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SeeksOnlyOne -> RE: why its good to live in your hometown (8/5/2007 6:41:52 AM)

amen to the job app thing.........i only filled one out after being hired on all my jobs for the past 20 years.......just a technicality.......i have always known a great, honest mechanic(well they are to me anyhow-theyre family and know they will eat my cooking at Christmas[:D]).

one prob i have is the new roads and the changing of the names on old ones......i still call them what they were when i was a teen, and most are something parkway now or something.....but it helps you find a native when you say its off cherokee-and they say yeah-rather than look at you like wtf is that? lol



GhitaAmati -> RE: why its good to live in your hometown (8/5/2007 7:21:49 AM)

I live in the house my great grandfather built in 1928. The land I live on has been in my family since before Florida became a state. Everyone within 5 miles of me is either related, or our families have lived so close to each other for so many years, they might as well be family. My kids can run most of the neighborhood without me worrying, they know that if they ever need anything they can go to the closest house and be taken care of. If they arent home in time for dinner, they know some adult will grab them by their ears and drag them home. If they are seen doing anything bad, they are immediatly reprimanded by whoever sees it and taken home. They feel safe, secure, and have dozens of cousins their own age or close by with whom they can spend the entire summer with, playing in the hay bales or terrorizing the cattle. I remember my leash being a bit longer than the one I give my kids, I dont let them play down by the river like I was allowed when I was their age, but for the most part, nothing has changed since I was a kid growing up here. Its wonderful. My kids go to the same school my grandfather, my mother, and I all went to. Surprisingly enough, I think we all had some of the same teachers...there's this old cafeteria lady I swear has to be 107. My grandfather worked at the local harware and feed store for over 40 years, all of us kids have worked there too at some point or another, we were all guarnteed jobs their the minute we turned 15. Most of the county I live in knows someone in my family, and I have a family member in almost every government office here. I know we will never move, eventually I think we will build a new house farther back on the property, we are outgrowing this one and there are times I think it would be easier to level the house and start over instead of continue to repair damages. The minute I pull one thing apart to fix it, I find something else that needs repair too...but I love this house, and this neighborhood. Its quiet..and its dark, no city lights to block out the stars at night.



mnottertail -> RE: why its good to live in your hometown (8/5/2007 7:23:35 AM)

Are you really Richard Nixon, by chance?

Ron



DomKen -> RE: why its good to live in your hometown (8/5/2007 7:30:41 AM)

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ORIGINAL: SeeksOnlyOne

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ORIGINAL: DomKen

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ORIGINAL: SeeksOnlyOne

Ken, it sounds like you grew up in my home town, or pretty close to it.......was the drug store dunaways at belmont hills shopping center by any chance?  that or the town where youre required by law to own a handgun?  it could be any one of the towns close to me here in metro atlanta.....

No. I can't see any harm in just naming the place though. It is Conyers in Rockdale County.


ahhhh out east.....i was raised in cobb county.....the east side of atlanta must have been the same as the west side back then......folks think im nuts because i saved a few bricks when they tore down my dads business......well they think im nuts for other reasons, but thats pertinent......

i remember riding to madison on a bike back in like 1981-and how pretty conyers and covington and madison were.....i bet i wouldnt recognize them now.....heck i barely recognize downtown smyrna.....

By 1981 a lot of subdivisions had been built but the strip malls hadn't arrived yet. Now with the big mall on the west side of town and the endless strip malls on Hwy 138 and every other major road the town is simply another anonymous suburb.



earthycouple -> RE: why its good to live in your hometown (8/5/2007 7:59:11 AM)

Hometown is not necesarily current hometown or childhood hometown. 

I was born in Louisina.  Lived there about 2 minutes.  That town was not my hometown.  I lived in NH for 15 years.  That was a wonderful place to live.  I miss it a lot. That town was my hometown...for a long time.  I lived in Alabama 10 years.  I would never consider any of the towns I lived in while in Alabama hometowns.  I then moved to Illinois.  (Keep in mind I have now moved almost 30 times and I wasn't a military kid).  None of these places ever felt like home the way my town in NH did.  Today, some 7 years later I feel very at home here, but I've only lived in this particular Illinois town a few years.  When we moved into this house I told my lovely husband that it would have to burn to the friggin ground before I moved again.  So that's why I love my hometown....because it is where my house resides and damn it I'm tired of moving (30 times in 33 years)



Sinergy -> RE: why its good to live in your hometown (8/5/2007 8:02:20 AM)

 
The longer I live in the Los Angeles area, where I grew up, the more I miss the town in the Netherlands where I lived for 2 years as a pre-adolescent.

