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Where have you lived, and where would you move back to?
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California:
Fremont - No, never been the same since MC Hammer moved away.
Pleasanton - Yes, with a family
Sunnyvale - No
Mountain View - not bad...but i'd just move to Palo Alto
San Francisco - Not sure I'll be able to move away
Provo - I'd never choose to
Geneva, Switzerland - In a heartbeat
Anywhere in France - For a couple years at most
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Idaho Falls, ID- Probably not. I grew up there and loved it, but it's cold and not nearly as nice as I remember it. Most of my good memories are tied to people there, not the place.
Rexburg, ID-never
Italy (Rome and surrounding areas)-I love this place, but can't imagine establishing a permanent residence there.
Provo, UT-nope
College Station, TX- Absolutely
Ft. Collins/Denver, CO-YES YES YES. If I got to choose a place to end up, the front range would be it.
Birmingham, AL-Current location. I wasn't excited about moving here, but I was wrong. It's turned out to be a very nice place, but I don't see us ending up here over the long haul.
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I left out all my mission cities -
Landshut, Bavaria, Germany - if I had a VERY fast car and worked on the north side of Munich, the commute wouldn't be too bad via autobahn, so maybe.
Goeppingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany - Uhhh. No.
Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria - sure. Why not. Very touristy. Parts very pretty but parts very ugly. With all the Alps around, it wouldn't be a horrible place to call home. And my wife would be happy with skiing 365 days a year (glacier skiing - not the best, but still officially skiing)
Neu Ulm, Bavaria, Germany - Meh. Not a horrible place. Not too expensive. But no real reason to want to live there either.
Munich, Bavaria, Germany. In a heartbeat. But I'd need a good job.
Esslingen, Baden-Wuerttemberg, Germany - My wife is from there. As of a couple months ago, she is the owner of half of a huge house that she'll eventually own 100% of. I could end up living there some day whether I want to or not. It's not a bad place - it actually has some redeeming qualities. I'd call it a 'yes' but Germany in general is nowhere near as attractive to me as it was a decade ago.
Simbach, Bavaria, Germany - not in a million-billion years. It's an armpit. A tiny little armpit. 2 hours by slow-train from Munich -- and there only are slow trains. Hitler was born across the river in Braunau, Austria. That's about all the good that I can say about Simbach. Being there for the last three months of my mission felt like a prison. Alone, isolated, in a tiny little branch, with a douchebag companion. The only nice quality was that the train ride into Munich sucked so bad, the MP let us - encouraged us, actually (he knew my comp was a douchebag)- to come in the night before district meeting, stay overnight with the elders in the mission office, have district meeting and splits the next day, and then do P-Day with the mission office elders the next day. Spending 2 days a week in Munich made Simbach palatable. I dreaded the train-ride back...
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Originally posted by TheAzzuri View PostIdaho Falls, ID- Probably not. I grew up there and loved it, but it's cold and not nearly as nice as I remember it. Most of my good memories are tied to people there, not the place.
Rexburg, ID-never
Italy (Rome and surrounding areas)-I love this place, but can't imagine establishing a permanent residence there.
Provo, UT-nope
College Station, TX- Absolutely
Ft. Collins/Denver, CO-YES YES YES. If I got to choose a place to end up, the front range would be it.
Birmingham, AL-Current location. I wasn't excited about moving here, but I was wrong. It's turned out to be a very nice place, but I don't see us ending up here over the long haul.What's to explain? It's a bunch of people, most of whom you've never met, who are just as likely to be homicidal maniacs as they are to be normal everyday people, with whom you share the minutiae of your everyday life. It's totally normal, and everyone would understand.
-Teenage Dirtbag
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IN geographical but not temporal order (and I am probably leaving something out)
Murray Utah- maybe
Midvale Utah - not if I could avoid it
South Jordan Utah- Sure
Salt Lake City Utah- sure, if I can pick the neighborhood
Provo, UT--I am not a bubble kind of guy
Boitfort Belgium-Yes, in a flash
Brussels Belgium--no, I would move to someplace nearby like Boitfort
Montreal, Quebec-only for the 12 days every year that constitute spring or fall, otherwise not a chance. This is true for the various other places I lived in Quebec during my mission; I wont list them all because I think you can grasp the point (except Ottawa, I might live there again)
Odessa Texas-- Are you kidding me? No.
Westchester CA--yes
Mar Vista CA-- nope
Venice CA-- only if I had the same apt. manager (Deena the habitual sunbather) except this time she would have to get the landlord to spray for roaches.
Marina Del Ray CA --yes
Silver Lake Ca-- not really
San Francisco CA -- absolutely
Alameda CA-- Yes
Albany/Berkeley CA-- prolly not unless I was in one of those big hillside homes looking down on all the peons while preaching wealth redistribution.
Mill Valley CA-- YesPLesa excuse the tpyos.
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Boise/Meridian (current)-yes
Bothell/Seattle suburbs-yes
Provo-yes
Baltimore-yes
Idaho Falls-yes
Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil (mission)-yes
other cities/towns/villages in Minas Gerais-no
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Calabasas, CA (Los Angeles Area) - No
Rexburg (freshman year) - Freakin' Heck No
Spain - Yes
Provo - No
Murray, UT - No
Chicago - Yes
Minneapolis - No
Miami - No
West Palm Beach - Yes
San Antonio, TX - Yes
Portland Oregon - Yes
South Jordan, UT - Yes
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Originally posted by marsupial View PostWe visited Birmingham a few months ago and were pleasantly surprised by how much we liked it. I would live there."Yeah, but never trust a Ph.D who has an MBA as well. The PhD symbolizes intelligence and discipline. The MBA symbolizes lust for power." -- Katy Lied
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Originally posted by happyone View PostWhere I have lived
Utah - Davis county - currently
Washington - Tacoma
Oklahoma - Lawton ( multiple times)
Texas - Killeen, Mineral Wells
Tennessee - Clarksville
Georgia - Augusta
Germany - Nuremberg area
There is no area that I absolutely hate, but my favorites if I ever moved from here are
Tennesse, Washington or Germany
edit - how could I forget Japan - Kobe/Osaka/Kyoto - yes
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