DO U PREFER MANSIONS TO LIVE IN OR SMALL HOUSES AND WHERE?? ME MYSELF I BELIEVE IN REASON AND COMFORTABILITY.. I PREFER SMALL HOUSE AND COUNTRY LIFE BY A STREAM OR LAKE..WITH WILDERNESS.. SMALL CHURCH, BIG ENOUGH FOR THE PEOPLE. .AND HARDLY ANY STORES. "THE PEOPLE SEEM MORE REAL".. AND HAVE MORE VALUE TO ME..TELL ME WHAT U PREFER IN LIFE IN HOME LIVING??
House in the country for sure. Beauty, peace and nature. So beautiful if there was a white steeple church with everyone coming together on sunday and enjoying family and cook outs. Where everyone knows ur name and enjoys helping their neighbor.
The only problem I have living in a small place is the drama. It seems like everybody knows evrybody and gossip seems to run rampant. (in my personal experience). I don't want a mansion either. I like the laid back lifestyle. I come from the mountains of Virginia where you can take a pace or two in any direction and be in WV, KY, NC, or TN. (don't live there now) So I'm no stranger to the hillbilly lifestyle (and folks...mountain hillbillies vs Country folk is two different things) My dream place would be somewhere secluded on the side of a mountain in a pimped out log cabin, but walking distance to the beach, and I don't mean a lake. I mean the ocean ocean like where I am now. Is there such a place? If so, let me know. Ha! ha! I'm with ya though white hawk, nothing beats the peace of a small place in the wilderness, where the people are real.
Hey, CBNVa, I know that part of the state ... do you have one of those cool accents? I know a guy from Marion and he ... sure ... can ... talk ... good, ya know? More of a tennessee-type accent. And he has a 100 stories about his grandmamma and ... (and, no, I am NOT being sarcastic ... I love the real regional stuff). I have lived so many places that my southern accent is more general american (though my friends in Long Island would argue that point).
Bonaircat...yea I have a little bit of a southern accent, just not as deep as those from TN. I have just enough to spark interest and get the attention of people away from here. example: I don't say I as in "eye" I say aaaah and maaaaah. but I still say like sight as in site. so it's there. Them people in Marion have it as bad as the tenneseeans. I have to say I like it though. It's sey-ax-eee!
You're going to love this concept - BOTH ! - just travel back and forth! Here in Maine, a lot of folks live in Florida during the winter and come back here in May. Of course if I had to choose one or the other, I would choose the country and my farm.
I grew up in a small house with 3 older siblings. So I guess im just use to it. Live in a small apartment now, but love it. And neibours are polite even though we may not know each ohter we all say hi or good morning in passing. Plus small places are easier to take care off in my view.
I don't know what I would choose, if I ever had a choice, because it wouldn't just be up to me, but the place I liked the best was in the city, right down town, right across the street from the old Vancouver Public Library -- I am a voracious reader -- with Vancouver's exciting West End right at my back. I loved it. I could walk to plays and concerts downtown in just a few minutes, and to restaurants, too. Pretty nice. I've lived in the country, too, on peaceful Gabriola Island, where there's little traffic because you have to take two ferries to get there from the mainland. I liked it, but the library's not so good.
IM FROM THE COUNTRY -N- I LIKE IT THAT WAY;; CAN'T PUT A BIRD IN A CAGE-OR A MONKEY BEHIND THE WHEEL OF A CORVETTE-SELL AN ESKIMO ICECUBES-YOU GET THE PICTURE -!!!
I own a small home secluded in the middle of almost 60 acres and I wouldn't have it any other way. I can see for about 35 miles in three directions but very few can see me! Says something for being up on the side of a mountain...
I am originally from the south,so i definitely prefer a secluded house in the country. Beverly Hills and other big cities are just too fast paced. I enjoy laid back comfortable natural living. It is so much more peaceful.
There's nothing like a house in th country and a flat uptown from a city's core. The only house I've lived in that was in the country was in southern Maryland, ;relative's old plantation home, totally isolated, but shops etc. 15 minutes away by car. I could turn up the stereos full blast and play the 1812 Overture til the paintings on the walls shook!Being on a bay, however, I did turn it down a bit at night; sounds really travel far and loud on the water!
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