Is there someplace you lived that you especially liked

or disliked and why?

From: Connie Farrington

Someplace I lived that might have been the one I liked the most, but turned out to be the one I liked the least. When I first moved in to my apartment in New Haven I thought it a most wonderful room. It had been the library of a mansion, and had floor to ceiling bookcases, a large fireplace surrounded by blue and white tiles of Aesop's Fables, and a little screened in porch. The tiny kitchen and bathroom had been carved out of a large closet. It was on the first floor with its own entrance. I was working 40 hours a week as a statistician in research in the Sociology Department at Yale University, and taking 4 graduate classes at Yale Divinity School, and serving as Minister to Youth at a Congregational Church some 30 miles from New Haven. A hectic schedule.

And then the stalking began. I received numerous obscene phone calls in the middle of the night. The police refused to tap my phone. I saw a man watching me through my window. The police refused to come. I changed my phone number twice and still the phone calls came. One night, in a bad rain storm, the guy waited in the bushes by my entrance. I barely beat him through my doorway, throwing the dead bolt as he slammed against the door. Later that night he pried open one of my windows with a crowbar. My loud screams caused him to flee. For the first time, the police came. They said he had already slit the bottoms of all the screens on the porch, and no doubt would soon be in my apartment, waiting for me when I came home.

So I moved out that night, after asking a guy I had dated a few times to marry me. He did. Thus I changed my name and my address in one fell swoop. I don't suppose you would accept this as the answer to the "How you proposed to somebody" question.

From: Joyce Eggleston

I liked living up on Ridge Road at the old homestead because it was open country. You could always be outside in the country air with no one around. It was really peaceful there. I like my home now where I have lived with Jerry for 49 years. It is a real homey home and I have spent most of my life here.

From: Heidi MacDuff

I love my home here in South Glens Falls. It is a small home, but I fell in love with it the first day we came to look at it and knew this is where I would settle and raise our family. It is close to my job and the school and the surrounding cities. The neighborhood is quiet and nice. The best part is my backyard...my sanctuary in the spring and summer months. I am blessed and thankful for my home!

From: Amy Freeman

I remember when we lived on Pheasant run in Amherst, NY. I loved that duplex. We lived right next to some fields, so all our friends would come over and play hide-n-seek with us. Summers were so fun there, because the neighborhood was filled with kids our ages. I think my childhood was a pretty good one, and I miss living there. I have since been down that old street and the house is still the same color, only it's run down now. If I ever had a chance to move back there, chances are I would. I had a lot of wonderful memories there. I can remember most as if it happened just yesterday. Those are the memories I'll always cherish!

From: Philip Harris

I liked my home at the homested in Harrisena,with my parents and brothers and sisters. We had a lot of chores but could slide down the hills in the winter and ride down the hills in my wagon in the summer. I could go hunting or fishing whenever I wanted to if my work was done. My grandparents, who owned the house lived next door, were very special people. The first home I owned was at 9 Hudson Street in South Glens Falls. It was a 3 family home. I couldn't get used to the noise of tenants and neighbors. I can say, I didn't like this home. I sold that home and bought the old farm house at 1564 Ridge Road in Harrisena. It had plenty of space with five acres of land. We could have a garden. We raised five wonderful children along with dogs and cats. We had chickens,ducks,geese, even a sheep at one time. We raised pigs and at one time Renee talked me into buying a horse. It was a small home but what wonderful memories.

From: Connie Olson

It was liked, and it was when we went to California.

In 1959 in Minnesota there was a union strike. Off hand I can't remember if it was the Electricians, or Cement workers on strike. People would not cross lines to go to work back then, they honored the other unions members demands so they wouldn't cross the picket lines. Because of this we decided to go to Calif so my husband could go to work with a school chum who had moved out there several years earlier. He called and his friend said to head out there was plenty of work and he could sure use some good Minnesota workers.

It was a difficult decision for me as my family was heartbroken. I had the only grandchildren and we were going so far away. But bills had to be paid, we needed to work to be able to survive.
So it was off to the state of Calif. We packed up the car with what we needed and off we went. There were 4 children then, all under the age of 5. What a trip!!!!

We were heading for the San Diego area. We were all in awe when we got there. None of us had ever been that far out of the state before. Wisc. and the Dakota's was the extent of our ventures. The boss had found us a kitchenette in a motel close by the job site where he was to start at. His friend owned it. So It was very reasonable. We lived there until we had enough money to put down on a home in Santee, Calif.

