So, where you from and is it your favorite place to live?

Katelivewire

Katelivewire

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I am from Baltimore Maryland at birth, have lived in 30 states and found my true dream of great experiences in Great Falls Montana since 1971, as an adult and like most towns and cities changes occur. GreatFalls is no longer my choice place to live but Montana is my favorite place to live so as soon as I can get out of my old home base here, the new base I hope will be up north close to my son. Still love Montana!
 

I was born and raised in the biggest city in my country... it was a good life, but I've lived in the country now for almost 50 years and I enjoy it.. but it's lonely.. and I dream of going back to the city where everything is close by.. but it's not the city I grew up in.. the crime is rife... albeit still not as much in my part of the city.. but there's still substantially more now than there ever was when I was growing up..so the last thing I'd want to be is an elderly old woman on her own in a city.. now.
 

I grew up in low-quality suburbs outside a big city. No way I could afford even those suburbs let alone the big city itself (I wish, though; I miss the area especially its weather and all the things to do). I'm 5 hours away from the ocean here--which I miss--and there is an affordable, pleasant place to live on the ocean which I'd love to move to but we'd be too far away from what little family we've got left. So here we stay 'till the end, sigh. (Wish I didn't hate it here.)
 
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I grew up in low-quality suburbs outside a big city. No way I could afford even those suburbs let alone the big city itself (I wish, though; I miss the area especially its weather and all the things to do). I'm 5 hours away from the ocean here--which I miss--and there is an affordable, pleasant place to live on the ocean which I'd love to move to but we'd be too far away from what little family we've got left. So here we stay 'till the end, sigh. (Wish I didn't hate it here.)
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Couldn’t you move halfway and leave the area you hate? I have been asked that and the place by my son is 7 hours from here, so you see I have not seen or heart from my son due to distance and misconceptions with phone services
 
I grew up in the country in Ohio, but I don't think that way of life would be a good fit for me now. Back then, it was wonderful.

I've got my immediate family around this area, so that is good enough to live out my life.
Actually everything I need is very close and accessible. That's what is most important to me these days.
 
Katelivewire said:
Couldn’t you move halfway and leave the area you hate? I have been asked that and the place by my son is 7 hours from here, so you see I have not seen or heart from my son due to distance and misconceptions with phone services
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Thanks for the suggestion, Kate :love: Unfortunately, if we moved halfway, it'd still be in an area with awful hot weather and even fewer things to do, even fewer medical services, etc.; plus we'd be even further away from family. And most of all, my huzz absolutely loves it here. (Everything about this area I hate, he loves; and vice versa.) So this is the best that I'm gonna have from now on; thank goodness for the internet (especially this site), tv, movies and books, lol.

I'm sorry about your son being so far away, hugs.
 
I was born and grew up right here in Sacramento, but I moved away when I was 18 and lived here and there...really far away sometimes. I moved back to Sac in 2015 to live near my sons and grandkids. My daughter lives in Southern Calif.. I lived down that way for a while, when she was still a kid, but I didn't want to move back down there. Too hot, too expensive, too busy.

Sacramento is busy too, but where I am is a less busy area.
 
I was born in NE Ohio and grew up in SE Ohio. I now live in Virginia, no thanks, and looking to move to Pensacola, Florida come summer. I have visited all 50 states with Hawaii being my favorite, but don't want to live there. My contract is up with my HOA come August and then I'll be out of here. I have a realtor looking for my ideal place in Pensacola.

I'm not lonely, but I feel very alone at most times, if that makes any sense. So many of my friends have died for reasons which I cannot understand. I'm only 62. Why is this happening? In 6 years, I will be going to my 50th h.s. reunion. Maybe some old connections with some of the kids I hung around with back then will help. I doubt. My life hasn't been anything like most of theirs'.

To so many young kids today, going into the military means getting job training. Are they ever messed up. This is why we have about 30-40% drop outs in their first 180 days.
 
Born in Alexandria, Louisiana but spent more growing up years in Dunedin and Tarpon Springs, Florida. Since then lived in Utah, Wyoming, California, Ohio, Maryland, and briefly (few months) in Mississippi, Idaho, and Oregon. I am now in Utah, like it fine but I miss the Gulf Coast.
Katelivewire said:
I am from Baltimore Maryland at birth
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I lived for a couple of years in Cockeysville, just north of Baltimore. I liked Baltimore, an interesting city, and just the right distance from DC, out of the worst of the DC mess, but close enough to visit when you wanted.
Katelivewire said:
Montana is my favorite place
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Been to Montana a lot, and can see why you like it.
 
I grew up in the small town of Sandpoint, Idaho, along the shores of Lake Pend O’Reille , which is so deep in some places that the Navy had a submarine base at Farragut Naval Station.
I had a horse and rode all over in the surrounding hills when I was a teenager, and it was a beautiful place to grow up at. Everything was safe there back in the 1950’s , and is actually still a pretty safe place to live, even now.

