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Do you like where you live?

  • Yes, I love it! Could stay here forever

    Votes: 17 39.5%

  • Yes, it's okay, but I might move somewhere else eventually

    Votes: 10 23.3%

  • Neutral; don't love it or hate it

    Votes: 8 18.6%

  • No, I dislike it, but have to stay for some reason

    Votes: 3 7.0%

  • No, I hate it! I wish I could leave right now

    Votes: 3 7.0%

  • Other [please post]

    Votes: 2 4.7%
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#26
There's no end of nice apartments in Bullhead and I hope this is an exception:

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#27
jefboyardee said:
There's no end of nice apartments in Bullhead and I hope this is an exception:

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Whoa...I just looked at it, including with street view, and it's sort of out in the middle of a lot of nothing...but the Colorado River is right there! :)
 
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#28
MoodyBlues said:
Well, just be careful. I've never had any inkling of becoming addicted to anything, but for years I thought that if I ever started gambling, THAT might be the thing that would snare me.
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*Facepalm*

No, Moody, we all know your addiction. It starts with a "K" and ends with a "u". Also can start with a "U" and end with an "nix". You talk about it all the time. :p

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So, what's your situation?
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I'm also a Californian. Born in West Covina, lived in Pomona 'til about age 5, the family moved to Riverside in '89. Then nearly 4 years ago I got married and moved up into Rubidoux / Jurupa Valley / whatever they're calling it now (the place incorporated, became a city, then burned through its money and disincorporated to be absorbed back into Riverside county).

As such, I consider Riverside my home. Grew up in the area around Harvest Christian Fellowship (4th largest church in the states, supposedly), so the whole place was relatively safe and nice. Even the traffic is nice, and the city is laid out pretty simplistically. Only exceptions have been 2006 (when they were doing the massive overpass project at the 91/215/60 freeway interchange, right in front of where I was going to work), and the past 6 months, where 3 separate construction projects related to railways gunk up the traffic in all directions from my house.

LA, though......sheesh, I can't drive worth a darn over there. The entire road system seems to be built by monkeys and engineered to produce crashes on purpose. The other drivers on the road don't care, they grew up in the mad-max traffic environment and simply think that cutting you off 4 different ways at once is how you're SUPPOSED to drive! :banghead:

I try to stay away from the entire area, which unfortunately means my employment options are rather slim. Yes, IT is my field of expertise, but that's where the jobs are. The people in Riverside are largely made up of people who either don't use or don't care about fixing what they have when it breaks -- very hard to build up a number of clientele here. :(
 
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Joelgp83 said:
*Facepalm*

No, Moody, we all know your addiction. It starts with a "K" and ends with a "u". Also can start with a "U" and end with an "nix". You talk about it all the time. :p
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Well! Them's fightin' words! :fight:

:rofl: :laugh: :eviltongue:

I'm also a Californian. Born in West Covina, lived in Pomona 'til about age 5, the family moved to Riverside in '89. Then nearly 4 years ago I got married and moved up into Rubidoux / Jurupa Valley / whatever they're calling it now (the place incorporated, became a city, then burned through its money and disincorporated to be absorbed back into Riverside county).
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I remember driving past an exit on the 15 [heading south to Pechanga] with Jurupa in its name.

LA, though......sheesh, I can't drive worth a darn over there. The entire road system seems to be built by monkeys and engineered to produce crashes on purpose. The other drivers on the road don't care, they grew up in the mad-max traffic environment and simply think that cutting you off 4 different ways at once is how you're SUPPOSED to drive! :banghead:
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You should try driving in some other parts of the country! Seriously, since moving back here I've been perfectly happy with traffic, drivers, whatever. Compared to drivers in other places, this is like heaven on earth. When I signal, people let me in; and vice versa. I can drive really, really fast in...the FAST lane! A concept unheard of elsewhere in this country. :rolleyes:
 
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#30
Revenant Ghost said:
I'm in Nashville, TN. The city itself is okay, I guess. I just wish it was more diverse, more pedestrian-friendly and not focus so much on country music and football.
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Pretty sure that's not restricted to the city of Nashville. at. all. ;)
Was a shock growing up the first 16 years of my life in MA and moving to Hickory, NC. Those two things were quite an eye opener (among many others). But, I really like country music these days so it's all good. :)
 
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Joelgp83 said:
The entire road system seems to be built by monkeys and engineered to produce crashes on purpose.
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My first job in LA, back in about '83, was a courier based in Silverlake, thankfully using their cars. They liked me at first and gave me the Malibu/Santa Monica run. Then something happened and I got the downtown and Watts runs, then I quit like they wanted... can't remember what I did to piss them off but I never wrote to thank them.
 
