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Chapter79Chapter79 member
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No need to give exact locations for privacy or anything :)
I'm just curious, where abouts-ish are you all located?
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  • Chapter79Chapter79 member
    I'm from upstate, NY :)  (near Albany)
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  • JackoftheBoxJackoftheBox member
    Missouri!! 

    MIZ! 
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    OhBenji said:
    Missouri

    NO No No your suppose to say..... (this is your last chance)
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    ICarriedAWatermelon said:
    Chapter79 said:
    No need to give exact locations for privacy or anything :)
    I'm just curious, where abouts-ish are you all located?
    Seattle!

    @Chapter79 - I grew up near Syracuse! My husband grew up near Albany... in Niskayuna. His parents retired and moved up the Northway to the ADKs.
    @ICarriedAWatermelon- Nisky is like 5 minutes from me :P
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  • KatieB19KatieB19 member
    Maryland here, although we're in northern Ohio for a bit. So glad we relocated during a period of record breaking cold weather.
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  • eyenigheyenigh member
    edited January 2014
    Detroit suburbs, not Detroit city. This is a very important distinction.
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    M&MHaveMyHeart said:
    Detroit suburbs, not Detroit city. This is a very important distinction.
    Lol Call me crazy but I really like Detroit. We visit as often as we can. I mean, sure we don't sightsee in the slums but still.
    No, in all seriousness, it's not the horror show that the media makes it out to be. I work in the city and spend 10 hours a day here. Downtown and midtown are great. The cultural center, the campus community, restaurants, stadiums, theaters/music venues, architecture-- all good. But the city, to most people looking to live a normal life, is just not an option to live in. They built the first (and only) grocery store in 25 years in the city last year and it's on the outskirts, bordering a suburb. The city is so huge that for a ton of people, that's like a 10-18 mile round trip! There's no viable regular shopping. You couldn't find a place in the city to buy, say, clothes for the office-- not a Gap or Banana in sight. The stores that are downtown actually close on the weekends because there's no foot traffic when the offices are closed. Schools are the nightmare that the news shows you. I work at a university and not a single person I know with children who lives in the city has then in daycare or school in the city. Even some of the parks, although somewhat maintained, aren't places I'd take a kid on a regular day. The residential areas of the city are absolutely terrifying except for a few pockets of upscale neighborhoods and historical areas that have been well-maintained. You don't pick to live in a city if you have to leave it for all the regular things that you need.

    Before my son, I was part of a group of urban explorers that would go into abandoned areas to take photos (a couple were graffiti artists). I've seen some stuff inside of buildings that would make your hair curl, hence the reason that I no longer go tromping around there now that I have a kid.

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    Brownbackistan.

    University of Kansas alum Geoff Folker applies food coloring to his snow sculpture at his home on Park Street in Olathe, Kan., on Sunday, March 24, 2013. A storm that dumped up to 15 inches of snow on parts of Colorado and Kansas is making its way east, with winter storm warnings and advisories issued for today and tomorrow as far east as Pennsylvania. (AP Photo/The Kansas City Star, John Sleezer)

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  • EMarieMeEMarieMe member
    Bay area, California....so that makes me the only one not freezing her butt off?

    @eyenigh, URBEX is really cool. I'm a bit of Disney nut, wouldn't call myself a Disneyanna or anything, but the guys who got onto Discovery Island took some great pics. Did you ever read up on that story?


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  • this decaf lifethis decaf life member
    Manila, Philippines
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  • this decaf lifethis decaf life member
    edited January 2014
    Sorry, it posted twice! I'll change this to say @eyenigh I have a lot of family in Lincoln/Allen Park.
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    this decaf life said:
    Sorry, it posted twice! I'll change this to say @eyenigh I have a lot of family in Lincoln/Allen Park.

    That's a long drive from the Philippines.
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    EMarieMe said:
    Bay area, California....so that makes me the only one not freezing her butt off?

    @eyenigh, URBEX is really cool. I'm a bit of Disney nut, wouldn't call myself a Disneyanna or anything, but the guys who got onto Discovery Island took some great pics. Did you ever read up on that story?



    Yes! I'd been to River Country so many times as a kid and no idea it wasn't there anymore. It was weird to look at the abandoned photos but be able to match them up with very vibrant memories. Really, I guess that's what I love about urbex in general-- both the tie ins to your own memories and making up the story of how something got to be how it stands now. It's an oddly creative or sometimes sadly poetic experience in some places.
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  • kristenndkristennd member
    North Dakota.

    But DH and I are both from the west coast.
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  • legalbeagle1legalbeagle1 member
    NYC -- contributes to the OAD-ness.
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    legalbeagle1 said:
    NYC -- contributes to the OAD-ness.
    @legalbeagle1 -JEALOUS! Favorite city ever. We go several times a year, since it's a train ride away. Although if metro north keeps crashing their junk, it's gonna be longer before I go. 
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    legalbeagle1 said:
    NYC -- contributes to the OAD-ness.
    DH went through a phase of wanting to move to NYC. I told him we could afford a child or we could afford NYC but never both.
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  • legalbeagle1legalbeagle1 member
    @chapter79 and others -- Its funny.  I really love living here in a lot of ways: lots of my friends live here and no one is more than 30 mins away by train, there's amazing food that I don't have to cook, small living generally agrees with me, I like walking places rather than driving, etc.  But there are some days where I search for a ginormous house in the NJ suburbs and think about what it would be like to have more space, backyard for our dog, a good public school system, etc.  In the end, we are in the city because we both have really time-consuming legal jobs and we'd never see our kid with a commute to the burbs.
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