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

[homoe]

Originally Posted by cinnamongrrl

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

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.

[cinnamongrrl]

Originally Posted by homoe

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.

Consider yourself openly invited to visit!! We could so do a vacation swap too. I'd love to visit your neck of the woods

[Lyte]

Oh! I like this idea!! Like a BFP Air BNB??

Originally Posted by cinnamongrrl

Consider yourself openly invited to visit!! We could so do a vacation swap too. I'd love to visit your neck of the woods

[Blade]

Just watched 7 deer come off my creek, cross the dirt road and slowly make their way along the tree line and back into the woods. Yeah, that's what I love about my neighborhood

[Lyte]

I miss living near some kind of wilderness. Now I'm in suburbia and the closest thing I get in a opossum in my attic. Not a good thing! I love watching videos where the deer come up to someone's back door looking for food, attention or to play the owner's dog or cat. So cute!

Originally Posted by Blade

Just watched 7 deer come off my creek, cross the dirt road and slowly make their way along the tree line and back into the woods. Yeah, that's what I love about my neighborhood

[cinnamongrrl]

Originally Posted by homoe

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.

Consider yourself openly invited to visit!! We could so do a vacation swap too. I'd love to visit your neck of the woods

[JDeere]

That Houston is a huge diverse melting pot.

That I can find excellent Pho or a Ramen noodle bar not too far from my house.

[A. Spectre]

Numerous interesting items about Chicago I like and love. Since I spend around 50% or a bit more time in Chicago a month, I have slowly learned what makes this city such a world class place to visit, work.

First, the 'noises', the hustle and bustle of the people on the sidewalk, the honking of the Uber, Lyft and cabbies hurriedly making their way to their destinations with their fares. Oh the smells, the thousands of restaurants offering up any dish from anywhere within walking distance.



The architecture, if you take a water vessel through the canals you can see the back side of the old buildings with the original stone, marble and steel. So ornate compared to the false fronts that many buildings have.



The fireworks the city offers at no charge every Wednesday and Saturday nights off of the Navy Pier.



The arts, museums, theater, amazing street entertainment



*This woman does a fantastic Tina Turner!

[Lyte]

Chicago is on my MUST SEE list. You've just reaffirmed that! It looks like a fantastic place!

Originally Posted by A. Spectre

Numerous interesting items about Chicago I like and love. Since I spend around 50% or a bit more time in Chicago a month, I have slowly learned what makes this city such a world class place to visit, work.

First, the 'noises', the hustle and bustle of the people on the sidewalk, the honking of the Uber, Lyft and cabbies hurriedly making their way to their destinations with their fares. Oh the smells, the thousands of restaurants offering up any dish from anywhere within walking distance.



The architecture, if you take a water vessel through the canals you can see the back side of the old buildings with the original stone, marble and steel. So ornate compared to the false fronts that many buildings have.



The fireworks the city offers at no charge every Wednesday and Saturday nights off of the Navy Pier.



The arts, museums, theater, amazing street entertainment



*This woman does a fantastic Tina Turner!

[homoe]

Originally Posted by A. Spectre

Numerous interesting items about Chicago I like and love. Since I spend around 50% or a bit more time in Chicago a month, I have slowly learned what makes this city such a world class place to visit, work.

First, the 'noises', the hustle and bustle of the people on the sidewalk, the honking of the Uber, Lyft and cabbies hurriedly making their way to their destinations with their fares. Oh the smells, the thousands of restaurants offering up any dish from anywhere within walking distance.



The architecture, if you take a water vessel through the canals you can see the back side of the old buildings with the original stone, marble and steel. So ornate compared to the false fronts that many buildings have.



The fireworks the city offers at no charge every Wednesday and Saturday nights off of the Navy Pier.



The arts, museums, theater, amazing street entertainment



*This woman does a fantastic Tina Turner!

I love all those things you've mention PLUS so much more of where you live too! CHICAGO......it's my kind of town!!!!!

[Zimmeh]

When I went to Chicago for job training, I loved visiting Geno's East Pizzaeria and Navy Pier!

Zimmeh

Originally Posted by A. Spectre

Numerous interesting items about Chicago I like and love. Since I spend around 50% or a bit more time in Chicago a month, I have slowly learned what makes this city such a world class place to visit, work.

First, the 'noises', the hustle and bustle of the people on the sidewalk, the honking of the Uber, Lyft and cabbies hurriedly making their way to their destinations with their fares. Oh the smells, the thousands of restaurants offering up any dish from anywhere within walking distance.



The architecture, if you take a water vessel through the canals you can see the back side of the old buildings with the original stone, marble and steel. So ornate compared to the false fronts that many buildings have.



The fireworks the city offers at no charge every Wednesday and Saturday nights off of the Navy Pier.



The arts, museums, theater, amazing street entertainment



*This woman does a fantastic Tina Turner!

