Do you get jealous of others locations?

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Hotwater

 

just made some spinach dip from scratch, with chicken tenders mixed with sweet terrayki and haberano sauce. twas exactly what the stomach needed lol. Man I do love the smell of the salt in the air by the oceans. My favorite place I wish I could return to is the Cayman Islands. I was only there for a few hours when our cruise ship stopped there but that place was awesome and the locals seemed to enjoy themselves and love life

 

I used to want to live in the US somewhere warm, now I don't because of all the gun issues. Yes we have some gun issues in the bigger cities in Canada but not so bad yet.

I wanted for many years to live where I do now from stories I heard and finally did make the move and am happy. As far as Canada goes we are in the most desired place for weather and scenery, as far as housing, rental and owning, we are almost the worst having nearly the highest cost of living here. Don't know why, I have done nicely here and am secure but many say it's hard to live here.
What's so good about being here is we don't get the nasty weather the east gets as far as storms that come up from the eastern US and the snow storms that hit them. We are on the right side of the common Alberta clippers that come down from the north, toward the east hitting Alberta and moving towards Ontario. It's kinda cool how it comes down almost enough to threaten us, scoops east before It snips us and freezes everything eastward. I can mow on the same day my sister inlaw can shovel three feet of snow off her walk way in Calgary, only eight hours away.
Of all the countries I could choose to live in it would be Canada and of all the places in Canada it would be right here. I get temps close to Vancouver but without the wetness they live with almost every day.
My parents live on the island, nice but nope not for me. They have salt pelted windows from the ocean, their shed is moldy even on the outside near the ground level and their clothes sometimes feel damp coming out of closets.
Their temps are a slight bit warmer then ours so you think they need less heat,,, don't shut a room's heat off there, it gets moldy. Their basement is cold and damp so they had to install a gas fireplace to heat it just a bit to make it feel warm and dry. My basement has no heat running in it and it's comfortable. I do have heat vents in it but I don't use them.
Now here is the kicker, they live on a sweet looking island, mom calls me tonight to tell me they are ok, they had a 6.something on the richter scale tonight a few miles up the road from them, not their first but if my chair moved like my mom's did tonight I would not sleep tonight. They are expecting a few after shocks during the night. She will sleep because she is kinda used to it. One of the main reasons I chose not to buy a sweet little store that was up for sale on that island a few years ago, can't handle the shaking they are supposed to experience in future. Parents were hoping I would move on the island, no way will I be stuck and controlled by the rising boat costs to get off and put up with being right on a huge fault line but visiting there is awesome.
Once I landed here I said to myself, I will retire here, no money will take me away, I will starve first and the first year I prit near did.

 

Yes, anyone in Russia because I want to visit Russia.

 

I've been enough places to realize there is something wrong with everywhere, and the best places to visit are usually terrible places to live. Boring travel destinations have the fewest problems for people to deal with on a typical day.

I think you would like the mountains of east central California too.

I've lived in the South all my life, and never have seen a gun except in situations where you would normally expect to see one. None of my friends have seen or experienced any unusual situations either.

 

I like the lower east side

 

If I had the money,I would like to retire to a Greek island,and just sit and paint and maybe learn the bouzouki...However I try to be as snappy as I can here in a crummy part of London.Trying to get my mind in right place helps.

 

i grew up in a kind of location many people might be kind of understandably envious of. it was in the mountains with lots of trees. above the fog and below the snow, which really means we got both, but in reasonable moderation. a few inches of snow a couple of times in the winter every year, and no endless summers of a hundred degree weather for weeks at a time either.

do i envy people who are lucky enough to live in places like that now? sure. that kind of elevation and climate will always be my home in my heart. regardless of where in the world they may happen to be. what kind of ideologies or religions of the people who live there.

and the dominant religion and ideology were what was messed up there. not so much in themselves as in their prejudice toward other religions and ideologies.

my fortune in being able to live there, without having to be well off economically, was my dad working for the railroad. many of the parents of my peers also had remote location infrastructure jobs, for the phone company and the power company, as well as the railroad.

i don't consider it a favor to anyone to eliminate remote location jobs and force everyone to have to live in or near a city, or indenture themselves to a vehicle to commute with.

 

I am jealous of most Europeans. I would love to live somewhere with a rich history and beautiful architecture.

