What's It like Where You Live? - JFF

Typical house walls, roof, all that. Air conditioning, very important this time of year, gets even more important in a few months. :)

It is a ranch. I like that everything is on one floor though it has a walk out basement. We spend a lot of time outside, which kind of makes my AC comments strange I know.

We are part of a subdivision. I like that I know my neighbors.

When I think of my home I think of my bed for some reason. I have a hunch that has more to do with the psych part of your lecture. :p

I do wish we had a pub to hang out in. Still hanging out in the front yards works almost as well. We bring the beer. :)

After reading your what happened, I actually moved from one end of the school district to the other so my subdivision is very much like the one I grew up in. :) Just further south.

i live in a town that is very similiar to the town i grew up in. in fact they are 20 mintues apart. i like the small town feeling and the feeling where i can go into the grocery and they know me by my name!! i can walk thru my son's school-2-5 grade and kids know my name and so do the teachers. that is what is important to me-feeling like i belong here and my being here makes a difference!!

Historic downtown McKinney definitely meets that description. There lots of art galleries and restaurants with sidewalk seating. The courthouse in the center of the square was converted to a performing arts center a few years ago. There is something going on all the time. Even though it has been the fastest growing city in TX a couple of years, it still has a small town feel.
But I grew up in Dallas, living mostly in urban, racially mixed areas. Downtown was close enough that a friend and I could ride the bus to go shop. My brother and I actually walked home once when we didn't want to wait for the bus. I remember being able to play outside all day.

Pastures and prairies. Lakes. Tornadoes.

Home was where I grew up in Williamsburg Va....history, history, history. Battlefields, Nina, Pinta, Santa Maria. Yorktown, Jamestown, and all that jazz. But we were young....us 3 sisters and Mom and Dad...all in a small house. We were poor...but didn't realize it until we got older. Anyway...I think living so close together....helped us to stay close all our lives.

I LOVE TED talks!

I live in an area of Minneapolis that was designed like a small town. It was originally an upperclass resort area by a lake way back before the highway system made it part of the city. People could get here by streetcar from downtown back then. The antique streetcars now operate as a tourist attraction. I like that I can walk to coffee shops and restaurants and shops from my condo. It has a great feel.

I grew up on a farm five miles away from a small town. I liked the farm as a child but didn't like the isolation of a farm as I grew up. I like living in a city, but having a lovely outdoor space right out my front door.

growing up home was a farm. Our closest neighbor was a half mile way by road.. shorter by corn field. We had a big yard with chickens, cats and our 2 dogs running around it at all times. No matter what window you looked out you could see deer and turkey making their way across the fields to the stream that ran behind our yard. The only noise you heard was an occasional car going by, a plane in the sky, the cows, pigs, chickens, dogs, cats and the wild birds. At night it was the coyotes yelps and howls echoing off of the surrounding hills.

Were we live now is a small town of 500 people. It has one meat market/ grocery store, a post office, 1 bank and 1 family owned cafe/ restaurant. We do have 3 bars in town ( typical small town lol) 2 of the bars also serve food. The food places everything is home made.. there is no "fast food". We have an elementary school in our town and the country kids and the elementary students from the next town is bussed over. The town kids walk to school. The middle/ high school kids in our town is bussed to the next town. We have one gas station in town... that still pumps your gas for you. We have 2 parks in our town. One has a basketball court on one side ( the kid hang out) and a small play ground on the other side. At the edge of town there is a bigger park with a volley ball court, 2 horseshoe pits and a swing set. We have one cop in our town.. if he isn't on duty you have to call him at home to get ahold of someone. We have a marsh behind our town that separates the town from the Mississippi River. We are nestled nicely in a valley with Bluffs all around us. Pretty much if you think of Mayberry with paved roads you have my town, lol.

While where we live now in town will never be "home" to me, its not too bad of a place for my kids to call home. We are also living only 5 miles from my "home". I really miss looking out the windows seeing the wildlife instead of my neighbors side of the house.

Our house is on several acres, and is surrounded by homes on more acreage than we have, so we have wide open spaces. Our house is an old farmhouse. It's unique, warm, and comforting. Outside we have large porches, lots of trees, a stock pond, and near the front porch, strung between two trees, we have a large, comfortable hammock. My boys (and my husband and I) love our home.

Our town is a small town that is growing quickly. It still has that small-town feel to it. We have a quaint downtown, and many family owned businesses. Whenever I go anywhere, the business-owners and workers know me by name. We're right in the middle of Dallas and Ft. Worth, so it's easy to visit museums, art galleries, sporting events, etc., but we still have the quiet, slower pace of a small town. It's nice.

ETA: I also love TEDTalks!

I hate where I live. I live in SOCaL and its not really that I hate the city of LA, it's more like I hate this house. I hate my block, my family that surrounds me are more like enemy's, and majority of the time I feel like a prisoner cause their always minding my business. Their hawks!!

I'm from Orange County in SoCal. When I think of home I think of everything being within reach like stores, shops, restaurants, everything.
A diverse melting pot of people wherever I go, great authentic Mexican food is usually a few blocks away, and the 405 freeway clogged worse than a fat man's arteries. Ok that last one was inappropriate lol, but really i do think of how awful the traffic is at any given time.
I also remember I went to visit a friend a long time ago in a small city in New Mexico and it was culture shock because as a kid all I ever knew was O.C. I hated it, no freeways, nothing modern, now as an adult I'd appreciate places like that and being able to learn how other people live.
ETA: Oh and earthquakes! Almost forgot about those, i think of those also living in SoCal.