What does your neighborhood sound like

My neighborhood is pretty noisy, I don't mind it, I actually kinda like it.

When I step outside I hear the dings of the new lightrail , I hear the train passing a few times a day which is about half a mile away. There are usually cars passing with deep bass. At night the hip hop subsides and makes way for some mariachi along with the soft hum of overpassing helicopters. I am about 5 miles from the runway at Sky Harbor airport so there is the constant sound of planes passing overhead as well.

What does your neighborhood sound like?

Exactly where I live is a nice area, pretty quiet, except for the fucking pigeons in the morning and some industrial strength air conditioners which I notice at night. And the sirens and overflying planes, which don't rally bother me. But a block away it's traffic and more traffic, but I don't hear that from my apartment.

Absolutely nothing!

I live in a subdivision that if you don't know where you are, you WILL get lost. People say it's very similar to the neighborhood in Edward Scissorhands but without the weird colored houses. The only time there is noise is when kids walk home from school and cars driving to get home.

It took a while to get used to because I used to live in a bad neighborhood where people get mugged and beat up for no apparent reason. But the quiet life is something someone can get used to, at least in my case...

Pretty much like birds chirping unless the asshole a few doors down gets drunk and decides to crank shitty 70's rock

My neighborhood is total shite.Its full of chavs,people screeching the tires of their cars around the corners,drug dealers everywhere,police dont do a fooking thing either.Im itching to move away from it all but i cant cos i've lost me job,car,i have no money....all because of the crisis situation over here in this fooked up country we call britain.Im in the worst sate of me life ever!!!!!!I have no more respect for my country at all!!Its a fooking joke!!:mad:

Usually silent it a holiday area, but it sounded just like a Tool concert last Sat night thanks to me mates playing out in my back yard till 130am :cool:,.

Pretty quiet where I am, the sound of cars driving past occaisionally but that's it mostly.

Torquay is a quiet dreary little place really.

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Pretty quiet where I am, the sound of cars driving past occaisionally but that's it mostly.

Torquay is a quiet dreary little place really.

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Well there's allways Kent Cavern

Well across the street live like 20 mexicans and they are always working on their cars and they are always blasting music out there garage with the door open. I don't mind them though some of them are pretty creeper looking though.

Then there is the Poice on the other end of the street not so much my street. I live in I guess what you would call the ghetto of a nice town so it's not ghetto at all but if you had to pick the worst part it would be the neighborhood I live in, where most of the Mexicans live.

The people who live behind us thouugh are fucking nuts and you will hear them fighting every once in a while and it sounds like someone is always about to kill somebody.

Noisey, and smells of Burning Cars. ;D

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Noisey, and smells of Burning Cars. ;D

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HAsnt changed since the old days of steel manufacturing then :D.

Just a different process but still making the same smells and sounds of burning metal, its the natural order balancing out ;D . Make em /wreck em.

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Pretty quiet where I am, the sound of cars driving past occaisionally but that's it mostly.

Torquay is a quiet dreary little place really.

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Well there's allways Kent Cavern

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Yeah its wild in there. Actually it's not that special, take about 4 minutes to walk through it and its full of reconstructed ape men who simply didn't exist at any time in earth's history.

How come you've heard of it Monkey, you ever been there?

Never thought of it like that Andre. But its as near the Truth as you can get ;D

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Never thought of it like that Andre. But its as near the Truth as you can get ;D

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Only dry humour i could find in it;Bit lame I know:) but we gotta look for the funny side in tragedy or we be just :eek: all the time ;D.

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Pretty quiet where I am, the sound of cars driving past occaisionally but that's it mostly.

Torquay is a quiet dreary little place really.

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Well there's allways Kent Cavern

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Yeah its wild in there. Actually it's not that special, take about 4 minutes to walk through it and its full of reconstructed ape men who simply didn't exist at any time in earth's history.

How come you've heard of it Monkey, you ever been there?

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Hows those bats TM?

Well I live in a small town, so it's pretty quiet. So the typical stuff, like birds, crickets, and we have a ton of squirrels around, so I hear them hopping in the trees constantly.

