Why do you live where you live?

[MossRoad]

I understand the nothing in common thread. If its not there, its not there. Columbus is a nice town. I really like the architecture. Even the new bridge on 65 is cool. And southern Indiana is nice with of all the hills and forests. Except that its never cold enough down there /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.

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[bgott]

That's one of the many reasons I'm single. I like my privacy and if I go visit someone most of the time I get a room. If they come visit me they always get a room. I've also found that most of the time if they don't have enough money for a room they turn out to be free loading PITAs. I got tired of my ex's family showing up and me having to spend two days overhauling their car to get rid of them.

 

[Alan L.]

Gee I hope our brides aren't reading this....

I love my in-laws, but the only problem is they are in 3 locations from Houston to our area in North Texas to Missouri. Divorce (theirs - not mine) causes this.

I was born and grew up in a small town (800 people - 1200 now) in North Texas. Went to first grade through high school (11 in my graduating class). My wife moved to town from Dallas as a freshman in high school and we got married while I was in college. After college (1976) we moved back to my home town and built a home in 1980. Live there and raised our 2 children until we sold it last December and moved onto our 24 acres 6 miles west of town, in the middle of nowhere. The Mrs. saw surveyors across the street in a vacant pasture in town and that was it - she was itching to get out of town. We rushed and drilled a water well, dug a tank (pond), a road, put in a septic, and built a 40' by 60' metal shop building. We built 880 square feet of living quarters inside the building.

We've been here a year the 15th and it has been GREAT!!! The extreme quiet, bright stars, and fresh air are just awesome. Sunsets are beautiful, and we see about 3 or 4 cars an hour go by on our rock county road.

In this part of Texas it gets HOT in the summer and wet, windy, nasty cold in the winter, with little snow. Hardly any spring or fall in between. No mountains or beaches near.

But most family is close by, as are friends I went to the first grade with. I couldn't move.

Alan L., TX
South of Bugtussle
North of Mustang
On the banks of Buck Creek

 

[raptor]

MossRaod

I'm currently hunting with a female Harris Hawk (Parabuteo unicinctis) for cotton tail rabbits. I enjoy watching the true falcons hunt, but have hunting territory better suited for hawks. Thanks for asking.

Terry

 

[TerryinMD]

Hmmm... where do I begin.

I was born in Grove City, Pa and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pa. For the first 27 years of my life, I lived in Pgh except for the time in the service. I went to school in Pgh and got my first real job there.

After about three years at the first job, I got bored and started looking around. Since I worked with Control Data Computers, I thought it would be cool to work for them. So, I got lucky and landed a job with CDC and that started my gypsy lifestyle.

Here's a synopsis - Minneapolis, MN for training; Rochester, NY - University of Rochester lab support; back to Pgh, PA for a couple of years; moved to New Hope, Yardley, Newtown, PA - support Princeton University lab; Minneapolis, MN - operating system development; Pittsburgh, PA - put out system fires wherever needed; Got married on Saturday - moved to Los Alamos, NM on Monday - provide networking and system support; Fredericksburg, VA - first child, networking/system support for Naval Weapons Center; Atlanta, GA - second child, provide pre/post sales support to various customers; North Potomac and finally Sharpsburg, MD - pre/post sales support. Now all of this was with CDC.

Left CDC, moved over to total Goverment contracting with SAIC to support the US Army - provided engineering tteam lead support - telecommunications design (data and voice); Lockheed-Martin - site security monitoring for DISA; Lockheed-Martin - network monitoring and design for EPA; UUNET/WorldCom - project management (configuration management, project management, and requirements management).

As you see, I've bounced around a lot. After getting married and having two children my wife suggested (key word here) that we should stay in the Sharpsburg, MD area. If we had to live in any of the other places, it would be New Mexico. The reason we left there was that we missed being so far from Western PA (36 hrs of driving!!).

