Where do the mac heads live?

[MacAztec]

I am a total mac head, and I live in Palm Springs, California. I was wondering where everyone else is from, and if they have ever been here. Does anyone live near this place?

[eyelikeart]

New Orleans.....of course it's in my description...

I've visited caliornia but never had the pleasure to live out there :(

[newmanium]

Glendale, california ROCKS!! :: hangs head in shame::

[teabgs]

You can see where a lot of people are from just by looking at their info or postings.

I went to CA once. I had a lot of fun, not sure if I'd want to live there, but if that's where I get a job I like or something similar I'd move.

I'm a East coast man, just can't understand some things on the west coast...like high school "campuses" and pools everywhere, and no snow. Weird...though Steve lives their...thats cool, I'd like to visit him. :)

[MacAztec]

Originally posted by teabgs
You can see where a lot of people are from just by looking at their info or postings.

I went to CA once. I had a lot of fun, not sure if I'd want to live there, but if that's where I get a job I like or something similar I'd move.

I'm a East coast man, just can't understand some things on the west coast...like high school "campuses" and pools everywhere, and no snow. Weird...though Steve lives their...thats cool, I'd like to visit him. :)

Haha. There are swimming pools everywhere because where I live, it gets up to 135 degrees in the summer!

[krossfyter]

a gay arse town called kingsville texas....near corpus christi.


by the way eyelikeart...what school do you go to?

[Rower_CPU]

San Diego baby! Gotta love these 70 - 80 degree days we've been having...[gloating]

[Rower_CPU]

I love it, but the traffic is getting to be almost as bad as where you are;) .

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by krossfyter
a gay arse town called kingsville texas....near corpus christi.

by the way eyelikeart...what school do you go to?

I'm attending the University of New Orleans (UNO)...

currently I'm seeing how the schools are in Oklahoma City for my move later this year....

btw....yes being connected through a school network will affect others being able to access your system... ;)

[Beej]

Melbourne Australia. Or Mel-borne Or-strail-ee-ah as everyone in the US seems to like to call it. It rocks here. Aussies rule :)

(Come on Aussies, back me up!) ;)

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by eyelikeart


I'm attending the University of New Orleans (UNO)...

currently I'm seeing how the schools are in Oklahoma City for my move later this year....

btw....yes being connected through a school network will affect others being able to access your system... ;)

How about a sub-thread: What schools do the mac heads attend?

I'm a part-time student at San Diego State University, getting my BA in French, minor in Spanish. I'll be entering the Master's degree program in Educational Technology this fall.
BTW, I do work full-time as the head tech for a language lab, so don't think my user info is bogus.:p

[Gelfin]

Considering I'm in San Francisco, I'm sure there's a joke to be made about "gay arse" towns, but I'm too sleepy to come up with it right now.

[Gelfin]

Originally posted by Beej
Melbourne Australia. Or Mel-borne Or-strail-ee-ah as everyone in the US seems to like to call it.

Yeah, silly us. Of course it's MEHLbun AhSTRAILyer. ;)

[iapple]

I'm a Japanese Mac user, in Yokohama to be precise. We've been Mac users since the Color Classic II, Performas, Power Macintosh, and we now have two iBook 500s, a Powerbook G4 667, and an older iMac 333MHz Blueberry.

Japan has far less apps for Mac than the US, so I get many of my apps from the net, but it's painful since I only have a 56k dialup... (IT'S HELL!!!) but next month I'll be getting DSL!!! HORRAY!!

Anyway, I wish they would open retail stores in Japan too... The corner of stores with Macs are SAD!! There's one Powermac with Mac OSX 10.0.3 (NOT EVEN 10.1, those PC freaks!) with hardly any mouse space!

But I put up with it, because I believe Macs are the best, and I'm not going to give into the Windows XP taunting every time I walk in a PC store! I am a music guy, and Macs are the way to go! I know! Also, the Firewire and video stuff on the Mac is the best! A Dell at school has an IEEE 1394 port, but it doesn't work with Adobe Premier (NO SOUND!!!) We worked with it for an hour, but nothing happened... And next door in the music studio (these jerks use a Mac for music, but a PC for video! they're nuts!) a music teacher is editing footage on iMovie! It was like an Apple commercial, in real life!

[iflyguns]

Virginia normally, right now in Kosovo.

[resm]

originaly from Switzerland living since 1980 in South East Asia and for the last 10 years in Singapore.

and you bet its warm here :D

[GyroFX]

San Diego, attending UCSD. I'm a third year student majoring in Media.

