Tell us about where you live

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Kaya

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Not exactly where you live, mind you. This IS the 'net and one must be careful what one posts. But in general...what you like about your town or area. And if you have pics..that would be great too. I know we have a lot of people across the pond...so I think it would be neat to hear what it is like in your neck of the woods. :)

For myself, I live in a beautiful little town about 15 miles from a pretty big town. We have a few gas stations, two grocery stores. The weather here usually stays around the middle 60's and 70's all year. I like it here because it is not too hot nor cold. I have lived here for 25 years and hope I can stay until I go meet my maker but since I rent, that is up to the landlord. I have my furbaby that I walk when I can, otherwise I stay in my back yard garden during the day when not online.

And you?
 

We live in a small village (980 people) just on top of Lake Huron in Northern Ontario..
We moved in this area when I retired in 1997 from Montreal and simply love the quiet life..
We have an "A" Frame house sitting on one acre of land sourrounded by forest.. Loads of wild animals such as Black Bears, Foxes, Grey Wolves, Timber Wolves, Coyotes, Racoons, Deer, Moose, and tons of Rabbits..

Our village doesn't have very many stores but we seem to get almost everything except a grocery store which is about 25kms east from us..

Winters are long and somewhat cold, but that is what we want as we do enjoy the out of doors in winter as well as the summer..

I have a Bass boat and do lots of fishing in season.. All kinds of fish but mostly Musky.. Fill up the freezer with our caught fish for winter.......
We have a travel trailer (21ft. Prowler) that we use often in the summer to get away..

I can go on and on but I think this pretty well sums it up..........

Like my dear wife says.... "Its a great life if you don't weaken"......
 
littleowl said:
Our Village:cool:
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Very nice.

I grew up and live in central Mississippi. My town(pop 40k) is fairly small, but big enough for me. Pretty terrain with nice rolling hills. Nothing like the flatlands of the MS delta.

I also have a condo on the AL coast with a pretty view of one of the back bays. Totally different environment from my home town with a lot more people during the tourist season. A nice change for me, but nothing like going back home after a visit.
 
I grew up in one of the largest southern cities in the South (USA). At retirement we moved 100 miles away to a small agricultural town of 30,000 population and lived among horse pastures and corn fields for 12 years. Newly divorced, I am back in my big city.

I did not like small town life as everyone knows your business.
 
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The view from my home office. I live on a small lake in a coastal community located in Florida. I work as a college professor/CPA and have been here since 1978. I moved here from a small village in Upstate NY.
 
When you live in rural Scotland today, you might as well be on the moon. I live in a 'planned village' which was founded 250 year ago. These were villages built to house estate workers and initially were fairly self contained communities. Looking at old maps and parish records, this village once had two churches (The kirk and the free church), two schools (the village school and the free church school) , a hotel,a blacksmith,several shops - even a local police constable.

Today, although many of the original houses remain, all the ameanities have gone as families left to work in the cities and the government concentrated on improving the larger towns. This leaves the village more of a hamlet with a lot of in-comers and retirees, but few local residents. The nearest shop and health centre are 3 miles away, and the nearest large stores are 14 miles.

On the positive side, is is a beautiful area, virtually crime free and where people look after one another. In other areas, a village like this would be an expensive area to live in, but prices here are very modest. It is mainly an arable farming area, with emphasis on barley for the whisky industry. It's also only a few miles from the sea and a number of Scotland's main fishing ports.

I've posted several pictures of the area in previous posts, but here are a few more...

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Notice the distinctive colour of the sky over the sea.

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The river Spey - one of the world's great salmon rivers

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MacDuff - one of the local fishing ports. Fish and Shellfish landed here will probably be on the tables of posh London and Paris restaurants that evening.
 
We had this thread once before. I still live on 25 acres with a 6 acre lake behind the house. We are located just outside the city limits of Clarksville, Arkansas, population about 9,000. A few pictures are in my albums.
 
DRK said:
Here is a photo montage of our area of Wisconsin.

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Nice but no pictures of a block of cheese? ;) There is an old country store about 40 miles from here that sells Wisconsin hoop cheese. A friend of mine stops by the store every couple off weeks and buys a pound. He loves the stuff. Every now and then I'll have him buy me a chunk, but I'm not into it as much as him. It is good stuff though. Hoop cheese was the standard back when I was a kid, but hard to find in your average grocery store around here today.

Lots of pretty pictures here. Would love to visit Scotland and Australia one day.
 
I live in a small rural community in North East Texas....a lot of agriculture around here, the main farming and ranching product is cattle and hay, the last 6 or 7 years we have been cursed with drought and high temperatures, I live in the country and have 50 acres of land that I lease out for the hay. I have lost many huge oak trees due to the drought, this is heart breaking, but right now everything is beautiful and green.
 
I live on a hillside on the Palos Verdes peninsula overlooking the Los Angeles harbor. Always something of interest
going on there. We have many vacant rolling hills surrounding us and have several nightly visitors on my patio in the
form of small feral animals; raccoons, possums etc. and all sorts of birds;crows, seagulls. hummers, hawks, sparrows etc.
Had the house built in '59 and still love the area.
 
Good topic Kaya. It is interesting to read where other members live and I enjoyed the lovely pictures.
My husband and I live in a rural country area. We have a large lot, 1 3/4 acres so do a small bit of gardening.
On one side and the back of our yard are farmer's fields. They have different crops, sometimes grain, corn or hay.
The closest small general store is 3 miles away, also a church. The fire department is 5 miles as is the post office.
We get our groceries and do errands in the nearest town about 14 miles from us.
Where we live is quiet and peaceful and we know almost all of the folks in this small community.
 
Raven said:
Vixenator, If My backyard was as lovely as yours I would spend a lot of time there.
It is beautiful!
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Thank you, Raven. That is just one spot of it, I will probably share more, as it is my hobby..:) I've lived in a rural area like you, a few times. Loved it when our sons were young, and when my husband first retired, but now that I am on my own, I like being closer to everything, but still feel like I have a little oasis, even though I have neighbors..:)
 
As you can see on my post info, I live in Denver...since '74 and just love it. I love in Capitol Hill where there is SO much diversity, so many life styles, and, for the largest part, people get long together just fine...live and let live.
I was raised in a tiny town of around 250...and also taught in small towns (mostly in Kansas) and you could not PAY me to live in one again... (the exception being a tourist town like Georgetown, CO) ... I have a very difficult time with narrow minded people who generally populate small towns...
Small towns tend to be very provincial...not my thing.
Then again, I guess I sound narrow minded about narrow minded people. ;) I have heard the remark, "oh yeah, he has such an open mind that you could drive a Mack Truck through it" ... well, at least SOMETHING can get through!
 

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