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Home >> Diet Forums >> What's best about the town you live in?

What's best about the town you live in?

shrkntz said: "I live where there are lots of hills, mountain trails, beach fronts, and free activities during the summer and other seasons. I love the okanagon."

Heather said: "The area that I live in has a lot of metroparks that you can spend the day at. All of them have nice paved walkways, nice scenery, and those park style BBQ grills."

Heather said: "I can't boast about weather :mad: It is snowing here today. It's almost maddening. We have some good bowling alleys, too. The kind that you don't have to keep your own score! Makes it a lot easier when math is left out :)"

Heather said: "Thanks for the condolences (SP?) Some day I will just have to move somewhere that has better weather. How long did you live in KY? I have only been there once."

Heather said: "The hollers sound horrible. But hey, Loretta Lynn got outta there! Glad that you did, too :)"

Heather said: "Good thing he told you afterwards, Unique!"

UniqueMystique said: "It's close enough to our families if they need us...but far enough away that we can lead our own lives. We have a hilly state park that is nice to hike, walk, or run through. We have a city park that has a small lake and a natural spring....it has lots of play equipment for the kiddos. There is another small creek fed lake here but there are no fish...golden algae killed them...but it's good for swimming and recreational stuff. Usually clear blue skies and lots of sunshine....you can wear shorts about 10 months out of the year. Nice open spaces too....you can see for miles."

UniqueMystique said: "I was so claustrophobic feeling when I lived in Kentucky....all the trees and the hills...I couldn't see!!!! Drove me nuts!!!! Sorry about your weather, Snap...hopefully its not gonna last long."

UniqueMystique said: "I lived there for a year. Lived right outside of Butcher Holler (Where Loretta Lynn grew up). Different world there...different world!"

UniqueMystique said: "I don't remember a 'Drift Holler'. I lived there about 15 years ago though and I've forgotten a lot about the area. My husband worked in Prestonburg and we did our shopping in Paintsville. When I lived there...there was a tornado that came through Paintsville...no one seemed to know what it was. Tore up a lot of mobile homes up on a hill there and ripped the Dominoes Pizza roof off. Being from west Texas...I knew what the noise was and I was in hiding....others were out video taping the event. I thought they were nuts! News and weather stations never said anything about it."

UniqueMystique said: "KC BBQ Sauce.....Yum!"

UniqueMystique said: "*Smiles* Whateverhobb...I tried not to get too attached to that area. It just wasn't the place for me. Was just a different world from west Texas. I loved the scenery though....just hard to look at 24-7. I'm used to wide open spaces and very few trees. And....OMG!!!! The coal trucks!!!! Those scared the freaking crap out of me. Two lane, winding roads. Huge cliff on one side....huge dropoff on the other....coal trucks zipping around on them at about 85mph and if you don't go their speed....you get pushed off the road!!!! Not my idea of fun. I never even got my drivers license while I lived there....kept telling everyone that I was 'JUST VISITING"! Hubby came home one day and said, "We may get transferred....I'll know next week." He came home the next day and I had the whole house packed up. "He says, "I'm not sure we're going....it's a small possibility." I said, "I'm going....you can stay if you want to." Needless to say...the transfer went through and it was to the panhandle of Texas. I wanted to kiss the dirt!!!! :) Sidenote: I agreed to a name for my oldest daughter before she was born. I loved the name. After it was on the birth certificate...my husband told me that he got the name from a town that he worked in a lot in Eastern Kentucky, Shelbiana. I wanted to throttle the man."

UniqueMystique said: "He's good at that. ;)"

UniqueMystique said: "Razor....our bowling alley went automated about 5 years ago....so it's not too surprising. Smaller towns seem to be a bit behind the huge metropolitan areas. :D"

spectrachic311 said: "You guys all live in such neat places! Oshkosh, Wisconsin is a nice-sized city; about 35,000 people. We have a really great outlet mall and a state school really close by. There is a really nice bike path near us that we bike on in the summer and spring. We also live right near Door County, which is the only place in Wisconsin that they can grow cherries. And we have a couple of bowling alleys that have hand-scoring, LOL! One thing that's kind of weird is how Green Bay Packer-obsessed everyone is. The city shuts down during the games. Another nice thing about Oshkosh is that the rent/property values are really cheap. You can get a really decent house for under $100,000 easily. It's one of the cheapest places in the country to live. And we have a lot of lakes for ice fishing! (lots of people ice fish up here. I don't get it, personally...sitting around and drinking beer and freezing your tail off). We go skating a lot too (well, right now the lakes are squishy from the warm spell, so we haven't done much of that). I like it, but I really miss good old Madison."

