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Describe your part of the world in three words!
I live in the middle of the United States in far southern Missouri in a region known as the Ozarks or the Ozark mountains. I live in a small town. The real mountains were ancient ones that are now just rugged hills but where I live, almost on the border with Oklahoma has many hills but not like the larger "mountains" east and south into Arkansas. I'm not native here but I've lived here a long time.Three words:
Scenic - Quiet - Provincial
Isn't the New Forest even older than Henry VII? Like maybe William I?
Wow, the place you live sounds beautiful. lol, I thought I could get away with the King Henry comment, but it was William 1st. I should have known that, but I couldn't think for the life of me. I live in the south most part of it, which is just full of wildlife and makes photography easy because anywhere you point a camera is beautiful, lol.
I live on the Massachusetts coast very close to where H. P. Lovecraft had in mind for Innsmouth. I'm only a couple of blocks from the ocean. This small town has no liquor stores and no traffic lights. We buy liquor in the next town over, since my town has been dry for over 100 years. It's a very eccentric place, and I love it. In the winter when it snows, this place looks like a Currier and Ives painting.Here are my three words:
Quaint - Colonial - Nautical
Why do the places you live sound better than mine? lol. You don't have a liquor store? I wouldn't last a week, well... half a week, a day, half a day... maybe.
LOL the nearest liquor store is a 10 minute drive away in the next town. We don't go without booze here. :)I don't know, living in a place a king built for hunting sounds pretty cool to me. :)
lol, ten minute drive isn't so bad. A writer without liquor... is that heard of?
I live in a small town in South Carolina. We're the county seat, but we're still very small. We're more or less a bedroom community for Greenville, SC. My three words would be traditional, rural, quiet.
That sounds like a nice pleasant place to live. Is it odd that all the authors live in quiet laid back places?
I don't know, but I'm happy to be quiet and laid back.
Maybe the quiet, laid back atmosphere is good for creating!
Elaine wrote: "It's working for us."Yes, it seems to be!
lol, if I sell my house will put up "Perfect for aspiring writer!"Whereabouts in the world are you from Therese? It sounds like a hot place to live.
hi, i'm in the hills above los angeles - it is positively scorching today. about 30 degrees for you on the other side of the pond. stateside we call it in the (far too high) 90's. L.A. is the high desert, which not many people realize.love "perfect for aspiring writer" - i assume inspiration is included among the fixtures?
lol, inspiration is included. And thank you for the translation because honestly when I watch FOX I have no clue what the weather guy is on about. It's in the 90's? Doesn't that mean people will actually cook!!! Oh wait, that is a different system.
I'd love to go to LA and see all the touristy things. then I'd like to drive down the Pacific Coast Highway.
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Noisy, sophisticated, alive.
I'm trying to persuade my husband to go to New York City on vacation. I've never been, and I'd love to see it.
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While the city makes me nuts enough to leave for three months, it is a fascinating place, very alive every second of the day.
I have always wanted to visit New York City but so far, have never made it there. Maybe someday!
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Let me know if you can make it.
My family want to go there, but I don't know... I think I would just be comparing it with Old York the whole time. Not my best joke, but it will do!
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Olde Yorke! What century do you think we live in, lol. Everywhere has history, but different kinds. U.S has been about just as long as us. You got all the cool dinosaur bones :(
We might have dinosaur bones but a lot of our country is new on European standards! The small town where I live is just a little over 150 years old - and how old is the New Forest, now Alex?? See what I mean! LOL
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Only New Yorkers can call S.F. a town. We're so effete!!!
LOL. Really, New Yorkers are brats.
lol, well the town that I live is pretty cool because if you go into the city they still have the castle wall & gates. I use to read the history boards when I use to work in the city. "Here was... so and so, why it was built, when and what not." They built and expanded the city around the castle, which is really cool. The city high street has all the towers and old archways.But no dinosaurs...
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I would love your town! My Granny's dad came from Eckington in Darbyshire and passed down a lot of the old, old ballads which she sang to me. Some of them talk about castles and such.I'll take that over dinosaurs everyday!
Jean, one of these days I'll take you up on your offer!
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Neither did I. I figured he hung out on the Mississippi River.
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I'm in Charleston SC, which is just about as old as a city can be in the US. (Founded in the early 1600's) We even still have walled gardens with wrought iron spikes on the tops of the walls. They were put in originally to keep pirates like Black Beard out, and now they're mostly just for show.I've been to NYC, but never lived there, and the thing that really hit me as a visitor was how tall it was. You see pictures of the skyline, but exactly how far up that goes doesn't really hit you until you realize you're looking straight up, and it's still hard to see the tops of the buildings.
For my three words: Secret gardens, butterflies
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The tallness of the buildings was part of the horror of the collapse of The World Trade Center. One would think something that tall could never tumble.
Jean wrote: "I visited Charleston and loved it. What a beautiful place with the most elegant houses ever. The city is steeped in history...Charles Elf and his woodworking...was fascinating to me. All the restor..."Granted I've lived in a very few number of places, but I'm confident that I live in one of the most beautiful places on earth. The funny thing is, I'm a Yankee originally, and it took a while to get used to the idea of being somewhere on the mainland with palm trees and Caribbean color schemes. For the whole first year I felt like I was on an island.
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charleston, how lucky! i just re-watched "midnight in the garden of good and evil" this weekend, and all i kept thinking about was luscious southern cities.
My husband is living in Charleston right now. He's an engineer working for Boeing. I go down there from time to time. We've seen some lovely things.
Jean wrote: "How wonderful! Much better than Manhattan island, eh?? LOL."I'd say it's a lot prettier than Manhattan. I've only been to NYC once, but I did find some things I really liked there, like the food. Don't get me wrong, we've got great restaurants in Charleston, but the cutting edge stuff is way more common in NYC. WD-50 is on my places to go eat before I die list, along with half a dozen other NY spots.
Elaine wrote: "My husband is living in Charleston right now. He's an engineer working for Boeing. I go down there from time to time. We've seen some lovely things."Where is he?
We'd like to be in the historic district, but alas, we haven't won the lotto yet. One of these days one of those single houses will be mine! (Mad scientist laugh)
Okay, better now. But that's the goal, to have a place with a piazza, the walled garden with the fountain in the middle, and palm trees nearby.
We did a house tour of the historical district this spring. Impressive aren't they? It would suit me to live in one also. My husband is living in an apartment in Summerville. It's nice, but nothing like those houses.
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NYC food is awesome, I'll grant you that.
John Jake's North and South trilogy (speaking of historical romance) is set in Charleston among other places. Those books are one of the reasons I decided to check the place out. So glad I did.
Alex wrote: "I wanted to get an idea of where everyone came from. Describe where you live in three words. I live in the south of the united kingdom in a place called the "New Forest" it was a forest built by a ..."Hi Alex I hail from Derbyshire originally, which is rugged, green and ever changing, and I now live in Brittany which is soft, verdant and vibrant!
I have used both places in my first book The Thin Blue Line, a tale of life, love and unplanned pregnancies, presently undergoing editing by my Publishers.
Keryl wrote: "Elaine wrote: "My husband is living in Charleston right now. He's an engineer working for Boeing. I go down there from time to time. We've seen some lovely things."Where is he?
We'd like to..."
I would love to be rich enough to buy a chateau here in Brittany, the buying however is not the most expensive part, it's the renovation and upkeep that would make a dent in the old bank account. So I'll keep dreaming until my book makes it into the Best Sellers list at least the upper 50's!
Beautiful - Relaxing - Natural