Do you like where you live ?

Meh, Raleigh is okay. Most of my family is here, which is a pain in the arse, but I've grown up here and it'd be a big shock to be anywhere else. :D

I live in england , oxford - oxford is ok i cant say i want to live here forever lol some parts are quite nice and other parts of oxford arnt so great!

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Originally Posted by jeffnme

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!

:rofl:

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:oops: ahh, i'm blushing. i think my head is getting bigger.:D



vaughn

I live in Phoenix, AZ. Summers are death, it's horribly polluted, nobody knows how to drive, and car theft is so commonplace most people consider it a mere annoyance. (YAY for lo-jack on our new car!).

Yeah, not a big fan. Looking forward to heading NW one of these days and fording the river along the Oregon Trail! ;) (Oooh, rain!)

I live in Oklahoma and I enjoy it for the most part. I live in Oklahoma City, so there's plenty of places to go and hang out with friends, and if I want some 'me' time, there is always the option of going fishing and/or horseback riding at a friends house, both being less than 30 min away. And if I want the real 'big city fun' Dallas is only 3 hrs away,(which includes the DFW airport, since OKC airport doesn't seem to like booking 1 way flights, darn you connecting flights!!!)

I am a firm believer in making your own destiny :) I grew up in an ugly part of Buffalo.. it was OK back then but now, a mere 15 years or so later, it is becoming "ghetto." I would not feel safe walking the streets back there in broad daylight. :( My mom has to suffer through having a neighbor whose 4 pitbulls bark incessantly; nothing against the breed, but the owners are morons; I never, Ever, see those dogs go otside. I shudder at the thought of what their house is like inside.. Nope. I can Not have neighbors close by me. A mere visit to the city grates on my every nerve. I would rather live in a shotgun shack out here, than in a mansion in an urban or suburban area.
So in 2001, when Mark and I got together, we grabbed a Penny Saver and would spend nights driving out into the southern tier (rural area) to make ourselves find something. We lived in a different place for about a year; it was nice.. privacy and views, but our landlord was a psycho and selling thr house; showing it to strangers while we were not home! We feared for the safety of our belongings with weirdos traipsing through out stuff, so I called, made an appointment with our now-landlord, and bingo. :)
He has a long commute; to and from Buffalo daily. My work is right in town and in the summer I can get to work in ten minutes!
But everyone should be forced to live in a true ghetto for at least a month of your lives. I did, back when mark and I got together; he lived in a horrific part of town! You could not leave your car out on the street overnight; it'd be gone or stripped. Bullet shells and used syringes (with needles!) were commonplace in the sidewalks. True, there were some interesting characters that Mark got along with, but they would stab you in the back as soon as say hello. Nope! It did give me a firm appreciation for where I live now.. I never, ever take it for granted.

I don't like my house for the sheer fact that my wife and I have quickly outgrown in it 5yrs. It pretty much hampers any thoughts of having the private things we want such as a library, office/computer area, (larger better layed out) reptile area, etc. I live in a small town but grew up in the country on a farm. I don't mind being "in town" because I enjoy the services that I could not get if we lived in a more rural area. That said I do little in our town, even when going to and from work I don't pass through much of it since its back roads. On a larger scale...Michigan is a beautiful state and I have likes and dislikes about the climate. It seems like winter winter is always longer than the summer (or construction season as some know). I am grateful however that I have never seen a flood, hurricane, large scale forest fire, etc. If I had it my way I'd want to live someplace where the winter temps where still warm enough to ride the cycle most of it. However that usually means scorching summers which I could do without also. It gets plenty hot enough here as it is! I don't see us ever being able to leave MI unless some big job opportunity came up for my wife or I so I'll have to be content with what I have in that regard. :)

I moved from Michigan to where I am now in Wyoming. I like the fishing out here but I hate it. I want to move back to Flint or Lapeer. It's just not my style of life.

California, I Love It

NOW I like where I live, but my ambition is still to go back to where I grew up.

We (my partner and I) moved here to Denver exactly two years ago tomorrow (YAY! We're going out to dinner to celebrate in a few hours) from the hell of El Paso TX where we had been stuck for about 18 years. He had it worse: he lived most of that time in Juarez Mexico. Anyway, the past two years here have been great...even with the four blizzards of this past winter. And, as long as you have good heating/AC, it's not a bad place to keep herps. Heck, I've met more herp lovers, and animal people in general, here in a week than I EVER met in EP. Only thing is there aren't really any wild reptiles here to watch. :)

We will probably stay here for quite some time, as long as we're both still in school, and I don't mind at all. But, someday, I want to go back to live in Seattle WA, where I was raised...and still consider home.