Who hates Okinawa more than me?

[bored28]

I absolutely hate living on okinawa. Its boring as fuk, the people walk around like zombies, I feel like I am in a time warp, the same grocery stores, same resturaunts, same faces, same old azz cars, I wish i didnt have to live here, this sucks so bad. and on top of all of my gripes...im pregnant like every other woman on this island. Is there something in the water or WHAT? Why are there so many women running around preggers? Im so bitter right now about this Island, maybe its because I dont have any friends. Im such a bytch!:mad::mad::mad:

[Tony Stacks]

This island is great. You just need to lighten up and get out more. LMAO

[bored28]

Yea right, whats going to change my views about living on this island? I hate it with a passion, im very bitter today. GRRRR!!!:mad: what do you guys do on this stupid island to pass tiem besides walk the dog or make love?

[Muku]

I absolutely hate living on okinawa. Its boring as fuk, the people walk around like zombies, I feel like I am in a time warp, the same grocery stores, same resturaunts, same faces, same old azz cars, I wish i didnt have to live here, this sucks so bad. and on top of all of my gripes...im pregnant like every other woman on this island. Is there something in the water or WHAT? Why are there so many women running around preggers? Im so bitter right now about this Island, maybe its because I dont have any friends. Im such a bytch!:mad::mad::mad:

Maybe your bitchiness is due to the water....:eek: :D

BTW, welcome to the board here, feel free to vent, everybody and their mother does it. :D

[bored28]

Thanks for welcoming me to the board. I dont know how I stumbled across it. I googled something to the effect of "pregnant and okinawa japan sucks" and WHOO HOO!! I found a board where I could vent. CLASSIC!!!

[socalheart]

(o.O) just how far along are you?

[ja_Patriot]

In another post, I figured you were a guy. My bad.

Pregnant? I don't blame you for being bitchy. Welcome aboard!

[bored28]

I am 10 weeks and very evil right now. I try to stop it but I cant

[socalheart]

10 weeks... that's it? (o.O) i recommend jenny mccarthy's book belly laughs (http://www.amazon.com/Belly-Laughs-Naked-Pregnancy-Childbirth/dp/073820949X).
is this your first? if so, just wait... it gets even more fun. heh.

if you're going to rant about everything, feel free to keep it in this thread. not everyone is going to be understanding of your mood notes that are posted on and irrelevant to other threads.

[dk]

Welcome to the forums.

I go through phases where I just want to get the **** off this island too. Island Fever. Sometimes the size of this place just drives me nuts.

But it's really not that bad. I'm guessing you haven't been here that long. This place bored the hell out of me when I was growing up here, but once you get out and actually see a lot of the sites and do a lot of the things there are to do, it's not that bad.

My only bitchyness stems from not having enough daylight hours to do outdoor Okinawa things that I want to do. When I get off work (6pm) the sun is going down...

Anyway, feel free to vent. I know I do sometimes.

[bored28]

Oh thanks for the tips because Ive been venting on the other forums, I guess I wont do that anymore. LOL.... I been here for 3 months and I got pregnant 1 month after I got here...BOY OH BOY!!! Now I am doomed to never have friends and fun because I need to start budgeting and keeping healthy for the baby on this small azz island. I know my way around this small place already and I know the same ole cars when I see them, same staff at the grocery store. I cursed out one lady at the store because I was having an "off" day and I keep seeing her everytime I go back so I eventually bought her a card since I couldnt deal with the last confrentation we had. We smile at each other now. Why is everyone like zombies out here, i try to spark convos with women my age and they quietly answer and dont elaborate. I feel like the commercials on the AFN channels are brainwashing and the HD TV's are a waste of money. The cars are old, okinawans are rude and cant drive, this island sucks. FOSTER, LESTER, KADENA..thats my f**kin life right now...walking the dog, and having lots and lots of sex. I cant be the only one bored out here, what do you guys do for fun. Dont say movies and bowling or I will scream!!!

I AM GOING TO BED NOW!!! I WILL BE BCK TOMORROW TO VENT MORE!!

[dk]

One piece of advice: the hardest part of living here, for myself at least, is keeping negativity at bay. Try resisting the urge to think "it sucks here" or "okinawans are rude" and you might be surprised.

Get in your car and drive until you find ocean. Then just sit there for a while.