Razor said: "What's not awesome about Houston? I used to live in Midtown which is what it says. It is between downtown and uptown. Living there you could walk anywhere, and most people live in townhomes that run about 300K. I used to walk to the grocery store when needed. I could walk to about 50 different restaurants and bars. Recently I have moved to the suburbs because paying 1500 bucks a month for a two bedroom apt was insane to me. I am now paying less for a 3 bedroom house. Although I am 20 minutes from downtown. The hustle and bustle is wonderful. We have a beautiful city all year round. We are gorgeous during Christmas time. We have huge skyscrapers but not too many of them so it does creat a huge clutter. One of the most beautiful skylines when come in from out of town! Our traffic sucks but you get used to it. We have wonderful Mexican food, food in general here is diverse and wonderful! SnapPea, You cracked me up and your little town! I have never in my life been to a bowling alley that you had to keep your own score! I have always been to ones with the computers. Maybe it is our age gap (although I am not sure of your age) My niece is 11 and has never had to use a cassette player! I remember having a huge collection of tapes and when I was tired of one tape then I would put actoch tape on the thingys and record the radio!"

Holly said: "I like that I'm an hour away or less from big city shopping (Portland or Salem), the Cascade Range, or the beach."

Holly said: "*laughing* Your husband just keeps getting himself in trouble! :)"

Qian said: "I live in Kansas City, and unfortunately the best thing about KC is BBQ. I love it."

whateverhobb said: "Well I love that we live in a city that is known for having the most parks in the area. Also I love the river that runs through the town, and we live a few blocks away from it. COOL. Hey, I used to live in Drift Kentucky...It is right around butcher holler. I lived in Drift Holler."

whateverhobb said: "[QUOTE=UniqueMystique]I don't remember a 'Drift Holler'. I lived there about 15 years ago though and I've forgotten a lot about the area. My husband worked in Prestonburg and we did our shopping in Paintsville. When I lived there...there was a tornado that came through Paintsville...no one seemed to know what it was. Tore up a lot of mobile homes up on a hill there and ripped the Dominoes Pizza roof off. Being from west Texas...I knew what the noise was and I was in hiding....others were out video taping the event. I thought they were nuts! News and weather stations never said anything about it.[/QUOTE] That is totally in the area of Drift. We were about 15 minutes from Martin, Ky, and about 35 minutes from Prestonburg. We used to swim in Jenny Wiley, and go to the superwalmart up on the hill by Mcdonalds. It is cool to know someone who lived in the same area. :) And the toronado thing, I remember my uncle telling me that toronados couldn't happen there because of the hills. He probably didn't know any better. LOL"

Sassysurfnic said: "[COLOR=DarkRed]Well let me start by saying I think I am the only person who actually likes Jersey! I know I will give you all time to catch your breath.......ok.....are yas good now?.....I have grown up in south jersey and went to college in Pennsylvania and then moved to Florida(New Smyrna Beach) for about a year and came back home. I like that I am about 15-20min away from Philly, about an hour from New York, about 45min from Atlantic City, and about a half an hour to 2 hours from the jersey shores. I NEED the season changes. I need the transition from fall to winter to spring to summer. My Christmas in Florida werided me out BIG TIME! My family decorated a palm tree with Christmas lights and put up Santa clearly not in his summer clothes! :eek:and :confused: Anywho, I like Jersey because of how close I am to everything (oh and about 2hours from the Poconos) and I have my season changes ( I am a Gemini and I like change) Anywho, it is a little difficult because my mom,dad and my brother are still in Fl.(they love it there :confused: ) So yeah I like Jersey a lot (and again sorry for the rambling)[/COLOR]"

Scarlett said: "Hmmm I guess the best thing would be that it's really pretty here, and we have LSU so that brings fun parties and games to the town. Everyone here is pretty festive...about everything..."

