Author Topic: Why do you live where you do? (Read 532 times)

Conan The Librarian · « **on:** December 13, 2011, 03:25:53 AM »

Why do you live where you do? Did you pick it, or was it picked for you? Why did you stay?

I live in Minnesota so my wife could be with her parents in their old age. It won't be long before we have no reason to stay here, so we'll move to a better climate.

Odd fact: My town has an almost zero mortality rate. Some people die there, but it's at a rate impossibly low. This indicates people leave before they die. Other cities, like the retirement towns in Arizona and Florida have astronomically high mortality rates, which means that they are either death traps or people move there to spend the rest of their lives.

guzzijohn · « **Reply #1 on:** December 13, 2011, 04:28:19 AM »

I picked where I now live. After living in towns or cities from 1973 until 2005. In 2005 my wife and I moved back to the rural area I grew up in. We both grew up as farm kids. We built a place one mile from where I grew up and we are loving it. The picture is our view from our dining room.
GuzziJohn

Don Fischer · « **Reply #2 on:** December 13, 2011, 05:08:03 AM »

My back yard

Looking down on home

North out my back door

South off of my property

Nuff said!

quasne.inc · « **Reply #3 on:** December 13, 2011, 06:20:51 AM »

I live where I live because my wife grew up here and started building a house before we got married. We moved away to the "city" to go to school and couldnt wait to get back. We will never move again. The lack of jobs and the lack of warmth keep most people out, which suits us just fine. This is out our front door and it looks like that about nine months out of the year.

no guns here · « **Reply #4 on:** December 13, 2011, 07:13:25 AM »

Air Force said go, so I went. Here I am. Got a contractor position until I can find something else. Gotta get out of South Texas.

NGH

teamnelson · « **Reply #5 on:** December 13, 2011, 07:44:16 AM »

Uncle Sam is still picking my locale, with my limited input, for the foreseeable future anyways.
But once we decide to part ways, I found a valley in NW Montana that is calling me. Lake, mountains, great people, MT gun laws, MT libertarian values, great people (needed to say that twice). Yep, its cold, and a hard place to live. The reason mortality rates are so high in the retirement areas (I grew up in east Mesa) is that there's nothing to fight, to challenge ... no reason to live. Sorry, but that's what I see. I do not want to make macaroni crafts at the center, drive a golf cart to check the mail, or spray the rocks in my front yard john deere green to make it look like grass. When I'm in my 80's, I want to grab a .22 rifle, whistle up my dog, and go for a stroll in the woods to see what we can scare up.

flatlander · « **Reply #6 on:** December 13, 2011, 07:58:13 AM »

High wages, and low cost of living. I can pick where to live later.

no guns here · « **Reply #7 on:** December 13, 2011, 08:25:38 AM »

TN,

That whole scenario scares the hell out of me... I'm with you.

NGH

Empty Quiver · « **Reply #8 on:** December 13, 2011, 08:33:10 AM »

Well I saw that mortality thing and I thought Mn. is for me

I found the fountain of youth.

Job brought me here. I was hoping it would too, to be honest. I like the winter for the most part.

reliquary · « **Reply #9 on:** December 13, 2011, 08:58:39 AM »

After wandering the world in Uncle Sam's Army, we moved back to where I grew up in East Texas. Great people, great area, very conservative beliefs, good place if TSHTF.

yellowtail3 · « **Reply #10 on:** December 13, 2011, 09:35:48 AM »

I live where I live because my children are here, otherwise I'd be back in Austin in a heartbeat.

kevinsmith5 · « **Reply #11 on:** December 13, 2011, 09:45:20 AM »

My Oklahoma raised father and Army brat mother retired from the Marines in eastern NC, I moved down for a few years after they got back from overseas. (last two duty stations were Korea and Okinawa). I married a girl from the NC mountains who inherited her grandma's house in the Croatan national forest, so here we stayed.

magooch · « **Reply #12 on:** December 13, 2011, 10:33:29 AM »

I've been all ovef the country and haven't found a place that I like that has everything the PNW has. I've often thought, where would I move to if I could move anywhere. The answer so far has always been nowhere, because I can go anywhere.