We enjoyed the warm weather, the beautiful mountains, especially the ocean being so close by us. The kitchenette apt was in reality a 2 bedroom apt next to the ocean. On the second floor called the Silver Spray Motel. I loved it, and boy did we sleep good those first months there. Must of been the sound of the waves rolling on the beach we heard through the windows. Wasn't just us as I asked others and they said the same thing boy could they sleep good.

The state seemed to be a busy state, so much more to see and to do. I loved the outside veg and fruit markets they had. And yes there was more money to be made. Wages were higher. Our first home was a three bedroom house in a new addition. Loved it. First thing I noticed was NO GRASS in the yards. Being a good Midwesterner and niave off we went to buy grass seed. Hah, that didn't work. After the first good rain we had green grass all right only it was growing on our side walk. Washed down the slope from our yard. So we bought the gravel like everyone else and had the typical Calif yard. When my folks came out to visit my dad looked up the down the street. I asked what he was looking for. "Trees" he said "trees. Where are they all I see is one a half a block down." He shook his head and said to me "What do you see in this hot barren country?" It wasn't like the tree lined boulevards back home.

We were there for 5 years, then we decided to head back home when there was a talk of strikes out there and when they materilized we sold out and left. My husbands brother had started a business back in Minnesota and had been asking his brother to come back and work for him. It was a good time to do it. I loved it there in Calif, it was a great learning adventure. But "Roots" run deep and it's always good to come "Home"

From: Lois Rotella

I have live in only one place and that is New York City. I have enjoyed living here. I also sometimes dislike living here. There is so much to see and do in NYC. There are museums, theaters, places of interest like the Empire State Building, Statue of Liberty and many more things. It is very easy to get around too. I can go be bus or subway and never have to have a car. The city is very vibrant whatever the weather. You can eat any type of food. I have visited many places but there is no place like home even in bad times.

We shop for grocery by taking our shopping cart (like a upright wagon with 4 wheels). to the stores. I have one supermarket near me about 2 blocks away and their is 2 more about 8 blocks away. We also have a green market that sells fresh produce, flowers and other things in a park(Union Square) every Monday, Wednesday and Friday on good weather days.

I am enclosing a picture of thing like you see at Times Square in NYC.

From: Jenny McMurray

I thought that after growing up in New York that I would hate the south, but after living in Texas for 9 years I loved it. After moving back to Buffalo I have missed so much of Houston. I loved the diversity that the city offered and of course the BBQ. Texas is an amazing state and so rich in history, as well as NY. I have learned to like any living situation that I am in and to enjoy it while I can.

From: Lucy Welden

I have only lived in Victory Mills, NY and Saratoga Springs, NY. I liked living in the village everyone knew their neighbors and were friendly. I like Saratoga it was a small city 40 yrs. ago it is constantly changing it doesn't have the same friendliness, everything today is about expensive housing and material things in life. I would like to move back to my hometown.

From: Renee Zamora

t seems like everyplace I lived I liked it for some reason and didn't like it for other reasons. I loved the yard and field in my home in Harrisena when growing up. I didn't care for the house at times. But later in life I wanted to go back there and live.

When I lived in Massachusetts I loved the newest of the house. But, I didn't like the water problems we had there. Every time the power went out we would have a flooded basement. The sump pump had to work all the time.

Since living in Utah I have had three homes here. The first home was right near some power lines and you could hear the lines humming. That scared me and I didn't want to stay in the home because of it. It was a split level home and it was hard living in it with small children. Our second home was an old adobe brick home. It stayed cool in the summer, that was nice but it was horrible to heat in the winter. I liked the home otherwise and would of stayed there if things had worked out.

The home we live in now has so many reason I should dislike it. Its a basement home, no house on top. It just sticks out of the ground about three feet. But it has lovely big windows so I don't feel like I'm underground. When it snows a lot we have to unbury the house. When it rains a lot we have to bail out the stair wells so it doesn't flood the house. But, I really love this house. I hope to stay here forever. I love how cozy it is only 840 square feet. It's very cost effective. I have a computer room that I just love. With my health problems it's nice to not have to walk far to do anything. I also like the location I'm at, nice neighborhood and neighbors and close to all the stores. I guess I have finally learned to be happy where I am.

From: Brenda Olszewski

I love where I live now. I live in Akron, NY. part of it reminds me of home. Country setting and peaceful. I like to sit in my backyard on the patio. We have a swing and a fountain and a canopy. I like to go there and read. In the fall we have the mountain across from us and it is beautiful.