[irmongoose]

tokyo, to be precise. i am fully indian (as in from india), but I have lived here all my life. And I go to a catholic school (im not catholic), and have been brought up in an american environment... so i know all 3 cultures. I can also speak all 3 languages perfectly (Hindi, Japanese, English)... although I need to get some typing lessons...:p

By the way, you japanese macheads out there, if you're ever in Roppongi, drop by some time.:)






irmongoose

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by Rower_CPU
How about a sub-thread: What schools do the mac heads attend?

I'm a part-time student at San Diego State University, getting my BA in French, minor in Spanish. I'll be entering the Master's degree program in Educational Technology this fall.
BTW, I do work full-time as the head tech for a language lab, so don't think my user info is bogus.:p

I'm returning to school after a 4 year exile...unfortunate for me I screwed a round lots while I was younger....but I suppose it makes for a more serious attitude the second time around? ;)

so what exactly is educational technology?

[Macmaniac]

As my thing says, A tiny Spec in New Jersey! Near Trenton:)

[Taft]

I live in Chicago working for a firm trading options, commodities and futures.

I went to school at Michigan Technological University and studied pure computer science (not that I'm being an 'pure' elitest here, I just mean not management information systems or the likes--just pure CS) with a focus in mathematics.

Matthew

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by eyelikeart


I'm returning to school after a 4 year exile...unfortunate for me I screwed a round lots while I was younger....but I suppose it makes for a more serious attitude the second time around? ;)

so what exactly is educational technology?

Good question, eye. EdTech started out as WWII video training lessons in the '40s, and has progressed from there into everything from corporate training to software design for kindergarteners.
We learn everything from analysis of learning problems to studying motivation and environmental problems. And when we're not stuck with theory, we get to do some hands-on multimedia design.

[eyelikeart]

my girlfriend has a double minor....one part being in Spanish....she got to spend some time in Salemanca in the summer of 2000 which she really enjoyed....

educational technology sounds like it can be quite a bit interesting...

my next question is....what are u going to do with it? :cool:

[Ensign Paris]

I originally come from Sussex in England but now I live in Yorkshire (still in England)

Ensign

[theranch]

actually... New Jersey...near Atlantic City.

[Mighty Mac]

I am from a suburb of Boston, MA. and Went to Northeastern University for a 5 yr. Accounting program.

Recently changed Mac head started loving Apple in '97

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by mrtrumbe
I live in Chicago working for a firm trading options, commodities and futures.

I went to school at Michigan Technological University and studied pure computer science (not that I'm being an 'pure' elitest here, I just mean not management information systems or the likes--just pure CS) with a focus in mathematics.

Matthew

i love it...that is life

i studied business (personnel management field to be precise...like catbert) and now i work in the IT field...exactly the opposite as you...too funny

many CS people go to business and many business people go to CS, it's all where the need is at the time...but i live just south of the silicon valley region so people who studied french medieval history are running hp and people who dropped out of high school are sometimes making 200,000 per year (no million a year salaries since the dot.com bust, though...people actually have to work for their money...a new concept in the valley ;-)

btw - were you a software CS major as in the programming languages or a computer engineering major as in networking, circuitboards, and electronics?

i plan to take the elctronics and networking route in my graduate school studies and right now i am studying cisco stuff and all that wiring and talk of electrons is really a drag, but i need it in preparation to be a network techie on the hardware side of things in grad school and in the working world (where i hope to honestly offer my services as a network administrator)

[voicegy]

Native San Diegan here...

Hiya GyroFX! Hiya Rower_CPU!

Network Systems and Media Support for the Educational Technology Department of San Diego City Schools.

This is fun!

(gee, these posts lately have gotten so personal! "What's your religion, Where do you live?" What's next...what's your Sign?):p



(Aries)

[jefhatfield]

hey voice,

my brother was born in northern california but i think he wishes he was a "native" of san diego...why do i think so?

1) he spent 8 years at san diego state purposely not finishing a degree so he could stay down there

2) he took up volleyball so he can get entrenched in the san diego culture...he took it so far as to be "double a" and befriended most of the world's best players so he can have another reason to live in san diego...his collection of volleyball jerseys actually has the sweat of the players on it

3) he moved to santa cruz up here in northern california and handily beat all the players there and came back to san diego because he says "there are no good players in northern california"...well, there would be if it didn't rain so much, you know

4) now he just bought a condo so now he has to stay in san diego

do you think san diego is that cool? i have only visited there for a few days as a little kid in the 70s to visit all the old ships

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by eyelikeart
my girlfriend has a double minor....one part being in Spanish....she got to spend some time in Salemanca in the summer of 2000 which she really enjoyed....

educational technology sounds like it can be quite a bit interesting...

my next question is....what are u going to do with it? :cool:

Another good question. Right now I prefer the hands on design and development rather than analysis and evaluation. As time goes on, that might change, but for now nothing makes me happier than web design and digital video production.

