Places you've lived

[Raising Heel]

And by "lived" let's say you received mail or had to turn on utilities there. I'm not talking about that meth bender you went on in college where you slept behind a dumpster for two weeks.

1) Place you've lived the longest (how long?)
2) Place you've lived the shortest (how long?)
3) Favorite place you've lived (how long?)
4) Worst place you've lived (how long?)
5) Place you'd most like to live (how long?)

 

[coolwaterunc]

1) Place you've lived the longest (how long?)
Danville, VA (20 years)

2) Place you've lived the shortest (how long?)
Charlotte, NC (1 year, 10 months, and counting)

3) Favorite place you've lived (how long?)
Boone, NC (approx 5 years) - I do love where I'm at now though, but I love the mountains.

4) Worst place you've lived (how long?)
See #1

5) Place you'd most like to live (how long?)
See #3 (until I'm dead)
Although if I move back to the Boone area, I would probably choose Blowing Rock, but close enough.

 

[toophly1124]

Ages 0-19 Thomasville
Ages 19-23 High Point
Ages 23-25 Thomasville
Ages 25- Present High Point

Yes pretty boring I guess but I don’t wanna live anywhere else than these two cities. Thomasville born n raised so it’ll always be my home but I love High Point. It’s large enough that it has a lot of stuff do/places to eat but not as large to annoy me Greensboro/Winston-Salem.

 

[nctransplant]

1) Place you've lived the longest (how long?)
Mt. Olive, NC 42 years
2) Place you've lived the shortest (how long?)
Madison, Va. 3 months(played baseball in the Valley League)
3) Favorite place you've lived (how long?)
Current #VisitNebraska
4) Worst place you've lived (how long?)
N/A
5) Place you'd most like to live (how long?)
#VisitNebraska

 

[JuleZ '02 HEEL]

1) Place you've lived the longest (how long?)
Washington, NC (18 yrs)

2) Place you've lived the shortest (how long?)
Wilmington, NC (3 yrs)
Also Chapel Hill (4 yrs, but not the summers)

3) Favorite place you've lived (how long?)
Wilmington

4) Worst place you've lived (how long?)
I can appreciate Washington more now than I could growing up there.

5) Place you'd most like to live (how long?)

 

[nctransplant]

2) Place you've lived the shortest (how long?)
Wilmington, NC (3 yrs)

3) Favorite place you've lived (how long?)
Wilmington

Did a run in with a certain tourist hating poster(@heelmanwilm) cause you to cut your stay in Wilmington short?

 

[JuleZ '02 HEEL]

Did a run in with a certain tourist hating poster(@heelmanwilm) cause you to cut your stay in Wilmington short?

Well I wasn't a tourist, so no, that wasn't it.

 

[prlyles]

1) Place you've lived the longest (how long?) Elkin, N.C. 64 years
2) Place you've lived the shortest (how long?)Giessen, Germany 18 months
3) Favorite place you've lived (how long?)Elkin, N.C.
4) Worst place you've lived (how long?)There is no bad place, just bad people
5) Place you'd most like to live (how long?)I keep kicking around the idea of buying a place on Ocracoke but doubt I ever do.

 

[heelmanwilm]

Longest Asheville, 20 yrs
Shortest Chapel hill 5 yrs
Fav Wilmington 12 yrs
Most hated Easley sc 7yrs
No desire to live anywhere but wilmington

 

[BillyL]

1) Place you've lived the longest (how long?) Alexandria, VA 50 years.

2) Place you've lived the shortest (how long?) Monterey, CA 1 year

3) Favorite place you've lived (how long?) Alex. VA

4) Worst place you've lived (how long?) Princeton, NJ 1.5 years

5) Place you'd most like to live (how long?)

Don't know where this is . . but, that's where I'd be the happiest. Thanks J-Man for finding that for me. I believe Costa Rica would be great for me as well . .

 

[coryfly]

1) Clarksville, TN 43 years
2) Clarksville, TN 43 years
3) Clarksville, TN 43 years
4) Clarksville, TN 43 years
5) Wherever it is warm most of the year.

 

[BillyL]

1) Clarksville, TN 43 years
2) Clarksville, TN 43 years
3) Clarksville, TN 43 years
4) Clarksville, TN 43 years
5) Wherever it is warm most of the year.

Dayum Cory . . this was a tuff thread for you to respond to was it not . . ? Copy and paste, paste, paste and paste yet again.

