I was born in Louisiana, raised all over the south, Arkansas and Texas dad worked for an oil company. After I joined the military boot camp was in Fl, tech school was in Mississippi. Stationed first in SF bay area, then Dallas/ Ft Worth area, then Mare Island (Vallejo,CA). From there I went to Port Hueneme, CA (Ventura County). Then to Lackland AFB for law enforcement training then finally New Orleans (Bell Chase). After I got off active duty went back to Odessa, TX . Moved to Leavenworth, KS for the job.
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Why do you live where you do?
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Grew up in Santa Cruz, but now reside about two miles from where I was born in the Bay Area. Family and lotsa home equity keep me here. Planning on looking in Oregon when I get twenty years in with my company. That will be in '08. If I can find a place and a decent job I'm outta California.
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I was raised in the SF Bay Area. I went away for school for almost a decade and moved back about a year ago. There was one overriding reason why I moved back--this place is home. My family is here and I've been gone for too long already. Plus I'm thinking about starting my own family soon, and I can't imagine having my kids grow up without their cousins, aunts, uncles, and grandparents.
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gyr said:All that and.....
Great fishing
year 'round wild hog hunting
Incredable sunsets
Thriving folk music tradition
'Gator hunting
Red Neck women who have their own bass boats ( I didn't make that one up!)
And
NO FREAKING SNOW!!!!!!!
Hey, I have a blind date with a red neck woman tomorrow. I'm not sure how much of a red neck she really is because she says two drinks knock her down. I hope!
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I grew up in Southern California, but could never afford to live close enough to the ocean or high enough in the mountains to be happy with the climate. I really don't like the heat. I'm an electronics engineer and they mostly don't have my kind of jobs in areas where you can afford the housing and live up in the pine trees or down by the ocean. All of the southern and southwestern states are out of my climate zone except for a few mountain communities.
I now live up in the pine trees at around a 7,000 foot altitude just outside of Colorado Springs. It never gets all that hot. If it hits the 100's it is a true record breaking day. It got up into the 80's today, but right now it is 72 degrees. It never gets very humid. I would rate it a little on the humid-side right now and that is 40%. It doesn't snow very much and it usually melts soon when it does snow. It doesn't generally get real cold and the air is so thin it doesn't give the kind of chill you would get at lower elevations. I have a good-paying engineering job even though I am getting old to be in the business. I'm looking over my computer at the pine trees in my front yard and listening to the quiet. I live in a house that would cost close to a million dollars back in the San Fernando Valley. My mortgage is now about $80,000 and I'm paying less interest than I did on my starter home 25 years ago. The air is clean, the water is fresh, and I like the people.
I now live up in the pine trees at around a 7,000 foot altitude just outside of Colorado Springs. It never gets all that hot. If it hits the 100's it is a true record breaking day. It got up into the 80's today, but right now it is 72 degrees. It never gets very humid. I would rate it a little on the humid-side right now and that is 40%. It doesn't snow very much and it usually melts soon when it does snow. It doesn't generally get real cold and the air is so thin it doesn't give the kind of chill you would get at lower elevations. I have a good-paying engineering job even though I am getting old to be in the business. I'm looking over my computer at the pine trees in my front yard and listening to the quiet. I live in a house that would cost close to a million dollars back in the San Fernando Valley. My mortgage is now about $80,000 and I'm paying less interest than I did on my starter home 25 years ago. The air is clean, the water is fresh, and I like the people.
Hmmm ... I could no longer look myself in the eye doing the job I was doing before, so I left. There are a limited number of employers in Canada for my line of work ... and a job opened up here.
Why I've stayed? The smell of eastern hardwood forests, and wilderness 10 minutes from my home. The St. John river running 3 blocks away, and the Atlantic only an hour's drive. A big enough town to have good schools and a 2nd rate university, small enough to have little crime (snowblower theft ring, last winter).
Oh, and it's home for us now. The 150 year old house I've been renovating ... it will go to my daughter.
Why I've stayed? The smell of eastern hardwood forests, and wilderness 10 minutes from my home. The St. John river running 3 blocks away, and the Atlantic only an hour's drive. A big enough town to have good schools and a 2nd rate university, small enough to have little crime (snowblower theft ring, last winter).
Oh, and it's home for us now. The 150 year old house I've been renovating ... it will go to my daughter.