'Sup to voicegy and GyroFX!

[jefhatfield]

wait, is everybody from san diego?

there is a san diego conspiracy going on here

[Rower_CPU]

SD ownz j00!!! We are 3L337 haXors!
All your base are belong to us!!!

sorry...had to do that...:D

[GyroFX]

this is pretty funny...as if we're in a chat room...

also wuts up to my people of SD...voicegy and Rower_CPU

I'm actually from los Angeles, just down here for college...for the last 3 years...

i'm into graphic desgin, video editing, web based design, and stuff like that.

[Gelfin]

Bay Area: Nice
San Diego: Nice
In between there's this big chunk of urban dystopia that just needs to be scoured from the earth. I think you SD folks should do it. You're closer.

[Quark]

I primarily reside in Houston, but I have homes-away-from-home in South Padre Island, Austin, and Corpus Christi.

NOT DALLAS!! :mad: :p

I desperately hope that Apple opens up some more store here in Texas!

Steve, we need you here!

Take Care,
Quark

[Taft]

Originally posted by jefhatfield


i love it...that is life

i studied business (personnel management field to be precise...like catbert) and now i work in the IT field...exactly the opposite as you...too funny


Hehe. There is a lot of crossover. Though I still do a lot of programming. I do research and development and trading tool design...stuff like that. Though since working at a couple of firms in this field I have started thinking about trading. Ever play the trading game? Fun stuff.

I was a software-type CS major. I have an affinity towards mathematics and was able to do a lot of math while getting my degree. I could learn math and program at the same time. I was never very into the hardware design, electrical engineering part of computers. Though I did enjoy designing a RISK chip in the computer architecture class I took...

There are just too many fun things to do in the technology arena! I could have stayed in school forever!

Matthew

[edgecurve]

I live in Seattle and am one of many Mac users here. This can be seen daily from the many people that take their Mac into one of the many Cafe Ladro's around town.

[King Cobra]

I live in Bergen County, N.J. (more specifically in Montvale) and my family and I have a house here that we plan to sell for $300000. Right now, we have an apartment in Maine along the coast, and we are trying to see if we can purchase another house in Sweden, Maine, for $140000. (Yes, it?s beside Denmark and London and Paris, by a coincidence.)

Right now, I am being educated at Pascack Hills in Montvale and I plan to take Math and Science courses at the University of Southern Maine, eventually, to teach there.

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by King Cobra
I live in Bergen County, N.J. (more specifically in Montvale) and my family and I have a house here that we plan to sell for $300000. Right now, we have an apartment in Maine along the coast, and we are trying to see if we can purchase another house in Sweden, Maine, for $140000. (Yes, it?s beside Denmark and London and Paris, by a coincidence.)

Right now, I am being educated at Pascack Hills in Montvale and I plan to take Math and Science courses at the University of Southern Maine, eventually, to teach there.

why do u feel the need to tell us the prices of your homes?

I'm not knocking u.....just curious as to why it's necessary....I'm sure they would prefer not knowing.....

[blakespot]

Alexandria, VA here.


blakespot

[rastalin94]

In 1993 I moved from a Chicago Suburb to Champaign/Urbana to go to the University of Illinois. I was using Mosaic in 1993 at the library and had no idea I was using a piece of software that was going to change life as we know it. I graduated in 1998 with a degree in Metallurgical Engineering and have been stuck in this damn town since. Of course I decided against working in a steel mill and have been doing network admin stuff for the past four years.

[krossfyter]

im sitting over here cracking up on ....eyelikearts response to king cobras post of the prices of the houses. its just too funny man. i cant contain myself. haha! i mean im not laughing at king cobra im laughing at the post. im sure king cobra is a cool kid and all....all too often he has provided us with a break from the norm here on this posts. ... too funny man.


im cool with you king cobra. rock on!

[Backtothemac]

Tuscaloosa Alabama, home of the Crimson Tide.

Hey eyes, I used to live in the quarter, man do I miss it. My wife is from Lafayette, so I still get the great cooking :p

[King Cobra]

Originally posted by eyelikeart


why do u feel the need to tell us the prices of your homes?

I'm not knocking u.....just curious as to why it's necessary....I'm sure they would prefer not knowing.....

The chain was that in a year and a half we are going to sell our house and move to Maine.

