Whats it like where you live??

[nicolerose]

HEY! Alright. So I just wanted to know what it was like where you all live. I live in America, and I have always wanted to go to London. It looks like it would be so much fun! But I just wanted to know what it was like where you live. Like what it looks like, and how hot it is out. And all that good stuff. OH! Pictures. I love Pictures. If you have a picture that you are willing to share please do. (I understand if you dont want to)

At my house...
So at my house we have two floors. Basement and main floor. There are 3 bed rooms... Mine, my mom & Dads, and then my sisters old room. There isnt anything special to say about the house inside.
Outside my mom and dad are building a golf corse.... really really small though. Its going to be like 2 holes. But its only the size of a half hole range... idk if that made sence to you all or not. But its really pretty. My mom built a little fish pond. its about 5ft deep and about 10ft around. nothing that great.

So whats it like where you live??

[avadagypsy]

Ok, this sounds like fun!
As some of you probably know, I live in Australia. At the moment I'm transitioning between living in my home town (a country town in rural Victoria) and Melbourne where I am starting a new job in a few months.
So my home town - I love! This is why: if you drive for 30 minutes in one direction, you will stumble across this:


but if you travel about an hour in another direction you will find this:


We have unbelievable extremes of whether where on minute it is 40 degrees celcius, and the next it is -6 degrees over night.
We live in this awesome two story house, with a huge pool in the backyard (great for those sweaty summer days!), and plenty of room for my silly dog. Um, we don't have a golfcourse though. We make do with the one down the road!

Melbourne, meanwhile, I love too! I am moving quite close to the centre of the city:

and I love it there too!!! I don't have any pics of my new apartment yet so... It's very nice (if not ridiculously expensive. *sigh*)

Gypsy

[beMMADfabulous]

GOSH, the scenery is beautiful, Gypsy!

[emeraldeyes]

Gypsy, the scenery is absolutely breathtaking!

Where I live... I'm surrounded by fields on two sides--and there's another across the street in front of my house. There's a sort-of field between my grandparents' house and ours, but it's mowed grass. I live in Michigan, USA, so it's a lot of farmland around me. Our house is beautiful; there are two floors & a basement, which is sorta-finished. All of our rooms are at the top of the stairs (mine's all purples and whites) and we have... A foyer, a red room with our dining table and mom's desk, a loverly kitchen & living room space and a HUGE great room with a big screen and fireplace! Out back, we created a great pond and waterfall feature, and the surrounding landscape is brimming with plant life! Our house is over 100 years old, but you'd never guess! It looks so beautiful because my dad is amazing--he totally gutted the house when he bought it with momma, and he did everything from moving stairways to the addition he put on a few years back. I guess I can get some quick shots tomorrowl; I think you all would love them.

Not that I'm biased or anything.. ;D

[nicolerose]

Wow. I want to live there!

[avadagypsy]

Yes I know, we are known for some pretty spectatcular sites here Down Under
I'm very very lucky to live where I do!

emeraldeyes said:

Our house is over 100 years old, but you'd never guess! It looks so beautiful.

That sounds really cool! I imagine it would be very interesting to have that kind of history literally in your backyard! I would love to see some pics!

[Tabby67]

I am SO jealous. Where I live, (in Kolin, Louisiana), the weather sucks. It's been pouring down rain for the past week and it's about 95* farenhiet on average during the day.

The chickens and guineas are going crazy, I don't know why, but they are, and the cats are as well. Our dogs are being normal, that's a first, ad the goats are acceptionally friendly.

I'll set up a pix thread later.

~Branda~

[Virtuoso]

Well, I live in the same city as emeraldeyes, but unfortunately, I don't live out in the country. I'm right in the thick of it, almost in the center of town, and except for the fact that I can pretty much walk anywhere... I can't stand it. We live in a little yellow house about two blocks up from the high school that needs more repair work than it's worth, but naturally, we can't afford it.

I'd take pictures, except that the living room is carpeted in dark blue, has light blue and violet furniture that's been clawed up by four rambunctious cats, and burgundy drapes on the windows of one wall and delicate white curtains on the other; the dining room (where the computer's at) is covered in drywall that was put up incorrectly by my father who doesn't live here, but we can't quite afford to have it redone yet; the kitchen's... um... not really exciting; my bedroom's a mess; and there's not really much else to see.

Meh, eventually I'll get un-lazy and take a picture of the exterior or the backyard or something. Hmm.

The weather here varies a great deal. For example, it's been in the low eighties lately, but during a storm a couple of days ago, we had substantial amounts of rather large hail. Storms can pop up out of nowhere (even friggin' ice storms in the middle of winter that knock out most of the city's power for five days and result in tons of sewage dumping into the river... but that's beside the point), and go as quickly as they came.

"If you don't like the weather in Michigan... wait five minutes."

[emeraldeyes]

So true, my dear. So true.

[gahhMinerva]

emeraldeyes said:

Gypsy, the scenery is absolutely breathtaking!

