What do you like about your neck of the woods?

[cb360]

When we moved to the southern WA coast, I thought of tranquility, a slower, more laid-back lifestyle and more peace in general than when we lived in Vancouver, right across the river from Portland, OR.
The feeling began to deteriorate within the first year or so, and we discovered this part of the state more resembles Dogpatch than anywhere else I've been. It is not something we thought about before moving here, but we think about it often now. None of the positive things about Portland or Seattle exists here. No healthcare [put 68000 miles on my Toyota in 3-1/2 years, mostly driving up to Vancouver for doctor appointments]. For motorcyclists, the roads are really not very good compared to what is 1/2 hour away in any direction in the Vancouver/Portland area. Boring.
I have referred to this place as a vacation paradise, but it is more of a refuge for felons, people too lazy to work, and a handful of retirees like us. I don't like it anymore. Want/need the pace and pulse of the city.
One of these days we will sell this place and move back to Vancouver.
This area is probably an OK place to be if you are deceased, but we haven't reached that point yet.

I know what you mean. You think you won't miss the city... until you leave. Something gets in your blood. My wife keeps bugging me to consider moving back to rural Alabama... not for all the tea in China. I do want to live in a rural area again... but only if I can't see a single neighbor. I like solitude and I like the city - it's the in-between areas that drive me nuts.

[CajunBass]

We're on the south side of the Rappahanock river in central Virginia. We're the northern boundry of "Free Virginia", above the Rappahanock is "Ocupied Virginia." An hour or so to the east, is the Chesapeake Bay, an equal distance to the West are the Blue Ridge mountains. We have all four season, yet our winter generally isn't too bad. We get enough snow to say we know what it is, but it's usually gone pretty fast. Our summers get hot, it's not the hot of South Louisianna, or South Florida.

This is history country. Within 20-25 miles four major battles of the Civil War were fought. I really enjoy riding through the battlefields on my bike.

We have good hunting and fishing.

But I guess mostly, I've always lived here. This is home.

I am a Virginian.

[jmillheiser]

I used to live on Long Island but the only thing I miss about NY is the food and wide variety of things to do.

Cheyenne itself is pretty boring but we are a short drive from the Colorado front range (the I-25 corridor between Ft Collins and Colorado Springs including denver). There is pretty much anything you can think of in northern CO. Though Boulder qualifies as another planet (yes Boulder REALLY is that weird).

Most of Wyoming is pretty empty and if you really want to get away from it all than the rest of wyoming (except for Cheyenne and Laramie in the SE corner) is pretty much rural. There are not a lot of tourists outside of the yellowstone area and not much traffic.

We also live very close to the Nebrasaka Panhandle, but you can keep nebraska. Its flat, dull, boring, and loaded with speed traps (in Nebraska you can and will get pulled over for 5mph over on a dead straight road in the middle of nowhere)

[Greg in H-Town]

The main thing motorcycle-related I like about my area is the mild (read: nothing to speak of) winters. No winterizing the bike, and year-round riding if you can stand riding in the 40-degree weather...



(ducking and running now...)

[fireguzzi]

I am a Virginian.

Thats ok a lot of people choose to wait for the right person.

[billt39]

My wife and I live in northwestern Michigan, about 15 miles west of Manistee. We moved here from just outside Detroit 12 years ago, and it is a vast difference. We are completely surrounded by either national forest or private lands, which are used almost exclusively for hunting. Deer come by our house all of the time, and we hear coyotes at night regularly. Our nearest neighbor is more than a mile away, which makes it very quiet. There are other vacation homes around, but they are owned by families who don't come around that often. On a clear night you can a lot of stars, and meteor showers when the season is right. I am going to get a bike within the next year of so, and the driving will be easy - the traffic is minimal. We can count the number of cars and trucks that pass our house in three hours on one hand. We are a bit over a half hour from a new movie house (where we just saw "The Chronicles of Narnia"), and about a half hour from the local community college where I have been taking courses. The weather is fine - snow and cold from December to March (we burn a lot of wood), the rest of the year nice, possibly some ooppressive heat in July or August.

[Mustang]

South Florida here....

Why I love living here as a biker?

Never have to think about bedding down the bike for winter.

Between the view of the ocean and the beauty of the sunbathers, riding along the beach is amazing.

Downside....
Florida is flat with small trees...read limited riding routes

Canadian (no offense) and NY drivers, all of them old to dead, for 6 months of the year .....read watch yourself on the road....

[-Holiday]

Pennsylvania. Lets see:

Seasons.

Sure, winter is a bit long, and come february and march it can get depressing, but it just makes the spring seem all that much better.

Anyone one season for too long and I get sick of it. So it works for me. I do envy people who can ride year long though.

Location.

NYC, Philly, DC, Baltimore all within a few hours. Mountains within a few hours. The Ocean within a few hours. Covered bridges, farmland, flat, hilly, cold, hot, rednecks, city people, we have it all at some given point.

Sure, there are lots of people here, but you just have to know how to get away from them.

Lot of history. Skyline drive isnt far. I can be in Virginia, NY, NJ, DE, MD all within a few hours.

The only place I like better is the San Fransisco area. I'd love to live there for a while.

[mswarrior]

Medicine Hat Alberta is the only place I know of where i've been able to ride for 10 months out of the year.

[jmillheiser]

theres actually a place in canada where you can ride 10 months out of the year?