 

[gunslingerdick]

I've lived in Charlotte, NC (12 years), Lynchburg, VA (two stints totaling 20 years), Greensboro, NC (6 years) and Mt. Pleasant, SC (4 years). I liked them all at the time I lived there. I can't see myself living anywhere other than VA, NC or SC for the rest of my life.

 

[Raising Heel]

3) Favorite place you've lived (how long?)
Boone, NC (approx 5 years) - I do love where I'm at now though, but I love the mountains.

5) Place you'd most like to live (how long?)
See #3 (until I'm dead)
Although if I move back to the Boone area, I would probably choose Blowing Rock, but close enough.

I love the mountains, too, cool. Boone/Blowing Rock isn't that far away. I imagine your job is what keeps you in Charlotte. Does your job allow you to work remotely? Is there an employer in the Boone/Blowing Rock area you could work for?

 

[Raising Heel]

Ages 0-19 Thomasville
Ages 19-23 High Point
Ages 23-25 Thomasville
Ages 25- Present High Point

Yes pretty boring I guess but I don’t wanna live anywhere else than these two cities. Thomasville born n raised so it’ll always be my home but I love High Point. It’s large enough that it has a lot of stuff do/places to eat but not as large to annoy me Greensboro/Winston-Salem.

Are there no other places that intrigue you enough to leave? What would it take to lure you away? Does all your family live in the area?

 

[Raising Heel]

1) Place you've lived the longest (how long?)
Mt. Olive, NC 42 years
2) Place you've lived the shortest (how long?)
Madison, Va. 3 months(played baseball in the Valley League)
3) Favorite place you've lived (how long?)
Current #VisitNebraska
4) Worst place you've lived (how long?)
N/A
5) Place you'd most like to live (how long?)
#VisitNebraska

Tell me again how you ended up in Nebraska. Sorry, I have an awful memory (assuming you've mentioned it before).

 

[Raising Heel]

1) Place you've lived the longest (how long?) Elkin, N.C. 64 years

You're old.

2) Place you've lived the shortest (how long?)Giessen, Germany 18 months

What took you to Germany? Did you serve? If so, I've somehow missed that (again, terrible memory).

 

[Raising Heel]

5) Wherever it is warm most of the year.

You've lived in Clarkesville your whole life? Then you don't get to give a wishy-washy answer like this, especially knowing you've never traveled internationally. Are you talking Miami? The Caribbean? Or something more exotic like the South Pacific, southeast Asia, etc.?

 

[Raising Heel]

I can't see myself living anywhere other than VA, NC or SC for the rest of my life.

Same here, although that thought is slightly depressing. Maybe my favorite place I've ever lived was Tacoma, Washington. The town itself was okay, but there was something about living within a two-day drive of so many incredible places -- just about anything on the west coast -- that was very satisfying.

Part of that feeling reflects the cost-effectiveness of being able to drive there. Now that I'm older and can afford plane tickets, it shouldn't be much different, but somehow I haven't gotten past that yet.

 

[toophly1124]

Are there no other places that intrigue you enough to leave? What would it take to lure you away? Does all your family live in the area?

No not really. The older I get the less adventurous I get. If I go on vacation for a solid week somewhere I get homesick after 3-4 days. Basically I don’t like change. At all. Yes my entire immediate family still lives in Thomasville (Mom & Dad ..two older bros ..two sis n laws ..3 nephews and one precious neice). Honestly the only thing that would lure me away is money. Like a lot of money.

 

[coryfly]

You've lived in Clarkesville your whole life? Then you don't get to give a wishy-washy answer like this, especially knowing you've never traveled internationally. Are you talking Miami? The Caribbean? Or something more exotic like the South Pacific, southeast Asia, etc.?

Probably Somewhere around Destin actually. Cool beaches and a lot of nice golf courses. I would go Hawaii or something like that if not for still wanting to visit family some.

 

[coryfly]

Dayum Cory . . this was a tuff thread for you to respond to was it not . . ? Copy and paste, paste, paste and paste yet again.

It was tough, man.

 

[Raising Heel]

No not really. The older I get the less adventurous I get. If I go on vacation for a solid week somewhere I get homesick after 3-4 days. Basically I don’t like change. At all. Yes my entire immediate family still lives in Thomasville (Mom & Dad ..two older bros ..two sis n laws ..3 nephews and one precious neice). Honestly the only thing that would lure me away is money. Like a lot of money.

Appreciate the honesty. I'm probably less tied to an area than most since my family -- mainly my mom and two brothers -- has been scattered all over. For years I've had family in at least three different time zones: Winston-Salem, Nashville, Denver, Tacoma, etc.