But I have this one mother fuking woodpecker that drives me crazy!!! The outside of my place is cedar wood, and this little fuker attaches itself to it, and starts pecking away. He has awoken me on the weekends countless times, and I just want to shoot the little basturd. :shotgun5lu8:

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Well I live in a small town, so it's pretty quiet. So the typical stuff, like birds, crickets, and we have a ton of squirrels around, so I hear them hopping in the trees constantly.

But I have this one mother fuking woodpecker that drives me crazy!!! The outside of my place is cedar wood, and this little fuker attaches itself to it, and starts pecking away. He has awoken me on the weekends countless times, and I just want to shoot the little basturd. :shotgun5lu8:

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Oh snap! I had a wookpecker once right outside my window and it pecked in the early morning too. After a couple of days it just stopped....

...a good thing we cut down that tree..

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Well I live in a small town, so it's pretty quiet. So the typical stuff, like birds, crickets, and we have a ton of squirrels around, so I hear them hopping in the trees constantly.

But I have this one mother fuking woodpecker that drives me crazy!!! The outside of my place is cedar wood, and this little fuker attaches itself to it, and starts pecking away. He has awoken me on the weekends countless times, and I just want to shoot the little basturd. :shotgun5lu8:

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Oh snap! I had a wookpecker once right outside my window and it pecked in the early morning too. After a couple of days it just stopped....

...a good thing we cut down that tree..

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Not this little basturd, he's been around for like 2 years now. :mad:

Unfortunately, he's not in the tree outside my bedroom, he's on the cedar siding of my home, and he only comes by my bedroom, so I can't do $hit about it. :p

Except for :shotgun5lu8:

Weekends are pretty eventful when you walk out of the front door.50% of the time your likely to hear someones Base booming as they drive by OR the townhouses across the way are blaring "Happy" Chi-cha-chi tunes from our long time residing Immigrant friends from Texas and 'down South' who came down for Katrina,liked the permanent work and have decided to stay ;D.Occasionally you get the motley crew of Bebe's kids yelling it up but it fades.Everyday you can hear the Bells toll from Holy Cross.

Nights are calm now a days,Count on at least one siren blaring down the street.Some Naval Jets landing 3 or 4 times a night.The occasional gunshot...maybe every three nights.Crickets and the fan running Lol.....can not sleep in pure silence.Just can not do it?

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Weekends are pretty eventful when you walk out of the front door.50% of the time your likely to hear someones Base booming as they drive by OR the townhouses across the way are blaring "Happy" Chi-cha-chi tunes from our long time residing Immigrant friends from Texas and 'down South' who came down for Katrina,liked the permanent work and have decided to stay ;D.Occasionally you get the motley crew of Bebe's kids yelling it up but it fades.Everyday you can hear the Bells toll from Holy Cross.

Nights are calm now a days,Count on at least one siren blaring down the street.Some Naval Jets landing 3 or 4 times a night.The occasional gunshot...maybe every three nights.Crickets and the fan running Lol.....can not sleep in pure silence.Just can not do it?

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Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm not sure when the last time is I've experienced pure silence, but when it gets real quiet at night, that just makes me listen all the harder. And then your imagination starts to mess with you...

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Weekends are pretty eventful when you walk out of the front door.50% of the time your likely to hear someones Base booming as they drive by OR the townhouses across the way are blaring "Happy" Chi-cha-chi tunes from our long time residing Immigrant friends from Texas and 'down South' who came down for Katrina,liked the permanent work and have decided to stay ;D.Occasionally you get the motley crew of Bebe's kids yelling it up but it fades.Everyday you can hear the Bells toll from Holy Cross.

Nights are calm now a days,Count on at least one siren blaring down the street.Some Naval Jets landing 3 or 4 times a night.The occasional gunshot...maybe every three nights.Crickets and the fan running Lol.....can not sleep in pure silence.Just can not do it?

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Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm not sure when the last time is I've experienced pure silence, but when it gets real quiet at night, that just makes me listen all the harder. And then your imagination starts to mess with you...

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Its the piercing silence,it keeps me awake.Oscillating fan is the way to go.Lol on the imagination;D

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Weekends are pretty eventful when you walk out of the front door.50% of the time your likely to hear someones Base booming as they drive by OR the townhouses across the way are blaring "Happy" Chi-cha-chi tunes from our long time residing Immigrant friends from Texas and 'down South' who came down for Katrina,liked the permanent work and have decided to stay ;D.Occasionally you get the motley crew of Bebe's kids yelling it up but it fades.Everyday you can hear the Bells toll from Holy Cross.

