Although I have discovered through my starts and stops with German that you can pick stuff up again pretty easily. Good luck with it. One of the reasons why I want to take French now, is that my workplace is bilingual. Actually where I'm sitting, I'm the only one who isn't fluent, and a lot of the time they all talk to each other in French, unless I'm in the conversation (and sometimes not even then). Also, even in my job now I sometimes have to deal with French. Just yesterday I was working on a cross reference where all the descriptions were in French. I think the classes will stick more if when I have that level of exposure. I'm certainly not going to get that in Texas :P
But since anywhere above that is just incredibly inhospitable, I can kinda understand. I know if I had to be holed up in my home for weeks on end because the snow was that high, it would drive me mad. It's not as bad as all *that*. Even really far up north you can still go out. You might be better off taking a snow mobile instead of a car, but you can still go out, so long as there isn't a snow storm or anything, and sometimes even then. It's just really cold. The thing that drove my mom crazy when we lived in Edmonton was more how long the days were in the summer and how short they were in the winter. You know how if you go really far up north, there's 6 months of day and then 6 months of night? Well it wasn't that bad in Edmonton, but it bleeds over. Hell, for most of the winter here I barely saw any sunlight, I'd drive to work in the dark, and it'd be dark by the time I left too.
Of course, it's not that hard to do between us Yeah, I tend to go on and on, I'm just glad someone else started the multiple comments for a change. I'm really bad with paradise_city, because she'll leave leading questions, so she'll have a shortish reply, and then I'll have 3 comments worth of a reply. :P
Although while I was in NYC last year, I got to ride on the subway and I really didn't mind it. I think NYC is the one exception in N. America for really good public transit. There are just too many people in too small a space. I know when I visited it I was shocked that the streets were filled with taxi's, delivery trucks and limos, and those were like 90% of the cars on the road. Also, parking a car in NYC is ridiculously expensive. They were giving stats on the news once, and it's something like $3000 a month to park there.
Unfortunately, it would take something of an attitude shift on the part of the population to really achieve. Yeah, people here can afford cars. It's become a necessity really, since the public transit doesn't do a great job of covering needs, and since the majority of people don't use public transit, than it doesn't get the attention it needs. It's one of those circles.
But I do tend to be more aware of stuff like that simply because I'm soon-to-be law enforcement and I expect crap like that to happen. I'm just so oblivious to that kind of stuff.
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One of the reasons why I want to take French now, is that my workplace is bilingual. Actually where I'm sitting, I'm the only one who isn't fluent, and a lot of the time they all talk to each other in French, unless I'm in the conversation (and sometimes not even then). Also, even in my job now I sometimes have to deal with French. Just yesterday I was working on a cross reference where all the descriptions were in French. I think the classes will stick more if when I have that level of exposure. I'm certainly not going to get that in Texas :P
But since anywhere above that is just incredibly inhospitable, I can kinda understand. I know if I had to be holed up in my home for weeks on end because the snow was that high, it would drive me mad.
It's not as bad as all *that*. Even really far up north you can still go out. You might be better off taking a snow mobile instead of a car, but you can still go out, so long as there isn't a snow storm or anything, and sometimes even then. It's just really cold.
The thing that drove my mom crazy when we lived in Edmonton was more how long the days were in the summer and how short they were in the winter. You know how if you go really far up north, there's 6 months of day and then 6 months of night? Well it wasn't that bad in Edmonton, but it bleeds over. Hell, for most of the winter here I barely saw any sunlight, I'd drive to work in the dark, and it'd be dark by the time I left too.
Of course, it's not that hard to do between us
Yeah, I tend to go on and on, I'm just glad someone else started the multiple comments for a change. I'm really bad with
Although while I was in NYC last year, I got to ride on the subway and I really didn't mind it.
I think NYC is the one exception in N. America for really good public transit. There are just too many people in too small a space. I know when I visited it I was shocked that the streets were filled with taxi's, delivery trucks and limos, and those were like 90% of the cars on the road. Also, parking a car in NYC is ridiculously expensive. They were giving stats on the news once, and it's something like $3000 a month to park there.
Unfortunately, it would take something of an attitude shift on the part of the population to really achieve.
Yeah, people here can afford cars. It's become a necessity really, since the public transit doesn't do a great job of covering needs, and since the majority of people don't use public transit, than it doesn't get the attention it needs. It's one of those circles.
But I do tend to be more aware of stuff like that simply because I'm soon-to-be law enforcement and I expect crap like that to happen.
I'm just so oblivious to that kind of stuff.