[Gelfin]

Originally posted by King Cobra
I live in Bergen County, N.J. (more specifically in Montvale) and my family and I have a house here that we plan to sell for $300000. Right now, we have an apartment in Maine along the coast, and we are trying to see if we can purchase another house in Sweden, Maine, for $140000. (Yes, it?s beside Denmark and London and Paris, by a coincidence.)

Bay Area interpretation: So you say your parents are trying to sell their shipping crate and get a cardboard refrigerator box?

No, I don't have any hope that I'll be able to buy a house anytime soon, even though what I pay in rent would almost cover mortgage payments on your $300K house. Yes, I'm bitter about this. Biggest downside to living in what's otherwise a great place. :(

[krossfyter]

and im assuming here that eyelikearts response would be like so:


yes by why mention the prices of the houses?:D

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by Gelfin


Bay Area interpretation: So you say your parents are trying to sell their shipping crate and get a cardboard refrigerator box?

No, I don't have any hope that I'll be able to buy a house anytime soon, even though what I pay in rent would almost cover mortgage payments on your $300K house. Yes, I'm bitter about this. Biggest downside to living in what's otherwise a great place. :(

I hear you, SD is almost as bad.

[King Cobra]

Originally posted by Gelfin


Bay Area interpretation: So you say your parents are trying to sell their shipping crate and get a cardboard refrigerator box?

No, I don't have any hope that I'll be able to buy a house anytime soon, even though what I pay in rent would almost cover mortgage payments on your $300K house. Yes, I'm bitter about this. Biggest downside to living in what's otherwise a great place. :(

Actually, it's quite the opposite, if you must know. Our house in NJ is rather small and is in crowded areas, so its value goes up. The cheaper house in Maine is surprisingly much bigger, but it is in a less crowded area. So its value is rather cheap.

[mischief]

Median house price in Santa Cruz county is $650,000.00 if I leave off anything over 1.5 Million. Most of these are 3/2 crapola too BTW.:eek:

Spare a Mercedes for a down payment? Anyone?:confused: :rolleyes: ;) :D

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by mrtrumbe


Hehe. There is a lot of crossover. Though I still do a lot of programming. I do research and development and trading tool design...stuff like that. Though since working at a couple of firms in this field I have started thinking about trading. Ever play the trading game? Fun stuff.

I was a software-type CS major. I have an affinity towards mathematics and was able to do a lot of math while getting my degree. I could learn math and program at the same time. I was never very into the hardware design, electrical engineering part of computers. Though I did enjoy designing a RISK chip in the computer architecture class I took...

There are just too many fun things to do in the technology arena! I could have stayed in school forever!

Matthew

my cousin went directly to new york and was a commodities broker right after high school since his draft number was favorable and he didn't have to go to vietnam...he told me it was so stressful he vomited blood so i have been turned off at the idea of being in the market

...and i saw that movie "boiler room" with ben affleck, vin diesel, and giovanni ribisi about trading...my buddy from high school was that guy...when he was also right out of high school, he was selling oil futures (or something like that) and his firm were just a bunch of young stock broker hackers and the fbi shut them down and handcuffed everyone to scare them but instantly released them...i don't think those people were series 7 if you know what i mean...but huge money though...while it lasted...people who were practically illiterate (you should have seen these traders) were buying sports cars with cash and they were making $3600 a successful call which was once a day at least for most of the traders

[Gelfin]

Originally posted by Backtothemac
Tuscaloosa Alabama, home of the Crimson Tide.

Heh. I grew up near Auburn. I think this means we're supposed to growl and bristle at each other now or something.

(No, I didn't attend Auburn. When I was in school, Auburn didn't waste their money on frivolous non-football-related things like academic scholarships.)

[jefhatfield]

that's a pity since auburn is a great academic school

...but on the national level, the football team is one of the best around thus the focus on football

georgetown is a great school, too and bill clinton went there, but georgetown is far more well know for its sports and the hoya's logo is one of the favorite logo's of california gang bangers as is the san jose sharks and oakland raider's logo

now wouldn't it be strange if one day street gangs wore apple logos? they did that thing with mercedes emblems so who knows who will be the next victim?

[theranch]

Originally posted by King Cobra
I live in Bergen County, N.J. (more specifically in Montvale) and my family and I have a house here that we plan to sell for $300000. Right now, we have an apartment in Maine along the coast, and we are trying to see if we can purchase another house in Sweden, Maine, for $140000. (Yes, it?s beside Denmark and London and Paris, by a coincidence.)

Right now, I am being educated at Pascack Hills in Montvale and I plan to take Math and Science courses at the University of Southern Maine, eventually, to teach there.

