The Say Anything Thread

[featherB 1]

I know the feeling! I have moved many, many times. I always loved that last episode of Six Feet Under and the Bruce song Thunder Road - which is all about getting the hell out of Dodge.

Cities I have lived in/moves I have made:

Detroit

Glasgow

Detroit again

Ann Arbor, MI (college)

London (college)

East Lansing, MI (was gonna do more college, but then decided to enter the world of work!)

Chicago

Boston

Birmingham, England

Nottingham, England

London (again)

Hong Kong (on work assigment)

London (back again!)

Los Angeles

I, too, would like a place to call home. It's not going to be LA I don't think.

Bloody hell! You've lived everywhere (well, kinda).

[Marilyn. 340]

I seem to make a major move every 15 years or so...

when I was 15 we moved from Manitoba, Canada to British Columbia, Canada... that was about 1500 mile move....

Then when I was 30 I moved from BC, Canada to Los Angeles which was about 1200 mile move

Who knows where I will be living when I am 45 .....

our family also moved a lot within the same area... I lived in about 4 or 5 different houses by the time I was 7 and went to 3 different schools.....

then when we moved to BC, I moved about 11 times in the same town though....

My family moved 3 times in one year... that was a lot of fun helping them move...

we have moved once since I moved to LA and I know we will probably move at least one or two more times, or at least I hope it isn't anymore then that....

Edited July 25, 2007 by MarilynP

[Yaads 0]

I totally hear you on that one Mags...

9,500 population...friendly people, lovely scenary, quiet and safe for the most part but absolutely NO culture. NOTHING! The stuff that does happen to come around arts wise is always super expensive to boot.

[Yaads 0]

I seem to make a major move every 15 years or so...

when I was 15 we moved from Manitoba, Canada to British Columbia, Canada... that was about 1500 mile move....

Then when I was 30 I moved from BC, Canada to Los Angeles which was about 1200 mile move

Who knows where I will be living when I am 45 .....

our family also moved a lot within the same area... I lived in about 4 or 5 different houses by the time I was 7 and went to 3 different schools.....

then when we moved to BC, I moved about 11 times in the same town though....

we have moved once since I moved to LA and I know we will probably move at least one or two more times, or at least I hope it isn't anymore then that....

Wow...better start planning for 45

I also moved houses a lot when I was younger...15 different houses in the same county by the time I was in grade 5 Sometimes we lived a place for a year or two and other times we were moving every few months...definitely hard on a youngster.

[no name 1]

but absolutely NO culture. NOTHING! The stuff that does happen to come around arts wise is always super expensive to boot.

See, that & lack of good, non chain restaurants are a deal breaker for me.

[Mags 112]

I totally hear you on that one Mags...

9,500 population...friendly people, lovely scenary, quiet and safe for the most part but absolutely NO culture. NOTHING! The stuff that does happen to come around arts wise is always super expensive to boot.

I am very aware that you just don't have the historical buildings here. Yes, you have a few old houses but the ideal thing, especially in Indy, is that if the building is more than three years old it needs to be pulled down and rebuilt. In the UK, even in the smallest towns, you'd have loads of old buildings or houses.

Here, simply due to the age of the place, you don't have old castles, Elizabethan houses, little sweet stone cottages in the middle of no-where etc etc

Oh there IS older stuff if you go to certain areas, I'm not denying it at all, but it is commonplace everywhere to see this in the UK. In our little "city" here in Greencastle we live in the oldest house in the whole area and everything else seems to be either University condos (again, DePauw Uni buys the old houses, rips them down and builds dorms on them) or 50 year old ranch styles.

It's a shame, it really is. Some of the American architecture is beautiful, but often ignored for modern housing.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

I know the feeling! I have moved many, many times. I always loved that last episode of Six Feet Under and the Bruce song Thunder Road - which is all about getting the hell out of Dodge.

Cities I have lived in/moves I have made:

Detroit

Glasgow

Detroit again

Ann Arbor, MI (college)

London (college)

East Lansing, MI (was gonna do more college, but then decided to enter the world of work!)

Chicago

Boston

Birmingham, England

Nottingham, England

London (again)

Hong Kong (on work assigment)

London (back again!)

Los Angeles

I, too, would like a place to call home. It's not going to be LA I don't think.

Bloody hell! You've lived everywhere (well, kinda).

I love saying "well, you know I've lived on 3 continents" It has a certain ring to it.

[Trompe le Monde 1,107]

but absolutely NO culture. NOTHING! The stuff that does happen to come around arts wise is always super expensive to boot.

See, that & lack of good, non chain restaurants are a deal breaker for me.

Best thing about Westside LA is a distinct lack of chain restaurants. I can get a really great meal for under $30 in just about every cuisine imaginable without even getting into my car.

