Why do you live where you do?

**HuskyFreeNorthwest** · 02-18-2009, 08:07 AM

I left Utah because I hated living there. I am not trying to go FMCoug on CougarBoard, but I had a really hard time with the church there. It was just too much, you neighborhood is your ward, and the social pressures to act and be a certain way because everyone else does were something I couldn't handle.

We moved to Eugene because that is where my wife was from. We were going to live here while I went to school, but I didn't want to leave. About 4-5 years ago right after our first kid was born she really wanted to move, and for various reasons we maybe should have. However I have grown to love Eugene and don't see myself living anywhere else.

**DrumNFeather** · 02-18-2009, 08:17 AM

I live in the DC area in part because I am from the DC area. After I graduated I moved back because the job market was better and I could live rent free until i got married or got on my feet.

My wife moved here after she graduated because she didn't like the idea of being an old maid in Provo at 25...and she was looking for a change of scene.

**Surfah** · 02-18-2009, 08:20 AM

Job. I don't care much for Virginia, or the east coast for that matter. I'd really like to move back to Utah. I miss the mountains, the snowboarding, the summer evenings, and friends.

**cowboy** · 02-18-2009, 08:32 AM

Originally posted by RockyBalboa View Post

I guess what I'm really getting at is this: If it were up to you, would you live somewhere other than where you are right now and why?

I live here because it's home.

Two of my great-great grandfathers were among the first settlers here, and one of them was the first mayor of my home town. My father owns part of the ranch that my great grandfather put together in the '30's as well as the farm that my great-great grandfather homesteaded.

I bought an adjacent place a few years ago, and then partially bought my father out. I couldn't leave if I wanted to.

**DrumNFeather** · 02-18-2009, 08:32 AM

Originally posted by Surfah View Post

Job. I don't care much for Virginia, or the east coast for that matter. I'd really like to move back to Utah. I miss the mountains, the snowboarding, the summer evenings, and friends.

Fredneck ain't Virginia...just keep that in mind!

**TripletDaddy** · 02-18-2009, 08:40 AM

I grew up in SoCal and this is where I enjoy living. I don't really want to move permanently, but I would love to move somewhere temporarily...maybe 2-3 years?

When my wife and I graduated from BYU, I didn't even interview for jobs in Utah. She was nervous about leaving, but quickly became acclimated and now loves it down here. The weather, the fun stuff, the ocean, etc.

I left Utah for many of the usual reasons.....didn't like the weather, the pay sucked (as did the upside), found the culture to be annoying, and wanted entertainment options that better suited by everyday pursuits....concerts, Lakers, Dodgers, etc.

**RobinFinderson** · 02-18-2009, 08:54 AM

For all of the reasons DDD points out (and many more), SoCal is a great place to live. Still, I feel like I belong more in the Mountain West, up in the Rockies with the horses, cows, wolves and bear. But Faith is currently the more career oriented of the two of us, so it is her professional interests that dictate where we can be. We will probably be in SoCal for life, which is a great place to settle. But if I had my way we would move to Livingston and buy a yurt.

**Clark Addison** · 02-18-2009, 09:00 AM

I have lived in 5 cities in 4 states since graduation (Portland, OR, San Diego, Los Angeles, Chicago, Charlotte). All of them, basically, have been because of jobs, although I was sort of trying to get to Chicago when we went there. I don't have any great desire to go to any specific place. I've enjoyed everywhere we have lived. Charlotte is great (or at least it was before the Banking industry crashed); mid-sized city, people from all over, decent weather. Having said that, I wouldn't be opposed to picking up stakes and moving again.

My wife wouldn't mind getting closer to Utah. I loved living in Utah as a student, so I am not necessarily opposed to it, but I haven't actively tried to get there, and I certainly wouldn't make money or career sacrifices to go there.

**Babs** · 02-18-2009, 09:01 AM

to turn a phrase:

I'm Sooner born and Sooner bred and when I die I'll be Sooner dead! (We don't vanquish foes with our fight song, but by golly it's easy to sing when you're drunk.)

I love Norman. My dad graduated from Norman High. I followed suit 25 years after he did. I wouldn't mind if Jeff and Charlie did eventually, too, but I'm not sure how likely that is.

**Surfah** · 02-18-2009, 09:02 AM

Originally posted by DrumNFeather View Post

Fredneck ain't Virginia...just keep that in mind!

I'd argue that Fredneck is more representative of Virginia as a whole. That area outside of the beltway is relatively small. And it's cheaper.

**Clark Addison** · 02-18-2009, 09:25 AM

Off topic, but all the mentions of Utah reminded me of something. In Chicago, we lived in an area that was very popular among Mormons, and was relatively affodable, so we would get a whole lot of young familes, especially, for some reason, familes just out of Law School at BYU or Utah. As is a custom in many places, the Bishop would often have them speak after they moved in. When they did, my wife and I would try to guess how long it would be before they moved back to Utah. There were a whole lot of people talking about how they had lived their whole lives in Utah, how much they missed their families. If they would then add in something like "but we are excited to live out in the Mission Field", we knew they wouldn't last a year. All in all, in the 4 years we lived there, we probably saw at least 10 families move out from Utah and then move back.

**creekster** · 02-18-2009, 09:33 AM

I was born in Utah and lived there for a good chunk of my life. SOme part of me still feels like it si home, I suppose. I have also lived in a couple of other coutnruies and a few other states and a bunch of other cities and I can honestly say that I really like Northern California better than almost anywhere else. QUite a few mormons but not too many, if you knwo what I mena, we get seasons but never have to deal with ice on the roads, the ocean, mountians, skiiing not too far (but I concede the snow sucks in the siera compared to Utah) great cuisine, most of the entertainment Triplet crows about but none of the LA plast-icky culture, loads of diversity and generally a freindly place to live. The drawback is too many people and too expensive. But we are here to stay, I think.

**SeattleUte** · 02-18-2009, 09:35 AM

I love it and to be far away from Utah.

**SeattleUte** · 02-18-2009, 09:36 AM

Originally posted by Clark Addison View Post

Off topic, but all the mentions of Utah reminded me of something. In Chicago, we lived in an area that was very popular among Mormons, and was relatively affodable, so we would get a whole lot of young familes, especially, for some reason, familes just out of Law School at BYU or Utah. As is a custom in many places, the Bishop would often have them speak after they moved in. When they did, my wife and I would try to guess how long it would be before they moved back to Utah. There were a whole lot of people talking about how they had lived their whole lives in Utah, how much they missed their families. If they would then add in something like "but we are excited to live out in the Mission Field", we knew they wouldn't last a year. All in all, in the 4 years we lived there, we probably saw at least 10 families move out from Utah and then move back.

So you were the same? You moved back to the crib?

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