Exactly eyelikeart...is that a North Jersey thing or a Bergen County thing where you have to keep up with the joneses so much that now you carry that into posts? Who cares how much you are selling your house for?:confused:

[jefhatfield]

i find it interesting since i live in silicon valley where the land was cheap, then got really expensive, then crashed again and realtors in northern california have no idea how much to sell houses for

rents are crazily varying to diffrent degrees where a small apartment could go for more than a house in the same city and neighborhood!?!

beside being a techie, i manage rental property

the whole industry is confused because of our confused IT industry which shook things up and shook things down...way down

what are rents like y'all in the rest of america...say for a 1 bedroom apt up to a 3 bedroom house? real estate prices?

ps- steve's little imac in cupertino greatly affected property value in that city and nearby areas...apple was used as a financial health barometer by some

[Quark]

Originally posted by mrtrumbe

... Though I did enjoy designing a RISK chip in the computer architecture class I took...

There are just too many fun things to do in the technology arena! I could have stayed in school forever!



Hey Mrtrumbe, are you sure you went to school for this and designed a "RISK" chip.

Reduced Instruction Set... uhmmmmm.... Komputing?

Or do you mean it was a game that you were designing the little pieces for on the computer. Sorry if I misunderstood.

Hey... ;) just given you a hard time.

Take it easy,.... whooaaa!!! Stop it,... I... arrrrrgggghhhh!!!!!

...and so Quark was never heard from again, but sometimes I swear I can hear someone whispering "risk" in the wind....

[eyelikeart]

Originally posted by mischief
Median house price in Santa Cruz county is $650,000.00 if I leave off anything over 1.5 Million. Most of these are 3/2 crapola too BTW.:eek:

Spare a Mercedes for a down payment? Anyone?:confused: :rolleyes: ;) :D

ha ha ha.....ok I guess I set myself up on this....I just didn't feel like he had to mention on 2 threads the price of his house....it seemed kinda pointless & like he was trying to prove something to us...

I'll back off......glad krossfyter & mischief got a kick out of it! :p

[MacAztec]

Originally posted by Gelfin
Bay Area: Nice
San Diego: Nice
In between there's this big chunk of urban dystopia that just needs to be scoured from the earth. I think you SD folks should do it. You're closer.

Hey buster! I live in a desert. It is actually nice ncie nice nice nice. 360 days of sun during the year. The low in winter is around 38, high around 75. DIfferent story in the summer. high is 135, low is maybe 90

[Gelfin]

Originally posted by Mac_User


Hey buster! I live in a desert. It is actually nice ncie nice nice nice. 360 days of sun during the year. The low in winter is around 38, high around 75. DIfferent story in the summer. high is 135, low is maybe 90

Hey, so maybe Palm Springs is far enough outside of town to be somewhat shielded from the Rays of Evil, in which case you should be banding together with your SD brothers to the south. ;)

[mymemory]

Ok, I'm from Caracas, Venezuela. I have been in LA for 2 days only. It was strange for me that the ocean was on the other side.

I made my senior year in Arkansas (as a exchange student) and it was the worst year of my live. My town had 5.000 people and I came from a city of 8 million. Not to much to do, friday night we got togather at the Mac Donalds until 10pm. My prom party finished at 10:30 PM (and I didn't get laid). At that party the teachers didn't let us dance togather like "very tight". But as I was an exchange student with a girl from germany they let me.
My first host mom kicked me out of the house because I didn't want to sing at the church any more (I had to go to church 3 times a week).
So, after a year, when I came back to my country I was so upset to the world that I locked my self in my room for 3 years, just working with midi, samplers, sintesis and every single thing related with electronic music. Until I got so horny that went out to find a girl.
Then I felt so in love and I liked her so much than I want another, and then other, and then other.... until I couln't stand 3 girls at same time.
Then I moved to Orlando FL, and I meet Sarah Michelle Gellar, but I wasn't horny any more, and I had a crush on her for 3 years!. Then I came back to Venezuela and I saw this girl and we have been togather for 3 years now. She lives with me now, and we may get married some time.
Ahhh, she likes Macs too.
:p

[Ifeelbloated]

I live in God--forsaken Connecticut. Will be leaving soon though.

[jefhatfield]

Originally posted by mymemory
Ok, I'm from Caracas, Venezuela. I have been in LA for 2 days only. It was strange for me that the ocean was on the other side.

