Why do you live where you live?

by **Pretorian** » Tue 06 Jan 2009, 22:08:25

If there is a better place, why you are not there?

by **mos6507** » Tue 06 Jan 2009, 22:24:47

I voted unmovable family members but I think since I grew up here and I've seen enough of the rest of the country to know that at least if I stay in the US that I "belong" to the northeast. No place is the "best on earth". It all depends on what you're looking for.

by **smallpoxgirl** » Tue 06 Jan 2009, 22:26:26

Bloom where you're planted.

In other words, inertia.

by **Ludi** » Tue 06 Jan 2009, 22:30:56

"None of the above." I like it here, it's interesting. I have family in the region.

Lots of places are probably better.

by **Jotapay** » Wed 07 Jan 2009, 00:07:51

Right now, I would only live in Texas or Oklahoma in the USA. And I live in one of those two places. Those are the peoples which are most suited to survive what is coming to us due to their fiber. Also, we have relatively long growing seasons here.

If I didn't live in the USA, I would choose Germany. I've lived there before and know the culture. The people are insanely practical. They know how to solve a problem, but coupled with discipline. The social organization is amazing.

by **Jotapay** » Wed 07 Jan 2009, 00:11:07

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '"')None of the above." I like it here, it's interesting. I have family in the region.

Lots of places are probably better.

by **gnm** » Wed 07 Jan 2009, 00:23:52

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', '"')None of the above." I like it here, it's interesting. I have family in the region.

Lots of places are probably better.

by **jasonraymondson** » Wed 07 Jan 2009, 00:50:49

uhm, cause the won't let me live in the playboy mansion

by **stonecypher** » Wed 07 Jan 2009, 01:22:42

The Three W's!

1. WET (I have webbed feet from living in Oregon's Willamette Valley for over 40 years and view any weather phenomena without gray skies and precipitation with deep suspicion. I hide in the house for the two hours of sunshine we get here every summer.)

2. WARM (Relatively speaking, temperatures are very moderate, with few extremes and no humidity. Snow and ice accumulations are rare and don't last in the Valley area. Many Oregonians work outside, picnic, hike, and boat in tee shirts and shorts even during the winter months.)

3. WINDY (In the sense that breezes are frequent and keep the air clean, at least in my area. No hurricanes, tornadoes, or earthquakes. Even if the dormant Cascade volcanoes blow, the ash will get carried eastwards away from the Valley.)

Oh, and did I mention the lack of venomous snakes, killer bees, fire ants, chiggers, poisonous spiders (other than the black widow and brown recluse), and alligators?

I know, I know: too many Californians, sheeple, Nanny State policies, and liberals. BUT IT'S HOME! :-D

by **coloncleanse** » Wed 07 Jan 2009, 11:35:40

We sold everything and moved to an isolated poor rural community in western Oregon and are ready for power down.
We will not die from radiation poisoning, and we will have plenty of clean water. We are in the willamette valley so immune to tidal waves. There are no earthquakes here of any significance, and russia doesn't even know we exist here, nothing worthwhile to target but two huge dams, and we are above them.

by **Ludi** » Wed 07 Jan 2009, 12:22:54

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edit: I'm assuming you live in OK. I thought you did.

by **davep** » Wed 07 Jan 2009, 14:38:26

I chose the last option. I sold up nearly three years ago and went to Italy, but I decided it wasn't really suitable (high prices, high population density, speak forrin).

Then I discovered the area in France (I speak the lingo) where I bought my place cash. It's cheap, rural and historically wet. What more could a man want?

The only downside is that I have to work away from home. Hopefully I'll be able to get back and subsist on some kind of organic market gardening setup (or wait until I make a fortune on NYMEX). Either way, there's no way I can continue working so far from home for long.

I'm also looking at buying some more land next to our property. If I'm going to make a stand, it's going to be here.

by **Byron100** » Wed 07 Jan 2009, 14:41:45

For me, it was jobs, my partner's job, specifically. We moved to up to the ATL in early 2005, and for better or for worse, we bought a house here that spring.

