Where do you want to live?

[Jesse]

Where's that, Jesse?

Northern California up by the Oregon border. 

[renaeden]

Where's that, Jesse?

Northern California up by the Oregon border. 

Sounds ideal.

[DirtDawg]

Texas.
USA

I co-own with my brother and my mother forty eight acres of Texas cattle country.
It is from a Civil War era land grant to those hardy and willfull enough to try to make a home there.
My "ancestors" ended up with several hundred acres and the part my brother, my mother and I own is after dividing it all up among eight siblings after my grandfather died in the late '70s.

It is actually still contiguous land since no one has sold outside the family.

My mother has a house on a corner of our part, well kept by some of my cousins and her brothers. Acerages are leased out to them for cattle use.

So, yeah. Hell yeah, I want to live in Texas again!

[odeon]

I wouldn't mind living in Finland again. It will never happen but I miss it every now and then.

[odeon]

OTOH, I'd want to spend the winter months in Spain.

[renaeden]

OTOH, I'd want to spend the winter months in Spain.

Apparently, winter in Spain is much the same as winter in Perth, which I live near. A Mediterranean climate.

[Gopher Gary]

I like where I live now. 

[renaeden]

I like where I live now. 

I'm curious, where do you live? No need to be too specific if you don't want to.

[Gopher Gary]

I like where I live now. 

I'm curious, where do you live? No need to be too specific if you don't want to.

I live in the southern US, but I don't think it's just about that, though I do believe avoiding winter is good for my mental health. The big answer to your question is, I live in suburbia.  Before living here, I had always lived very rural, and not knowing any different, I assumed it was optimal because that's what a lot of people seem to say they want. I don't think I need to live in an urban setting to know that's not a good fit either. I need a goldy locks level of civilization.

[DirtDawg]

Sounds about right for me too.

I went from extremely rural growing up (my grandfather butchered livestock on the kitchen table) all the way to suburbia while planning marriage. Spent some time in urban areas of San Antonio, Austin, Dallas, Nashville and went for the suburbs while living in Tennessee.

As much as I would love to re-visit my earlier life and live in my dream home of west Texas again, I doubt that can ever happen while my wife lives.
She is scared of snakes and all she ever focuses on is the notes from my cousins, uncles and aunts and their tales of (badges of honor) eight foot snakes they killed in the barn. She wants no part of that. I grew up with that. It's fine.

Hey, the west is full of snakes and people are stronger. You can deal with it! She just will not even consider my dream of making a home in Texas again.

We have snakes here, but timber rattlers do not even approach the size of a mature diamondback rattler.
So what? Watch where you step! You go digging under something, be prepared to encounter a disturbed colony of rattlers. Fine, carry a stick or a shotgun. Keep a dog with you. You'll be fine.
Snakes won't fool a dog!


Anyway, we bought a new home last year in Indiana suburbia that will be here long after I am gone.


One thing I have not mentioned here or anywhere, was I have been negotiating almost daily for over five months on an additional property here in Indiana.

It is miles away near the National Forest lands. Completely undeveloped "forever" it seems and we plan to use it as a weekend getaway and build a Tiny House as a campsite when we have time to use it.

I had not mentioned this because I did not want to jinx it, but it is ours now! It is 2.3 acres of wild Indiana land.

So I can have a taste of my rural living dream a few days at a time, which is probably all I am up for at my age anyway.
 

[renaeden]

I like where I live now. 

I'm curious, where do you live? No need to be too specific if you don't want to.

I live in the southern US, but I don't think it's just about that, though I do believe avoiding winter is good for my mental health. The big answer to your question is, I live in suburbia.  Before living here, I had always lived very rural, and not knowing any different, I assumed it was optimal because that's what a lot of people seem to say they want. I don't think I need to live in an urban setting to know that's not a good fit either. I need a goldy locks level of civilization.

I thought it was somewhere quite temperate as you never mention snow. And you don't post in the weather thread either so I just had to ask outright. Are your summers getting hotter? We've had record hot summers for the last two years. I would like a nice freezing winter so I can wear my hoodies and jackets.

[odeon]

OTOH, I'd want to spend the winter months in Spain.

Apparently, winter in Spain is much the same as winter in Perth, which I live near. A Mediterranean climate.

Which is perfect. I do not need snow ever again.

[Gopher Gary]

I like where I live now. 

I'm curious, where do you live? No need to be too specific if you don't want to.

I live in the southern US, but I don't think it's just about that, though I do believe avoiding winter is good for my mental health. The big answer to your question is, I live in suburbia.  Before living here, I had always lived very rural, and not knowing any different, I assumed it was optimal because that's what a lot of people seem to say they want. I don't think I need to live in an urban setting to know that's not a good fit either. I need a goldy locks level of civilization.

I thought it was somewhere quite temperate as you never mention snow. And you don't post in the weather thread either so I just had to ask outright. Are your summers getting hotter? We've had record hot summers for the last two years. I would like a nice freezing winter so I can wear my hoodies and jackets.

Not temperate, technically sub-tropical. I haven't heard of anything spectacular about the weather. I did a quick lookup and read there's a warming trend but we're slightly below the national average. Some years are just different than others. It rains a lot in the summer, but one summer years ago was so dry our palms died. This winter seemed to have more cold days than usual, but not colder than usual. Last summer seemed like one of the quietest storm seasons in years. 

[renaeden]

^This summer just gone has been one of the driest on record for us. Normally we have cyclones up north track south and provide us with rain. But the last cyclone actually tracked east and we didn't get a drop. The eastern states got it all. There's another cyclone up north at the moment which I hope is on its way south.

[odeon]

^This summer just gone has been one of the driest on record for us. Normally we have cyclones up north track south and provide us with rain. But the last cyclone actually tracked east and we didn't get a drop. The eastern states got it all. There's another cyclone up north at the moment which I hope is on its way south.

Funny how some people still deny climate change, huh?