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Hey you, where do you live?
Barmymoo:
I live for 3/4 of the year in a beautiful city full of bicycles, Japanese tourists and intense, pale people who talk about astrophysics and the status of women in 11th century Ireland and aren't joking.
This is the building I live in, although I face onto the courtyard behind the part you can see. It was built in the Queen Anne style and every part of the college is accessible indoors, so that the Victorian ladies at the time wouldn't have to get their skirts wet crossing the gardens.
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Which look like this.
Sometimes I get a bit choked up thinking about the fact that I live here, and that however long I live and however far away I end up moving, this will still be somewhere I can come back to and feel part of. There's this chain of amazing women stretching back to 1871, all supporting each other and battling against the odds so that people like me could sit in an adorable little room with a pile of books and build themselves a future that is more free and more promising than those 19th century women could have imagined. Especially at this time of year, when a whole flood of new girls are arriving and I just have to walk down a corridor to see how everyone else feels the same way as I do - that just by coming here, and being a part of the college, you are immediately linked. Right at this moment there's a crowd of people in the entranceway waiting to welcome people in and answer any questions, show them to their rooms, give them their keys and make them feel as at home as we all do now.
I expect it's the same in every college and every uni, but I wouldn't want to be anywhere else.
sean:
hey katie shepherdstown wv is right here, in the eastern panhandle. its just barely in wv, you can see maryland from campus.
Boro_Bandito:
Yeesh, close to Frederick and Harper's Ferry, not much out that way.
Carl-E:
My home, last February, after the valentine's day blizzard (17 inches of snow in 2 days)
The house was in the same family for 98 years before we got it at an auction. I've been trying to restore it bit by bit over the last 12 years I've owned it, but in that time my wife's become disabled, one of my children came down with cancer and is also disabled, I've had to take on a second job to support everyone, and I'm pretty much resigned to just keeping the place from falling in on itself.
And I'm failing at that. The kitchen ceiling collapsed two winters ago, and the hole's been patched, but still hasn't been finished. The bathroom floor's rotting (seriously, who puts hardwood floors in a bathroom?), and the garage (an old stable) needs a new roof. Last year.
We live in the foothills of the Allegheny mountains in PA, in a fair sized city who's sole reason for existance was the railroad. When that collapsed, the city fell on hard times, and will probably never recover. I love it here. So much history, artful decay, and attempted rennaisance to make it interesting no matter where you are. And once you leave the city, you're in the middle of rural PA, surrounded by beautiful mountains.
If only I didn't have to leave...
David_Dovey:
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Fuck man, I dunno.
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