April 2012 Moms

Describe your town, city, etc.

I always find this interesting.

If you don't want to identify the exact place, just tell us the general location, state. Is it known for anything? How long have you lived there?

Re: Describe your town, city, etc.

  • I live in a small town (60k) in Northern California. It is known for it's wine grapes and wineries, and my family has been part of the wine grape industry for over 100 years. So a bottle of wine you may be enjoying could very well have grapes from my families vineyards in it. :)

    I've lived here my entire life with the exception of college, and while I love the small town, family oriented feel, I have a lot of differeing viewpoints compared to the majority of people here. It's a very republican town, and there tends to be quite a bit of aversive racism. Mostly middle class and upper middle class families, and migrant farm workers. There was one black person in my high school class of 500. I do like it, but wish people were more open-minded.

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  • I live near Louisville, KY.  The area is known for the KY Derby, horse racing, bourbon, and baseball bats.   I moved here about 5 1/2 years ago from a very small, rural town.  I don't really care for Louisville, and we're hoping to move back home before LO starts to school but DH finding a job there will be tough.  

  • I live in Southern New England. It is a suburban city, mostly middle class. The area where I live is a mixed bag of all classes. We live within 1 block in each direction (east and west) to a bay and inlet. I have grown up here and my husband is from a neighboring city that is generally more rural then this town. We have an airport and now a train station here but it isn't the capital of our state.

    My DH and I want to move and are considering selling our house soon to move closer to his work and the country. The area we live in have a lot of old beach houses.

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  • I live in Pocatello, Idaho.  I moved her 13 years ago tomorrow (orginally from Port Washington, WI)!  It's about 60,000 people, home to Idaho State University.  It's mountainous, with a local ski hill 10 minutes away. 

    There is a dominate religion of LDS or Mormons that make up this area.  This was very new to me when I moved here, seeing that where I grew up was all Catholic.

    Winters are full of snow and summers are supper dry and hot.  We have had a terrible fire year this summer.  At the end of June we had a fire in the south hills of town that burned 1000 acres and took out 66 homes and sadly killed 47 animals (no humans, thank god).

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  • I live in Lowell, MI, near Grand Rapids. Small town, but such an awesome community. I've lived here my whole life, kindergarten all the way through. DH teaches at the high school. When we first got married, we lived in a different town, but have since moved back. I want my kids to go to the same school I went too and I want them to grow up here.

    Our town was also on the Today Show last year for our huge cancer fundraiser/football game we do every year and all we do for the Gilda's Club (and there is now a Gilda's Club 'house' here!). They have raised over $100,000 to help cancer patients. 

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  • Boston - best city there is! Lots of history, great museums, wonderful place for kids, decent music scene, good public transportation (although I complain about the T daily, it is still a good system), walkable city/not overwhelming, Red Sox, Patriots, Bruins, and Celtics, on the water (I have to live by the ocean) and quick drives to skiing, great beaches, Maine, Vermont, NH, etc etc etc. Winters suck. On September 1st a billion and 1 students will take over. Nice and liberal, the way I like things :)

    I have lived here for 13 years now. I grew up in Santa Barbara, CA. Beautiful place and I love to go back and visit, but at heart I am an East Coast girl.
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  • I live in the outskirts of Orlando, FL. The town I live in is in the smallest county in FL. There are about 32K people in my city which is 16 square miles (I just looked this up, I had no idea). It has some run down areas and it's "downtown" is 1 stop light with 1 diner and some family run stores. There are roosters and chickens all over the place in this area. Some are pretty cool looking. People down the street have a citrus farm that is pretty big. There is also a strawberry patch not too far.

    I grew up in this area, not in this city though since I was 12. I did move to Tampa for a while during my 20s but moved back. I am about 15 min from the HS I graduated from.

    I love my little city though. I had always wanted to live in a more metropolitan area but now that I live in the sticks (kind of) I love it. I don't have to deal with traffic and work is only 8 miles away. It's quiet and there are lots of old oak trees in our neighborhood (I think we have 8 in our backyard). Unless we win the lottery I see us staying in this town forever.

