Do you like where you live?

[hardrock94]

HI EVERYONE, I'M another person that has lived all over the US. Now,were here in Central IN. My wife is from Seattle,and she get's home sick,all the time. We have built a nice place here,it's home. We have been here for ten+ years now. My wife will be retiring in a few years,and we most likely,will sell,and move back to the great northwest. I've been disabled,since I got out of the military,in 1970,got into electronics,and vintage stereo's. Picked up a lot of stuff,while in the service,dirt cheap. Still go to the px,and look.

Cheers Everyone

 

[goldwax]

I voted "Yeah, for the most part."

I love the town I live in--South Pasadena, CA. It's five miles closer to my work than where we used to live--Pasadena proper.

It's got a really small-town feel, even though I'm two blocks from LA. We can walk to Trader Joe's, the park, the library, shops, etc. And the schools are excellent.

What I don't like so much is that we're living in a 2BR apartment in a 30-unit place. A couple meathead neighbors, though nothing too terrible. Still, before this we lived in a nice, quiet duplex, and it seemed like a little house all of our own, the way it was built. Didn't have to worry about noise (ours or anyone elses) and we had tons of storage space and stuff.

But the good thing is that this place turns out to have the cheapest rent of all the places we looked at, and it's bigger than most of the other places. Landlord keeps the place fairly rundown-looking though, but I guess I'd rather keep my money in the bank than give him extra every month to make the place look perfect.

All in all I can't complain--though it does motivate me to think about getting a house. In LA, though, not so easy, esp. on one income!

 

[eljr]

Could not possibly be happier.

 

[PioneerGuy85]

Florence, AL here - and I HATE it.

Dumbest people I've ever seen. Too much inbreeding, I think.

If only I was joking...

I'm moving to PA ASAP. Something about that place just draws me in, I feel like I'm home when I'm there.

 

[Deczor]

How could I not!?!

I mean really. Anyone that doesn't love it here must be mad.

 

[jayk]

How could I not!?!
I mean really. Anyone that doesn't love it here must be mad.

based on those pics, it looks pretty good to me!

 

[hendertuckie]

I love everything about Southern Nevada except the summers.

 

[kx250rider]

How could I not!?!

I mean really. Anyone that doesn't love it here must be mad.

A place that I'm scared to visit, for fear I'd never return to America... Especially knowing that you're allowed to buy new Diesel-powered small cars, which have been politically stifled in the USA since the 1980s.

Charles

 

[mywifespissed]

Not really. I used to live in a 1912 craftsman house in a sleepy old city 30 miles north of Seattle called Everett. I was happy. Very walkable and slow pace of life. Now I'm in a generic suburb of Seattle without sidewalks and g-darn cul-de-sacs everyflippingwhere. But my wife just loves it.

 

[Deczor]

A place that I'm scared to visit, for fear I'd never return to America... Especially knowing that you're allowed to buy new Diesel-powered small cars, which have been politically stifled in the USA since the 1980s.

Charles

Yeah, you have to be careful of that. We get lots of Canadians, Americans, English, Irish, South Africans, Scots... basically anyone, coming to visit and never leaving.

A girl took a cheap room in our old flat for a couple of months while she was visiting from ireland. She's been year over 5 years now.
One of my best mates came here from the sates for a visit when his daughter was born. She's now half way through her first year of shool around the corner from my house...

By all means, come. Just don't leave anything behind that you might want to keep.

 

[Divotdog]

Boise is a great little town.

 

[rroobbcc]

Everywhere has its advantages and disadvantages. Lately I have been missing Europe, but not necessarily the weather. Eventually I will probably maintain an apartment in Germany or Northern Italy, and a house in the US.

 

[Deczor]

Everywhere has its advantages and disadvantages. Lately I have been missing Europe, but not necessarily the weather. Eventually I will probably maintain an apartment in Germany or Northern Italy, and a house in the US.

Do it! Germany is lovely!

 

[andy]

I've been in Austin for about 18 months, and so far I love it. Even the record breaking heat this summer didn't bother me too much (nowhere near as much as a normal Pennsylvania winter). The only down sides are difficulty making friends my own age, and I HATE the house I'm renting (cheap, shoddy construction, crappy appliances, poor layout, not an ounce of architectural style). I'm sure the friends will happen gradually, and I'm planning to buy a house as soon as possible.

 

[tshoejohn]

I just moved out of Madison Heights Michigan, the bad economy has hit HARD there. I decided to make myself mobile and am temporarily living in my family’s cottage just south of Hudson Michigan (bottom center of the state). It’s a great place in the summer with the lake, boats, and bonfires at night, but kind of isolated in the colder months.

 

[diamondsouled]

Just moved from the Yukon in northern Canada about 2500 kilometers, as the raven flies, south to SW Saskatchewan.

The Yukon is a beautiful place, only 30,000 people in an area larger than California. Only thing that turned me off was the bugs. So bad at times it makes it impossible to enjoy the great outdoors and who really wants to dip themselves in deet?

Saskatchewan has it beauty. More blue sky days than anywhere else in Canada.

I've lived in the Pacific Northwest as well and loved it. You have to learn to cope with a months straight rain though.

For me it's the people that make the place. I can acclimatize to most anything if the folks are friendly. :yes:

Cheers

Lar

 

[RT Fan]

My wife and I live in Battery Park City in lower Manhattan. This is what my neighborhood looks like: http://http://www.nyc-architecture.com/LM/LM072.htm
It is very different from the rest of the city, built on landfill from the World Trade Center project, so if you look at old aerial photos of the city, BPC didn't exist prior to the 60's. We have lived here for 13+ years and really enjoy it. We have a beautiful promenade right outside out building which runs along the Hudson River down to the Battery, (yes we have a real fort-Castle Clinton, that defended lower Manhattan. It now hosts concert and sells tix to the Statue of Liberty Ferry.) and north to Chelsea. There is a nice marina just outside of the World Financial Center where some very impressive yachts berth during the summer and Denis Connor keeps a pair of America Cup sailboats.
Much different from the famed concrete canyons of the rest of Manhattan, yet easy walking distance to Wall Street. I would have ranked it higher in the poll except for the 9/11 attacks from which my area is still reeling. There is one photo of the World Financial Center in the link showing some of the destruction to the buildings, but it doesn't begin to show the devastation that we suffered on that terrible day.
So tomorrow on the anniversary of the attacks of 9/11 please remember the victims who perished at the WTC, the Pentagon and in PA and the brave men and women of our armed forces who are fighting to keep us safe from further attacks. From where my wife and I live, it is an ever present reminder of the threats facing us in an ever more complicated world.

 

[jayk]

My wife and I live in Battery Park City in lower Manhattan. This is what my neighborhood looks like: http://http://www.nyc-architecture.com/LM/LM072.htm

your link doesn't work, for me, anyway, so here's some other pix of the area.
if my link works.

it does look like a very nice area.

 

[markshan]

I like Pittsburgh but the air quality is terrible. If I could have ocean air, four seasons, great arts and sports, and a low cost of living that would be great, but I haven't found that place.

 

[EricC]

Now that I am out of DC I am much happier. This summer was much better without the terrible heat.