Rhode Island

Steve Dunne

suppafreak wrote:

Thanks for the info guys....

Anyone/anything else?

I'm starting to feel a little better about this.

I think...

there's a dunkin donuts at every stoplight. or so it seems in warwick.

AnnaMelinda

Stone Is God wrote:

Yeah, if you don't know how to drive like a jerk, I suggest you learn.

I'm from Long Island.

I could teach you all a thing or two about driving like a jerk.

Long Islanders bring it to a whole new level....



I must learn of this coffee milk.

AnnaMelinda

I love being able to walk to buy my overpriced yet delicious coffee and coffee drinks.

Feeling better....

riffrandall

Um.. no, you really cannot walk everywhere in Providence. You can walk everywhere on the East Side of Providence, but Providence as it is now is not a walkable city.

Providence as a city is just OK. I wouldn't go crazy over the music scene. Back in the mid-90s when Lupos and the Strand were both in full effect, it was different but now the best you'll see is one visit per year from a band like Spoon.
Providence does have a decent social scene. It's liveable. Again, though, just OK.

If you're going to live anywhere in the state, look at places like East Side of Providence (not to be confused with East Providence which is not the same thing AT ALL), or Barrington (which is dry, be warned), Newport, North Kingstown or the Edgewood section of Cranston. These are the places where you'll at least find sensible zoning & some thought into how the town was laid out. Yes, there are a handful more, but not many. Certainly not Smithfield, or Johnston, or Providence as it runs near PC. Stay as far away from Woonsocket & the mutants who live there as you possibly can.

A word about Rhode Island.
It's still 1965 there. People are REALLY stuck in their ways, more so than anywhere else probably in the country. I grew up in RI, lived there 20+ years, moved away a few years ago, family still lives there. I go all the time. I know what I'm talking about.
People get jobs there & they never leave them. I mean NEVER. You'll find people who have had the same job since the early 60's- and they are not rare.
They don't leave the state, they don't drive longer than 10 minutes without thinking they have to stay someplace overnight.
Nothing EVER changes in that state. Except big businesses like Fidelity keep coming for the tax break, which gives the recent grads someplace to go play during the day & marry the girl in the next cubicle & live happily ever after.

Stone Is God

riffrandall wrote:

They don't leave the state, they don't drive longer than 10 minutes without thinking they have to stay someplace overnight.

Now that's 100% true. LOL.

Steve Dunne

riffrandall wrote:

A word about Rhode Island.
It's still 1965 there. People are REALLY stuck in their ways, more so than anywhere else probably in the country. I grew up in RI, lived there 20+ years, moved away a few years ago, family still lives there. I go all the time. I know what I'm talking about.
People get jobs there & they never leave them. I mean NEVER. You'll find people who have had the same job since the early 60's- and they are not rare.
They don't leave the state, they don't drive longer than 10 minutes without thinking they have to stay someplace overnight.
Nothing EVER changes in that state. Except big businesses like Fidelity keep coming for the tax break, which gives the recent grads someplace to go play during the day & marry the girl in the next cubicle & live happily ever after.

this is funny shit right here! and true!!!