There is a Lowes Foods about 3 miles back from the Intracoastal on the New Bridge side of Oak.
What makes you like where you live?
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Yes, lots of Lowe’s here!
My son is all the way down in Salem. It's a little different down there.
This is considered an unusually hot and extremely humid week for us. Anything below about 62 is considered pretty much Arctic weather for us.
I believe I live in THE most underrated mid sized city in the USA. Baytown, TX. No one seems to care about it, its almost ignored. While it is not spectacular in any one way, overall it has so much going for it.
30 min. or less to Houston or Clear Lake - NASA area.
My part is located in Chambers Co. (not Harris Co.)
Excellent industrial footprint, plentiful higher paying jobs in the oil, gas, energy industry.
Located on I-10.
Surrounded by rural areas north and east.
Located on Galveston Bay.
Incredible housing affordability.
Reasonable growth.
Decent school district.
Very easy to navigate, almost no traffic issues.
Verdant landscape.
Good law enforcement (especially in the Chambers Co. portion)
The other Houston high dollar suburbs get all the attention. Katy, Woodlands, etc. That's OK with me.
30 min. or less to Houston or Clear Lake - NASA area.
My part is located in Chambers Co. (not Harris Co.)
Excellent industrial footprint, plentiful higher paying jobs in the oil, gas, energy industry.
Located on I-10.
Surrounded by rural areas north and east.
Located on Galveston Bay.
Incredible housing affordability.
Reasonable growth.
Decent school district.
Very easy to navigate, almost no traffic issues.
Verdant landscape.
Good law enforcement (especially in the Chambers Co. portion)
The other Houston high dollar suburbs get all the attention. Katy, Woodlands, etc. That's OK with me.
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I live in the US state with the number one economy, number one or two in education, (according to US News & World Report) great weather, no income taxes, and next year we are voting to get rid of property taxes state wide.
So why do I love where I live because it's objectively a great place to live. If it wasn't we wouldn't have so many New Yorkers, Californians, and people from New Jersey in my neighborhood. They are all good people and great additions to the community but they moved to Florida for a reason.
So why do I love where I live because it's objectively a great place to live. If it wasn't we wouldn't have so many New Yorkers, Californians, and people from New Jersey in my neighborhood. They are all good people and great additions to the community but they moved to Florida for a reason.
Funny how that works
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Yeah my Neighbor Nicole is great. I have done a ton of pro bono wiring for her (note the user name) and she has been nothing but great to my wife and kids. She likes Florida so much her brother and his family are moving down to a house just down the road. It's really is wild how living in a great part of the world is a desirable thing.
Her brother is a car guy so thats cool. Although he's a Subaru guy I guess. So I assume he vapes, pounds monster energy drinks, and is named Kyle haha. Sorry jab at Subaru guys in good fun.
I live in a coastal city in south east NC. There's a real navy battleship nearby. Good Wx much of the year. Lowish taxes. Most people seem to cleave to a southern sense of gentility. I have an island summer beach home an hour north. 
Slow pace, relaxing, surf fishing. My several palm trees. 
All of the above plus the memories of most of the many cr*ppy places I've lived.
Slow pace, relaxing, surf fishing. My several palm trees. What makes you like where you live?
All of the above plus the memories of most of the many cr*ppy places I've lived.
57 years ago moved from a small town in NH to a smaller one that hasn't stayed small. Progress.
I do a lot of work in Houston and will be down there again in a few weeks, and I always stay in Baytown right off I-10. Some of my coworkers stay downtown (why?) or Jacintoport (OH MY WORD, WHY?!). Baytown seems to be the only place down there near the plants where I can walk out of the hotel in the morning, take a deep breath, get a faint whiff of salt air, and not worry about getting mugged. The rest of Houston smells like an old pair of pliers lubricated with the oil out of an abandoned '67 Dodge Dart. Or maybe thats just the areas I'm usually in, the plants I work in down there arent too sexy.
It's a fascinating question, because if you think about it, the idea that you would CHOOSE to live a certain place is sort of a recent development. For most of human history, you lived and died generally where you were born, and only the wealthy had the luxury of long trips to explore other options.
