Whats it like where you live?

Wolverine · Post by **Wolverine** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:00 am

chrisb84uk wrote: Spot on with the weather here today there Wolverine!!

but it isn't cold out. if you are going from building to building it's nice. but if you're going to be out and about for more than 20 minutes, you'll probably need a jacket.

chrisb84uk · Post by **chrisb84uk** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:10 am

Jives wrote: Wow Chris, what a cool place to live. I love the cathedral!

I live at the base of the Rocky Moutains, 300 miles in any direction from civilization. to the north the Rockies rise majestically, to the south, the desert and Momument Valley beckon. I love the fact that it's a two minute drive from my house to the wilderness.

Here are some pictures of our area:

Wow those are some fantastic pictures you put up there Jives, thanks for sharing them. It shows how beautiful places on Earth can be.

We of course have nothing like that around here, so when I was fortunate enough to be able to see the Grand Canyon, I was amazed to see all the incredible views that can be seen from there.

scotty · Post by **scotty** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 7:33 am

Ah now your talking betty boop, Scrumpy is one of my fav tipples, I have spent many a night in Cornish pubs and farm yards for that matter sampling the local brew. Its strange how you feel fine when you are drinking it , but as soon as you go out side its like

oh boy :wah:

Do you know Looe Betty ?

Scott

gmc · Post by **gmc** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:52 am

posted by jives

Wow Chris, what a cool place to live. I love the cathedral!

I live at the base of the Rocky Moutains, 300 miles in any direction from civilization. to the north the Rockies rise majestically, to the south, the desert and Momument Valley beckon. I love the fact that it's a two minute drive from my house to the wilderness.

Here are some pictures of our area:

After years of seeing these sights on film monum,ent valley is one place I really want to visit in America. Don't know if I could stand the heat though -it's when you go abroad to sunnier climes is when you realise that as a scot I am adapted to being cold and/or wet.

I live bout twenty mies from Edinburgh, thirty from galasgow in what is laughingly known as silicon glen, 21st century factories next to the remains of a previous industrial age.

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/l ... ivingston/

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:55 am

A cold 62, gray and dreary here today....................

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:54 am

Hope your move goes without a hitch, Tombsgirl. Happy warmings.

Bez · Post by **Bez** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 10:55 am

Jives wrote: Wow Chris, what a cool place to live. I love the cathedral!

I live at the base of the Rocky Moutains, 300 miles in any direction from civilization. to the north the Rockies rise majestically, to the south, the desert and Momument Valley beckon. I love the fact that it's a two minute drive from my house to the wilderness.

Here are some pictures of our area:

It looks fantastic where you live Jives...the pictures are stunning.

Xxena · Post by **Xxena** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 12:56 pm

I guess if you're a city person and love big cities Chicago and its outskirts is cool, I hate it .. too much congestion, too much concrete and asphalt and too many people. I like our little old house on the lake in NE Minnesota -about an hour

south of Canada.. deep in the woods its beautiful, peaceful and serene. I like

going out at night and looking up - there are so many stars you never realize are out each night living in mega cities .. its amazing. If the conditions are right you

can sit on our dock at night and watch the Aurora Borelis... first time I saw

it I had no idea what it was.. Seen it from a jet but never on the ground like that. Really cool... I'm a critter person so all the wildlife around us I enjoy. We have a lot of the bald eagle nests in our bay so I love to sit out on the dock when they're flying overhead looking for fish dinner - they are amazing creatures and just huge!

We have a lot of bear, deer, wolves, foxes and about anything you can think of.. only seen a moose twice in all the years we've been there.. but I know they are

deeper back in the woods. If'/when I get a craving for CITY I can drive

2.5 hours to Duluth or 5.5 hours to Minneaplis/St. Paul if I have ot have it. I do most of my shopping on line now as it is living outside of chicago and 20 minutes

from Woodfield Mall.. so I won't miss anything moving up there. As long as I have

a good grocery store.. and a decent pharmacy.. life is good - the rest I can buy

on line

If I'm dying for people contact .. there's always someone in town looking for a conversation.

Here in suburan Illinois right now its about 58, very overcast and gloomy, trying to rain off and on.. typical october day- I don't mind. I love the temperature influxes and when it gets really foggy outside and looks like the loch ness monster should

come out of the yard at you.. then I love monster movies... what can I say :-3

orangesox1 · Post by **orangesox1** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:28 pm

Wow Xxena that sound really nice where you are, don't you get scared of the bears and wild animal though? I would never venture out on my own. I would love to see the Northen lights, it must be fantastic

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:34 pm

Apparently there were a few good lights about the middle of last month. Red was the prominent colour if my info is correct.

orangesox1 · Post by **orangesox1** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 2:38 pm

When I get the chance to go back overseas, I'm going to see the Northen lights, I think you can also see them from the top of Scotland, I should have gone then while i had the chance, but it wouldn't stop raining.

