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  1. SRT Mike

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    #1 SRT Mike, Dec 10, 2006
    Did you choose to go there, or were you born in the area? Or maybe a job took you there?

    I am kinda getting sick of winter. Short days, cold weather, snow, salt covering the car. I dont ski, although I do like snowmobiling. Then again, when I lived in Los Angeles, it seemed weird that people were in t-shirts around Xmas and I really like spring and fall... just not the week-long mess after a snowstorm, nor shoveling the driveway or sliding to work on a layer of ice.

    I'm not sure if I want to move at some point and have a place in New England still, or do the opposite and live up here still and just take a month or two vacation in winter? GF likes the winters, as do I (or some parts of them - as noted above)... and parents probably wouldn't want to be too far from future offspring (although if it doesn't happen soon.... hah).

    It seems kind of crazy to get major cabin fever every year for your whole life... do month vacations in the tropics make it bearable? :) Would be hard to do with kids in the picture though!
     
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    #3 ylshih, Dec 10, 2006
    That's why northern California is an ideal area ;). No winters (except in the Sierras) and generally mild summers, but we get fall and spring, so it's not continuously tropical.
     
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    #4 show time, Dec 10, 2006
    Came from Detroit (18 years), now in Arizona (10 years). Moved to follow a new job at the time (since changed industries), and never looked back. If I want winter I drive an hour and a half to the cabin, start a fire, enjoy the snow for a day, then head back down to the valley and warm up. Done deal, you want a white Christmas, Fall, Seasons? No problem, I don't have to shovel snow, or cut grass, I love it here!! :)
     
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    #5 darth550, Dec 10, 2006
    I love arches......and no, I don't live at Mickey D's......
     
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    #6 ^@#&, Dec 10, 2006
    of the spanish variety?
     
  7. PAP 348

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    #7 PAP 348, Dec 10, 2006
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    Was born here. This place sucks ass. Major mining town in the 'Outback'. Ready to move. Although the job here pays good dollars. Will have to line up another job that pays the same or close to before I move to the Gold Coast or Brisbane, Australia. But have been talking to the g/f, Im ready to leave the Country. As much as I love Australia, id be willing to move to another Country to live. Will maybe go on a big holiday around the world and then if we come across somewhere that we both like, we will come back here and sell up and leave. Then again, we may be too home sick and never want to leave Australia. See what happens. I all my realitives in Greece, so I should move there and bum around. Take the 348 with me of course. :D See what happens. I hate this place........
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    #8 PAP 348, Dec 10, 2006

    Very nice...have you got room in your garage for an Aussie with his 348? :eek::eek:
     
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    #9 ^@#&, Dec 11, 2006
    move to the East Coast of the USA!!
     
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    #10 JAM1, Dec 11, 2006
    We live in FL... moved here from NY for lower taxes and better weather. I HATE the cold! We owned a condo in Siesta Key for a few years and we seemed to spend more and more time here... to the point it was a few months every year. Unsolicited offers on our place were finally too much to pass up and we decided one trip down to just make the leap and buy a house to move into full time. I figured if we didn't like living here all year we would still have a great place to vacation. We are still here after 2 years... and when we miss the snow we travel up to NY to visit friends or go to CO for Christmas & Sking... that covers the needed dose of snow and cold, then its back to paradise!
     
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    Born here. Love it. I love having four seasons. I love the cold especially. Wouldn't want to live anywhere else.
     
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    #12 MarkPDX, Dec 11, 2006
    Nice looking place you got there :D

    I'm in the mid east for work, can't see any reason to move here otherwise. The land is flat, mostly rocks and sand. The air is dusty/hazy most of the time, it's comfortable now with highs in the 70s but it's ridiculously hot in the summer with high humidity.

    West coast of the US is hard to beat, easy access to both beaches and mountains.
     
