Where have you lived....and why have you moved?

[wabbitmom12]

Bassetluv wrote:

I still wanna move to the U.S. :?

YES!! DO!! ThenI can come and visit the Yofster!! And maybe bunnysit him and Anna Banana. I'll spoil them up and send them home

 

[pinksalamander]

I haven't really been anywhere interesting!

I was born in Pembury, lived in Tonbridge in a little house called 'The Birches'. When my parents divorced we stayed there for a while then moved to Southborough, about 3 miles away. It was such a lovely house but Southborough is cheap because it is a bit... scummy! We stayed there for 5 years in that lovely huge house but couldn't stand it, and moved back to Tonbridge. I now live about 3 minutes walk away from my first house! My Mum loved the area so much she wanted to move back there even if it meant we were in a tiny house.

So Tonbridge is a very old town. We have a castle:

Most of the buildings look like this:

That is actually the Chequers Inn pub, or 'Ye Olde Chequers Inn'. It still has the hangmans noose outside, that is where they used to hang people!

Here you can see the castle in the background. Its not really a castle, more just a gatehouse with some bits of wall! But they have a huge motte which is fun to climb! There are also the row boats which go down the River Medway...

Here is Tonbridge School. This is the posh school, only boys here though, so I wouldn't be allowed to attend! (If I could ever afford it!!!)
Fran :hearts :brownbunny

 

[Hazel-Mom]

I was born in Belgium and lived there in a nice little town close to Brussels, Grimbergen, untill I was 6. Then my parents moved us to another town close to Brussels, Dilbeek.
I still visited Grimbergen often, though, because my ant and nieces still lived there. I liked it better there than in Dilbeek, too.
I lived in Dilbeek untill I was about 22, when I transfered to College in Antwerpen and lived there for about a year.
Then I moved to Iceland, to spend a year as an exchange student. I liked it so much that I moved there and lived there for about 16 years, mostly in and around Reykjavik. I met someone there (he was from England but also relocated to Iceland) and had my 3 kids there. Moved around a bit to different houses, especially after i separated and was a single mom.
Then in 1996 I moved to California with the kids, to marry my current husband. We lived in Davis first, where he works at UCDavis. Bought a house and moved to Sacramento in 2000, stillliving here. Our dream is to move further north, maybe the Mount Shasta area, when he retires. I'd love to have a little cabin in the mountains, with a big rabbit room and covered garden .

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

I have lived in:

Ravensdale, WA: 11/2 years about (since i was born)

Medford, OR.: About 2 years

Auburn, WA: About4 years

Rochester, WA (current residing place): 8 1/2 years

I was born in: Kent, WA.

So add that all up...and it'd be 16 hehe. I think that's mostly right, im not sure about the younger years, only I'm sure about how long we lived in Auburn & Rochester. So, I've spent most of my life in Washington, most of it being in Rochester, lol.

Emily

 

[BlueCamasRabbitry]

swanlake wrote:

Michaela wrote:

I have lived in this dump of a country my whole life. :rollseyes Hope to get away someday. Will probably never happen though.

wanna trade places for a while? i would LOVE to get out of here!

I would seriously love to go live in Ireland! For like a couple months! lol.

Emily

 

[Raspberry82]

I'm a West Coast girl through and through.. I've been most East Coast cities, but I couldn't ever live there, I need wide open spaces.

So far:

Oops, forgot: lived in Florence, Italy for 2 months. I want to go back .
Portland, OR age 0-17
Left home and headed off to CA.
Lompoc, Ca 17-18
Ventura, CA 18-21
back to Portland, OR
Moved outside the city to Beaverton, OR for past 4 years.


Next is likely somewhere in Washington or Idaho, wherever my bf gets a job and is sent to.

I miss California, but won't ever be there again unless Travis is sent there. Our little dream is moving to Texas, somewhere South of Austin. I'm tired of Portland. It's in your face politically and the people here aren't as nice as the rumors unless you're exactly like they are . Except ME of course, I'm nice! :biggrin2: And it's getting way too expensive!


TinysMom: I LOVE Fred Meyers, we have them all over up here (2 on my street), I don't think I could live without the stores we have in the NW. All in 5-8 blocks I have 3 health food stores, farmers market, 7 different grocery stores, 2 big book stores, everything.. but I'm tired of the NW even though I love it.

 

[Raspberry82]

Sabine wrote:

I was born in Berlin and lived there till I was about 22. I travelled quite a bit since I was about 17/18 and then I came to Ireland and settled. I hadn't planned to but it just happened.
i'm not entirely happy here.I experienced a lot of racism and general xenophobia and ended up being driven out of the house I owned and I'm renting a house in the suburbs of Cork at the moment. My partner is English and has been living here for 9 years. I absolutely hate the Irish weather and I so long for continental summers and winters I was used to before.
If I ever went back to Germany it would be Berlin but I can't quite see myself moving with all the kids

I never realized there was so much racism in Ireland against nearby countries, I'm sorry, that would be awful . Is the weather very wet and grey most of the time? It can be like that here too much for my taste.

 

[Sabine]

Immigration is still relatively new to Ireland About say fifteen years ago you'd hardly see a coloured person in Cork. There are quite a lot of Nigerian and Polish people here now. There's a lot of racism being expressed quite blatantly. also people's attitude even in a city are somewhat "rural" - always wanting to know your business and even if you're from a different part of the city you are looked at with suspicion. Being from Berlin I found that quite a shock

 

[Raspberry82]

Gosh, yes I would find that to be pretty shocking myself.