the pros and cons of mississauga

ok so for the past week i've been in mississauga because i'm currently in between jobs (and by 'in between' i mean that i left my first job in london because they were taking advantage of my neediness of a job and my next job (calling alumni on western's behalf and asking for money, ha) doesnt start for another 2 weeks).

anyways, so mississauga.

i have my beef with mississauga.

first of all, there's nothing to do. and i dont mean 'i live in kansas and there's nothing to do', i mean, compared to toronto (even london) there are no places to go drink, unless you wanna drink at the Jack Astors' or Moxies' smoking bars or the freakin Hare and Firkin chain of crappy bars. also, there's the whole living with your parents thing. after having 2 years of living on your own @ university, coming back into a house where your every move is watched and having to ask to go out with friends and having to go everywhere by car because taking a cab would cost 20 or 30 bucks or more SUCKS. when you're in mississauga, your television consumption doubles during the day. as in, this week, i have watched 2 episodes of montel, 3 episodes of jerry springer (??!), 2 episodes of Judge Joe Brown, infinite episodes of Star Trek and all of the the Ellens. also, i have managed to watch season 1 and 2 of Dead Like Me. ok, and living @ home in mississauga, you can't smoke drugs in your house. i reeeally miss that hahaha. plus you have to drive to get/smoke drugs with friends who live on the other end of town and drive home..or make them come to you and find a random sketchy park/parking lot where other sketchbags are also smoking drugs too.

but now after hating on mississauga, i feel like i should express some good things about it. there are PLENTY of places to shop, and you dont have to worry about bussing/cabbing it back home b/c u can drive there and often mommy will pick up the tab. actually, mommy pays for everything in mississauga.. from groceries to clothes to still shoving 20 bucks in my purse when im not looking each time i go out with friends. also, driving in mississauga means tunes while you travel. usually its an ipod connected to one of those cassette tape adapter things where we listen to those good cruising songs (currently it's Teddy Geiger's For You I Will *i'm gonna muster every ounce of confidence i have and cannonball into your mother* HA) as well as listening to our friend James's hundreds of karaoke song files he has for his karaoke business. in the past week, mainly out of boredom, my friends and i have driven in oakville, burlington, etobicoke, brampton, milton, caledon, and hamilton, along with everywhere in the saug. also, where i live in mississauga, there's a close proximity to the airport. luckily enough, there's not a runway over my house or anything, but the airport's about a 10 minute drive from my house. meaning that sometime soon, danielle and i are going to the airport bar with fake backpacks on and getting drunk in the afternoon and talking to randoms and making up stories about the amazing places we're going to. im also looking into going to the local CAA office and getting a bunch of free travel guides before going so we can lie more honestly to the drunken randoms we're gonna meet. yeah.

see, this is what bored 19 year olds do in mississauga.

i guess what im trying to say is that, even tho i feel like i can come up with billions of reasons why i hate living at home in mississauga, there's just that something about coming *home* that makes it all worthwhile. even tho parents can suck and driving everywhere can be hella annoying, it's where i've lived all my life, and nothing can change the security i feel here.

commentors - whats your favourite and least favourite thing about where you live?