After a lifetime of being a vagabond, and moving all over, I ended up here in Alabama, and this is where I am most likely to stay for the rest of my life. I still miss north Idaho, and the whole Pacific Northwest , but there is no reason for me to move back there anymore, and I do not miss the long, cold winters, and having to shovel all of that snow.

In the picture, you can see the bridge across the lake. At one time, it was the longest wooden bridge in the world, but has been replaced with a shorter and stronger bridge several times over the years.

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My childhood homes were in semi-rural small towns in NY and NJ. Moved to CA after graduating HS and found busy suburbs much more to my liking than small towns.

DH is a CA native, our kids have all firmly planted themselves here, we love Los Angeles's diversity, politics and general vibe, so this is where we're likely to stay.
 
I'm from Chicago - specifically, its worst ghetto area. Spouse is from Hong Kong, came over with his family when he was 12.

We joke that we met halfway* in San Francisco. We live in one of the suburban cities close to SF Bay. Both of us love it and have no intention of moving, except to sell our SFH and go into a condo rental or senior housing somewhere in the same general area.
* okay, not really halfway - he had to come twice as far as I did, LOL!

My immediate family is close by, our BFFs aren't too much further, and we have all the services available one could need or want as one ages. That last is really important; we have watched both sets of parents struggle, either due to financial straits or becoming socially isolated, as they hit their 80's.

We have a friend who has both problems, but refuses to leave NorCA for a less expensive area. She recently had a talk with a financial adviser and was told she is going to run out of funds in her early 80's; she just hit 70 this year. We mentioned to her almost a decade ago she should move to a less expensive area, but she kept putting it off and making excuses not to.

Now she's sorry she didn't. But her health is so poor it's almost impossible for her to manage even the tasks of daily life, as she's been struggling with her outpatient convalescent care for over two years (serious Stage 4 cancer but they think they got all of it). No way she could easily investigate new places to live out of state; she can barely make it to her doctor appointments for follow up.

Her only hope is that when her father dies, he leaves her at least some money from his estate (assuming he hasn't wasted it all before then), so she can hang on a little longer, financially. No guarantees there; she's estranged from almost all her family. It's very sad as she is a genuinely nice person, but like many women finds it hard to make really tough decisions as she's used to a father or husband doing it for her.
 
oldaunt said:
I am FROM Oregon, but have no desire to ever go back there. Its ridiculous now.
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Sure is
However, the right (sunny) side of the Cascade Range is a much different story

Raised in the Chapman hills of Oregon
About 20 miles outa Scappoose
Of which is another 30 miles or so to Portland
Heh, 'The City of Roses' is now the city of guerilla warfare, sad to say

I'll stay in Oregon
Just no big cities or near them

May move back to the cabin up near Crater Lake
Depends on how things go with this economy
......and the decisions of our illustrious leadership
 
Been There said:
I was born in NE Ohio and grew up in SE Ohio. I now live in Virginia, no thanks, and looking to move to Pensacola, Florida come summer. I have visited all 50 states with Hawaii being my favorite, but don't want to live there. My contract is up with my HOA come August and then I'll be out of here. I have a realtor looking for my ideal place in Pensacola.

I'm not lonely, but I feel very alone at most times, if that makes any sense. So many of my friends have died for reasons which I cannot understand. I'm only 62. Why is this happening? In 6 years, I will be going to my 50th h.s. reunion. Maybe some old connections with some of the kids I hung around with back then will help. I doubt. My life hasn't been anything like most of theirs'.

To so many young kids today, going into the military means getting job training. Are they ever messed up. This is why we have about 30-40% drop outs in their first 180 days.
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Yeah, StarSong, WOW! is the right word. I have friends dying young from cancer and other diseases, including the Virus. This morning, I got a phone call at 7:10 a.m. I had just started the coffeemaker when the phone rang and I was thinking, "Who the hell is calling me at 7" I don't know who it is, but it won't be good news. It wasn't. A friend from way back in high school called me and said he had a heck of a time finding me until he looked at the last Reunion's directory and there I was. Anyway, he asked me if I hung around this kid so and so? I told him I did. I used to get him blind dates because he was too bashful to ask girls out. He always wanted to pay me back by paying for the night out, which was usually dinner, movie and then go to the burger hangout joint we all went to. I told him no way. I'm no pimp and if you keep offering me money, I'm going to stop getting you dates. Just kidding with him of course.

Then, I'm told he's dead. I asked the number one question "HOW?" He told me that all it said in the paper was that he died at home. So, I called a friend that lived in the town where we went to school and he tells me the local big mouth cop there in the small community told him it was suicide. I about hit the floor. He was never like that. Yeah, he was shy and a little backwards, but I never saw suicide in his future. Other kids, maybe, but not him.

I have to go to a funeral in Utah on Thursday and now I don't know when this one will be buried, but it will be the first time in about 30 years since I was back home. I am getting tired of giving eulogies. I imagine his sister will be calling me and asking me to say a few words. She knew I hung out with him.
 
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