Do you like where you live?

[JesusChrysler]

Quite the thread to command a post from you TitaniumMan!





I can't bitch too much about iowa; after that eloquent report recently!







Matt

 

[pilotputz]

I LOVE living here on the Northern California coast!!!

I have lived all over the US and to me this is the PERFECT climate: Never too hot; never too cold. Not to mention the mountains and the big trees!!

I have been living in the vicinity since 2003 and can't think of anywhere else I'd rather live--on this continent anyway!!

 

[BwanaJim]

Western Washington is Great but the government here SUCKS.

 

[SpeakerLabFan]

I really like my spot - less than half hour to Seattle or Bellevue/Redmond w/ all the urban activity (and about 2 hours to Vancouver BC),

five minutes to a forested salt-water beach on Puget Sound,

and just a little over 30 minutes drive to mountain hikes and "the freedom of the hills"

Of course the other 8 months of the year its non-stop misting rain and I'd rather be in San Diego or Lihue.

 

[timofred]

i LOVE it

I grew up in Sydney, and if it wasn't for friends, I would NEVER go back.
My sig pic is the local surf.
Clean air and water, small town with some of the friendliest people you will ever find.:thmbsp:

 

[PELUDITO]

Hi, i live in TRES ARROYOS City - Atlantic Coast of Argentina
Always this city was very beautiful, with around 70.000 people, it had very wonderful and old buildings, like the Italian Society from 1888 for example
Tres Arroyos is at 50 KM from Claromeco , a little town with a beautiful beach around
and where a lot of people from some countrys around the world comes every year

Here is the problem in Tres Arroyos Citi for now !
All the best people are moving to another city or decide keep in they house

1- Because a lot of Assaults and a lot of Thief (10, 12 years old with guns) that beat the old people to robbery them

2 - because the others ones that don't make an assault, are in a very bad attitude in the downtown (basically a Saturday nigt) and listen Tropical music at very very loud volume causing disturbe

Here there's not people with education like 20 years ago, a lot of young boys with a very bad education and so dangerous in the streets

Tres Arroyos was a great city, and is now too, but the new, dangerous, uggly people from village that comes recently here make of it a very SAD, DANGEROUS and WITHOUT CULTURE city :-(((

here a link to the official AM radio since 1969 that post a few news from the city

the transit is terrible look at this please

http://www.tresarroyosturismo.com/

http://www.radiotresarroyos.com/

 

[rgwalker]

So where do you live? If you don't mind me asking.

Where are you located on the island? I grew up in Edmonton and have been living in Las Vegas for the past 14 years but Vancouver Island is my version of paradise and we will likely end up there someday. Many of my friends and family gravitated there and are spread out from Victoria to Tahsis with a concentration in the Cowichan Valley.

Bob W

 

[rgwalker]

Prince Edward Island,Canada..best province,best country.

I was the tour manager for the Reveen show and spent quite a bit of time at the Confederation Centre in Charlottetown between 1979 and 1995. Char'town is still one of my favorite cities and I miss those tours.

There was someone from PEI at Audio Heritage a few months ago trying to sell a pair of 604Es in 612 cabinets.

Bob W

 

[OvenMaster]

Guys, thank you for all your answers; this thread turned out far better than I'd hoped for.

As for myself, I checked "Not really". The job market is a disaster, it's a cultural backwater, lots of stuff is second-rate, and we don't even get some stores or restaurants the rest of you do. Some days I miss Canada's Niagara Peninsula very much.

 

[tdst51]

I really enjoy where I live, out in the middle of nowhere. I'm about a mile from the main highway, on the AR/MO state line, where we have a tavern, liquor/small convenience store (with anything you can imagine in stock), a gas station w/ cheap gas, a soon-to-open BBQ joint, and lotto tickets! Ten miles to the nearest town in either direction. We're in between two huge lakes and arguably the best trout fishing stream in the world- the White River. On the downside- no high-speed internet access, and this Bible Belt/Bible thumping sh!t gets old sometimes, and the restaurants on the whole are pretty bad, but you take the good with the bad...But best of all- my grandkids are only five miles down the road.

 

[dark matter]

Alternate placement

Not very partial to earth...Where are the worms in the picture postcards?

 

[kx250rider]

Except for the government and politics in California which I deplore, I'm very happy in Moorpark, CA. It's in a rural part of Ventura County; about 40 miles northwest of Los Angeles. Our house is on a hill, with view of mountains & valley, and to the east is the Ronald Reagan museum, and to the west we can see the ocean at Port Hueneme on a clear day. No crime to speak of, and half our neighbors don't even know where their house keys are. (they don't use them). Great dirt bike riding, great beach-adjacent weather, and very good people and excellent public schools. Moorpark High just won the national academic decathlon last year, and we've been the #1 and #2 safest city in the USA with pop. over 100,000, several times in the last 10 years!

