What is the best and worst thing about the area you live in?

[hrmalexandra]

Portland OR---
Best: Liberal politics, diversity, eco-living is the norm (as are chickens, increasingly!), beautiful area.

Worst: Too many people and not enough jobs to go 'round! Oh, and chicken-owning is becoming trendy, ick.

 

[warmfuzzies]

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What she said. We dont live in Texhoma, but not that far from there. Dh delivers grain there sometimes.

I am glad the heat is dry, but it is SOOO dry! This is the first time all year I have gone two weeks without watering my whole garden. Normally I water twice a week. And the wind, which I normally love, can kill plants quickly when it it hot and dry.

It can also get very cold here in the winter, and the worst thing is it is normally not snowy, just COLD and WINDY and ICY.

We often have temp extremes of 40-50 degrees every day. It is supposed to get above 100 again this weekend, with lows in the mid 60s. At least it cools off at night, that makes it nice.

I love the people most of the time, and I cannot imagine living in town.

 

[raroo]

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I'm certainly not offended by what you have said.

I live across the street from a major OWE-lympic venue. Between parking mahem and road restrictions, access to my home is going to be trying to say the least. Add the new tax on everything and the "best place on earth" isn't seeming so great these days. Oh and don't even get me started on the poor bashing.

That said, I do have a view of the mountains from my bed which makes me happy and I live in a neighbourhood where I can obtain almost all of my needs in life within an 8 block walk.

Cheryl

Heh heh. "OWE-lympic" sums that one up nicely!

 

[Chicks_N_Horses]

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you have obviously never experienced a cat 3 or higher. I had to run from Rita and didn't go far enough, then experienced a heat wave like no other with almost 100% humidity and no electricity. Had to evacuate further north. Couldn't go home for a month, it was bad. Bad enough to decide to move away from the coast (SE Texas). I then helped friends this last year, BOTH families lost their houses completely. Entire cities where either washed away or totally destroyed (High Island and Bridge City) Hurricanes for me are BAD news... at least in the last 5 years. I do however love a good thunderstorm rolling in the wind, sights and sounds...beautiful.

I now live in Central Texas Hill Country and love it....
like Texasgirl said ... it's TEXAS! lol! and it is beautiful. The humidity is low and the worst thing that can happen where I am now is hail or flood (but as long as I'm home the flood won't bother me I live on a hill) I lOVE it here!

worst thing... we are in a horrible DROUGHT!!! we need rain really bad. oh and the temp is at lease 100* every day so far thanks to the high pressure causing the drought.

Oh yeah we have. All the way to CAT 5! I am on the FL line and 1 hr from the Gulf of Mexico. Ivan tore our roof off. I said I hate the destruction but walking out into a mild hurricane is like feeling mother nature as close as you can get and I love that feeling of one. I really hate the desruction they cause although it helps keep my DH in business as he is a contractor but I still love em - just maybe should've said I love the mild ones =-) And thunderstorms, yes! I love to be out in a thunderstorm. We will even drive to the big hill that my DH knows of and you can see for hundreds of miles it seems and watching those storms like that is awesome.

 

[SunAngel]

Chambersburg, Pa

Definitely not my first choice of where to live, but its not far from where DH grew up. By choice I would be about an hour from a beautiful beach, maybe in NC.

Good: Gimme a minute, I'm still thinking. I guess I have to admit its pretty here, lots of woods around us. No big city, just small area of downtown. Semi-mild seasons, only a few days where it gets super hot/cold. Carnivals and Fairs. Lots of Apple Orchards. Poultry auction nearby. I can have whatever animals I want and we own our home and business. Decent doctors. The people are mostly friendly.

Bad: Nearest McDonalds and Walmart are 10-15 miles away. Too many stupid new and used car lots. Out on the main rt. road it seems like every other driveway is a used car lot and then in between them is a big new car lot! All the kids schools are 8-12 miles away (I am used to them all being down the street or less than 2 miles away). The farmers here think they know everything about chickens and half the time they call them by the wrong names. They call chicks, Peepees, I can't stand that lol (I know darn well I didn't bring in a box of Peepees...I brought CHICKS!). People say stuff like You'ins, crick and read up. We live 1/4 mile from a golf course, which has several developments surrounding us...the people there act like they are so much better...as if they don't still live in the same area as us. Lastly, everything is sooo far apart, yet everyone here acts like everything is just down the road. Hate the ice, snow and cold!

 

[buck-wild-chick]

BEST- fall,when the bucks are in full rut (whitetail deer)
WORST- illegal immigrants and the heat

 

[sundance]

good NO CLOSE NEIGHBORS
Bad 14 miles to town
fall beautiful tree leaves.
winter hopefully some snow
marrie

 

[Brick243]

I live in Southeast Oklahoma. This part of the state has beautiful rolling, wooded hills. People are friendly. The cost of living is fairly low. Cattle and horse country.

My least favorite thing about here is the hot, humid summers. I love summer time, but the humidity gets me. I have lots of relatives around Houston, and the humidity is alot worse than here, so I shouldn't complain.

 

[wombat]

I'm in Maryland.

It's very green, and we have long growing seasons. The winters are generally mild, though one winter, we got more snow than Chicago! There are a lot of IT jobs to chose from, which is how I ended up here in the first place.

On the other hand, the traffic is horrible, and the cost of living and taxes are extremely high. Growth/sprawl are out of control, and the local politics regarding re-zoning and land use are, to put it kindly, difficult to comprehend ... or, to be blunt, corrupt. I have a neighbor who is a small scale developer. He owned land south of us, and tried to get it re-zoned so that he could develop it. He had to develop within the existing zoning rules, and settled for turning a portion of the land into a horse farm and moving onto it. Good, IMO ... I liked the mixed agri/residential zoning we have, it is why we moved here. Shortly thereafter, though, a much larger and more connected developer acquired the land just south of our neighbor, and turned two large farms into a snooty high-density McMansion community with over 20,000 people living where there had been just two farm families. I'm not so happy with my 20,000 new neighbors, or with land use politics that favor politically connected large-scale developers, either.

I'm originally from Wisconsin, and I hope someday to go back ... I never minded the winters, but I'm not sure I'll ever talk my wife into leaving Maryland for the north and the snow. Someday I'd like to get to where I have a less time-consuming IT job in a less populated area, and more hobby-farming.

 

[Tonopah Pati]

I live in Arizona, best thing is the winters, growing crops year around.
worst thing, July and August heat. BEST: Wide open view. I don't have street lights and noise. I do have lots and lots of star's, sunset's to die for. Peace and quite. I can swim and ski outdoors on the same day (winter) Some wonderful lakes and THE GRAND CANYON. Big Game, Wild Burro's just to mention a few things OH MY! I could go on and on. I love Arizona.