How much do you love the town you live in?

[thesummerqueen]

I'd like an option saying "this is the best place to live FOR ME" or something along that line - I'm sure there are many amazing places to live. This one just suits me very, very well.

But I'm being pedantic.

Yeah, for you is sort of what it's all about.  Still I've had the sense in the past that you'd pull up stakes and head for europe given the right circumstances.

South of France and parts of Germany have floated through for me, and I think I probably could be convinced by an Irishman to pick up and go to Ireland if he married me. But why the fuck would the Irishman do that when he can live in green hills here? That's what a large number of them did, which is why the mountainous areas of the south are still filled with fiery clannish rednecks of the scots-Irish persuasion. In the sunset, the Appalachians look like mounds of melting amber, like so many sidhe mounds filled with secrets. In any other time, they're the setting of a Lovecraft or Tolkien tale - the third oldest mountains, worn down smooth with age and time, riddled with caves and covered in mists - you see how a Hobbit loving woman would find them hard to move away from. They're close enough to drive to from Charlotte, which, for so many reasons, is a good place for a young single person to live.

I've never been to Charlotte but given the number of my religious relatives who have moved to North Carolina (sorry about that) I think it wouldn't suit me in at least that regard.  Likewise with the humidity assuming it is anything like it was in Maryland, outside of DC.  Likewise with the heat, I'm a fragile flower.  For that matter while an occasional snow sounds romantic it is also inconvenient and would limit what I can grow.  (I'm not that good a gardener really, the location has to meet me more than half way.)  All my cousins rave about their buying power there.  "Living large" they call it.  I'd rather be a little frugal in balmy coastal California though.

The humidity is teh suck, I won't lie. I exist in a state of 'moist' right now, and unfortunately it's not sexual (most of the time). But while the rest of the state of NC is pretty religious, most of the time Charlotte isn't worse than the rest of the country, honestly.