I'd dearly love to live in the mountains, but it isn't going to happen. My husband grew up in a small town (suburb of Lancaster, Pa.), and is a converted city fellow. He wants to be within a half-hour of all amenities -- groceries, gasoline, shopping, bowling, movies and performance venues.
No country bumpkin he.
Gosh, I'd love to hear the breeze soughing in the trees, the brook babbling over the rocks and the rocker creaking back and forth, back and forth.
(Neither of us is a beach person, thank goodness.)
2007-09-07 12:46:09 · 19 answers · asked by felines 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Senior Citizens
Lynda -- This is a DREAM second home. Until our middle-aged children learn to stand on their own two (six?) feet, it's all we can do to afford this house we've been in for 24 years -- and it needs serious repairs!
2007-09-07 13:18:16 · update #1
Autumlovr -- Believe it or not, I know about mountain living. My grandparents lived 4 miles from anybody and without electricity or paved roads. That's where I fell in love with it.
2007-09-09 07:16:32 · update #2
I love the mountains and the beauty there! How could one get bored with all that beauty?
2007-09-07 13:00:06 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I moved to the mountains almost 10 years ago and I've never looked back. I live in the beautiful Sierra Nevada, smack in between Yosemite and Sequoia Nat'l park.
It has it's disadvantages (35 mile round trip to the market, 100 miles round trip for things like movies, good restaurants,doctors), but the advantages out weigh the disadvantages. The people up here are wonderful, we lean on each other when we need to and the school is very good.
It wasn't easy to make the move but we're very happy up here.
2007-09-07 21:13:22 · answer #2 · answered by katydid 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Mountain living isn't quite as romantic when it's winter, you have to haul in groceries and water and staples enough for fairly long term survival in case you're trapped in real foul weather conditions, you daily shovel snow from your rooftops and to be able to get out of your driveway and you have to drive miles away to get to any stores or supplies or for gas. And your life may depend upon your preparedness. Bears and other critters always come looking for food, heating bills are sky high or you have to go out and chop the damn wood yourself and stack it and haul it in day and night.
I suggest that you're talking about a reservation in the mountains at a vacation cabin somewhere that you could have the joys of a quiet mountain setting without any of the real life responsibilities and challenges.
2007-09-08 15:52:57 · answer #3 · answered by autumlovr 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mountains! I live in Florida but Hve always gravitated between the North Georgia Mountains and the beach. Wherever I am I miss the other.
2007-09-08 09:25:16 · answer #4 · answered by Southern Comfort 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My sister owns a cottage on a small island off the coast of British Columbia. From her dock they watch the yearly migrations of whales and seals. The island has only four other cottages on it, so that the wilderness is truly wild and the natural creatures still own it!
And there, just across the bay is the foothills of the Rockies, with their much higher peaks rising majestically behind them.
I'd say that she has just about the best place for retirement, myself.
2007-09-07 21:57:36 · answer #5 · answered by Susie Q 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
My dream retirement, second, vacation home is still in my mind and on a stack of drafting sheets.
I started when I was 21 out of the Navy and still dreaming.
Its in the highlands not far from the sea but well protected from the harshness of severe weather.
This too is still only in my mind.
2007-09-08 12:56:53 · answer #6 · answered by Judd 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
With Global Warming a reality, I'd rather not be near the shore. The mountains for me.
2007-09-07 19:55:42 · answer #7 · answered by liberty11235 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Ocean all the way, wilderness is so over rated in my opinion, moutains, yuk, just a place to hang clouds, mountain valleys, just like a car wash when clouds and rain get stuck in them for days, weeks ... and mountains block out the sky and the sun. In the winter they are black, and grey, and ugly
Hows that for a Canadian point of view? Especially BC where its ALL about the beautiful scenic mountains, way way over rated IMO.
Give me the big sky where you can see forever, and weather is something passing through, not something come to stay awhile and make your life depressing
2007-09-07 20:25:22 · answer #8 · answered by isotope2007 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Definitely a beach house by the shores. One with a swimming pool even though theres a beach, a balcony to relax on and watch the sunrise and sunset.
2007-09-07 19:57:43 · answer #9 · answered by xkokeponx 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe he doesn't like two foot snow falls on and off for six months in the mountains. If you live at the beach, you have $$$.
2007-09-07 19:54:26 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