what is your town like
02-06-2011, 05:13 AM
#41
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Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
Posts: 645
I live in the most easterly city in North America - St. John's, Newfoundland. We have a population of about 180,000 in the metropolitan area. If you want to have a look at some wonderful pictures, here's the link
http://bitstop.ca/newfoundland/st-johns/
These pics can better describe my home town better than I can.
And there is not one LQS in this whole city!!! The closest one is about a 20 minute drive outside the city.
http://bitstop.ca/newfoundland/st-johns/
These pics can better describe my home town better than I can.
And there is not one LQS in this whole city!!! The closest one is about a 20 minute drive outside the city.
02-06-2011, 05:14 AM
#42
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Parsons, WV
Posts: 42
Originally Posted by Hosta
I live in a town (25 square miles) that used to be all farming now it is all houses and there is basically a main street with 10 pizza shops one grocery store and lately five car repair shops have moved in. There are also a wide variety of empty stores. There is no local recreation for teens nothing but a park with a fish pond. Our biggest building besides the schools is the library. We have only one claim to fame we host a dinky corn festival every year. I have been wanting to start a quilt group but can't seem to drum up much interest. I have been here my entire life my husband was born in a house a couple miles from where we live. I just wish there was something here to draw people out of their houses and into a community spirit. Everything that has been tried has died out after a couple years.
02-06-2011, 05:21 AM
#43
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Connecticut River, northern NH
Posts: 914
My town is 22.4 square miles and is nestled along the Connecticut River and part of the Gardner Mountains. We have a population of 843. There are no stores in our town (that means no gas stations, no convenience stores, no coffee shops, no pizza shops... nothing). The largest business in town is Pete and Gerry's Organic Eggs, where my husband is the marketing manager. We live in the center of town... a few doors down from the Town Hall, the Post Office, church and the Library.
The little yellow crescent shape on the map is our town.
The little yellow crescent shape on the map is our town.
Monroe, NH
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02-06-2011, 05:42 AM
#45
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Posts: 416
I used to live in Terrebonne Qc, in a old stone house built in 1782, ten acres of land, 4 horses, a cow, chickens, geese,ducks, rabbits dogs and cats for 35 years. 8 years ago we moved in Lasalle, (montreal is at the next street corner) in a condo on the second floor. IF i look outside from my kitchen, I' m facing one of the biggest shopping mall. I do not need a car anymore, the bus stop is right at the door and the subway station is a 5 minutes walk, My husband had to have dialysis that is why we moved in the city. It is a very ethnic surrounding,Black, Chinese, Arabic, bilingual French and English.
02-06-2011, 06:00 AM
#46
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Barnesville GA
Posts: 3,181
Can't say I have a home town. Right now I am in VA but I really liked Fairburn GA. Small town, knew a lot of people. It has a small business district and it was growing for awhile. Then the housing market crashed. It is about 20 minutes south and slightly west of the Atlanta airport. Not a crowded as the north side of Atlanta.
I would love to move back if I could just find a place I could afford.
I want a place with room around me. Not with neighbors who can look over your fence from their deck.
I would love to move back if I could just find a place I could afford.
I want a place with room around me. Not with neighbors who can look over your fence from their deck.
02-06-2011, 06:01 AM
#47
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Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Florida
Posts: 1,560
We moved from NH/MA to central Florida for the warmth & lack of the white stuff. Not sure what to call our area..not in the city, yet not really suburbs either. Everything we need is within 10 miles, people are wonderful! We all help each other. Two grocery stores next door, big mall with large JoAnn's & about anything else you'd want behind us. Town center is historic and beautiful. Definitely the hub with Farmers Mkt & even a museum. The weather as well as the medical facilities are top notch and we're about 20 minutes from Disney & Universal. Been here almost 12 yrs & love it!
02-06-2011, 06:21 AM
#49
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Join Date: Jan 2011
Location: Bosque county, Texas
Posts: 100
We're outside a small village that started dying after WWII and no one has had the courage to bulldoze it. We have 3 small churches, 1 school, 1 postoffice. Everyone who lives here seems to have been born here except for a few who decided it was in commuting distance to Dallas -1 1/2 hrs. We regularly have drug busts, lots of meth labs, etc. Used to be a small farming commumity - now a few larger ranches. We choose it for its location between the medical centers of Dallas and Houston, thinking the people would be friendly like other places. Wrong. Very Clannish, very red-neck- very few collage educated, hard to find a subject to talk about if you don't talk Nascar, horses, weather or politics. We've become hermits. Closest grocery is 25 miles. This is not the rural bucolic America of our Dream Life.
02-06-2011, 06:42 AM
#50
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Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: McLoud, OK
Posts: 13,264
Cowan is small-3 home run quickie markets with gasoline--post office--4 restaurants--antique store--insurance office--artisan depot--railroad museum--small library--bed and breakfast in old hotel--overstock grocery store--trains run through about every 30 minutes--around 2100 people--I love living here.
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