What’s to like about where you live?

[HudsonHawk]

Living in the enormous city of Houston has many pros and many cons. Some will even quibble about whether a something is a former or a latter. Which is fair. A few points, many of which I suspect could be said for any extremely large city:

Pros:

1. Huge volume of high paying jobs
2. Low cost of living (probably couldn't be said for many other major cities)
3. Most culturally diverse city in the country
4. World class museums, performing arts, theater, music, what have you
5. Top 4 or 5 restaurant city in the country
6. Lots of greenspaces and outdoor activities
7. Best medical care in the world
8. Proximity to numerous research universities.

Cons:

1. The pros are all an hour away from each other
2. Traffic. There are 8 million people trying to get to all the pros
3. The occasional hurricane
5. High crime in certain areas

Depends on who you ask:

1. Weather. It's really warm in summer, but it's also warm in the winter. You have to put up with the heat in the summer, but you don't have to shovel the sunshine in the winter. I find this particularly appealing. Your mileage may vary.
2. Friendly people who will strike up a conversation with you for no particular reason. Some people like it, others are annoyed by it.

 

[tonyb]

^^^^^^
No. 7, above, would be a huge plus for me. Our humble home is 5 miles from a major university medical center/health sciences schools/research institution, where they do the latest gee-whiz stuff. It’s about a 10-minute drive, mostly on the freeway.
Organ transplants? Yup, that’s where it happens.

 

[Turnip]

Oh, cool! Hammond, Moog or Wurlitzer?

 

[Zombie_61]

Long story as short as I can make it, in 1998 my late wife and I took possession of my parents' house, a.k.a. the house I grew up in, located in a city called Whittier (named after John Greenleaf Whittier, Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the U.S.). Approximately 15 miles due east of downtown Los Angeles, the house was new in a brand new neighborhood back in 1952 (the year Mom and Dad bought it). As happens, over time the neighborhood changed (not al all for the better in my opinion) and after my wife died in June of 2022 it became necessary for me to look into selling the house and continuing my life elsewhere. So, as of a month ago, I now live in La Habra (which allegedly translates into English as "There will be..."), a suburb approximately 26 miles east of downtown Los Angeles. So far the people are nicer and the neighbors more courteous and less "borracho" (drunk) most of the time. Most important, I'll be getting re-married in January to a woman I've known and been close friends with (no, not THAT close) for 30 years. So, fewer drunks and a new life with a new wife is what's to like about my new neighborhood.

 

[Tiki Tom]

Congratulations, Zombie. I am sincerely happy for you. Sounds like good happenings in every way. May your good fortune continue to blossom.

 

[GHT]

Congratulations, Zombie. I am sincerely happy for you. Sounds like good happenings in every way. May your good fortune continue to blossom.

That's my sentiment too. Zombie's post moved me. The internet has melted the distance, we are all but friends thanks to the web and The Lounge. Blessings on you and on your wife to be Zombie. I wish you much happiness in the years to come.

 

[Turnip]

„Und jedem Anfang wohnt ein Zauber inne, der uns beschützt und der uns hilft, zu leben.“
-Hermann Hesse-

My sincere congratulations and best wishes to you and your wife to be, @Zombie_61

 

[Turnip]

Living in a midsize town at a population of about 50.000 heads I benefit from it’s still active cure bath infrastructure such as graduation towers, a pretty large cure park, sole baths, inhalatories…as well as from it’s approach of being kind of resort for several owner-operated shops, small businesses and a very low crime rate.
I still go to the same, small barber shop I discovered 30 years ago, meanwhile run by one of the formerly employed ladies I know for the same time now, once the old master retired.
Same with the butcher, still slaughtering himself, owner operated in third generation, several craft shops around like car repair, plumber, painter…who‘s founders shared a school bench with my girlie‘s father or even grandpa.
Weekly farmer market in place as several self marketing smaller and larger farms around.
Fortunately also some good, modern hospitals around where i left some handsfull of insides meanwhile and who did an excellent after care job too.

Costs for living, housing… are still quite moderate so a lot of young families decided to settle, build houses… here.

The only thing i really miss is the old horse butcher who closed down his business when he retired, lacking of a proper successor.

 

[Trenchfriend]

And no Halloween harassment in my old smalltown. I guess, the kids here only go to companied and familiar people. Maybe their parents order to avoid any trouble.

 

[Monte.C]

Well I've lived in a bunch of places in a bunch of states. Very small towns and big cities. Deserts and forests and ankle deep in salt water. And now, NYC. It's true, any location has its advantages and its own beauty. I know this is surely no competition, but I can't argue with this. New York City for the past 15 years, the center of the universe and the capitol city of the world. Or at least its supposed to be those things. There are certainly a lot of things here that make my blood boil and my stomach turn, but I'm forever trying to not let the glow wear off, always giving it the benefit of the doubt, because New York City.