Or if you're more adventurous, there's tons of water sports and hiking and stuff like that.

I prefer peace and quiet.

And as to what I do for fun, these forums are about it these days. I hang out here, I watch some tv, and I take college courses. I also play with the wife and daughter.

[kombu_kid]

what do you guys do on this stupid island to pass tiem besides walk the dog or make love?

thats my f**kin life right now...walking the dog, and having lots and lots of sex.

Well, no one can accuse you of not knowing how to have fun!:D

[Isaak Brodsky]

I've been on Okinawa for nearly fourteen years. I know a lot of people, locals, Americans, Brits, Australians, Italians, other assorted ex-pats.

I know a lot of places to eat and imbibe.

Give this place a little time, and I'm certain you'll change your mind about it. Island life is not for everyone, but the people here tend to be very kind and patient and giving.

What do you like to do in your spare time? If I knew, I could offer some suggestions.

[FDokinawa]

been here for over 10 years and love every min of it... when I was back in the states I was missing it so much. I have lots of friends that write me saying how much they miss it over here.

[Tempestuous]

Hang in there, it gets better.
I really think the first yr is hardest. During that time you get situated, you can figure out some places you enjoy, you can find a few friends, you can find your "niche".

What you focus on increases. As dk said- the more you say it sucks here the more things you are going to find that can confirm that statement.
It is perfectly true to say !!!!AAHHH!!!! I feel trapped here! It feels that way but happiness is a choice. You can choose to make the most of it or choose to wallow in the discomfort of the situation.
The latter definitely doesn't improve the situation though.

It is depressing to feel stranded, trapped and know next to no one, far away from your friends & family. Even more annoying if other people you know went someone together and you got 'stuck' here alone.

The bases used to put out some magazine things..
(can't recall the names but Marine one was an actual magazine and the Air Force one was not as formal or informative)
..and they featured base activities for the month but also gave info about local places & destinations as well as trips to other nearby places

( you are in a KEY location for travel)
I picked them up each month and always found 1 new place to go or thing to do that was of interest.
I collect a decent size stack while we were there. When we left and gave my collection to a new person I met coming in.

I second what Ian posted- let us know what type of things did you enjoy doing at your last place.
Maybe some of us around here can throw in some similar places or activities.

Good luck and welcome aboard!

[ststephen65]

i had a co worker that complained about this "small azz island" and i asked him if he has ever been out of okinawa city. he response was no.......
so what grand and exciting place did you come from? if you cant have fun in okinawa you are the type of person who cant have fun ANYWHERE. and thats a fact. the only people ive met who cant enjoy it here are people that cant let go of where they came from and wont open there minds to new things. i have gotten into so many things here that i fig i would never try and end up loving it. okinawa has a little something for everyone. big city, farmlands, jazz clubs, rock clubs, hip hop clubs, swimming, camping, bicycling, hiking, boating, island hoping, american food, indian food, italian food, and many many small cafes, bars, darts bars, love motels, temples, castles, waterfalls, geo caching, para gliding, kite boarding, surfing, festivals, and MUCH MUCH MUCH more. but you know what, be bored, never leave base, and hate your life. id rather you keep your bad attitude on base anyway.

[Ammoyankee]

I like preggers... Can't get them pregnant!

[Crazysix]

I like preggers... Can't get them pregnant!
Stay away from my dog:94:

[Asshat]

Yeah, Okinawa sucks! All I do is have sex! I am so tired of having nothing but sex!

Women...do you hear me? Please stop doing me! Okinawa sucks!

[thistle]

Wow, there a million things on this Island waiting to be done if yu have the time to do them. I wish I had grown up here.
Where I grew up there was a big park, a leisure centre with a pool, 1 chinese restaureant and one Indian restaurant and some local restaurants and cafes which all sold the same stuff.
Main form of entertainment was meeting up with friends at a coffee shop or the pub.

Sure it is not the big City, I have lived in those - but here the world is your
Oyster.
What is it you are looking to do? Being pregnant sucks wherever you are,
just have to deal with it.

[P_chan]

I think she just needs to get out more. Maybe if she stopped going to the enlisted club and getting knocked up she could have enjoyed this island a little more before she got pregnant. You can still enjoy this island while your pregnant, you just need to get out and find it yourself. Don't rely on other people, our places like ITT (the devil) to take you around the island. Hop in a car, and drive.

