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Across the Fence:  If you could live anywhere...........  |
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one_dog_per_acre
True Blue Farmgirl
1572 Posts
Trish
Sandpoint
ID
USA
1572 Posts |
 Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 06:04:02 AM
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It would be Northern California. About 7 years ago I drove through Clear Lake/Mendicino and I wanted to get a job and stay. Anywhere in Northern California. If only aerospace was there.
“It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.”-Charlie Brown |
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GirlwithHook
True Blue Farmgirl
922 Posts
Alyce
Madison
WI
USA
922 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 06:48:10 AM
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For me, France. My mother's family is from Burgundy, but I am drawn to Provence (thanks to Peter Mayle I suppose). I can't explain it, but I NEED to be there.
So, that's where we plan to retire (if we don't get there beforehand).
A hook, a book, and a good cup of coffee.... |
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delicia
True Blue Farmgirl
917 Posts
delicia
cincinnati
ohio
USA
917 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 07:41:05 AM
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| I would love to live in the Mountains of Kentucky. Have a huge desire to visit Scotland where my fathers family is from so may change my mind once I have a chance to see what it is like there. |
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musicmommy
True Blue Farmgirl
430 Posts
Wendy
Oregon
USA
430 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 07:41:59 AM
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Alaska. I did most of my growing up years there and it has my heart. I'm also very drawn to the mountains in Montana or Colorado.
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.
Bob Marley
www.becomingwendy.wordpress.com |
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FebruaryViolet
True Blue Farmgirl
4810 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
4810 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 07:56:24 AM
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I've said it before and it has never changed. Cornwall, England--in specific, the very farm I lived on years ago where I learned about lambing--Trevalga, Cornwall. Up the hill from the harbor of Boscastle, and a mile from the ruins of Tintagel, walking the cliffs.
"Hey, I've got nothing to do today but smile..."
The Only Living Boy in New York, Paul Simon |
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Bear5
True Blue Farmgirl
13055 Posts
Louisiana/Texas
USA
13055 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 08:26:53 AM
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Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Absolutely beautiful, but I couldn't stay there in winter; too much snow and ice.
Marly
"It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth- and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up- that we will begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had." Elisabeth Kurler-Ross |
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mosquitocontrol
Farmgirl in Training
34 Posts
Regina
Fayetteville
OH
USA
34 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 09:35:53 AM
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Old Spirit
True Blue Farmgirl
1498 Posts
Rae
MN
1498 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 11:46:19 AM
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Right where I am right now! Maybe a wee bit bigger home and barn but where I am is home.
Rae
Farm Girl #647
...those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles:...
Isaiah 40:31
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acairnsmom
True Blue Farmgirl
1319 Posts
audrey
cheyenne
wy
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Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 11:52:46 AM
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Don't take this wrong (don't want to offend anyone)but I would live in Colorado 40 years ago before it was discovered. That is where both DH and I were born and raised and lived until 2009. We jokingly (half serious) that were chased out of Colorado by all of the newcomers who ruined the state.
Audrey
http://prairiecairncottage.blogspot.com/
.jpg) Good boy Hobbs! I love and miss you. |
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edlund33
True Blue Farmgirl
1497 Posts
Marilyn
Renton
WA
USA
1497 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 12:10:56 PM
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My first three choices would be Katrineholm, Södermanland or Hudiksvall, Hälsingland in Sweden (where my great grandparents emigrated from) or anywhere along the Sognefjord in Norway which is simply the most beautiful place in the world I have ever visited.
Cheers! ~ Marilyn
Farm Girl No. 1100
http://blueskyanddaisies.blogspot.com
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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Blessed in Colorado
True Blue Farmgirl
6595 Posts
Debbie L.
Oregon
USA
6595 Posts |
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JudyT
True Blue Farmgirl
196 Posts
Judy
Southwest
Wisconsin
USA
196 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 12:59:30 PM
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I love where I'm living now in a log home on 20 acres up on a ridge in the Ocooch Mountains in Southwest Wisconsin, but I do have the itch to also go west and live in the mountains there or to the hills of Kentucky or Tennessee.
