Where do you live?
I had to get up early today (and yesterday) to take the Hubster to a meeting.
It’s seriously right next to our apartment, like I can see the fence not to far away, but to get there you have to go all the way out to the main road and then probably about a mile down the main road.
I suppose some of you are used to long distances like that, but not me - I live in the city! I like things to be right there!
And the worst part is, we don’t have a drive though Starbucks. Two days in a row I was up and out of the house (which out of the house itself is a major accomplishment for me) before 9 and nothing, nada, zilch, I got nothing to show for it.
I mean, I’m not actually going to go in a Starbucks before 9!
So, that’s when I realized…I mean trust me, I knew I never liked my apartment, if nothing else the number of days without water would make me hate it, but I think it’s a little to suburban for me!
It’s a HUGE complex, but you really don’t see that many people around. We’re set pretty far back on the road, and even though I can see the BW Parkway (where millions of people travel everyday) and see the fence to NASA Goddard (where millions of people work everyday - okay maybe thousands - all right, after cutbacks it’s still open I guess is the most positive thing to say about NASA now) I’m totally isolated.
In my old apartment, if I was going somewhere - to the mall, or the grocery store or whatever, I passed things - like the drive through Starbucks. Now, if I’m going anywhere, I don’t really pass anything. There’s nowhere to stop just for the fun of it.
Twenty minutes from downtown DC and I’m strangely isolated!
So tell me about where you live? City, Country, *gasp* Suburbia? Do you like it? Would you want to live anywhere else? What’s the appeal to living in the country? Suburbs? This confimed city girl would like to know!!
March 24th, 2006 at 10:59 am
I live in a city of about 500,000, which is small compared to, say NY or LA, but it’s big enough for me. Grocery store is about 1/2 a mile down the road, have a CVS and a Walgreens within the same distance. Because we don’t really have a highway system, though, it takes about 45 minutes to get to the other side of town, which I don’t like. But I’m pretty much a homebody, and I like hearing the critters at night (and watching them during the day–I have little ground squirrels that live in my backyard, plus a mating pair of mourning doves that just had two babies)–being in a big city would make me crazy.
March 24th, 2006 at 11:12 am
Hi Emma - I like people like you. You know why? Because YOU like the city. Which means there are less people crowding up my country! :-) hehehe I grew up in the country in the middle of nowhere but my husband grew up in a small town but IN town. He likes living in a town - not the city but definitely with neighbors. I’d prefer out in the middle of nowhere but… I am married. :-) So we now live in a bigger town then what he grew up in - it has about 13,000 and I have neighbors. ’shrug’ I keep dreaming that someday I’ll be able to move back out into the woods. Or at the very least have a cabin - some place like Alaska! But my hubby is afraid that the wild animals might get him… hmmm I might have to put a hypnotist to work on him - make him think the trees are buildings and the animals peoeple! :-)
Cole PS I tried commenting yesterday but it wouldn’t let me again - so here’s a short version - I like your cover! :-)
March 24th, 2006 at 6:55 pm
I live in the Southwest of England. It’s very rural. It smells like poo.
There are 275 kids at my daughter’s elementary school-her whole school. My graduating class was bigger than that in suburban St. Louis.
There is one grocery store in the town. One movie theatre with one screen. One McDonald’s. It’s actually a pretty big town–most of them don’t even have that.
Hard to adjust to, after South Florida. But lovely and quiet, especially with the wondows closed because of the cold and the aforementioned poo smell.
March 24th, 2006 at 7:24 pm
I live in Portland, Oregon, the largest city in the state. It’s not the capital, though a lot of people confuse it with that. Portland is large, with over a million people within the city and its outskirts.
I live right smack dab in the middle of the city. Three different buses within two blocks of my house. Lots of bookstores, coffee houses, etc. The two main highways in Oregon are within 30 blocks in either direction, so it’s easy to get from point A to point B.
I love living in Portland. It’s a big city, but it’s very laidback and relaxed. For the most part people are cool. Portland has one of the largest gay populations in the country; probably second to San Francisco. It’s its own culture, with just about every ethnicity in the world in one place or another. Since Portland is a port city, we bring in a lot of immigrants.
I love my city…can you tell? I can’t imagine living in a small town or rural area. I’d go nuts! :)
March 24th, 2006 at 8:31 pm
I live in BUM F-CK Egypt baby
March 24th, 2006 at 9:49 pm
Interesting too see where everyone is from!
Sherrill - I think I’d like a smallish city. I just like to be in a big enough area that there’s lots of “stuff” close by.
Cole - Yep, I’m gonna let you keep the country. Too much country starts to freak me out.
December - Sounds like there’s personality in your town though. And, I mean, it’s in England so I’d guess I’d expect different things if I lived in another coutry. You’re only there for a fixed amount of time right?
Kaitlin - I got spoiled living in the Pacific Northwest (lived in Seattle for 5 years). I do love the laidbackness there!
Kendra - Yep, that’s what I hear!
March 25th, 2006 at 12:18 am
I lived “in town” for a while, in a 60 year-old bungalow. Loved the house. If We’d had enough room to park both our cars, it would have been better. Now we live in suburbia. Funny thing, traffic is worse here than when I lived in town. It’s all the shopping mall stuff. I enjoy the space. But it’s a bit of a pain to have to drive somewhere for everything. I mean I lived 4 blocks from a Krispy Kreme and three blocks from excellent mexican food… What more could I have wanted? :-). Suburbia has it’s pluses too though. I have a yard now and if it ever snows again, I have my very own sledding hill :-)
March 25th, 2006 at 6:33 am
Nope, we’re here indefinitely. We’re here absolutely for three years, because we have to live here that long to get citizenship for the girls, and after that we’ll decide if we want to stay or not.
It is really nice, we like that it’s a small town and we did come here for a change. We just weren’t expecting the poo smell. :-)