I'm also very happy with our second home in Dallas... Clean, nice city, and the traffic and convenience there is much better than other places, along with favorable politics and govenrment. However, the weather sucks.

Charles

 

[spaceman]

I really like my spot - less than half hour to Seattle or Bellevue/Redmond w/ all the urban activity (and about 2 hours to Vancouver BC),

five minutes to a forested salt-water beach on Puget Sound,

and just a little over 30 minutes drive to mountain hikes and "the freedom of the hills"
Of course the other 8 months of the year its non-stop misting rain and I'd rather be in San Diego or Lihue.

Yeah, I really do like Seattle overall. Not long after I came here (mid-80s?), I worked as a helper for a better moving company, & saw a lot of Washington & Oregon. On the other end, I went down to Renton yesterday by bus, & going through the tunnel took forever with the light rail running too. :thumbsdn: But I got a nice deal on a Shimano 600 headset for my C'Dale, in the hard to find 1" flavor. :thmbsp: They rebuilt Renton too, there's a transit center now, a couple blocks long, & some new stores & such. Oh yeah, I finally saw the Boeing plant up in Everett a few weeks ago, buying tube gear near it. Their stuff in Renton is pretty cool, but seeing a 787 poking out of a hangar definitely gets your attention.

 

[Jovinyl]

Moved to Ma, Should have stayed in La. I don't even know how to explain it. I will say this if not for GF. I would have left some time ago as staying was not part of plan.

 

[Art K.]

I like my little neck of the woods...could be better but most likely would be worse.

 

[stereofanboy]

Negatives
Not many jobs.
Crooks and morons running things.
Hot summers (and springs and falls) with unbelieveable (to yankees) humidity.
Not on the cultural map at all.
Some hurricanes are kind of rough.

Positives
Low cost of living.
Our crooks and morons aren't as crooked as the ones running a lot of other places.
Mild winters. It's very green almost year 'round.
To be honest, I'm not a cultural snob. I'd rather watch a movie than a play and I read a lot of books. It doesn't matter to me where the books were written. There is still plenty of live music, although not nearly as much as even twenty years ago. The jazz musicians are dying off and not being replaced by the younger generation.
The locals are pretty friendly and the tourists don't stay long.
This is home for me and my roots here are deep. My first ancestors to settle here did so in 1717. I've lived away for a year each at three different places. Although I enjoyed learning new places and meeting new people, I never felt truly at ease elsewhere.

 

[Fran604g]

I've lived in the Finger Lakes area of NY my whole life and love the area.:thmbsp:

The down side is this area is located in NEW YORK...land of stupid high taxes and job loss...:thumbsdn:

 

[jayk]

south east vermont's ok for the most part-i live right on the edge of town, right where the woods and mountains (with world class ski resorts) start.
plenty of lakes, streams, and rivers.
a little too humid and rainey in the summer tho. taxes are too high.
not a lot of people which is very good. light traffic compared to the cities. very little crime. i don't lock my house or car.
i don't mind the winter at all. yet.

but! i'd much rather be in either aspen, telluride, big sur, or incline village nv on the shore of lake tahoe.

unfortunately, i've got copd so aspen, telluride, and incline are out cuz they're too high up in the mountains and i don't have the megabucks that it would take to live in big sur.
(or the other three, either, for that matter.)
i've been to all four places and lived in incline for 2 years so i know what i'm missing. :sigh:

family, including my 85 yr old dad, is all here in vermont so that helps meke it palatable. and probably the real reason i stay.

edit-there is a healthy live music 'scene' here, mostly jazz, classical, not really any rock joints anymore.
back, late '60s, the '70s, up to the mid '80s, this place ROCKED!!! bars and nightclubs all over the place. all the skiers enabled the good bands from new york, etc to come up here and got this area cooking.
now, it's much calmer, more 'gentrified', less funky, and more boring, imo.

 

[jayk]

So where do you live? If you don't mind me asking.

the marshalls

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looks fascinating to me.
click on map, bigger map appears, zoom til islands/majuro atoll come into view.

http://www.google.com/search?q=mars...s=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a

 

[Dan ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ]

For the most part, yes. The skanky parts of town are best avoided, but there's a lot of good to counteract the bad. The music scene is alive and doing well around here, so there's plenty of rock, jazz, blues to see every week at clubs, or in the park, or at coffee houses and delis. Downtown is being revived, the economy is good and housing + utilities are cheap.