Where do you live?

NickisDragon · Joined: 06 Oct 2005 Posts: 349 Location: S.E. Michigan

I'm in Shelby Township, Michigan, north of Detroit.

And Fla doesn't have giant cockroaches--they have PALMETTOBUGS! Haven't they told you that? They also don't tell you that they're damn near indestructable too! I LOVE Michigan--most of the time.
Nicki

paw · Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 355 Location: Michigan

Deb · Posted: Sun Oct 23, 2005 10:20 pm Post subject:

I never enjoyed Michigan winters and I moved 800 miles away to have the same winters here. We had more snow here last winter then I remember having in Michigan, but they are very good about cleaning it up --I was not late to work once. Everything is pretty much the same here except for the ocean--it is so majestic. I love it here! I live in E. Islip, Suffolk County, Long Island, New York--and it is nothing what people think it is like here. The traffic is the worst I have ever seen and I am still happy here. Deb

tootenfromgluten · Joined: 25 Sep 2005 Posts: 9 Location: Daytona Beach, FL

Hi:

I'm here in Hurricane Central, aka...Florida, but far enough away from the storms in Daytona Beach. Thank you all for your great advice! Very Happy

Shiloh · Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 113 Location: Northern Virginia

I'm in Virginia, in a suburb of Washington D.C. "Ground zero"
Al, is the Penny Bar still around in Oshkosh? I used to live in Fond du Lac... Don't miss THOSE winters! Brrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! However, the Dells in the summertime, ahhhhhhhhhh!
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Kristie · Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 89

We live in Peoria, IL for the past 2 years now. Before that, it was Rockford, IL, Nashville, Tn. Going back to childhood- Edgerton, Wis.

DH's family all live in Rockford, but I would like to head back south again at some point. Ky or Tn... just not back to Nashville, but boy is it sure beautiful down there this time of the year.

I like it here in Peoria, but it's just not home. I think it's mainly because we're here alone, without extended family of any kind. My family is so spread out, the hopes of bringing any of us together, is far fetched.

I think back to my childhood, our whole family was all in one state... now the nearest family memeber is 6 hours away. It makes things hard... especially when in need of family support when dealing with celiac. *sigh*

aklap · Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 10972 Location: WI, USA

Shiloh · Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 113 Location: Northern Virginia

Hi Al,
My dad retired from the army in 1968 and took a job as Chief Veteri Wink

narian for the state of Wisconsin. In nearby Oshkosh was a bar that had the walls and ceiling completely covered with pennies! I graduated from High school and went to Penn State while they lived there until 1971 when my dad died. My brother, however, married a FDL gal and goes back just about every year to see her family. I haven't been back since '71, so maybe the Penny Bar closed down without me! Sad

It was something, though!
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Shiloh · Joined: 26 May 2005 Posts: 113 Location: Northern Virginia

Oops! That Wink

was supposed to go at the end, not in the middle of Veterinarian!
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paw · Joined: 28 Sep 2005 Posts: 355 Location: Michigan

Al, don't rush it with those snow pics! I am still in denial (as I sit here with the outside temp early this morning at 34 degrees) that winter does not HAVE to come.

Where I live we get usually about 30 inches of snow a year (average) but the cold lasts way too long for me.