Cold in the winter,

Hot in the summer,

Trafic jams,

Too many boring people from midwestern states,

I would givegradeC-

So you are in NYC also?!

Not really.

Are we supposed to describe and grade our cities without actually naming them?


My city is sunny for most of the year, has lots of good food, plenty of fine women, fairly new construction, and the cost of living is reasonable.

The only draw backs are it being too goddamn hot and dusty in the summer.

I give it a B

Ok Ahmaad, Minneapolis, MN US.

How Stupid is my city? Hold on to your hats.

First off we built a pyramid.




As you can see, it takes up a huge part of downtown Memphis. This pyramid cost millions of dollars to build around 15 years ago. The guy who "helped" construct it swindled the city out of some money "tagged" on to the cost of building the monstrosity and skipped town. Plus we had not finished paying for it. THen we got an NBA team that wanted a bigger stadium.

In our infinite wisdom of owning a pyramid, no one ever thought that you cannot expand the seating in a pyramid since the pyramid gets tighter the higer you go versus an oval stadium which can be expanded outward.

So we go and build FedEx Forum for the NBA team and now have two stadiums and no ones uses the pyramid, but oh does the stupidity stop? Noo it doesn't

The FedEx forum now reserves the right to host all events in Memphis that would normally be held at the pyramid in the event of an overflow at the FedEx forum. Meaning if a rap concert and a country concert wanted to be held on the same day, one of them could be rebuked by the FedEx Forum without considering moving the other concert to the Pyramid at all.

It costs the city $500,000 a year just to keep the lights on in the place which is currently empty at the moment. To top it off, after spending all this money on stadiums, they laid off close to 2,000 people that work for the city a couple of weeks ago, including police captains and are claiming that they will not have enough money for the school system and are threatening to close a few schools now. Hmm where are our priorities.

The funny part about all of this? I have not even gotten into our politics of how a couple of local politicians have been in the media like common thugs. That is another long post. LOL

That Pyramid does look cool though...

Come to London and see our Dome. That cost £900m ($1.8bn) of taxpayers money, ran for one year, and now lies dormant costing the tax payer £0.5m per month in running costs on an empty tent...

Now THAT'S a waster of money...

Here is another waste public money, no one will be playing itafter two years.

@ Love Daddy

What is that dome used for? IT looks like a dead arachnid or shellfish LOL

What? That has got to be the UGLIEST dome that I've ever seen!!!
But I live in jersey city and we have to be one of the biggest cities (300,000 at least) that dont have a stadium or basketball arena(They depend wayyyy too much on NYC). Jersey City is a very densely populated, place with nothing in it. Let me tell you something else that is stupid about my city. The PATH train can take someone from Neighboring Newark, making stops in Jersey City, and will also take you through 4 stops from Christoper Street to 33rd Street (midtown Manhatten) for $1.50. If you take the NYC subway, which goes along the same route (NYC stops only), you will be charged 2 dollars. Makes alot of sense to me!!!

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