Xxena · Post by **Xxena** » Wed Oct 12, 2005 8:23 pm

tmbsgrl wrote: I love the City.. I am from the SW Suburbs.. I hung out in the City all the time... Shopping was great! Food was good and eddibevricks!(SP) That place is so hilarious!

If you're into the downtown and gold coast shopping, the museums, theatres, lake front etc that's cool... and its safe since its the tourist areas and heavily patrolled etc... but its much different in the "real city" that the tourists don't see and many of the residents in the more upscale areas don't live, have no clue about, which is a good percentage of the city as a whole.

I did all that stuff in my 20's... into my 30's and 40's it was about raising a family and developing a business so social life and spoling myself took backseat.. now that the kids are grown and gone and business is on its own... I opt for more

quiet, peaceful and benign places. I love to shop but can do it well from my desk and computer without the hassel, congestion and costs of being in any big city and I don't have to deal with crabby inept sales people on top of it. The ONLY thing about Chicago I miss is the lake front and the museums and the Civic Opera house.. but its not worth the $$ or the hassel.

randall · Post by **randall** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 4:50 am

:-6

g'daydIgger, randall here,

You live in the only continent I have never visited - and certainly cannot afford to now.

An old workmate, ex Welsh, came from Australia to visit all his old friends, relatives and workmates and spent Friday night, Saturday and then Sunday morning with us - he should be around Ayr just now - but we haven't met for 31 years so we had an awful lot to talk about.

The weather was not too god but whilst we took him sightseeing - he is visually impaired now - we were lucky to get the few real sunny breaks there was.

About fifty years ago "Shell's Guide To Scotland." described the north east as a flat plain (the Plain of Buchan) of soft undulating countryside with few villages and even fewer towns, and dull monotonous landscape.

If you are interested in bird life this is the place to come as more than half the world's population of some species breed here - but it has been a bad year for them too. Hardly any Puffins laid any eggs and barely a chick has survived - starved, the experts are saying, because of trawlers sweeping our seas clean of fish - they do actually vacuum them up, you know.

I think that about says it all. Our highest hill is only 800 feet (don't know the metres - still resisting EEC on that) It is topped by many Golf Balls - ie. early warning system radar sites and, I understand, we did actually have several USSR atomic ICBM's aim at us if ever war broke out. At least someone was interested in us!

To me me it is desolate with far more than its fair share of wind which never appears to cease, The rainfall is fairly high but in recent years the temperature is definitely starting to climb.

Like you the villages have one or no shops and towns just a few and Aberdeen is the really only interesting place to go and shop but the traffic jams put me off.

In the 1930's I remember seeing the "New Arterial Road Network" map published in the newspapers, which was going to be built all over this area.

They are called "Motorways" now and none have reached north of Aberdeen.

It's bypass is only seventy years overdue. Five NEW plans have just been published for it?????

Speak about the Mills Of God - they are like Schumacher compared with local governments in this country.

To top that, they took all our railways away just a year or two before oil was discovered- the oil companies wanted them relaid but they were expected to pay the total - open ended - cost.

Sorry to be so gloomy but even that global giant SHELL agrees with me.

God Bless.

randall

:)

Xxena · Post by **Xxena** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:44 am

tmbsgrl wrote: My exs family is from Caneryville (Cabreny green). Yeah he was white. I hated to go there. We went there every year for christmas! Him and his parents ( and me for a while.) lived off Archer Ave. Then we moved to Central and 64th place.

