Living In An Area That Is Best Suited For You

ClassicRockr

ClassicRockr

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Funny, but when we lived in Colorado, I didn't have the disagreements with folks like I do here. But, then again, living here (Jacksonville, FL), to us, is darn near like living in Los Angeles, CA. IOW, pretty much "anything goes". We didn't see anything like that when we lived in Parker, CO, but then again, Parker was, and still is, a much, much smaller city than here. It was definitely more "country" related than here. It even had a Feed Store.

We sold our house, which we were intending to anyway, and moved from Colorado, BUT...…..ended up being for the wrong reason. And, after living in Huntersville, NC, close to Lake Norman, for a year, we moved from there. My wife got laid-off from her and job and didn't end up liking North Carolina at all. So, her feelings was a darn good reason for leaving N.C.. But, then we came here and really, really thought "this is it, for the rest of our lives" and THAT statement sure faded away a few years ago. We started thinking about all of the things we missed about living in Colorado, including the people that had the same interests we did.

Have definitely found out that not only Jacksonville, but Florida and the entire South just isn't for us.

And, what happens to a person, mentally, when they live in the wrong area? For one thing, if the person has an outgoing personality like I do, disagreements will be involved with discussing things you don't like, but doesn't bother others.

I'm in a Relocation Forum and it's totally unreal how many people are unhappy with where they live...…...even some living right here in Florida and can't wait to get out.

So, does the area you live in match your interests?
 

So, does the area you live in match your interests?
Can't say that it does, CR, but fortunately am able to escape about twice a week. I'm kind of stuck where I am and am learning to "bloom where I'm planted." It's hard, but I am glad I have all my basic needs met (so many don't even have that.) Not a bad place I'm living, just find it boring.
 

Pepper said:
So, does the area you live in match your interests?
Can't say that it does, CR, but fortunately am able to escape about twice a week. I'm kind of stuck where I am and am learning to "bloom where I'm planted." It's hard, but I am glad I have all my basic needs met (so many don't even have that.) Not a bad place I'm living, just find it boring.
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Without a doubt, we find here pretty boring. Only activity that we have fun with here is going to the Range to shoot. But, then again, this city is definitely not a "retirement" type area and very, very little for Seniors to do. Besides that, we have found out that we aren't nearly as much beach people as we thought we'd be. We really miss the Rockies of Colorado, Wyoming and Montana.

There is just absolutely no way we could "bloom where I'm planted" here. We do have our basic needs met, but fun/interesting things to do, other than the Range, Colorado has the things, but not here.
 
Well, it's certainly a beautiful area you are moving to. Breathtaking views. I first saw wild horses in Montana, on our way to Yellowstone driving in the rain which suddenly stopped and just as suddenly about 2 dozen free horses raced across the road. It was a miracle no one was hurt, but I'm so glad it happened as it was an amazing, awesome sight. Will never forget it.
 
CR, here we go, again, right? How much longer before you will be seeing Florida in your rear-view mirror?

When I got to Austin, in '78, I felt I had found heaven on Earth: The traffic was light, houses inexpensive, people friendly, excellent business climate, excellent music scene. Trouble is, word got around, as Austin actively courted those doing surveys and articles on best places to live. I started talking about moving to Colorado (sound familiar, CR?) five years after I got here. Now, the population is four times what it was when I moved here, traffic is some of the worst in the US, air is terrible, everything is very expensive. I started four very successful businesses, and became trapped by the same: I couldn't bring myself to leave because of the income I was enjoying. Now that I'm semi-retired, and can't stand the broiling summers, here, I'm looking to become an Austin escapee, in the hellish weather.The house I'm in, and my rent houses, will remain mine until I'm done with this existence, or the appreciation makes it a slam dunk to sell and live off the proceeds, for good. Austin still has some great things going for it: Great restaurants, excellent shopping, great museum and art scene, nice shorelines to stroll, good live theater, great university, but don't think about moving here. If I could, I'd hang "No Vacancy!" signs on the outskirts of all of our main traffic arteries.
 
