What I like or love about my neighborhood or city or state or country....
 

My thought for this thread is that it could be a place where anyone can express their positive feelings ... no matter how small for the place they call home. As the title suggests, it could be something you as close to you as street on which you live or as all encompassing as the country you live! :koolaid:

My one additional suggestion would be that when we share our likes/loves that we leave out any qualifying, clarifying, prefacing statements about whatever it is that we like/love. There are exceptions to everything... to every statement... to every opinion ... to every rule... etc. My hope is that we can keep it 100% positive... 100% gratitude... 100% appreciation ... 100% good stuff! Ya know? ;)

I'll start... I appreciate that all my neighbors have been so friendly and welcoming since the first day I arrived!

I love the fact that I can walk 15 minutes in 3 directions and look over a huge expanse of water...

Oh... nice! I'm here in North Texas... dry... dry... dry... :(

I LOVE that I am within walking distance of catching a ferry back over to civilization or as it's more commonly refereed to as Seattle:hangloose:

I love shrimp... in all it's tasty incarnations! lol :p

Oh... I think I took that ferry once outta Seattle! I took it out to an island... what's the island called?? It's been like 20 years! :blink: It's so awesome... cool... lil overcast I think... loved it!

OMG I'm SO jealous............

I love that we live in the country, yet can get in town in only 15 minutes. It's a smallish town, too, which I like.

That does sound nice. Peace and quiet huh? :)

Quiet country
Neighbors not to close, yet close enough to be called neighbors
Very low crime rate in my part of the county
1 hr from camping in a small mountain range
3 hrs from the Smokeys and the beach

That sounds perfect! Sounds like S. CAL ... close to beach... close to mountains... etc... BUT, no smog and no traffic! Saweet!

I love that gas is cheap cheap cheap in Texas! $1.89/gallon! Woo hoo!! :cigar2:

I love that any type of food you could desire is available within walking distance.

I love our rainbow crosswalk downtown.

The climate is liveable. You can tell the change of the seasons. You need a jacket on Spring and Fall mornings. Extreme weather is not the norm and when it happens it is short lived. Except this Summer which was our 4th hottest on record.

A blessing to be sure!! :)

I live 11 miles east of Asheville. There's ALWAYS something cheap or free to do any day of the week. Its a food and beer town. College town
Very community oriented. I'm an hour or so away from a national park (Smokies) 2 national forests (Pisgah and Nantahala) and 5 minutes from the Blue Ridge Parkway. (Which is also technically a National Park)
I can find bluegrass nearly any night of the week and we have drum circle every Friday in good weather. Random people come to play music together in a park and people from all walks of life listen and dance.

If you've never been here you need to visit at LEAST once. I'm completely in love :)

I have lived in several different cities of Florida. Each city has its own unique quality as to why I love it. I grew up in Daytona Beach, Florida; lived in Ocala, Florida, which is horse country and visited Bradenton, Florida. I currently live about five minutes away from the beach in New Smyrna and I love the sun rises here. If you are friends with me on Facebook, you can see the various nature/sun pictures that I have taken.


Zimmeh

There are a few islands it could of been...Vashon [smaller one] and Bainbridge, those are the one straight across from seattle....there are more a bit north too

My town has the highest level of diversity and enlightenment among people.The wealthy live alongside low-income, with everyone in between. Everyone is very social and friendly with each other. We have an award-winning school. In town there are quaint shops, a gay bar, library, Walgreens, grocery store, plus, all the places, like kfc, macdonalds etc. I live a few miles from the town where I manage a very busy B&B. In the summer, it is one long party. Practically out-side my door, is the lake Michigan, where there is a launch for hang-gliding, water-skiing, kayaking, fishing, bike trails, plus the beach for swimming. Wild-life is very friendly, always hangs around. A party with a dj is happening on the beach every week. 50 yards away on the water is a big building that has weddings, and receptions, and various other social events, and the folks stay here .

Just glancing through this month's issue of Forbes Magazine I see that Asheville is one of the top places they rated to retire in.
The Seattle Times too often runs articles about Asheville and I always picture it a delightful place to visit.