Why Would Anyone Live In...

Memphis, TN (thank goodness we bought land 30 minutes south of Memphis)

Senatobia, MS (which is where we bought our land...horrible drivers, lots of stupid slow trashy people)

New York City

Sterling, VA (just outside DC...lived there almost two years and nearly broke my neck getting the heck outta there)

I enjoyed living in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area although I missed living in the country (dug up my suburban back yard to have a garden) and I love Harper's Ferry, WV (although I haven't tried living there).

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Atlanta is horrible and NOTHING in our opinion makes it worthwhile living there.

SoCal was one enormous urban area when I was last there and that was YEARS ago....can't even imagine it now.

Gibraltar was incredibly dirty and smelly,the trash was burned and the smoke just hund around the rock.The people were quite unfriendly to 'outsiders' and there was almost no fresh food.

I live in the Detroit area, not downtown but in the suburbs, and i like it here, been here for almost 20 yrs.. there are some areas i wouldn't venture into
though, especially downtown where some of the areas are run down and they have bars in the windows..
But there are some nice resturaunts down there , that we've been to a few times, and Co america to see a baseball game, and of course we have our Pistons, and Red Wings.
Alot of the jobs here center around the big 3 auto companies, my husband got a pretty good job down here through college, so can't complain to much..

but as for the least favorite place i been too, i dunno haven't traveled a whole lot, been to Florida and California though.. liked them both.

I live about 40 minutes southwest of Cleveland, Ohio. You know the place where the river caught on fire...

I occasionally go downtown for a ball game, perhaps to take the youth on a scavenger hunt in Tower City, or sometimes Ice Skating/Christmas... downtown is nice, but any Cleveland (within the city limits, i.e. where the people live) outside of downtown to me seems horribly run down and depressed.

I have friends who lives on Wayland in Cleveland... he works at Ford, bought land about 70 miles south of Cleveland and goes there every weekend, has a nice house he built there... still can't give up the job (been at ford for 35 years) even though he could retire. He's a great tinkerer... would be a great homesteader, just addicted to the $$$.

I can't understand how he lives where he does his lot can't be 100 x 50...

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Any big city would be just awful to me to live in. I can't understand why people would want to live in Atl, much less the perimeter. I refuse to even drive there on my own, but have had to when family comes to town.
I don't like the city, especially a big one!

Now this is ironic because I would have said New jersey because of the crime,
traffic and Gestapo police force and unequal justice system, not to mention the overhanging pollution cloud that hides the sun. I was raised in a small town in south jersey and loved it but not since Camden was torn down and all the criminals and druggies moved east. Cost of living and overpopulation comes to mind as well as the HIGH HIGH Taxes and Insurance

There are places that I don't think I would want to live, but I do understand that some people might enjoy living there. I definetly understand why people live in big cities. The culture and access to everything is amazing. If you live in a city there is no need for a car as usually there is plenty of mass transportation and walking gives you access to most needs.
Actually if more lived in cities and didn't commute to the jobs from the outside into the city we could save energy and cut pollution. It's actually the sprawl of people moving from the city outward to the country that has caused a lot of our energy and pollution problems.

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Through out my life, I have lived in many parts of the country, but the one state I dislike the most is Florida. Spent 23 years in the Tampa Bay area and I can honestly say I hated it! I got sooo tired of the sun and the sand, and the sun,and then more sun, month after month, year after year, and the older I got the more fearful I got that I would end up dying there. I told my DH that if I died there, to take me to the nearest snow pile and bury my butt there

I was finally able to talk my DH (who was born and raised in Tampa) into moving... so, 2 years ago we headed NORTH


okay, only to Alabama, but it's still north of Florida and I LOVE it here!!

The entire state of Florida? I spent a month visiting various places there and for the life of me couldn't see why anyone would want to live there. Visit maybe, but live? It's hot, humid, the bugs out number people two million to one I think lol, every other day there seems to be a hurricane or storm of some sort, and the majority of people I encountered had 'tudes beyond belief. JMO of course. It's also the only place I have ever seen that green means stop and red means go (someone should really post that info at the state line, I was rearended twice at red lights before leaving).

Charleston, WV. Between the stench from chem plants and meth labs and the recent gang invasion from Cleveland I have no idea why anyone would want to live there. It was a decent place maybe sixty years ago but now it is just one big drug ridden smelly slum.

Chicago. I think that one is a little obvious.

If a fav is allowed gimme anywhere in Colorado. I could maybe do without the eight hours it takes to drive through Denver during "rush" hour but everywhere else seemed to be very nice and the people I met out there were pretty friendly.

Chicago. The noise. The dust, dirt and grime. The busyness. The general pollution.

