Why do you live where you live?

RobS · Jan 3, 2002

We were at a festival of some sort there a few years back. There were a lot of vintage tractors and swarms of yellow jackets /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

Seems like it was a lot of fun though /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Bayrat · Jan 3, 2002

Well Danny, I guess my job at the local utility along with family connections is what has kept me in the same area all these years. I have always enjoyed living near the water and upstate NY has the best fresh water fishing and recreational boating around. I have been traveling to the 1000 Islands to fish since I was ten. Although some of my family has now spread out around the country (including my Marine Recruiter son), my parents and in-laws are quite old and in need of mine and the wife's help. About ten years ago, we purchased some acreage on top of a hill along with a twenty year old house. I have spent most of my free time improving upon it. I can see Lake Ontario from my kitchen window along with deer, turkey, fox, coyote and countless birds and other animals. I have traveled to other states and find something beautiful about all of them. I go to Nevada every year to visit the city of sin/w3tcompact/icons/love.gif, and at one time considered buying a condo out there for retirement. But after a week, I am so glad to be back at my homestead /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif, that idea fades away. Our weather is moderated somewhat by the lake, but that same lake can dump some pretty big snowfalls on us. I would have to say, New England is appealing to me as well, but the harsher winters are not. My only complaint about NY is the left sided politics and high taxes, which usually do go hand in hand.

genelp · Jan 3, 2002

My wife and I and several couples from our church went to a similar place near Nappanee several years ago (too long ago to remember exactly where, but I believe it was east just north of Hwy 6). If my memory serves me correctly we went in the winter time. I do remember everone sitting around one two table or tables, and the room being was lighted by oil lamps. Of course the food was fantastic (I love their pies).
Actually to be honest I'm curious about the Amish ways because my Grandfather on my dad's side was Amish, born and raised in the Nappanee area, but left the church when he was young. He was born in 1869 so when he left the church they weren't living any different than anyone else, and by the way I'm 48 so many people are amazed that I have a Grandfather that was born right after the Civil War.
I agree that they are a national treasure and I hope that the Federal and State governments leave them alone.
Now that I've wrote all of this I think I'll get something to eat! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif /w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Gene

Cornflake · Jan 4, 2002

"We're Americans! Do you know what that means?
It means that out forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world."
- Stripes

jdkid · Jan 4, 2002

Hi ya
like most people including forefathers we live where we can give our kin what they need ,if that means seting sail to new countrys we do it ,to say where i live is the best place in the world is true and fulse (?) to you it's the best but to someone else it's the pits .the old saying do a job ya love and ya never work a day in ya life, is true .Why i live where i live ??job,friends,lifestyle,things i enjoy best sum's it up
catch ya
JD Kid

MossRoad · Jan 4, 2002

Hey, I'm 41 and my grandmother was born in 1896 and granpa was born in 1888. The lived to 98 and 91 respectively. They had kids late and so did my parents and so did I.

gnawbone · Sep 21, 2003

Boondox,

I lost 2 of my buddies over the years, one was a golden mix and the other a pure bred golden. Those were a couple of the roughest days of my life.

Right now we have an English Springer Spaniel. Holy cow! What a nut. She is the silliest, most lovable dog I've ever had. I can't help but think about that day down the road where I'll have to say good-bye, again, to man's best friend. As I get older the thought of that day gets harder to bare. That is going to be a sad time. But for now, we have a riot and she is such a sweatheart!

Slamfire · Sep 23, 2003

I'm livin' here because my wife, a Georgia peach, wouldn't live any farther north. Traded the 8 acres in PA, I got from my granddad, for 32 acres, all wooded, here. I'm beginnin' to think I bit off more'n I can chew. One thing different here in East TN than LA County is there are more meth labs here. /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif

rancar · Sep 23, 2003

Thanks Stan for reviving this thread....missed it completely since is was started before I joined TBN.

I live where I live because our place has been in my family since 1951 when my grandparents (immigrants from the Ukraine who came to this country shortly after WWI) retired from their jobs in New York City and wanted to buy an old farm similar to what they had known back in the Ukraine. They found it in Cambridge, New York. I can remember visiting the old farm since I was 3 or 4 years old. I have good and rich memories of my childhood when we visited the old farm as kids. I've seen the seasons of nature and life pass with time but many things of the old farm remain the same. When I had the chance to move to upstate New York in 1986, I leaped at this opportunity and moved back full time to the old farm.....which at the time remained unlived in for 5 years after both my grandparents and uncle passed on. Moving back in, I started to rekindle those good memories again. I married, started renovations on the old farmhouse and barn buildings, and I suppose I will die here as well. This is OK since it is ONLY these good memories generated in life that I can take with me when I pass from this earth. This, my friends, is the reason I live where I live.

...Bob