What do you like about where you live?

I live in the boonies, wide open spaces around me, but cities are growing!!
 

The people. Very nice people with only a few jerks. Universal medical care, no one left behind. Semi-rural with lots of wildlife. We live in a Senior Mobile home park, very quiet, great landlord the really looks after the park. We own our own 1300 Sq. Ft. mobile home but rent the lot it sits on so we look after our own small yard and the landlord looks after the common areas.
 
Within an hour's drive I've got Loch Lomond and the Trossachs, Edinburgh and the Borders, Highland Perthshire and the Angus Glens.

On Mandy Thursday I was out in my power chair when a little two year old (stranger) shyly presented me with a daffodil and wished me a happy Easter. During recent tough weather two different people, one a stranger, knocked on my door to check on me, and a few months ago, after a bad night I was in the yard in my robe at 1130. A total stranger stopped and asked if I was alright and could she get me anything.

Sometimes, if it is very hot and humid I leave my door open t get some air. I also get a stream of carers, social workers, coppers, kind ladies, even passing ambulance men, coming to see if I'm alright!

What's not to like?

Like I always say when people ask me about holidays "Where would I go?".
 
"What do we like about where we live?"............basically, nothing! Miss too many things we had in Colorado, that definitely aren't here. Can hardly wait to move, but at least visiting there this summer for a week, with cowboy hats, boots and Wrangler jeans on.
 
I'm the only member of my family who chose to stay here in my hometown because of my job.I seriously thought of moving closer to my brother after our parents passed away,but decided against it. I've made a life here with my group of close friends
For years,all the local politicans kept saying'we're going to revitalize Buffalo',sadly it never happened until 10yrs ago.It truly amazes me the transformation of downtown Buffalo with the waterfront,new hotels,shops. Some of the old dept stores which were closed for yrs have been transformed into apts/lofts,many residents who lived in the suburbs for yrs,have decided they want to now live in the city.
My co-op building is located 2 blocks from my childhood home, lived here 30yrs wouldn't want to be any where else. I enjoy the 4 seasons,though winter can be a tad too long some years. Sue
 
Mainly it's because of the weather 9 months of the year but I also love the desert. If I do want to go to the mountains to escape the heat or play in the snow it's only a 2 hour drive and the Pacific is only a 5 hour drive away.
 
It's a Historical Restoration district. House and commercial properties are of 1800's era. Many are a labor of love. Its a walking city with restaurants and cutesy shops all within walking distance. Anything we need including big box stores within 5 miles. Many downtown activities as well as a Main Street effort.

Cons: Weather! Can't somebody do something about this spring?
 
Mostly the location. I live next door to my youngest child and, at almost 85, I need a little help occasionally. I don't always play well with others so am trying desperately to stay out of a care facility.
 
The seasons

Hot summers evolving to cool autumns, to fall’s specter, to winter’s challenge, to spring’s promise of summer’s natural warmth

The seasons
Unlike me
Never get old
 
I live in Ipswich, a regional city in Queensland, Australia. Unfortunately, it does seem to get quite a bad press, largely undeserved. But in some strange way that's why I like it.

I even wrote a poem about it.

An Old Familiar Song


Her lip curled up a little, and her eyebrows rose as well.
Her nose twitched like she caught a whiff of some unpleasant smell.
When answers to her questions about moving house were shared,
her views on suitability were well and truly aired.


“I’d rather live at Noosa, we’ve a unit there you know.
It’s one street back from Hastings, where the trendy people go.
We’ve also one at Surfers, Cavill Avenue, no less.
It’s all about location, a desirable address.”


She prattled on for quite a while, an old familiar song
of pointing out to silly me the places I went wrong.
I thought I got a bargain with a price that’s so much less
than her up market real estate, but I was wrong, I guess.


She finished with, “Each to their own,” that tired old cliché,
and “you get what you pay for” when I tried to have my say.
I guess whenever anyone disputes her point of view
her smug superiority is trotted out anew.


My home has many good points; I could list them one by one,
but knew she’d interrupt me when I barely had begun.
So I just smiled a secret smile. The thing that I love best
about my home town city is - it fails to pass her test.


She’s far too good to live here so I guess she’ll never see
the reason why this city’s ‘good enough’ for folk like me.
I know that she is not alone, there’s more like her out there.
The best thing about Ipswich is - they choose to live elsewhere.
 
I live in a village that time has forgotten. It was founded 250 years ago and if you look at a map from those days, the village looks much the same today. On the downside, the school, shop, pub etc have all closed, so we have to travel a min. of 9 miles to the shops. On the other hand, it's quiet, virtually crime free, friendly helpful neighbours and beautiful countryside all round.
 
I live in a very scenic area of Wicklow National Park, Ireland. I love to watch the seasons change and feel part of that cycle. I walk my dog in a place called Glendalough, and I know it's definitely Spring when she charges into the lake after a stick, or to chase a bird.
 
I like it that I have neighbors but our houses aren't so close together I could stand between them and touch both houses. We have our place fenced and cross fenced. I talk to one of my neighbors over the fence once or twice a year. Never been in her house and she's never been in mine. We also have a gate we keep locked so strangers can't come pulling in here to ask us if they can clean our carpets (case the house) or sell us some meat out of a freezer in the back of their pick up. Yes, I like it here a lot.
 
I like the clean and quiet country environment. This morning, as I stepped out onto the porch with my morning coffee, there were 7 deers in the front yard, munching on the grass that is starting to turn green....they are the Best neighbors in the world.
 

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