Manhattan. Been there once, it was interesting in the same way I find car wrecks interesting. Wouldn't want to repeat it, though. Too many rude people, too MANY people, too much noise, too bright, too smelly, too crowded, and waaaay too cramped. And my kitchen ain't big. LOL. By the time my vacation was over, I was feeling downright claustrophobic. (And I'll never forget being shown Central Park, proudly, by some friends who lived there ... and thinking to myself, "This is ... it? It's TINY!" I'd thought it was bigger from watching TV, at least several square miles and not something you could walk across in a few minutes.)

Someone mentioned Mesa, AZ though -- I actually like Mesa. Lots of ethnic restaraunts, ethnic markets, small shops, etc. -- I love chinese and japanese food & it's got some great asian markets. It's very diverse town. Wide streets, easy to get around by car & has some bus service though not great bus service (par for the course for AZ), fairly clean, and no more crime than ANY big city. If you don't like cities at all, I won't reccomend it, but as big cities go, it's not bad.

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Actually I live in North West New Jersey and have never even been near Camden. The nearest urban area is probably Paterson but it is a good distance away.

Traffic near me is not too bad unless you hop on 80 or 287 at rush hour. My little town still has an active Main Street and several county roads run through that take me where I need to go.

If the police are the Gestapo then I quess my father and brother are members. lol Crime is high in the uran areas but not really a major problem in my area although I am always careful since I have heard every possible scenario at the family dinner table. I am not experienced enough with the justice system to comment on that.

The Eastren part of the state is terribly overcrowded, and I suspect that this area will soon be that way but not quite yet. I can see the sun just fine and at the highest parts of my town we can see all the way to Manhattan even though it is 40 miles away.

Now the cost of living is high as are taxes in many of the communities. Homes are very exspensive right now.That is what has caused many long term NJ residents to move to Eastern PA and work in NJ to get the high wages. DH and I may end up doing this eventually.

For now NJ is home and I love riding into the countryside that is just outside our little hamlet of a town. I am sorry that your childhood stomping grounds where overrun that is a shame.

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I had lived in the city all my life. Newport Beach CA Las Vegas NV. I just moved out to the country 2yrs ago. I wouldn't live back in the city for nothing it,s nothing but a rat race everybody seeing who has the most things bigger better . I live on 14 acres nice little house and wouldn't trade it for anything.....

I agree with Chuck and Nodak3 Chicago is just plain bad(even though I was born and raised there) but the absolute worst place I have ever been to is New York City. I was only eight yrs. at the time but the city made a lasting impression on me. I deceided right then that I never wanted to go back and I haven't. DH and I lived in San Diego when we first were married(mid 70's). It was OK but we didn't want to stay so moved back to Illinois. 55 mi. NW of Chicago. Good schools nice people.

Any city...If I can see more than one house from my front porch I would not want to live there. Seems like it would be like living in a cage.

I abhor traffic, had friends who moved to big cities for the money and spent an hour getting to work every morning and longer getting home at night. And most of the workplaces were within a few miles of their homes, not enough money on the planet to make me do that!

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Floridas ok to visit, but to live there all year around i don't think so.. to much humidity in the summer and the hurricanes would scare me to much..
But my dad has it pretty good, he lives in a retirement area down there in Florida during the winter, and Michigan during the summer , he never has to deal with snow, which i think i could do... I'm not a big cold and snow person.. so if i could avoid the high humidity and snow that would sooo cool!!!

[QUOTE=RedneckWoman]The entire state of Florida?
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I must respond...I grew up in Miami (actually kendall) in the 60`s and early 70`s before the big influx of people from "other" places...North and south ..it was a great way to grow up...back then just about everyone in my neighborhood and surrounding areas had 1 or 2 acres.We had 48 mango trees,2 avocado,several citrus,japanese plum`s and banana`s.I spent my summer`s in central (winter haven,near orlando..all orange groves back then) and north florida (jax,mandarin)which in those day`s was the sticks.There are still to this day places left in florida...with Natural crystal clear springs and beautifully remote "wild" rivers and lakes..not to mention some still practically deserted beaches....umm,but i`m not gonna tell you where they are..


I grew up (kinda)married and moved around from Montreal,NYC,NYS,Denver and then the countryside of Colorado.


I never had a problem anywhere except Denver..where we were robbed of everything we had (wasen`t much)

The one place I can say "one visit was enough",was D.C.

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DETROIT!

Grew up down there, escaped as soon as I could!

Next time ya get up this way, Zeal, please come visit the GOOD part of the state!

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Where abouts in Michigan do you live now? and whereabouts in Detroit did you live? just curious..
I didn't grow up here in the Detroit area, i grew up in Ludington mi.. alot smaller then this area thats for sure.. where everybody knew everyones business.. lol But hubby got a good paying job here, so here we are, Sept 14th i will have lived here for 20 yrs.. Wow.. time goes fast!!

Considering what's coming towards New Orleans right now, I don't think I'd want to live there.

Lots of serious needs down there now. Time for some fervent prayer. Sorry for thread drift, but seeing that huge hurricane bearing down on that area made me think I'm very glad not to be living there and my heart goes out to people down there, especially the children.

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