Why do you live where you do?

Are they older than you? They can't live forever.

 

Indeed they are. As long as their kids don't share their idea of building an RV park, I think we'd be free once they die. Sometimes I shoot eye lasers at their big line of trees that they always bitch about when we grill outside ("You're going to set our trees on fire, waaah"). It's just a pity that my eye lasers are weak and ineffective.

 

gravity

 

I was born here, the only reasons I am still here is money and family.

 

Fate, laziness or luck. Perhaps all of them

 

me too

if i go anywhere i need my own pillow and blanket or else i cant sleep

lmao

 

NC is where I am. It isn't perfect, but no place is. I can't find a better place, so I guess I'll stay.

You get a lot of house and land for your money here. The crime rate is low, and traffic isn't terrible anyplace but Charlotte. We have easy access to the mountains and the beach. A long day's drive will get you to almost anywhere on the east coast of the US, or you can get a nonstop flight out of Charlotte.

I guess the worst thing is the weather. Most of the time, it's either too hot and humid or too cold, unless it's raining.

The only part of this state I wouldn't live in is the coastal area, anywhere east of I-95, because of hurricanes.

 

cos its home

 

I live here, because my husband is from here. My family is about 9000 kms away.

Nowadays, when I go to my original country, I don't like it anymore. I go back about once a year to see my parents. If they weren't there, I wouldn't go back.

I don't feel like I'm from one place. I'm an inhabitant of a small planet.

 

The kids.

 

because i'm a cheap ass and wanted to save some money so i could get a couple more things that i want and because the cost of living was more then my income where i was.

also i'm closer to where i want to be. still no cigar though.

 

Are you going for the gravy train, themnax

 

I live where I do because of work. When my company hired me, it was either move here or LA, and I didn't want to go to LA. Now they're about to move me again.

 

I have lived here all of my life. I was not one of the lucky ones who packed up and left to never return, though some of them did eventually return. There really is no place like home, even for those who wanted to escape it in their youth. I like where I live and adventuring was something I preferred to read about instead of experiencing first hand.

 

I live almost 20 miles north of Philadelphia, which is the general area in which I grew up. I drifted for a few years in my youth, everywhere from the south tip of Florida to the Canadian border in North Dakota and pretty much everywhere in between; never been west. I have been back in my original habitat for just over 8 years, and upon arrival initially I was geared up to hit the road again, and had no intentions of staying except to rest (drifting is not always easy..). I am still here and working the same job because my children are very young, but as they grow a bit older, I will not be grounded and am open to travel again, possibly relocating in another country. I'm not someone who cares very much for traveling, and the reason for this is that because I did it as a drifter, I was forced to spend extended periods of time in the large part of the places I've been to, and came to realize at an early age that no matter the scenery, people are the same everywhere you go.

My only two incentives to consider relocating are climate and exposing myself to a richer sense of more directly ancestral history than America can provide. I have only the vaguest ideas of who my ancestors were, and so I'm resigned to embrace the nationalities and accept that we are forever falling deeper into a state of cultural ambiguity and social disrepair. This may sound bleak, but I find it rather fantastic, as I can get much more satisfaction by reading the literature dating to a romantic time when the gentry was an established class distinction that held substance in it's separation, as opposed to the vapid charade of the post-modern sense of nobility and the delusions of irreparable transcendence held by consumers across the spectrum alike. Germany, Ireland, France, Sweden and Italy all appeal to me and in my own experience the people seem to be on average much more intelligent in comparison to America, as America largely import's it's genius on hushed citizenship, in particular from India and farther east.

Again, people are people no matter where we live, and my reasons for desiring to be elsewhere are more wrapped up in climate than civility. The accelerating crime rate, heroin epidemic, rapid deterioration of the urban and suburban neighborhoods into poverty and disrepair, catering to the baser wants of man in the local establishments, the distrust and inherent (and rampant) racism and homophobia, and last but not least, the brutality and corruption of the police in the greater Philadelphia and Tri-state area are all good reasons for me to want to get the fuck out of this devastated nightmare; at the same time, I live more 'in my mind' than in my body, my apartment is relatively safe (only two attempted home invasions!), my landlords are polite, my neighbors are ultra-cool, the stores are within very brief walking distance, a few parks are still in acceptable condition, and I am under an hour's drive away from the endless expanse of forestry and farmland, vast lakes and gorgeous national parks. Pennsylvania is second only to Vermont in it's green beauty and it so rarely is appreciated for this; it is a pretty massive state and there is much to love here. Beyond NYC and the assumptions I have of the west coastline through second hand accounts, I do not think there is an equal in average intelligence as there is in the counties surrounding Philadelphia to the north and the northwest, and slightly to the east; Bucks County is ranked among the top places to live in the entire country, is one of the wealthiest, is one of the more gorgeous and racially / sexually relaxed, and has much to offer that cannot be found elsewhere. Montgomery County begins like that at the border with Bucks to the north, and rapidly drops off as it approaches the city county. Pittsburgh is itself decent, but is way too damn close to Ohio for my comfort. Eastern Ohio is one of the most depressing and curiously dull parts of the country I've had the displeasure of temporarily existing in. Parts of GA, TN and the midwest are wonderful, Chicago is a great town. North Dakota and Minnesota should be forcibly seceded from the Union, given over to Canada or simply blown up. Except for this one mall in downtown Fargo, it was actually pretty cool, they had these bangin' ass sofas all over you could lounge on.

 

I would have never thought myself in So Cal. I came here 30 years ago to be near my mom and sis. They had both moved here for job reasons. I wasn't doing very well in Utah by myself. It was young and not emotionally stable.

The last of my 2 kids will be out of the house in the next few years. I hope to move to a smaller city then.

 

I know a Karen J in NC. I truly hope you two are not the same person.

 

Not possible. I don't know anybody IRL currently living in California.

Besides that, 'J' is my middle initial.

 

I spent a few years living abroad in China and Australia and have also travelled widely. However, New Zealand is my home and will always be where I want to live - it's beautiful, clean and the people are wonderful. We also have the best beef and dairy in the world

 

i was born here , families here, left a few times and came back. beutiful city, full of corrupt politics though :/