CeeCee said:
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Sorry, CeeCee……...isn't going to happen! Just because there are those that like where they are living, possibly you, doesn't mean everyone does. Those that don't will complain until they leave. I see that all of the time in the Relocation Forum.
 
CR I think you'll find that there is no utopia. I felt kind of the same way as you on occasion. When I was younger, I loved living in New England despite the often brutal winters, because it beat my birth place (NYC) and my Jersey job. Then, I migrated to San Diego back when it was actually affordable. It soon grew way to crowded as houses popped up like mushrooms. From there it was the desert where I figured the heat would keep most people at bay. Unfortunately, despite the heat, the deadly mushroom effect took hold and houses sprung up everywhere. From there it was on to central Florida figuring at least it'll be warm as my old bones were starting to dislike the cold. For a while, it was nice. Bought a boat, fished the gulf and traffic was so-so but bearable. Of course, boomers everywhere were aging and they started heading south. Soon, traffic increased to the point where riding my motorcycle became a deadly came of chance and of course the dreaded mushrooms were springing up again. Where we lived, every house had well water and a septic. With all that water being sucked out of the ground you knew the sink holes were going to increase. So, it was off to north central Arkansas because it was affordable and I could buy enough land to insulate myself even if the mushrooms followed. I discovered I liked the country atmosphere and most people were like minded. (not all of course). The unexpected benefit of living here is I can take off in the winter if I choose by just closing the house up and not having to worry about break in's and the such.
Now, I'm not saying that my choices would fit everyone's shoes, but, after having owned 11 houses all around the nation, (not including some of the bare land I bought in Utah and Wyoming with the idea of building there), I have come to the conclusion that You really can't go back to what in your mind was the perfect spot.
Wheew, that was kind of long winded. :)
 
treeguy64 said:
CR, here we go, again, right? How much longer before you will be seeing Florida in your rear-view mirror?

When I got to Austin, in '78, I felt I had found heaven on Earth: The traffic was light, houses inexpensive, people friendly, excellent business climate, excellent music scene. Trouble is, word got around, as Austin actively courted those doing surveys and articles on best places to live. I started talking about moving to Colorado (sound familiar, CR?) five years after I got here. Now, the population is four times what it was when I moved here, traffic is some of the worst in the US, air is terrible, everything is very expensive. I started four very successful businesses, and became trapped by the same: I couldn't bring myself to leave because of the income I was enjoying. Now that I'm semi-retired, and can't stand the broiling summers, here, I'm looking to become an Austin escapee, in the hellish weather.The house I'm in, and my rent houses, will remain mine until I'm done with this existence, or the appreciation makes it a slam dunk to sell and live off the proceeds, for good. Austin still has some great things going for it: Great restaurants, excellent shopping, great museum and art scene, nice shorelines to stroll, good live theater, great university, but don't think about moving here. If I could, I'd hang "No Vacancy!" signs on the outskirts of all of our main traffic arteries.
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Well, we were just in northern Colorado this past July and basically loved it. When we lived there, it was in the central part, 28 miles south of Denver aka Parker. Drove down to there and looked at our old house, but Parker itself, has grown quite a bit from when we left in late 2007. But, driving down there on E-470, and going by mile and mile of "prairie" like area...….totally neat. Driving both down to Parker and back up to Loveland/Ft. Collins area, we passed many, many acres of field corn, cattle grazing, tractors and round bales of hay. Absolutely loved seeing all of that.

Actually, I done this thread because there are that live, as we do, in an area they really don't like. Some of us are fortunate enough that we can move and some not. My wife doesn't hardly talk to anyone here and the ones I talk to basically disagree with me about our feelings towards this area. Guess they love the "big city" feeling, the shootings on a daily basis, etc. that happen here.

And, btw, we are looking for a place to drop our boat, once it's transported to Colorado. We want out of here, but I talk about much more than my wife does. One thing for sure, moving takes planning, time and money, but we are getting there.
 
