Currently - In an old house in the sticks, the boonies, as rural as rural gets, on 30 acres of very thick forested, wooded, steep hilly land out in the middle of nowhere, it was left to me in my mom's will, I'm in between 4 cities, one is 9 miles east , 10 miles south , almost 10 miles again west , and 17 miles north .....and oh yeah...the nearest gas station to me is right at 7.5 miles. I get no visitors, I live behind a locked gate well off the road just off a major state highway. It still baffles me that I'm so lucky to even have the luxury of DSL, I've had it since Aug. 06' and I have Directv and don't know why, I NEVER watch it. I'm trying to sell my property, I want to move, I can't make my mind up where I want to move. I keep thinking about California (northern) , I can't get it out of my mind, but damn it, why does it have to cost a fortune to live out there. With me its not so much as "WHAT" I live in....but "WHERE" I live.....Home is "WHERE" the heart is! .....I'm planning on having my property sold before the holidays start. Where ever I move ,I WON'T be buying, not in this economy, and it won't be in no apartment either. I feel for you apartment dwellers, I've known quite a few over the years tell of stories about coming home finding their medicine missing, dresser drawers rummaged through , TV remote left on the couch instead of coffee table, coin jar missing money, food in fridge moved around, ect. NO EFFING way , nuh uh , it might not ever happen to me, but the stories I've heard over the years ....I wouldn't ever have piece of mind, I'd end up going to jail for beating the maintenance man Hannibal Lector style. I MUST HAVE PRIVACY and SECURITY "a man's home is his castle" it's supposed to be anyway. I am kind of tired of living so far out, I want to live closer in to town. My ideal dream pad would be to live near a ski resort town in a split-level log cabin. I've always loved Colorado and the many ski resorts like Breckenridge, Keystone, Copper Mountain, Vail, Dillon, Telluride, Steamboat, Crested Butte, Beaver Creek, Snowmass, Aspen , ect. You get the picture, there are more ski resorts in Colorado than ANY other state. Snow boarding in the winter and mountain biking in the summer- ah, what a life. This is what I'd call a dream pad>