Thread for people who live in more obscure places

HMV? I wish.

I buy everything online except food. The nearest HMV and WHSmith is about ten miles away.

Worst thing about where I live is the limited choice in cinema, been wanting to see Control and Once. Could go to Leeds (40 miles) to see Control but would probably have to go to Manchester (70 miles) to see Once. As for anything with subtitle, forget it.

This thread is U&K. I may even come out of lurkdom for it. I had to get the train to Bristol (50 miles away) to see Control. Same with any non-entirely-mainstream film. Don't even get me started on gigs.

My American/Canadian friends are amazed when I tell them there are no sushi restaurants in my immediate vicinity.

Orm fucking skirk.

New Yorkers etc you know you want to be here.

end of nowhere to complain about how there isn't a single Japanese restaurant in their town.

There's one just across the street from our shop. Hmm, guess I don't live in an obscure place. :-) But no Gap, no Urban Outfitters, no HMV nor Virgin. And, thank the LORD, no Starsuxors.

My American/Canadian friends are amazed when I tell them there are no sushi restaurants in my immediate vicinity.

Oh c'mon, in some parts of the United States there are no sushi restaurants for hundreds of miles in any direction.

(Meaning, I think this is an urban/rural distinction rather than a UK/US one.)

And they aren't very good sometimes when there are because there's no ocean for hundreds of miles in any direction.

In many, many small towns, villages and hamlets in Oregon, the only thing near to an exotic foreign restaurant is the Chinese-American restaurant where you can eat chow mein (from a can), chow yuk (from another can) and deep-fried (frozen) egg-rolls, or get a child's plate hamburger with limp lettuce on the side, and become equally ill on either one. I have eaten some truly bizarre food in places like Welches, Maupin or Gates.

...served by some very nice waitresses who called me 'honey'. If you are ever in Condon or Fossil, just order a steak or a chop, with potatoes and two veg. Trust me on this.

I don't live in an obscure place (the Gold Coast) but there are no decent record stores at all. I buy all my music online.

I imagine the gold coast is kind of like Florida in the US.

The population of my home town where I grew up is 521 people. I don't think we had any asian people for hundreds of miles.

That is not true.

awww, would've been a nice thread for me about 2 months ago

yeah w4lter, sounds like florida

I live in Toyama, Japan. It's a big enough city that Western food/conveniences are OK but finding decent movies or music is like pulling teeth. Also a visit from friends or family is practically impossible, and a trip home is not particularly cheap.

There are, however, plenty of sushi restaurants (and they are amazing.)

Wau wau rad! You weren't borned in Japan, were you?

I can get anything with a fucking green chile on it. ANYTHING! The new sushi place in town has the "Mesilla Roll" stuffed with green chile and pecans. Celebrating the two local crops in one roll doesn't mean good.

No no, I'm here on the English teaching bandwagon. Noone else on this board lives in Japan?

RIP Momus.

xpost well, my parents live in nakameguro (tokyo).

I think my city is just about the proper size. It's small enough (around 550 000 people I think) to feel cozy and familiar, but big enough to provide a decent variety of movies, record stores, clubs, pubs, etc. I've been to some bigger cities which I've really liked, like Berlin or Budapest, but I'm not sure if I'd want to move there. Of course that may also be because I've lived here all my life, so all my roots have grown in Helsinki.

The only thing lacking here is a record store that'd sell a wide variety of electronic music. We have one that sells all the trendy stuff, and one that sells the more experimental records, but nothing that would sell the stuff that falls between those, like non-trendy techno and house. There used to be a store like that, but it closed down a few years ago.

Oh, I love Helsinki. Yeah that's a cool city. Limerick on the other hand has a population of fifty thousand people.

Helsinki gets bonus points for being nordic and being a capital city. (although the nordic bonus may be a fallacy, Tampere is pretty nice but Kuopio strikes me as the place where black metal band would come from if the churches weren't too damp to burn)

if there is a dreary indie club your town isn't obscure

What if it only opens mondays thursdays and saturdays?

ok I live in Melbourne right now (which is lovely btw), but by 2009, I'll be back in KL, Malaysia. GREAT food and shopping, but absolutely no decent nightlife, music, films, or art. forget gigs altogether. shitty road/transport network too.

then again if you know where to look, there's a couple of pirate DVD sellers with shockingly good taste in films and TV shows, and stock loads of stuff that would otherwise have never made it past the border. Fake Criterion dvds for less than 3 US dollars anyone?

There are no nightclubs, cinemas or decent restaurants in my town. It has no hospital and the nearest book shop is in a shopping mall out of town.

if there is a dreary indie club your town isn't obscure

hehe. my hometown does have coupla indie-esque clubs, i believe - and those ain't even that "dreary" :)

the pop'lation here is about 100 000. wouldn't wanna live in a much bigger place any more i don't think.

Aww rumpie has described my hometown! And people wonder why I didn't hear the Smiths until I was 20 yrs old....

Also: did not have any Chinese food until college, and no Thai/Indian/sushi/anything else until I moved to NYC post-college. lol Midwest.

Update.

Limerick kind of has a sushi place now. It's actually a poncey clothes shop that has obviously been given a lot of money to open (there seems to be this weird pouring in of government money to stop Limerick being left behind even more) and they have a Cafe, which apparently has nori rolls or something. Overpriced excitement, even if it is filled with dreadful middleaged women in overpriced clothes.

Gonna drive the fjords next time I'm home this livin in a city craic makes a fella hanker for some loneliness

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