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Post by riogreyhound on Jul 25, 2007 22:33:12 GMT -5
I'm in South Pasadena, CA!
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Post by minerva on Jul 25, 2007 22:54:33 GMT -5
I love South Pas! I used to live down there, first in an apartment on Fremont, then on Grevelia over behind Bristol Farms.
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Post by riogreyhound on Jul 26, 2007 14:34:06 GMT -5
Hi Minerva, I've lived here pretty much all of my 43 yrs. I lived in Pasadena until I was 12. I live on Huntington Dr. now, I did live behind Bristol Farms for a while, on the corner of Park and Grevelia. When was the last time you were out here? It is so crowded now, I want to grow old somewhere else! Now the town is full of yuppie film industry types with double wide strollers.
How do you like AZ?
bye, Trudy
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Post by riogreyhound on Jul 26, 2007 14:41:14 GMT -5
Anybody here live in NC? I love the Asheville area and it seems like it would be a nice place to retire to someday. I'm in So. Ca. now but man, the crowds and traffic are getting to me. My father's side of the family is from the Asheville area so I feel a connection to it. But, that area is growing by leaps and bounds too, with a lot of beautiful hillsides being covered with gated communities. Where is a CF and Highly Sensitive Person with Chronic Fatigue to go?
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Post by eoraptor on Jul 26, 2007 15:27:26 GMT -5
All this talk about hot weather is making me glad I live in Wyoming. Sure, a couple weeks a year it gets above 80, but it mostly hangs around 70. And maybe we have -20 to -40 winters to contend with, but after growing up in the southern US with no air conditioning, then spending several years in the midwest, I think I've done my time in hot locations. If I get cold, I can put on a sweater. But if I get hot, there's only so many clothes I can take off before I start sitting in the freezer.
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Post by minerva on Jul 26, 2007 16:29:33 GMT -5
Hi Minerva, I've lived here pretty much all of my 43 yrs. I lived in Pasadena until I was 12. I live on Huntington Dr. now, I did live behind Bristol Farms for a while, on the corner of Park and Grevelia. When was the last time you were out here? It is so crowded now, I want to grow old somewhere else! Now the town is full of yuppie film industry types with double wide strollers. How do you like AZ? I was born & raised right there in that area. We lived in Pasadena, right off Sierra Madre Villa for years, moved to Arcadia, South Pas, Sierra Madre, and finally wound up in La Canada when I was in 5th grade, and there we stayed until I was out of high school. I moved out to AZ after college when I was recruited by a company out here, but I do go home a few times a year. Southern California, specifically the Pasadena area, will always be home to me in spite of all the non-natives and they types you mentioned because I actually still have a lot of family there. My grandmother still lives up in Altadena by the Balian House and my sister lives on South Marengo, just south of Blair near the San Marino border. I have two aunts and an uncle with their respective families that are also peppered through the Pasadena area near CalTech & PCC, so we're pretty heavily entrenched in that area! *sigh* Now I'm homesick. AZ is OK, but the Phoenix area is horribly guilty of urban sprawl and trying to hard to become the next LA. We also have our annoying yuppie parents with their uber-strollers. I remember reading somewhere that Phoenix Metro residents have more disposable income than the average US citizen due to our low cost of living - you can only imagine how grotesque that can be. Picture it - grocery shopping and watching some highlighted blonde in a Juicy Couture track suit talking on her phone with her ENORMOUS Dolce & Gabbana sunglasses still on inside the store, totally ignoring little Bratleigh as she picks up and eats fruit right out of the produce aisle. Scary, huh? Now imagine 10 of those in the same grocery store at the same time. I wish I was kidding. There are a lot of cookie-cutter people here, and MANY who are "keeping up with the Joneses". My Escalade is better than yours, don't you know...
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Post by truckerswife on Jul 31, 2007 12:20:29 GMT -5
eoraptor, I passed through Wyoming once a long long time ago. Beautiful country. I got to pet some Horses there. We Had no time to ride. We was busy moving a family as a favor to them to Washington "The State" into Pugent Sound. So we drove Cross crountry from Ohio to there. lol That was when I was younger and healthier, lol We flew back home via the family that asked us to help move them. And we had a layover in N.C The airport was nice. Thats about all I know about N.C LOL But I have a nephew Now that lives in N.C Back then he was still a baby, lol
But ITA with you about cold VS HOT. You can always get warm, But aside from standing in a cold shower or lay out in a freezer there is not much one can do to cool off, lol
Stay cool everyone
CC
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Post by eoraptor on Jul 31, 2007 13:36:52 GMT -5
Lol yes. When I lived in the south, I actually used to periodically stick my head in the freezer to cool down. Drove my mother crazy.