Washington County, MD is a wonderful place to live and raise your children. The school system is pretty good - not perfect (are any?). The people we've met and associate with are just great. We live in a rural area surrounded by farms. The minimum acreage is one acre, but in most cases the lots are 3 acres and above.

We built on our property because the original 1.5 acres we wished to build on could not get a clear title. So, we had to drop back a punt. The women we rented from owned the 3 acres and offered them to us. So, we investigated being the general contractor for the house and getting a construction load and , well, the rest is history.

By far, it was one of the best decisions we ever made. Our children can walk around and we do not have to worry about them. Everyone looks out for each other. People in unfamilar cars are stopped by all and asked their business - in a friendly way. If anyone is up to no good, they get the message and quietly leave. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

We have all of the amenties of living in an urban area. Drive 20-30 minutes for any kind of shopping you wish. Drive an hour and we're in the DC area.

Do wish miss anything in the city - no way. We have everything we could want - and even more. /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.

Terry

 

[Mac624]

Hi, all

It's hard to understand, I'm from Germany but Ì don't feel like a German, I'm that what we called a Rheinlaender, my people live in my area, since You count the times. Germany is not a country for easy living, like it seems in the states, but
in some areas here You can feel a kind of independence of the Government, You do what You what to on the border to illegality. The Government and his institutions can kiss my a....
But in a special way I love my area, it is home for me, my wife and our kids. But we have another home in Poland, where my wife is from, You can do things there, You'll never think about in Germany, I believe this is our second home. My wife has some acres of land there, and we gonna go farming there as soon as we built up her Farmhouse with help from her family, so I won't have to miss my home here, and we have a home there. And I ask You: Why should we remove to another place?
Bernhard, Derichsweiler,Rheinland, Germany

 

[Molerj]

Not much of a story here. Graduated high school in '76 got hired in the steel mill in '77.
Always lived in a small town, 500 at the most. Married a girl from about 7 miles away that I
I didn't meet until '81. She graduated from the same school 4 yrs. after me. Rented a nice
little house that the fellow was trying to sell for a few yrs. It had nice garage & 5 acres
of land with 10 100' rows of grapes. House sold all of the sudden & we had to move out.
Not wanting to rent in the city we moved back with my parents. One child & a lot of
looking at houses later we found some property about 5 miles away & built our home which
we prompty christened with our second girl. I noticed alot of people had to move away
for jobs. We were fortunate to find jobs close by so that we could stay close to our
relatives. We lost quite a few the last 10 yrs. & we were glad that we could share those
last yrs. with them.

 

[MossRoad]

When I was a kid there was a guy that had redtails. He hunted with them in the industrial park. Lots of bunnies in that landscaping. I was amazed that he could let it go. It would go up and sit on the edge of the factories while he walked through the bushes. The bunnies would come out and the hawks never missed. He'd run up and kill the rabbit if it wasn't already dead. Then he'd get the bird on his arm and kind of toss it in the air. It would circle around and he'd take a dead sparrow out of his pouch and throw it in the air. The hawk would take it and eat it up on the factory while he started through the bushes again. Way too cool.

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[bpence]

Interesting how you comment about Germany. We had an exchange student from Germany with us from August 2000 through July 2001. Her mother came over about a week before Mareike was to return home. Her comments about Germany sounded very much like yours. In fact, after only 8 days in the U.S., she didn't want to return to Germany. That was kind of interesting.....we had an exchange student who REALLY didn't want to go back to Germany, and then her mother came and wanted to stay here as well.

I guess the kind of freedom we have in this country.......we take for granted. Although many other countries are "free", maybe they're not as free as we are.



Bob Pence

 

[Mac624]

Hi bpence,
we got the same freedom like You in the states, sorry, but I won't live overthere, I love my area, it's really beautiful here, but ist is the Government that makes live so hard, more and more taxes and restriction, but I've found my own way to live also my wife, our children and my friends. You can believe me, the Rheinland is my home and my country, but it's sad but through, it belongs to Germany, and I'm not able to change it.
Bernhard, Derichsweiler, Germany