The Infamous Cabrini Green high rise slums of Chicago's Black population is known around most of the USA... what most people are not aware of is that

Cabrini Green was originally built by developers as a low income retirement community area so people on social security or fixed pensions back in the 50's could have a nice place to live, right off the lake front and it would not cost

them everything they had like most lake front property does.. years back when I was in highschool in the late 60's and my mother was into her insanity stage and playing mommy dearest on everyone our Family doctor was able to get an apartment there for me to move to for my own safety... at that age I was much too timid and insecure to be out on my own but he is the one that gave me the history and background on Cabrini Green as when when it was built and intended for and what it was slowly becoming. People not from that area or Chicago

think its always been low income high rise slums and it hasn't.. long before so

many of the Poor Black families were moved into it there was a large white population there and there still was many White people living there when they started to move people out to condemn and destroy it after it became the cess poll of poverty and crime it did. I am familiar with the South side of Chicago and especially the so called "white" south side.. most of my mother in law's relative that are in the USA vs. Poland live there in those areas and I had a lot of friends

from College days that were from that area also vs. the north and northwest side I grew up on east of O'Hare. Hell I remember as a kid when O"Hare Int'l airport was still the military staging base with some private plane use and the concrete jungle of high rise condo's and apartments and hotels from Canfield Road and west were nothing but horse stables and small farmettes.. I use to ride my bike out there on weekends to exercise horses for people boarding them there ! DAMN that makes it sound like a hundred years ago and I"m only 50.:-2

listeranta · Post by **listeranta** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 5:42 pm

Where I live...

Almost every morning from 0630 to 0800 an elderly woman, properly dressed, grey hair neatly tied back sits on the bench below my apartment with her shoppin trolley by her side looking like anyone's granma.

During her sojourn there on the bench by the post office she begins a tirade against any and every institution known to many, these devils are generally called 'they'.

I believe her name is Judy, she is very well spoken, her verbosity knows no bounds. Judy's tirades are littered with expletives.

The funniest thing is when an uninitiated passer by settles down next to Judy and her trolley to wait for the newsagent to open. It takes some time for most people to realise that Judy isn't listentng; At least not to them.:-2

orangesox1 · Post by **orangesox1** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:10 pm

Hi Randell,

Can you see the Northen lights from where ypu live, it's sounds cold and wild up there. I watched a reality TV program on some people that went to live on an island up there, did you hear about that and was it near you. It must get awfully cold, wet and windy in winter.

orangesox1 · Post by **orangesox1** » Thu Oct 13, 2005 7:13 pm

Hi Randell,

Can you see the Northen lights from where ypu live, it's sounds cold and wild up there. I watched a reality TV program on some people that went to live on an island up there, did you hear about that and was it near you. It must get awfully cold, wet and windy in winter.

I posted this twice as I wasn't sure you would find it on the ther thread in this post

randall · Post by **randall** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:42 pm

:-6

Hi Orangesox1 (are you one of the original bobbysoxer's? Or are they only in the USA?

Anyway, randle with his thruppenceha'ppney, bit.

I have rarely seen the northern lights - and, another piece of history - "The Northern Lights Of Old Aberdeen" - I do not know if you have heard of that song but it was actually written by an English lady in London.

She was so enamoured by the description of the Northern Lights by her husband she actually sat down at the piano (still in existence) and wrote the song in about forty minutes.

I was a keen cyclist in my young days and thought nothing of going for a thirty mile run several evenings a week whilst doing my apprenticeship, and that was when I saw them.

It was a very dark night and suddenly I looked up and there before my eyes was these huge bands of beautiful colours winding across the dark sky like a bunch of ribbons of many colours just thrown down on a floor except for the fact that they did not remain stationary but, slowly, blended and twisted around each other constantly in very slow motion. A ballet of electrons.

I had to stop my bicycle to stand and take it all in - I'm glad I did because I have never seen them again.

There was not so much light pollution then. In fact, that piece of empty country road I stopped in then in 1951 is now surrounded by private housing estates - and here was me thinking that I was away out in the country.

Stupid me.

My wife has never seen them in her life.

As I write the wind is rippling the slate tiles a couple of feet (60 CMOS) from my head.

She was born and brought up a few hundred feet from a lighthouse and a fog horn and the light flashed in through her bedroom window every few second every night. Oddly enough, although the foghorn did not disturbed her, it has been recently been put out of action by the vote of one "White Settler" as we call foreigners from the rest of Britain, (283 people voted to keep it going but the council sided with that one person who said it disturbed his grandson.)

It is really terrible what is happening to our rural areas when people move in or buy "second homes" for which the government actually give them tax rebates as "Holiday Homes" pushing the price so high that local young couples cannot afford to even start buying a house.

Another, recent, example of this stupidity is a small town in the south of Scotland where one incomer went to law because the local blacksmith was making to much noise with his hammer.

The family has had the blacksmith shop for about two hundred years and the present blacksmith says he will have to close if he cannot overturn the council's order for him to "soundproof" his workshop It would be too expensive for him to do so.

