Why do you like where you currently live?

by lucy rucker

Come to the Southern Harbor, Come to Daphne, Alabama Come to the southern harbor and experience tranquility and serenity, among the natural beauty of the coastline, smell the fresh air, while listening to the boats co...read more

by A. Major

As I write this article, I am sitting outside; bathed in sunshine, infused with warmth, gazing out the mouth of the inlet to the vast ocean beyond. On a clear day, we can see Amet's Island where the seals hang out. Other...read more

by Ralph Lawrence

GRAINS OF SAND I live by the sea, or more precisely the Atlantic Ocean. Brigantine Beach New Jersey is a narrow barrier island. Long and leggy like a runway model at the famous haute couture houses of Paris and New ...read more

by Patti Morgan

I live on beautiful Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. I have just recently moved back here after being away for over ten years and am getting reacquainted with the many wonderful things that kept calling me hom...read more

by Amanda Le Bas De Plumetot

Is it a contradiction to say that I live in a rural urban suburb? As I write this, I look down my 1 acre block to a eucalyptus-green valley with flashes of red as distant deciduous trees take on their autumn colours. I ...read more

by Jo Laco

I live in the most southernly province of South Africa known as the Western Cape. The Western Cape, approximately the size of Ireland, borders on the Atlantic Ocean on the west and on the Indian Ocean in the east. My home...read more

by Michelle Harper Davies

I was born and raised in a small town in South Wales, the kind of place where everyone knows everyone, where you walk in to the local supermarket on a weekday morning and bump in to at least five people you are acquainted ...read more

by Laura Leigh Fields

My home and my heart are currently in a small town here in Virginia. I wasn't born here but I feel like I have been here forever. It is the place where I am comfortable. It is the place I never want to leave. The beauti...read more

by Holle Abee

I love my little hometown of Tifton, here in south Georgia. I was born here, and I have a lot of family here. I've spent all but 10 of my 49 years in the same community, and I enjoy a multitude of friends. I can't leave th...read more

by Carolyn Tytler

I believe I live in the best location on the face of the globe. My city is St. Catharines, in the province of Ontario, in Canada. St. Catharines, known as the "Garden City" is situated on the eastern end of Lake Ontario, ...read more

by Joe Newclear

I moved to Jacksonville, Florida on May 11th, 2007. I will always remember it, because that was the day I said to myself and the world "That's it! I am not moving anymore. Here is where I plant my root." And that was it....read more

by Trudy Graham

A Sense of Place I think we all have a landscape that is ours, that fits who we are, or who we would like to be. Where I live now, in the South East of Queensland, Australia, is right where I need to be at this time. Th...read more

by Rita Chaney

Known as "transplants," my husband and I arrived in Florida for our permanent vacation in 2003. With millions of visitors yearly, you can assume that there must be something here people are seeking. One of the top vacat...read more

by Ella D'Arcy

Our farm lies halfway up the escarpment of the Eastern Lowveld of Mpumalanga, which means 'Place where the sun rises'. It is a mountainous region of vistas and views. Even though I live in Africa, every view is dappled wit...read more

by Patricia Poulin

There are some of us in the world who find our niche, settle in and enjoy the day in and day out lifestyle our hometown brings, but then there are the others who reach out beyond their boundaries with the idea that there i...read more

by Arabella Kelly

I've lived in southeastern Pennsylvania since the age of four. In fact, I now live in the same house where I grew up. When I got married and moved away from home, my husband and I lived in another county, but still in Penn...read more

by Eliza Sininen

So, Eliza, how are you liking it out there in the country? Don't you miss being in the city? It must be so dull... Confession: When I lived in the city, I used to have the same perception of country life. Don't get me w...read more

by Madhulika Liddle

On one of the walls in the Diwan-e-Khaas (The Hall of Private Audience) in the Red Fort at Delhi is inscribed a Persian couplet: Agar Firdaus bar rue zamin ast, Hamin ast o hamin ast o hamin ast Which, translated, ...read more

by Karen O'Neill Brown

Those Blue and Distant Hills' There is a beautiful quiet county in middle England that has long been an inspiration to the great and the good, the traveler and latterly, me. Writers and poets, industrialists, engineers,...read more

by Rose Conrad

I have lived in many places in the world over the years, but I still come back to my own home city of London. To me it is the most exciting, vibrant interesting city in the world, I love it and I cannot imagine living anyw...read more