Do you love where you live? Is it a great town? Tell me all about it. Where is it and what makes it so fantabulous?
Very little not to love about Portland, OR. Of course, I’ve only been a resident for about a week, but this neighborhood is tops. We can walk to top-notch restaurants, a theater, two bakeries, multiple antique stores, two medical providers, two vets, a chiro clinic, an acupuncturist, our insurance agent, and a bus stop where we can catch a ride into the downtown area. There is also an extensive hiking/biking trail nearby and a couple of parks. We loves our new home!
I live in the Capitol Hill neighborhood of Seattle, and I love it. From my apartment on a lovely tree-lined residential street (across from a cathedral) I can easily *walk *to my workplace, three large parks, several groceries, the best coffeeshops in town, a public library, my gym, dozens of restaurants and bars, Downtown Seattle, and two colleges.
The climate is not too hot and not too cold (though, famously, a bit rainy). People are friendly if a bit aloof. Cultural & ethnic diversity and liberal politics to suit my tastes (YMMV), and easy access to great hiking.
I don’t know if I’ll live the rest of my life here, but I wouldn’t mind.
Nearest town is ten miles away. Six acres of open field and eight acres of freshly cut trees (soon to be replanted). One side bordered by the Great Salkehatchie Swamp and three sides bordered by trees. Nearest neighbor is about a klick away, can’t see them for the trees. One mile from the nearest paved road. All manner of wildlife cross freely. No real light pollution, have a full sky of stars at night. No mortgage.
Wouldn’t trade it for the world.
A major city with all it offers (arts performances, museums, great restaurants, bookstores, history) but at an extremely livable scale. I’m 15 minutes from Center City (via either public transportation or an incredibly scenic drive), but live in a residential neighborhood in a house with a nice garden.
Love where I live. Near Seattle, which is a nice city. But I’m a ferry’s ride away, no neighbors and get to stare at the water every day.
Love it with all my heart. Hate it with all my mind, body and soul.
ETA: Rochester, NY
I love my little neighborhood so much that I moved right out of my parents’ house (where I grew up) to my own house a few streets away!
There’s nothing particularly exciting about my town per se, but it does have a wealth of conveniences within its boundaries. We also have a nice rec center, some parks and my neighborhood is very cool. Everyone has a half acre lot with different-looking and different-sized homes, and the neighbors are very nice.
What I like most about my town is that we’re literally between Cleveland and Akron, and I live adjacent to the freeway, so almost everything Northeast Ohio has to offer is within 30 minutes of my house. Yay!
Love it. Central Colorado Rockies. No neighbors and spectacular views from my deck.
Love it. Cape Town has great beaches, a stunning mountain, and a wonderful National Park all in the city limits. Couple that with the great wine farms and the laid-back lifestyle, and it’s brilliant to live here.
No, but I like it. It’s a working class town and we probably don’t quite fit in. I’d like some better restaurants and takeaway places, and there’s only a small independent cinema. We’re thinking about moving to somewhere a bit bigger, like Bristol, in the next year or so.
LONDON (UK): Have loved it a long time (feels like the centre of the world), have moments of pure hate (traffic, crowds, rude people, mostly traffic). I had been thinking of moving away as I’d started to get tired of the bad bits, but I’ve just moved to a new area in trendy/gentrifying East London which is rocking, and I’m back in love.
I love where I live, I’ve lived in this area all my life. I live in a rural county, there are only 2 small towns in the 500-square-mile county. No malls, no starbucks, no toll booths, no traffic to speak of. Mostly woods, fields, houses, cows, corn. 
The stars are bright at night, and all sorts of wildlife are around; deer, fox, racoon, possom, all sorts of birds.
There are 3 cities within 40 minutes, so I’m not that far away from civilzation.
I live about 2 miles outside one of the towns, but the road I live on is fairly sparsely populated, I only have one neighbor in sight about 1/8 mile away. My property is all grass, but I have woods bordering on 3 sides and a field on the other.
Living in London is like having a lover who treats you really badly a lot of the time and makes you miserable, but who, just at the point when you’ve finally had enough and are ready to turn your back on them forever, sweeps you off your feet and reminds you just how fun and cool and interesting and exciting they are, and how everyone/everywhere else pales into insignificance by comparison.
I’m pretty happy in Memphis. I love my house, I’m satisfied with my neighborhood, and there’s always something fun to do. I don’t care for the school system but from what I hear it’s about standard. Crime is awful but I guess we’re used to it.
Oh, hellz yeah! Budapest is the best city I have ever seen. It’s got culture and history and wonderful people and theaters and restaurants and the best mass transit system evah! We don’t have/need a car or television. I’ve lived here a year and a half so far and still gawk like a tourist. I walk to the Danube and am still just amazed that I actually live in this gorgeous city. It’s not all roses (the bureaucracy of *everything *can be daunting), but the pluses far outweigh any minuses. So count me as one who LOVES where I live.
My English country town features:
- walking to work
- low crime rate
- cheaper housing than cities
- countryside
- fresh air
- many people who get to know you, because it’s not a city
I live in the very heart of Tel Aviv, and I love it. Sure, the weather can be unpleasant, and some of the building facades are crumbling; I could complain about the traffic and the parking (but I don’t have a car), or the suicide bombings (although there hasn’t been one for over three years), but really, it’s a great place. Beautiful architecture, great food (more sushi bars per capita than any place outside Japan!), wonderful coffee shops, lively nightlife (or so they tell me) gorgeous beaches, awesome people.
As for home - I rent an apartment in a 1930’s Bauhaus building near the Cinemateque, which is walking distance from absolutely everywhere - 15 minutes from 2 malls, a zillion restaurants and a train station - and most importantly, is right near Rothschild Boulevard, which is all you ever relay need to be.
When I was working on a project at the American embassy in Budapest, we ended up staying wayyyyy up in the hills on the Pest side of the river. In order to get to work, we walked to the funicular (which ended there), took it down to the bottom, got on a bus to get to where the end of the subway train line was, then took that across the river to get near the embassy. Every day was an adventure. I remember the Burger King in the old train depot (or was it a McDonalds?). Best setting for a fast food joint ever, but we normally stayed clear of it in favor of local restaurants. I also remember those huge, weird dogs that looked like sheep.
I love Washington, DC. My favorite thing about it is that it is filled with smart people who are willing to talk about serious issues. What outsiders don’t understand about Washington is that it has a high nerd content, and is a certain type of nerd Mecca.
I remember I was in a cab once with a bunch of people, one of whom was newly arrived from Kazakhstan. We slipped into Russian and the Kenyan cab driver joined in because he went to university in Moscow. Our friend from Kazakhstan was just blown away. Nerdtown, mytown.