    Lillian April 17, 2012
  • I live in Tampa. It definitely has its good and bad points...It is a beautiful area with lots of palm trees, the bay, the Gulf of Mexico and all the beaches within arm's reach. We get lots and lots of sunshine and warm days almost year-round. We have museums, a great zoo, Busch Gardens, and Disney/Orlando only about an hour away. We also have a few fun festivals each year. But it also has horrible public transportation (read: none), the traffic is outrageously bad, there are way too many stripmalls and chain restaurants, spring break time can be a nightmare, "snow birds" (old retired people) invading each winter, and everything is superrrrrr spread out, so it can be a bit of a pain sometimes to get places. We also have the "pleasure" of yearly hurricane threats, daily rain storms in the summer, and this year, the Republican National Convention. haha.
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    I live in a small town (60k) in Northern California. It is known for it's wine grapes and wineries, and my family has been part of the wine grape industry for over 100 years. So a bottle of wine you may be enjoying could very well have grapes from my families vineyards in it. :)

    I've lived here my entire life with the exception of college, and while I love the small town, family oriented feel, I have a lot of differeing viewpoints compared to the majority of people here. It's a very republican town, and there tends to be quite a bit of aversive racism. Mostly middle class and upper middle class families, and migrant farm workers. There was one black person in my high school class of 500. I do like it, but wish people were more open-minded.

    How cool is that.  If I ever won the lottery I would love to own a winery, it's my dream.

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  • I live outside of Huntsville, Alabama. I think someone told me there are more PHD's per capita here than anywhere else, but I don't know that for sure. There are a lot of rocket scientists and doctors in our area (We live near the Space and Rocket center). I hate it here, and we only moved here for work since DH is ex-military and there is a base in Huntsville. We're originally from Georgia, outside Atlanta, and really really really hope to be there by the beginning of the year. We've lived here since July of last year.
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  • I just moved to a different town in NJ. I went to Tampa for college. However, where i grew up in NJ is very woodsy and out in the middle of nowhere.  We do have clinton Road, which is one of the major haunted roads in the united States.
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  • I live 20 minutes north of the heart of Detroit, Michigan. You've all heard of or seen Eminem's movie 8 Mile? Yeah, I live on 10 mile (2 miles north). My neighborhood is middle class, mixed races and ethnicities. The school system is for crap so we're looking to move this year to the more affluent suburb of Grosse Pointe that has an amazing school system and is about 2 miles east and 2 miles south of where I currently am.

    It makes me really sad that Detroit has the bad reputation that it does. There are certainly bad parts and there are a lot of homicides and many people living in poverty but the city and its people offer a lot of great things, too. I feel 100% safe walking around in the heart of Detroit where our football and baseball stadiums are and we have some of the best restaurants in the States.

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  • Beener, that is good to hear about Detroit. I used to work FT in Stockton, Ca (I think it's #3 on most dangerous cities list?) and I felt completely unsafe. My office was in the really rough area though and we would see drug deals going down and hear gun shots in the middle of the day. Scary!! And I'm a big wimp. I carried a pink canister of pepper spray in my pocket when I had to walk to my car.
  • imageBeener0514:

    I live 20 minutes north of the heart of Detroit, Michigan. You've all heard of or seen Eminem's movie 8 Mile? Yeah, I live on 10 mile (2 miles north). My neighborhood is middle class, mixed races and ethnicities. The school system is for crap so we're looking to move this year to the more affluent suburb of Grosse Pointe that has an amazing school system and is about 2 miles east and 2 miles south of where I currently am.

    It makes me really sad that Detroit has the bad reputation that it does. There are certainly bad parts and there are a lot of homicides and many people living in poverty but the city and its people offer a lot of great things, too. I feel 100% safe walking around in the heart of Detroit where our football and baseball stadiums are and we have some of the best restaurants in the States.

    I live in the most NON diverse city in Michigan proabably ever. I think we had one black family in my high school of over 1,000 kids. ONE. When DH and I make the trip to Detroit, I get so freaked out. Thats just me being honest! I'm sure if I lived in such a big city like that I'd be more comfortable, but thats way out of my "norm."  I made DH carry his gun when we walked around downtown (he has his CCW people, don't worry). I kind of wish I was used to that big city livin' though..

  • It was built on rock'n'roll.

     

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    It was built on rock'n'roll.

     

    arghhhhhh, now I have Starship stuck in my head! Thanks, lady!

    ~Sarah

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  • I live in a tiny-ass village in the very southern part of the German state of Hesse; we're about an hour south of Frankfurt, half an hour from Heidelberg and about 20 minutes from Mannheim. We moved here right before Christmas because my office moved to a city nearby. It is known for its hillbillies, perhaps?