Nights are calm now a days,Count on at least one siren blaring down the street.Some Naval Jets landing 3 or 4 times a night.The occasional gunshot...maybe every three nights.Crickets and the fan running Lol.....can not sleep in pure silence.Just can not do it?

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Yeah, I know what you mean. I'm not sure when the last time is I've experienced pure silence, but when it gets real quiet at night, that just makes me listen all the harder. And then your imagination starts to mess with you...

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Its the piercing silence,it keeps me awake.Oscillating fan is the way to go.Lol on the imagination;D

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My oscillating fan is the only way I sleep. I love that fucker, I use it even in the dead of winter.

It's a noisy bastard of a place. I couldn't get to sleep last night until 4am, even with ear plugs. Car alarms and people honking their horns at ungodly hours of the morning. The day time is worse with the bongo truck onion sellers illegally peddling their wares and bizarre waves of Korean trot music blarring up from goodness knows where. I swear I will commit murder one of these days.

We live on a hill in a small quiet suburb on the outside of town. Can see Lake Superior from 3 sides of our house and shortly after winter hits, an eery silence comes over the place. In the distance is a snow machine trail, but it's still far enough away that you need to be trying to hear it.

I'd say we are fairly in tune with the sounds of the seasons and the motions and temperament of the lake and the north. It's is both beautiful and harsh, as we are allowed to experience the full breadth of all the seasons through the land and the climate that surrounds us. The motion and heartbeat of the summer pulsing it's wind through the trees. The rustling of dried leaves and snapping branches hunkering down in winters path. Late geese formations flying overheard signalling, signifying the urgency of life to prepare for the inevitable bitter cold. The first blasts of winter from a unforgiving north wind that comes in squalls off the lake like a wall informing you it is time...ready or not. The water dripping off the eaves of the house, the branches of the trees, trickling and pooling, rushing its way through once tiny creeks along the hill leading to a lake coming back to life...ice cracking and jamming in its path, birds and squirrels busy in its wake. And then the winds begin again in the tree tops through fresh leaves and summer is again on its way.

I don't know that I will always live here, as there is much to see in this world, but I believe part of me will.

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Pretty quiet where I am, the sound of cars driving past occaisionally but that's it mostly.

Torquay is a quiet dreary little place really.

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Torquay....know it well as my mum and Sister moved down there about 10 years ago!
When i lived bang in London it was crazy but i've moved just outside North London and look out my lounge window everyday to see horses running around etc.
I work bang in the City of London so it's f*cking madness and so busy that it's a cool chilled out balance coming home to my flash new pad and horny as f*ck missus..
Very happy in my life and where i'm living and i can be in London within 20 mins on a train!

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We live on a hill in a small quiet suburb on the outside of town. Can see Lake Superior from 3 sides of our house and shortly after winter hits, an eery silence comes over the place. In the distance is a snow machine trail, but it's still far enough away that you need to be trying to hear it.

I'd say we are fairly in tune with the sounds of the seasons and the motions and temperament of the lake and the north. It's is both beautiful and harsh, as we are allowed to experience the full breadth of all the seasons through the land and the climate that surrounds us. The motion and heartbeat of the summer pulsing it's wind through the trees. The rustling of dried leaves and snapping branches hunkering down in winters path. Late geese formations flying overheard signalling, signifying the urgency of life to prepare for the inevitable bitter cold. The first blasts of winter from a unforgiving north wind that comes in squalls off the lake like a wall informing you it is time...ready or not. The water dripping off the eaves of the house, the branches of the trees, trickling and pooling, rushing its way through once tiny creeks along the hill leading to a lake coming back to life...ice cracking and jamming in its path, birds and squirrels busy in its wake. And then the winds begin again in the tree tops through fresh leaves and summer is again on its way.

I don't know that I will always live here, as there is much to see in this world, but I believe part of me will.

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That is beautifully poetic Youngblood :)

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Well I live in a small town, so it's pretty quiet. So the typical stuff, like birds, crickets, and we have a ton of squirrels around, so I hear them hopping in the trees constantly.