Sinergy



winterlight -> RE: why its good to live in your hometown (8/5/2007 8:35:16 AM)

good song by Bruce Springsteen thanks mnottertail..



Alumbrado -> RE: why its good to live in your hometown (8/5/2007 8:42:41 AM)

What is good about Memphis, is the large number of great musicians who left here in order to become famous. 
Realizing what a musical dead end Memphis itself is, they were forced to go elsewhere, to cities where their talents could be recognized. 

Obviously, if you've never lived here at all, you cannot replicate that career path.[:D]



mnottertail -> RE: why its good to live in your hometown (8/5/2007 8:42:57 AM)

winterlight,

The ancient beckoning of your soul to return to the halcyon days of yore is a common theme, as is the realization that the past looms larger and more perfectly in your heart than is true; we don't remember well, I think.

Ron





winterlight -> RE: why its good to live in your hometown (8/5/2007 8:48:44 AM)

i hated where i grew up. Things changed by the time it was my time to do things. The kids at school were running around into drugs etc. Their parents didn't care.
My parents cared. I was lucky in that sense. I had a good home, food on the table, they were interested in what we were doing, how school was.
My sibling grew up with a great group of kids. It was a good time for growing up. By the time it was my turn things just changed. Before i had left the area it had died. The downtown area was gone there was nothing there. i couldn't wait to get out of there and move on. I never looked back either. I have no desire to see my home that i grew up in. My sibling and her husband have gone back and see everything. They have fond memories of the place. I am glad for them :)
Now i live in a very big area, tons of traffic, takes a long time to drive 20 miles. I wish for the quietness of that time beyond that nothing else. For today's kids that don't know that time of growing up i wish they had that innocence and joy de viuex (I don't know how to spell it). I took 6th grade french...lol



SubinMaine -> RE: why its good to live in your hometown (8/5/2007 8:52:26 AM)

Ghita, where i live now is like that, very quiet and rural, perfect place to raise UM's *wink*...no street lights, only 4 houses on the street and nothing to block the stars out at night.  i don't think i'd trade where i live right now for anything.

Alumbrado, i was born right outside of Memphis, lived there until i was 12.  It was great back then, but the food is pretty much all i'd go back for now *smile* (except maybe to visit family).

SeeksOnly, the entire city that i consider my "hometown" wasn't as safe as the area that i grew up in.  i lived about 20 years in Everett, MA in a little section called the "Village"..it was kind of cut off from the rest of the town, but back then, the town wasn't all bad, we just had a couple rough sections. Nowadays i'm afraid to even drive through the city, including the Village and my mom still lives there.  



kyraofMists -> RE: why its good to live in your hometown (8/5/2007 8:53:57 AM)

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ORIGINAL: GhitaAmati

I live in the house my great grandfather built in 1928. The land I live on has been in my family since before Florida became a state.


There are not many families around, especially in the south, that can say they were here before Florida became a state.  *s*

I am a 5th or 6th generation Floridian.  The only other person I met in person who could claim that outside of my family lived in Georgia and their kids were born there.  And the oddest thing is that I met them at the base of the Matterhorn in Zermat, Switzerland.

Knight's Kyra



GhitaAmati -> RE: why its good to live in your hometown (8/5/2007 9:07:42 AM)

lol...too funny....I met a couple of florida natives in Scotland!



CuriousLord -> RE: why its good to live in your hometown (8/5/2007 9:11:50 AM)

That might be neat.  I don't see the huge motivation many have to travel.

I haven't been to my hometown in ages, though.  I keep moving, normally from university to university.  While I'm not exactly sure what compells me, I haven't stayed at the same place for over two years yet, with one three-year exception some years back.  Hell, the one I'm going to right now is a summer-only thing.

I think I'm looking for something.  I'm not sure why others move.



Termyn8or -> RE: why its good to live in your hometown (8/5/2007 9:26:58 AM)

Ghit, you have singlehandedly convinced me to move. How do I get there ?

I admit I have it pretty good in the city, but I could leave for the idyllic life you describe. Thinking about it, the only advantage to the city is that I can find good pot. I can quit, especially for a life like that.

I lived on a farm for about a year, a very long time ago. I miss those days. Days when the children really were free, they weren't watched constantly, but an adult, any adult would help a kid. Either by grabbing them before they take the wrong step or saying something. If you see a child about to hurt themself in some way, you have a responsibility to take action. And people don't worry about kids getting sold into White slavery or the adoption market.

And everyone knows each other.

I mean really, can I move there ? I would give this up for that. A community where people are for real and treat others right ? I'm there, just give me directions.