ClassicRockr said:
Sorry, CeeCee……...isn't going to happen! Just because there are those that like where they are living, possibly you, doesn't mean everyone does. Those that don't will complain until they leave. I see that all of the time in the Relocation Forum.
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I was asking Matrix or SB to delete my post. I wrote something but decided against it.

I don’t think we can delete our own posts on here.
 
squatting dog said:
CR I think you'll find that there is no utopia. I felt kind of the same way as you on occasion. When I was younger, I loved living in New England despite the often brutal winters, because it beat my birth place (NYC) and my Jersey job. Then, I migrated to San Diego back when it was actually affordable. It soon grew way to crowded as houses popped up like mushrooms. From there it was the desert where I figured the heat would keep most people at bay. Unfortunately, despite the heat, the deadly mushroom effect took hold and houses sprung up everywhere. From there it was on to central Florida figuring at least it'll be warm as my old bones were starting to dislike the cold. For a while, it was nice. Bought a boat, fished the gulf and traffic was so-so but bearable. Of course, boomers everywhere were aging and they started heading south. Soon, traffic increased to the point where riding my motorcycle became a deadly came of chance and of course the dreaded mushrooms were springing up again. Where we lived, every house had well water and a septic. With all that water being sucked out of the ground you knew the sink holes were going to increase. So, it was off to north central Arkansas because it was affordable and I could buy enough land to insulate myself even if the mushrooms followed. I discovered I liked the country atmosphere and most people were like minded. (not all of course). The unexpected benefit of living here is I can take off in the winter if I choose by just closing the house up and not having to worry about break in's and the such.
Now, I'm not saying that my choices would fit everyone's shoes, but, after having owned 11 houses all around the nation, (not including some of the bare land I bought in Utah and Wyoming with the idea of building there), I have come to the conclusion that You really can't go back to what in your mind was the perfect spot.
Wheew, that was kind of long winded. :)
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Well, after visiting there this past July, it's DEFINITELY more of a "perfect spot" than here. Now, please remember what I just wrote...…...we were there this past July. Corn fields, cattle, tractors, round bales of hay we seen. The population we currently live in is 931,000 and the city we are looking to move to...….78,000. Now, that, in itself, is a major population decrease. And, with the Rockies, elk, deer, freshwater lakes/reservoirs, rodeo's, Country & Western nightclubs...……..what is there that wouldn't be Utopia for us. Not perfect, but darn near it.
 
CeeCee said:
I was asking Matrix or SB to delete my post. I wrote something but decided against it.

I don’t think we can delete our own posts on here.
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Oh, sorry. Did Holly tell you I wrote her? I read the message I wrote to my wife.
 
Different parts of Florida have very different flavors. When we lived in Jacksonville we frequently went down to St Augustine which was only 30 minutes south, but quite different. I worked in and out of an office in Jax and became friends with some co-workers. We often went sailing in the St Johns river, or went to the springs in the Ocala National Forest for a summer swim.
From Jax we moved to Boca Raton which has a more northeastern population despite being closer to tropical in landscape.
After the kids finished high school, we were able to return to Clearwater on the gulf coast where midwesterners were the primary non-natives.
At this point even Ocala is way too far north for us, we don't like cold winters.
 
Manatee said:
Different parts of Florida have very different flavors. When we lived in Jacksonville we frequently went down to St Augustine which was only 30 minutes south, but quite different. I worked in and out of an office in Jax and became friends with some co-workers. We often went sailing in the St Johns river, or went to the springs in the Ocala National Forest for a summer swim.
From Jax we moved to Boca Raton which has a more northeastern population despite being closer to tropical in landscape.
After the kids finished high school, we were able to return to Clearwater on the gulf coast where midwesterners were the primary non-natives.
At this point even Ocala is way too far north for us, we don't like cold winters.
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Well, in order to have back what we really, really miss and enjoyed...…...Colorado winters have to be endured. Heck, we still have our winter parkas that we bought when we lived there. They are a touch tight now, but still very much wearable. Still have the vehicle ice scraper/snow brush from there as well.