I made my senior year in Arkansas (as a exchange student) and it was the worst year of my live. My town had 5.000 people and I came from a city of 8 million. Not to much to do, friday night we got togather at the Mac Donalds until 10pm. My prom party finished at 10:30 PM (and I didn't get laid). At that party the teachers didn't let us dance togather like "very tight". But as I was an exchange student with a girl from germany they let me.
My first host mom kicked me out of the house because I didn't want to sing at the church any more (I had to go to church 3 times a week).
So, after a year, when I came back to my country I was so upset to the world that I locked my self in my room for 3 years, just working with midi, samplers, sintesis and every single thing related with electronic music. Until I got so horny that went out to find a girl.
Then I felt so in love and I liked her so much than I want another, and then other, and then other.... until I couln't stand 3 girls at same time.
Then I moved to Orlando FL, and I meet Sarah Michelle Gellar, but I wasn't horny any more, and I had a crush on her for 3 years!. Then I came back to Venezuela and I saw this girl and we have been togather for 3 years now. She lives with me now, and we may get married some time.
Ahhh, she likes Macs too.
:p

SARAH MICHELLE GELLAR, from i know what you did last summer?

that's so cool...my wife looks a lot like jennifer love hewitt and twelve years old boys used to trip over themselves and we didn't know what was up...then one day my best friend loaned me the movie and we thought it was too funny...big forehead, long brown hair and all...it was creepy, not the movie, but the resemblance

[ryme4reson]

I am from a little town in Northern California. Not much going on up there, although we do have some computer companies. We have crappy Compac, and HP has a campus but we have another company, Apple! The town I live in is Cupertino CA!!!!! Yeah, lol I have a few friends that work at Apple, and when I was in High School me and my ex (Her father was an Apple HW engineer) would go to the Mariani Ave. Apple parking lot late at night to "talk" :). Now Im in the Military and I am studying Computer Science in Shreveport Louisiana, but I am getting out of the AF in May and planning to finish my degree at San Jose St. while once again residing in the beautiful town of Cupertino. Is there anyone else in here from Cupertino?

[Rower_CPU]

I would stalk...err, follow Steve Jobs around until he gave me a job. Any job.

The RDF must be pretty strong up there so close to ground zero!

[chmorley]

Came here for grad school and stayed. Originally grew up in Colts Neck, NJ.

I didn't realize there were so many Mac folks here until the day the Apple store opened. It opened the same day as a new "lifestyle center" (read: mall). I thought the line around the corner was for the GAP store or some such thing. Turns out, people were lining up for hours to try to get a free t-shirt. Pretty cool.

Any other folks from the Rockies?

Chris

[MacAztec]

Originally posted by Gelfin


Hey, so maybe Palm Springs is far enough outside of town to be somewhat shielded from the Rays of Evil, in which case you should be banding together with your SD brothers to the south. ;)

Haha. I think it would be awesome on MWSF if all the Mac Heads from MacRumors would meet up and spend the day fiddling around at that wonderful expo. Maybe we should all pitch in and make a macrumors booth! ;)

[teabgs]

I think New York is better. Not just because I live here, but because I could more easily afford it. hehehe...actually I could goto MWSF if someone could put me up.


UNRELATED SIDE NOTE: Anybody watch "The Osbournes" on MTV tonight? I thought it was great, seeing Ozzy as a father. Thats what My family should be like. With A bunch of Macs all over the house though...

[jefhatfield]

i thought ozzy was evil and therefore should be using a pc, i guess even the king of satanic metal must have a creative side to his spirit if he uses macs

[Gelfin]

Oh, I don't think Ozzy's evil any more than Alice Cooper or Marilyn Manson. You know, except insofar as you consider it evil to realize that there's a lot of money to be made in convincing teenage weenies that you're something their parents would really object to. :)

[Rower_CPU]

These guys are very successful at being controversial. Ozzy bit the heads off of bats on stage. Manson plays with sexuality and religion. They get attention. They make lots of money.
Sounds like the American Dream to me.

[krossfyter]

ozzy is not satanic.

deiocide...not thats a satanic band.

[oldMac]

My house costs 8 gazillion dollars and I sleep with a different beautiful actress every night. (Why marry a girl who looks like Jennifer L Hewitt when you can just keep her in the rotation?)

Okay, not exactly, but I felt like I had to say it to fit in. :)

Chicago, here.

[Judo]

Im From Auckland, New Zealand :)

just finished a Mac Technician course and I'm now lookin for a job.

We do have a few macs down here ;)


we have sheeeeeps to. BAAaaaaa

[krossfyter]

new zealand aye! what there to do in new zealand?

[Judo]

arrr Anything you want I guess. count sheep, chase sheep, sheer sheep (share sheep too) hug sheep, shag sheep. isheep.
just cant buy semi-automatic weapons at your local conveneince stores.

sorry. enough of the lame sheep jokes, :rolleyes: no more

[ooartist]

Spring Hill, TN... in the woods.

[britboy]

i am in Aachen, German.