 

[Raising Heel]

Probably Somewhere around Destin actually. Cool beaches and a lot of nice golf courses. I would go Hawaii or something like that if not for still wanting to visit family some.

Destin is beautiful. Love the beaches there and I'd probably love the courses if I golfed. Yeah, unless you're incredibly wealthy Hawaii would mean only seeing your family once a year. Good place to vacation but....

 

[BillyL]

It was tough, man.

 

[coolwaterunc]

I love the mountains, too, cool. Boone/Blowing Rock isn't that far away. I imagine your job is what keeps you in Charlotte. Does your job allow you to work remotely? Is there an employer in the Boone/Blowing Rock area you could work for?

I absolutely love my job, and I wouldn't trade it for anything. I can't work remotely full time, and I really don't want to. I can if I need to be gone for a while for any reason, but I can't do it permanently. I love the company I work for and the people I work with. I shouldn't even call it work because it really doesn't feel like it is. I do what I love doing, and I'm living a dream. I'm very blessed, for sure.

Going back to working remotely, even if I could, I don't think I would like it. Living alone and not being the most social guy in the world to begin with, if I worked remotely, I would never interact with anyone, and I would drive myself crazy. Just not a practical fit for me, personally.

I do like Charlotte, so I have no complaints. The mountains are a nice getaway when I get sick of the city life, and I would like to settle there when I get older someday. I'm at the right place for where I'm at in life now though, and I couldn't be happier.

 

[nctransplant]

Tell me again how you ended up in Nebraska. Sorry, I have an awful memory (assuming you've mentioned it before).

High school bb coach has been coming here 30 + years bird hunting. Came with him in 2007. Loved it plus teacher pay and benefits are much better than NC. Moved next year

 

[strummingram]

1) Place you've lived the longest (how long?) Nashville, NC - 13 years (entire childhood to high school graduation)

2) Place you've lived the shortest (how long?) Chapel Hill, NC- 6 months-ish

3) Favorite place you've lived (how long?) Charlotte- 4 years

4) Worst place you've lived (how long?) This one is tough. I lived all along the Grand Strand, even down toward Georgetown for about 8 years. Soooo... I guess it would be the few months of early 1992 when I was considering moving away, my stuff was in storage, and was living in a motel efficiency for a month, then crashing with a friend for another month. Then deciding to stay at the Beach area and moving down to Murrell's Inlet. Living on the coast is too humid, however.

5) Place you'd most like to live (how long?) I'd like to live in Asheville... maybe, or back in Greenville, SC for the duration. Clemson is cool, it's just too far away from the main arteries to get to other places easily. Greenville, SC is ideal. It's a hub of highways to get wherever pretty easily. It's modern enough while retaining the "Southern" charm that I have always been around.

Athens, GA also seems like it would be a cool place to live.

 

[GACMAN]

High school bb coach has been coming here 30 + years bird hunting. Came with him in 2007. Loved it plus teacher pay and benefits are much better than NC. Moved next year

Have had some business in York and Omaha.....Will be in Omaha for the College World Series this year.....

 

[Hark_The_Sound_2010]

you don't get to give a wishy-washy answer

Hi @Raising Heel meet @coryfly , @coryfly meet @Raising Heel

 

[prlyles]

You're old.

What took you to Germany? Did you serve? If so, I've somehow missed that (again, terrible memory).

Yeah, I got drafted during VIetnam and yes I’m old

 

[prlyles]

Same here, although that thought is slightly depressing. Maybe my favorite place I've ever lived was Tacoma, Washington. The town itself was okay, but there was something about living within a two-day drive of so many incredible places -- just about anything on the west coast -- that was very satisfying.

Part of that feeling reflects the cost-effectiveness of being able to drive there. Now that I'm older and can afford plane tickets, it shouldn't be much different, but somehow I haven't gotten past that yet.

I love the northwest great area of the country

 

[nctransplant]

Have had some business in York and Omaha.....Will be in Omaha for the College World Series this year.....

Just ride out in the RV with @Raising Heel .

I'm about 4 hours west of Omaha. I've been to the WS, will go again when the Heels make it.

 

[Louigi]

1) Place you've lived the longest (how long?)
Raleigh, NC 7 years first time, 5 years second
2) Place you've lived the shortest (how long?)
Greenville, SC, 6 months
3) Favorite place you've lived (how long?)
Ormond Beach, FL 5 years
4) Worst place you've lived (how long?)
Rochester, MN. 2 years
5) Place you'd most like to live (how long?)
No idea on either