APIAD wrote:

No wonder people say that everyone is nice out in the country.  If I had to live on top of someone else Id probably hate life even more then I naturally do.

Maybe, but the town I live in is weird. It used to be the townies had their regular homes on one side of town and their summer cottages on the other. So on the last day of school, everyone would load up their shit and move it across town. It was like a friggin' wagon train in the Old West. The theory is you wanted to live closer to your boat in the summer, but this town is like three square miles. You can walk from one end to the other in an hour.
When we moved in, one of my neighbors asked me where I was going to summer. I told him that same place I planned to spring, winter and fall.
Of course, the land where these cottages are located has become more valuable than the cottages, so the townies are selling their second properties to out-of-towners who are tearing down the cottages and building bigger homes. The townies are very resentful about all of it, ignoring of course they got paid six figures for land their families paid a half-dollar for 300 years ago.
I grew up in a different town where your status depended solely upon income. My dad worked at a not-for-profit, so we were relegated to the poor part of town and all the stigma that went with that, but income doesn't matter here. You can be the president of a bank in Boston and live in a million dollar home, but if you've just moved to town you're lower on the pecking order than some guy whose family has gutted fish for 17 generations.

AP, you mentioned not having a smart phone. I held out for a very long time, before finally getting one. I got the Galaxy S-III, and I must tell you, after like 1 month, I couldn't live without it.

GPS, Nav, find a gas station, locals app for restaurant ideas, texting, great camera, facebook if you're into that (I'm personally not). ESPN feeds directly to the phone, so you get immediate headline alerts (NHL lockout over, chip kelly update, etc). There are a billion apps, games, from a flashlight application to song recognition (hear something, what song is that? Fire up Shazam, and it will let you know, and give you a link to buy the song or CD). Pandora!!!! Internet radio through the phone!!!! Amazing! Especially when you put something like Daniel Tosh in as your station.

The guy told me I wouldn't be able to live without it after 4 weeks, he was totally right.

alz wrote:

AP, you mentioned not having a smart phone. I held out for a very long time, before finally getting one. I got the Galaxy S-III, and I must tell you, after like 1 month, I couldn't live without it.

GPS, Nav, find a gas station, locals app for restaurant ideas, texting, great camera, facebook if you're into that (I'm personally not). ESPN feeds directly to the phone, so you get immediate headline alerts (NHL lockout over, chip kelly update, etc). There are a billion apps, games, from a flashlight application to song recognition (hear something, what song is that? Fire up Shazam, and it will let you know, and give you a link to buy the song or CD). Pandora!!!! Internet radio through the phone!!!! Amazing! Especially when you put something like Daniel Tosh in as your station.

The guy told me I wouldn't be able to live without it after 4 weeks, he was totally right.

Sometimes I think you are better not know what you are doing without.  I hate to incure an extra monthly bill of 80 bucks or whatever.  My cell phone is currently paid for by my employier.  I dont even have cell signal at my house.  Another example of living in BFE.  So that is why I figured the IPAD would be nice.  It would give me the advantages of a smartphone without add another unneeded phone bill.  I would take 20 bucks a month over 80.  We still have a landline at the home.  You city folk probably havent heard of those things in 10 years.  My cell phone is in my shirt pocket, turned off in the basement.

We dont have mail delivered to our houses.  We olny have PO Boxs and you can olny get to them between 8-4.  I think it is brough in on horseback.

We got cell phones because we had to be cool.  They were not really worth it tho.  I used it mostly for job related reasons.  Well sort of.  They had a company plan anyway that some where on.  It wasnt a big deal to get on it.  I barely use any minutes.  My wife is on her parents plan for 20 bucks month or something.  Id like to have cell signal at home to get rid of the landline phone.  Adding a 20 dollar bill to my monthy payments probably isnt the best idea but if I dont find it usefull Ill just drop it.

Landlines are kind of nice.  People think they are bugging you to call them.  However if they can call you on a cell phone or text you it is okay.  So I dont get alot of calls at home.  This goes back to the idea that I hate people.

"Landlines are kind of nice.  People think they are bugging you to call them.  However if they can call you on a cell phone or text you it is okay.  So I dont get alot of calls at home.  This goes back to the idea that I hate people."

I'm not sure if it's a state or federal law, but I signed up for a Do Not Call list that keeps solicitors from calling me. Comcast also has this feature where the name and number of an incoming call pops up on my TV. I don't even have to get off my lard ass to screen my calls anymore.

APIAD wrote:

artie_fufkin wrote:

"We got cell phones because we had to be cool."

I gave up trying to be cool a long time ago. I still think of Florida as the name of a state, not an entertainer.

there is an entertainer named Florida?

That would be Flo Rida

http://www.flo-rida.info/

Oh, that guy.  I never knew he spelled his name like that.  Of course that isnt my idea of entertainment.