If i had any choice as to where i would be living, it would have to be the east coast of spain, somewhere where there aren't too many tourists to mess the place up. One of my brothers moved there and i was visiting him last week, and it's nice, real nice!

[Taft]

Originally posted by Quark

Hey Mrtrumbe, are you sure you went to school for this and designed a "RISK" chip.

Reduced Instruction Set... uhmmmmm.... Komputing?


I said I went to school for CS, not writing. If I had gone for writing, maybe I'd proofread my posts and eliminate spelling errors and grammatical paux pas. Sounds like too much work. Slap it together and out the door, thats my motto.

About real estate, Chicago is really rough too. When I got a real job after college, I briefly looked into buying in the city. Condos cost more than most houses where I grew up. Townhouses cost as much as hometown mansions.

Needless to say I wasn't willing to dive face-first into debt so early in my career. Maybe when I get more yuppy-ish...

Matthew

[oldMac]

Hi mrtrumbe,

I lived in San Francisco for a while. Trust me, we've got it pretty easy on the housing costs here.

Of course, coming from a smaller city in Ohio, Chicago looked pretty steep when I first came here.

Guess it's all relative.

San Francisco / Silicon Valley property values are just completely outrageous. It's like some kind of giant conspiracy. I can understand such a thing if you're living in Manhatten, but come one... it ain't like there's a lack of space out there.

[Gelfin]

Originally posted by mrtrumbe
About real estate, Chicago is really rough too. When I got a real job after college, I briefly looked into buying in the city.

Dude, if you could even think about buying a house right out of college, then you're not quite grasping the magnitude of the problem. And I mean magnitude as in "order of" magnitude. I've been in the workforce for around seven years. I make at least 50% more here than I'd be making in most parts of the country, and I haven't a hope of buying even a modest home unless I marry someone with a similar income.

Originally posted by oldMac
San Francisco / Silicon Valley property values are just completely outrageous. It's like some kind of giant conspiracy.

Well, "conspiracy" implies there's some kind of secret to it. It's pretty much

1. You want or need to live here.
2. We want your money, and lots of it.
3. If you won't pay what we ask, we can find someone who will.

The dot-com bust has made prices a little more reasonable recently (compared to what they were before). For instance, my landlord has not arbitrarily raised my rent this year. I think he knows if he did, I'd be gone in a cold minute, because I could get a nicer apartment cheaper right now. The cost and hassle of moving keep me where I am.


I can understand such a thing if you're living in Manhatten, but come one... it ain't like there's a lack of space out there.

Well, it's odd. The transit infrastructure in the Bay Area is so bad that people cluster themselves naturally. You can get a cheaper place if you're willing to commute two hours each way to work daily, and that's a tradeoff some people are willing to make. I'm not one of them. In the city, of course, space is EXTREMELY limited.

[Taft]

Originally posted by Gelfin

Dude, if you could even think about buying a house right out of college, then you're not quite grasping the magnitude of the problem.

I know a few people only a couple years out of college (2-3 years)who have bought. Three single people I work with have bought *condos* in Chicago proper (notice I also considered a condo). Another coworker and his wife (who works) bought a 3 flat in the city and rent out two of the floors. And a friend of mine and his new wife are currently looking to buy a house in the suburbs.

I don't think buying *something* out of college is an impossibility. I just didn't care for the level of responsibility and debt required to do so.

Oh, and there are government programs and other debt and down-payment financing programs available to people who don't make enough to cover such endeavours. They aren't always great deals and often have "catches", but I think they are at least worth a look for someone who want their own place.

Matthew

[Gelfin]

Originally posted by mrtrumbe
I know a few people only a couple years out of college (2-3 years)who have bought. Three single people I work with have bought *condos* in Chicago proper (notice I also considered a condo).

I looked at condos. I could buy a 500 square foot condo in an aging building for as low as $450,000.

Oh, and there are government programs and other debt and down-payment financing programs available to people who don't make enough to cover such endeavours.

Those programs generally have income restrictions which don't account well for parts of the country with outrageous real estate prices. I make far too much money to go around asking for government assistance.

[cornelius]

...Well, i live in Puerto Rico, but i go to USF= University of South Florida in Tampa, Florida.

