Meme: Where do you live?

January 13th, 2007 · 7 Comments

Matt over at Matt Bites had a lovely post detailing his home in LA. It was great in that it really localized you into his own slice of LA.

Michael over at Chicken Fried Gourmet suggested that more food bloggers might do right by writing a bit about their own homes/worlds.

This is my “Where do you live?” post.

I have lived all over the US and was born outside of it. I had moved 15 times by the time I graduated high school and then I moved a lot more. As a result, when I decided I wanted to have kids and a family and all that, I wanted to stop moving. My husband and I lived in the South End in Boston, MA when we decided to stop renting and buy a house. We soon mapped the concentric rings of expensive living radiating out from Boston. We ended up looking at housing WAY far away from Boston (with still working IN Boston). We settled on a tiny little town called Wales, some 70 miles from Boston. We chose this place because we found some beautiful land and we built a house.

This place is not about food. Closest grocery store is something like 15-20 miles away. We have one restaurant that serves Italian-American food of the suburb variety. We have one gas station that has some food and some alcohol. We have no stop lights, this is a SMALL town. If we want to go out to a restaurant, we drive to Worcester or Boston. We dont eat out much! When I want to go to Whole Foods, its about 70 miles or so to the closest one (the one I prefer is in Cambridge).

We love it here because we are hermits and telecommute. Culture? Not detectable.

Below is a quickie tour of some of Wales.

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7 comments for this entry ↓

1 Sally // Jan 15, 2007 at 6:03 am

I LOVE the pictures of your town Nika! And, although a few places could use a can or two of paint, I love the history there. Also, the placque in the cemetary is inspiring. Frankly, I wouldn’t live anywhere else besides a small town. West Bend has 800 souls living here and it’s perfect. What a nice post!
2 nika // Jan 15, 2007 at 7:05 am

glad you liked it! Wow, I am so used to this area I didnt even really notice the peeling paint. The old town hall is so very old that people do not go inside anymore. I THINK they are trying to fix it up but this town needs to spend its very little money on schools and plowing snow so things like restoration can not be at the top of the list.

Let me know if you do a similar post, I would to hear about your town!
3 Chicken Fried Gourmet // Jan 15, 2007 at 7:35 pm

Thanks for the mention and calling me out on it I guess I have to follow through now. BTW my site is Chicken not Country.

Thanks, love your take on it, great pictures.
4 nika // Jan 15, 2007 at 7:51 pm

M - ooops sorry about that! fixed it
I look forward to seeing your post. Glad you liked this one.
5 Melting Wok // Jan 16, 2007 at 5:38 am

Hi Nika, I’m moved by your story and captivated by your beautiful pictures, thx for sharing By the way, I wouldn’t mind trading place for a week to enjoy all the beautiful sceneries and in turn, you could do all the convinient shopping to Whole Foods here in LA ? *grins*
Cheers Shirley
6 nika // Jan 16, 2007 at 8:30 am

Shirley: Its a deal! I lived in Hollywood for a year and never once went to a WFs (I am not sure they were in LA yet in 94) I did get to a Trader Joes for the first time.. that was interesting. Now TJs are everywhere it seems. Now if I could WFs to build closer.. oh, also IKEA. Well, then I would have no money but I would be stylishly well fed.

Thanks for stopping by!
7 Melting Wok // Jan 18, 2007 at 12:20 am

Hi again, could you bring your cute kids too ? hehe :)Oh ? I don’t go Hollywood if I have to, just bit too noisy for me. There’s plenty of WF now here in LA & TJ is getting popular with their organic foods too, good thing they do have quicte a bit of asian food selections, and by the way, you might want to triple that deal, IKEA is just right outside my place *lol* Cheers

Nikas Culinaria

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