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Do you like where you live?
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No, not really.
My main gripe about Dundee (Scotland) is that the job front is shockingly bad with no prospects.
In terms of historical, scenic, shopping etc, its good, really good.
Additionally being a biker, I am fed up with the constant bad summers. If I could get a job I would probably emigrate over to the States but then you need a trade, got to have a trade.
Ho hum...
My main gripe about Dundee (Scotland) is that the job front is shockingly bad with no prospects.
In terms of historical, scenic, shopping etc, its good, really good.
Additionally being a biker, I am fed up with the constant bad summers. If I could get a job I would probably emigrate over to the States but then you need a trade, got to have a trade.
Ho hum...
I usually take the toll road even though it costs money and is a little longer distance-wise. It's worth it not waking up an extra hour early to take 7.
I live and work in Silicon Valley, and love it. My flat is in a nice little downtown area with plenty of restaurants. If I drive to work, it takes about 10 minutes (15 if there's a stop for coffee along the way); walking is about 30 minutes. I'd prefer to live in San Francisco itself, but my boyfriend works in south San José, and he's not all that enthused about a 2+ hour commute each way.
I lived in Atlanta and its suburbs and have no desire to ever return. I grew up in rural Michigan and likewise don't feel like I need to go back (other than visiting my family). I lived in Sydney for a few months and adored it, and would go back in a heartbeat.
My boyfriend and I have had several conversations about where we would want to live other than here. Seattle is on the list (although that's mostly because of my employer -- Seattle in the summer is absolutely gorgeous, but I don't like Seattle in the winter at all). Manhattan is on the list, although I don't think that I'd like it in the long-term. Outside the US, Vancouver, London, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam are all cities that I'd consider, although I'd probably take Sydney over any of them.
I lived in Atlanta and its suburbs and have no desire to ever return. I grew up in rural Michigan and likewise don't feel like I need to go back (other than visiting my family). I lived in Sydney for a few months and adored it, and would go back in a heartbeat.
My boyfriend and I have had several conversations about where we would want to live other than here. Seattle is on the list (although that's mostly because of my employer -- Seattle in the summer is absolutely gorgeous, but I don't like Seattle in the winter at all). Manhattan is on the list, although I don't think that I'd like it in the long-term. Outside the US, Vancouver, London, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam are all cities that I'd consider, although I'd probably take Sydney over any of them.
CA Bay area. VERY close toHQ. Like the weather, don't like the fact that my vote doesn't count.
You live in the bay area?
Good god- who would have ever known?
Gets a bit too hectic come Halloween for my tastes.I live in Santa Barbara, so you figure it out.
San Antonio is great place to live. Warm all year round, you can golf, boat, swim, all year. The coast is 2 hours, Mexico is 2 hours, wine country is an hour, and places to travel within a day or less.
Cost of living is low. Even with 3.5 million people it still feels like a small town in many ways.
I retired here when I left the military. This town caters to the military and is called Military Town USA.
Cost of living is low. Even with 3.5 million people it still feels like a small town in many ways.
I retired here when I left the military. This town caters to the military and is called Military Town USA.
I live in Santa Barbara, so you figure it out.
How do you like it? UC Santa Barbara is one of my top 5 colleges I want to go to, although I do know it is expensive to live there and am kinda nervous about that. Anyways...if you could just give a little info that would be great! Thanks!
He had me fooled.You live in the bay area?
I live in Santa Barbara, so you figure it out.
Should I ask you again when gas prices sky rocket?
Should I ask you again when gas prices sky rocket?
I think you mean 'now that they have' not 'when'!
SB is great. Trying to buy a house is impossible, but I'm in an apartment near 3 parks and a block from State Street. It's a great place to live (even around Halloween, now that they've cracked down on those crazy out-of-towners
).*waits for stalkers to figure out my complex*
I love where I live! Four houses, two provinces and 4 climates in two years! Lived in a desert for 12 years, then went on vacation and moved to the prairies for 2 years. Then moved to the rainforest for 4 months and left there for the forest for well see how long. My family manages properties for people so that explains alot. Plan to stay put for a while now though.
Bay Area is really the same in terms of prices, except we have a bit more public transit up here.
