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  1. #1
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    My favorite place

    Even though it needs a new roof...

    Karen, dying for Spring and blooming azaleas...
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    Someplace green, with a creek or river. Nothing too big, a cottage for me and Chloe, with a room for the occasional guest. Room for a small vege garden, oh, and a workshop so I can start making jewelry again. Near lots of good cycling roads/trails.

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    Quote Originally Posted by snapdragen View Post
    a workshop so I can start making jewelry again. Near lots of good cycling roads/trails.
    You make jewlery? I love handmade jewlery. Let us know when you get back to making it.
    Jennifer

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    My dream is to live with my sweetie on Cape Cod in the spring, summer, and fall, then to Hawaii for the winter. If I can't have that, then I'll live anywhere, as long as we are together.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ridethewind View Post
    My dream is to live with my sweetie on Cape Cod in the spring, summer, and fall, then to Hawaii for the winter. If I can't have that, then I'll live anywhere, as long as we are together.
    Where on the Cape? I was born there (in Bourne) and love going back to visit.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Queen View Post
    Where on the Cape? I was born there (in Bourne) and love going back to visit.
    We love Provincetown and go there a couple of times a year, usually in the spring and again during Women's Week in October. So, we would want to be somewhere near there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ridethewind View Post
    We love Provincetown and go there a couple of times a year, usually in the spring and again during Women's Week in October. So, we would want to be somewhere near there.
    I love P-Town, my SO has never been so it's on the list of "places to go". I've spent many a day at Race Point Beach and hiking the dunes there.

    Electra Townie 7D

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    Quote Originally Posted by ridethewind View Post
    We love Provincetown and go there a couple of times a year, usually in the spring and again during Women's Week in October. So, we would want to be somewhere near there.
    P-town is on my list of places to see. I haven't been to the East Coast since I was a pup. There's a Women's Week here in the Russian River area Guernville CA each year.

    I've never been, such a party animal ... not.

    I love that area of Sonoma County, Redwoods, near the coast, lots of artists ... but another thing that happens yearly are floods. Seems people buying houses on the river never learn
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    Karen, what a darling house! Just the cottage-y style I love.

    I absolutely love our house in the woods, too, especially the secluded setting (11 acres), many birds, huge hardwood trees, deer, and trails all around us....but I have wanderlust as well. I'm kinda like Lisa says she used to be. Whatever lifestyle/setting I don't have, I crave. I live in a rural area now, so I crave city life, where I could walk everywhere and have coffee or a glass of wine in a quaint cafe along the street, or pop into a bookstore. I live in the woods, so I crave the beach, the islands, water all around me, blues instead of browns and greens. I'm content and happy where I am most of the time, but I don't want to die having lived in North Carolina for all of my days.

    There's just too much more to see and experience, and a vacation isn't always enough time to really experience a place.

    Emily
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    Quote Originally Posted by emily_in_nc View Post
    I absolutely love our house in the woods, too, especially the secluded setting (11 acres), many birds, huge hardwood trees, deer, and trails all around us....but I have wanderlust as well. I'm kinda like Lisa says she used to be. Whatever lifestyle/setting I don't have, I crave. I live in a rural area now, so I crave city life, where I could walk everywhere and have coffee or a glass of wine in a quaint cafe along the street, or pop into a bookstore. I live in the woods, so I crave the beach, the islands, water all around me, blues instead of browns and greens. I'm content and happy where I am most of the time, but I don't want to die having lived in North Carolina for all of my days.

    There's just too much more to see and experience, and a vacation isn't always enough time to really experience a place.

    Emily
    Very well said Emily!
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    Thanks! It's the house I used to draw when I was a little girl, lace curtains and everything. It was a long-suppressed urge to own an old dame, that I didn't know I had until I saw this one. It looks really nice in the spring, with lots of old roses planted by former owners, and honeysuckle and peonies and mums. Lots of mums. :O The garden needs a lot of work.

    Yes, I've thought about what I'd do if it were only me. Would I live on the beach, in the city, or in some funky little area of some midsized place with lots of interesting people?

    I've decided it's just too expensive to live in those trendy places, so I'll live where it's cheap and then I'll have the money to VISIT all those places as much as I want! That way I'd never get tired of one place, and can experience variety. I get a thrill just *thinking* about traveling.

    Karen

 

 

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