[Zimmeh]

I also loved living in Arlington Heights, Massachusetts. I lived about ten minutes outside of Harvard Square. I also lived in Franklin, Massachusetts. I miss living up North.

Zimmeh

[Canela]

I miss Chicago. Even more so now that my beloved Cubbies have won the World Series. I've never missed a chance to go back to Wrigley field to catch a game each time I've visited since I moved in 2000.

I miss Chicago. My yearly jazz festival was a "can't miss" weekend of music, ambience and memories. It was a beautiful landscape of all walks of life as far as the eye could see, sitting on blankets and foldable chairs with a picnic basket at Grant Park, enjoying some of the best free jazz music in the world. The lights of Chicago as they come on at dusk, and Navy Pier and their fireworks. I miss the Chicago Bulls when Michael Jordan was helping win championship rings...

I miss catching concerts, musicals and conferences at the Rosemont Horizon, now the Alstate Arena (unless it's name has been changed to something else). I miss concerts at the Ravinia...I miss the House of Blues...I guess I miss the music...

I miss and regret not finishing my degree at Elmhurst. There is no other school like it. Anywhere. I followed my co-dependent heart back here and I know what a huge mistake that was--now.

I miss my Italian ice in watermelon, cantaloupe and other flavors at Freddy's pizzeria in Cicero, which is actually Berwyn at the corner where the lil mom and pop store/eatery sit. Now THAT pizza is incredible! I miss all things Italian...

I prefer Home Run Inn pizza to Giordano's, Connie's or Gino's East, but they are ALL very good eatin. I do NOT miss the prolonged commute anywhere due to the snow. That I do NOT. Lol

I miss going to Soldier Field and watching the Bears play in freezing sub zero temps, and freezing my ass off with many other die hard fans who were doing the same.

I miss the museum of Science and Industry, the Field Museum the Aquarium and the museum of Art with some of the finest creations known to the world... The "adventures" we'd have when I'd take a "skip day" with my children and the moments spent there with them.

I miss my children being that young and even how much I worked and went to school and how even though my support team was so small, we made it work together. I miss rides through O'hare in the evenings, after traffic to take in the lights and soothe my little girl to sleep.

I miss shopping in the lil grocery stores in little village to buy things I could only get there for my tex-mex cuisine. Speaking Spanish there was the only time I was able to do so...I miss that whole experience of little village...I miss riding the L downtown and that horrible curve it takes when passing Cook County hospital. Felt like I was riding a roller coaster...

I miss the fabulous work opportunities and the welcoming of cultural and lifestyle diversity.

I miss my friends, family and the whole experience I've left behind. I'm feeling a tiny bit homesick as I wax nostalgic...maybe more than a tiny bit. There's more but I'll pause right here...

Chicago is a gorgeous place filled with so much culture, architecture, history and charm.

Did I mention how much I miss it?

Thank you A. Spectre for triggering my trip down memory lane...

Originally Posted by A. Spectre

Numerous interesting items about Chicago I like and love. Since I spend around 50% or a bit more time in Chicago a month, I have slowly learned what makes this city such a world class place to visit, work.

First, the 'noises', the hustle and bustle of the people on the sidewalk, the honking of the Uber, Lyft and cabbies hurriedly making their way to their destinations with their fares. Oh the smells, the thousands of restaurants offering up any dish from anywhere within walking distance.



The architecture, if you take a water vessel through the canals you can see the back side of the old buildings with the original stone, marble and steel. So ornate compared to the false fronts that many buildings have.



The fireworks the city offers at no charge every Wednesday and Saturday nights off of the Navy Pier.



The arts, museums, theater, amazing street entertainment



*This woman does a fantastic Tina Turner!

[JDeere]

What I like about the state I live in, is that it's huge and makes for good traveling.

[~ocean]

the ppl respect the pooper scooper law ~ a salute ~

[Lyte]

We share the same state! Suggestions on day trips?? I'm not much into shopping... I like sightseeing... what's out here??

Originally Posted by JDeere

What I like about the state I live in, is that it's huge and makes for good traveling.

[deeds]

People pretty much leave me alone..There are more decent neighbors than those morons who like to hassle me tho,so I'm a fortunate one.

[pumpndude]

I like living in the mountains as I love nature and all it has to offer...
CA

[Lyte]

OMG... Sonora!? That is a beautiful area in CA. And still close enough to civilization should the mood strike.

Originally Posted by pumpndude

I like living in the mountains as I love nature and all it has to offer...
CA

[Arden]

I appreciate being able to hear the ocean from my house. I enjoy the amazing sunrises on my drive to work. Being able to, weather permitting, go on a run through my neighborhood dodging elk and coyotes on my way to the beach. Depending on my mood my run may become a walk and the roar of the ocean may serve to dampen the sound of my tears or hide the questions I lift up.