I live next to FDR state park and it's amazing. I usually go there a few times a year with the kids. I love being surrounded by trees. Nothing like fresh air. I'm also close to bear mountain park.
I go back and forth since I have lived in big cities, burbs, and rural farmland. Trying to decide where to move to now. I see advantages to all situations.
[QUOdifference="nate, post: 175027, member: 679"]Big City to me is a place with over 20,000 people haha! I grew up in a town of about 2000.[/QUOTE] Big difference from the city life a better life with less people
Lma lmao I don't live in the city only work there. I live about an hour north of the city. I don't like tall buildings. I prefer to be surrounded by trees
NYCountry I grew up in Dutchess County, Millbrook to be specific. Where do you live now? It sounds like you're in the Hyde Park area.
My parents are from Greenpoint, Brooklyn. I still have a ton of family over there and it's always funny when someone sells a house or property just hearing what they got for it. I have an uncle in Whitestone that I just found out is a wood burner - next time I talk to him I have to find out his wood connection. I do like that place - not so much Manhattan, but Brooklyn and Queens. My family members over there are great unique people as is the general population.
Ok not to far from me. Were u off of 82 or 44. I live in mohegan lake / yorktown NY right off the taconic parkway
Oh wow i been to greenpoint a few times. Pricesof homes in brooklyn and whitestome are riduculous and u get no property and most of the time the houses are attached. When was the last time u went down there
Right in the middle actually. I lived on County route 57, right where it meets 98. 57 (The Shunpike) connects 82 and 44 headed out towards Amenia and the CT state line.
I have a not so unique view of the big apple I guess lol.. I drove truck for years and can say I don't EVER want to go back to NYC or Chicago. They are nice city's to visit and I've had fun there but holy crap that's a lot of people! I lived in Cali for a while too and boy do I miss San Diego with a passion. Still a lot of people but the weather is awesome! Earthquakes not so much. Seriously if we had a zombie infestation y'all are screwed.......
It's been a few years now. I wanna say 2010. A few relatives have sold off and moved out but we still have some in Brooklyn. My uncle in Whitestone has a pretty good size house and yard. Part of his retirement plan is to sell it and move west someday.
On the 'other site' I think there were a couple pellet burners in Brooklyn… I spent the better part of 41 years driving coast to coast. At one time I could say I had driven on every inch of the interstate highway system minus the little connectors… This past July I flew out to LA to pick up my Ford Dually. I stayed in Rosemead while we worked on the truck to make it road worthy. Rosemead is probably 30 miles east of downtown LA between the 10and 60 freeways. During the four days I was in town I saw 12 white people. They have a real heavy population of Chinese and Latinos. I have no problems with other races at all… but the Chinese there are very aloof and really want nothing to do with the whites it seems. They don't acknowledge you when you greet them, the checkout lady at Walgreens would never even look up at me and the young Asian girl working behind the desk at the motel simply ignored me when I asked a question. .. her Mexican co-worker smiled and helped me with my problem. Really odd… My main observation is after eight years of not being in the LA area I was shocked at how busy it was. Traffic was awful well into the late night. California drivers used to be very courteous… no more. they will run over there mother to beat you to an exit. I hit the 10 to head home at 2:30PM on a Friday… 7 1/2 hours to Las Vegas… maybe 300 miles or so. Bumper to bumper for more than 50 miles way past Cajon Summit and into the high desert. No thanks...
Or this. Cook Forest in NW Pa. I've been there a couple times and the trees are truly impressive. http://www.pa-roots.com/forest/history/historyofcookforest.html From the link:
