Do you like where you live?

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An article posted on USA today’s website says that almost half of all American’s want to live somewhere else. usatoday.com/news/nation/census/2009-01-29-where-we-live_N.htm
…Living in Las Vegas appeals more to men than women. Affluent adults are twice as likely as poorer folks to want to live in Boston. Young people like big cities such as New York and Los Angeles. More Americans would rather live in a place with more McDonald’s than one with more Starbucks.

Those are some of the findings of a Pew Research Center survey out today on where Americans would most like to live. Whether they favor cities, suburbs or the countryside, almost half wish they lived somewhere else, the report found. City dwellers are more likely to dream of living somewhere else, and men in rural areas are far happier living there than women. …
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I’m curious about CAF posters. Do you like where you live with your family?
 
This is hard to answer. I think the top places to live lists are kind of strange. They all base their list off something different and there are about a dozen top lists from different companies every year. I think my town, Omaha, Nebraska was in one of the top lists last year, something like top places to raise your children, or something.

I can’t say I desire to live somewhere else, but it’s hard to say if the conditions were right that I wouldn’t be outta here. Everyone I know is here and I have a good job and of course since I’ve lived her my whole life, I’m familiar with everything here, so it would be very hard to leave.

This town is a good size, not too big, but big enough so that not everyone knows your business. The people are decent and there seems to be a good balance of Starbucks and McDonalds here. 😉 If you want to take a trip, you’re basically halfway to anywhere, which I guess is ok. If you don’t mind a 10 hour drive, you can shoot out to the Rocky Mountains or Denver, or hit up some big event in Chicago. 3 hours if you really want to go to Kansas City.

That being said. The summers are hot hot hot, the winters are cold cold cold. If you want to get to the beach you better have a little more time than just the weekend. If you want to hit up a theme park you’ll be driving for awhile, unless Go-Karts are your idea of a theme park. There are some days when a sunset walk on the beach would be much better than anything we have here. :cool:
 
I absolutely LOVE Michigan! We get warm summers, snow in the winter, aren’t prone to any major natrual disasters, there’s plenty of larger city’s but at the same time you don’t have to go far to be out in the country. We have the great lakes, mountains in the U.P., and your 2008 Stanley Cup Champions! 😛

Only thing not to like is the economy. 😦
 
OK, I am the first NO vote 🤷

I live in Indiana and I HATE it here!!! Mostly the weather. And YES I want to move back to CO like half of the people in the US that want to move :rolleyes: But I did move here from CO, I am a CO Native 👍 , so it is a HUGE shock to my system here.
 
Ok so I didn’t read the article yet but I don’t know if my answer really counts or not. I like where I lived before I moved and the only reason I don’t like where I live now is because I want to move back :). So I like where I was but regret the move. I will be back though in a couple of weeks and then my answer will be “yes, I like where I live” 🙂
 
It really depends wholly on whether you ask me this question in the winter or the summer.

I live in Boston. Land of a billion snowstorms and gorgeous summers and falls.
 
I love living in Bethesda MD. We have a great neighborhood, great parish, great schools. It is close to everything. DC has all sort of cultural things to do. We are a few minutes from the subway to downtown DC.

Down side, taxes are too high, cost of living is expensive. It gets a bit too cold in the winter for too long. I may want to get a winter home in a warm climate.
 
Woo hoo! We’re number 1!!! Gotta love 300 days of sunshine a year and the mountains!
 
I’d like to move back to my home town which is only 30 minutes away… :rolleyes: I moved in with my husband when I got married, to a tiny little po-dunk with no grocery store and the people are all sleezeballs. (meth heads - pitbull breeders - democrats - etc)

I still work and spend most of my time in my hometown, I just hate having to drive back and forth from Po-dunk all the time.
 
