Are You Happy With Where You Live?

I live in a catherdral city in Southern England. I can lie in bed and look down on the medieval cathedral and see the rise of low hills that surround it. Often there is a low mist that shrouds the Cathedral so that all that can be seen is the top, looking like a space rocket setting off for the heavens. I am 10 minutes from Stonehenge (very small in reality and a nightmare to visit because it is on two major roads and has a very substandard Visitor Centre). I can look across to fields and at night, you can see the headlamps of vehicles coming into town coming down a hill about 3 miles away. I chose to move here 14 years ago, although my family all live at least 70 miles away, and think that I am highly likely to spend the rest of my days here.

Absolutely. We have to go back to our other home from time to time due to business, where we are now is heaven on earth. Our summer heat over here in the Tri-State area is a bit hotter than yours, but I love hot weather, and after all, it IS dry heat. LOL. There are just a few things people need to know before coming here in the summer: 1) Wear shoes with thick soles or you will feel the heat from the sidewalk. 2) Don't stand next to a car that has been running if it is sitting on asphalt, because the hot air that comes out from under the car will burn your legs, especially in shorts or a skirt. 3) Take water everywhere. Just don't even think of leaving home without it. We did a fair amount of traveling and thinking about where we would most like to live before choosing this home, and after 10 years, we still consider it tops!

Hi there, Iam sorry to know that it gets so hot in the summer. Well here in india summer is not so good either. And the power goes off frequently as well, lol. But friend i have something to say.. life is never short of problems, where ever u go where ever u live. Look at the people who face extreme cold .. they want some sunny days. I have a friend in u.k who is tired of keeping his windows and doors shut almost 10 months of the year becoz of the snow and extreme cold. So as a matter of fact just remember " Life is a challenge .. and we have to accept it". Cheers, Tutul

Well sweety I live in Stirling right in the centre of Scotland and I do love it! Ok the weather isn't great and there are many of the same problems there are the world over but it is full of history and the surrounding area is very beautiful indeed! I have lived other places in the past but I always return home! xxxx

I really don't mind moving someplace else. Our current neighbors are so pretentious and dishonest since my mom would always complain about how they swindled her and they just keep on saying or rather give excuses that already has been said since the years past. I know I'm going to miss some friends here but, I could always come back whenever I can, right? And the town seems to be growing unsafe lately. Recently, a store owner got stabbed by some people who fooled the store owner by pretending to be friends.. I really don't feel safe in our town anymore T_T

wow, that is really hot. it's hot here but not that much i think. for me, i'm happy where i live for now though this is not my permanent home. how i wish though. my family is back in my home country, nepal. as in my parents and siblings. one sibling is here with me too with her family. brother is in uk studying. i'm here as my husband is working for the government you could say under a contract. we still have some more years to go. after that we'll be going back to nepal. i'm kind of worried when we go back as in nepal, the weather and climate is different and i definitely will find it tough to deal with the cold initially. but more than the cold, there will definitely be some difference between the people there and me. i'm happy where i am. it's also due to circumstances that i'm here but it's good circumstances. i hope that soon, you can live someplace where you'd really like to be.

I have heard that the sunsets are beautiful and wonderous in Arizona all those different colours! I currently live with my parents as I had to escape my relationship because it was abusive, so I now feel safe where I am, it is a very quiet neighbourhood, friendly and everyone keeps themselves to themselves, we don't have trouble and the neighbours are quiet and respectful. I would like to get a place of my own, but at the moment finances are the problem. I would never live with a partner again and when I do move it will be to get a place of my own on my own.

No, I absolutely detest where I am living. We moved here 13 years ago for hubby to teach at a small college in this town. It was then a branch campus of a larger state college and the promise was that he would be moved to main campus in a few years. Soon after our move to this place, the main campus dropped all of its branch campuses. We have continually looked for a new job for him, but due to his age and the age of his original research, nothing has turned up. There is absolutely nothing here except a WalMart and a few local mom & Pop restaurants. To get 'provisions' we have to travel 2 hours in any direction to a larger city. We can't wait to retire and get out of here...if not before. We still put in for any job that we see for him! Being a nurse I can work anywhere.

My husband is still alive, and that is why we stay here in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Summers and Spring are all right, but at late Fall it starts to get cold and by January, we have temperatures down to 40 below and that includes wind chill. It is also very flat. I have church friends near by but I could easily move to another city which has a sister church. My husband loves flat, he grew up in the Prairies, but I cannot stand the flat as I love the mountains and hills. I love my friends and both my sons and my daughter-in-law and granddaughter are here, but I hardly see them because I do not drive, I have no drivers license and the buses are infrequent. If I had my way, we would move to the States, somewhere where there are hills and water near by.

