What makes you like where you live?

[tom slick]

Great community, beautiful rural area, good climate. Big cities are hours away. Good job. Near enough to family.

Refer to slotown’s post for reference, I live about 10 miles in the opposite direction from Scott’s photo.

 

[JeffKeryk]

Our town, Los Gatos CA, is the southern most Silicon Valley city at the foot of the Santa Cruz Mountains. It is a wonderful refuge from the Valley that chews up people and spits out $$. You are either going here or over the hill to Santa Cruz.

They will carry me outta here in a box. Having said that, there are 50 great states in America that I would love to live in.

 

[Skeet6]

I live in the Pocono mountains, it's lovely here and the trout fishing is fantastic. I could do without the summer tourists, but... comes with the package.
Mike B

 

[ARCOgraphite]

Old mostly unchanged colonial era town, no urban creep - though we now have a little DD at the end of mini strip at the edge of town that houses a bank and a (soon to be gone) RiteAid drug and overpriced convenience store.

No income Taxes, no Sales Taxes, large lots, generously spaced apart homes, winding roads, hills and dales, conifer and deciduous trees, nice ponds - some small, some large.
A short twenty-minute drive to the N.E Coast of Portsmouth, Rye and Hampton, an hour and a half to the White Mountains.

What's not to like? High property taxes. Automobile excise tax they call millage.
People creeping in from the commonwealth of Massachusetts.

 

[AutoMechanic]

I like my town because it’s suburbs and not extremely big but big enough that we have most stores. I can go left out of my neighborhood to go to town and go straight or right and be in rural farm lands within a couple miles. And Kroger is literally a walk thru my back yard and I’m there and Bojangles too. I’d like to live in a smaller place but I’m happy with where I am it’s where I grew up even though I’m originally from a smaller place named Tazewell Virginia. We had a house there and our current house up until I was about 4 or 5.

Unfortunately my town growing rapidly though and they are trying to urbanize it. I’m not a city boy so I couldn’t make it in a city.

 

[4WD]

Small town one hour or less from the coast - no traffic - good food - 45 minutes to larger town medical, dining, shopping, and events etc …
Oh, low crime - very stable electricity + natural gas …

 

[Chris142]

My dad moved me to the desert in 1971 to get me away from the smog in Los Angeles. I'm 2 hrs ffrom the beach. 45 minutes from the mountains with snow in the winter . And minutes away from being in the quiet desert away from people.

 

[Nmr1981]

You're living somewhere near Swedesboro or Woolwich Twp.

Haha close woodstown/pilesgrove

 

[97prizm]

I live in a small town in rural Southern New Jersey. We purchased our house in 2013 in a neighborhood with a 1/3 of an acre. I was born and raised in this county. I love the small town feel, sense of community, and proximity to the Jersey Shore (50 miles about 1 hour drive). I also love being about 30 minutes from Philadelphia for sports (Go Birds!) concerts car shows etc. I also like the wide open expanse of farm land around me (although warehouses are cropping up at an alarming rate). The downside to living here is taxes and cost of living in NJ is pretty high. Having 4 seasons is a plus too.

My question for you is what drew you to your area? What are the pros and cons of where you settled? Happy Father’s Day.

Colorado has some top notch restaurants. I have 4-6 locally owned pizza restaurants to choose from, 6 Indian restaurants, 5 Japanese restaurants, an hour or so to Downtown Denver where there are now a few Michelin star restaurants, an hour to two hours to a casino, skiing and hot springs. For the most part four actual seasons some longer than others. My sisters and parents live in Phoenix which is either nice in December or a blast furnace in August.

 

[Patman]

To be honest I really don’t like the town that I’m living in but I do love my condo and it’s an affordable area to live as well. But I do love the area where I spend most of my time, which is down in the Niagara Falls and Niagara on the Lake area. Eventually I would like to move to NOTL as it’s an amazing town

 

[V70tdi]

Born and raised up in the Northern Sweden. Mowed to middle of Sweden in Stockholm area due to lack of work up in the north and now the kids groun up here its hard to mowe back up north but maybe some day when they mowed out and got their homes i go back to North.
Pro: Close to any store i ever need. A lot of work
Cons: People is not as friendly and open like in the smaller places

 

[CKN]

My dad moved me to the desert in 1971 to get me away from the smog in Los Angeles. I'm 2 hrs ffrom the beach. 45 minutes from the mountains with snow in the winter . And minutes away from being in the quiet desert away from people.

What time of day are you 2 hours from the beach? At 2 a.m.it's possible.

 

[alarmguy]

Coastal NC near the SC border.
Love the beaches, boating, LOW cost of living (taxes, utilities) and huge community we live in with tons of amenities.
Also the NC side of the boarder is less developed. Meaning beaches are not lined with hotels and we have some beautiful ones as well as access to the intracoastal for boating.

 

[Lubener]

I have lived in my once small community for 31 years. Lots of open farm land , open space and low taxes. Unfortunately, the farms have disapeared and are now housing developments. The new home building continues on small postage stamp lots. My community has turned into a bedroom community. New schools were built to handle the increased population and therefore much higher taxes. I would like to move but am getting too old to start over. Hopefully all your peaceful communities stay that way and don't follow what my city has turned into.

 

[Allaned]

The saltwater creeks and the ocean right here. Lots of good fishing. Suburban living with 10 minute access to Charleston SC and all the great restaurants and attractions downtown. Plus 6 grandchildren live nearby.

 

[Nmr1981]

Coastal NC near the SC border.
Love the beaches, boating, LOW cost of living (taxes, utilities) and huge community we live in with tons of amenities.
Also the NC side of the boarder is less developed. Meaning beaches are not lined with hotels and we have some beautiful ones as well as access to the intracoastal for boating.

We vacationed on Emerald Isle, NC a few years ago and loved the area. I could see my self living there when I retire…in other words long long time from now

 

[Dave P.]

North Jersey resident and lived here all my life except for a couple years in Florida as a kid. Living here provides close access to the Jersey shore, to the mountains, to farm country, to NYC, to professional baseball, football, hockey, basketball, to history, to recreation, whatever you desire, it's close. Four seasons and the beauty that comes along with the changes. Sometimes I think the trees in the fall have been photoshopped the colors are so vibrant. I can ride my bike along beautiful country roads or railtrails or in New York City and Central Park.
I guess the big downside is taxes and overall cost of living but I also consider my house to be a big investment should I ever choose to relocate when retirement happens.

 

[Cropduster172]

Haha close woodstown/pilesgrove

322 from the Com.Barry Bridge to almost Mullica Hill is warehouse row. Putting that new Wawa just before the CBB was genius.

 

[Ausfahrt]

We retired to our homestead on 15 acres of New England heaven on a dead end road but we still have shopping, doctors, restaurants and everything we need within ten miles.

Having spent the majority of my adult life on west central Florida coast, I wouldn't have it any other way.

 

[blkwtr]

I live near a small town in the Florida panhandle. I have lived on this small bay for over 20 years. Great access to wilderness areas and the Gulf of America.