Also, I'd like to know why the cars are boring over here? Because they're not big huge gas guzzling trucks? I'll take a efini RX-7 over just about any car that is state sides.

[Asshat]

Maybe if she stopped going to the enlisted club and getting knocked up she could have enjoyed this island a little more before she got pregnant.

:D You are my hero P chan!

Also, I'd like to know why the cars are boring over here? Because they're not big huge gas guzzling trucks?

All that you are missing is the reference to the trailor park!

I too am tired of sex, but now that I know I can get laid at the E club, I realize I am not that tired yet.

[thistle]

How do you get into the enlisted club?

Someone wanna take me?:D

[Burado]

When I was enlisted here a while back I knew the type... sit in dorm day room and hate life because they did not go anywhere. Saw it in Germany too.

Try and learn a little of the local language and get out to meet people. In no way do I think Okinawan's are rude. Make an effort to communicate, we are in Japan not the U.S. I have been here a long time and seen it many times where a person will state how much they hate Okinawa only to leave and then spend the next two years trying to get back. :thumbup:

[Asshat]

How do you get into the enlisted club?

Someone wanna take me?:D

Thistle, I'm bored. :3:

[thistle]

You are not alone, Uminchu!

So where is there to go on this godforsaken Island to have some fun:rolleyes:

[P_chan]

There is a dumpster out back behind chilies. You guys could go out and have sex in there, that might be different.

Funny thing, is I knew people in tech school who would have sex with tech school girls in the dumpster behind the theater. They did it because they thought no one would look there:rolleyes:

[socalheart]

I heard a story about a couple having sex on the hill behind the Globe & Anchor one night... yes, the one overlooking the chapel. Heh. They were married, but not to each other. I suppose if you're going to commit a "sin", do it in front of God so there's no question about it later, eh?

[keera4]

There is a playgroup on island that is very active. Its okidokiplay_playgroup@yahoogroups.com, they even have a splinter, pregnancy group for all the ladies that are expecting. I got here at 37 weeks pregnant and still managed to have fun and like it. I really didnt have any friends but I didnt let that stop me from exploring the island. I had a ball at the resturants too since, at that time I was ALWAYS hungry.

[Onlooker]

I understand your frustration about meeting people.Most of my "friends" are gone,so I have to start all over again.Hit me on my e-mail and we can explore this small ass Island (It is actually better if you're not by youself)

[Muku]

How do you get into the enlisted club?

Someone wanna take me?:D
Thistle if you show up on the 17th I'll bet there will be somebody there that would be willing to escort you:-|.

[smhersweetie]

I absolutely hate living on okinawa. Its boring as fuk, the people walk around like zombies, I feel like I am in a time warp, the same grocery stores, same resturaunts, same faces, same old azz cars, I wish i didnt have to live here, this sucks so bad. and on top of all of my gripes...im pregnant like every other woman on this island. Is there something in the water or WHAT? Why are there so many women running around preggers? Im so bitter right now about this Island, maybe its because I dont have any friends. Im such a bytch!:mad::mad::mad:

Welcome to the Forums!! That's how I felt when I first got here, but I find the Island more relaxing. If I had a babysitter I would probably get out some more and explore the island. Although I do try to do sight seeings and bring the kid along. Although I do get bored, because I don't work...I try to think positive about it here.

As the pregnant women on the island? I'm not sure...and it's true everywhere you go you see a pregger....but there's nothing wrong about being pregger...I guess a place and time to have kids you know. When I see a pregnant lady I say to myself.."OH Boy" glad that's not me..haha...knock on wood. Then Hubby looks at me and tells me that I'm next. LOL..but not funny at the same time.

Well, try to enjoy the island while your on it. And I understand the bitchyness. I guess being pregnant and haven't done much on the island..you can feel that way. I hope you do feel better and congrats on the baby. Things will get better. But yes...vent all you need Girl.

[thistle]

Thistle if you show up on the 17th I'll bet there will be somebody there that would be willing to escort you:-|.


Muku, look at the list of people coming - all happily married to Okinawan women (except for smhersweetie, who I don't think is!), so who would go with me??

[DocTurtle]

I love this place. Hard to see why you don't like it to be honest? I guess it just goes to show that one man's junk is another man's treasure.