    It's kind of cool here, though. In Frankfurt, we had a 3 room apartment; for about the same amount of money, we are able to rent an entire house here. In Frankfurt, we could watch the alcoholics in the HUD-ish housing across the street drink wine from cardboard boxes in the morning. Here, we could watch horses drink wine from cardboard boxes ... if only they did that sort of thing.

    This is the kind of place where everyone knows everyone and they can be all up in your shiz. At the preschool the other day, one of the other mothers knew about our trip to the States even though we never said anything to her. Right after we moved here, everyone in the village knew who we were and where we lived. But they all, for the most part, nice folks. 

  • I live in small town SC . There is a large university near by so that does bring some events esp sports to the area. We are at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains and have several lakes nearby, it is really beautiful I've lived here for 12 years. It is a total opposite change of pace from the suburbs of Chicago where I grew up. When we moved here we drove by me new high school and there were literally cows at the fence of the parking lot! It was culture shock but now I love the slow pace and familiarity of our lifestyle.

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  • I live in a super tiny town in Southern NH. My town is literally 1 mile by 4 miles. When DH and I by a house we are definitely looking into moving to a different part of NH not a huge fan of the small town atmosphere.
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  • I am in Northeast Louisiana in a fairly rural area with our own Twin Cities! We are the birthplace of Delta Airlines, the first Coca-Cola Bottling plant was started here and home of the Ouachita indians!
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  • imageDragonflyBelle:
    I am in Northeast Louisiana in a fairly rural area with our own Twin Cities! We are the birthplace of Delta Airlines, the first Coca-Cola Bottling plant was started here and home of the Ouachita indians!

    When I was a kid, I lived in Vinton, which is way down in the southwest corner, near the Texas border. We moved to Kansas when I finished the 5th grade.

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    I live outside of Huntsville, Alabama. I think someone told me there are more PHD's per capita here than anywhere else, but I don't know that for sure. There are a lot of rocket scientists and doctors in our area (We live near the Space and Rocket center). I hate it here, and we only moved here for work since DH is ex-military and there is a base in Huntsville. We're originally from Georgia, outside Atlanta, and really really really hope to be there by the beginning of the year. We've lived here since July of last year.
    I heard that to be fire on HouseHunters too.
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  • I live 15 minutes north of Atlanta. The area we live in is upper middle class. I love this area because you are a couple hours drive from the mountains and 5 hrs from the gulf beaches. Traffic is a big problem in ATL but luckily, I work from home. Our neighborhood has a small town feel and everyone is very social and helpful. Unlike when I grew up, most everybody is from somewhere else and not Atlanta natives. I'm a true Georgia peach, complete with accent (but not like Honey boo boos).
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  • I live in Denver Metro area and I really like it here. We've lived here for almost 5 years now. I like that it is big enough to have a ton of options of things to do, a lot of outdoor activities and people seem to be pretty down to earth and nice. It is really pretty here and it isn't super humid which is so nice compared to where I'm originally from. I hate snow, well driving in it and being cold, but even when it snows a foot+, it is so sunny here that is melts really fast! I do honestly get really jealous when I see how nice of a house I could buy back home, but I like it here better so I just suck it up.
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  • imageDevonPow:
    Boston - best city there is! Lots of history, great museums, wonderful place for kids, decent music scene, good public transportation (although I complain about the T daily, it is still a good system), walkable city/not overwhelming, Red Sox, Patriots, Bruins, and Celtics, on the water (I have to live by the ocean) and quick drives to skiing, great beaches, Maine, Vermont, NH, etc etc etc. Winters suck. On September 1st a billion and 1 students will take over. Nice and liberal, the way I like things :)

    I have lived here for 13 years now. I grew up in Santa Barbara, CA. Beautiful place and I love to go back and visit, but at heart I am an East Coast girl.

    I was born and raised in Ventura County but live down South now. I miss being able to pop up to SB for lunch and walking around.

    I hope to visit Boston but the closest I get is NYC.

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  • I live in a small historic area between Baltimore and DC.  There are three roads going into the town so we have a little island in suburbia. 

    The main attraction is a mill which used to be a cotton mill, then made Christmas ornaments, and now houses artists, businesses, and unique shops. 

    I live in one of the mill-workers houses and we think it was built in 1810, when the mill opened. It is 815 square feet.  We bought it 3 years ago.

    Over the course of the work we have done on the house, we have found glass scraps from making the Christmas ornaments and notes written in the walls!

