What made you settle down (perhaps only for a while) where you currently are?
Because my parents made me.
Seriously though, because it’s green and pleasant, and I was heartily sick of the noise and pollution of London.
Because I have a job here. The place where I dearly wish to live is about an hour’s drive away. I feel like I’m having a long distance relationship with a town. Currently looking for employment there, but it’s a much more desirable place to live, and consequently, I may be stuck here for a while. ::sigh::
Moved here for grad school. I’ll move again when I’m done next May, likely to a new city.
Work forced me here, and work is making me move to Montana in 17 days.
Tripler
I’m starting to pack as we speak.
It seemed like a good idea at the time. I wish I’d gone with my gut instinct 3 years ago, but it’s too late now. And this time next year I’ll be gone anyway, so it doesn’t really matter.
I was born here and am still trying to find a way out. Hopefully graduation in August will provide a means for escape.
Although, I don’t think my town (Knoxville, TN) is so horrible. I just want to try something different.
My friend Tonya claims that if you’re born in a Knoxville hospital they attach a giant rubberband to your bottom, and even if you try to leave, you’ll eventually get pulled back.
Me, too. I’m the only member of my immediate family that wasn’t born here, and I’m the only one still living here.
The only reason I’m still living here is because the government pays for a semester of college for every year I went to school here.
Oh. And my mom makes me.
I could say “my husband”, but there’s more to it than that. Since moving here, I’ve really come to be very fond of this area. The weather is mild (obligatory note to Californians thinking of moving to Oregon: it rains here all the time. Really.), there are varieties of terrain within the distance of a daytrip, there are lots of things to do here, and the microbrews are great! You meet all kinds of people, many of whom are interesting and even nice. Although the economy is currently in the toilet, unemployment is high, and the state government is constantly trying to find new ways to tax us to death, I’m happier with the wages vs. cost of living quotient than I was where I came from.
Well, I live here because I love it.
Initially I came here for college. But I enjoyed it so much that I stayed, and it would take a helluva lot to get me to move.
I agree with Bibliovore that Surrey is a green and pleasant place to be. Lived in various parts of the county for most of my life. However, we had wanted to live here in Dorset for years. Finally made the move in 1995 when Mr Sqwert landed a job here. Have no plans to move again, as it is a beautiful part of the world.
My wife lost her job in a political fight on the South Shore of Long Island. We moved up to the mountains when she got a job there. I can live anywhere reasonably close to the New York City area and still have a career.
Or, could at the time.
Cartooniverse
Because it’s here, which is awfully convenient, since as coincidence would have it, so am I.
-FK
I love the tree-lined streets, fact that i can walk to restaurants/shops/work, the summers are way too hot, but otherwise it’s just a wonderful neighborhood.
Inertia.
I have no idea. I’m in Las Vegas, I go to UNLV, which everyone should know really stands for U Never Leaving Vegas.
Not that it’s so bad, really, but others who live in Sin City will probably agree that it’s a strange place to grow up in/raise a family in.
It’s where my industry is centered.
Sunny and 70 degrees weather year-round and close proximity to the beach doesn’t hurt, either.
The rent’s cheap (renting a guest house from the in-laws), we both have jobs within a 15 minute drive, and I don’t want to move any time soon, because I hate to move.
But, I get a feeling when one of us loses/changes jobs, that will be enough for us (or me, at least) to want to move on. We’re currently living in the San Fernando Valley, and I HATE it. It’s too hot and dry here. I’d like to get closer to the water again.
:eek:
Hope not. I don’t even live in Knoxville any more, I don’t want to get pulled back. (Five years ago? Sure. Knoxville’s way better than where I live now. But not now, I have plans to leave!)
And I live here because my family lives here. Shortly, I will be living elsewhere because I didn’t particularly want to stay.