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Why Do You Live Where You Do

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    • As I spent most of the Christmas Holiday driving from NC back to the Midwest to see family and friends, I began to wonder why folks live where they do.

    Driving thru NC, Virginia, W. Va., Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, I would look around thinking what posseses that those folks to live in the middle of nowhere, or why do they live in these little burgs right off the highway, or why would anyone live where there is this crazy traffic.

    I also just returned from my second trip to the Aleutian Islands which is a different place for sure. Beautiful in many respects but also ugly and desolate in others. I really questioned how much money it would take of how much isolation people need to live there.

    I live in NC right now just due to the fact that after being laid off, this is where I found a job. It is a nice climate and an alright place to live, but I certainly miss my friends and family back in the Midwest. As much as that, I also miss the type of people who live in the Midwest. There is definitely a difference in folks from the South to the Midwest and how they live. Even with the weather differences, my wife and I would love to get back to the Midwest some day.

    I am sure a lot of folks live where they do because that is where they were born and raised and it is where their families are, which is as good of reasons as any.

    Aside from the jokes about Michigan that I am sure this thread will bring, I am curious to understand why folks live where they do?
     
    I live in Columbus because of school.

    I live in the west side of campus because I kind of got kicked out of my last place and had to scramble to find a different place a month before school started. And this is where I ended up.

    Nothing too exciting.

    But I really like Columbus, and really like living in Grandview. It's nice. Just wish I had a dishwasher. :pissed:
     
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    buckeyebri;1627551; said:
    As I spent most of the Christmas Holiday driving from NC back to the Midwest to see family and friends, I began to wonder why folks live where they do.

    Driving thru NC, Virginia, W. Va., Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio, I would look around thinking what posseses that those folks to live in the middle of nowhere, or why do they live in these little burgs right off the highway, or why would anyone live where there is this crazy traffic.

    I also just returned from my second trip to the Aleutian Islands which is a different place for sure. Beautiful in many respects but also ugly and desolate in others. I really questioned how much money it would take of how much isolation people need to live there.

    I live in NC right now just due to the fact that after being laid off, this is where I found a job. It is a nice climate and an alright place to live, but I certainly miss my friends and family back in the Midwest. As much as that, I also miss the type of people who live in the Midwest. There is definitely a difference in folks from the South to the Midwest and how they live. Even with the weather differences, my wife and I would love to get back to the Midwest some day.

    I am sure a lot of folks live where they do because that is where they were born and raised and it is where their families are, which is as good of reasons as any.

    Aside from the jokes about Michigan that I am sure this thread will bring, I am curious to understand why folks live where they do?
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    I was on Shemya for two years, one in the Air Force and one as a private contractor. I agree that it is both beautiful and desolate and ugly, both at the same time. I have pictures somewhere, if I can find them I'll scan and post them, I've been told they look like something from National Geographic.
     
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    Perhaps this isn't the place to get into this, but if you and your friends used the conveniences as they were intended, then I think there would have been fewer breakdowns. I don't see how you can blame me for the consequences of your dietary preferences.

    Please reconsider. There's a crack team of experts here now effecting repairs..

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    Because this overpass is a 6 lane one and not a 2 lane one. I get better protection so my cardboard box doesn't get demolished by the weather. gotta go Billie jo just got home with some sardines and Vienna sausages to cook over our shopping cart fire.
     
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    scarletandgrey;1627587; said:
    Because this overpass is a 6 lane one and not a 2 lane one. I get better protection so my cardboard box doesn't get demolished by the weather. gotta go Billie jo just got home with some sardines and Vienna sausages to cook over our shopping cart fire.
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    Where do you plug in your computer?
     
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    Buckeyeskickbuttocks;1627590; said:
    Well, even if you fix the toilet, there's still the matter of the live wires hanging in the kitchen and it's high time you install a floor in the "master bedroom" Come on, man... it's been 6 years.
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    OK. Fine. I get it. Just leave.

    Before folks here get the wrong impression. You weren't charged for any of the electricity that leaked out of those wires. Not once. I just showed the place to another couple. They said that the hole in the master bedroom floor was a feature.

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