DDZ · « **Reply #13 on:** December 13, 2011, 11:16:03 AM »

I've lived at the same place I was born for the last 54 years. Within a good stones throw anyway. I figure, God willing, I'm going to die in the same place also. I've never had the want to move anywhere else. All of my family lives within 12 miles, and I have access to hunting and fishing out my door. Never really have traveled very far from home either. I'm someone that just likes to stay at, what I've called home all my life.

spikehorn · « **Reply #14 on:** December 13, 2011, 01:09:05 PM »

Grew up about 30 miles from where I live now. Traveled the world. came back, met my wife. She inherited her parents house. Been there 20 years and counting.

littlecanoe · « **Reply #15 on:** December 13, 2011, 04:01:49 PM »

Quote from: Don Fischer on December 13, 2011, 05:08:03 AM

My back yard

Looking down on home

North out my back door

South off of my property

Nuff said!

WOW!

Doublebass73 · « **Reply #16 on:** December 14, 2011, 06:01:37 PM »

I grew up in a crappy mill city in Mass so I wanted to raise my kids in a better environment. I now live in central New Hampshire near the southern edge of the White Mountains with plenty of places to hunt and fish:

I love northern New England, I will never leave here.

Sourdough · « **Reply #17 on:** December 15, 2011, 05:12:02 AM »

I love to hunt period. Aug, Caribou; Sept, Moose; October, Bears; Nov, I go on vacation. Dec, Jan, Feb, March, April,; Wolves, Coyotes, Fox, Lynx. May, June; Bears. July I fish for Salmon, and Halibut. Then it's August and I do it all over again.

I have a proposal before the Game board to change Coyotes to "No Limit, No Closed Season". Coyotes have been found to be the Number one predator of Dall Sheep Lambs in the spring time.

I had to quite shooting Salmon, I have to dip them now. Darn shooting them was fun, but some bleeding hearts convinced the state that is was bad to shoot Salmon.

The Air Force send me up here in 1971, and I kept coming back. So when the wife and I retired we just stayed.

I was raised in Tennessee, but they have too many restrictions on hunting down there today.

Pot-Bellied Stallion · « **Reply #18 on:** December 15, 2011, 06:04:31 AM »

Born and raised in Texas (still love the state), and have lived in North Idaho for the past 28 years. Will never willingly leave here. When I asked my wife where she would like to retire to, she echoed my thoughts and said we would stay right here. Hunting, fishing, hiking, etc. What could be better?

scootrd · « **Reply #19 on:** December 15, 2011, 06:26:27 AM »

Quote from: TeamNelson on December 13, 2011, 07:44:16 AM

Uncle Sam is still picking my locale, with my limited input, for the foreseeable future anyways.
But once we decide to part ways, I found a valley in NW Montana that is calling me. Lake, mountains, great people, MT gun laws, MT libertarian values, great people (needed to say that twice). Yep, its cold, and a hard place to live. The reason mortality rates are so high in the retirement areas (I grew up in east Mesa) is that there's nothing to fight, to challenge ... no reason to live. Sorry, but that's what I see. I do not want to make macaroni crafts at the center, drive a golf cart to check the mail, or spray the rocks in my front yard john deere green to make it look like grass. When I'm in my 80's, I want to grab a .22 rifle, whistle up my dog, and go for a stroll in the woods to see what we can scare up.

+1

I was the kid who escaped the Northeast, Service sent me all over the world . Met an East Texas gal who is very family orientated with strong family values, so when I was discharged we lived in the south for a while but when her dad passed away there was really no more reason to stay , moved back to northeast to help take care of my aging family members. In a few years , we will probably have no more "real" reason to stay. We love the Northeast, we live quite rural and it absolutely beautiful, but it's a mighty big country and we would like to see a bit more of it i our later years.

We are also looking towards MT or WY in a few years just to start a new exciting chapter in life.

I agree , -last thing either of us want is to be making macaroni crafts at a center either.