why do you live where you live?
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We moved here 6 years ago, so that my wife could help take care of her mother,who had suffered from a stroke.It is a small town on the Southern Oregon coast, with great weather, and an ocean view. jcms 36% 4 Votes
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I live in a small country town in South Australia
everyone is friendly
5 mins to get to the other side of town
great shopping center
friends live close by
trust your kids to go out for a walk without being attacked
small classroom sizes
know everyone
everyone knows everyone else%26#039;s business
kids who wag get caught easy and parents get told either by school or from gossip.
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I lived in Idaho for 12 years, Michigan for 3, and now Utah for 8 years now. I live where I live because my Grandparents. (Mom%26#039;s side is why I lived in Michigan, dad%26#039;s side is why I live in Utah) Now all my grandparents are dead tho, and I am stuck in a Mormon state. Which sucks. But whatever. The mountains are gorgeous!
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I am 50 year old white american male
i have multiple sclerosis
i draw Veteran disability
I am very grateful for my monthly check
However it is not a lot of money And doesn%26#039;t stretches real far
With the high prices of everything lol
I have a hard time making ends meet most months
I now live in Tijuana Mexico
It is boarder town of San Diego
I live on the ocean beach apt
The weather here is outstanding year around
Mostly never to cold or hot
sunny Baja Calf
I live on this side because in San diego My apt would be around 750 dollars if not more
In mexico its 150 plus internet 30 gas 20 electric 20
water 5
so i have more cash on hand more of everything
and that%26#039;s why i live where i live
peace
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Washington state/Pacific Northwest...and wow, there are a LOT of reasons!
We have a permaculture farm. We live four miles from the ocean. That means nearly constant breezes which keep the air sparkling clean.
We have a mountain view in other other direction. That mountain captures the clouds in the winter and brings rain to our farm.
We have a %26quot;rain shadow%26quot; created by a large area of land, which actually allows us far more sunny, dry days than farms 15 miles to either side of us. That means harvest is much easier for us.
Two creeks and a large pond on our farm, allow wildlife to abound.
We live in a migratory flyway for waterfowl. There%26#039;s nothing like watching thousands of snow geese, or hundreds of trumpetor swans fly over the farm. Not to mention all the ducks.
Salmon swim up our creeks to spawn.
We can grow our own firewood, and heat our home ourself...this helps us to be independent of depleting oil supplies, and the electrical grid.
We have fresh fish (blue gills, and big mouth bass) in our pond, whenever we feel like eating fresh fish that is NOT contaminated with chemicals.
Space for our orchards, of fruit and nut trees.
Rain that falls from the sky, to water our crops and pastures (VASTLY better than irregating!).
To live in a neighborhood that was started over 100 years ago, means character, and beauty abound in our neighborhood with the mature plantings and beauty of the homes (no Mc Mansions here!).
Access to medical care, and Vetrinarians should we or the animals need it.
Access to the type of bulk shopping we do, since we only go to the store once or twice a year.
Draft horses, the people around here who still run teams (an NO we are not near any Amish).
The general friendly-help-your-neighbor-country/farm... mentality of the folks who live around here.
The library book sales!
No personal income tax.
There are a LOT of reasons. Mostly it boils down to the fertility/richness of the land itself, and the beauty of nature and the wildlife around here.
~Garnet
Permaculture homesteading/farming over 20 years
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I live here because it%26#039;s where my family and friends are. Not only that, but I%26#039;m realizing as I get older that the cost of living is cheap compared to anywhere else, and there are a ton of opportunities for me where I live.
Columbia, South Carolina
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I came to the general area where I now live because I got a job here. For retirement, I sat down and plotted the parts of the U.S. that are not too hot, too cold, too snowy, or too expensive. That pretty well left south-central VA. Anybody know of a small farm I could buy there?
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i live in illinois because my parents do.
everything in my town is high school football games, corn, our school mascot and sports. 0% 0 Votes