Hundreds have voted for him to stay and when one considers all these cases one cannot but wonder if those people who have the money to pay three or four times the going price for a house in a strange village also have money to "pay-off" the councils as well.

One new comer actually tried to get one farmer to get rid of farm smells as he/she found them distasteful - don't tate them, I say.

The council was wise enough not to take that one any further.

Do people not consider the other side of what they think is an idyllic lifestyle. Lack of common amenity's, muddy tracks, howling gales and country smells.

No one has mentioned the ongoing importance of foghorns to shipping because, having been on the other end of the noise, there is nothing so comforting as hearing that mournful sound coming through a dense fog surrounding a ship.

You knew that those on watch on the bridge knew exactly where the ships position was on the nautical charts.

Now they are talking about switching off ALL the lighthouses because all boats should have radar fitted as standard by now.NOW - THAT NEEDS ELECTRICITY!

As an engineer who has been in the situation several times, the first thing that happens to a boat having trouble in the engineroom - or a wave coming through the wheelhouse windows - (I have had that too in the last ten years, waking up in my bunk with water pouring down on me) - the first thing that happens is usually that the ship looses power which shuts down all electrical equipment on the ship - in my cases the main engines continued to run, Thank God, but it usually took more than half an hour to restore the electrical power - once you had found the fault. Some faults are never found - the lights just came back on inexplicably, I'm still wondering why today.

I do not know if that answers your question as I usually drift far from my plotted course - that is why I need lighthouses and foghorns too!

I have just come back from the funeral of a friend, a lady of 76, who unknown to me tried and got me my first job as a message boy on a "bike" ("OPEN ALL HOURS") in the general grocery shop where she worked and our friendship has gone on for 60 years.

After the funeral the other mourners at the tea asked why I came back to this place after living in Hong Kong and I, as usual, told the truth, my wife wanted back among her ain folk.

They could not understand why I left it in the first place. They find it hard to understand anyone who does not like the place where were born in - odd indeed.

If that were the case you would not be in Australia and the history of the world would have been very different.

Looking at a historical Atlas the first thing that struck me was that almost all migration was from East to West - BIG BROAD ARROWS - WHY?

Any anthropologists out there with an explanation? Or budding anthropologists?

God Bless All,

randall

:)

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:35 pm

Hi Randall:

Response to migration patterns: (although I know we do have an anthropologist around here who would be better at this)

Patterns just seem to spread east to west, or many times north to south. It varies from primary location and how the tribes need to expand. When I always look at a map of Africa, patterns initially went north thousands of years ago,(or millions) but then when a larger population settled around river valleys-like Mesopotamia, India, the patterns seemed to reverse themselves when the population grew. They needed to spread out again..................there is a link to look at the latest project studying this, Randall.

http://www.computerworld.com/databaseto ... 64,00.html

OpenMind · Post by **OpenMind** » Tue Oct 18, 2005 2:27 pm

randall wrote: :-6

Looking at a historical Atlas the first thing that struck me was that almost all migration was from East to West - BIG BROAD ARROWS - WHY?

Any anthropologists out there with an explanation? Or budding anthropologists?

God Bless All,

randall

:)

Hi, Randall.

In reply to your question. I reckon that it's because the Earth is revolving eastwards. Therefore, it's easier to go west. If you try to go east, it's more of a struggle.:wah:

TammyNZ · Post by **TammyNZ** » Sat Nov 05, 2005 10:59 pm

I live in Christchurch NZ (emigrated from London) Christchurch is the largest city in the south island of NZ with a population of 350,000

I live on the edge of town (only 5k from the city centre) within 15 mins I can be on the beach, in farmland, the centre of the buzzing city. 2 hours are you can be at wonderful lakes, mountains and natural thermal hot pools

I am not going anywhere NZ is for me..........:-4

www.move2nz.com

orangesox1 · Post by **orangesox1** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 3:20 am

TammyNZ wrote: I live in Christchurch NZ (emigrated from London) Christchurch is the largest city in the south island of NZ with a population of 350,000

I live on the edge of town (only 5k from the city centre) within 15 mins I can be on the beach, in farmland, the centre of the buzzing city. 2 hours are you can be at wonderful lakes, mountains and natural thermal hot pools

I am not going anywhere NZ is for me..........:-4

www.move2nz.com

That sounds really nice, I would love to be near the beach, and I love hot thermal pools.