But I have this one mother fuking woodpecker that drives me crazy!!! The outside of my place is cedar wood, and this little fuker attaches itself to it, and starts pecking away. He has awoken me on the weekends countless times, and I just want to shoot the little basturd. :shotgun5lu8:

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Oh snap! I had a wookpecker once right outside my window and it pecked in the early morning too. After a couple of days it just stopped....

...a good thing we cut down that tree..

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Arggghhhhhh:(
Same here ....i had a f*cking woodpecker that (i swear) used to wait for me to come home from an after party when i dj'd loads at silly o'clock on a Sat or Sun and just "knock,knock,knock" all day long.
Used to drive me f*cking mad that noise to the point where i'd just crawl out of bed and go get more drugs lol.

I live in Adelaide. I'm pretty lucky really - live in a leafy subburb about 10 mins walk to the city but Adelaide is small enough for that not to be madness.

There's a restuarant district and some parklands close by where outdoor family events like Corols by Candlelight etc are sometimes held. Sometimes I can hear music but i think something about being on the ground floor of a small apartment building with relatively quiet neighbours means I'm insulated from the noise and rarely kept awake.

There's an airport about 8 kms away so we hear an occasional plane fly over but again I never notice them at night.

Apart from that we have a possum in the yard who scampers along the fence but again it doesn't keep me awake.


.......... Having said that some asshole smashed the window in of the car I'm borrowing at the moment while I was asleep last week and I didn't hear a thing so maybe I just sleep like the dead!

I thought I heard a noise the following night and ran out there to check but no one was there. I was just wearing my PJs and armed only with my house keys so I'm not really sure of what I planned to do if I did actually catch him! :-\

Our neighbours dont make a sound. He does have animal heads on plaques on his outside walls though so Im sure he's a nutter of some description.

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Hows those bats TM?

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Wont really know until spring,theyre hibernating right now,and nobody is too keen on mucking about in a hibernaculum at the moment. It could have run its course. But Id feel alot more confident about saying that if any of the experts Im friends with,could agree on what in the hell it is. Basically,we've heavily discussed and debated for close to a year now,and still arent sure if the fungus that gives the disease its name,is even the disease,or just a symptom
Sort of a life lesson for man and mankind,we're used to thinking we can figure out everything sooner or later,especially in our area of expertise,we cant even figure out what the disease actually is,let alone how to treat it

So its a fungus? I remember you said a white powder like substance.
Has the temperature increased and effected the caves temp to trigger the growth?
whats the temps for last ten years in the area or the humidity more so, has it raised allot?

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So its a fungus? I remember you said a white powder like substance.
Has the temperature increased and effected the caves temp to trigger the growth?
whats the temps for last ten years in the area or the humidity more so, has it raised allot?

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This where it gets confusing,we arent sure if the fungus is just a symptom, or the disease itself. The caves themselves havent shown a large increase in temperature. One theory is because of increased temperatures, theyre coming out of hibernation too early. The other things they get is a massive weight loss,and pneumonia. And it is notable that the big brown species doesnt seem to be getting it. Big browns are one of the few species that will snap out of hibernation in mid winter,and they dont seem to be getting it. So it could be a sign that theyre blowing their fat stores too early by coming out of hibernation too soon.
But at the end of the day,as of right now,we really dont know what it is. Alot of money has been spent to try and figure this out,and the best thing we've come up with,is decontaminate your gear after your done in there doing research,so you dont spread it.

Has it spread far to other states or is it contained in one area Tm?

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Has it spread far to other states or is it contained in one area Tm?

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Now we have touched on problem 2
In one year it spread from New England all the way to WV,so we dont know if its migratory born,or is it human contamination.
Bats will migrate a little,and could in theory pass it down the chain, but cave explorers also will hit numerous systems in a year,and in multiple states.
Now,I'll admit my expertise in the area is species identification while doing bat counts, but I find it seriously troubling that the people whose word I take as gospel usually,all disagree right now. And to make it worse,all of their theories are completely credible.
Ive caved for most of my adult life,and have been published in all the major caving publications,and Im telling you blunt, we really dont know. All we really know is the symptoms,and that the kill ratio for a bat colony can run as high as %90. There have even been reports that its jumped over to Europe,that may be alarmist,I didnt get to check the bats myself,and didnt know the people who claimed it so I cant take it on faith.
I know alot of people dont like,or are afraid of bats,its a phobia that our culture pushes. But they are amazingly beneficial little things. They eat the bug that causes most of our airborn diseases.
Im still worryed about this for obvious reasons,and Im even more worried that all of the people in the field, that know more then I do by far,cant even agree on what it is.It doesnt seem to transmit in to humans, but there are all kinds of things that mosquitos carry that can,and less bats=more mosquitos