Agreed!! My scenery consists of houses and trees along the road. I live in New Jersey, USA.... My town used to be all farms like 30 years ago, and now it's all houses, pizza places, and nail salons.

[Tabby67]

Wow, that's a drastic change in 30 years. My scenery....a lot of trees. I love on 9 acres of land. the front lot is a gass line, and about....well, less than half a mile away is the gas plant.

[osusprinks]

virtuoso said:

"If you don't like the weather in Michigan... wait five minutes."

I'm from Ohio (which is just South of Michigan) and I had to laugh at this quote. It is also true here! There are many days throughout the year when the furnace is on in the morning b/c it is only about 50*F and then by 4pm the air conditioning is on because it is 80*F! I love Ohio, but wow, we have crazy weather.


I actually live with my aunt and uncle right now, which is helping my poor college student self a lot! It is great except the house is a little intimidating. They built it about 6 years ago and my aunt had an interior designer furnish the house. That's great, except the house now looks like it should be in a magazine and people shouldn't live there! I walk in and carry everything I have with me up to my room so I don't make a mess. ;D

My aunt and uncle have one son and he just came home from his freshman year of college, which is great because he is more like my little brother than just my cousin. We also have 3 basset hounds, which are adorable and rowdy!

It is very interesting to hear about the different places you guys live. Avadagypsy- I think you have us all convinced that we need to visit Australia. Those photos are breath taking!

[TartanLioness]

Me, well, I live in Denmark, a tiny country just north of Germany and just south of Sweden and Norway. If you want to check it on a map, be sure it's a big map, otherwise you'll find a small dot that shows we're here.

Denmark is in fact the land of rainclouds most of the time and a summer here is sunny one day and rainy the next.

I live in a city that's not big but not small either, we're about 50.000 inhabitants (5 millions countrywise) and I live in an old yellow brick house close to my school.

We have a rather large garden (I'd say our property is about 1000 square m.) and a basement that's used mostly for storage and where my room normally is. At the moment I'm sleeping in our caravan because our basement flooded and it's getting dried out... and my sis refused to have me stay in her room with her and her fiance...

Upstairs on the ground floor we have our kitchen and living room combined and we also have a smaller living room that we actually USE as a living room. The other one is more of a dining room I suppose...
My parents' study is on the ground floor too with their computers...

And that's about it...

[nicolerose]

wow. I love hearing about where you guys live. It fun.

[EloquentPhoenix]

I live in sunny northwest England. *Coughcough* The weather was gorgeous, for a change, and it poured down with rain all day today and felt like winter. But there you go, you get used to it.

I live in a tiny town (but I'm moving) and on the main street there are hardly any real shops and just a million charity shops. Which I never quite understood at all.

I live in a shoebox. But seriously my house is tiny. My room is very small after my sister stole a bit. But hers is smaller still. My bed is two steps from my desk with my computer And my garden is pretty because my Dad likes gardening. Right now from my window I can see the huge fir tree in my neighbours back garden which I love because it goes wild in the wind. And then I can see other houses and the roof of my Dad's shed.

And when I move I'll tell you all over again because hopefully I'll have my room how I want and not with a brown carpet I have always hated.

xx

[Tabby67]

Ha....I had brown carpet where I lived about 8 years ago. It had spikey stuff in it, so when you walked on it, you had to be careful. It sucked.

[alison]

So jealous of the scenery in Australia...my houses pale in comparison. I live in Atlanta, Georgia, USA for the school year and split my hols/summer between London, UK and Santa Rosa, California, USA (which is just across the bay from San Fransisco). So basically, I have adjusted to all types of weather. And I have pictures but am unsure of how to attach them.

[Tabby67]

photobucket.com Get and account, upload your pix, copy the image line, then paste it in the reply box. Happy Southern Helper.

~Branda~

[alison]

Thanks! Now I have pictures.

University, in Atlanta:


Atlanta:


House in Santa Rosa, CA:


The bay at sunset:


London house:

[EloquentPhoenix]

Wow.

After posting all about my house and where I live we found the house we want to move to yesterday *sighs*.

[childminerva]

I used to live in Kentucky-now I live in North Carolina.
My parents restored a house in an old Mill village(Industrial Rev-textiles). It's a really cool house and they're working on the addition now.
There are about 30 houses along 2 streets plus the old mill and such. It's a lot of fun to live here because everyone sits out on their portches and talks-and they help out with each others projects. The big excitement right now is the huge oak that was cut down across the street.
Our painters were doing work up the street but they stopped to help my dad and a neighbor move stuff upstairs with a lift. Everybody that worked on our house (brick masons, painters, subcontractors, etc) were so cool that my parents are inviting them, along with the entire village, to their 25th anniversary party.

[Lady Lavendar]

Well here goes nothing!