TammyNZ · Post by **TammyNZ** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 3:31 am

It is really nice :-6 have a look at m,y site, photo gallery on there

www.move2nz.com

Malkeet · Post by **Malkeet** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 6:08 am

Very dull and possibly going to rain:(

Kathy · Post by **Kathy** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 9:05 pm

I live in northwest Oklahoma....wheat, cows and oil wells. Right now we are in the middle of a severe drought. You can see for miles and miles without anything abstructing the view. When they say, "When the wind comes sweeping down the plains", they aren't kidding. If you don't like the weather, it will change tomorrow so don't worry too much about it. One day it will be cold (28 degrees) with snow and then the next day it is 70 degrees!

I've enjoyed reading about all of your interesting homelands! The pictures you are posting are beautiful. I don't have any of my area saved on my computer, so I'll have to see if I can download some later to share.

Chonsigirl, I lived in Gaithersburg, MD for 2 years, so I know exactly where you are! The Baltimore Harbor area is great. Wish I could have spent some time there. Observer1, I had planned on taking the kids to Hershey, but we ended up back in OK before we had a chance.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Wed Jan 18, 2006 10:26 pm

I'm in the Texas Panhandle so it's mainly flat. Only green you see in winter or summer is either wheat or corn. We are also in the drought that Kathy talked about.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:48 am

I live by Watling Street, the Roman road that became the A5, and a stones throw from the former site of Reliant cars.

A mile away is Tamworth Castle, built just after the Norman Invasion. Also a mile away is Drayton Manor, the former home of Sir Robert Peel, founder of the Police, but these days, it's a successful theme park.

Tamworth was the home of the Mercian Kings until the Danes invaded the town in the 10th Century.

The coal mining industry here is now defunct, but the former Mine Rescue station is a quaint Victorian building which still stands just up the road.

I love the town and it's not too far from the centre of Birmingham where I was born and now work. There are a lot of lakes nearby and two rivers pass through the town. Its location in the Midlands makes everywhere in the UK accessible by car within a few hours.

I could write more but I have to dash for my interview at the Tamworth Tourist Information Centre

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 6:50 am

Sorry - I meant to attach these pix

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Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:23 am

Wow wish I lived somewhere where there was castles and ancient ruins. I'd never be home, I'd be out exploring taking pictures all the time.

Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 12:51 pm

It is said that every Englishmans home is his castle and Sir Krams humble abode is no exception

Jm33 · Post by **Jm33** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 3:17 pm

I live in Atlanta and if you live in the US you know how crazy it is here. Nothing but city and big buildings and LOTS of traffic!!! I travel about 5 minutes max. to the nearest mall, and all the local restaurants are 3-5 minutes away from my living space. I wish I lived in Australia or England where places around me have been mentioned in a book!! Nothing cool happens here, and everything is so busy. I am looking forward to moving to the outskirts of Atlanta, the country! I just had my first baby 4 weeks ago and am looking forward to raising him on lots of land rather than lots of hustle bustle.

Any feedback on how kids differ when raised in different areas. i.e. country vs. city??

minks · Post by **minks** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:17 pm

Here is some shots of Calgary

The Plaza is our common meeting grounds, it was where all the medal cermonies were held during the 88 winter olympics.

Calgary is a mere 45 minutes from the Rockies to our west, and the praries and badlands to the east. If you travel south for 3 hours you hit the US border. Very photogenic around here.

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Uncle Kram · Post by **Uncle Kram** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 4:33 pm

Like the last pic Minks. Looks a nice place to live.

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 5:35 pm

my back yard

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 5:37 pm

SnoozeControl wrote:

Stunning sneezer, really beautiful, Id trade in a heartbeat !

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:05 pm

Yup they are, normally there would be dozens and dozens of them but its been such a mild winter, no cars out there at all yet.

Sooo can we trade ?

jdubya · Post by **jdubya** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:41 pm

It's sunny almost all year round, 10 minutes to the beach, 45 minutes to the ski slopes, 30 minutes to Margaritas in Mexico. 5 minutes to downtown, right next to Balboa Park in San Diego, CA.

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:42 pm

Hello there jdubya...................

jdubya · Post by **jdubya** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:09 pm

ola chonsigirl

lady cop · Post by **lady cop** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:14 pm

SnoozeControl wrote: I grew up in San Diego... I remember when the zoo let kids 16 and under in for free. Aaah, those were the good old days.:)i grew up in DC, the national zoo was always free, just as was the smithsonian and national art gallery and archives. i was blessed and spent many many days downtown taking it all in.

jdubya · Post by **jdubya** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:16 pm

you are fortunate lady cop, that must have been great, I've traveled, but DC is still on the list, and all of the things you mentioned.