I grew up in Queens so I've experienced the crappy NYC water. I also went to grad school in DC, and worked in the Senate for a little so go to experience the crappy DC water too. Never been to SF or Atlanta though. Now I'm in upstate NY, Binghamton to be exact. Our water here comes from either the local reservoir, or from the Catskills. We've also got a popular spring just outside of town that people are always going to to get fresh spring water. At times you'll literally see people lined up with gallon jugs for the water.
This is common knowledge that most areas in the 5 boroughs have great drinking water. Fluoride Research it Catskill mountains
I guess I'll take your word on it, but like I said I spent time in NYC and believe me you don't go to New York city and not go and see a few boroughs. I personally was not impressed. Perhaps I've been spoiled, perhaps I'm a euro snob. If I lived there I would likely buy bottled water to drink, and am I perhaps who hates carbonated water so I'm not exactly used to the idea of purchasing water.
You could say that, the Southern Tier which is the name for the metropolitan area for Binghamton and surrounding cities, tops off at about 201,000. Syracuse is about an hour north, Scranton/Wilkes-Barre about an hour south.
Growing up in Queens, in the late 70's/early 80's I'd say that the water was crap. You would NEVER drink it right out of the tap because it was so cloudy and you could literally taste the chemicals if you did.
Google tells me that all the water in New York city is treated with chlorine. Like I said perhaps I'm a snob but I can't drink water with chlorine in it.
How hard of a language is Italian to learn for some of you guys that aren't native speakers? Just started going to a new college last minute, and had to take a language. So I went with Italian since I hated German in highschool and Spanish would have been a pain to schedule.
I've only had one slice of pizza in NYC (east village somewhere, don't know the name) and it sucked, though I have heard a lot of good things about NYC pies.
Do you know any Spanish or French? I would assume if you are living in America and don't have any way to practice it that it would be as hard as learning any other language. If you know Spanish you have a nice head start. Not quite the same with French but there is a lot of common ground.
Anyone every try kangen water? Well its expensive to put in, but its the only water I use now to drink, cook with and waste meat, fruit veg etc. Eg. If you leave tomatoes to soak in it for 20 mins you can taste the freshness. If you do the same with ordinary water, it still tastes so bitter. I was a sceptic at first but the now I will drink nothing else, even bottled water is pure junk. When I was out injured for 6 months I decided to try and get properly healthy. So I decided to change my whole lifestyle in terms of what I ate and drank and even stopped smoking. I started it of with a 2 week raw food diet and I made sure I got 3 litres of this water in me everyday. Honestly within a few days I was only needing 5-6 hours sleep and I was waking up in the morning 1-1.30 hours earlier buzzing with energy. I truelly believe there is a connection to all these increased shitty diseases the world population is picking up and the chemicals they put on foods. I dont care if organic food is more expense now, the old saying, your health is your wealth and I dont want chemicals that they probably have know idea of the long term hazards in my system. Thinking about it, food and water should be a topic on its own in the education system since its the most essential part of living.
Italian is one of the easier languages to learn for English speakers, If you know Spanish it's much easier. I want to take a Latin course at UNLV, just to further my knowledge, but I've been lazy.
I am native English. People have been speaking Italian around me my whole life and I have been to Italy but still have trouble with it sometimes. I took French all through school and have been to Quebec many times but don't use it enough. I know a little bit of Korean but no chance of learning how to write it
Yeah I don't expect to become very fluent as most language classes in the US don't seem to achieve that. Still would be cool to have a basic understanding of it. Latin was another option and it would definitely be interesting to learn, but I think it would be a pain overall.
Even common arabs don't know the arabic grammar in details. I don't. It's too complicated When i went to Rome my wife was the one who did all the communications, she knows Arabic, English, French and a bit of spanish. It helped
Take Italian over Latin. It will be much easier to learn I think...... I still have trouble remembering the difference between fosse , stato, and era.... but there's a lot more tenses in Latin from what I remember someone telling me
I remember growing up, there was always that saying that English is the most complicated language to learn because of the vast amount of words and double meanings. But that defienietly seems like BS. Arabic, Russian, and Mandarin makes my head hurt just looking at it.
Well I know a bit of Italian and Spanish, though I should probably take course to bone up. My Italian isn't that great, because I don't hear it regularly. Spanish though is either the 1st or 2nd language of Southern California, lol. Latin I'm told will give you a better understanding of many western languages in general because it's a root language.
Yeah, the mother language of most European languages. I studied Latin for a while and it is incredibly easy to pick up for the most part.