I actually want to live in a small town at some point - not for a long time, maybe a summer doing some menial job. Somewhere pretty and remote like Moab, UT or Jackson Hole, WY

[Yaads 0]

I love saying "well, you know I've lived on 3 continents" It has a certain ring to it.

Yes it does have a better ring to it than...

"well, you know I have lived in 3 towns all in the same county! So there"

Edited July 25, 2007 by Jme3584

[Nessa 23]

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[featherB 1]

Try living here in Greencastle - 10,000 only. I love the fact that there are so many trees, it is lovely and quiet with a nice little atmosphere. But I'd just love to be able to get on a tube train and get to central London, grab a pastry, a drink and sit in Hyde Park. Or visit the Natural History Museum, or go to Covent Garden and look at the stalls and pootle around the shops there. I always used to come back with a bag of Lush goodies too.

I just miss having everything so close by.

Saying that, my quality of life here is so much better and there is no pollution, no crime and everyone is really friendly. *shrugs*

Greencastle does sound lovely... there's lots of things I love about this place, too (not quite the same as somewhere with a population of 10,000, obviously!), but I know what you mean - if someone could just arrange for me to be able to hop on a bus or the Tube and spend the afternoon wandering round Soho & Covent Garden or something, that would be splendid! Still, I'm only missing all that 'cos I can't - conveniently forgetting all the stuff about London that reallllly pissed me off!

I need to learn to drive, that's what I need to do!

(edited to fix the messed-up quoting)

Edited July 25, 2007 by featherB

[no name 1]

I actually want to live in a small town at some point - not for a long time, maybe a summer doing some menial job. Somewhere pretty and remote like Moab, UT or Jackson Hole, WY

You hippie!

I love saying "well, you know I've lived on 3 continents" It has a certain ring to it.

Damn, I've only visited 3 continents.

[Mags 112]

Try living here in Greencastle - 10,000 only. I love the fact that there are so many trees, it is lovely and quiet with a nice little atmosphere. But I'd just love to be able to get on a tube train and get to central London, grab a pastry, a drink and sit in Hyde Park. Or visit the Natural History Museum, or go to Covent Garden and look at the stalls and pootle around the shops there. I always used to come back with a bag of Lush goodies too.

I just miss having everything so close by.

Saying that, my quality of life here is so much better and there is no pollution, no crime and everyone is really friendly. *shrugs*

Greencastle does sound lovely... there's lots of things I love about this place, too (not quite the same as somewhere with a population of 10,000, obviously!), but I know what you mean - if someone could just arrange for me to be able to hop on a bus or the Tube and spend the afternoon wandering round Soho & Covent Garden or something, that would be splendid! Still, I'm only missing all that 'cos I can't - conveniently forgetting all the stuff about London that reallllly pissed me off!

I need to learn to drive, that's what I need to do!

(edited to fix the messed-up quoting)

Yeah, I'm trying to work out if I miss it because I REALLY miss it, or whether I miss it cos I can't do it anymore.

[Bootylicious!! 2]

I've lived in the same small town my whole life. I live within walking distance of my house I grew up in. I guess I will always live there unless something happens. Javi and I have talked about building a house in Mexico to visit and for when we get older. That may be the only other place I would live. His town isn't much bigger than the town I work in so that wouldn't be a big deal.

[featherB 1]

Try living here in Greencastle - 10,000 only. I love the fact that there are so many trees, it is lovely and quiet with a nice little atmosphere. But I'd just love to be able to get on a tube train and get to central London, grab a pastry, a drink and sit in Hyde Park. Or visit the Natural History Museum, or go to Covent Garden and look at the stalls and pootle around the shops there. I always used to come back with a bag of Lush goodies too.

I just miss having everything so close by.

Saying that, my quality of life here is so much better and there is no pollution, no crime and everyone is really friendly. *shrugs*

Greencastle does sound lovely... there's lots of things I love about this place, too (not quite the same as somewhere with a population of 10,000, obviously!), but I know what you mean - if someone could just arrange for me to be able to hop on a bus or the Tube and spend the afternoon wandering round Soho & Covent Garden or something, that would be splendid! Still, I'm only missing all that 'cos I can't - conveniently forgetting all the stuff about London that reallllly pissed me off!

I need to learn to drive, that's what I need to do!

(edited to fix the messed-up quoting)

Yeah, I'm trying to work out if I miss it because I REALLY miss it, or whether I miss it cos I can't do it anymore.

Definitely the latter with me (bloodyminded woman that I am!) right now, undoubtedly... but I suppose I really WILL miss it at some point, although I'm sure I'll live!

Having said that, I reaaaaaallllllly want to go on a Lush shopping spree THIS MINUTE, damn it! In fact, any kind of shopping spree would be good. Particularly if it involves being able to blow £100 in Hennes and come out with bags & bags of new clothes. That would be heavenly.