Decided to start this thread for anyone who wants to vent regarding living within a large city.

I live in St. Louis, granted it is not as large as say Chicago but our population is over 2,801,033 as of the July 2006 US Census estimate.
and is 18th in the US for size.

This morning I received my first speeding ticket. I was doing 42mph in a 25mph at 5:45am. First ticket in four years. Well, the officer asked me if I knew I was missing my registration sticker. Come to find out some ******* took tin cutters and cut out my sticker and part of my specialized veteran plates. I was livid. Now I have to leave work early and file a police report then take that to the BMV and get a new sticker and apply for a new rear veteran's plate.

Not only that....a major highway has shut down due to construction and will be shut down for a year so all traffic is backing up secondary roads and will take people longer to get to their destination.

Venting is welcomed!! :6:

:hyper: I guess have a car in a big city sucks....but I dont have a car :p Therefore I LOVE big cities!!

But hmmm when I walk home from work every evening I listen to the radio on my mp3 player and they do a traffic update every 15 mins or so...talk about traffic jams!! People complaining about having to go through 45 mins of being stuck in traffic to get from point A to point B which would take 5 mins on a normal day :S I so would not enjoy going through that 5 times a day every week lol.

Yeah I have something to vent about...freaking street night lights!! I'm a person who likes dense darkness when I go to sleep, but my room is lit up by the lights from outside. When I moved here about a month ago I woke up thinking: "oh no!! I overlsept and am late for my first day!!" coz my bedroom was rather bright. I looked at me watch and it's 3.30 am :bored:

I live off of a busy street and sometimes I will hear the fire truck sirens going off and trust me that is loud. When I64 was closed the first couple of days there was so many accidents it was unreal. I64 goes right through St. Louis and many people use it to cut across the city to get to their destination.

Even though crime has gone down here the murder rate is still high. I believe we still are #1 in the country (& East St. Louis which is across the river and has a horrible rep. has high crime) as far as murders in this city. Unfortunately the murder rate in St. Louis is mainly found among the African Americans who make up a good portion of the lower income in this area.

Here is some venting out..

Your city is at least 7 times larger than my whole country. Which is 320 square metres, literally a rock in the sea and has over 400,000 people on it.

The frustration though is as bad if not worse. Parking here is a huge problem. There are too many cars on the roads.. although we don't have high rise apartment blocks (yet), and people know their neighbours by first name, we also now have an illegal immigration problem adding to the over population problem we already have.

Wow! Now where are you from? I know we have a lot of illegal stuff that goes on. St. Louis, since it is like at the heart of the USA has drug traffiking that filters through it. We have a major highway I70 along with I44 which goes down through Oklahoma.

Here is is unfortunate but typically when you live in a large city you can go years without knowing your neighbor.

I live in Malta.. little group of islands beneath Sicily...

Wow! Now where are you from?




Can't be from Tasmania or NZ but possibly Gozo (not Ghaza) or Comino :mmhmm:




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Marianna,

Are you upset that you were caught breaking the law or that your registration sticker was stolen

or both ?

Here is Washington we had a gang of police a few years ago that would simply tow cars for no reason and then split the proceeds with the tow companies. Who could prove that they weren't parked in a tow zone? Who would believe them? The thing went on for about fifteen years before the ring was exposed and broken...

And whenever the President decides to go out for dinner or a drink, they tow ALL the cars for an area of three block around his destination. Bush does this rarely...he's homebody. But ol' Clinton used to do it all the time at the drop of a hat and drove people crazy.

Marianna,

Are you upset that you were caught breaking the law or that your registration sticker was stolen

or both ?

More about the sticker because the idiot piece of trash who touched my personal property got away with it...and since I went four years without breaking the law, when I am a law biding citizen 99.99999% of the time I think I have done fine so far.

I was just pulling your leg.

What would they get by stealing the registration sticker ?

Okay, no harm with you. Just upset someone touched my new car.

Here in St. Louis this is prevelant. They cut out the plate section with your sticker and then use a steam iron or something warm to lift the sticker off, use it themselves or sell it to someone who needs a registration year. I was soooo freaking mad just thinking dirty fingers were touching my car. In Missouri it is a circus each year to register your car. You pay property taxes on your car EACH year and you have to show proof of THAT then you have to have your usual ID and other info to provide to them before they give you that precious freaking sticker.

Police said best thing to do is put the sticker in the MIDDLE of your plates and use a razor blade to cut into the sticker making it impossible to lift it in one piece. I just spoke to a lady at the BMV and it will cost me a total of about $7.00 for the sticker and new plates. My old ones will be given to her today and they will reissue new vanity plates.

wow ! you learn something new every day.

NO kidding! I am going to invest in those see through plastic lic. plate coverings also. Bastards! I hope karma gets them back real good.

NO kidding! I am going to invest in those see through plastic lic. plate coverings also. Bastards! I hope karma gets them back real good.
Wouldn't it REALLY suck if you went back to your car in a couple of days and find it gone again?


Once, some ******* hit my car with his and left... smashed my door in.. Couldn't even open it. I was just a student trainee and had miserable pay. I had to borrow money to fix it and the idiot who fixed it did a really cheap job of it.

The next WEEK, someone backs up into the same exact door.. and leaves. I knew who's car it was, because there was her car's paint on my car door and her garage was opposite the spot I was parked in. But unless you have eye witnesses here, you can do nothing.

Sometimes, life just sucks.

That DOES suck. I know in Missouri you can get two registration sticker replacements a year when it comes to something like this. I will just make it difficult for the next lowlife to touch my car. Obviously the alarm did not go off! Maybe I just forgot and did not turn it on. I will remember from now on.