If that is really true about where you live, G, you are very lucky.

T



domiguy -> RE: why its good to live in your hometown (8/5/2007 9:35:24 AM)

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

My Hometown (Bruce Springsteen}

I was eight years old and running with a dime in my hand
Into the bus stop to pick up a paper for my old man
I'd sit on his lap in that big old Buick and steer as we drove through town
He'd tousle my hair and say son take a good look around this is your hometown
This is your hometown
This is your hometown
This is your hometown

In '65 tension was running high at my high school
There was a lot of fights between the black and white
There was nothing you could do
Two cars at a light on a Saturday night in the back seat there was a gun
Words were passed in a shotgun blast
Troubled times had come to my hometown
My hometown
My hometown
My hometown

Now Main Street's whitewashed windows and vacant stores
Seems like there ain't nobody wants to come down here no more
They're closing down the textile mill across the railroad tracks
Foreman says these jobs are going boys and they ain't coming back to your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown
Your hometown

Last night me and Kate we laid in bed
talking about getting out
Packing up our bags maybe heading south
I'm thirty-five we got a boy of our own now
Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said son take a good look around
This is your hometown
[image]http://www.brucespringsteen.net/art/blank_dot.gif[/image] 


I was singing this song in the shower after reading the post earlier....It seemed appropriate to the thread....Nice post.



LotusSong -> RE: why its good to live in your hometown (8/5/2007 9:39:33 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

I refuse to move. I live in the city in which I was born and I wouldn't trade it for the world. I know where everything is at, I have business connections, I know which pizza places are good (I don't order pizza, but the other stuff).

Now we are talking the poorest city in the US, Cleveland, Ohio. We basically have the worst of everything, yet I stay. Why ?

Damifino,

T


I was from Elyria :)  I'll give it credit though, as anal as it is, there is always a "certainty".
 
My favorite comment about Cleveland is " Ahhh Cleveland.  A town that sits on a lake that is Erie and has a tower that is Terminal".



GhitaAmati -> RE: why its good to live in your hometown (8/5/2007 10:02:18 AM)

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ORIGINAL: Termyn8or

I mean really, can I move there ? I would give this up for that. A community where people are for real and treat others right ? I'm there, just give me directions.

If that is really true about where you live, G, you are very lucky.

T


Yes, it is very true, and yes, I am very lucky, I only hope my kids appreciate it too when they are older, because they will each have a place to live here also if they choose. I had to leave for about 6 years when I graduated highschool before I realized I was stupid to try to live anywhere else.

As for can you live here...I hope I can answer this without starting another flame war. We have kept our neighborhood the way it is by never allowing outsiders to purchase land here, even good friends and people we go to church with. Whenever anyone here, or even nearby plots of land, decide to sell for any reason, someone in the family immdeiatly buys it up, no matter what the cost. And sells or rents it to someone within the family. Even if that means houses sit empty for 5 or 10 years until another cousin is old enough to need a house for themselves. If a family member no longer wants or feels they can afford their home/land, they sell it to family. We have enough members who dont have to worry about adding a second or third mortgage to their monthly bills if it means keeping the land in the family. We already lost some to the states "imminent domain" ruling...so please dont get me started on that...but we do everything in our power to keep things the way they are. We even footed the entire bill to the city electric company to have them come out and put all the wires out here underground so we dont have to have them come and trim the trees on the sides of the road.



LuckyAlbatross -> RE: why its good to live in your hometown (8/5/2007 10:08:55 AM)

LOL is there any high school after 1965 that does NOT have a bunch of kids into drugs?  If I wasn't scared out of my wits over getting caught or clueless about it's effects, I definitely would have enjoyed doing drugs back then myself.  I OFTEN say I was born in the wrong decade.

I'm not against doing drugs, I'm against sick drugs like coke and heroin and the gang culture they reinforce.



GhitaAmati -> RE: why its good to live in your hometown (8/5/2007 10:19:41 AM)

I hate the reply thingy..cause Im not sure that was directed to me, or just a general question...

No, I doubt there are any high schools out there where drugs arent an issue. I can only hope that by the time my kids have gotten to high school, they will have spent enough time around their wonderful family to realize 1) abusing drugs is bad 2) they will get there asses kicked if I ever find out about it 3) if I dont find out about it, and an aunt, uncle, cousin, friend does...I will eventually know and therefore refer to #2

(please notice my use of the word abusing and not the word using...I have no problem with responsible drug use and yes I think that there is such a thing..I also believe you cant be responsible until you are a bit out of highschool)



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