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Post by riley on Sept 7, 2004 20:36:50 GMT -5
Thanks Doc. Can you put that garage idea in writing to my wife  I've seen more insect species than I thought existed in the past couple of weeks, and been bit by a few as well. Privacy vs. city life has a few trade offs, but so far so good. These are a bit more representative of where I live "today"    |
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Post by stratman19 on Sept 7, 2004 21:48:14 GMT -5
Very nice house Riley. There's money in banking! ;D
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Post by riley on Sept 7, 2004 22:09:29 GMT -5
Thanks Strat, but we in the industry prefer to call it "heavily debt leveraged"  |
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Post by JesusLooksLikeMe on Sept 8, 2004 3:23:19 GMT -5
Fuck me ragged, riley. There's plenty of room in that mansion house for a couple of English stow-aways, unless I'm very much mistaken.
I'll bring you breakfast in bed?
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Post by riley on Sept 8, 2004 5:09:52 GMT -5
Sold, but you and the lovely young lady are in charge of lawn watering and dog walking.
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Post by phil on Sept 8, 2004 7:31:33 GMT -5
Don't forget the part about the Bear Baiting ...
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Post by rockkid on Sept 8, 2004 7:46:17 GMT -5
Retail for that puppy round these parts 189 to 205.
Is it close Riley?
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Post by tuneschick on Sept 8, 2004 8:15:55 GMT -5
Wow, that's gorgeous Riley - and lots of room for the pups to run, huh?
I WISH a house like that would go for around 200 here... in my city, it'd be at least 5-600, especially by the looks of the large lot... in Toronto, upwards of a cool mill, easy!
Frightening...
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Post by riley on Sept 8, 2004 8:24:01 GMT -5
Retail for that puppy round these parts 189 to 205. Is it close Riley? Rock your range is about 80-100 low. Maybe I should move to your neck of the woods.  |
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Post by riley on Sept 8, 2004 8:25:34 GMT -5
Wow, that's gorgeous Riley - and lots of room for the pups to run, huh? I WISH a house like that would go for around 200 here... in my city, it'd be at least 5-600, especially by the looks of the large lot... in Toronto, upwards of a cool mill, easy! Frightening... That's why we're just hoping folks from the T-dot don't all figure out about Canada's best kept secret all at once. |
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Post by tuneschick on Sept 8, 2004 8:42:25 GMT -5
That's why we're just hoping folks from the T-dot don't all figure out about Canada's best kept secret all at once. Don't blame you at all - that's an amazing place. And I wouldn't be around all these Torontonians either, if I had my way.  Speaking of which... Steve's parents have bought a big piece of waterfront property in the little town where their camp/cottage currently is, so they're planning on retiring in January 2006 and building their dream retirement home. ... which means that Steve and I want to get back home more than ever now - we really, really want to buy their old house! Not to mention that if we lived back home (which is only an hour away from where they'll be), I could finally have my kayak and just leave it there. Ah, the dreams I have... |
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Post by RocDoc on Sept 8, 2004 14:02:24 GMT -5
Ouch. There's really THAT much dissatisfaction with where you are, tunes?
It makes me realize how lucky I am to have been well-matched with the town I live in....Chicago has been SO good for me....'city' when I need it...'country' completely within my reach when I need THAT.
Beaches. Islands. Sweeping valleys. Vistas. 1 or 2 or 3 hours and we can get ALL of that.
...and when I was a kid, 'country' could be reached by jumping on my bicycle and riding out 'to the woods' just a mile or two away. It's just a bit more difficult than that now....GOD it's changed. But all the cultural advantages MORE than make up for the so-so changes I see.
Our son won't quite see the same Museum Of Science & Industry which I first loved and absolutely delighted in 40 years ago....but he will STILL love it!
Plus, I've got friends, good friends whom I've known for 20-30-even 40 years, since many of them haven't moved that far away(if at all)either.
OR they've gone elsewhere and moved BACK. Usually because they still love this city.
THAT is one thing that I've been told time and again, is exceptional. Usually by people who've been displaced(for one reason or another)all their lives.
Hey, you go to school for some sort of an esoteric field of study which depends on some sort of a populous locale for finding gainful employment...well, ya gotta go where there's some people. Where the market is for what you do...
