I like that we are a half-mile from a really good bicycle trail, two miles from a great beach and a mile and a half from Marcie’s place of employment. I like that we are twenty miles from my father, fifteen from my sister, seventy five from Marcie’s parents and about 1800 from my ex-wife. I like the way the sun shines in Florida and I like the spectacular thunderstorms we get in the summer. I like seeing porpoise in the Gulf, manatees in the bay and alligators EVERYWHERE. I like that we have a nice townhouse with a swimming pool and that we live among nice people.
How it looks in my rearview mirror every time I leave town.
Just dreaming of the day it’s for good.
I’m a 2-minute walk from the beach.
I’m ten minutes from work.
I’m three hours from D.C. and family.
Other than that, not much. It’s a nice area, but not really special. Now, if I was still living in the Pacific NW, I’d have lots to say.
i love to drive… and speed limits are not enforced here… i love that…
public transport (local train) runs till 1.30am or so… and restarts at 4.00am or so… so i can always get home after a late night, even when i don’t have a vehicle…
it’s by the sea…
I live just outside Baltimore (waves to JuanitaTech) and in addition to the great stuff in Baltimore, we have both great beaches to the east and great mountains to the west, each within a 2-3 hour drive.
We also have great ethnic festivals.
And we have The Book Thing!
I am 20 minutes from NYC, where just about everything happens.
I have 6 or 7 shopping malls within 5 to 20 minutes from me.
With a 30 minute drive I have lots of farms and countryside.
Lots of historical sights.
I am close to the Jersey Shore: Seaside Heights, Point Pleasant, Belmar etc. If I drive a little longer I can be in Wildwood or Atlantic city.
I like that we have season changes.
Most jobs pay well.
Most of my family lives here.
I love it here. Some don’t, but you can find those folks anywhere.
Fourth largest city in the U.S. - there’s a lot happening here.
• The Museum District - adjacent to which I live - we’ve got the Museum of Fine Arts (with much, including a great Frederick Remington collection), the Contemporary Arts Museum (always cookin’), the Glassell School of Art (Oh, those kids), the recently redone Museum of Science and Industry (great Energy exhibit - I’ve got a friend buggin’ me to become a docent) - and right across the street from me are the Rothko Chapel and the Menil Collection - privately funded, the Menil Collection includes a display of surrealist art that confounds description - those Man Ray and Salvidor Dali things you’ve seen in print a hundred times? - the originals are hanging 50 yards away from me right now!
• I don’t get to the opera that often, about every 10 years or so (and, if I hadn’t dated an opera singer it would’ve been even less), but I hear that they’re good. The Houston Symphony I attend about 4-5 times a year, and they are a treat.
• The Montrose - where I live - Houston’s Greenwich Village - the “alternative” neighorhood, I’m told. The Heights rivals this.
• The Beach - Galveston is cool, handy, and Corpus is just down the road.
• Lola’s - Baby, baby
• NASA!
• How could one forget Rice University? (substantial in my upbringing)
• Nightlife - whooh! Houston’s got it! Downtown’s the new focus.
• Confluence of several ecosystems; the coastal plains meet the Hill Country where the swamps and bayous meet the piney woods - really, you don’t have to go far to get into something different.
And, babes, it’s Texas! (yeehawww!!!)
I can see Mt. Rainier from my front yard. The mountain was absolutely spetacular today.
No state income taxes.
You can drive from mountains to the sea in less than an hour.
Every kind of outdoor recreation imaginable is within a 2 hour drive.
The Seattle area is probably as racially diverse as anywhere in the US.
No tornadoes, tropical storms, hurricanes, etc.
A Starbucks on every corner.
I am addicted to big city life. I mean a city of 13 million.
So much beauty and so much ugliness combined together that it feels surreal!
So much happening at the same time, it makes you feel you are at the center of the world.
I mean, yes I know it’s in Turkey, but you gotta spend some time here to know what I am talking about.
The only place where I felt I would not miss home for a long time was NYC!!
I LOVE PROVIDENCE! I LOVE MY LITTLE SUBURB! I LOVE RHODE ISLAND!
I love the quirky politics.
I love the accents.
I love the weather.
I love the central location.
I love the architecture right where I work.
I love seeing people from the news everyday of the week.
I love drinking iced coffee in February.
I love going to P-Bruins games.
No “last call” ever! No state income tax. So far in the middle of nowhere, yet close to everything. Excellent DMV service. Lots of wide open space.
I have the biggest garage of anybody in the area!
okay, I’ve called the moving company, * Now I just have to figure out where gatopescado lives!*
Sounds like the great state of New Hamster. Live free or diet, don’t you know.
I love living in the country, near a small town. Low crime rate, everyone’s friendly, and nosey. Which is ok because if you are sick everyone comes running to help. I’m two hours from the coast and if you’ve never been to the Outer Banks of North Carolina you are truly missing a sight to behold. I’m 3 hours from the mountains. We have several outstanding colleges, areas of high technology, for the most part the state is still agriculture for the time being. Slowly but surely our farmers are being pushed aside.
It’s a great place as far as the seaons, we have mild winters, many times we can keep the short sleeves, but the summers are hell with the average temp well above ninety and the humidity in the nineties also.
Only place I’ve ever lived or ever desire to live.
But–
Beautiful beaches 25 minutes east.
The everglades 5 minutes west. (Absolutely nothing and nobody there. I enjoy sitting out west of the highway at night and watching the wind blowing around the sawgrass (or whatever it’s called), and everyone thinks I’m weird because of this. Hopefully I won’t be attacked by an alligator, but ya gotta take risks :p.)
Awesome Latin American food.
Nice winters, excluding the occasional warm front (let’s just not mention the summers…).
Several big cities nearby, all with interesting areas and differing feels.
Still, if all goes according to plan, I should be out of here in the next year. I’m thinking Chicago. crosses fingers
Three major cities within a 40 mile radius.
Two NFL teams, two MLB teams.
Best wine in the US.
Half and hour to the beach.
Fantastic “twisties” through the mountains for driving fun!
Sunshine and more sunshine.
Two of the best US Universities and a host of others.
Liberal, multicultural, educated, tolerant, and affluent population.
Great restaurants.
Its the “best place on earth”!
I’m in a Detroit suburb, so I’m fairly close to concert venues and the downtown area. My city has some unique restaurants and stores that make it interesting.
I’m five minutes from the zoo. Low taxes Most of the neighbors have been here for many years and keep things nice.
Too far from the ocean though. I lived close to the ocean in Florida for a few years and have fond memories of hanging on the rooftop bar on the Lauderdale strip.
I live on the 14th floor of a secured building with no building higher then 4 stories for 2 blocks of me. I have a nice view of the mountains. I’m a few minutes away from the beach. I like watching the canoe paddlers practice in the canal from my patio. I like walking along the canal whether to visit the library for $1 DVD rental or just to walk. And twice a week I get a fireworks display I can watch from my bedroom. And if I feel like taking a walk at 3 in the morning I have absolutely nothing to fear. I could easily live where I am without ever having to walk more then 3 blocks from my place, very convenient.
And I have really really good neighbors.
Well, I’m in a Chicago suburb during the non-school year. My house is within walking distance of the last Metra station on our line, so going into the city is easy. There’s a lot of stuff to do in the city–and there are the Cubs, which we like simply because my grandparents liked them.
If you drive for 10-20 minutes eastwards, you’re in the suburban sprawl that heads towards everything else. Northwards, and you head up towards the small towns of the Fox River and the Chain O’ Lakes. Southwards and. . .well, okay, not much. Lots of superstores. Westwards, and you’re in farm country.
Our town is about 1/3 Hispanic now, and, frankly, I like it. It provides for a mix of cultures. Very interesting.
We have a decent public school district.
We’re right on I-90, so getting places isn’t all that hard.