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    It says "Hello there future! I am 1988".

     

     

  • I live in the suburbs of Portland, OR. Our town is close to 100k and so are the neighboring towns. We are close to downtown (go there to eat, etc) but it's very suburban here. We have a few big companies here (Nike, Intel, Columbia Sportswear, some biotech and semicon stuff) so that brings a lot of people in.

    I love OR, the weather is mild, the rain sucks but June-Oct make up for it. We've lived some other places (CO, PA) but like it here the best. We've been here 3 years.

  • I'm late to this, sorry.  Reading everyone's story is so interesting!  I live in a city of 1.5M but it feels like a big country town.  Everyone is white and middle-class and there are great restaurants here because of all the immigration in the 70s/80s.  We have lots of European & Asian immigrants and they had brought all their good food knowledge;)  The beach is 15 mins away from our house, and there's also amazing wineries, as our area is one of the primary wine regions in Australia.  I love living here, it's a wonderful place to raise a family.  I do miss Chicago though.
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  • We've lived in Columbus, OH for the last 6 years, and it's known for the Ohio State Buckeyes and...well, that's about it. And I hate football, so it's been a treat being here.

     

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  • This week I live in Hoboken, NJ which is just across the Hudson from midtown Manhattan. It's a small town (a square mile), and known as a party town for singles in their 20s and 30s, but the demographics are changing as more people are having kids and staying put. It's (arguably) where the first baseball game was played, where Sinatra grew up, and is the home of Carlo's Bakery from Cake Boss.

    Next week, we are moving to our new house in the burbs! We both love Hoboken, but I work an hour away which is no bueno with the baby. Plus the schools there are pretty bad, so we would have wanted to move before he started school anyway. Our new town is about 45 minutes west of Manhattan, very pretty and hilly, has one of the best school systems in NJ, and is probably best known for having the headquarters of Verizon. The only drawback is that it's known for being a wealthy town and we are not remotely wealthy, so I'm a little worried about the snob factor; plus it is not as diverse as I would have liked, but I couldn't find a town that had everything we wanted plus a highly diverse population.

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  • I live in Queens in an area called Maspeth.  The boroughs of NYC are broken down into small neighborhoods and each neighborhood has little parts in it that are specific to an ethnicity as far as the shops go.  There are Polish, German, Hispanic, Irish, Italian.  However, everyone lives together.  My street alone has Irish, German, Indian, Polish, Asian, etc.  The area I live is very rural in comparison to other Queens/NYC areas in that it is all houses, very few buildings, and there are tons of parks, clean sidewalks and no subways.  You have to take a 10-15 minute bus ride to get to any subway.  It isn't bad because you have nice quiet living but all the amenities of NYC with Manhattan no more than 30 minutes away by bus/train - even faster if you drive (not during rush hours!!)  It's very nice and the schools are some of the highest ranked schools in NYC.  However, DH and I aren't too keen on our kids going to school here and have ideas of moving within the next few years, either a little further away from Manhattan or to Northern California, which we both love to pieces. 
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  • I live in a small town smack dab in the middle of Alabama.  We're not know for much of anything.  There are always lots of BBQs, and our neighborhood is filled with lots of firework enthusiasts and Alabama fans (Roll Tide!!).  We love living in a small country town, but I am so tired of the heat.  Contrary to popular belief, we're not all hicks we just like a little bit slower paced lifestyle.  I really love living here, and have no desire to move anywhere else!! 
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  • We've lived in Knoxville, TN for 3 years now. Not my favorite, but it's close-ish to his family in VA and mine in NC. It's a decent place to live. Right by the smoky mountains, so there's some nice scenery nearby..and Dollywood Confused I'm not a UT fan, so we're a bit out of place. It's too southern for me here in general, but I don't see us getting much further north since both our families are down here (my family moved from outside Philadelphia when I was 14) I'm definitely a northern girl at heart. For the size of the city, there's not as much to do as I would like. THe schools are hit or miss. The school we work at is decent...very diverse. The one DD will go to is better though. I'd love to move back to Pennsylvania....but it won't happen. The town I grew up in was the best.
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  • I live in a small city on the CT shoreline.  I can't imagine not living close to the ocean (or LI sound).  Fun fact- I live right around the corner from the PEZ factory.  They finally opened a visitor's center last year.  I bought a bucket of PEZ.  My city is also home of Bic and Subway.
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