Why do you live there???

[Poppa]

Twinkle Toes, going to have to come right out and say it.

You are a liar. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

Well, except about the rain, and the traffic. Ok, and maybe about the prices too but about the people, you are lying. I know many people there and they are some of the kindest most giving people I know. A little moldy but very nice.

I'll tell you this too. I don't care what other people offer for beauty, There is no place on earth that can compare to being on one of the islands, looking out across the sound, watching Orcas frolic in the deep almost black cold water, on a warm August day. Probably as close to paradise as I have ever been. My only beef was with the months of September through June, commonly referred to as the rainy season.

I will say that your comments are reminiscent of some of the other "Native" Northwesterners I have met. Sorry to be the one to tell you this but the population of this earth is growing and they WILL be moving to your neighborhood soon. All you can do is to move to someplace no one wants to go. Maybe Tacoma. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[GaryM]

You forgot to mention the SLUGS!

 

[tc35dforme]

<font color="blue">traffic is terrible, prices are out of sight, full of mean spirted people </font>

Sounds like my hometown just outside of Boston /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif.
I fled 12 years ago and only go back to visit Mom.

Now we're kinda remote, but still within a hours drive of civilization ( hospitals etc. ). It's like having the best of both worlds !! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[MossRoad]

<font color="blue"> tell me why you live where you do. </font>
I live in North Central Indiana near South Bend because I was born here. My wife was born here. Our families are buried here and I want to be buried here, too. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif The cost of living is very reasonable and for the most part, the people are friendly and nice. To sum it up, I am comfortable here. /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif

<font color="blue"> What do you like best? </font>
The change of seasons.

<font color="blue"> What do you like least? </font>
The breakdown of the American family.

<font color="blue"> Do you wish you lived somewhere else? </font>
Nope. I can always visit the places where everybody else on TBN lives. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

<font color="blue"> Will you ever move? </font>
Not far, I hope. /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif Back Home Again In Indiana!

 

[JimR]

I grew up near central Ma. My 3 acre house lot came from the in-laws. We now also own their old farm circa 1735 and a 36x60 barn with about 7 acres and a 36 acre woodlot across the street. We have very few neighbors and enjoy the peace and tranquility. The rear land is also bordered by resevoir property. This makes for a 300 acre plus big back yard. My daughter will be moving into the old farm once I get it restored and updated.

 

[Logan]

I was born in the western NC mountains and although moved away when I was small I never got them out of my system. The family was pioneers there and my father was one of the first to pack up and move out. He was in WWII and had seen the world and didn't want to be a tobacco farmer for the rest of his life. Five years ago I bought 35 acres with a cabin right in the middle. Its in a remote area and as my closest neighbor likes to say it isn't handy. I have lived in south GA for over thirty years and it has never really felt like home. Marriage and the job keeps me here except a few long weekends a year that I escape. I hope to retire up there soon. My wife said she didn't know if she would be ready to retire when I can. I told her that I hope she writes.... /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

 

[GerardC]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Please write your essay between 1000 <font color="red"> Hi I live in south Australia, it is a great place to live because every one here has a sence of humour. </font> 5000 words, single spaced )</font>

LOL. Good one. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif G

 

[Ozarker]

I grew up in Kansas City but always thought about how nice it would be to live away from any city. Lived all over the world while I was in the Army and toyed with the idea of settling just about everyplace I was ever stationed. Even gave serious consideration to living in Germany.

When I was stationed at Ft Leonard Wood for the second time back in 1989, I found a place to rent a few miles north of there. I really never liked living in government quarters. I was going to live there until I retired and then go wherever I found a job. Really didn't care where.

As luck would have it, a job as a sales rep for a Dallas based company just sort of fell in my lap. They needed a territory manager with a military background in this area so I took it. Then the house I was renting went up for sale, sort of, so I bought it.

And that's why I am here in Missouri.......8 miles from anyplace that can be called a town and 90 miles from the nearest mall. Me and the dogs love it out here.

 

[TWINKLE_TOES]

Maybe you should move to South Australia /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Poppa]

Yes, I suspect you are right and apologize if I came off snotty. You hit one of my buttons. I need to do a better job of keeping them surge protected.

I do love the Pacific Northwest and I do like the people. I just couldn't cope with the rain anymore.

Mike

 

[JTC]

Grew up in the St. Louis area and lived within 40 miles one way or another for 35 years. Madison and St Clair County IL., Jefferson and South St. Louis County MO. Love the Ozarks and Southern Illinois. Missouri has the prettiest rivers and springs I've seen. St. Louis will always be home and I do get homesick occasionally.

Moved to Camas Washington, Portland Oregon area, western edge of the Cascade mountains. Moved for Career reasons. If it wasn't for the rain, the Northwest would be the most ideal spot on earth. Spent a great deal of time exploring deep into the Cascade's. I always wondered if our 4x4 broke down, how many days (or weeks /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif) it would be before we were found. Loved the Summers there but after 4 years the wife was tired of the rain and being so far from family, so...

