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Nancy - Posted - 10/05/2009: 04:31:06
If you could live anywhere you wished, where would that place be?
Nancy
We Create Our Tomorrows by what we dream today.
kyblugrass - Posted - 10/05/2009: 04:44:12
Some place that the temps never dipped below 70.
Scott
“You Can Hang a Sign on a Pig Saying It's a Horse...But It’s Still Just a Pig.”
BConk - Posted - 10/05/2009: 04:50:35
Later today I'm going to a house in Narragansett, Rhode Island to pick up a (nother) rowing boat. It was a carriage house for a waterfront mansion built in 1904. It sits at the end of a long driveway through dense woods atop a hill on 4 acres of wooded waterfront just south of South Pier with a panoramic view of Lower Narragansett Bay all the way from Narragansett Beach to Newport. More than half of the first floor is a woodworking shop.
Amazing house and property. Wish I had the money to buy it...and to pay the taxes year after year.
Here's a link to the realtor site - there's a video tour of the home...you even get a peek at the bottom of the boat I'm buying. It's too bad it was a hazy day when they took the photos - you can't see much of the view. On a clear day, however, it's spectacular.
http://www.realtor.com/realestatean...2_1111060113
"Defender of the Sacred Cod"
Capio pisces, ergo sum
Edited by - BConk on 10/05/2009 04:56:37
OM45GE - Posted - 10/05/2009: 05:09:06
On a 43' Shannon Ketch in the Carribean
"But if there were no music
Then I would not get through" - Shawn Colvin
Ev - Posted - 10/05/2009: 05:15:13
A little closer to the mountains.
Doesn't matter which ones.
gdtrfb24 - Posted - 10/05/2009: 05:21:27
Either Minnesota to be closer to the relatives or Alaska.
dingo - Posted - 10/05/2009: 05:45:10
Germany, or another nice coutry with a little village.
Jill
What Happens in the Corn Field, Stays in the Corn Field.
dat - Posted - 10/05/2009: 06:12:41
somewhere in the mountians, I just came back from a weekend in Arkansas and loved it
noli illegitimi carborundum
everybody needs at least one gun for every year old that they are, having a few extras don't hurt
mike gregory - Posted - 10/05/2009: 06:18:21
One option might be the Palace of the Planetary Emperor, Mike the First.
Another might be a treehouse in a forest in a place with a reasonably temperate climate, with an elevator inside the tree, to take me down to the high-spped subway that would whisk me to the City whenever I get to feeling too isolated from the rest of humanity, and/or want top catch a movie in a theater with some other people. (A comedy in a roomful of OTHER laughing people IS funnier than a comedy seen alone.)
But, until those occupancies become available, I seem to be relatively content to live right here, at the other end of the wire which runs from this keyboard, to the monitors of 40,000 banjo-beating pals & gals.
=):{ )
Mike Gregory, Banjo Maker Infraordinaire
When I say my instruments are as good as anything Gibson or Martin ever made,
I mean MEL Gibson and DEAN Martin!
My banjos can be seen on my own website
http://littlebanjos.lunare.net
See me & my SQUARED EEL banjo on the Y'all tube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97EfvhFgRBY
Frebazak - Posted - 10/05/2009: 06:26:22
Right here....This is the place of my dreams......
I live at the end of the Rainbow....
Edited by - Frebazak on 10/05/2009 08:58:00
dawgdoc - Posted - 10/05/2009: 06:37:28
Fortunately, we DO live here. It's our little heaven. 5 minutes from the ski hill and 200 yards to a great flyfishing creek.
JSnood - Posted - 10/05/2009: 07:15:03
New York, London, or Paris.
Raphael Lasar
Matawan, NJ
The more something is described as "unbelievable", the simpler the explanation for it will be.
Brother Jeeter - Posted - 10/05/2009: 07:23:54
East Tennessee, CLOSE to the mountains.
“The pump don’t work ‘cause the vandals took the handles.”
Bob Dylan
“Don’t get beat, ever, by anything, or anyone. You might get killed, but never get beat…And never ask for nothing but God’s light to see by.”
'The Woodsman'
"Do not traverse a structure erected to afford passage over a waterway until the time of drawing nigh unto it."
"Endeavor to Persevere."
From THE OUTLAW JOSIE WALES
Ronnie - Posted - 10/05/2009: 07:26:58
I would probably stay right here. This little cottage is adequate for my needs. My home town has a rich musical heritage and I am within an easy drive of both Nashville and Memphis.
www.bobbythompsonbanjo.com
mybote - Posted - 10/05/2009: 07:43:04
Big Rock Candy Mountain.
wkb28791 - Posted - 10/05/2009: 08:07:21
A secluded place in the mountains of West Virginia or up near Boone in Western NC.
Regards,
wkb28791
"If you really want something in this life, you have to work for it-----Now quiet! they're about to announce the lottery numbers!"
Homer Simpson
pandjlocke - Posted - 10/05/2009: 08:14:07
Joyce and I discussed retiring to Puerto Rico if we ever COULD retire, but right here around Seattle is very, very nice. I'd like to move a little further out from the city, though. Gets a little crowded sometimes and I'd like more farm critters.
