Why do you live where you live?

[Knight72]

Originally Posted by duke_lbz

Born and raised here, friends and what little family I have left keeps me here. Plus its nice rural town that's not too far from big cities. Family business and family land also help. Moved off to Nashville for college and realized real quick big city life wasn't for me so moved back home after graduating and plan on staying as long as the paper industry stays going.

Jackson County in the Scottsboro area or down south near Mobile? Westrock plant? I have to work at the one near phenix city every 6 weeks. Absolutely miserable in June-August.

[duke_lbz]

Originally Posted by Knight72

Jackson County in the Scottsboro area or down south near Mobile? Westrock plant? I have to work at the one near phenix city every 6 weeks. Absolutely miserable in June-August.

Hour north of mobile in Clarke county. Work at the PCA mill that used to be Boise.

[davischevy]

We have a Westrock plant here.

[pritch]

Why do I live here? This is my view to the west:



And this is looking east from up on that mountain. The red arrow is my place. I-80 is there but is close to the hill and out of view:

[Knight72]

Originally Posted by davischevy

We have a Westrock plant here.

They are rough plants. Very hot working in the dryer cans.

[davischevy]

Originally Posted by Knight72

They are rough plants. Very hot working in the dryer cans.

Our mechanic worked full time WR and at our place part time until a couple of months ago. He went to work at our place full time.

[davischevy]

Originally Posted by pritch

Why do I live here? This is my view to the west:



And this is looking east from up on that mountain. The red arrow is my place. I-80 is there but is close to the hill and out of view:

I showed my wife these pictures. I think she wants to move in with you Pritch.

[pritch]

Originally Posted by davischevy

I showed my wife these pictures. I think she wants to move in with you Pritch.

OK, but it'll have to be a package deal. She'll bring that '57, right?



I was actually thinking about you guys the other day. I think Thursday or Friday I saw a guy on the freeway with Arkansas plates pulling a trailer east with a '67-'72 cab on it. I was going to flag him over but it was right at my exit.

[davischevy]

My wife did think the pictures were pretty, but actually she says I have cured her from the man disease. She claims if anything happens to me, she doesn't want to have to train another one.

Johnny Cash was from Arkansas and we learned from his song.

We are going to get all the western parts one piece at a time.

[Boog]

Beautiful views Pritch. But to this Arkansan that looks like extreme heat and extreme cold land to me.

[pritch]

Ah, it's not so bad. We usually get a cold snap once a year or so, where it might get to 25 or 30 below, and we rarely get over 100, maybe 4 or 5 days a year. But with 20% humidity it don't seem so bad.

[davischevy]

How is the smog situation in the city?

[frank69]

300+ days of sunshine every year. No rust, no mud, no snow shovel,no lawn to mow. About a half mile from Colorado river. Hot as hell in summertime but I find it alloy easier to cope with than the cold wet weather back east.

[rharris]

I put a home on my grandfathers farm land. There is about 40 acres, most of what my dad owns now. I bought 5 acres off of him when I was about 20. Growing up the hill from him, I always wanted to live over the field from his house. I just wish I would have waited until I was a little (or a lot) smarter before building - not a big fan of two story houses after owning one. The original farm house still stands and they ran milk out of it as the family business. My great grandfather died in WWII on his way home after being discharged. The milk house stayed in the family until it was more convenient to buy in the store I guess. I have a sentimental tie to my land. Here in eastern PA we have beautiful fall weather. The sunrise and sunsets are nice and its a nice quiet place for the kids to grow up. I always wanted to move to Wyoming though. Maybe someday i'll hit the lottery and have a place out there as well.

[pritch]

Originally Posted by davischevy

How is the smog situation in the city?

Horrible and getting worse. So glad I don't live down in it. Bad enough to have to work down in it.

[Steeveedee]

We live here (Simi Valley, CA) because the wife wanted out of the San Fernando Valley. It meant a further commute for me, but that was only for 11 years...of hell. It's one of the safest cities of its size in the US. We live in about the middle of the city, with an HoA that minds their own business. I can walk to the grocery and parts stores if I want. Sometimes I do. Either are anywhere from half to one mile away, one way.

We are not in a flood zone, nor do we have to worry about hurricanes or tornadoes. The occasional earthquake (at about 20 year intervals) hasn't collapsed the house, yet. As far as fires go, we have enough homes between the mountains and us that the likelihood of burning down is remote. We have enough mountains between us and the ocean that a tsunami doesn't pose a threat. Guess that covers it!

[bennylava]

Cause I was born here. If I move to someplace that I would deem nicer or better, I don't get to see my family and friends.

[bennylava]

Originally Posted by B. W.

It's beautiful here & a great place to raise kids. I love small town living. Life moves at a slower pace. Every morning I look out my kitchen window & I'm thankful to be here.

Yeah but that looks like a sasquatch place. You got those to put up with.

[Bishops Trucks]

I was born and raised in Virginia. Now the only thing keeping me here is my wife's job. She will retire in 2 1/2 more years then we are Texas bound.

[sms70c10]

I'm a California native and I've traveled to all but about 5 states, many by motorcycle and others via plane for business.
As many have said there are beautiful places and great people all over this great country of ours, but there aren't many, if any, with the variety, beauty and opportunity of California.

The Ocean, mountains, desert, places with lots of people (LA and the Bay Area) to places with very few people.
Young bright people with huge ideas changing the world are in abundance.
For all of the haters, I say, move on. Believe me we will be fine without the negativity.

[CUDA8U]

Originally Posted by B. W.

It's beautiful here & a great place to raise kids. I love small town living. Life moves at a slower pace. Every morning I look out my kitchen window & I'm thankful to be here.

we love Bigfork and area,we travel down from Alberta 2-3 times a yrto enjoy the clean air,beautiful views and hardly any bugs!!!We also come down for the Bigfork car show which is an exc time.Flathead lk is stunning and the temps in summer are perfect.I would love to own a water front property there one day.

As for living in Alberta,I hate the loooooong winters,wet muddy spring,the summers are awesome for fshing/camping minus the mosquitos.We have stunning sunsets on many lakes.I work in the oil patch and the money is pretty decent but I love warmer dry weather and am considering a home elsewhere,Cabo San Lucas Mexico is in our future if the dollar recovers big time.

[Aussie Boy]

Born and raised in the south-west of Western Australia, I have lived in the north-west but came back "home" due to work and family.

That's all about to change soon with a plan to move to my wife's home town of Phoenix, AZ. A bit of a change but we have her fathers sweet '65 C10 waiting for us to fix up.

Hopefully the paperwork comes through soon and I can start looking for some work to pay for the '65.

[rharris]

Sunrise and Sunset (pictures with the truck)

Sorry for the sidways picture....not sure why it does that.

[Boog]

colors up

[CG]

Originally Posted by sms70c10

The Ocean, mountains, desert, places with lots of people (LA and the Bay Area) to places with very few people.
Young bright people with huge ideas changing the world are in abundance.
For all of the haters, I say, move on. Believe me we will be fine without the negativity.

I browse through this thread now and again, and after reading this I had to go through it one more time. Didn't see the haters, maybe you are just talking in general about how California gets a lot of grief from the rest of the country?

Im Western Washington State born (1959) and raised. We have everything you do in California, but thankfully more rain. I love me some green. I do wish we had a whole lot less Californians though, maybe you could give em all a shout and ask em what the heck they were thinking moving out of Cali, talk a little horse sense in to them and hopefully they will go home in droves ... Haha! I'm just busting your chops.

I actually love California, especially Northern Cali. I could easily live there. Now Seattle, no way I would ever live in there. Because of my job I have to spend way too much time in a city I used to really love.