Judy~Farmgirl Sister #599
I lived in an urban area most my life, but now I'm living in a rural area up on a ridge in the Ocooch Mountains in Southwest Wisconsin, sharing my life at...http://dailyyarnsnmore.com |
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Ninibini
True Blue Farmgirl
7577 Posts
Nini
Pennsylvania
USA
7577 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 2:43:44 PM
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Alyce... I'm with you! Provence! Wouldn't it be great to be neighbors and explore France together? Oui! Oui! ;) Or Tuscany... Or Greece... Or, yes! Israel with Regina... Well, wherever my heart may roam, there really is no place like home! :) We should plan a huge Farmgirl tour of Europe... Wouldn't that be awesome!? You'd have to tranquilize me to near death before I get on a plane, but to experience it with all of you... WOW!!! ;) Hugs - Nini
Farmgirl Sister #1974
God gave us two hands... one to help ourselves, and one to help others!
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ceejay48
Farmgirl Legend/Schoolmarm/Sharpshooter
13627 Posts
CeeJay (CJ)
Dolores
Colorado
USA
13627 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 3:37:03 PM
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Right here . . I'm TOTALLY satisfied with my little piece of our family farm with the Colorado Rockies to the east! Surrounded by BLUE, BLUE skies and clean, fresh air!!
I have LOVED my visits to Scotland, Ireland, Wales and England . . . and wouldn't mind a little cottage there . . probably Scotland.
But I don't think I want to live there permanently or year round because it is rather rainy.
CJ
..from the barefoot farmgirl in SW Colorado...sister chick #665.
2010 Farmgirl Sister of the Year
Mother Hen: FARMGIRLS SOUTHWEST HENHOUSE
living life - www.snippetscja.blogspot.com
from my hands - www.cjscreations-ceejay.blogspot.com
the "Purple Thistle" http://www.ceejay48.etsy.com
from my heart - www.fromacelticheart.blogspot.com
from my hubby - www.aspenforge.blogspot.com |
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Simple Living
True Blue Farmgirl
1402 Posts
Joan
Staten Island
NY
USA
1402 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 3:54:02 PM
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I also wouldn't change a thing, except more property so I can actually plant veggies and flowers. Oh and maybe have a chicken coop also, lol, but otherwise I am grateful for what we have :)
A Friend is Someone who Reaches for your Hand, But Touches your Heart!
Farmgirl #3842 |
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pnickols
True Blue Farmgirl
808 Posts
Patricia
Parma
Ohio
808 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 5:43:35 PM
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| Montana where I could see the mountains or northern Michigan like Mackinac with the woods and water |
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Sue Feely
True Blue Farmgirl
1044 Posts
Sue
Buffalo
New York
USA
1044 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 6:07:33 PM
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| For me and for us it would be and hopefully will be Savannah GA or somewhere surrounding that area! We have been there and through there many times at all times of the year and it is just lovely, I even have subscribed to their week end newspaper to check it out further! |
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Okie Farm Girl
True Blue Farmgirl
1674 Posts
Mary Beth
McLoud
Oklahoma
USA
1674 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 7:12:51 PM
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Well, you see...I guess I want to be a Kennedy or something because I'd like to have my house here in Okieland, with another in Colorado, one in Maine, one near the White River in Arkansas and one in the Smokies of TN. Anybody know a billionaire who wants to adopt me?? :-))
Mary Beth
www.OklahomaPastryCloth.com
www.Oklahomapastrycloth.com/blog
The Sovereign Lord is my strength - Habakkuk 3:19 |
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littlegirl54
True Blue Farmgirl
61 Posts
Connie
Rio Linda
California
USA
61 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 7:36:19 PM
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I think I would like to live about midway between Sacramento, and Oregon; somewhere between the ocean and the mountains. I think Mendocino is such a place as this. But for the time being I am satisfied where I am with (like you all) the exception of the house could be a bit bigger, and I could have a bit more privacy.
Connie
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tammyc
True Blue Farmgirl
698 Posts
Tammy
Danville
California
USA
698 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 8:14:57 PM
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Bend, Oregon....where our second (and future retirement) home is located! If I won the lottery I would have a flat in San Francisco, a place in Hawaii, my house in Bend and a little cottage in Ireland!
