Why do you live where you live?
 

Just curious....

had an amazing afternoon on the beach and it only reaffirmed how much I love this place. But it got me to wondering, why do people live where they live? There's basically four reasons.

1. Family.

2. Money (i.e. job)

3. Destitute / broke / can't escape.

4. You love it.


did I miss any? And what's your reason?

TBH i grew up in NY all my life but looking to escape to someplace else within a year

family,the arts scene,accessibilty to the beach,the multi cultural aspect

#1

liberal state...I.E. Texas vs California :)

so a combo of loving it and family ties.... cool

4

i hate where i am but i am to lazy to move!

exactly. If not for the family aspect I would have hauled ass to NY la couple of years back...also coupled with the fact that us darkies are tropical people and hate snow and cold weather

hmmm.... that would be #5 then.... the ability & flexibility to move somewhere you want, but too apathetic to make it happen.

IF that's really the case..... are you sure you're not just using "lazy" as an excuse because of some family ties you can't bring yourself to break (or some other reason)?

my mama lives here...If she would be willing to move with me, I'd leave in a heartbeat.....

I just can't leave my momma....There's plenty of hoes around here to help feed me and the job situation around here is bleak...So I just exploit girls and help out my mom....

Brisbane, Australia.

It's only Brisbane and Amsterdam for me.

I guess I love them both.

:glugglug :rasta

I look at my brother, who will never leave where he's at... he has a combo of loving it and STRONG family ties... and yet, I can't help but think him insane on both counts.


I find it very interesting how people make these decisions.

3.

I was born here, could never afford to leave. Now I finally have enough money and I am out of here end of the month.

Thank you PORN! =o)

School I think you forgot school...

Or maybe i didn't read it throughly :)

SO WISE GRANDMASTER

I am sure that COULD be a possibility but I could not really say...

I think I make enough for a good living... but then on the other hand my GF has a good job that I would not want her to give up on right now... aswell there is some family that is close to this location...

So I guess your theory could have truth... but I think that would require thinking to see if that WAS the case so again I will go back to I am to Lazy!

:1orglaugh

congrats man.... where ya going?

thanks
Florida :glugglug

1. Family - I moved here to get away from them.

2. Money - I make the same wherever I go, wasnt a factor.

3. Destitute / broke / can't escape. - doesnt apply

4. You love it. - Exactly. I love the desert, the heat, the shit to do in Vegas.

school would be a good one, however, I was asking in the assumption that I was speaking to adults and not school kids. BUT, if you mean college, then yes... there's #6. :)

dont get caught in a tornado... :helpme

After school I think I'll stick around here in the 707...

Not affordable really...but nice enough, Molokai is just too small to move back to:glugglug

I dont think tornados are that much of an issue in Florida, I think it's the hurricanes that are the problem, and of course hurricanes are 1000x worse.

Really excellent deal on a nice chunk of land. :)

yeah, Molokai isn't exactly a hub of activity... hehehe...

is 707 SD or LA?

whatever... just dont die... lol.. :thumbsup

I'd put that as a combo of love and money, and definately a love OF money. :)

I live where I am cause I moved here and made a great living for myself while I was young. It was a great opportunity that I am glad I could take advatage of. Now I am done with this town and looking to move onto a more progressive area. So my house is on the market and I am moving to Vegas. I can't wait.

Northern Cali...above Frisco

i live where i do basically because i was born here, friends are here, family. its a lot of hassle to move.. but i do plan to do it as i hate where i live, too small, too hickish, too boring. only 3000 ppl in this town for fucks sakes. rent prices are nice tho.

lol thanks :thumbsup

Toronto was my second choice but theres too much bullshit for moving there permanently as an American and running a business and not being a citizen and all that.
I love Toronto though

hmmm 707.... isn't that SF?

I grew up in Toronto...

but im outside of it now... nice little quiet town.... and its gay...

i would like to move to something not a quiet like where i am now but not as busy as toronto...

So we see we see...

oh wait.... they remapped that code huh

i'd like to move to one of the burbs of TO or something, close to the city but not close enough to get the smog...

Yup!

415 is SF

707 is 60 miles north

ahhh.... Vallejo / Fairfield (ish) :winkwink:

Marcus, you'd better redo your homework. A hurricane 500 miles from you can and do spawn (dozens of) tornadoes right in your lap. lol Go to the weather page from the US Government and study their archives.

There are other reasons for staying someplace too. Like divorce screws your ability to buy a house when you get on in your 30's. So it takes time and stability in one place to rebuild that. And always being in one area can affect your thinking too.

#2

that would fall under "unable to escape" wouldn't it?

I live here because my husband wanted to move back here after just ONE year of ebing away...

I fuckin hate it here - i hate cold weather and I want to go live in Asia.

We've come to a compromise and we're buying one house here and one house there - live the endless summer :thumbsup

lol yeah fear the TO smog.. its like the cover page at least once a week on the Toronto SUN becasue its so bad....

:thumbsup

There's no summer in Tassie?

Is there?

My family moved here. It was something my mom's side of the family had been planning for years. Now we're all here (Brisbane, Australia). I plan on staying here though. Got a few good friends and i enjoy it here. :winkwink:

Not really Amp. We had the wherewithal to move to begin with but his kids were both under 18 and we thought we should stay closer to them. So meantime we straighten out the divorce thing and then when his daughter hits 18 we head south to live a couple of hours from MY daughter who was already 18 when the old man and I hooked up.

We have the house and fairly close to having a total remodel done and paid off. ;-) So when we go, it will be with enough cash to pay for another house up front. Besides the fact that we have everything either of us could or want to do within an hour of us. All the big music groups pass thru here too. Unemployment rarely goes over about 2.5%, reasonable cost of living, you name it. :)

i moved back to toronto to look for a job. if i can get my green card i'll be off to new york. :)

I live here for many reasons..

My parents and brother live nearby, but my extended family is all in the South.

The cost of living is tolerable.

I'm an hour from the mountains and about 75 minutes from the Pacific Ocean.

I enjoy the climate. Not too hot and not too cold.

#3

I'm fuckin stuck. I hate this place, and as soon as I get a niofty amount of cash saved up (which will probably be about the same time I get my degree) I'm OUT of here.

We live in AZ primarily for my husband's job...he got a really good job offer, and it was high time we left Texas, so we went. The fact that it puts us 1000's of miles away from family -- both mine and his -- is wonderful. Families like ours are best loved from a LOOONG distance.

I'm not thrilled with the heat, but it doesn't matter to me where we live, really, as long as it's not a big city. I'm agoraphobic, so it matters not what the world outside looks like, my world is what's inside my apartment walls.

lol yeah whenever i drive up on the Queensway you can always see it, sometimes it so thick part of the CN tower disappears lol, maybe mississuaga would be nice?