I was born in St. Louis, lived in Springfield MO for a year, a small town in Central Illinois in the mid 70s, the NYC for the rest of the 70s and 80s, returning here about 20 years ago. Springfield was a pleasant town (back then Branson was Silver Dollar City and a gas station), the little town in Illinois was nice and I still visit there every summer. New York, though, was something else. Expensive, filthy, loud, and a total culture shock to me. One of my neighbors in Brooklyn told me they used to beat up girls like me in high school. I didn’t even KNOW girls like them in high school. I live with my widowed father now, in the house my folks built in 1965, and am generally happy as a clam. However Tuesday night during the snow storm, when my Mustang was wrecked by a hit and run driver, I wasn’t crazy about St.L. Five cars, one ran off…the one that hit me, and turned me around on the interstate. People forget how to drive when it rains or snows here, but I bet that happens a lot of places.
 
I live in the country now… on top of a mountain, in what used to be a wilderness but is slowly being taken over by the tourists. I love, love, love it here, and it’s breaking my heart to think that I’ll have to bid it farewell to go to college this fall. I love the quiet, I love the open spaces to roam about in, I love the magnificent views to climb up to, I love the slightly harsh edge to the scenery… I just love it.

I was born in a city, and was oh-so happy to get out.

I lived for awhile in San Francisco… it’s one of the most enchanting cities I’ve ever been to (it tops Dublin for me), and one that I enjoy visiting, but for a kid who got used to running barefoot and wild in the woods… well, there was an unreasonable amount of pavement, cars, buildings, and people. I was ecstatic to get back to my little home on the mountain-top.
 
I live in a Cleveland suburb. 'nuff said.:sad_yes:
I’d love to retire in southeast Missouri, but it ain’t gonna happen. :crying:
 
I loved living in Boston. It is a beautiful city.

Now I live in NC and I don’t like it. Too much overt racism and narrow-mindedness. Not very sophisticated.
 
We’re in Tucson, after growing up in Ohio and spending quite some time in Northern Mississippi where the humidity was AWFUL.

WE LOVE TUCSON, we can drive in 1 hour into the mountains to cool off in summer or play in snow in winter. We have a pool we swim in from May thru October without a heater and the winters are terrific…

DH’s last military assignemtn was here and we stayed, it’s been 20 great years here.
 
JustAnotherThou said:
OK, I am the first NO vote 🤷

I live in Indiana and I HATE it here!!! Mostly the weather. And YES I want to move back to CO like half of the people in the US that want to move :rolleyes: But I did move here from CO, I am a CO Native 👍 , so it is a HUGE shock to my system here.
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One of my best friends is from CO. And, she moved back there a couple of years ago. Now, she wishes she was here!!

But, I think it has more to do with the community and the cost of living here in Indiana than the weather.

I went out with her to visit. Because she was always talking about how beautiful it is in Denver compared to here, I was expecting to really love it there, but I hated how dry it was. It’s so lush and green in Indiana.

I tell people that the humidity in Indiana is how we keep the house prices low. 😃

I hope you learn to like it a little. 🙂
 
Very thought-provoking thread!

There was a time when I’d have said I would KILL to get back to the Boston area where I grew up. I still love it and hope to be able to spend part of the year up there when we retire in 10 years or so. However, the city where we live now (southernmost Alabama) has grown on us. The Gulf is within an hour or so, the cost of living is excellent, the economy is better than much of the country, there is excellent health care and we have wonderful friends. Not to mention mild winters (for the most part!)
 
We moved to Florida about a year and a half ago, and really like where we have chosen to live. But, there are times when I miss PA. I think both places have pros and cons…but, I’m glad we chose where we decided to move to, which is about 15 miles north of Tampa Bay. Who woulda thunk that I would bring the Steelers with me to the Superbowl? 😃

I miss the consistency of PA. In Florida, people come and go, but in PA, it seemed like people lived there all of their lives…I liked that hometown feeling. But, we really like where we live now…

I would actually love to move to Colorado…beautiful bright blue skies and all that snow. In PA, it would be dreary with lots of snow. That was a bummer, I don’t necessarily miss that! 😃
 
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