~
Even with all this 'comfort'...
....I honestly feel that there's going to be a move to Europe in our future sometime....and tho I've only been there 3 times, having spent a total of nearly a ΒΌ of a year there, there's VERY much a draw for me to actually live there, to appreciate the history and the feel of living someplace so different, yet still feel so comfortable. As we've been in 'our' Lithuania. Or then in Italy, France or Denmark as very adventuresome tourists...
Whether it's among the people whose language and history I actually share...or whether it's someplace further afield in Europe where(like Rome or Paris)the pure excitement of living there making all the presumed day-to-day struggle worthwhile...of course having money(ie and work)would be the only way to actually consider such a thing...but it's not beyond the realm....
Doing something like what maarts...or chem...or that crazy Brooklyn-based Serb lawyer now working at The Hague(whathisname...what's his name?)..........are doing.
Tho they're all doing it as single guys.
Luckily for me, my wife seeeems to be an adventurer too. Tho however(as they say)'and baby makes three'....
...living in a daydream....
*walks away whistling the Andy Griffith theme song*
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Post by Ampage on Sept 8, 2004 14:25:02 GMT -5
Goodness, nice palaces people. I will have to try and get one of mine up there. Although, it could fit into most of your garages with room yet for parking.
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Post by tuneschick on Sept 8, 2004 14:58:46 GMT -5
Ouch. There's really THAT much dissatisfaction with where you are, tunes? It makes me realize how lucky I am to have been well-matched with the town I live in....Chicago has been SO good for me....'city' when I need it...'country' completely within my reach when I need THAT. Beaches. Islands. Sweeping valleys. Vistas. 1 or 2 or 3 hours and we can get ALL of that. To be honest, Roc Doc, the situation I'm in is a bit complicated. I don't actually live IN Toronto, though I spend much of my time there. And I think that's part of the problem. I travel more than 3 hours a day to work and back, so the Toronto I see is the rush-hour Toronto, when people are rushed and tired and harried and just want to be wherever they're going. There aren't a whole lot of relaxed people, and there ARE quite a lot of rude people who are so intent on getting somewhere that they will let doors slam in your face, slam into you full force or step on your feet... and not take a single second to say 'sorry' or 'excuse me'. Maybe it's just me being too "sensitive" for the big city - but I was brought up with good manners, and it bugs me to no end to have people be so inconsiderate. Not only that, but it often puts me in a bad mood before I even reach the office, at which point I need to try and smile and shake it off. I used to love visiting Toronto - it really is a fun city to visit, with lots to see and do, great restaurants, concerts, entertainment, shopping, etc. But I don't SEE that Toronto anymore. I actually quite like where I LIVE, about 30 miles from Toronto. We're in a fairly quiet, older residential neighbourhood, lots of trees and parks and flowers. We're also right on the northern edge of the city... so less than a five minute drive and we're literally out in the country, with farms and fields and orchards and horses and sheep and cows all over the place. It's hard to believe you were in a city at all. We went apple, pear and plum picking this weekend exactly 9 minutes from our house. We went to this wonderful village to visit Mennonite markets, just over an hour away. There are so many incredible, wonderful things to see and do within a couple of hours of Toronto. I'm convinced that the scenery in this province can rival just about anything out there, anywhere. So it's just this particular situation we're in, where I'm tired all the time from getting up at 5:30 every morning and being gone 13 or more hours a day. And really, we both just really miss our hometown and the people there. We're NOT big city people. Our hometown of 150,000 was the perfect size and location for us - friendly people, small-town vibe, sort of an "underground" cultural scene, thousands (!) of lakes, all sorts of conservation areas, lower cost of living for more property, etc. And that's where our family and closest friends are, and that's important to us too. All that, and Toronto is only a few hours away - when we lived there, we frequently came to Toronto for a day or a weekend, and loved it... because we got to leave again! This is just not home. All that long-windedness to say... it's not so much the place that I hate as the situation I'm in. And I'm making the best of it - have been for four years - but I'm still desperately seeking the perfect chance to get back home - real home. |
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Post by tuneschick on Sept 8, 2004 15:01:26 GMT -5
Wow, that was even more long-winded than I thought. |
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