Do I plan to make this my final homestead? In a word, no. Upstate New York is the place I wanna be...hehe. That area has a lot of things going for it for a post-peak era - the ideal climate (lack of droughts, disease and bug-killing cold, etc), old-school infrastructure, and low cost of housing. Plus, it's just a danged beautiful place to live (and liberal, too...yay!) - with lakes, hills and mountains and that vast tract of wilderness nearby, the mighty Adirondacks. I can easily see living out the rest of my days in this part of the world - they don't call it God's country lightly.

At this point, it's no longer a matter of "if", but when. :-D

by **Pretorian** » Thu 08 Jan 2009, 11:58:17

May I ask these 10 people who travelled a lot and live in the best spot on Earth, where did they travel and what region that is, unless its a secret?

by **SpringCreekFarm** » Thu 08 Jan 2009, 12:24:24

My family has been here on this farm for at least several generations. Pretty much know the area and the people like the back of my hand.

by **davep** » Thu 08 Jan 2009, 13:56:36

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Pretorian', 'M')ay I ask these 10 people who travelled a lot and live in the best spot on Earth, where did they travel and what region that is, unless its a secret?

by **stonecypher** » Thu 08 Jan 2009, 23:39:59

I'm one of your respondents who's traveled sufficiently to form an educated opinion that there's no place better on earth to live than the Pacific Northwest! (I just wish a few million other people hadn't come to this conclusion along with me.)

As a "stewardess" (when political correctness did not rule the land) with Trans World Airlines for six years, I had multiple layovers in every large city on our route system and was based in Kansas City, Missouri, where I encountered 20-below frozen winter hell, hiding in a basement during tornadoes, and triple-digit summer temps with 90% humidity at midnight.

I was taught to carry my hotel room key serrated edge out between my fingers as an attack aid when riding the elevator to my layover room in a 42nd-Street hotel in downtown Manhattan. I was told to hold my breath as much as possible in the crew car when we passed the refineries in New Jersey. My wool uniform smelled like unwashed dog after a few hours in the humidity of Miami. My eyes watered and my throat hurt like hell after just a couple of hours breathing the air in Los Angeles. I lost part of several paychecks to the one-armed bandits in Vegas. (Hey, I was young and stupid.)

Please don't flame me if you live in these cities and are content with your life and circumstances there. I'm just trying to illustrate that, compared to the rural joys of my home state of Oregon, I slogged through those six years of flying trips to all those cities in all those states feeling like I was living "Paradise Lost." I quit and took an uninspiring secretarial job just to get back home.

Oh, and I've also toured most of Europe (Yow, so crowded!), gone on safari in three countries in Africa, spent three weeks in Morocco and Egypt, and visited almost every island in the Caribbean, along with Hawaii. I never got to the Far East or China because just the THOUGHT of the population density even then (1970's) made me ill.

And I spent six WINTER months living in Fairbanks, Alaska, while they were building the pipeline up there, engaged to a wildlife biologist who thought it would be tough love to introduce me to the state when it routinely dropped to 40 below, to see if I was tough enough to be his bride. Ho, ho, that relationship went the way of the Tanana River during "break-up!" :roll:

But, ironically, I loved Alaska and probably would have stayed there if my first impressions included more daylight hours, no wolfskin parka and mukluks, and the ability to simply take a few walks outside without defying the odds of getting back alive.

Anyway, I feel happy to have returned to my roots and to KNOW that I'm where I belong. :-D

by **oowolf** » Fri 09 Jan 2009, 19:45:34

I was on my 20 minute lunch break at Weyerhauser cardboard factory in Santa Paula CA (1972) and asked another employee "What brings you here?" He said: "I'm making money to move to Montana." I said: "Montana, huh, tell me more....."

by **PrairieMule** » Fri 09 Jan 2009, 21:17:16

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('stonecypher', '
')Oh, and did I mention the lack of venomous snakes, killer bees, fire ants, chiggers, poisonous spiders (other than the black widow and brown recluse), and alligators?