There, northern Colorado, I can talk rodeo with basically anyone and they understand. We can go to the livestock auction in Ft Collins, that we've been to before. We don't have to rinse out the engine and outdrive of our boat each time we come in from the St John's River. IOW, didn't even own cleaning "muffs" there for a boat outdrive. Don't have to worry about checking a Tide Table there...…..here, yes. We were told that boating here was year-around. Well, that was definitely wrong! Who wants to take a boat out when the high is 45 degrees?

Funny, when we visited there last year, people we talked to at both the motel and restaurants, were pretty shocked to hear that we lived in Jacksonville or even Florida. They expected us to "look" like we lived in Florida, not looking like we could live there or in Wyoming or Montana (wearing Western wear) to go to the rodeo in Cheyenne.
 
C.R. there is no place like home or hind site is 20-20.

We live in N.Fl also and not one day goes by in Jax that somebody isn't killed by shooting or auto accident ' well some are beaten to death with blunt objects'.
I read the Jax News.
I also know my hometown of Atlanta Georgia is just a bad. It is the Cartel Hub for drugs and people smuggling of America with 145 gangs, not gang members but gangs.
Good luck and hope Colorado can survive what much of the nation hasn't.
 
MeAgain said:
C.R. there is no place like home or hind site is 20-20.

We live in N.Fl also and not one day goes by in Jax that somebody isn't killed by shooting or auto accident ' well some are beaten to death with blunt objects'.
I read the Jax News.
I also know my hometown of Atlanta Georgia is just a bad. It is the Cartel Hub for drugs and people smuggling of America with 145 gangs, not gang members but gangs.
Good luck and hope Colorado can survive what much of the nation hasn't.
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Well, I have the local news app for Loveland, Ft Collins and Cheyenne, Wyoming. Believe me, pretty much nothing happens in any of those cities, compared to Jacksonville. But, then again, the populations are a lot lower than either Jacksonville or even Denver.

When we were in northeastern Colorado aka Northern Front Range, I asked some of the locals about crime there and they said "what crime?". That was good enough for us to hear.
 
fuzzybuddy said:
If you greatly dislike where you are living, why don't you move to a place more pleasing to you. Somebody's Paradise is another's Hell.
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You definitely have that right. The people we have talked to here, like, even love, Jacksonville and would never give it a thought of living in Colorado. Believe it or not, I've talked to people that don't even know where Colorado is. And, some don't even know where Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, the Dakota's, Nebraska or Kansas is. Now, any of the Southern, Gulf or East Coast states, they completely know about. Well, there are a couple of East Coast states they don't know about...….Vermont and Maine. Some know about Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, but any of the Rocky Mountain or Plains states...…..nope.
 
Funny, I keep thinking of the line from the tune about America, in Westside Story, as Anita's friend keeps singing about how she wants to go back to Puerto Rico, and how great it is, there. Anita responds with: "When you will shut up, and get gone!"
 
treeguy64 said:
Funny, I keep thinking of the line from the tune about America, in Westside Story, as Anita's friend keeps singing about how she wants to go back to Puerto Rico, and how great it is, there. Anita responds with: "When you will shut up, and get gone!"
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Yep, that will happen!
 
Ron moved down here from up north because he hated the winters up there. I'd like to move away from Nashville because I hate the summers here! :lol:

Really the only thing I dislike about Nashville is the weather in the summer....the humidity makes me feel so logy and is very draining. Thankfully most of the time I work inside so it's not that bad.

Other than that I like Nashville. It's not a huge place like California or New York though it's grown incredibly in the last 15 years.

On the other hand, I'm the kind who will make the best of wherever I am, whatever I've got. I make friends easily, am assertive about going after what I want and the things I like to do, so my geographical location at any given time hasn't constricted my reach to do whatever interests me.
 

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