GreenEyes said: "Nyssa, Oregon is the the Thunder Egg Capital of the world..lol It's a really small town with only about 3,500 people. My kids go to one of the best schools in Oregon with very high test scores. We only have one store, two gas stations, a hardware store, a tire store, a auto parts store and two places to go out to eat. One of those two places to eat is a fast food place. I don't know a whole lot of town history yet, we only moved here last year. I did here about the old "brothel" that is located a few blocks from my house, I guess back in the day it was a very busy place...lol Oh and I forgot, we do have a strip club and being it's located in Oregon, they are allowed to be fully nude. We are located right next to Idaho so a lot of people drive here to see the strippers/dancers. The town has been having some hard times because the sugar factory was shut down and laid off a lot of people, forcing them to sell their houses. Everyone here is very friendly but I still get some strange looks like I'm always going to be known as the new family that moved in. We are about an hour away from our families in Boise, Idaho. I do feel much better about having some space between us and them. We are still not sure where we will buy our farm yet, I think that I want a place that more people think the same way we do about the organic farming and taking better care of our enviroment. A lot of old time farmers around here just spray their fields over and over again and never think twice about it. Ontario, Oregon is 12 miles north of us, we attend the community college there and think its a pretty good school. They offer a lot of Agriculture classes that are very interesting."

GreenEyes said: "yoyo, Is there a lot of farming in Scotland? If there is what is grown? I'm in school to become a farmer and often dreamed about moving to Italy, Ireland or Scotland to start a farm. It's just a dream because I don't think my family would move out of the US but I sure would. I really enjoyed reading about your small village and your country!"

shy_doll said: "I live in a small town, population is about 14,000. The best thing about this place is the size. I don't like the big cities. I don't like the hustle and bustle of it all. I prefer quiet, peaceful places. This is where I was born. I would like to one day move to...(get ready UM)....Kentucky!! I could also deal with Tennessee. I love the south, my family is from down there. I can think of no better place for me than in the country, with a mountain view, enjoying nature. I looooove the outdoors. Camping, hiking, fishing....all that good stuff. We have some good camping around here, but no mountains :("

uga_best said: "Georgia is aight, but its too cold!!! brrrrr Anything under 65 makes me shiver! I want to move to southern cali or maybe florida."

excessively diverted said: "The best thing about the town I live in...I am kind of stuck on the question and have been since I read it. I can think of why I like the last town I lived in... 1. I could walk to work. Okay, I could walk to everything. 2. It was close to the outlets and to the outdoor markets. 3. It had wonderful little coffee places and a fabulous scrapbook store where you could spend friday evenings working on projects. 4. The library there was absolutely wonderful. It had a bargain room where I got all the books for the students in my class. The ladies at the library knew me by name and would find any kind of resource that I wanted when I was teaching Kindergarten. 5. It was a small town with a lot of charm... Now...my current town. 1. I can walk to work, but to buy anything at a reasonable price you have to "Go to Town". Sort of like the pioneer days. If you go to town make sure you are planning to get everything you need for the week. It is too much money to drive everyday. 2. There are plenty places to walk - mine is the historical cemetary. 3. It has the potential of being something great...if it had the money to do so. It so needs a little book shop/coffee place. - my dream some day"

