Oh, good... at least one of you live in a proper city. It might be the unbearable heat making people insane, or the fact the University of Phoenix is garbage, but somehow Arizona urban centers are tolerable. I wouldn't mind living in Arizona, but giving up winter is a cruel thing...
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#21
Posted 06 June 2013 - 03:53 PM
#22
Posted 06 June 2013 - 08:02 PM
University of Phoenix is just another online program that just happens to have its headquarters here. We still have ASU (actually, it's in Tempe, but that's still pretty much Phoenix), which is half-decent, although they also take anyone who applies. Its rankings have been steadily climbing over the past few years, though. As far as losing winter, we have a habit of turning air conditioning on so high that some people need sweaters.
Edited by CIL, 06 June 2013 - 08:05 PM.
#23
Posted 06 June 2013 - 10:46 PM
I feel like I'm trying to be convinced to move to Arizona... Ohhhhhh... fine. But we can only be super best buddies if we have matching jammies
#24
Posted 07 June 2013 - 01:36 AM
You don't want to burn move here. My left arm sunburns while driving.
#25
Posted 07 June 2013 - 02:29 AM
That sounds terrible. Not as bad as Dil's hometown, but it does sound terrible.
#26
Posted 07 June 2013 - 05:05 AM
if we have matching jammies
I confess, I thought you said jimmies, and I thought 'eww, not nice'.
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#27
Posted 07 June 2013 - 09:38 PM
Sounds like a plan for our next thread
Beyond that, a nice sunset but I prefer it where I am. anything above 25 makes me feel like I should be out picking cottons and getting whipped. We have many Norwegians who travel to Spain to their summer-houses there, blasphemy I say.
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#28
Posted 07 June 2013 - 11:50 PM
Oh wow, Dukie... I never heard you be so delightfully racist.
#29
Posted 08 June 2013 - 12:34 AM
Figured that would get your goat. Dunno what's so racist about that really, going out in the fields in hot weather picking cotton seems like slave labor no matter what color of your skin to me
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#30
Posted 08 June 2013 - 01:43 AM
We all know it's a negro thing. It's silly to deny it.
#31
Posted 10 March 2014 - 07:33 PM
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#32
Posted 22 March 2014 - 05:48 PM
I live in Arnhem, the capital of the province Gelderland in the east of the Netherlands. It's a short distance from Mathijs' Nijmegen, with which it forms a "metropolitan area" (Wikipedia's words, don't expect something London or New York sized). We mostly get along, except for the fans of our respective football clubs.
Arnhem was first mentioned as such in 893 as Arneym or Arentheym. The oldest archeological findings of human activity around Arnhem are two firestones of about 70,000 years ago. The earliest settlement in Arnhem dates from 1500 BC, where traces have been found on the Hoogkamp, where the Van Goyenstraat is currently located. In the inner city, around the Sint-Jansbeek, traces of settlement have been found from around 700 BC, while the first traces south of the Rhine have been found dating around 500 BC, in the Schuytgraaf.
The city of Arnhem had its real origins in 1233 when Otto II, count of Guelders from Zutphen, conferred city rights on the town, which had belonged to the abbey of Prüm, settled in, and fortified it. Arnhem entered the Hanseatic League in 1443. In 1473, it was captured by Charles the Bold of Burgundy. In 1514, Charles of Egmond, duke of Guelders, took it from the dukes of Burgundy; in 1543, it fell to the emperor Charles V. As capital of the so-called "Kwartier van Veluwe" it joined the Union of Utrecht in 1579 and became part of the Republic of the Seven United Provinces of the Netherlands in 1585. The French occupied the town 1672–74; from 1795 to 1813, it was reoccupied by the French, by both revolutionary and imperial forces.
In the 19th century, Arnhem was a genteel resort town famous for its picturesque beauty. It was known as "het Haagje van het oosten" (The Little Hague of the East), mainly because a number of rich former sugar barons or planters from the Indies settled there, as they did in The Hague. Even now the city is famous for its parks and greenery. The urbanization in the north on hilly terrain is also quite unusual for the Netherlands.
In World War II, during Operation Market Garden (September 1944), the British 1st Airborne Division and the Polish 1st Independent Parachute Brigade were given the task of securing the bridge at Arnhem. The units were parachuted and glider-landed into the area on 17 September and later. The bulk of the force was dropped rather far from the bridge and never met their objective. A small force of British 1st Airborne managed to make their way as far as the bridge but was unable to secure both sides. The Allied troops encountered stiff resistance from the German 9th and 10th SS Panzerdivisions, which had been stationed in and around the city.
The British force at the bridge eventually ran out of ammunition and were captured on 21 September, and a full withdrawal of the remaining forces was made on 26 September. These events were dramatized in the 1977 movie A Bridge Too Far. (The bridge scenes in the movie were shot in Deventer, where a similar bridge over the IJssel was available, as the area around Arnhem bridge had changed too much to represent WWII era Arnhem). As a tribute, the rebuilt bridge was renamed 'John Frost-bridge' after the commander of the paratroopers. The official commemoration is 17 September.
A second battle of Arnhem took place in April 1945 when the city was liberated by the British 49th (West Riding) Infantry Division of the First Canadian Army.
I've studied, then worked, here for nearly 8 years now, but I've only been living there since 2 years. I had originally planned to live in Nijmegen, but an opportunity showed up where I could take over the room of a colleague who was skipping town, so I moved to Arnhem.
In hindsight, I'm glad for it. Living just a few minutes cycling distance from work and friend-colleagues is great. And if you can't be with the one you love, love the one you're with. The city and its environment are very green and, unlike most of the Netherlands, rather hilly. It also has one of the world's best zoos, for which I have a year-long entry pass.
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#33
Posted 22 March 2014 - 06:59 PM
I have a year-long entry pass to Burger's as well!
Arnhem & Nijmegen are the best places to live in the Netherlands, imo.
No fuel left for the pilgrims
#34
Posted 22 March 2014 - 07:16 PM
Apparently the Netherlands is the best place in the world to live, considering everyone there is an official millionaire
#35
Posted 22 March 2014 - 07:21 PM
I sure wish that were the case.
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#36
Posted 23 March 2014 - 06:37 AM
I've always wanted to go there, from what I've seen here and elsewhere it looks very attractive a destination. Also, the place names sound pretty nice, too.
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#37
Posted 23 March 2014 - 05:35 PM
I'll even admit that it's actually a place I would't mind visiting. That's a strong sentiment since I strongly believe Canada is the only place in the world worth visiting. The English speaking side, anyway.
#38
Posted 25 June 2014 - 09:06 PM
This could only ever be in the UK.
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#39
Posted 25 June 2014 - 09:08 PM
The top or bottom set of pictures?
#40
Posted 25 June 2014 - 09:11 PM
Top.
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