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What’s the largest thing you’ve ever moved? Your fridge? Imagine if you have to move something larger than all of the house stuff you’ve accumulated. Say, something like a the Troll-A gas platform:
It stands almost 500 meters tall and weighs 656,000 tons – it’s one of the biggest man-made objects ever towed (it has now been dwarfed by Texaco’s Petronius platform which is "arguably" the tallest structure in the world.)
Bigger than any aircraft carrier, higher than most TV towers, this vessel asks for a titanic team of ships to tow it to another location – and imagine splash this thing would make if it toppled!
Dark Roasted Blend has the picture gallery of the ultimate moving experience: Link
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According to a new poll by Pew Research Center, more than half of Americans want to live somewhere else than they’re currently living:
Living in Las Vegas appeals more to men than women. Affluent adults are twice as likely as poorer folks to want to live in Boston. Young people like big cities such as New York and Los Angeles. More Americans would rather live in a place with more McDonald’s than one with more Starbucks.
Those are some of the findings of a Pew Research Center survey out today on where Americans would most like to live. Whether they favor cities, suburbs or the countryside, almost half wish they lived somewhere else, the report found. City dwellers are more likely to dream of living somewhere else, and men in rural areas are far happier living there than women.
"There are some more fundamental differences between men and women," says Rich Morin, senior editor of the Pew Research Center survey. "Different cities seem to appeal to different partisan ideological groups. … People who are drawn to cities are typically younger people."
Denver, San Diego and Seattle are the top picks of the 30 largest metropolitan areas. Denver is the favorite city among Republicans, and it also rates well with Democrats and independents.
Link – via The Zeray Gazette
So far, I’ve lived in 2 different countries and 5 different places, the latest of which is good ol’ Southern California … and I can’t wait to move away!
How about you? Where would you rather live and why?
