Where do you live?

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What city do you live in and do you like it? If given the choice would you stay or would you move? And if you would move where would you move to and why?

I’m in Richmond Virginia. It’s not bad here. Best music scene in the state. Close to the ocean and the mountains. Has all 4 seasons, but the summers suck because of the humidity and mosquitoes.

If I could move anywhere, it would probably be to an island off of the coast of Maine. Only downside is no music scene. So currently I would stay where I am, but when I get so old that I can no longer lug around my Drums, I’d love to move to that island because I love the ocean but don’t like the heat. Plus, Maine just seems to have a vibe that I really love. Probably because I grew up watching Stephen King movies!
 
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I live in Boston. Absolutely love it. Wonderful city with endless things to do and fantastic music scene. Highly educated populace. Winters are a tad harsh, but I like winter, so it doesn't bother me. I will eventually move to Japan, to a fairly remote area that is great for different reasons. Not much to do, but people are kind and it's beautiful.

Moved to Boston (which is where I grew up) from Austin, TX, which I hated. No, that's just not quite strong enough a word...
 
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Central North Carolina ... Been here 25 years. There's an award-winning brewpub about 70 yards from my back door with a lovely patio with live bands Thurs-Sunday, a barbecue place next door and a half-dozen walkable restaurants, as well as a baseball/soccer stadium within a mile and a park in the same radius where I take Holly the Dog for frisbee sessions almost every day.

Son is out on his own in the big city about 90 minutes away. Have you heard of "Baby Chasers?" They're grandparents who move to be near their grand-kids. Don't have any of those yet, but when we do, we'll likely relocate to wherever they settle.

Play Megamillions and Powerball when feeling lucky and would dedicate a big payout to an edificio on a piazza in Northern Italy and a small cottage on a Norwegian fjord for the summers. Would keep my existing place, though.
 
Perth in Western Australia. Considered the most isolated Capital City in the world. Located in world's second (or third)?? largest single state in the world. Essentially just a flat expanse with the world's largest single rock apparently up north . Boiling in summer with beautiful winters. A very long city in terms of area.....it's considered to be the "Longest city in the world" according to a global census. Terrible drivers over here, over speeding, under speeding, tailgating in the left lane, no one indicates, lots of aggressive driving. But it's home and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world.......... except for maybe Utah and Tasmania.
 
I live in the suburbs of Portland, OR. I like the area I live in, and being somewhat close to the city has afforded me many gigging opportunities. Portland has transformed from the city I would go to and hang out in to the place I try to avoid at all costs. There are plenty of venues opening up in the surrounding areas, so my bands focus mostly on playing those places.

I’m a couple hours from the ocean, an hour and a half from skiing on the mountain, and there are hundreds of opportunities to get out into beautiful natural environments to camp/hike. The suburban neighborhood I’m in is laid back with almost no crime, and there are several main streets close by that are seeing a surge in new restaurants. It’s a great area!
 
Central Washington state. Similar to what Caddy said, there's almost any kind of scenery within one to three hours' drive of me, and life is pretty laid-back. Unfortunately, the music scene here struggles through fits and starts - right now feels like an upswing, but there's very few venues doing live music, fewer doing non-acoustic live music, and fewer still doing non-acoustic original live music.

My wife and I have discussed a move in retirement, possibly to the Southwest or to Mexico, but both my career and our local relationships are very fulfilling right now and we're in no rush to leave.
 
Portland, Oregon. It's great, beautiful environment, good music scene, I know a lot of great musicians (including @caddywumpus, now!), and I've got a solid teaching business. It got a little raggedy during COVID, but it's recovering. If I moved in town I would just want to be slightly more walkable to restaurants and things.

If I moved out of town I would probably want to leave the country, western Europe somewhere. Italy, France, Germany. No real business plan for that, it's just where I would want to be if not here.

Son of Vistalite Black said:
Play Megamillions and Powerball when feeling lucky and would dedicate a big payout to an edificio on a piazza in Northern Italy and a small cottage on a Norwegian fjord for the summers. Would keep my existing place, though.
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There are a ton of these in the hills between Milan and Turin:

 
northwest england (north of manchester) so its a small area i live in, im quite busy with work, but to be connected better i would move to a city if i could, but not london *shudders*
 
Columbus Ohio. Born and bred. I loved it until about 10 years ago when we started becoming a big city...we used to be a "hidden gem"...big enough to have a variety of things to do, but no traffic, cement/strip-mall wastelands. now they are mowing every thing down to build bullshyte apartment buildings and "press-board Estate's" housing development, with a sh**ty strip mall with a McDonalds, Starbucks, WalMart and other kacky type corporate boxes that will sit empty in 5 years when the next ring of urban crap spreads out....

as you can see, I am a little "edgy' about development. We have a lot of areas that have great character, but man, it is becoming lost in a sea of kack

In America, I would love to move to the UP of Michigan, or the tip of "the mitten"...somewhere with pine trees, lots of snow and cold, and no people around. Something about the Great Lakes calls to me, especially that area.

if I had unlimited funds, I would move to northern Sweden. Someplace where I could have the Midnight Sun and the Midday Darkness...home of my ancestors.
 