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#32
I'm from Minnesota and love having four seasons (fall being my favorite with the crisp/cool air, colors, and rain). I couldn't live anywhere that had consistent weather (always sunny would bore me to tears).

Although this last winter was brutal and on more than one occasion I questioned why we were living here. During one storm my wife and I stayed at a motel so we would be closer to work and not have to drive on bad roads (even with hundreds and hundreds of snowplows on the road, it still takes them a while to plow everything). My wife got to work just fine, but I was stuck in the motel parking lot for four hours, in -20 windchill, trying to get my car unstuck (it started snowing during rush hour so we had 2-3" of ice compacted under the 1 foot of snow). I finally got unstuck somehow (combo of putting my floor mats under the tires and luck) and started for home (too late to go to work now). Since it was about 10 degrees with minus zero windchilll the plows couldn't scrape/melt the ice off of the roads being the road chemicals they put down don't work well below a certain temp (it was like driving on the moon or a washboard). I finally got home only to be greated by a driveway with three to four foot drifts and a four foot tall snowplow wash at the entrance (it took me a week to shovel the entire driveway). Once I got inside the nice warm house the snow sure did look beautiful though. :D
 
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#34
I've traveled the country and been outside the United States on several occasions (thanks to Uncle Sam), but Southeastern Ohio will always be my home. I have yet to find anywhere on this planet as beautiful. It is a poor area and if you wanna get rich this isn't the place to be, but if you want rolling hills, beautiful lakes and caves, amazing scenery and wonderful people....... You will find it here.

Friday nights, the towns all close down and high school football is king, their are festivals almost every month of the year, and as the saying goes, "if you don't like the weather in Ohio, wait a minute and it will change."
 
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jefboyardee said:
My first job in LA, back in about '83, was a courier based in Silverlake, thankfully using their cars. They liked me at first and gave me the Malibu/Santa Monica run.
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Silverlake, Malibu, Santa Monica--three of my favorite cities. :)

Then something happened and I got the downtown and Watts runs
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Watts...not so much. BUT! Downtown LA has a lot to offer now, and I really love it over there. If not for stupid health problems, I'd love to spend my time walking all over the downtown/mid-Wilshire areas. Tons of things to do and see, and a lot of opportunity for taking photos of historic buildings. The old Bullocks Wilshire building, for example, or the Wiltern Theater. Beautiful art deco architecture.
 
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#36
Muckle Dabuckle said:
I'm from Minnesota and love having four seasons (fall being my favorite with the crisp/cool air, colors, and rain). I couldn't live anywhere that had consistent weather (always sunny would bore me to tears).
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See, that was my thinking way back when. I used to be one of those native Angelenos who said things like, "why can't we have REAL SEASONS like other people do?!" Then I moved. Found out that ugly, gray, brown, bare, cold, ice-covered landscapes really aren't that much fun! Every year in Dallas as fall wound down--and all the trees started losing their leaves, flowers died, lawns turned brown--I'd plunge into a deep sadness knowing that winter, with its ice and snow and below freezing temperatures, was coming. I'd exist...just exist...until spring, then I'd start feeling halfway alive again. And THEN the reality of summer in Dallas hit! 100+ degree temperatures along with 95+% humidity...bazillions of mosquitoes...miserable...miserable... :dontknow:

Although this last winter was brutal and on more than one occasion I questioned why we were living here. During one storm my wife and I stayed at a motel so we would be closer to work and not have to drive on bad roads (even with hundreds and hundreds of snowplows on the road, it still takes them a while to plow everything). My wife got to work just fine, but I was stuck in the motel parking lot for four hours, in -20 windchill, trying to get my car unstuck (it started snowing during rush hour so we had 2-3" of ice compacted under the 1 foot of snow). I finally got unstuck somehow (combo of putting my floor mats under the tires and luck) and started for home (too late to go to work now). Since it was about 10 degrees with minus zero windchilll the plows couldn't scrape/melt the ice off of the roads being the road chemicals they put down don't work well below a certain temp (it was like driving on the moon or a washboard). I finally got home only to be greated by a driveway with three to four foot drifts and a four foot tall snowplow wash at the entrance (it took me a week to shovel the entire driveway).
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DEFINITELY not for me. :eek:

Once I got inside the nice warm house the snow sure did look beautiful though. :D
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That's the funny thing about it. Even though I hated/dreaded the cold temps and everything, if at home when it was snowing, it was pretty and I enjoyed watching it. Oh well. Now, back home where I belong, I can see the snow-capped San Gabriel Mountains in winter, and if I should ever have the urge to be in that white stuff again, I can CHOOSE to drive up there. Then get the hell back down to normal when I'm done enjoying it. :D
 
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#40
jefboyardee said:
A friend transmogrified from being married near Phoenix to being divorced in downtown LA and luuuvs it, at least last time I spoke to her. It must be plenty different than it was when I was there.
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Yes, it is. Really, as far back as the early '90s [when I was still living out of state, but visiting] I remember it becoming vital and interesting, as well as diverse. Like some great Mexican restaurants, complete with authentic mariachi bands, in the mid-Wilshire district. Walking along Wilshire Blvd is a lesson in sights and sounds and smells and diversity. There are multi-million dollar condos and cheap rental apartments within streets of each other.
 