Pretty noisy round here. Lot of police sirens, you can pretty much hear one throughout most of the day. There always seems to be some commotion goin on. There's noise from the people who live in the flats above us on all sides, although on the plus side I live on the bottom level of the block so at least I ain't got noise comin out from underneath me ;D like everyone on all the floors above do. But yeah there's pretty much constant noise round here, it's quite weird because my gran lives out near Southampton & I find it impossible to sleep there because it's too quiet for me :-\

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Whereabouts was you from in North? I got some family in Tottenham.

I used to live in the city where it is noisy, busy etc....

Just bought a house in the country about 2 Months ago after my Mom died.....

Gotta say I love the country...not the sticks but away from the city...a good 10 miles just to town....Quiet as a church at midnight by 7pm....people don't even lock their doors....great for my kids

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I used to live in the city where it is noisy, busy etc....

Just bought a house in the country about 2 Months ago after my Mom died.....

Gotta say I love the country...not the sticks but away from the city...a good 10 miles just to town....Quiet as a church at midnight by 7pm....people don't even lock their doors....great for my kids

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I hate it whwn people say that. Daxx I'm sure it's a nice area, but with all due respect that is just a little bit ... how shall I say... ok you pick a word. At best it's asking for trouble. I can't tell you how many times I've heard someone on the news say "We just never thought it would happen here". Shit of the worst kind can, and will, happen anywhere.

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I used to live in the city where it is noisy, busy etc....

Just bought a house in the country about 2 Months ago after my Mom died.....

Gotta say I love the country...not the sticks but away from the city...a good 10 miles just to town....Quiet as a church at midnight by 7pm....people don't even lock their doors....great for my kids

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I hate it whwn people say that. Daxx I'm sure it's a nice area, but with all due respect that is just a little bit ... how shall I say... ok you pick a word. At best it's asking for trouble. I can't tell you how many times I've heard someone on the news say "We just never thought it would happen here". Shit of the worst kind can, and will, happen anywhere.

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Not saying like when they go away or something....Just unlike in the city you lock your door the second you step in the nhouse...it becomes a habit...why because it is the enviorement you are in....I grew up in NYC for 20+ years.....Here people leave their doors open in the day...Run to the store and know a neighboor is out there and if anyone not from the area comes by they will say something if they tried to enter the house...

Everyone here has dogs...most of them card carrying members of the NRA ( that part is kind of freaky).......Really is a nice place...you are going over board with my statement thinking it is like everyone here thinks it is Mayberry RFD

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I used to live in the city where it is noisy, busy etc....

Just bought a house in the country about 2 Months ago after my Mom died.....

Gotta say I love the country...not the sticks but away from the city...a good 10 miles just to town....Quiet as a church at midnight by 7pm....people don't even lock their doors....great for my kids

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I hate it whwn people say that. Daxx I'm sure it's a nice area, but with all due respect that is just a little bit ... how shall I say... ok you pick a word. At best it's asking for trouble. I can't tell you how many times I've heard someone on the news say "We just never thought it would happen here". Shit of the worst kind can, and will, happen anywhere.

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Not saying like when they go away or something....Just unlike in the city you lock your door the second you step in the nhouse...it becomes a habit...why because it is the enviorement you are in....I grew up in NYC for 20+ years.....Here people leave their doors open in the day...Run to the store and know a neighboor is out there and if anyone not from the area comes by they will say something if they tried to enter the house...

Everyone here has dogs...most of them card carrying members of the NRA ( that part is kind of freaky).......Really is a nice place...you are going over board with my statement thinking it is like everyone here thinks it is Mayberry RFD

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Sounds great. I'd love to live in the country, but right now it's not an option, unless I want to spend 2-3 hours a day commuting, which I would not be able to tolerate.