Do you like where you live ?

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Originally Posted by kavmon

you know, the long haired book guy at the shows! :)



vaughn

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yea...i know him but he wasn't quite the one I was thinking of.

ok...heres a hint.

he is WAY taller than me (who isn't :giggle: ) and he is one fine Hawaiian man!

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now i live about 40 minutes south of eau claire. i really don't like it much. but, this is where matt is, so.....

i'm from washington. i lived in kelso (southern wa) until about 9th grade. that was okay i guess.

but then i moved up north to everett which is just above seattle. that i loved. i miss it very much. it's got it's ups and downs like any other place. i liked it though because it was close to seattle without actually being there. so not quite as much crime, drugs, etc. you can always find something to do. there are so many trees everywhere! i love it! last year, when i visited in the spring, i got off the plane and i was in heaven! it was 75 degrees, not a cloud in the sky, and a gentle breeze blowing the dogwood fluffs (not sure what they're actually called!) around. and it smelled so good!!! i love washington in the spring! and it's not far away from wilderness. you know, real wilderness... lol. i think it was about an hour and a half drive to get to my fave camping spot. a nice little spot on a creek fed by a glacier... last time we went, we were told there were cougar sightings recently so watch out!!! lol. real camping!!! anyways, that's home for me!

I live in the Berkshires--in Western Massachusetts. It's really beautiful here, but I find that the people up here are a little standoffish. We also have lots of second home owners in my town (we're a very small New England town) during weekends year-round and they consume us in the summer. The kids who are native to our town tend to either do really well for themselves and move away or stay stuck here forever. I really feel that it's kinda a "rut" town, so I'm not really content here.

However, I'm probably going to stay in New England into the foreseeable future as I find I like it in general. I grew up in Florida and I can say that I've NEVER felt the urge to go back. Talk about humid, flat and visually the same from Tallahassee to Miami...no thanks. :) I go back occasionally to visit my grandparents, aunts and uncles down there but that's about it!

I live in Baltimore City, Maryland. I HATE IT! I like parts of Maryland... more of the western parts. I'm not a city kind of girl. Also where I live you don't want to look at people "the wrong way" or bump in to them... people flip out and kill others over the littlest things here. You are fair game to get shot if you do one of the two I just said above... no kidding! I don't understand why people from nice parts of Cali move here. I know I'm about to move out of the city very soon and I hope I never have to move back here.

"This culture of violence ... is what sets Baltimore apart from some other areas," said Deputy Police Commissioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III. "This is just not guys arguing over multi-kilo drug deals. It's not guys arguing over who is going to stand on what corner. They will shoot and kill each other over slights in a carryout store, or the lyrics in a rap song, or an argument over a girl."

I absolutely love where we live. We rent a farmhouse and have an absentee landlord. It is perfect; we get 300+ acres to play around on while not having to pay any land tax ;) Of course we want to own our own land/farm eventually but are in no hurry because this is a great arrangement.

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

I absolutely love where we live. We rent a farmhouse and have an absentee landlord. It is perfect; we get 300+ acres to play around on while not having to pay any land tax ;) Of course we want to own our own land/farm eventually but are in no hurry because this is a great arrangement.

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One negative, is the SNOW in winter. We can get stranded at home for a few hours every winter. You know those images of nearby Buffalo that you see on the world news where it is buried in ten feet? Add a few more feet and you have our place in the winter.. if i did not have to start driving in the stuff this year, I would mind it a lot less.. could always take the snowmobile to work (people do..)Other than that.. I am so at home in the woods. I grew up in Buffalo but we would go out to this area on weekends to a club hunting cabin; I knew in my blood that I would live out here one day; now my fiance and I both love it here. Give me cool deciduous forests; creeks and gullies full of life; deer and other critters scampering in your path.. this is paradise.

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Originally Posted by AzureN1ght

I live in the Berkshires--in Western Massachusetts. It's really beautiful here, but I find that the people up here are a little standoffish.

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Living in Connecticut my whole life I can't wait to move out west some day, maybe after the kids get out of High Schools (the're only in grade school now!).

Whenever there are big storms coming I notice on the radar they tend to split at the Hudson River in NY and go south (to New Jersey) and north (to Massachusetts). I DO NOT envy anyone living in western Mass, the weather looks to get really bad often. Connecticut is know for being a very safe place to live weather wise.

Connecticut has hight taxes, because much of it is a suburb of NY city. Manufacturing is leaving about as fast as they can get a boat to China! The people tend to be standoffish also.

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

We rent a farmhouse and have an absentee landlord. It is perfect; we get 300+ acres to play around on while not having to pay any land tax ;)

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WOW!!! It doesn't get any better than that!!!

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Originally Posted by Ginevive

Give me cool deciduous forests; creeks and gullies full of life; deer and other critters scampering in your path.. this is paradise.

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Jen- I am so Jealous it is not even funny!

I live in Seaside, CA. I been back and forth between here and Baltimore MD. I love it here, perfect weather, perfect scenery, a lil boring but it works out. Something's always going on around here, golfing at Pebble Beach, races at Laguna Seca etc etc. Lots of tourism.. prolly moving back to Baltimore next year, I like it out there too. It's hella different than Cali, but there's some similarities.