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Post by truckerswife on Aug 1, 2007 15:14:48 GMT -5
LOL I still do it..... LOL Nothing works better,
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Post by In thought on Aug 5, 2007 16:31:13 GMT -5
From wet old England... though been HOT today (finally) lived out in Sweden and Asia for a handful of years too.
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Post by nativenewyorker on Aug 9, 2007 13:32:15 GMT -5
Wow! you all live in such beautiful places with rolling hills and blue skies & horses roaming free. I live in crowded, smelly, expensive New York - but I love it hear nonetheless!!!!
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Post by preraph on Aug 9, 2007 14:10:19 GMT -5
NY has its charms, certainly, but I'd miss having a yard, I'm afraid. I have a nice big yard with pretty blooming trees and right now I have figs and pears ripening, though I'm having trouble getting to the ripe figs ahead of the birds and squirrels. My neighborhood is from the fifties but it has some greenbelt with a creek and wildlife. A small number of people move here, to one of the only forested parts of the city, and then have the nerve to want to eradicate the wildlife and sanitize it. Lately, I've been fighting them about trapping coyotes for no reason. There have been NO attacks or threats on people - ever anywhere around here, according to Animal Services, yet they continue to trap them because a handful of tedious retirees squawks about it. I want to preserve the wildlife in my neighborhood, not euthanize it.
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Post by truckerswife on Aug 10, 2007 12:57:14 GMT -5
Ohio has its share of Beauty.. We have beautiful Old Oak tree's We are not called The Buckeye State for nothing, lol I have 6 oak tree's in our back yard alone. Its a PITA during the fall with all the leaves that come down. But our house is the only house on the street that has a big backyard and shaded trees The rest of the houses on our street are smaller, closer together and have no tree's at all. I guess we got lucky, lol But my pet Squirrel "Tiny" loves our tree's Him & his pals have a romping good time. Its fun to watch them play and scamper about in our big backyard. Too bad its too hot to go out and enjoy it. I can't wait for autumn. Then maybe the temps will cool down, we live in hope, lol
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Post by noctuequus on Aug 16, 2007 18:41:03 GMT -5
You could always move out here to Phoenix. It's only supposed to be 113 today... On the other hand, our average high temps for Jan & Feb are 65 and 70, respectively. Those are our coldest months - talk about summer year-round! I used to live in Tucson, AZ, and loved it. A shame it's a retirement community/college town and so the jobs are limited. Now, I'm back in the DC/Maryland/Baltimore area.
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Post by Tabetha on Aug 17, 2007 16:47:21 GMT -5
As an adult, I've lived in PA and NJ with typical 4 season weather. However, before we came South in our RV, we used to live in Western NY State (think Buffalo/Syracuse/Rochester weather) in a small town at ski slope elevation so we know what it's like to be buried in snow. It was breathtakingly beautiful in winter and there were lots of interesting cultural events, but snow until April can wear on a body. We'll be down South (SC/NC) for another year+...it's nice to see palm trees and have a very mild winter but summer is pretty horrible. The eventual plan is to move to the Pacific Northwest (which statistically is not as rainy as people think it is). It's pretty cloudy though.
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Post by jessica on Aug 18, 2007 1:46:09 GMT -5
I'm in Michigan
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Post by Ninja on Aug 18, 2007 7:52:41 GMT -5
I'm in the Netherlands.
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Post by truckerswife on Aug 27, 2007 17:03:04 GMT -5
Hey Jessica we are driving to MI. this weekend Where in MI do you live? We are going to a Place Called Gibraltar.. Its the worlds largest flea market. Hubby & I love to go there at least once a year. And this weekend we are going. Plus we may drive a little further and head on out to the MGM Grand Casino I have been to the one in Vegas.. I heard that MI finally built a hotel adjacent to the Casino So we may check that out too. Wish us Luck ;D
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Post by tas on Aug 28, 2007 11:58:00 GMT -5
I'm in Kennewick, WA. It's in the desert eastern region of the state. I moved here in June 2006 from San Diego. We lived there for only 9 months. I'm originally from a small town outside Bloomington, IN.
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Post by truckerswife on Aug 28, 2007 16:09:49 GMT -5
Tas we drove through the state of WA back in 1987 I remember the beautiful evergreen tree's everywhere as far as the eye can see. We was on our way to Pugent Sound helping some friends move from OH to WA We drove cross country and we was newlyweds at the time. It was a miracle we still stayed married.. It was a ROUGH trip. But we got to fly back home,courtesy of the friends that we had helped. But I still remember those beautiful tree's
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