Why I LOVE my home.

[Chris_]

Doc 

You've moved around quite a bit!  Hope it's mostly been some wonderful experiences, I'm quite in awe of some of your brief stays!   

I think we once calculated that our average stay in one place was about 18 months.....I will say that at the time it was hard on our three youngsters, changing schools, etc. but they learned to love it, and now have friends from all over the world.

Two of the three have careers that involve lots of international travel, so they learned to use the experience as an asset......

Overall it was a great experience....we would do it all over again if we had to.....

doc

[Chris_]

My little city has a meth problem.  Almost every week, there are reports in the police log about car break-ins and the like.  A cash box like freedumb described wouldn't last a day, which is a pity because it's otherwise a nice town.

It wasn't me, but the point is well made. Some places still keep old town values.

[Lanie]

What I like about my area is that it's low traffic. It's only about fifteen to thirty miles away from some cities that might have more stuff (more work, entertainment, etc). It's also close to come more country areas where there's a lot of peace and quiet. When I lived in Raleigh, I'd have to drive quite a ways to find the country roads for a ride.The weather is nice. Not a lot of concerns about natural disasters. It can happen, but I'm not counting on it. When I was in Raleigh, I liked being really close to a lot of stuff. Museums, areas where they'd hold major events, the University, etc. Traffic was murder though. A walker could go faster than a car at times because of it.

[Lanie]

I hate my neighborhood. I'm five minutes from el Barrio, the ghetto, or White Trashistan.  There's a fire station less than a mile down the highway and if there's a fire somewhere, I get to hear them coming and going.  Not to mention the various robberies, beatings, and home invasions that go on.  And there's the occasional homocide like the one at the gas station last week. 

I wish I could afford to live in the middle of nowhere, but I have to work.

L.A.???  Lower Antioch?   

Yeah 

Aren't there like some smaller towns nearby where you might be able to live or is it just too much in rent/gas?

[Chris]

Aren't there like some smaller towns nearby where you might be able to live or is it just too much in rent/gas?

The nearest places to me are Franklin, Mt. Juliet and Murfreesboro.  With traffic the way it is around here (and it's getting worse every year), I'd have an hour commute just to get into town.  Once you move outside of town, trying to get back in during rush hour is impossible.

My stepfather worked near downtown Nashville from his home in Franklin until he moved the company's HQ.  Spending three hours in the car every day was normal.

[debk]

We are surrounded by the Smokies and the Cumberlands and the TVA lake system.

Spring starts in February and summer ends in November. We may or may not have snow, may or may not have ice, have a lot of fog and when we aren't in a drought, we have more rain annually than Seattle.

I have lived here for 25 years and would still move back to Chicago, or Omaha, or Cincinnati, in a heartbeat. I miss the grocery stores, the butcher shops, and the bakeries!

[Lanie]

What I like about my area is that it's low traffic. It's only about fifteen to thirty miles away from some cities that might have more stuff (more work, entertainment, etc). It's also close to come more country areas where there's a lot of peace and quiet. When I lived in Raleigh, I'd have to drive quite a ways to find the country roads for a ride.The weather is nice. Not a lot of concerns about natural disasters. It can happen, but I'm not counting on it. When I was in Raleigh, I liked being really close to a lot of stuff. Museums, areas where they'd hold major events, the University, etc. Traffic was murder though. A walker could go faster than a car at times because of it.

  I'd love to live near the mountains of North Carolina, but fairly close to some decent cities.

Triad area is the best part to live in. Not close enough to the mountains to get a lot of snow. Normally too far in to be very badly affected by hurricanes.

What do you like about where you live?

[RobJohnson]

What do you like about where you live?

That you are not my neighbor.

[Wineslob]

I used to live in Sacramento Ca. which was a cesspool when I left in 1989. Now it's even "better". 
Where I live now, I can drop off my daughter for her ballet lesson and head up the road 3-4 min so I can fish for trout. 
Our whole town population is, I think, 20k people?
We don't have street lights, or sidewalks on the side roads (main road does, but we roll it up at night).
My daughter has left every bicycle of hers out in the front yard...........not one stolen.
My Aunt visited 2 years ago (she lives in Chula Vista/San Diego Ca) and freaked. Seriously. She coulden't handle the no sidewalks, lights etc. She coulden't sleep that night, too dark, too quiet. It was really wierd how "citified" she was.