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29 Mar 2008, 7:09 am

For Germany, I like Bergisch-Gladbach as a place to live. Mainly because despite being a small town, where sensory overload is not probably, it is big enough to have the adventages of a real city (S-Bahn, good bookstores, stores which sell the food, I routinely eat... ).

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29 Mar 2008, 7:38 am

I've never been to Toronto, but I hear it's like a smaller New York--a really busy type of city, definately not my kind of place.

I have to say that I love living in Vancouver. It's a beautiful city, with kind of a relaxed attitude, and a very diverse population. There are so many different people that you really don't feel like a freak, and it's hard to get bored. The climate is very temperate, there is lots of greenery, we have the ocean and mountains. And best of all, there is a huge labour shortage, so people are less picky when it comes to hiring! The only downside is it's expensive, but if you live in shared accomodation, then it's doable.

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29 Mar 2008, 7:59 am

Well I live in Seattle now. It's nice in that it's a lot more laid back than the big east coast cities. Lots of tech jobs. Educated people. It’s also very picturesque on a sunny day with all the surrounding water and mountains. The only bad part is the transportation. Figuring out the bus system is kind of a pain and going anywhere by car is really stressful due to constant traffic jams, confusing streets, and limited parking.

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29 Mar 2008, 8:58 am

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Mind you - if I have anything to do with it, Australia will be the best country in the world for ASD people!

Yeah it's one of them. Along with Canada and UK.

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29 Mar 2008, 9:08 am

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^Exactly.

The South is a bad place for Aspies overall. That's why most of the cities I listed as "worst cities for Aspies" are all Southern cities.

However most of the cities I listed for "best cities" are either a) Canadian cities, and b) West Coast or Northern cities. Why is that?

Except maybe Austin.

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29 Mar 2008, 9:10 am

The worst places, to me, would be the Deep South, or the northern Rockies (ID, MT, WY, etc.).

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29 Mar 2008, 10:11 am

Is North Carolina part of the Deep South?

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29 Mar 2008, 10:25 am

There was a time, that I wanted to live in London. That was before the December of 2005. I'm just happy to be living in Langley, now.

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29 Mar 2008, 12:47 pm

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Is North Carolina part of the Deep South?

Probably not. I keep hearing that North Carolina is becoming more progressive, as is Tennessee.

The Deep South is basically Mississippi and Alabama. Florida and Georgia are, as well, but they are becoming much more diverse.

Texas is quite diverse, but still conservative in that we are heavily influenced by three conservative cultures: the Old South, the Old West, and Mexico.

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29 Mar 2008, 2:04 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:

roygerdodger wrote:

Texas is quite diverse, but still conservative in that we are heavily influenced by three conservative cultures: the Old South, the Old West, and Mexico.

You also forgot that Texas is the most religious state in the Union.

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29 Mar 2008, 2:16 pm

I live in NC. I think it's wonderful they have TEACCH here, but overall I don't really like the south. You can't even get chinese delivered around here, just pizza. It's killin me.

I'd like to hear more about Austin. I think it's a good compromise between my husband's desire to work in a game-development rich city, and for my desire to live in a home I can afford and where it's not friggin cold out all the time.

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29 Mar 2008, 6:38 pm

Well I was kinda of thinking is the LA area a great place for Aspies as well? I used to think it might be, but from what I've heard it's usually filled with rich snobs (who are probably as bad as southern rednecks) and ghetto people, never anyone in between.

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29 Mar 2008, 6:39 pm

Tim_Tex wrote:

Refresh wrote:

Except maybe Austin.

Austin is okay, but it's outskirts are just like the South and the people from those outskirts areas often creep in and visit once in a while.

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29 Mar 2008, 7:49 pm

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I was literally persecuted in a little southern town... set up, jailed, humiliated, completely used by someone I cared greatly for and laughed at by alot of people.. I found out later that they were all laughing and talking behind my back.. I would love to visit Toronto, but I can never even be a citizen of Canada even if I tried, because I was set up to get a DUI..and legally railroaded in a small southern town, just like what happens in some movies I've seen. My record is permanently destroyed unless I can get it somehow expunged. The officer that pulled me over admitted in court that she never saw me swerve not once!! ! and I was 5 miles out of her jurisdiction.. Her police report was a total lie!! It was all based upon a phone call she received from a bar-owner's wife who slipped a shot into my drink.. I found out later that the bar-owner's wife at that bar I had gone to, in order to play a song on the guitar and sing for open mic night, ended up being a FRIEND of that person that used me and purposely broke my heart for a year... they all made fun of me, I thought she was being nice by offering me a beer, ha... I'm so dumb..

She quickly closed the club right after giving me that drink and she suddenly yelled at me outside. Soon thereafter, I was pulled over and utterly humiliated by a sadistic cop that again, NEVER saw me swerve ever... The legal limit used to be .10, but they changed it to .08 . I blew .09... My license was destroyed and honestly, I truly want to emigrate to another country because of what happened to me in the South.. it pretty much destroyed my life, unless I can get into Australia or Canada or some other country that will allow me in with the DUI... I hate NC now. I really feel that I was unfairly persecuted because of my disability... I wish there was some way to get a fair trial or get my record sealed/expunged so I could emigrate to another country sometime in the future... If there was a city in the U.S. that would treat a person with NLD/asperger's fairly and accept them, then I'd like to seriously consider moving there for a while... otherwise, maybe there's someplace in another country that would accept me..

Actually you can go to Canada, you have to request special permission first. Here's some info

http://www.cic.gc.ca/ENGLISH/visit/conviction.asp (Official Government Website)
http://www.wikihow.com/Travel-to-Canada ... ony-Charge
http://www.recordgone.com/articles/ente ... record.htm

Hope this helps. (**** The Deep South!)
http://www.1800duilaws.com/article/travel_to_canada.asp

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29 Mar 2008, 7:57 pm

I find Toronto to be a really cold place. Not the temperature but the people. When I went to Quebec all the people were really friendly compared to Toronto.

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29 Mar 2008, 8:01 pm

Someone tell me their opinion of Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada

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