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Do you like where you live?

Do you like where you live?

  • Yes, I love it! Could stay here forever

    Votes: 17 39.5%

  • Yes, it's okay, but I might move somewhere else eventually

    Votes: 10 23.3%

  • Neutral; don't love it or hate it

    Votes: 8 18.6%

  • No, I dislike it, but have to stay for some reason

    Votes: 3 7.0%

  • No, I hate it! I wish I could leave right now

    Votes: 3 7.0%

  • Other [please post]

    Votes: 2 4.7%
  • Total voters
    43
MoodyBlues

MoodyBlues

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Just wondering how others feel about where they live. I've been all over the map--literally and figuratively!--and have lived in places I couldn't stand as well as places I really loved.

I'm interested in hearing your stories. If you love where you're living, why? If you hate where you're living, why? and why do you stay there?

For me, I spent years living in a place where I never felt at home, and that I strongly disliked. It was circumstance that caused that.

I've been back home in California now for eight years, and I couldn't be more thrilled. I feel like *ME* again. Seeing the beautiful San Gabriel Mountains every day warms my soul. And being able to practically live outside 365 days a year is so...NORMAL! I love that I can do that again.

So, what's your situation?
 
You bet,I love where I live.This is why I moved back here,The Rocky Mountains are beautiful and the climate is great.
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Chicago is a great area, great history, great city, and all. Sure our roads suck, and we have like the highest murder rate is all of the united states, I want to leave.

I have to stay, because I'm only 19, and just getting up and walking out isn't easy. It's expensive out in the real world and on what I make, I can't get by more than a year.

If I had a choice, I would move somewhere in Utah (Don't ask why) or outside Reno, NV. Somewhere on the west coast, but not too west, I hate the beach.

Maybe someday. Not today.
 
Boston, Massachusetts the Hub of the universe, What's not to like here except for the bombing and the blizzards and the crazy drivers and the...

Actually I really love this place. Can't imagine moving anywhere else. Unless of course that whole climate change thing floods it during our lifetime. :D
 
sfbloodbrother said:
Some places in Cali are too crowded.
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This is something I hear a lot--but in day to day life I don't see that. I'm in the lovely San Gabriel Valley, in a city that's so quiet my mom used to liken it to being in a cemetery. :eek: Seriously, I can sit out on my porch in the evening and see MAYBE two cars drive by in an hour. There are many places right here in the LA area that are serene, quiet, not crowded, and just spectacularly beautiful. But when you're in the mood for crowded places, they're easy to find, too. :D
 
I'm the 'other.' To specify, I think it's terrific here in mile-high central Arizona. I've been here almost twenty years and might wind up staying. But a lot of crap has happened to me here and it strafes me with with ugly memories every day...

I lost my six-figure job. I was diagnosed with something on which I now subsist on disability pay. I lost my wife as result of the first two items. I lost my house along with it, a hilltop house that I designed. I now live in a singlewide right down a curvy hill from the previous. It's always up there, mocking my descent. And if that's not bad enough, I hear my ex-wife, advertising every two minutes on the only decent radio station in town. I have no problem with her but I sure don't need to hear her rattling in my head, ten years after we divorced. Too many bad memories...

So, assuming I have to stay in this state and having no desire to move to Phoenix, I'm thinking about moving to Bullhead City. I wouldn't be moving there because it's a better place, it's actually worse and hotter than hell. But it has the mother of all distractions -- Laughlin's twenty casinos are right across the river.

In fact, I'm going there Monday for three nights to look into this possibility. I've already been there about fifty times, but this time is the first time I'm considering a move... funny you brought up this poll today.
 
Oh, Laughlin! My mom used to go there a lot. If you're planning on gambling there, I hope your luck is better than hers. :D

I really like Arizona and used to toy with the idea of living there. But now that I'm firmly planted back where I belong in Southern California, nope, not going to happen. I've vowed that I will:

A) never move out of state again, and,
B) in case I break rule #A, never be landlocked again
 
I got stories about SoCal too, particularly recording studios in West LA where I stayed up three nights in a row, packing my nose. But that was way back in the Eighties, when nose candy was a basic food group. In addition, I don't really remember it now, except that it almost took me down.
 
MoodyBlues said:
There are many places right here in the LA area that are serene, quiet, not crowded, and just spectacularly beautiful.
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(Funny quoting myself. :))

Thought I'd post a few pics of a serene, quiet, bucolic, uncrowded, beautiful place. Does it look familiar?

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If you're overcome by an urge to start whistling...well, it could be because you recognize this as the lake in Mayberry where Andy and the gang hung out in The Andy Griffith Show. Think it's in rural North Carolina? Think again! It's right smack in the middle of Los Angeles. :eek: It's actually Franklin Canyon Lake, just off Mulholland Dr in the Hollywood Hills. :)
 
MoodyBlues said:
If you're planning on gambling there, I hope your luck is better than hers.
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Even though I don't know her, I think my luck is actually worse than hers. But I have nothing but time and need something to fill it, so...
 
jefboyardee said:
Even though I don't know her, I think my luck is actually worse than hers.
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Impossible. You're above ground. :eek: (She died last year. Going to casinos was her FAVORITE thing to do. :))

But I have nothing but time and need something to fill it, so...
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Well, just be careful. I've never had any inkling of becoming addicted to anything, but for years I thought that if I ever started gambling, THAT might be the thing that would snare me. I'm happy to say that it hasn't, but a lot of people do get into really serious trouble with it. My trick is to NEVER, EVER use a credit/debit card or write a check at a casino. I go with $X and when that's gone, it's gone, period, that's it.
 
