[darstar]

Originally Posted by Starrman69

That's it exactly, living wherever you thought you were a part. lol, the sailboat would make it more enjoyable (except in monsoon season), the traffic is terrible, but it keeps you on your toes and a much better defensive driver. What did people do before cell phones and textiing?

Many people are "stuck" where they are now because of the upside down mortgages.

People would yell at their dogs to be quiet when I would be at
their homes to take a complaint (I used to be a deputy in my former life). I would tell them that the dog is only doing their job, to tell "Master" that there was a stranger, that he was in their space and that they didn't like it.

I rode out the " no name storm", on the boat in Sarasota Pass, mid eighties, that was the nite the Skyway bridge fell...Living aboard was never the same after that...I sold the sailboat ( 44 ' Gulfstar)...it went to the Islands. I bought property on Gasperillia Island and built a beach house on a dune...6 months later it was sold and we moved to the NC Mountians.That was " Home" for 18 years. Living in the Blue Ridge was very nice...still not quite right ( politics). Now Upper Michigan IS home, after 35 years of travel. I think this IS the place...overlooking Lake Superior.

[malamute]

Originally Posted by YAZ

I moved to AZ 6 years ago and have MADE it my home. I don't say "Well, back home in Michigan.....yada, yada, yada...." anymore. I think my friends and coworkers were getting sick of me.....always comparing and contrasting the two states.

During our visits to the Great Lake State though......it still feels like home...

My wife still has comments like, "I could live there." She would move to Michigan in a heartbeat. I s'pose she appreciates the things that I take for granted. She's from New Mexico and I feel the same way about her "Home state." I could live there.

I'd move back if certain terms and conditions were met, e.g., I would be residing north of M-10.

I'm confident that I could be happy anywhere though.

I left Michigan for the weather quite a long time ago. I go back for summer vacations, only a couple times in winter or fall - mostly because of kids and school but I don't feel at home there. I think I feel most at home in the SW but that could change.

I think as a child I felt at home in Michigan but by age 20, I wanted the gypsy life. I didn't end up doing that, I meant to travel around and experience a lot of places but I got settled in and stayed in one. I moved back once to Michigan and couldn't adapt so I headed home again.

I could be happy anywhere where heat isn't absolutely necessary, maybe I froze to death in a previous life or something.