I live in Northern New Jersey about a half hour drive from midtown Manhattan. My house sits on the first ridge as you head West so that during winter months the lack of leaves on the trees affords me a panoramic view of NYC. Having spent my entire career working in Manhattan I love that view. I'm a foodie, love music (obviously) and dig culture for the most part. I can get pretty much any food I want without too much of an effort. And I can find people to play music with fairly easily as well since there are so many dang people here. My only issue is that I don't like people all that much. But I deal with it. Hoping to find a cabin in the Adirondack Mountains so I can escape the lunacy that can sometimes interferes with daily existence. No regrets. After all, I got divorced about 3 years ago and I kept the house. No plans to leave, at least not yet.
 
MntnMan62 said:
I live in Northern New Jersey about a half hour drive from midtown Manhattan. My house sits on the first ridge as you head West so that during winter months the lack of leaves on the trees affords me a panoramic view of NYC. Having spent my entire career working in Manhattan I love that view. I'm a foodie, love music (obviously) and dig culture for the most part. I can get pretty much any food I want without too much of an effort. And I can find people to play music with fairly easily as well since there are so many dang people here. My only issue is that I don't like people all that much. But I deal with it. Hoping to find a cabin in the Adirondack Mountains so I can escape the lunacy that can sometimes interferes with daily existence. No regrets. After all, I got divorced about 3 years ago and I kept the house. No plans to leave, at least not yet.
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Not far from you Mountain Man
 
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I moved from Los Angeles to Las Vegas. Los Angeles: you are pretty much guaranteed to see everyone eventually, the cover is often dirt cheap, but you may have to drive a couple of hours to the show and back. Las Vegas: you are pretty much guaranteed to see everyone eventually, the most you'll have to drive is twenty minutes, but you may have to mortgage your house to afford show tickets.
 
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Columbus Ohio. Born and bred. I loved it until about 10 years ago when we started becoming a big city...we used to be a "hidden gem"...big enough to have a variety of things to do, but no traffic, cement/strip-mall wastelands. now they are mowing every thing down to build bullshyte apartment buildings and "press-board Estate's" housing development, with a sh**ty strip mall with a McDonalds, Starbucks, WalMart and other kacky type corporate boxes that will sit empty in 5 years when the next ring of urban crap spreads out....

as you can see, I am a little "edgy' about development. We have a lot of areas that have great character, but man, it is becoming lost in a sea of kack

In America, I would love to move to the UP of Michigan, or the tip of "the mitten"...somewhere with pine trees, lots of snow and cold, and no people around. Something about the Great Lakes calls to me, especially that area.

if I had unlimited funds, I would move to northern Sweden. Someplace where I could have the Midnight Sun and the Midday Darkness...home of my ancestors.
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Development is everywhere; even here in Northern Michigan, the place you really want to be. The other thing we have is trashy people who literally turn their properties into junk piles. It's getting better. As more people like me move in, purchase the trashed properties for cheap and then clean them up and make them perfect.

It's really difficult to pull up stakes and move to another location you're unfamiliar with. You'd almost have to live there a year or so just to get the vibe before you buy.
 
basset52 said:
Adelaide, Australia - which is right at the bottom on the sea of this big island and in the middle between the east and west coasts. Hot and dry summers with no humidity, mild winters. Surrounded by wine areas. City of 1 million, easy to get around. This is where my extended family live and I wouldn't want to live anywhere else because of this.
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Adelaide....... very beautiful city. Some beautiful old churches. I would very much like to visit Adelaide again. It's been a looong time since I was there. I really want to visit Derringers. Every search result for drum gear has their store 1st on the list. I bought some soft cases from them. Extremely cheap compared to others. Very tough people the South Australians. Rugged country and hot..... Boy Howdy. Aesthetically it's much nicer than Perth.
 
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Perth in Western Australia. Considered the most isolated Capital City in the world. Located in world's second (or third)?? largest single state in the world. Essentially just a flat expanse with the world's largest single rock apparently up north . Boiling in summer with beautiful winters. A very long city in terms of area.....it's considered to be the "Longest city in the world" according to a global census. Terrible drivers over here, over speeding, under speeding, tailgating in the left lane, no one indicates, lots of aggressive driving. But it's home and I wouldn't want to be anywhere else in the world.......... except for maybe Utah and Tasmania.
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Crazy looking at Perth on a map-- you guys are way out there. Then again, so is Oregon, sort of.

I have a strange fascination with Darwin-- ever since reading a war memoir that described it as the most miserable place on earth. I don't guess anyone from anywhere else in Australia has reason to go there, ever....

jaykaydrums said:
northwest england (north of manchester) so its a small area i live in, im quite busy with work, but to be connected better i would move to a city if i could, but not london *shudders*
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Some friends are trying to get us to move to Leeds, thoughts on that?
 
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