[DocTurtle]

Muku, look at the list of people coming - all happily married to Okinawan women (except for smhersweetie, who I don't think is!), so who would go with me??

I'm married to an Aussie. :D

[Asshat]

Muku, look at the list of people coming - all happily married to Okinawan women (except for smhersweetie, who I don't think is!), so who would go with me??

How do you know that? I know I'm not married to an Okinawan. At least I feel pretty confident she's not Okinawan.

But hey, we could swing my the E Club and pick up a couple of guys. As long as you don't mind getting possibly pregnant, or pregnant possibly. I heard you can pick it up there.

[Muku]

Muku, look at the list of people coming - all happily married to Okinawan women (except for smhersweetie, who I don't think is!), so who would go with me??

Ahh Thistle, dont take this wrong....why can not two adult people go out together without it automatically having it become something more than it is?

Two adults going out to the same place to enjoy a gathering of other adults?

It isnt like I was going to ask you to have my baby.:-|

Outside of what you or others may think I am a gentleman.

[thistle]

How do you know that? I know I'm not married to an Okinawan. At least I feel pretty confident she's not Okinawan.

Geez, I seem to have put the foot in it here, okay all married but not necessarily all married to Okinawan's.

But hey, we could swing my the E Club and pick up a couple of guys. As long as you don't mind getting possibly pregnant, or pregnant possibly. I heard you can pick it up there.

A couple of guys? Just one would be fine:)
I heard about the pregnant thing too, have to ask P-chan at the party.
He seems to know all about it!

[P_chan]

LOL don't put my name and pregnant or e-club in the same sentence!:D

I'm one of those guys who's happily married to an okinawan gal, so I don't need any e club ho. Even before I met my wife, I hated the e club.

[InDuhUSA]

I first went to Okinawa in 1982 as an 18 year old boy in the Air Force. I hated every moment of it. The 18 month tour just seemed like a lifetime. I got talked into staying an extra ten months and was really hating it. Even met and married a local girl and hated it. When I finally PCSed and got on the "Freedom Bird" back to the "World" in 1984 I had a windo seat and was sure to stick my middle finger at the Island when I saw it.

Got to Edwards AFB in California. For thousands of miles there was nothing but DESERT!!! My wife came there a couple of months later. Her first time in the USA. She saw all of that desert and she was ready to leave. The only thing stopping her was she was ... PREGNANT!!!

During that 1 year 5 months at Edwards AFDesertBase I began to have a new appreciation for Okinawa. I longed to go back. So I took a one year tour in Korea, shipped my wife and new kiddie back to Oki, and fought like heck to get back to Kadena. After much prayer and begging some higher enlisted folks with some pull, I got back to Okinawa in 1986. I left there in 1999 hoping to get back there again in a few years. Never got back there because too many people in my career field keep taking the jobs I want.

So anyone who is there and complains about the place I and my family long to be back at, I do feel for ya' and hope that your wish to leave there doesn't leave you with regrets later.

Finally, on a side note, I knew many people while I was in the AF who hated the place and were glad to leave only to return some years later like I did with a change of heart. You hate it at first, but you go to the USA and find out that it was one of the most wonderful places in the world.

[TheNoNamedOne]

Interesting testimoney, InDuhUSA.

I think people get comfortable in small areas if they stay too long. At first they hate it, but the smallness begins to grow on them. Perhaps it has something to do with feeling like a big fish in a small tank -- when you yourself are not really that big.

Don't know for sure. But interesting.

[Kamya]

This is a wonderful place to live and at times I also get very homesick and complain to my husband about how it's boring and I feel so lonely! I know that I have the choise to either love it or hate it and I must say I refuse to make myself miserable because of my crappy attitude towards Okinawa! I know there is so much to do here and hope to get a chance to get out there and enjoy it with my children. I also hope to make more friends than I have but not the woman who's negativity would run off onto me! Got to surround yourself with happy people!!!

[okisteve]

Bored 28 hasn't posted in a long time - hope she's OK. Hey Bored28 - let's hear from you how you're doing nowadays!.

My advice - get off the bases for a few hours a day, even get away from the Rte 58 strip, look around you and try to notice that Okinawa is a strange, beautiful place full of mostly happy people. Challenge yourself to learn some Japanese. It will make a huge difference.