I've been thinking about why I live where I do....and why I've stayed for the most part for essentially all my life.
Nothing profound....just examining why.
As we all know, no place is perfect. There are positives and negatives to every site.
I live in an area where we experience severe winter from the end of October, early November till late March/early April. The snow does not melt much during the winter, it just piles up and up...till the spring. Right now in parts of my property it is about 4 to 5 feet deep.
There will be more winter storms, more wind induced snow drifts to come. Of this I am confident.
Since the first week of December it's been constant lows of -20 to -38....the highs aren't much better. This is not unusual for my area of North America.
When it's this cold...I'm not much for going outside.
I've lived here...or in another similarly cold area all my life.
Now that I'm in my 60's I ask myself...why am I still here ?
Why not move to a milder climate ?
Well because this is where my family and friends live.
Also the spring, summer and fall are wonderful out here.
Another thing is location, location, location as the real estate guys are wont to say.
I'm located about 2 hours...by car... from the southern Boreal forest...1.5 hours from the Canadian Shield...and I'm smack dab in the extreme end of the northern Great Plains. The variability in beauty, wild life is exceptional and all these magnificent places to go are so close.
If you're a natural science buff, avid photographer and outdoorsman like me...it's hard to beat being so close to three different geographical areas.
I've seen ( and in some too few cases photographed) moose, elk, wolves, black bear, wolverine, fishers, river otters, coyotes, Bald Eagles, Golden Eagles, Barred, Great Horned, Snowy and the largest owl world wide...the Great Gray Owl. This is just a partial listing.
I've seen these animals in their natural habitant...not in zoos. There is something exciting for me to walk along a forest trail or drift along a lake shore (freighter canoe) and come across wildlife unexpectedly.
So, when I look at the overall picture, I think living where I do...in such a cold area.... generally is more positive than negative.
One thing would make it better...I wish the winter was say...2-3 months long rather than 5 1/2 months long.
But I guess in life you can't have it all.
So why do you live where you do ?
Nothing profound....just examining why.
As we all know, no place is perfect. There are positives and negatives to every site.
I live in an area where we experience severe winter from the end of October, early November till late March/early April. The snow does not melt much during the winter, it just piles up and up...till the spring. Right now in parts of my property it is about 4 to 5 feet deep.
There will be more winter storms, more wind induced snow drifts to come. Of this I am confident.
Since the first week of December it's been constant lows of -20 to -38....the highs aren't much better. This is not unusual for my area of North America.
When it's this cold...I'm not much for going outside.
I've lived here...or in another similarly cold area all my life.
Now that I'm in my 60's I ask myself...why am I still here ?
Why not move to a milder climate ?
Well because this is where my family and friends live.
Also the spring, summer and fall are wonderful out here.
Another thing is location, location, location as the real estate guys are wont to say.
I'm located about 2 hours...by car... from the southern Boreal forest...1.5 hours from the Canadian Shield...and I'm smack dab in the extreme end of the northern Great Plains. The variability in beauty, wild life is exceptional and all these magnificent places to go are so close.
If you're a natural science buff, avid photographer and outdoorsman like me...it's hard to beat being so close to three different geographical areas.
I've seen ( and in some too few cases photographed) moose, elk, wolves, black bear, wolverine, fishers, river otters, coyotes, Bald Eagles, Golden Eagles, Barred, Great Horned, Snowy and the largest owl world wide...the Great Gray Owl. This is just a partial listing.
I've seen these animals in their natural habitant...not in zoos. There is something exciting for me to walk along a forest trail or drift along a lake shore (freighter canoe) and come across wildlife unexpectedly.
So, when I look at the overall picture, I think living where I do...in such a cold area.... generally is more positive than negative.
One thing would make it better...I wish the winter was say...2-3 months long rather than 5 1/2 months long.
But I guess in life you can't have it all.
So why do you live where you do ?