I live in California. not the nice part though. i live in the desert. I sucks so bad!! it's dry and very hot (105*F!!!). When it looks like it's gunna rain it dosn't, but usually there's no clouds in site!!! Then you have to worry about mojave greens when you step outside. Man I hate snakes! Well I don't have worry about them much because I live in a neighborhood, but still. With new houses being built around me, the snakes are gunna have nowhere to go but our backyards. Well that's about it.

[jonna]

I live in Finland, here in north. At the moment it's pretty hot here, about 25 degrees Celcius but in winter it can be even -30 or more Celcius. It's the time of the year I hope I was in Madagascar or somewhere like it...

But I do like Finland - a lot. It's quite a big land with very few citizens, most of them mosquitos... Or that's how it feels in summer - beautiful lake, great sunset and great group of mosquitos wanting to drink your blood. Nature is best thing in Finland, I kind of like the silence and beautiful, thought barren landscape. Sunny winter mornings are beautiful. I could never live in big cities and Finnish countryside is all right for me.

I also like Finnish people. Stubborn, pretty quiet, somewhat crazy but absolutely truthful and loyal to their friends. That's also the way I would describe myself.

But, enought this time. I don't even know what I am talking about...


- Jonna -
'

[nicolerose]

what is celcius?? I never learned it. very sad. Here its going to be 100 degrees F... I cant spell farenhite... i dont think thats write. I am a very bad speller.

[EloquentPhoenix]

These are rough formulae that you get a correctish answer from:

To convert Fahrenheit temperatures into Celsius:
Begin by subtracting 32 from the Fahrenheit number.
Divide the answer by 9.
Then multiply that answer by 5.

To convert Celsius temperatures into Fahrenheit:
Begin by multiplying the Celsius temperature by 9.
Divide the answer by 5.
Now add 32.

From vathena.arc.nasa.gov/curric/weather/fahrcels.html

[Isabelle]

I just got back from Germany and saw this post and thought it was a really cool idea! I'll describe both my house at home and my host family's house since that's where I have been the last month.

At home (boring suburb in the south Metro of Minnesota) we have a split level house with four levels, four bedrooms which are really tiny, three bathrooms, the "tea cup" room as I call it, a huge kitchen my mom loves, and a living room. We live on the corner of our street so we have a semi-large yard with lots of trees and flowers and bushes around it. I don't really like our house as it looks uniform to the other one thousand surrounding it and there is really no way to distinguish ourselves from the others unless we paint the house lime green or something like that.

Our town is kind of small although it is growing fast. I can remember only 6-7 years ago we were completely surounded my farms and now it is all houses and new strip malls filled with useless shops (hair and nail saloms to be precise). We already have about five in town, so I don't really see the need for more.

In Deisslingen, Germany, our house was huge! At least I thought it was. Four huge bedrooms, three bathrooms, a large living room, a kitchen room, dining room, two verandas and two decks upstairs. The yard was also large with lots of cherry and apple trees, a large flower garden and a vegetable and fruit garden. The yard was bigger too because my host family owns a few ducks which waddle around the yard all day and go into their house at night.

Coming into to the village is like walking into a fairy tale since Deisslingen is sort of on the edge of the Black Forest and is down in the Neckar Valley a little ways.

Well, I think that about covers it for now. I look forward to reading more about where others live. It's very interesting to read about the picturesque places that some of us live in. great idea Nicolerose!

Liz

[blpaul]

Ok, so like emeraldeyes and virtuoso, I live in the lovely *cough* state of Michigan. Where I'm at is really boring. I have a house that is 10 years old. I like it, but everyone thinks I'm rich, but I'm not. Anyways, I live in the township where theres many farms and junk. But if I had my choice, I'd move to Colorado.

Jul 7, 2006, 12:57pm, Virtuoso wrote:"If you don't like the weather in Michigan... wait five minutes."

SO true! The week of my birthday in early march, all week it was in the seventies. Then on my birthday, I wake up to find snow on the ground. Disgusting stuff, after mid-January.

[minniebumblebee]

Hi! I live in the now cloudy city of... oops I forgot but its in England! Its always busy with buses, cars, shops, lots of noises! So far its confusing for me because I can't find anything, I got lost on my way to a coffee shop that I still can't find... Oh well I'm sure I'll learn my way around soon!
Lost again,
Riku


This is my room now.


This was my room, I miss it..


My old house..


I suppose you can call this the back door.

I miss my old home now! ;D

[Tabby67]

WHOA....Louisiana looks so pathetic now.

Nice pictures, and you're welcome, Alison.

[crystalpheonixeyes]

I live in Oneonta New york-like an hour and half from Albany. I help my grandmother run and inn and a resturant. It is good money though ^__^ I live with her. Our house, well its weird. I have a small bedroom in the back.

The weather is okay thought it is kind-of in the mountians. Umm there is not really much right near us, but right next to the inn is a puppy place. (it takes about a 2 second walk form the house to the inn ^__^ ) There is also a gun shop...... umm I don't really know what else.

Those are amazing pics. I lovvvvvvve your old bedroom. It is very awesome. Where did you used to live Riku? I like what I imagine is the layout of that house. ^__^