Beware of the urgent crowding out the important - C.E. Hummel
Paddy
clendarrow - Posted - 10/05/2009: 08:45:45
arkansas, north carolina, mountans.
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." ~Berthold Auerbach
raybob - Posted - 10/05/2009: 09:13:53
For now we're fairly happy right where we are. Winters are cold but usually not bitter, summers can be toasty but they're also tolerable. The ocean is four hours away (you have to drive through a beautiful redwood forest to get there), and there's mountains, well... in the back yard (see avatar). I have room to train dogs and sheep to train them on, and we just got a second horse. We can make as much noise as we want and even have target practice in the back yard. Think we'll stay for awhile 
Ray
"We learn from history that we do not learn from history." --G. Santayana
1four5 - Posted - 10/05/2009: 09:37:23
Somewhere with lots of snow.
Dean
10gauge - Posted - 10/05/2009: 09:44:42
quote:
Originally posted by mybote
Big Rock Candy Mountain.
There's a doctor Suess book called I Had Trouble In Getting To Solla Sellew. It illustrates how even in a magical place the billing just can't live up to reality. I was thinking about Big Rock Candy Mountain and it would be pretty dry and not very green in a place where "the rain don't fall". That lake of stew after a couple weeks would get pretty pungent and you probably wouldn't want to do a lot of canoeing. I would like to live in the foothills of the Rockies near Colorado Springs, but a little way into the mountains, where the Ponderosa is thick and the streams run deep down from the high mountains. The Rocky Mountain National Forest would be my back yard. I would live in a humbly appointed cabin with a wood stove in the middle. When it snowed hard I would stay in, drink coffee, read and play banjo with my dog laying near me. When the weather was nice I would hike, hunt and fish the vast Rocky Mountains until my body was as hard as the trees and rocks around me and my heart free and easy. Jonathan O'bug
Gary Blanchard - Posted - 10/05/2009: 09:56:15
West Brookfield, Massachusetts is the place where I wanted to live since I first saw it in 1994. Luckily, I made it home in 2006, so I'm very happy with where I am. 
Gary Blanchard
"an outlier among outliers"
http://www.gbandf.com
farley - Posted - 10/05/2009: 10:03:49
I'd live at Earl Scruggs house down in Franklin, Tennessee. He's only got 17 bedrooms, be a great place for parties. Also I'd be there to keep Earl company. Farley
dpete210 - Posted - 10/05/2009: 10:27:04
I love Minnesota. Have traveled quite a bit around the USA and Canada and there are still lots of places I haven't been, but I've not seen anything I like better than right here in the beautiful lakes and forests where I live. The one place I would choose if I could would be to live where my grandparents all came from: Norway. It is absolutely the most beautiful place I have ever been.
Any day playing music is a GOOD day.
TMarshall1 - Posted - 10/05/2009: 10:36:04
Living in the Piedmont area of NC is as close to perfect as I can get!!! "PERFECT" = mountains off my back porch and the ocean breaking at my front....
20 mins to the Blueridge and 4 hrs to the coast.
It's a gDGBD (Gosh Darn Good Banjo Day)!
Tony
Proud Member of
The Gibson Chapter
"...if ya got time to breathe, ya got time for music..."
Briscoe Darling - Apr.29,1963
banjo1973 - Posted - 10/05/2009: 10:41:55
ANYWHERE beneath the Mason-Dixon line would be fine!!!
Brian T - Posted - 10/05/2009: 10:51:05
Be careful what you wish for. I do live smack dab in the middle of the Rocky Mountains in the village of McBride, BC in what's called the Robson Valley.
Google Earth will give you a good look-see. We play in the Holmes River valley.
Last 2 nights were long and -5C (25F) to frost off the vineyard and most everything else, including the BUGS! -11C (10F) by Friday night. Lots of fresh snow on all the peaks but that's where it should stay.
Wood pellet stove has been running at a bit less than half-throttle since Oct. 01. Power failure and I had to run the stove 14hrs on the solar-power back-up system. . . . easy. Kitchen is 70F, dishwasher is running and my bread is on the rise.
I would like to try living in my brother's place in Freeport, Grand Bahama. I could choke that down for quite a while.
We do not know where we are going.
Nor do most of us care.
For us, it is enough that we are on our way.
Le Matelot
salvatone - Posted - 10/05/2009: 11:19:58
Barnet, Vermont is doing it for me, despite 40 below winter temps.
Salvatone
KE - Posted - 10/05/2009: 11:21:22
Every place on earth has its good points along with the bad. Happiness is an attitude, not a place. So I guess I'm content where I am and prefer not to move.
oldwoodchuckb - Posted - 10/05/2009: 11:40:55
Moved here about 30 years ago. This is where we want to be. THis is where our friends are. This is where we attend about 2 jams a week. This is where my wife goes to a couple festivals a year - I would too but I can't travel anymore.
http://www.rocketsciencebanjo.com
Rocket Science Banjo - Advanced Clawhammer Techniques for beginners and long time players alike. Plus videos and 25-40 EZ Clawhammer Tunes.