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    #13 PAP 348, Dec 11, 2006
    Sounds like the USA is the place to be. :):)
    This place is one giant dust bowl. More than 2000km away from a major city like Brisbane. Nothing ever happens here. Its very hot and dusty and sh*t. :D Cant wait to get out. :)
     
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    #14 Webby, Dec 11, 2006
    Well I don't really have a choice but when I do grow up I'm going to stay right here in Dayton, Ohio. I just have an attachment to the place ... medium-sized downtown, great peaceful suburbs, I like the variety in the weather in both extremes, good schools here for my kids to go to, friendly people.
     
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    #15 redhead, Dec 11, 2006
    Born in San Diego and moved to the Bay Area when I was 8. All my family has moved away, but I am still here.

    I have looked at jobs from NJ to MI to Palm Springs and Houston. Nothing has compared to here.
     
  16. SRT Mike

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    #16 SRT Mike, Dec 11, 2006
    Interesting responses.

    I have lived in Spain, Scotland, Russia, Estonia, Boston, Los Angeles and a few other places. I've traveled to probably most every major city in the USA and to a lot of countries.

    I really like Boston for the culture, the easy access to flights to Europe, I like the weather in summer, and I love fall and spring. I dont mind winter, but as I said I hate shoveling and I really hate feeling the day is over around 3:30pm. I understand that is a function of latitude, however, because when I was living in Russia, they had "white nights" when it really didnt get dark in the midst of summer (now that was cool!).

    I have to say, the places I have been... I like Boston. I like New York City. I like Seattle, and I like San Francisco (maybe the general area more than the city) :)

    LA is awesome from a things-to-do, culture, weather standpoint, but the people seemed very strange. No offense to any LA-ians intended, it was just the "I'm an aspiring actress.... say do you know anyone in the biz?" thing that got to me. Guys who are 50 were walking around in their Oakleys and flip-flops saying "dude" and such. Seemed really weird, or maybe it was the folks I hung around :) The other downside to LA was the crime... theres a few parts of Boston you dont wanna go, but not like LA where there are whole areas to avoid, but also there would be pockets of richness mixed amongst vast swaths of poverty. I dunno if this was upscaling in progress or what, but I remember looking at office space in Torrance and on the way back to Manhattan beach there were nice areas, crap areas, then nice areas (like literally a single street) amongst a crap area. In Boston, whole towns are either usually pretty damn nice or pretty crappy. If you live in a nicer town, generally folks from the crappy town next door don't come by :) I know that sounds bad, but its the truth around here. Seemed different in LA.

    Plus, it's kind of nice to be in the higher end of the income spectrum (not that I am but we all aspire to be) - it affords you nice things. But in LA, you can be making $300k a year and feel incredibly poor when you go to the beach on a weekend and see so many Lambos, Bentleys and Rolls driving around. There goes a big motivator - you'll never achieve parity with the rich in LA! :)

    My lady's family *all* live overseas... I was talking to her today about maybe getting a place over there and she wasn't really into it. I had suggested maybe like a winter hideaway in Switlzerland (probably cheap compared to San Fran Bay housing!) that would make a great jumping-off point for trips to Odessa, Cyprus, Italy that would make a month in winter more bearable... but she just wasnt really into it. I think if I took her to Vegas or LA or San Fran for a while in winter, she may change her mind though... although I don't relish the idea of living in an LA hovel for what I can afford.

    Anyway I am just rambling... still interesting to hear why y'all live where you do. Maybe a good followup would be, do you intend to move, and/or if you did where would you move TO and why?
     
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    #17 PAP 348, Dec 11, 2006

    That was a interesting ramble you just had. Cheers. :)
     
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    I grew up in Houston, TX
    Moved to Rancho Santa Fe, CA after high school and lived there for a year full-time
    Spent a semester living in London, England
    Then a semester living in Salamanca, Spain
    Now I am living in Las Vegas finishing school but spend holidays and many weekends back in Rancho Santa Fe hanging out with my parents.

