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February 9, 2013 at 9:23 AM #20514February 9, 2013 at 9:56 AM #759057
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ParticipantGorgeous! Am a bit envious, but still would take San Diego overall. We go to “visit winter” in the Sierras whenever we miss it.
February 9, 2013 at 10:16 AM #759059bearishgurl
ParticipantAbsolutely gorgeous, spdrun!
Just don’t fall through any ponds 😉
I’m planning on “retiring” in a place with lots of snow 🙂
February 9, 2013 at 10:39 AM #759061an
Participant[quote=spdrun]We got about 10″ of snow out on the other coast, and I put on my x-c skis at 7 am and went to hang out in Central Park. Y’all may not appreciate this, but here is why some people can’t live without four distinct seasons[/quote]I guess you won’t be able to live in you’re retirement condo in SD. We don’t get to deal with snow dumping on us.
February 9, 2013 at 11:10 AM #759064spdrun
ParticipantNo plans to retire, far too young for that. Just building up enough rental property to be able to have a comfortable income while going to grad school in two years. I’m interested in being a student or going back into research, but not a broke-ass one with loans out the cornhole. In short, I have no interest in living the financially miserable life of the average American.
@bearishgurl – if you don’t move to New Mexico or wherever you were looking, you could do a lot worse than a small college town in northern New England. Pretty scenery, generally walkable/bikeable in summer, and civilized but not boring people.February 9, 2013 at 12:17 PM #759073Participant[quote=spdrun]No plans to retire, far too young for that. Just building up enough rental property to be able to have a comfortable income while going to grad school in two years. I’m interested in being a student or going back into research, but not a broke-ass one with loans out the cornhole. In short, I have no interest in living the financially miserable life of the average American.
@bearishgurl – if you don’t move to New Mexico or wherever you were looking, you could do a lot worse than a small college town in northern New England. Pretty scenery, generally walkable/bikeable in summer, and civilized but not boring people.[/quote]Thanks, but I’ve only been to MD (Baltimore area) and DC a few times and both FL coasts. I’m not too crazy about the east coast as a place to live (except I luv the “crab cakes” and “hailing a `car'”) :=D
I’m going find me a nice ski-oriented community in the Sierras or Rockies to try out, the less permanent residents, the better :=]
February 9, 2013 at 12:29 PM #759075ParticipantCoastal Maryland (too swampy) and DC area (too much traffic) definitely aren’t the finest parts of the Northeast, at least in my book. Much prefer parts of Mass, Vermont, and New Hampshire given a choice.
February 9, 2013 at 12:37 PM #759076Participant[quote=spdrun]Coastal Maryland (too swampy) and DC area (too much traffic) definitely aren’t the finest parts of the Northeast, at least in my book. Much prefer parts of Mass, Vermont, and New Hampshire given a choice.[/quote]
Yes, I saw all the “swamps” from the air in the daytime 🙂
The MD countryside is nice, but the two-lane “hwys” taking you from town to town are winding with blind spots and a bit dangerous, I think, due to all the local traffic.
For this reason, I wouldn’t want to be a daily commuter between MD and DC.
In the few times I went to DC, we parked in an underground garage and got on a double-decker tour bus.
I love touring fall leaves in the rockies but will put a NE fall tour on my “bucket list.”
February 9, 2013 at 12:50 PM #759078ParticipantDC can’t really be appreciated unless you walk around. Fly into National next time, take the train in (about 10 min) and walk around the Mall and Southeast, then go to Georgetown and up along CT and WI Avenues.
Maryland has national route 50 going into DC from the eastern shore, which is freeway a lot of the way. I don’t see the 2-lane feeder roads as being much different than the non-freeway portions of 74/76/78 east of Fallbrook and San Juan Capistrano — it’s just a matter of what you’re used to I guess.
February 9, 2013 at 1:18 PM #759079Participant[quote=spdrun]DC can’t really be appreciated unless you walk around. Fly into National next time, take the train in (about 10 min) and walk around the Mall and Southeast, then go to Georgetown and up along CT and WI Avenues….[/quote]
I have walked up and down the Capitol Mall and toured the Smithsonian and saw all the attractions a couple of times, including walking across the bridge to Arlington Cemetery.
I’ve also been there on “spring break” to the “Cherry Blossom Festival” where we were lucky enough to find street parking. It is was very beautiful!
I wanted to get off the tour bus at the south end of Georgetown, but we didn’t have time to catch another one that day.
A walking tour of Georgetown (and possibly Chevy Chase) is also on my “bucket list” 🙂
February 9, 2013 at 1:25 PM #759080Participant[quote=spdrun]…I don’t see the 2-lane feeder roads as being much different than the non-freeway portions of 74/76/78 east of Fallbrook and San Juan Capistrano — it’s just a matter of what you’re used to I guess.[/quote]
These roads were from small towns as far away as Frederick County. They are considered “bdrm communities” to DC and the traffic volume on them is astounding! I’ve been on the (CA) SR-76 thru the avocado groves a few times and there is no way there are as many commuters/drivers on this road as there is in rural/semi-rural MD.
SR-78 is a 4-6 lane route and is a major fwy here. It is NOT a winding country road.
February 9, 2013 at 1:27 PM #759081Participantspdrun, is your first xc skiing pic of a jogging trail in Central Park??
February 9, 2013 at 2:18 PM #759083ParticipantThe other side of a blizzard… http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/09/us/northeast-blizzard/index.html yeah, I’ll let you have your four seasons :). Not jealous one bit while I deal with the harsh 60s and sunny.
February 9, 2013 at 2:28 PM #759084ParticipantThat’s mostly the other side of shite infrastructure design. Things like this happen 1-2x per decade at least, and power grids should be designed to handle them. (Sandy was an outlier, since it hit during high tide, during a full moon — but not unprecedented either: look up the 1938 New England super-hurricane)
February 9, 2013 at 2:44 PM #759086Participant[quote=AN]The other side of a blizzard… http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/09/us/northeast-blizzard/index.html yeah, I’ll let you have your four seasons :). Not jealous one bit while I deal with the harsh 60s and sunny.[/quote]
IIRC, didn’t you once post here that you were really impressed with Chicago, AN?
Or did that mean just to visit but not live there :=0
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