Meeshee said: "[font=Century Gothic][color=red]I live in Oklahoma, there's not a whole lot here to be honest. It's VERY flat and windy, and dry....[/color][/font] [font=Century Gothic][color=#ff0000]We're plannning on moving to my boyfriend's home state of Georgia, I love it there, I can't wait to go back. :) [/color][/font] [font=Century Gothic][color=#ff0000][/color][/font] [font=Century Gothic][color=#ff0000]Oklahoma is close to Dallas, and Dallas does have some GREAT shopping! hehe[/color][/font]"

yoyo said: "My town is a tiny village - a couple of miles from the sea. In fact, a couple of miles from anywhere. 30 mins up the road is St Andrews, the home of golf - mark you - there isn't a place in Scotland that doesn't have a one, two or three golf courses. We also drink in the Crusoe Hotel, which is in Largo, the home of Alexander Selkirk, who was Robinson Crusoe. 30 mins to the north is Perth, which is the gateway to the Highlands - the whisky trail - all the malts distilled in the spey valley -glen morangie... glen fiddich .... aberlour etc 5 mins from anywhere in Scotland are green fields, rolling hills and lochs. 30 mins to the south of us is Edinburgh - it has the best Hogmanay Party in the world - this old foggie has been to it - and it is something else - it goes on for a week ... a candlelit procession through Princes Street - jugglers etc on the royal mile ...... The cannons in the castle are fired dead on midnight and they set of a tremendous firework display ...nearly 100,000 people attend from all over the world ....great start for the new year. One hour's drive west from us is my sister, who lives in Braveheart country. Stirling, where there is the true story of William Wallace...not the Mel Gibson one ... but didn't he look a honey in blue paint!!!! Scottish people are very friendly, and most of us welcome visitors but, like everywhere else, we have some nutters too. It is also helpful in some places, if you don't have an English accent but that is, hopefully, on the decrease. The last most important point..... [B]it is official, that it is a criminal offence to try and trap, shoot or kill Nessie, the loch Ness monster (or any little Nessies). She is protected by our Wildlife Act. [/B] She must be please to know that. Anyway, it's nice reading all the threads about the places I usually only hear about in American tv progs. Regards yoyo :)"

yoyo said: "Yes, the UK has a very temperate climate-and has very fertile valleys. The growth is very lush due to the rainfall. Visitors are always commenting that Scotland is a very beautiful country. Traditionally, we grew corn - what you call wheat (I think - not maize) barley - for the whisky - oats - for porridge and other foods and for animal feeds potatoes - I believe -they are also for export veggies - cabbage, turnip (swede), etc soft fruits - raspberries, strawberries (for the jams) sugarbeet Unfortunately, with being members of the European Union, our famers in the UK are banned from growing a lot of crops (I'm not sure which), so a lot of fields are now fallow unless they grow rapeseed (for oil) looks like a bright yellow broccoli plant (upsets the locals as it aggrivates asthma, hay fever and the like) We were renowned for our beef (before mad cow disease) Aberdeen Angus and we have a lot of sheep on our hills. We have piggeries (we can smell the one in the village if the wind blows the wrong way!!! Of course, the sheep on the hills added to the hatred between the scots and the english as - in the 1700s, the rich english landlords decided to graze their sheep in the highlands. They threw the highland clans out of their homes to starve so that they could use their their lands for the sheep. We had long enough memories to hate the English for what they did to William Wallace (Braveheart) in 1300s, so we hated them even more for the [B]Highland Clearances.[/B] In fact, many of the Scots cleared from the highlands ended up emigrating to the great US of A. That's about all I know (which is not a lot) about our agriculture. But it must still be thriving as there is an agricultural college 10 miles from here. We are also world famous for our salmon but, unfortunately, it can cost as much as £1000 a day to fish in parts of the river Tay for salmon. You'll be pleased to note that the Royal family can afford this - I think they own it. Regards yoyo :)"

daytimedreamer said: "well i love my town cos even though it not much it the place i grew up and all my memories are here plus my family around when u need them... not easy raising 2 babies alone but plenty of facilities in the area to meet other mummy's and let the children mix with plenty others there own age"

LEBZTA said: "I live in a relatively small town in Alabama (about 40,000 people) but we are growing growing growing! It is a college town so the nightlife is ok. One of the best (and worst) things about this town are all the restaurants. There is a restaurant everywhere you turn around! Oh, and the BBQ here is also WONDERFUL. I had a small bit yesterday actually. Oops! :o The Tennessee River runs alongside our town so we have lots of fishermen and whatnot. Our city just spent millions on a BEAUTIFUL new harbor, and it is so nice to go down there and sit or walk on a beautiful day!"