Do you miss massachusetts? (Boston, Worcester: for sale, move, housing)

[FrozenAngel]

Originally Posted by GLPman

Well after graduating my Massachusetts high school, I attended college in California and lived in Los Angeles. After that, I got an internship with a company run out of Las Vegas, but I only stayed there for a year because I got a job offer in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, which is where I currently reside.

It works for me because I really love the warm weather and I hate the cold. Massachusetts' summers are the best, though. It's funny because while everybody comes down here for winter, most of us try and go up there for summer.

You wouldn't miss this winter and I won't miss the winters either. I just pray that there are other areas that are easier (I don't mean easy) to make a living. Not only do I not mind working hard, I actually like the challenge but as I am getting older I am finding it harder and harder to stay a float here in my area of MA. Please tell me it's not this hard way of a life everywhere!

[Boomerang]

God no.

To be fair I wasn't born in MA and didn't live there very long, but living there to the end of my days was NOT an option. Sure, there are some really great things about MA: Cape Cod, Plymouth, the beautiful old towns and well-kept suburbs; Boston of course!!!!; the nice and decent people that DO live there; and the cost of living outside the Hub is not as bad as most people might think. But compared to some other states, the traffic, crowding, pollution, lack of open space and fast pace of life are just aren't for me.

[carolynrick2004]

I've just spent almost two hours reading a lot of the posts and am missing New England more than ever!! It looks like how you feel about MA all boils down to your perception of it and/or wherever you're living now. I'd like to join the side of the people who really, really miss MA!!!!! I grew up in a little town called, Whitman (home of the Toll House Cookie). I loved it!!!!!!!!!! Moved to Florida in 1970 (DeLand) and have been here ever since. I think about Whitman a lot and miss all of the same things I've read on these posts. It seems, at least for some of us, MA living is in our blood. I've wanted to move back since the day I left, and that feeling has never gone away. It would be a challange for me to be able to afford to move back plus 4 of my grown children live in FL (and some of my grandchildren). One son lives in Ohio (the only one who was born in Florida). The others were born in Brockton, MA. I'm going to keep reading this site because it's so great to know that there are a lot of people out there who feel the same way I do. Thanks.

[GLPman]

Frozen Angel,
Boomerang is definitely right. After living in so many locations and traveling to so many states, you learn that New England has a lot of similarities to other areas of the country. In some places life will be easier, in some places life will be harder. It just depends what you do and who you meet.

[FrozenAngel]

Originally Posted by GLPman

Frozen Angel,
Boomerang is definitely right. After living in so many locations and traveling to so many states, you learn that New England has a lot of similarities to other areas of the country. In some places life will be easier, in some places life will be harder. It just depends what you do and who you meet.

I guess if you are living here you want to be there and if you are there you want to be here, right? I really do appreciate a lot of the good things about MA but I'm too old to be cold and turning 50 is making me want to experience another area. I've moved around MA a little but that's not the same.

Someone here mentioned you are limiting your experiences if you live your whole life in the same place. I tend to feel that is true ....

If only I knew where to move to. That is the biggest struggle.

[OREGONRAIN]

Originally Posted by Apple Annie

In New England, you don't see doublewides, singlewides and every car or tractor they've ever owned in their front yard. New England has "zoning" which is a foreign word in parts of the south and mid-Atlantic. Rude is getting in your face about religion in the south. You won't catch a New Englander asking you, "Have you found a church yet?". You won't see 20' high "crosses" on the back roads screaming "Blood of the Lord, Save Us"; "Mark of the Beast", etc. In New England there is a strange phenomenon called: refinement. Go to a big city anywhere, and you'll get arrogance. If you think Boston is "dirty", head south if you want to see true trash and dirt. Miss Mass. ? every day.

COMPLETELY AGREE

[FrozenAngel]

Originally Posted by OREGONRAIN

COMPLETELY AGREE

Too Funny ... I'm "FrozenAngel" and you are "OregonRain". Is there really any perfect place?

[Newdaawn]

Julz -- all those things you miss about MA are right here in Maine. I was born and raised in MA and moved away to Maine. There is very little I miss except a little town on the South Shore called Cohasset. If I had my way and could afford a small house there to retire in - I would! Who knows I could win the Megabucks - but it isn't likely

[Boomerang]

Originally Posted by Apple Annie

Rude is getting in your face about religion in the south. You won't catch a New Englander asking you, "Have you found a church yet?". You won't see 20' high "crosses" on the back roads screaming "Blood of the Lord, Save Us"; "Mark of the Beast", etc. In New England there is a strange phenomenon called: refinement..

I was stunned to find Bible quotes Scotch-taped to every computer in the Human Resources Dept. at University of Virginia in Charlottesville. I had to doublecheck my agenda --- hmmm, is this the day I'm at Notre Dame?
Too weird! Consider this quote from Thomas Jefferson, founder of UVa:
"Religion is a subject on which I have ever been most scrupulously reserved. I have considered it as a matter between every man and his Maker in which no other, and far less the public, had a right to intermeddle." --Thomas Jefferson to Richard Rush, 1813

[carolynrick2004]

Originally Posted by FrozenAngel

Too Funny ... I'm "FrozenAngel" and you are "OregonRain". Is there really any perfect place?

I'm new at this, but here goes......Do you think the reason we miss MA is, for some of us, because that's where we grew up? Do you know anyone from Whitman?