[cornelius]

ah yeah,forgot to say, i'm a "machead" since 99.i got tired of my dad's compaq computer,and asked for the imac dv-es.since then i love mac, there arent a lot of macheads in pr though,only in media.
in my city Aguadilla,there is an HP Campus,which it is quite good. Im studying electrical engineering, 2nd year.
And hey, I live in the bay,in the Caribean, no drinking age,lots of parties,girls like Jlo, weed everywhere,good food, and i dont know how much my building costed,since my dad is in realstate and he owns the freakin building. Im not being an ass, this is just to KingCobra, to me is totally wrong to talk about money and property when it aint yours,is your dad's or family,like,you havent done **** to pay for that or helped. thats why i came to the us im totally idependent,i have 2 jobs and go to school. i work selling tickets at a stadium and at sam goody's. and im studying electrical engineering,and on the side i make some money by selling poems or essays to news papers(this is back home though). the whole thread was about where you lived.not in what you lived . so i guess we have to think before we type,as the way that we think before we talk.
and plus, i have to bike to class and to work since i dont have a car!but im ****in happy,i enjoy every second of it

[me hate windows]

Happy Valley, Utah.
(Provo)
visitors see that we are so happy, so they call this place Happy Valley.:D :rolleyes:

[mischief]

It's in Santa Cruz county. SC is kinda like BC only it's infested with trust-fund neo-hippies. If I see one more "poor little rich boy/girl" in dredds (caucasian mind you) and sack cloth-clothing singing Krishna hymns.....I'll go on a killing spree.

[Taft]

Originally posted by Gelfin

Those programs generally have income restrictions which don't account well for parts of the country with outrageous real estate prices.

Yeah, but I live in Chicago. Its bad here, but as someone else pointed out, not nearly as bad as SF. Or NY for that matter.

In Chicago I've seen 180k condos in less "hip" neighborhoods. Starting at under 100k for condos in the burbs. Like I said, its bad, but not as bad as SF or NY.

And I know about those income restrictions, but for some people right out of college, having a huge salary isn't really an issue. And there are other programs (city programs) to buy out buildings and properties whose owners have for all intensive purposes abandoned the properties. Chicago is getting pretty inventive when it comes to gentrifying the city. You know, "cleaning it up."

And why are we talking about houses? I guess we needed to take a break from Macs for a night. Blame the person who got us on the topic.

Matthew

[Rower_CPU]

Originally posted by mischief
It's in Santa Cruz county. SC is kinda like BC only it's infested with trust-fund neo-hippies. If I see one more "poor little rich boy/girl" in dredds (caucasian mind you) and sack cloth-clothing singing Krishna hymns.....I'll go on a killing spree.

lol

My brother's going to UCSC and he's told me exactly the same thing...too funny!

[Gelfin]

Originally posted by mischief
It's in Santa Cruz county. SC is kinda like BC only it's infested with trust-fund neo-hippies. If I see one more "poor little rich boy/girl" in dredds (caucasian mind you) and sack cloth-clothing singing Krishna hymns.....I'll go on a killing spree.

So... we'll just keep you away from the Haight, shall we? I'm totally with you on this. I swear, the Haight is just choked with teens from Marin pretending to be homeless to try to get extra cash for weed. You know, it's almost funny how the population of "homeless" hippie-wannabe kids in the Haight skyrockets on the weekends. Almost funny, but not. I swear these kids are parking their parent-purchased Beamers a couple of blocks away.

Only thing that bugs me worse are the "Mercedes Marxists" -- you know, the kids who live easy on their parents' money and at the same time go around preaching about how capitalism is evil. I figure we all meet a few of those in college.

[MacAztec]

Where I live (the coachella valley) we have a change of estates. In Indio, Thermal, and Mecca (AKA "the total ghetto) you cand get a house really cheap. I am not trying to be racist, but everyone that lives there is mexican, and has come directly from mexico. I bet about 8 percent of em speak engilsh.

As for the rest of the valley (Palm Springs, Palm Desert, La Quinta, Bermuda Dunes) hosues come pretty expensive. Our house is around 350k, but some houses in like RICH VILLE cost around 1.2 mil.

Just thought I would let ya know!

[jefhatfield]

one of the touchy but interesting subjects is how real estate agents, or the industry, view a home price based on the ethnic neighborhood

i am a minority so i kind of follow issues such as these

from what i have seen in my 4 short decades on this planet is that the ones who made the most in real estate did it by buying into these lower income neighborhoods and developing them

a nice house for 500k may double in 15 years or more (40 years in some areas), but an equally priced apartment complex in a lower income neighborhood could go up way more than that plus supply the owner with more cash thru being able to rent more units in a complex versus a single house in a better neighborhood

there is a stigma to buying apartment complexes in poor neighborhoods since one might then be called a slumlord and right now, my 20th year reunion seems to be calling one of its alumni just that and he doesn't seem too welcome to the event from what i have seen

there is nothing wrong with making money, but doing it some ways, sometimes more quickly than others, brings out the jealousy in others