"Be who you are and say what you like because the people who mind don't matter and the people who matter don't mind" - Dr. Seuss |
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tammyc
True Blue Farmgirl
698 Posts
Tammy
Danville
California
USA
698 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 8:24:33 PM
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Although I must say Mendocino is one of my favorite places for a weekend getaway....any farmgirl who is in the 50 states postcard swap will soon see............
"Be who you are and say what you like because the people who mind don't matter and the people who matter don't mind" - Dr. Seuss |
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sue5901
True Blue Farmgirl
122 Posts
Sue
Wellingborough
United Kingdom
122 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 11:20:03 PM
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Like a lot of you -I would live right where I am in a slightly bigger house with more land. I guess I can think of many more beautiful places to live but to me people are more important than scenery and all the people I care about are here where I live now - so its the most wonderful place on earth, dome.
Dance like nobody's watching! |
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sue5901
True Blue Farmgirl
122 Posts
Sue
Wellingborough
United Kingdom
122 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 11:21:41 PM
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'to me' not dome - auto spell check in action there!!!!!
Dance like nobody's watching! |
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Dusky Beauty
True Blue Farmgirl
1108 Posts
Jen
Tonopah
AZ
USA
1108 Posts |
Posted - Jun 01 2012 : 11:53:06 PM
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Someplace green. Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Missouri, Kentucky-- just about anywhere would do as long as it was 1. Green, 2. Had trees, 3. Had Water and 4. I could afford 10+ acres and a cute little farm house and barn.
Humidity is often used as a scare tactic but I don't really see the problem since air conditioning has been invented.
My favorite place I've actually BEEN is the farm and wine country in Oregon in a neat little triangle between Eugene, Corvallis, and Portland (Encompassing Salem and McMinnville.
There's a lot of reasons we can't settle there though. It's californicated for one-- in politics, economy and real estate and for another an outside source trashed most of the good memories I made there-- not willing to risk moving back and running into the witch who tried to steal my husband. (Actually, that's an insult to anyone of the wiccan faith. She's a viper.)
~*~ http://silverstarfamilyfarm.blogspot.com/ ~*~
“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.”
~Erma Bombeck |
Edited by - Dusky Beauty on Jun 01 2012 11:57:20 PM |
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one_dog_per_acre
True Blue Farmgirl
1572 Posts
Trish
Sandpoint
ID
USA
1572 Posts |
Posted - Jun 02 2012 : 06:39:17 AM
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Next time try the umpqua valley instead of filbert country. I THINK we get to go to the north umpqua for 4th of July! But I get the feeling there is going to be some weird intervention that forces me to see my estranged father. My sister is being WAY too nice to really be my sister. TMI? Anyway, I keep hitting tons of sites that give winos the maps of Roseburg they need. My new hobby is wine, so I'll let you know.I am from Rogue River Or. Californication means that you don't have to keep applying at the mill. Dundee and all those towns are really crowded on the weekends from Portland people. quote:
Originally posted by Dusky Beauty
Someplace green. Oregon, Washington, British Columbia, Missouri, Kentucky-- just about anywhere would do as long as it was 1. Green, 2. Had trees, 3. Had Water and 4. I could afford 10+ acres and a cute little farm house and barn.
Humidity is often used as a scare tactic but I don't really see the problem since air conditioning has been invented.
My favorite place I've actually BEEN is the farm and wine country in Oregon in a neat little triangle between Eugene, Corvallis, and Portland (Encompassing Salem and McMinnville.
There's a lot of reasons we can't settle there though. It's californicated for one-- in politics, economy and real estate and for another an outside source trashed most of the good memories I made there-- not willing to risk moving back and running into the witch who tried to steal my husband. (Actually, that's an insult to anyone of the wiccan faith. She's a viper.)
~*~ http://silverstarfamilyfarm.blogspot.com/ ~*~
“When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, 'I used everything you gave me.”
~Erma Bombeck
“It always looks darkest just before it gets totally black.”-Charlie Brown |
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rphelps4
True Blue Farmgirl
620 Posts
roxanna
westport
indiana
USA
620 Posts |
Posted - Jun 02 2012 : 07:33:51 AM
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| I too am pretty happy where I am living, just wish I didn't have to work so much, so I could do more around here.When my kids were small we had no money, so I raised and canned almost everything we ate, and made most of our clothes. It was very hard but it was such a simple life style, I miss it! Someday I'll get back there! Roxanna |
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