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Old 01-23-2012, 05:04 PM
 
Location: Where my bills arrive
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Yankee Rose always gives a well balanced and thought out answer. Just reading the latest rant on LI and some of those posters really need to experience life elswhere...
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Old 01-23-2012, 06:05 PM
 
Location: Little Babylon
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My wife is always quick to remind me how I swore I'd die on the Island before I'd move to Richmond. I then spent my first years here trying to move back, until Pat Haprin had to double the taxes up there. That shut me up real fast and learned to embrace BBQ, Brunswick Stew and Ukrops. LOL.
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Old 01-23-2012, 07:23 PM
 
Location: Where my bills arrive
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My wife is always quick to remind me how I swore I'd die on the Island before I'd move to Richmond. I then spent my first years here trying to move back, until Pat Haprin had to double the taxes up there. That shut me up real fast and learned to embrace BBQ, Brunswick Stew and Ukrops. LOL.
There are far worse places to end up,that said reading the latest c**p on the other board I have no desire to destroy my standard of living. I do not consider it a privilage or advantage to move back. Besides I can get to Va Beach quicker than fighting the weekend traffic to Jones Beach..
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Old 01-23-2012, 08:33 PM
 
Location: Little Babylon
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True that. I figured that I can get plenty of my NYC needs in by visiting. Other than that I can visit VA Beach and Busch over a weekend and still not spend a lot of money.

I don't think I'll ever be able to think that a 50 year old 1500sqft house is worth 360K. I just have better things to do with my income besides a large mortgage and handing it over to multiple layers of government.
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Old 01-23-2012, 08:37 PM
 
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True that. I figured that I can get plenty of my NYC needs in by visiting. Other than that I can visit VA Beach and Busch over a weekend and still not spend a lot of money.

I don't think I'll ever be able to think that a 50 year old 1500sqft house is worth 360K. I just have better things to do with my income besides a large mortgage and handing it over to multiple layers of government.
I can't agree more. I have no one left in NY to even visit,my whole generation lives everywhere but NY. I really laugh reading the LI posts that some think they are the only ones who are worthy...
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Old 01-24-2012, 05:17 AM
 
Location: Little Babylon
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I think some of that comes from some ex-pats being like reformed smokers and others who blindly made the jump and failed. And Long Island does have a lot of good things going for it, but I'm finding that Richmond has caught up in regards to food, shopping, the arts and things todo. Still no beach 10 minutes from my house though.
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Old 01-24-2012, 09:26 AM
 
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Good points, one thing I always find funny is how they view our cities as being nothing but sprawl. If I am driving 10 miles from point a to b what does it matter if I remain in the same town/city or travel through 8 different town(s) to do that 10 miles? I also find it funny that they perceive we all live in HOA communities, I don't... and even though we are not 10 minutes to the beach as you wrote we are within an hour to either the mountains or the beach, not to shabby..
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Old 01-24-2012, 09:57 AM
 
Location: Little Babylon
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I'm 10 minutes from work and that's including stopping off at Starbucks! That makes up some for not being 10 minutes from the beach. One of the great things about the area is a 60 mile drive in any direction brings you somewhere totally different from Richmond. I really do like that and after working in C-ville I fell in love with the mountains and would hate to leave that.

Besides thinking we're all sprawl there is the idea that Southerners are bumpkins. I learned real fast after moving down here that is one assumption you make at your own risk.
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Old 01-24-2012, 10:18 AM
 
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I'm 10 minutes from work and that's including stopping off at Starbucks! That makes up some for not being 10 minutes from the beach. One of the great things about the area is a 60 mile drive in any direction brings you somewhere totally different from Richmond. I really do like that and after working in C-ville I fell in love with the mountains and would hate to leave that.

Besides thinking we're all sprawl there is the idea that Southerners are bumpkins. I learned real fast after moving down here that is one assumption you make at your own risk.

There's sprawl everywhere. But Virginia's sprawl is nothing compared to the sprawl I've seen in and outside major cities on both coasts.
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Old 01-24-2012, 10:29 AM
 
Location: Lynchburg
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If you want to see a state completely overrun by sprawl look no further than NC.
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