Some comments today in the FBC and recently in other diaries about where we live and how we feel about it have prompted me to write this diary.
Are you happy about where you live right now or do you have nostalgia about a previous place of residence and feel your life would be perfect if you could only live there.. Do you wish you lived where some of our members do and have shared with us in their gorgeous pics. I admit it’s hard not to wish to live in some of these beautiful locations.
Anyway that got me to thinking about how I feel about where I live, which to be specific is Santa Ana, Ca. in Orange Co. south of Los Angeles.
I have absolutely loved California since I first set foot here in 1960, having left my home state of Pa. California was/is just beautiful and the weather cannot be beat. Over the years I would hear many around these parts talk about how they wanted to get out of here and go somewhere like Oregon or Washington. Not me, the only other place I would want to live is Hawaii, where I did have the chance to live in the 60’s and that is indeed heaven on earth to me.
However since I cannot live in Hawaii I am living in the second best place on earth to my mind.
Santa Ana, in addition to having great weather is within easy driving distance of the mountains, desert, ocean, rivers, lakes. You can go from a lovely day at the beach to a weekend snowboarding in the mountains for example or from a cruise to Catalena to the Colorado river for water skiing.
The particular town I live in currently is not my favorite of all the towns I have lived in….but it’s still in Socal and that pretty good by itself.
Still I have nostalgia for Penna…I think about the beauty of that state, especially in the southwestern part I was from….sometimes I just long to walk in the ‘woods’ again as I did as a child, to see the beatuiful fall colors and the snow falling in winter. But then I think of the winters, cold and miserable, difficult driving, and I am glad that I live here and can take a quick trip to the mountains should I feel the need to see snow and cold.
So tell us what do you like/dislike about where you live or your fond memories about another place.
Share your pics and stories with us.
