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Places you wouldn't want to live next door to

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chai2
 
Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 08:25 am
Specific places.

I would not want to live next door to the Westboro Baptist Church.
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wandeljw
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 09:16 am
@chai2,
Gustav's Swamp
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Linkat
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 09:51 am
Quite honestly I would not want to be next to

http://homebuilding.thefuntimesguide.com/images/blogs/A_clear_cut_view_of_powerlines.JPG

I can't tell you how many nice homes that were for sale I've viewed next to these things.
JPB
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 09:54 am
@chai2,
The chicken farm in Colchester, Vt. I used to walk past to get to the market. I could probably extend that to any chicken farm, but I really, really, really wouldn't want to live next door to that one. PEEE EWWW!!!
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JPB
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 09:54 am
@Linkat,
Yeah, me neither.
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Butrflynet
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 10:27 am
The Chevron oil refinery in Richmond, CA. I lived a few miles from it for 10 years and that was close enough.

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/jun2009/20090607_chevron.jpg

Another is the C & H sugar refinery in Crocket, CA. If the finished product stank as badly as the process to make it, we'd all never ever use sugar.

http://m1.ikiwq.com/img/xl/QAogbwU6u1fuvi3AzscZwa.jpg

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George
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 11:02 am
Logan Int'l Airport, East Boston MA.

I grew up quite close to it. When a plane was coming in on a certain
runway, we'd just stop talking till it passed. After a while, you don't
even notice that you are doing it. A friend of mine tells the story of
his aunt who was visiting from out of state. As the noise of the
incoming plane got gradually louder and louder, she got visibly more
alarmed. Then, she just yelled OH MY GOD! and dove under the
kitchen table.
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Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 11:08 am
Any paper mill, anywhere . . .
InfraBlue
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 11:13 am
The hog fat rendering plant in Springfield.

mmm, rendered hog fat. . .
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Setanta
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 11:20 am
I once lived a block away from a huge commercial bakery, which was really kind of nice . . .


. . . until the day they burned thousands and thousands of cinnamon rolls . . .
Ragman
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 11:40 am
A tire-shredding plant. Holy crap!
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chai2
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 11:41 am
@Setanta,
Actually, I don't like the smells walking into a bakery. Weird I know, but it's too overwhelming. I've got a sensitive schnoz.

Oh, a paper mill, yeah, that'd be bad.

I lived outside Milwaukee, and for a long time, every time I drove past downtown I'd think "Why does it always smell like soft pretzels here?"
It finally dawned on me it was the yeast from the brewery.



chai2
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 12:00 pm
@chai2,
I just looked up the address of the Westboro Baptist Church and looked it up on Google Maps.

Nice little neighborhood, little white houses.
The building on the address is nothing special, considering the evil that lurks within.

I looked at the houses up and down that block.

Yeah, I couldn't stand being next to, near that.
Butrflynet
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 12:02 pm
Another spot to avoid living is down wind from the frontage road along the Alameda estuary. The sickly sweet aroma of the annual rotting of the seasonal wetland habitat fills the air so thickly it makes you choke as you drive by enroute to the freeway.

http://baynature.org/articles/jan-mar-2009/taking-the-heat/taking-the-heat/9-223.jpg
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Linkat
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 12:06 pm
@Setanta,
Paper mill nothing - try living next to a molasses factory....

http://www.bostonguide.com/boston_confidential/images/boston_confidential_molasses.gif

Picture after the great molasses disaster.
Butrflynet
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 12:14 pm
@Linkat,
That reminds me, I wonder what it smells like next to a maple syrup boiler. Does it smell as bad as the sugar and molasses refining process?

chai2
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 12:59 pm
@Linkat,
Ah yes, the Great Molasses Disaster of '89.

Bad times.
Linkat
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 01:14 pm
@chai2,
Actually it occurred in 1919.

Here is the newspaper headlines.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0a/Boston_post-January_16%2C_1919%2C.jpg

Imagine being drowned by molasses -the horror
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Ticomaya
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 01:15 pm
@chai2,
chai2 wrote:
I just looked up the address of the Westboro Baptist Church and looked it up on Google Maps.

I looked it up too ... I used to live 1.6 miles from that location.
chai2
 
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Reply Wed 15 Jun, 2011 01:56 pm
@Ticomaya,
Ticomaya wrote:

chai2 wrote:
I just looked up the address of the Westboro Baptist Church and looked it up on Google Maps.

I looked it up too ... I used to live 1.6 miles from that location.


No ****? That's creepy.

I'd rather drown in molasses.
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