I live in New Jersey right now. I don't like it at all. I would never choose to live there forever. Thankfully I know that we won't be there a whole lot longer. My husband is military so we will definitely move in the next few years, maybe even months. I don't like winter, so hopefully we go someplace back down south or warm again.

I really don't like where I live it is really cold in the winter I live in Nebraska and the wind chills have been about 20 below for awhile especially at night. I stay here because I am only 20 minutes away from my mom she is in her early 70's and her health is not all that good. My dad passed away 3 years ago and it really affected her. My mother in law also lives here in town and she watches my kids sometimes for me which is really nice.

Actually as your information myself can't accept the noisy situation.I think from I secondry school I very hate noisy situation.I can't learn or fokus what I study if surrounding me very noisy.I just keep my book and do anything to avoid me bored.I'm not happy with my live here.my children kids very noisy person.I'm not comfortable with his voice.His voice very louder sometimes his mother same with him and support to scream.My husband was apply quarter.I hope my husband get the quarter.I think I'm not long live here because I don't like this situation.

I was quite happy when I was still a kid. Jakarta back then was a peaceful place and very nice to live. but nowadays, Jakarta sucks. well, just imagine that you have to face traffic jams everywhere and you will have to leave 2 hours earlier to arrive on time at your office. :( not to mention, when it rains, the flood comes. it's no longer a good place to live and to live happily. I'm thinking about moving to another city and I'm still seeking the best place around.

i'm very happy living here.. i live in indonesia, that is crossed by equator. my country has nice weather, it's not really hot on dryseason and not really cold on wetseason. i love it's wonderful scenery..and the most important i love people here

Well I am happy with where I live. I live here in the Philippines. Although I miss the place where I grew up. (also in the Philippines.) Yes I agree with you that there are times when we are forced to do something that we dont like. Its either things taht we have to do, or places where we have to live, but wherever you are just bear in your mind that... to be happ... is to accept what you have at a particular time. Make the most out of everything.

I, like most individuals could probably argue the point of local traffic or the school system, maybe even the issue of neighbors but I would have to say that aside from the everyday nuisances home is where the heart is. If you live with your loved ones and are surrounded by the items you have aquired over the years that matter most to you, that is what really matters.

At this time, winter almost over, so we expect nice weather will come soon. I don't like winter since it was too cold for me, and my children got sick so easily in the cold winter. But here where I live, there was not much snow, so I was still happy to live here. :)

I love where I live, I am so luckyto live in such a beautiful part on my country, Devon, England. I am only a few minutes from two miles of glorious sandy beach, I look out from my window and see a stream and horse in a field ahead and to the left woodland. As a child one of my goals in life was to live by the sea and I have managed to achieve that. The crime rate is really low so my children have a lovely area to be bought up in with good schools and a good community. I miss friends and family who still live near London but try to visit as often as I can and am now building up a local network of friends here to, lived in Devon for about 8 years but this part only two. I am sorry to hear that you have no friends and family right now but I am sure you will be able to build a network, it takes time, I don't know how long you have been living there. Hoping your situation improves soon. Ellie :)

I'm so sorry for you! I lived there for 28 years--first, I went to visit my brother and ran out of money then I met my husband-to-be when I almost had enough to come home. We got married and he wouldn't leave (he was from Michigan). He decided he didn't want to be married to me so when the divorce was final last year, I came home to Ohio I am SO happy to be home!! Even now, when the windchill is -10, I feel like I'm in heaven. My grown kids stayed in Phoenix but not even missing them as I do would entice me to go back--hopefully not even for a visit. So yes, I'm happy where I live and I hope I'm here for the rest of my life. I hope you escape, too!

the question is very interesting! I live in a small village, in the Padana plain (Italy) near di Po river, the biggest river in Italy. i like this palce for different reason, for example it's very very quiet in every day hours, there isn't car traffic and a little pollution. i know every people that live here, them sons and parents.... we are a big family! but there are things that I hate.... for example: a lot of people are too curious, they want say every chose about me, my family and also.... my money... too intrusive!!! The village is small and so there aren't evry shop that i want, so i must go in the nearest city for shopping. But if I think well, i never didn't go away!!!