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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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