 

personally i don't find older (or newer either) architecture all that 'beautiful'. unless its small odd quarky and vernacular. but i do envy europe its transportation infrastructure. also its relatively greater freedom from ideological prejudice. its still dominated by the same messed up (christianity) religion though. although even that, they're less insane about it the 'murica'

also, you know what, minus the architecture, the western hemisphere before it was robbed by the european invasion, had that kind of rich and diverse history too. its mostly burried now and forgotten, but it was there. not completely forgotten either. all those cultures aren't completely in the past. they're each kept alive by the people who know them.

 

I fall in love with almost every place I visit, with a few exceptions. I don't know if "jealous" is the right word, but I do wonder what it would be like in these other places.

I've traveled enough and moved enough that I've come to believe that every place, no matter how shitty, has something to love about it (a certain store that you love, an unique charm, a special hiking spot or natural oasis). And even idyllic places have a dark side.

 

I am jealous of people close to amazing sites like, the Pyramids, stongehedge, etc...

 

well that too. every place i've ever been i've thought about what it would be like to live there if i could build and live in what i wanted there and how.

actually most places i've been i HAVE lived, at least for a year or two. there are very few places i've ever visited that i haven't. i just haven't travelled that much or that far that often. i've lived in a lot of different places, but nearly all of them were in the same less then a handful of north western states in the u.s. particularly the northern half of california, oregon, washington and nevada.

western canada and southern new zealand are the only places i know of where i can speak that language where i'd love to. but there are lots of other places where i don't but might actually prefer if i could.

places with mountains, trees, and trains, and different kinds of religions then the english speaking parts of the world.

 

I agree 100% about Europe's public transportation system. That is what gets me down more than anything else about living in America. I hate how our whole system of life is centered around the automobile. I live in the southeast united states, which has an even shittier public transportation system than the rest of the country. Even the urban areas here don't have a lot of public transportation options.

 

It's a real shitty little town, though, lol

 

I wondered when I was in Germany what it would be like to live there, spent three weeks there and loved every minute of it. Mind you if conditions had been right we were supposed to live there when I was a kid for a few years or so. Didn't happen but I did live in many great places anyway. One place I remember most was in the mountains, up high where we saw what skiers see. Great sunshine, fog, like living in a cloud, and nothing but trees around us. We had to go to school on a bus down the mountain, windy roads, wild life, and no city near us except when going to school and a long drive for shopping about once a month. Loved it and I kinda miss it but would I do it again? Na, it was fun but now I have gotten used to the Small city life and I like things closer to me.
Right now I have mountains all around me and a lake near by with awesome beaches and about the hottest summers you can get in Canada but dry rather then humid which bothered me when I was near the big lakes in Ontario. And mild winters, I can be on a mountain top in 30 mins or less from my house depending on which one I want to be on. The drive up seems long but it's awesome because you see lots of wild life on the way up.

 

It's hard not to fall in love with a vacation trip! :love: :sunny:

I could probably enjoy living in most urban destinations if I could always live in a convenient downtown hotel, eat every meal in a nice restaurant, not ever go to work, and always have clean clothes magically appear in my suitcase when I need them. In other words, it's a fantasy lifestyle, an unrealistically perfect experience. I would need a net worth of at least ten million dollars to live that way all the time.

Even with unlimited funds, most interesting places have two or three seasons out of the year when the weather is not so good. People usually don't choose to visit during those seasons. Camping can be dirt cheap and fun for those who like that sort of thing, but that lifestyle is VERY seasonal.

Sometimes I'll read the New Orleans newspaper online, and think they're making this place sound like hell on earth! But I have to take into consideration that I'll never own property there in one of their scary residential neighborhoods, never need a job there, never need services from their corrupt city government, never be there during a hurricane watch, and never send a kid to their shitty public schools. In other words, nothing the locals talk about is relevant to me, as a regular visitor to downtown.

When you start seriously thinking about the details of getting a job and a place to live in a favorite destination, everything seems totally different. That's especially true for scenic natural areas. Some of the most beautiful mountaintop locations in the eastern US are at least 45 minutes from the nearest halfway decent grocery store, and nearly 2 hours from a really high quality grocery store, like the one that's less than a mile from my house.

I think I'm just in love with vacations.

 

I have never been jealous of other locations where people live. I have been around the world many times and still am in love with Southern California. Not the smog or overcrowding, but love the mountains and the beaches, just too hard to move away.

 

That and car culture, went to Santa Ana once. Def. a spot to get your wheels spiffyed up. Gold-spoke rims, some interior work.

 

Not really. I like where I am =)