I’m sorry about the amputation. That sucks. Of all the problems I imagined having to deal with with that, the shoe-through-a-pants-leg bit did not occur to me.
You said you were right in the flight path. I wonder how close my old place was to yours. Do you know where Laskin and Bird neck is? We used to live in the Link Horn apartments there. The planes were so low we could literally see the pilots as they took off and landed. We used to wave at the pilots and they would wave back!
Also, jealous you got to live in JCC, I always wanted to move to the historic triangle. My mom used to take us on day trips to York Town when I was kid. Absolutely loved it up there.
Life happens re: amputation. heh. Appreciated. Could be worse - could be dead :)
I do know where that intersection is. :) We were on the south side of 264 in Piper’s Landing - https://i.imgur.com/jSEjpVp.jpeg - so VERY close, although a solid few minutes to drive from one to the other. hehe. Oh, man, the jets were so LOUD there. And so often so late at night! I sort of got used to it, sorta, but I really was so very glad to get away from that. But yeah, it felt like you could just about jump up and catch the planes. lol.
I always though the 7-Eleven right around the corner from our apartments was wild - since it was in Williamsburg, there was no signage on the building itself, and only this out front: https://i.imgur.com/Flv7Spv.jpeg - that’s at 199 and Jamestown Rd. heh
I’ve come to the conclusion that given electricity, air conditioning, and good internet… I can pretty much live anywhere. But Virginia really is a nicer place to live than many places. heh. Nowhere is perfect. But it’s nice.
But I know a lot of areas have been getting better and better - I know more about North Carolina than South, but hopefully you’re in an area that matches what you want :)
That’s wild we’ve lived so close to each other, and we both ended up on Lemmy.
South Carolina isn’t my favorite, tbh. I love my family there, and the town I’m in is nice, but the area as a whole is… Depressing, I guess would be the word. I miss living in an actual city.
I love the internet for exactly that reason. I host a lot of the internet presence for Simutrans, an open source game that’s almost 30 years old. Because of that, I get to talk to people literally around the world - it’s a small community, but a global following. And then there’s times like this - finding someone who was very close in proximity that I never would have met othewise. lol. It’s awesome. :)
Well, I feel your pain on SC - that’s probably not unlike how I felt moving to Panama City. Well, not only was it a tiny community (I went from what was at the time I think 6 million down to 150,000. lol), but also I grew up inland, so it kinda freaked me out being on the water. I didn’t feel like I was gonna fall off the edge exactly, but it was weird to me not being able to just drive in any direction. lol.
Small towns definitely have some big disadvantages. I think the lack of interesting places to eat is my worst complaint. lol. But even moving from Williamsburg to Newport News has opened up - we have an African market around the corner, and apparently the Yemini community is well-represented in local restaurants. heh.
Hopefully you find sufficient comfort in the family and the town so long as you’re there. I do miss a very few thngs about Panama City. Not much. But a few. hehe
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I’m sorry about the amputation. That sucks. Of all the problems I imagined having to deal with with that, the shoe-through-a-pants-leg bit did not occur to me.
You said you were right in the flight path. I wonder how close my old place was to yours. Do you know where Laskin and Bird neck is? We used to live in the Link Horn apartments there. The planes were so low we could literally see the pilots as they took off and landed. We used to wave at the pilots and they would wave back!
Also, jealous you got to live in JCC, I always wanted to move to the historic triangle. My mom used to take us on day trips to York Town when I was kid. Absolutely loved it up there.
Life happens re: amputation. heh. Appreciated. Could be worse - could be dead :)
I do know where that intersection is. :) We were on the south side of 264 in Piper’s Landing - https://i.imgur.com/jSEjpVp.jpeg - so VERY close, although a solid few minutes to drive from one to the other. hehe. Oh, man, the jets were so LOUD there. And so often so late at night! I sort of got used to it, sorta, but I really was so very glad to get away from that. But yeah, it felt like you could just about jump up and catch the planes. lol.
I always though the 7-Eleven right around the corner from our apartments was wild - since it was in Williamsburg, there was no signage on the building itself, and only this out front: https://i.imgur.com/Flv7Spv.jpeg - that’s at 199 and Jamestown Rd. heh
I’ve come to the conclusion that given electricity, air conditioning, and good internet… I can pretty much live anywhere. But Virginia really is a nicer place to live than many places. heh. Nowhere is perfect. But it’s nice.
But I know a lot of areas have been getting better and better - I know more about North Carolina than South, but hopefully you’re in an area that matches what you want :)
That’s wild we’ve lived so close to each other, and we both ended up on Lemmy.
South Carolina isn’t my favorite, tbh. I love my family there, and the town I’m in is nice, but the area as a whole is… Depressing, I guess would be the word. I miss living in an actual city.
I love the internet for exactly that reason. I host a lot of the internet presence for Simutrans, an open source game that’s almost 30 years old. Because of that, I get to talk to people literally around the world - it’s a small community, but a global following. And then there’s times like this - finding someone who was very close in proximity that I never would have met othewise. lol. It’s awesome. :)
Well, I feel your pain on SC - that’s probably not unlike how I felt moving to Panama City. Well, not only was it a tiny community (I went from what was at the time I think 6 million down to 150,000. lol), but also I grew up inland, so it kinda freaked me out being on the water. I didn’t feel like I was gonna fall off the edge exactly, but it was weird to me not being able to just drive in any direction. lol.
Small towns definitely have some big disadvantages. I think the lack of interesting places to eat is my worst complaint. lol. But even moving from Williamsburg to Newport News has opened up - we have an African market around the corner, and apparently the Yemini community is well-represented in local restaurants. heh.
Hopefully you find sufficient comfort in the family and the town so long as you’re there. I do miss a very few thngs about Panama City. Not much. But a few. hehe