Athens, Georgia
30 shops in the town centre, all selling variations on a theme of kitch-shit.

Adverts saying 'Evolution makes a monkey out of you and me - Creationism' and 'Jesus Christ is Coming' and 'McCain/Palin' all over town.

A bus service that can take you to either the shittier of the two Wal-Marts, or a shopping centre that makes Peterborough city cemetary look lively and upbeat.

A university which has more than 30,000 students, and is thus best known for its American football team - not for its academic excellence.

30,000 students, of whom roughly 75% have more money than grey matter, and who belong to the myriad sororities and fraternities that line the streets in the wealthy end of town - but since they are students, they don't pay city tax.

Consequently, one of the poorest towns in the South - with massive, dreary, depressing, 'Projects', full of hopeless looking kids, armed to the teeth, and just watching listlessly as the rich white kids swan about in their personalised numberplated SUVs.

But the worst and most utterly rubbish thing about this town - by a long long way - it's dry on sundays. Until you have tried to live in the Deep South, you will never know the full horror of not being able to get a drink on an endless Sunday in November.
( ascorbate, Wed 4 Nov 2009, 10:31, 5 replies)

Plan ahead.
That is all.
( TheFinch is getting to grips with the complex plane on, Wed 4 Nov 2009, 14:00, closed)

'all selling variations on a theme of kitch-shit'
Oi! not all kitch is shit!
(kitch, Wed 4 Nov 2009, 16:45, closed)

40 Watt!
Makes it all worth it.^^
(harrumph, Wed 4 Nov 2009, 17:41, closed)

Two Things
Never been to the place, but a couple of good things spring to mind:-

1) REM

2) B52's

Nuff said, I think!
( The Lone Groover has mal des nuts., Wed 4 Nov 2009, 21:22, closed)

Should've gone to Georgia Tech
Nuff said.
(FleetlordVT, Wed 4 Nov 2009, 22:51, closed)