(even around Halloween, now that they've cracked down on those crazy out-of-towners
Better watch out before teh little one™ picks up the habits of the "out-of-towners."
I'm game.
Originally from Omaha, NE. Moved to Melbourne, Oz for a year (uni), then Sydney for another year (uni). Came back to Omaha. HUGE culture shock. Realized the lack of common sense we yanks have! Moved to Las Vegas to get away from the snow in the Midwest. First day I get to Vegas, it snows. Lived there for 5 years, realized I missed real trees and grass, but the high desert southwest USA is really peaceful (just HOT), so move to Sacramento to have a bit of both (desert pretty much an hour's drive away). Still have my apartment in Vegas, so free place to stay!
I like Sacramento, save the gas prices, house prices, that people here (in California period) don't know how to drive in the rain, let alone snow, but would prefer somewhere southwest USA, or back in Australia. Vancouver, BC as well.
In the meantime, I'll wait for the Hayward or San Andreas faults to cause Cali to break off and become its own island. Then I'll have beachfront property in Vegas.
BL.
Originally from Omaha, NE. Moved to Melbourne, Oz for a year (uni), then Sydney for another year (uni). Came back to Omaha. HUGE culture shock. Realized the lack of common sense we yanks have! Moved to Las Vegas to get away from the snow in the Midwest. First day I get to Vegas, it snows. Lived there for 5 years, realized I missed real trees and grass, but the high desert southwest USA is really peaceful (just HOT), so move to Sacramento to have a bit of both (desert pretty much an hour's drive away). Still have my apartment in Vegas, so free place to stay!
I like Sacramento, save the gas prices, house prices, that people here (in California period) don't know how to drive in the rain, let alone snow, but would prefer somewhere southwest USA, or back in Australia. Vancouver, BC as well.
In the meantime, I'll wait for the Hayward or San Andreas faults to cause Cali to break off and become its own island. Then I'll have beachfront property in Vegas.
BL.
Love of housing is surely the most subjective of all, but, I do love where I am now.
Condo fees are really low, and I have the feeling of being impervious to whatever happens to the markets of the World.
Peace of mind, to me, is worth more than another couple of hundred square feet of living space.
Condo fees are really low, and I have the feeling of being impervious to whatever happens to the markets of the World.
Peace of mind, to me, is worth more than another couple of hundred square feet of living space.
That depends on whether you consider where I live to be where I am most of the year (Worcester, Massachusetts for school) or where I consider home to be (just outside of Oakland, California). After over 2 years out here I've decided the East Coast really isn't for me. Some parts are better than others and Worcester isn't one of them, admittedly, but even the areas I like (Cambridge/Boston, parts of Pittsburgh, a few other places I've been) don't come near Oakland/Berkeley, the Bay Area, and the various places you can easily get to from the Bay Area.
The only downside is the price of living, which I'm sure will be unfortunate once I move back there (which I will definitely be doing) and am no longer with my parents in a couple years, but oh well.
The only downside is the price of living, which I'm sure will be unfortunate once I move back there (which I will definitely be doing) and am no longer with my parents in a couple years, but oh well.
Yeah, Worcester, where I lived for the past 18 years, was okay, but for younger folks, not so much. I suppose when I'm older, and assuming I can find a good job, Worcester's upscale sections might work for me. Nonetheless, I've always wanted Boston, or one of the surrounding towns.
I do like where I live, but still want to move to somewhere more exciting once I finish college. At the moment, I'm considering either coast of the USA or Canada and Australia (I want it to be warmer than here and close to the sea
well if you want heat go to Australia. it's damn hot in summer, a little cold in winter (doesn't snow tho as it's too flat) and then beautiful in between. But further north in the tropics it's mighty hot and humid in summer and then hummid and raining in winter. If you want snow and then fairly warm weather then go to Canada.
Sign up another one who loves Chicago. My family is from Bucktown, and as much as I tried during my late teens/early twenties, I cannot justify leaving this magnificent city. We're already looking at apartments for next year. It's weird to say it, but I am truly in love with this city. Every time I see the skyline, it takes my breath away- and has for a long time!