She died last year.
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Oops, sorry, didn't pick that up. My mom, who all but hated casinos, died last May. A friend tried to coerce her into trying a slot once. She replied, "Why would I want to stick a twenty dollar bill in this box when I know beforehand that I'll never see it again?"
 
jefboyardee said:
Oops, sorry, didn't pick that up.
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No problem. :)

My mom, who all but hated casinos, died last May.
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Mine was in March. I still miss her. :(

A friend tried to coerce her into trying a slot once. She replied, "Why would I want to stick a twenty dollar bill in this box when I know beforehand that I'll never see it again?"
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That's just it, though! You never know when you might win. In fact, I saw something on the news yesterday(?) about a couple who hit a $2+ million jackpot on a slot machine in Vegas. And, apparently, that machine was notoriously stingy. As for me, I hate to admit it but I've actually had really good luck with slot machines. That used to piss my mom off [in a good-hearted way]. We'd leave our favorite casino, Pechanga, with her licking her wounds and me giggling and smirking away. :D
 
I've actually had really good luck with slot machines.
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I don't play slots much, usually just with the comp money I get from playing poker. I go up then down then out, almost every time. At least when I lose at poker, it's because of stuff I could've / should've done differently... it's easier to get mad at myself than mad at a box.
 
We've been in DC for about 6 years now and I've come to really like the city. It's a place of transplants but you still see some who've grown up here.
I've never seen met anyone who works for anything related to the government so, :p.
The food scenes has grown tremendously which is awesome. We love our neighborhood, its diversity, ease of getting around (I rarely ever use the car but the wife needs it for work).
Biggest downside is obvious: It's really friggin expensive to live here! :eek:
There's a couple things I miss about living in Lawrence, KS where I was prior, but we can definitely see ourselves staying in DC for a while yet. :D
 
jefboyardee said:
I don't play slots much, usually just with the comp money I get from playing poker. I go up then down then out, almost every time. At least when I lose at poker, it's because of stuff I could've / should've done differently... it's easier to get mad at myself than mad at a box.
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Indeed.

I've toyed with the idea of playing some of the table games, maybe blackjack, but can't quite bring myself to do it. I don't want to make an ass out of myself before I get used to playing in that environment. :eek:
 
I've toyed with the idea of playing some of the table games
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Table games are more fun and lots more sociable than slots, but like any house game, the odds are against you. So just play with what you're willing to lose. (I can say that but I'm long past obeying it.) Don't worry about being new at it -- just find a friendly table, have a seat and tell the dealer you're a virgin.

I just play tables when I have nothing better to do, like Omaha Hi-lo. That poker game is always going somewhere in Laughlin.
 
I was going to choose "neutral" but I decided on other because my feelings are less than neutral. ;)

I'm an urban kid currently imprisoned in suburbia... Born and raised in Filthydelphia, transplanted to Amish buggy country in my teens and moved around enough to never feel at home no matter where I live.

I don't love it, I don't hate it, I don't accept it ... frankly, I don't really care one way or another. It's comfortable, close enough to an airport so I can get the heck out when I need to and have enough room to play with my dogs.

Truth be told, there's really only one place in the world that I feel like i belong and that's in the grand halls of a museum ... any museum.
 
I grew up, for lack of a better term, in suburban Chicago. When I grew up, also for lack of a better term, I moved to Connecticut, upstate New York, Wisconsin, SF CA, LA CA, Seattle-ish and gave up moving when I got to Arizona... but here I go again?
 
I was born in Los Angeles and raised in the beautiful San Gabriel Valley, in Pasadena and Arcadia. But I had that itch...thinking there must be something even BETTER somewhere else. I left home at 16 and quickly moved 3,000 miles away. I liked Florida, but being so young--and considering that a HUGE portion of its population back then was old people--I felt kind of out of place. I loved the beaches, which were very different from SoCal's beaches, but I hated the flatness. :eek: Having grown up seeing the San Gabriel Mountains every day, it really was culture shock to be in such a flat...flat place. Oh, I DIDN'T like its humidity or its huge bugs!

Next stop was Albuquerque. I really liked it there. We lived near the Sandia Mountains, so it reminded me of home, seeing snow-capped mountains and everything. I loved the Native American influence and history in New Mexico, and was in awe on outings to places like Santa Fe with its amazing jewelry, and going underground to explore kivas.

Next on the list was Dallas. Oh dear me... What can I say? Flat, ugly, completely brown/dead/bare in winter, stifling humidity and heat in summer, mosquitoes that turned my skin black within moments of going outside, ice and below freezing temperatures in winter... I was a fish out of water there. But circumstance kept rearing its ugly head and we ended up living there for years. But I never, ever felt like I belonged, and I always maintained my identity as a Californian.

Back home in SoCal now, in the same city I rolled my eyes at as a teenager [because of its snobbishness], I couldn't be happier. As noted earlier, seeing the San Gabriels every day again actually does something to my soul. And being able to be outside--COMFORTABLY, and not bundled up or stripped down--all day, every day is amazing. And ZERO mosquito bites! I haven't seen a mosquito since I moved back here eight years ago, except for a few up in the mountains one time.
 
I'm in Nashville, TN. The city itself is okay, I guess. I just wish it was more diverse, more pedestrian-friendly and not focus so much on country music and football.
 
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