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#4453626 - 12/17/18 05:00 PM Re: Show where you live [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
Originally Posted by Mr_Blastman
I'm tired of this place, but I love the south.

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Some people might say that Atlanta is not really the "South". wink


We're not anymore with all the #%&*$# yankees that keep moving here. :P

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#4453627 - 12/17/18 05:06 PM Re: Show where you live [Re: Chef]  
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Originally Posted by Chef
I live in the south western mountains of NC. My "town" has all of 2 stoplights.

This is High Falls. You can see the covered bridge a little at the top.
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My town is down in there somewhere.
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This pretty much captures the whole town.
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Its a nice place to live except for the hoards of bicyclists gumming up the roads and the inebriated geriatrics looking at the leaves in the Fall. I can take the geriatrics more than the cyclists. When they bunch up in groups of 10 to 50 you can hang up passing them on the winding roads. And a lot of them now wear body cameras in case they get run off the road, attacked or well... run over.




You're living my dream(well, that and the beach). How? Do you commute far every day to work?

#4453631 - 12/17/18 05:59 PM Re: Show where you live [Re: Sluggish Controls]  
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#4453632 - 12/17/18 06:02 PM Re: Show where you live [Re: Mr_Blastman]  
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Originally Posted by Mr_Blastman
You're living my dream(well, that and the beach). How? Do you commute far every day to work?



I get the gut feeling that Chef is retired. smile


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#4453642 - 12/17/18 07:17 PM Re: Show where you live [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
I need to visit Newfoundland one day. St. John’s is quite a pretty looking city!


Be sure to go in January.


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#4453643 - 12/17/18 07:29 PM Re: Show where you live [Re: KraziKanuK]  
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Originally Posted by KraziKanuK
Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
I need to visit Newfoundland one day. St. John’s is quite a pretty looking city!


Be sure to go in January.



Oh yeah, sure!! LOL


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#4453644 - 12/17/18 07:31 PM Re: Show where you live [Re: Sluggish Controls]  
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Between Salcombe and Prawle, South Devon. That's UK, btw.

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#4453645 - 12/17/18 07:35 PM Re: Show where you live [Re: Sluggish Controls]  
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11 mile commute that takes maybe 25 minutes because I drop my kids off at their schools. As for the beach, my parents have a second home on the mainland side of Pawley's Island, SC. It's a 4.5 hour drive away. The beach itself is nice but WAY TOO many people live down there now. When we go I hit the beach at 7AM and an gone by 10:30AM at the latest. It is the only way to have the beach to yourself, "mostly". The tourists are there to relax and don't wake up until I'm starting to think about heading back to the house. That house is on 2 acres of land in a spot you can only see one other house nearby. It's a pretty nice setup and you can't find that kind of seclusion along the coast much anymore. I remember when Pawleys Island was a 7-11, The Hammock Shops, a Red & White grocery store and a caution light at the Northern Causeway. Seeing the place all built up now is like seeing an old strung out heroin addict that used to be a beautiful young girl. Its painful to me to see it how it is now.

On the way home I like to stop at the general store in Salters, S.C. to get a country ham leg. Food of the Gods!!!

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#4453646 - 12/17/18 07:36 PM Re: Show where you live [Re: Vitesse]  
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Originally Posted by Vitesse
Between Salcombe and Prawle, South Devon. That's UK, btw.

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I looked up the area on Googlemaps and it seems like there are many town names which end in "combe". I'm sure there's some fascinating historical reason for that. smile

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#4453647 - 12/17/18 07:43 PM Re: Show where you live [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
Originally Posted by Mr_Blastman
You're living my dream(well, that and the beach). How? Do you commute far every day to work?



I get the gut feeling that Chef is retired. smile


I'm almost 52. My kids are 9, 12 and 14 years old. I have a little ways to go. I have a hard time with crowds so I try to live on the edge of "civilization". If my wife would let me I would live a place like Deliverance and I would be the one playing the banjo.


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#4453648 - 12/17/18 07:57 PM Re: Show where you live [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Hi PM, a coomb is a valley, so you do see it a lot! It's an old word - they even have it is Welsh, written cwm

Salcombe is one of the most expensive places to buy property outside London. It's deserted in winter though. It is very pretty and still has the remains of a wartime US landing craft repair base on one of the beaches.

We are really lucky living here.

#4453652 - 12/17/18 09:20 PM Re: Show where you live [Re: Arthonon]  
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LOL Crane biggrin

Here's a panorama I took of downtown San Diego years ago:
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That's gorgeous, I took a similar shot when I was out there years ago at Corando as well.


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#4453653 - 12/17/18 09:28 PM Re: Show where you live [Re: Sluggish Controls]  
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I grew up in Portsmouth NH which is right on the boarder of Maine, I live about 20 mins North now. These shots are from Ports

love having the ocean 20 mins south and the Mountains an hour north

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This is from Mt Washington's auto road
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#4453654 - 12/17/18 09:29 PM Re: Show where you live [Re: Sluggish Controls]  
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Right now I'm sitting on a pile of money, I plan to move to a rural area next, unless property prices continue to drop so low that I'd be tempted to buy in a decidedly nicer part of Vancouver.

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Until then I have to stay in an area infested with the likes of trailer trash, Somalis and Surrey Jacks.

#4453658 - 12/17/18 10:12 PM Re: Show where you live [Re: PanzerMeyer]  
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Originally Posted by PanzerMeyer
Originally Posted by Ssnake
Hannover, Germany. Some call it the averagest of all German cities. No spectacular mountains, or coastline, the local river is small, the lake is artificial. Well connected, though - major hub for railways, with a nice little airport, major autobahns going N-S and E-W. Politics are boring, so is the weather. No earthquakes, tornados, or dangerous animals - the place simply works. smile

It's also considered to be the epicenter for the correct, textbook spoken High German!

The downside is, I can't speak regional dialects, locked in to "formal German" for all eternity.

#4453663 - 12/17/18 10:53 PM Re: Show where you live [Re: Crane Hunter]  
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Darn!

I didn't know you could smoke Coors Light! Might taste better that way.


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#4453664 - 12/17/18 10:54 PM Re: Show where you live [Re: Sluggish Controls]  
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#4453666 - 12/17/18 10:58 PM Re: Show where you live [Re: Sluggish Controls]  
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I live relatively near Miami Beach. Here are some shots of this interesting city:

Ocean Drive at Night. This is now (for many years) an mainly if not all tourist area but something to see if you never visited the city. In my time (90s) it was very different, it still had the Miami Vice feel.
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A shot of the actual "Miami Beach" from a non disclosed apartment. Very Nice! as Borat would say.
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This a day shot from "Lincoln Road" another semi tourist area but has many bistros, restaurants and shops.
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Ocean Drive during the day. with classic cars from the 50s and 60s, that was for a photo shot. Day to day you would instead see Lamborghini, Ferrari, Bugatti, etc. rented or owned.
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#4453668 - 12/17/18 11:37 PM Re: Show where you live [Re: Sluggish Controls]  
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I lived in S. Miami for a year in 1966...then moved back to the "Space Coast".

I was a displaced surf kid from "up the coast". I hung out at S. Beach pier, and Beach Bagels.

Lots of future "international business connections" were made just sitting on a surfboard hoping a ship would go by winkngrin dreaming of the occasional storm surf, or timing my arrival at Beach Bagels for the freshest egg bagels coming out of the oven! Yummmmm!

Life changing experience for sure.


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#4453670 - 12/17/18 11:50 PM Re: Show where you live [Re: Sluggish Controls]  
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This one is for PanzerMeyer, the start of the longest skating rink in the world (7.8km)

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