& check out "How To Mold A Mighty Pinky" at:
http://www.pricklypearmusic.net
banjo brad's great banjo site
Gary Blanchard - Posted - 10/05/2009: 12:10:52
quote:
Originally posted by salvatone
Barnet, Vermont is doing it for me, despite 40 below winter temps.
Salvatone
I see you are not far from Montpelier. I got my Masters degree from Vermont College in Montpelier and I loved going up there. Vermont would be my second choice of a place to live. Gary Blanchard "an outlier among outliers" http://www.gbandf.com
PharmBoy - Posted - 10/05/2009: 12:14:50
Murrells Inlet, SC - right on the marsh...
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There is no growth in the Comfort zone, and no comfort in the Growth zone.
"The instrument proper to them is the Banjar, which they brought hither from Africa."
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marshh - Posted - 10/05/2009: 12:36:41
We're within 20 miles of our 3 kids, two grandchildren and
two great grandchildren. We go to at least two bluegrass jams a week and play at 4 nursing homes a month. Weather is moderate - life is good!
Eat, Sleep and Pick
DumbPluck - Posted - 10/05/2009: 13:55:13
I just want to live somewhere that I can have a 10 or so car garage, and people won't get upset when I run the compressor at 3 am..... All these people sleeping is really cutting into my wrenching time....
Compass56 - Posted - 10/05/2009: 14:21:25
I'd live love to live in Manhattan, probably in the East Village, but there are many great neighborhoods that I can't even begin to afford on that tiny, amazing island. (the West Village, Chelsea, Gramarcy Park, etc.)
Laurence Diehl - Posted - 10/05/2009: 15:20:26
Can't complain - we are right up against the State Park.
I sometimes get homesick for London/South England however...
Cheers,
Laurence
It takes a lot to laugh, but it takes a train to cry
Edited by - Laurence Diehl on 10/05/2009 15:27:38
dwhite50 - Posted - 10/05/2009: 15:23:43
[quote]Originally posted by Brother Jeeter
East Tennessee, CLOSE to the mountains.
Yes, this IS God's country!!!!
bluemule_77 - Posted - 10/05/2009: 15:30:18
I've lived on several big ranches in NM and west TX. My favorite spot yet was on a ranch owned by one of NM's Indian tribes. 65 miles from town. The last 30 miles were dirt roads that went through one other reservation and didn't pass near any other dwelling, and ended abruptly at my house... completely off the grid, and no cellphone service.
The places I've liked best have all been end-of-the-road with enough miles of dirt road to keep the riff-raff away.
BM
rudykizuty - Posted - 10/05/2009: 15:40:26
Nantucket.
Anthony Herner
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You have to practice even to be lousy -- Jack Benny
gkella - Posted - 10/05/2009: 15:43:15
I would live in Sedona, Arizona.
It is a beautiful place.
The weather is just about perfect and
I could them make the trek to Telluride every June for
the bluegrass festival.
Glen
steve davis - Posted - 10/05/2009: 15:49:49
There's no place like home.
I feel very lucky to live here.
scotty22 - Posted - 10/05/2009: 16:23:31
quote:
Originally posted by mybote
Big Rock Candy Mountain.
Where cigarettes grow on trees!  Great thread Nancy. My choice would be somewhere in B.C., on a farm and orchard. _______________________________ Slackeye Slim & Them Dead Oreslingers: http://www.myspace.com/slackeyeslimNew album due out late 2009
Edited by - scotty22 on 10/05/2009 17:47:17
mike gregory - Posted - 10/05/2009: 17:21:30
If I was an administrastor, I could live in a camper-modified red'n'white SUV, with a picnic table bolted on the roof, so I could set it on Cruise Control and enjoy my dinner while the wind whitled through my hair.
And every now and then, I would post a mysterious Test Reply message, as I toured the world, driving quietly past the homes of 40,000 BHO members.
And if I found a place that made me as happy to be there as it makes the people who are ALREADY there, I'd park the SUV, sell the wheels, and settle down.
jreyes - Posted - 10/05/2009: 17:37:10
Mike, you make it sound so magical
Yeah I help Eric with the hangouts and testing.
Btw, it's not a picnic table, it's an ironing board:
It's called Extreme Ironing, and it's awesome  http://www.extremeironing.com/
(That's a photoshop btw, it's not real. I'm not that that crazy)
Tommy5 - Posted - 10/05/2009: 17:39:05
Central Florida, dark steady skies for astronomy, warm temps year round,ocean is a short drive away, good flying weather year round,of course i woudn't have to work and i could get all of the Chicago Bear games on cable right?
eagleisland - Posted - 10/05/2009: 17:50:01
It doesn't exist.
The coast would be identical to Maine's, but it would be like Maine's coast in the summer year round. No, scratch that - it would be like Maine's in August or September year round (it rains in June, and July tends to be a dungeon of fog).
But the interior would look like Montana, and it would always be winter there, and it would be less than a two hour drive from the coast.
Oh, and also unlike Maine, the tax burden would be bearable by the common man.
Yeah, I'd live there in heartbeat.
eagleisland
"I was halfway to Old Kentucky when the drugs began to kick in." - Hunter S. Monroe Page: 1 2
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