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[Ozumoz66]

the only thing i miss about Canada is ketchup chips which my mom sends me, a good timmies with a rez cigerette, i dont smoke cigs anymore so

I dont really have anything there to miss, i lived in the fridged fucking north, a place with massive amounts of poverty and drugs you couldnt fucking get away from if you tried,
No one ever leaves the small towns because there is NO opportunity

If i had stayed in canada id been dead 10 years ago probably.

Where i was from everyone worked at the steel plant, and if you didnt work there you barely found work unless you came froma family with money you could get nepotism, if you couldnt find work you turned to drug/ drug dealing.

the northern areas have a lot of gorgeous scenic beauty but they hold a dark dark inability to get out from poverty. there is little opportunity for young people who dont have paid college to get out

Anyone i know from my age range is still doing the same thing, living in the small desolate town and not able to get out, no real good careers,
few left for places like toronto etc. and the majority died from murder, suicide or drug use.

Those northern ontario cities are no joke.

Ketchup is my favourite chip - dill pickle are great too.

I concur with the hopelessness that exists in northern Ontario, with many who view high school as the glory days and they're stuck there.

My one BIL did well and was a raised bore miner that went all over - Chile, Indonesia, etc. The other BIL was mostly unemployed. Both OD'd within 3 days of each other a couple years ago.

Concur, the scenery is gorgeous in northern Ontario, with many great places to go fishing, hiking and trail riding. SW Ontario has a better growing season, so that's where I'll stay.

 

[sunni]

Ketchup is my favourite chip - dill pickle are great too.

I concur with the hopelessness that exists in northern Ontario, with many who view high school as the glory days and they're stuck there.

My one BIL did well and was a raised bore miner that went all over - Chile, Indonesia, etc. The other BIL was mostly unemployed. Both OD'd within 3 days of each other a couple years ago.

Concur, the scenery is gorgeous in northern Ontario, with many great places to go fishing, hiking and trail riding. SW Ontario has a better growing season, so that's where I'll stay.

yeah its a very difficult life up there, I cant imagine how difficult NWT or Nunavut is . the government knew exactly what they were doing when they placed rez'es out there, its to kill people off.

 

[sunni]

When I was in we called it a "dream sheet" because you were dreaming if you thought you would get that station.

still call it that for sure.
We collectively as spouses look at the sheet, hubsand will cross out anything he doesnt want for a job.
than we both collectively cross out states we wont live in which are similar we are big no on texas, carolinas, and california due to the cost of living.

We prefer lower midwest areas usually as it allows us travel more freely to family members,

Right now our priorities lie in Florida as my MIL is aging to the point she cant travel much anymore and its more benefical for our 9 year old to be by his cousins and nana etc.
Not that we like florida (except for vacations) but sometimes you do what needs to be done.

 

[raratt]

It gets hot here in Nor Cal but nothing like Arizona. Once the bake is on there it just keeps rolling. At least we cool down in the evenings a bit typically.
I've seen enough deserts to last me two lifetimes however. The same with hurricanes/typhoons.
Mornin

 

[Thurston]

I agree. I grew up in Phoenix and the heat didn't bother me then. Now I think the desert heat is for the young. Although sunlight is still very desirable.

 

[sunni]

It gets hot here in Nor Cal but nothing like Arizona. Once the bake is on there it just keeps rolling. At least we cool down in the evenings a bit typically.
I've seen enough deserts to last me two lifetimes however. The same with hurricanes/typhoons.
Mornin

i wouldnt pick cali, too expensive cant afford it as a military family. pretty place though!

 

[raratt]

i wouldnt pick cali, too expensive cant afford it as a military family. pretty place though!

The variable housing allowance saved us when we decided living on base was no longer tolerable. Two jobs were required to cover the mortgage until I made enough rank to cover it. I filled my overseas commitment with an accompanied tour on Guam and numerous TDY's to the desert. The housing prices were nowhere near what they are now however. Glad our place is paid off, I'm not moving again till I get planted.

 

[sunni]

The variable housing allowance saved us when we decided living on base was no longer tolerable. Two jobs were required to cover the mortgage until I made enough rank to cover it. I filled my overseas commitment with an accompanied tour on Guam and numerous TDY's to the desert. The housing prices were nowhere near what they are now however. Glad our place is paid off, I'm not moving again till I get planted.

i feel you , we pay entirely too much here in CO for what we have

We arent interested in buying a home until he is retired.

The problem with bases now they are all privatized, and so they take FULL BAH and in some places thats ridiculous, because you can find cheaper on encon.

The issue we have is spouse is in a specific branch the places we go usually only have the all militayr housing that is privatized, or NO BASE housing for his branch but you can live on the other however the commute from his work to the base is too far.

