Well, I'm going with a few really simple questions this weekend.
To live: beach, mountains, grassy prairie, city center, or desert.
To vacation: beach, mountains, grassy prairie, city center, or desert.
And what's on yer mind tonight? Anything good? Food for thought?
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for me...
to live, i prefer beach or prairie.
to vacation, i prefer beach, mountain, or desert.
not much is on my mind, tired. long week at work, so resting up and taking it easy... :D
To live, vacation, visit for a day or weekend, no contest:
Beach, beach, beach, and beach.
i like how ya think Glinda... ;D
I think this is great news. Very uplifting.
Hackers take over gov't website to avenge Swartz
i saw that earlier! an awesome op that was! :D
And this statement from Obama makes me want to barf
in reference to the very sad news that Senator Harkin will retire from the Senate.
sure, but they're in different parties
it's a fairly respectable response from a Republican.
Sadly, you're right.
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Some of these are subjective
Live: I would like high elevations because it's colder and there are seasons. Yet I could live on the beach, not Galveston's nasty ass beach though it's not a bad place to visit and party. I could live in a city center if it were an art/comic book/animation/video game/film hub with decent mass transit. Not one based on oil, traffic, and congestion. There's also subjective nature to money, and the cost of living anywhere nice is going to be high as far as rent and owning land.
Vacation: Hawaii beach and mountains.
that's cool and you make some good points! :D
yeah, with ya on vacas, but i don't like living in a city center. give me rural outskirts or even suburbs before that...
Hawaii, eh?
Do they still have these bumperstickers? "Ho Hum. Another Shitty Day in Paradise." Saw 'em in Honolulu when my ship stopped at Pearl Harbor when I was in the Navy. Just curious.
I had a nice time, but I would never want to live there. The climate's way too boring.
Good place to vacation
as far as beaches go which is why it was on my vacation list. That and I like Guava juice a lot.
I never made it to the Big Island. So close,
and all that. Always wanted to see those volcanos.
went there on a geology field trip in 2003...
was awesome! definitely go see the volcanoes and lava! one of the best aprts of Hawaii... :D
The Volcanoes are awesome
And the multi colored little beaches from them. They say if you take a volcanic rock home you are cursed so I didn't. I was very young like 8 but I remember that trip.
beach or mountains...
but if it's the mountains, I want to be right close to a decent body of water.
oh yeah, big time. would have to be a lake or something...
very close... :D
Living: Beach or City Center
If I don't live in/near a big city, I have to be at/near the beach.
Now vacation is different. I'd be up for anything fun/interesting. A beach vacation is nice, but can get boring after a few days. I have to mix it up with hiking or diving. I did a trek in Northern Thailand once that was decidedly NOT type1error-style, but still awesome. My cousin and I travelled by overnight train to a small city in southern China to visit the birthplace of Kungfu (on Christmas Day, so it was cold as fuck). I've always thought a summer trip to Alaska could be really cool.
i think the city thing just makes me tired...
and i spend a lot of my life being tired now... both times i lived in city centers, there was 24 hour constant sirens and noise and hustle and bustle and the sensory overload just makes me exhausted... :o
with ya totally on the beach, but like priceman noted, there are some beaches i wouldn't want to live at...
and yeah, while i prefer my vacations beachy, i've gotten in to some pretty decent adventure style ones... one of the nice things i discovered a while ago was cruising, which you could visit all kinds of interesting places (accessuble by port at least) and choose to be as active or passive as you wanted to be... not to mention the awesome food... :D
Beach.
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Your choices are too limited. What about forests? Or lakes?
Of yours, I'd pick city center for both living and vacations, sometimes, although I actually live in a suburb just a few miles from a city center and literally across the street from a forest. Also just a couple of miles from a beach. On Lake Erie. Yes, Virginia, it does have waves and it's fine to swim in, and I don't miss the jellyfish I had to contend with when I used to go to the Gulf Coast. Great sunsets and lighthouses. Best location I've ever had.
I like beaches for about a day and then I get sick of the sand and sunburn. I suppose I could handle a rocky, cold beach, a la Maine or Nova Scotia, a lot better. Mountains are nice places to visit; I could easily spend a couple of weeks in the mountains, so long as there are trees.
Prairie? No thanks. And I detest deserts.
i know, i tried to encompass as much as possible...
i figured mountains would def include forests save for if you're above the tree line, lol...
and the great lakes are awesome... been to Lake Huron - was just like the ocean save for like you said, lack of jellyfish... :D
To live ...
... near town center of tree filled small town. Or, in other words, the nice small town that we went to church to from our small little exurban development out in the countryside, which I lived in for a year between graduating and heading off for the Peace Corps stint in Grenada.
To vacation, medium sized city center & beaches. Or, in other words, Newcastle, Australia.
city and beach
which is the right life? the day or the night life? which is dreamier? Arcadia or Bohemia? If the wood nymph left the park, would Park Avenue excite her? Would the glowworm trade his spark for the latest Dunhill lighter?