the seasons are 6 months different from North America. It's summer here right now and normally it'd be boiling hot on Xmas day, but there's a cool wet change and it's nice. Australia's about a 1/3 the size of the USA, so climate varies a lot from State to State, and even within. I come from Western Australia (WA) originally and that stretched mild temperate to tropical. Perth, where I lived most of my life, is now mostly dry and hot (they have water shortages). The Hunter Valley, in New South Wales (NSW), is more temperate and wet, which is one reason I live here.

There's very little snow in Australia and most which is here is restricted to the the "Great Dividing range" which runs down the east coast, and to parts of

Re: Australia

[quicksilver555]

It's a place I have always wanted to visit and i think it is so cool to talk to someone so far away.i like the fact that you dont get much snow,im defenetlty warm weather orianted.
so u have been to albany.i hear it's mostly pretty woodsy out that way.ever been to new york city?right now timesquare probly looks like a highly decorated myspace page,also,i am on myspace.com are you?my url is http://chrisquicksilver.myspace.com
i was going thru your journal and such.i think its pretty cool and you have alot in common with me as i am on the same spiritual path as well as the way i have identified myself(longstory,but will tell it)
have a happy holidays!
christina