So like here for example it would be a 2 hour drive each way if we lived on base and they would take our entire bah

where as our rent is 150 cheaper lol

 

[laddyd]

I've lived in Houston, Salt lake, St Louis, Trinidad, Denver, Yreka and now Tucson.
I've got family in the Austin area but I could never live in Texas again.
Colorado is too damn expensive and cold.
St Louis, murder capitol. I was mugged 3 times in the 9 years we lived there. Beautiful architecture, neat place but not for me.
Yreka was a depressed little small town. Not much work, hard to make a living.
Salt Lake, Mountains! I would consider moving back, but winters are long and dreary.
Tucson, not as hot as Phoenix. Beautiful mountains, 23 miles of the best Mexican food in America. Low traffic. We moved here to be closer to the grandbabies and decided to retire here. Summers are bad but no worse than Houston, Yreka or St Louis. Tucson is a laid back liberal college town, my kind of place.

 

[sunni]

I've lived in Houston, Salt lake, St Louis, Trinidad, Denver, Yreka and now Tucson.
I've got family in the Austin area but I could never live in Texas again.
Colorado is too damn expensive and cold.
St Louis, murder capitol. I was mugged 3 times in the 9 years we lived there. Beautiful architecture, neat place but not for me.
Yreka was a depressed little small town. Not much work, hard to make a living.
Salt Lake, Mountains! I would consider moving back, but winters are long and dreary.
Tucson, not as hot as Phoenix. Beautiful mountains, 23 miles of the best Mexican food in America. Low traffic. We moved here to be closer to the grandbabies and decided to retire here. Summers are bad but no worse than Houston, Yreka or St Louis. Tucson is a laid back liberal college town, my kind of place.

much different now, its not like that anymore, we loved it there, never had a single problem, extended our stay and lived there for over 6 years
i suppose it would greatly depend on where you lived there though i wouldnt live in east stl (IL), or northstl

 

[laddyd]

much different now, its not like that anymore, we loved it there, never had a single problem, extended our stay and lived there for over 6 years
i suppose it would greatly depend on where you lived there though i wouldnt live in east stl (IL), or northstl

We just went back for our 50 year high school reunion. Where we lived in U.City is the same, all the old houses have been well maintained. There is a dispensary 100 yards from where I got busted for sale when I was 15.

 

[sunni]

We just went back for our 50 year high school reunion. Where we lived in U.City is the same, all the old houses have been well maintained. There is a dispensary 100 yards from where I got busted for sale when I was 15.

yeah we only left there a year and some change ago, we actually plan to retire there, i never had any issues with anyone. im sorry you got mugged thats seriously terrible,
the homes there are to die for love them
I was big in the artistry markets there, i met my soul mates in friend forms.
I still get business emails to come back almost weekly to do some pop up in a local store or something

I never felt once unsafe, unwelcomed or anything.
But i also didnt go to north stl, except the one time i was at my studio in downtown i found a USAAcheck on the ground, and so i drove it up to a little old lady in north stl, turns out her mother died and that was the last of the money in her account.

 

[raratt]

Flagstaff seemed nice when driving through on 40 multiple times. I'm kind of a mountain person, yet here I live in the valley. The 15 minute drive to base sold me on this location. Small farming town, we have 3 stoplights now!

 

[sunni]

dunno if id do arizona, seems hot, i dont like the dry heat, i need some humidity lol

 

[Thurston]

Flagstaff is very friendly and not hot. I would say the weather is like CO. My daughter went to college there.

 

[DarkWeb]

We just went back for our 50 year high school reunion. Where we lived in U.City is the same, all the old houses have been well maintained. There is a dispensary 100 yards from where I got busted for sale when I was 15.

Where I grew up we had these tennis courts that we'd all drag our ramps and rails into for skateboarding. Nobody ever played tennis. Cops would always harass us. The year after I moved away.....it became a skate park nice ramps and rails and support from the town. Assholes lol

 

[raratt]

We have relatively low humidity most of the time, unless the north wind blows then it seriously drops.

 

[raratt]

dunno if id do arizona, seems hot, i dont like the dry heat, i need some humidity lol

The monsoon season changes that. The desert in bloom is awesome. We happened to be coming home to Cali on leave after desert rains made everything wake up.

 

[raratt]

Humidity is when it rains without a cloud around, saw that on Guam. We had one day when the temp and humidity were about 99, I was acclimated and was still feeling it. My parents had come there to visit from Oregon and we had a function at the beach bar. They looked like they were melting so I sent them back to billeting to be in the AC. Diving and fishing there was outstanding, months of rain and typhoons not so much.

 

[laddyd]

yeah we only left there a year and some change ago, we actually plan to retire there, i never had any issues with anyone. im sorry you got mugged thats seriously terrible,
the homes there are to die for love them
I was big in the artistry markets there, i met my soul mates in friend forms.
I still get business emails to come back almost weekly to do some pop up in a local store or something

I never felt once unsafe, unwelcomed or anything.
But i also didnt go to north stl, except the one time i was at my studio in downtown i found a USAAcheck on the ground, and so i drove it up to a little old lady in north stl, turns out her mother died and that was the last of the money in her account.

We went all over that town as kids. We'd take the bus down town, go to Cardinal games etc totally unsupervised. We roamed forest Park all summer. Got mugged there while fishing. Got arrested for swimming in the fountain. Our playground included the Art Museum and the Arch. We skinny dipped in the Missouri river. We used to hang out in the Chase Park Plaza hotel begging autographs from the base ball players that stayed there. Now days our parents would be arrested for child abuse. We survived.