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[muji]

Happy Tuesday all!

What is your favorite part of living where you live? (in your house, city, state, country, whatever.)

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[innerbrat]

Legit answer, no gushing:

My roommates.

[camwyn]

The foods. And possibly the museums. But living right spang up against New York City- up against Manhattan specifically, since I don't think living against the north border of the Bronx or the eastern border of Queens is anywhere near the same- means I have relatively easy access to very nearly any kind of food or food ingredient I want that's legal for sale in the United States. Either in a restaurant somewhere or in a shop or market for me to work with.

[sdelmonte]

The energy. Being anywhere in the city at almost any time of day, you will find a vibe unlike any other. Even in the middle of the night. Even on a sabbath in the backwater of Queens.

[fromadistance]

This is the only place (town-city-area) I have found where I can get actual good pizza -- not just, oh, this is good for (wherever). Apparently it's a thing.

[bjornwilde]

Home: my family.

City: again my family as I would not chose to live in one of the hottest parts of the SF Bay Area although the bike trails and the Tech museum are pretty awesome. SO is only being an hour or so from the Monterrey Bay Aquarium.

SF Bay: the ocean and all the micro-climates.

[death_gone_mad]

I like that it makes me appreciate clouds and rain and wind.

Ummm... maybe I should find something that I like less sarcastically.

The culture, perhaps? You get an odd mixture here in Albuquerque, and you never know who here is a farmer and who works as a scientist/engineer for the Department of Defense. Well, sometimes you can tell. But, interesting people all around.

Sometimes I get to gawk at movie sets. I walked past the Denny's where the cafe/restaurant scenes for the Avengers were shot a couple of times while they were filming.

I still haven't watched Avengers, though. I need to fix that.

[bcgphoenix]

My job. I get paid to play with century-old books all day! This never gets old.

...okay, almost never, but that's for a less public venue.

Also, the fact that I could take an idle stroll down to places like the Washington Monument, the White House, and practically the whole Smithsonian system if I wanted is pretty sweet. And I can flip off the Capitol on my daily commute whenever Congress is being particularly odious I mean um. >.>

[minkhollow]

I'm actually in range of people I want to see, now. One of my college friends is coming down from Boston this weekend; another who lives in New York said she and her fiancee were considering Connecticon, and otherwise, hey, I'm within shouting distance now. I'm also... presently about an hour away from my college stomping grounds.
(There's quite a lot to be said for NOT BEING IN A LONG-DISTANCE RELATIONSHIP ANYMORE, as well. This move was about a lot of people, but quinby in particular.)

As for Ohio, that was much more of a place thing. My things there were places and events that I can probably find elsewhere; my email tried to get me to get Renaissance Festival tickets, this morning, and while I'm sad I'll miss it, being here's the better option. I'm sure I can find another; I haven't properly been to the WEBN fireworks in years anyway; I can do without live college basketball in my life.
I know some of you saw me flailing on Twitter before I went down to the train station to pick Quinn up. Once I got there I ended up having to wait on the train another hour, but I genuinely didn't mind because I got to stand around this place for an hour. It's one of my favorite buildings ever and absolutely breathtaking at two in the morning.

[silveraspen]

In no particular order...

1) The lack of humidity.
2) The open sky and open plains and open spaces.
3) The mountains.
4) The people.
5) The fact that something about this place, this country, this land, calls to me in a way I can't articulate, all the way down to the bone. It has done so all my life, even before I had ever visited. Once I did finally visit, I moved out here six months afterward.

[mnt_mike]

I'm close enough to family that seeing them isn't a hardship, but I'm far enough away to escape most of the drama.

Most.

Plus, the city is small enough that I can bike most places. I've decided I like biking places.

[wanderlustlover]

House: Earl
City: all the museums & arts
State: wide rolling open spaces for horse back riding
Country: short plane trips to Internet friends & new places

[ceitfianna]

All the stuff that happens in Ann Arbor like the Summer Festival and all the cafes. I don't want to start thinking about what to do now. Why are jobs and moving so scary?

[ladyoflorien]

Everything. I've lived in five states, moved at least 27 times (you lose track after a while), been everywhere, and this is my favorite. It's a touch of everything.

Twenty minutes in one direction, I'm in the best cultural hub of a city, with everything and anything I could ask for; twenty minutes in the other direction, I'm in a national park. Outside of the Amazon Rainforest, the Appalachian region has more varieties of flora than anywhere else in the world. Breathing is a pleasure. The air is sweet, magnolias in the spring, pears in the summer, the whole world a burst of color and life.

Fresh produce. The best pizza I've ever had. Damn good barbecue. twenty-seven local breweries and distilleries. The art district. The movie district. World famous music & arts schools. The festivals, fairs, shows, concerts, dances, walks and plays.

The hometown of a dozen amazing, inspiring writers and poets. The Biltmore Estate. So many fireflies the earth looks like the heavens. Skies so clear the stars shine in thick bands across the sky. The fact that we just wrapped our third giant music fest of the summer and there are two more coming. The French Broad Chocolate Lounge. The Orange Peel. The thousands of horse farms. The thousands of waterfalls. Hiking. Biking. The "blue ghosts," a type of ethereal firefly that's hard to find anywhere else in the world. Look Homeward Angel. Cold Mountain. Shakespeare in the Park.

Everything.