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#43
jefboyardee said:
Figures... I left California for good in '88.
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Well, you know it's just a short drive west from Arizona. :D

So much has changed--for the better--over the years. Like I remember, with disdain, the horrible smog of my youth...a brownish-gray veil hanging in the air. The air quality is a zillion times better now; even now, in the dead of summer, when I look up I see blue sky. And crime used to be a big problem [not where I live, but in LA proper], and over the last few years I've read statistics like we now have the lowest crime rate in 50+ years. Of course, housing prices are ridiculous, but that depends on where you live. I really don't know if people in other states can grasp how crazy our housing prices are, because I often see comments about how expensive some place is, and then I see what its average or median housing price is and I just laugh. Here in my ZIP code the median price for a single-family, previously occupied house [as opposed to brand new] is $1.4 million, and prices in SoCal increase at a rate of 10+% per year. That latter statistic is a huge DROP from the 18-ish% prices had been increasing! But the economist-oriented folks say this is a very good thing because it will stabilize the market. If they say so!
 
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#44
I was born in Texas but my parents moved to Kansas before my first birthday. I've basically lived in the same area all of my life. Do I like it? Meh.. it's ok. It's home. I live just outside of Wichita which is the largest city in Kansas. I can drive two miles and be in the country. I can drive five miles and be in the city. The country here is not the great calling card. The people are what makes the area attractive. It's perhaps slower paced than other areas of the US and world for that matter but people take the time to say hello.... know their neighbors... care about their fellow man. The cost of living is low and the principals and standards of people are high. The crime rate is very low and so is air pollution. (wheat fields put off few negative emissions) :)

I love to travel and see the diversity of country and people. I've enjoyed everywhere I've had to opportunity to visit. I have yet to visit anywhere that gave me an urge to migrate. Though there is nothing exactly enticing about Kansas.. it's home.
 
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#45
olbriar said:
I love to travel and see the diversity of country and people. I've enjoyed everywhere I've had to opportunity to visit.
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That's something I really miss, traveling around and seeing different parts of the country. I'm glad I did a lot of that in my youth, as I got to see many areas and lifestyles. I haven't done a count lately, but I think I visited about half of the states in the US.
 
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#47
Muckle Dabuckle said:
I'm from Minnesota and love having four seasons (fall being my favorite with the crisp/cool air, colors, and rain). I couldn't live anywhere that had consistent weather (always sunny would bore me to tears).

Although this last winter was brutal and on more than one occasion I questioned why we were living here. During one storm my wife and I stayed at a motel so we would be closer to work and not have to drive on bad roads (even with hundreds and hundreds of snowplows on the road, it still takes them a while to plow everything). My wife got to work just fine, but I was stuck in the motel parking lot for four hours, in -20 windchill, trying to get my car unstuck (it started snowing during rush hour so we had 2-3" of ice compacted under the 1 foot of snow). I finally got unstuck somehow (combo of putting my floor mats under the tires and luck) and started for home (too late to go to work now). Since it was about 10 degrees with minus zero windchilll the plows couldn't scrape/melt the ice off of the roads being the road chemicals they put down don't work well below a certain temp (it was like driving on the moon or a washboard). I finally got home only to be greated by a driveway with three to four foot drifts and a four foot tall snowplow wash at the entrance (it took me a week to shovel the entire driveway). Once I got inside the nice warm house the snow sure did look beautiful though. :D
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I know the pain of winter better than most. Living in the snow belt of Western NY will do that to you. The extremely high property taxes of NYS don't relieve the brutal winters either. But then I think to myself, I don't have to worry about Hurricanes, Tornadoes, or Earthquakes. Snow seems pretty easy by comparison. :p
 
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jhawkkw said:
But then I think to myself, I don't have to worry about Hurricanes, Tornadoes, or Earthquakes. Snow seems pretty easy by comparison. :p
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I've lived through ALL of that, and I plan to stick with earthquakes from here on out! At least while we're rockin' and rollin' we get to enjoy the beautiful sunshine, scenery, and temperature. :D

PS My best friend's mother lives in Rochester. Oh, the stories I've heard about winter there... :eek:
 
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