Like most developments in human advancement, what the rich get first the poor get later. Eventually the ability to choose to live a particular place (because you have enough margin against survival) became a real question.
I ended up in Indiana because that's where the job was. It was sort of a throwback to the old days where you went where the work was. I'm thankful that the job led me here. Winters and summers are both quite tolerable (the pollen less so).
The state itself suits me well enough-- nothing too crazy politically with just the occasional shenanigans. Reasonable governance, reasonable weather, reasonable cost of living (housing, energy, etc).
What I particularly like about being in this part of Indiana:
-- It's easy to get to other places. Chicago is 4.5 hours, Cincy is 1.5 hours, Louisville an hour, Indy an hour.
-- Indiana MAKES THINGS. Just last week, I toured no fewer than 4 different suppliers who have amazing manufacturing ability-- bleeding edge 3D printing, sand casting (including 3d printed core molding), sheet metal fabrication, water jet/Plasma CNC, bending brakes, robotic welding, 5, 6, and even 7 axis CNC machining centers, you name it. Indiana manufacturing is one of the coolest things about living here.
Like most developments in human advancement, what the rich get first the poor get later. Eventually the ability to choose to live a particular place (because you have enough margin against survival) became a real question.
I ended up in Indiana because that's where the job was. It was sort of a throwback to the old days where you went where the work was. I'm thankful that the job led me here. Winters and summers are both quite tolerable (the pollen less so).
The state itself suits me well enough-- nothing too crazy politically with just the occasional shenanigans. Reasonable governance, reasonable weather, reasonable cost of living (housing, energy, etc).
What I particularly like about being in this part of Indiana:
-- It's easy to get to other places. Chicago is 4.5 hours, Cincy is 1.5 hours, Louisville an hour, Indy an hour.
-- Indiana MAKES THINGS. Just last week, I toured no fewer than 4 different suppliers who have amazing manufacturing ability-- bleeding edge 3D printing, sand casting (including 3d printed core molding), sheet metal fabrication, water jet/Plasma CNC, bending brakes, robotic welding, 5, 6, and even 7 axis CNC machining centers, you name it. Indiana manufacturing is one of the coolest things about living here.
What *made* me move to my current location was that it was on the edge of the city so I had farmland in two directions. Progress has grabbed the area by the throat and, with apologies to Joni Mitchell, they're paving over my paradise.
And I get the irony because I'm sure someone said the same about me when I moved there. At least I had a good 20 years in my version of paradise...
And I get the irony because I'm sure someone said the same about me when I moved there. At least I had a good 20 years in my version of paradise...
This reminds me of a coworker who moved from one south suburb of Chicago to another one, further south. Not long after she moved in, she started complaining that there really needs to be a Wal-Mart in town, and the drive to the train station takes her too long now, and so on. It took a great deal of strength to not ask her why she moved if she wants her new place to turn into her old place...
I've lived in the same house for 32 years. It's in a small village but has a convivence store, pubs. restaurants, a post office, a doctors surgery and a dentist. In short it's a semi rural area with good amenities. Over and above these conveniences, the one thing that makes me like where we live and why we have stayed so long is very low or in our particular locality, zero crime rate. You can leave doors or windows open without fear. This feeling of safety is absolutely priceless.
The ability to walk to a pub would be an awesome thing. Everything else good here, but UK pubs, there is nothing better to me. And I love Italy and USA better for many reasons.
Our crime rate is essentially zero here as well, but drive 18 miles (29 Km) into Bellingham, not so much.
being close to family.
since I have the most flexible schedule, I am the de facto old folks helper.
Downside: often thinking to myself "how did this happen???" like when my mother's brother-in-law's Hotmail account got phished.
Upside: hopefully no one will have to be sent to an old folks warehouse, lol
since I have the most flexible schedule, I am the de facto old folks helper.
Downside: often thinking to myself "how did this happen???" like when my mother's brother-in-law's Hotmail account got phished.
Upside: hopefully no one will have to be sent to an old folks warehouse, lol
Easy access to the Tennessee River/Guntersville Lake (think Bass fishing). Low cost of living. Mostly friendly folks. Close-ish to Nashville, Chattanooga, and Atlanta if I want bigger city entertainment.
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