Places you've lived.

Oct 31 11:03 UTC 1991

Please tell us about the places you have lived throughout your life.  Have
you ever gone back to visit?  Are you happy with the place and lifestyle you
are currently living?  How does that compare with where you've lived in the
past?  Do you anticipate moving again in the near future?

response 2 of 53:

Nov 1 00:28 UTC 1991

I've lived in:
   Detroit,
   Warren (a Detroit suburb),
   Ferndale (another suburb),
   Sunnyvale, CA,
   San Diego, CA,
   Ann Arbor, MI
   Boston, MA, and 
   Ann Arbor again.
I've been back to all of them.

I truly like Ann Arbor the best, although San Diego was pretty nice.
The only problem with San Diego is that it is getting very crowded.
It's not quite as bad as LA, but it is getting there.

I imagine that I will move again, although I have no firm plans right
now.

response 4 of 53:

Nov 3 14:41 UTC 1991

I grew up in Dearborn Hts., MI; moved to Ann Arbor when I was 14.  During
the years I was married, I lived in a couple places NE of Dixboro [out in
the country NE of AA].  After we split, I lived in Ypsi and then back to
AA.  This past June, I moved to Durham, NC.

I've been back to Dbn Hts many times to visit friends but wouldn't move
back [at least to that particular area because it's one of those places
where everything/everyone is the same...].  Though I have been by all the
places I've lived in the AA/Ypsi area and would consider moving back.

Currently, as I said, I'm in Durham, NC.  The climate's warmer [geez, it was
in the low 80s yesterday; doesn't feel like fall!], and it's a pretty area.
The people are friendly enough but while they love to chhit-chat, it's
hard to get to know people.  This is definitely a college town with several
universities in the area, which I like, but things seem spread out so much
more.  I dunno, perhaps it's because I've only been here a few months [it
seems like a lot longer], I feel like an outsider.  I do miss AA much more
than I expected.  At this point in time, I'm planning on moving back after
my internship is completed.

response 6 of 53:

Jan 20 03:56 UTC 1992

Well, I've lived in Cincinnati, Fort Wayne, Eugene Oregon, and Ann
Arbor.  Oregon is fantastic, and Eugene is a great funky town. 
Ann Arbor is great; probably one of the best places in the midwest.
Eugene is one hour from the ocean and one hour from the peaks of
the Cascades, incredible beauty all around.  Ann Arbor has the
cultural advantages of a big city, without the hassles of a big city;
too bad there's not much funkiness left, though.

response 8 of 53:

Feb 7 22:48 UTC 1992

An thoughts on moving around so much, Craig?  How do the various places
compare?

response 10 of 53:

Feb 9 15:00 UTC 1992

Either you're crazy, craig, or you haven't actually *lived* in those
places.

response 12 of 53:

Feb 9 19:38 UTC 1992

Places I've lived:
 
   Pacific Palisades, CA
   Washington, DC
   Bethesda, MD
   Ann Arbor, MI
   Boston, MA
   Plymouth, MI
   Ann Arbor, MI (again)

And have lived for short periods (one month each) in:

   Amsterdam, Netherlands
   Santa Clara, CA

I currently reside here in A-Squared.

Places I've visited that I've enjoyed enough to consider living there:

   Seattle, WA
   San Fransisco, CA
   Munich, Germany
   St. Tropez, France
   Kauai, HI
   Cartegena, Columbia
   Anywhere in the Carribbean

response 14 of 53:

Feb 12 01:51 UTC 1992

RE #10
 
I may be crazy, however, the point is that a location means nothing in
the grand scheme of things.  People still have their basic needs and wants
and strive to attain them in basically the same fashion.
 

response 16 of 53:

Feb 12 22:30 UTC 1992

You are right.

response 18 of 53:

Mar 19 23:41 UTC 1992

     I have lived in Michigan all my life, but the best place is a toss up
between Ann Arbor and Port Huron. Having spent 3 years there, I got used to
walking down to Pine Grove Park and watching the freighters go by.
(I still miss that aspect). There was lots to do like seeing a 1.25 movie
at McMorran Arena, Walking over to Sarnia, Riding my bike all over the place,
(Port Huron is not hilly like Ann Arbor), and my favorite, the start of
the RACE!!!. 
    If I ever leave Ann Arbor, I will miss lots of things, Grex, The Arrow, 
M-net, the Michigan Theatre, The library (it beats Port Huron's), I miss
the minor league hockey and the petty rivalry between PH and Flint,(both
teams have folded). But most of all, I will miss my good friends here,
so I probably won't move from Ann Arbor.

response 20 of 53:

Jul 12 14:50 UTC 1992

I can now add another destination for a place of residence.  i just moved
into a new apartment in the heart of Morrisville, NC.  It's a tiny little
town in between Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill, just west of Research
Triangle Park.  Having just moved in yesterday afternoon, I don't know my
way around well yet--but it does have a nice, open/rural feel to it.  
If anyone is ever down this way, please stop by!

response 22 of 53:

Jan 9 15:02 UTC 1993

Istarted life in the Bronx, New York and through the years graduated to
Manhattan (the Main borough).  Then:

           Riverdale, New York
           Bergen County, New Jersey
           Morristown, New Jersey
           Ann Arbor

Ann Arbor is the only place I would consider living in the midwest because
of the combination of small town feeling (this, to a born and bred New Yorker)
and the people and things to do.   Eventually, I will move from here only
because of the weather.  As I grow older, the snow, ice and the cold become
a real problem, enough to motivate a move.  After travelling throughout
the states alot, the places I would consider retiring in are:

           Seattle (gray but little snow-same feeling as AA)
           Portland (ditto but also the ocean which I miss teribbly)
           Santa Rosa, Calif.(weather great-ocean nearby, college town and 
the nearness to SanFrancisco.)
           In fact - anywhere near San Francisco

Alot of people are retiring to North Carolina, Denise, but I hear the summers
are dreadful (hot and humid) and there is very little to do (culturally).
What do you think?

response 24 of 53:

Jan 25 02:25 UTC 1993

Audrey, yes, the summer heat is terrible down here...  Whatever we do in
the summer time *has* to be airconditioned [I don't think they even think
about not installing ACs in buildings down here], or spend time out at the
ocean/lake/pool.  Its somewhat cooler in the mountains, though.  As for things
to do, I feel it takes more of an effort to find the things...  I don't
know, AA will always be home in my heart.
[Though Ihaven't found employment back in AA, sometimes I wonder what it'd
be like coming back after being gone for an extended time like I have been...]