Moved to Fairfield County Connecticut, 50 miles to NYC but yet, in the wilderness (we have a neighborhood bear). I like the climate here best of all. Plenty of rain up until mid summer so everything is lush green, Summers are not as hot and humid as the Midwest, Winters aren't as cold either. Best of all, we get plenty of snow. We're 40 miles inland and seem to be in a band that gets snow frequently when they don't get it North or South of us. I commute down county and the congestion and traffic gets progressively worse to the point where it messes with my attitude. I've seen a lot of bad traffic in other major cities and spend at a couple of days every month in the Bay area (CA), but Northeast drivers are the worst. If you see a car with New Jersey license plates, give it plenty of room because you never know what it will do /forums/images/graemlins/smirk.gif.

Jim

 

[mitchdb]

My wife and I live about 10 miles from where we were both born (Seabrook), just south of Houston Texas on the coast. It's not a bad place to live, it can get a little crowded sometimes but not as bad as Houston. The weather is not too bad if you like hot Summers and fairly mild Winters. We travel quite a bit so we do get to see other areas.

We have about 30 acres in central Texas (between Houston, San Antonio and Austin) that we plan to build on someday but everything is at a slower pace out there and no one really seems to want to do it. We been in the process of getting power ran to our property for the past 3 months, everything is a done deal but still no poles on the property!

We are both native Texans and we have a lot of pride in Texas but if we were to leave the state, it would have to be either for Fountain Hills Arizona or Las Vegas Nevada! We love the desert and we like hot weather!

 

[Poppa]

So Mitch, where are you in relation to Shiner. I have been there once and I loved it. Course it was May and the heat was already a tangible thing. But I sure thought it was pretty.

Mike

 

[Poppa]

I guess this would be for Jim and anyone else from Connecticut. How does it stay so Rural situated where it is? I am just amazed that it hasn't built up more. Must be a east coast thing is all I can figure. on the West coast, fifty miles is a close commute and there is no way an area like Connecticut would survive long before it was suburbanized.

Count yourself lucky.

Mike

 

[mitchdb]

Shiner is about 60-70 miles south of my 30 acres and about 120 miles west of my house in Seabrook. Did you go to the brewery in Shiner (Shiner Bock among others), I've heard you get free beer!

 

[LarryRB]

where Junkman, AndyMA and I live, we're in the last green valley.. It is very rural to sparse.. If any one of us wants to travel just over 20 miles, then your in the city environment.. That is to say, city water, sewage and a library that is open 15 hrs a week and not 10 per month if your lucky.. A lot of people leave the city, East Hartford for example. live here about a year, then head back.. Having to watch their water well, pump a septic system, rent their own dumpster or have the bi-weekly pick up, usually drives them back to the city.. Constant loss of power, phone and or cable which happens in my town 3 times a week at least, is the final cap in doing them in.. We, who live here, don't know any better and think everything is normal.. Our weekly power outages add up to about one hour or just over each week.. Also, the trip to Hartford (36MILES) one way, really does it in.. That is the down side of living in the last green vallwy because there is too much turn over of people and home sales which now makes an area very unstable..

 

[Poppa]

Mitch, the brewery was the reason for the trip. I was visiting a friend in San Antonio. He wanted to go to the brewery and who was I to say no. I forget which road we took east out of Shertz (sp?) but I passed my first and second Tractor Supply Stores sandwhiching in a big Lutheran University on the way. He wouldn't stop on the way east because the brewery only has one tour a day and he didn't want to miss it but on the way back I got him to stop.

The brewery was worth the drive. The woman who gave the tour was full of information and we sat around and talked with her for about an hour. There was just the two of us plus a couple guys had driven down from Dallas. They do give you free beer, seems it was a handful of wooden nickles and you got to taste anything they had on tap. Quite yummy.

Stopped at TSC on the way back, almost bought a George Strait (sp?) hat and walked around gawking at what was available (we don't have TSC around here)

Anyway, Shiner Brewery and a TSC, yeah, I would have to say that was a banner day. Oh, I forgot that was the same day I got a haircut for 4.50 at a little hole in the wall barber near Randolf AFB. Best haircut I ever got and fast. Guy had been there forever I guess and because he owned the land and the shop he was able to actually undercut the on base barber. Although to be truthful, it was an AFB. Never seen anyone undercut a Marine Base Barber. Even in Hawaii I only paid five dollars at the Marine base.

OK, sorry, you got me going about what a great day that was and I just about lost track of where I was.

 

[Inspector507]

I live where I do because I was born here. I have never lived more than 50 miles from the spot I was born. My family is all here, I couldn't imagine leaving them behind if I wanted to live somewhere else. My brother is planning on relocating out of state this summer, I hope not.
Do I like it here? Nope......no punches pulled there.

 

[JTC]

The East Coast in general just doesn't have the highway infrastructure in terms of capacity that the rest of country has. That 50 mile commute could take you 45 minutes without traffic but on a Summer Thursday or Friday evening or before a holiday more like 3 hours. The same traffic in other parts of the country just don't bother me as much as it does here because you don't have a steady stream of idiots cutting you off if you leave an extra 6" between you and the guy ahead of you.

Land costs are pretty crazy too, I couldn't afford to move here today. There is a lot of undeveloped land around but when the going rate starts at $350K for 2.5 acres, but if it's what you want, better buy it this year because it will go up 20% next year.

The Southern New England countryside is very beautiful, but I think I'm destined for a more rural community within 1 - 2 years.

Jim

 

[mitchdb]

That sounds like a great trip! I've never been to the brewery but I've been to my share of TSC's. I can go in there and just walk around for an hour or 2.

I wish I could find some cheap haircuts, they are about $10 around here.

Good story!