    So basically I have the best of both worlds right now splitting my time between Rancho Santa Fe where life is laid back relaxing and Vegas where life is crazy fun, when I start to get burnt out it's nice to be able to change my scenery easily.

    In the future, I think when I finish school, I would like to move to La Jolla in San Diego. It has the beauty of California but is a hipper area to be than where my parents live which is all old retired guys that just play golf everyday, but I would be a 25min drive so the home life and business connections aren't as out of touch.

    Pics of the golf club in my neighborhood in RSF and the view from my place in Vegas.
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    #19 PAP 348, Dec 11, 2006

    Awesome view! Im moving to Vegas! :D:D
     
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    #20 TheBigEasy, Dec 11, 2006
    It's booming with opportunity's right now Pap. And some magazine just voted it the hippest place to live in the US for people in their 20's.

    I could see you in a nightclub in those leather pants and jacket dragging drunk kids out by their ****s... just as long as it's not me :eek::p
     
  21. SRT Mike

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    #21 SRT Mike, Dec 11, 2006
    Yeah, thinking out loud.

    Maybe something else is bugging me? It sucks sitting here when its already getting cold and all that lies ahead for 3 months is snow, snow and more snow.

    How sweet would it be to just go somewhere else for a couple months? Leave after XMas, come back the end of February... that would rock!

    Hey you are in Oz right? So this time of year you are getting into the heat of summer? And your days are getting longer, yeah? And I want to know - if you guys are the opposite of us here in N. America, how come it doesn't snow there in July? Is your relative distance from the Equator that much different than ours? And speaking of that, is there anywhere that has a snowing winter in June/July? Southern Peru????
     
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    #22 SRT Mike, Dec 11, 2006
    How do you like living in Vegas?

    Seems the property market heated up then cooled off big time. I like the idea of living there... would be an awesome place to have a 2nd home I think, but I dunno about raising a family there. I used to go out with a girl who lived in Henderson and I was out there almost every weekend. All we did was go to casinos, shows, gamble, drink, and have a blast the whole time (I'd go for long weekends - 4 days usually). Its always fun for the out-of-towner but what about when you are there the other 3 days?
     
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    #23 TheBigEasy, Dec 11, 2006
    It's great for me right now as a 21 year old college student. When I first moved here we did the drink and gamble thing pretty often, but you get over that really quick. Living here is very different than coming to town to party hard for a weekend. They say Las Vegas is the US's next metropolis, and there are lots of opportunity's here for new businesses. The market isn't white hot like it was a few years ago, but it is still one of the fastest growing city's. I am studying to go into commercial real estate investment/development, so for my career there are lots of opportunity's. Having said all that, I think in the next few years I will be ready to move back to San Diego, because even though it's great fun and lots of opportunity, I would never raise a family here and you get worn out on the super fast paced lifestyle. However, I can't speak for some of the golf course developments in Summerlin and other areas just outside of town, I hear they are very nice.
     
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    #24 RacerX_GTO, Dec 11, 2006
    My dad's job brought the family here when I was too young to know any better. Been here ever since. I truly cannot complain(excluding political reasons), it is California. Winter here just means bring a light coat and umbrella. Two hours east is snow. Three hours west is the beach. Four hours south west during the month of August is Concorso Italiano.
     
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    #25 PAP 348, Dec 11, 2006
    The days here are great. We are closer to the equator than you guys I think? Sun up here at around 6am, goes down at 7.30pm, sometimes daylight till 8pm. :) It is 7.00pm now and sun everywhere outside. :) Although gets really really hot here. Summer now and gets to 40C everyday here in Mount Isa. Was 45.1C last week. Winter time here is just right. Around 26C through out the day. It only snows here in the Snowy Mountains in NSW and Perisher Blue. Great place for skiing ect.....although I have never been. I guess I am just sick of this place. You only live once, so I think its time to get out of here and experience somewhere else. :)
     
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