we call it either mt. hairy or mt. scary. and I hate it. I can't wait until the housing market rebounds enough that we can sell our house and move the heck outta here.
Colorado is on our short list at the moment, but our plans are to vacation places we may want to live over the next few years and find where we want to live. I just don't know right now.
if you look at my house and car, yeah, I am one of THOSE people. But in my heart of hearts I'm NOT and neither is my husband. We've found we hate our neighbors (for above mentioned reasons) who ARE holier than though yuppies. Every day we are reminded that we aren't "their type" (really, do I care that you have a pool and that your kid goes to private school and that you sell hair products? nope!) and every day we pray the market comes back so we can sell and go live where we like the people.
Mt. scary itself is fine, but it definitely doesn't feel like home.
That's it EXACTLY!!! We plan on a smaller house next time - (ours is currently a 5 bedroom 3.5 bath monster) we have 3 kids so we have to have some space, but not this much space.
My husband makes a buttload of money (likely more than my neighbors) and I don't make a slouchy salary, and as of March we will have no debt other than the house. My neighbors behind me have in the last year bought:
a pool 2 new cars finished their basement had their house professionally decorated enrolled their kid in a private school a bunch of other unnecessary shit
And when they answered their door at halloween and a couple older kids told them their parents said to come to our neighborhood cause we're all "rich" she laughed and told them no, they were just in debt up to their asses.
Wow.
I love stuff too, but not to the detriment of my family. I just don't get my neighbors AT ALL. I desperately miss our old neighborhood in calvert county. while we all had nice houses, etc. we weren't all snobs. :)
yup. 2 tops. There are a couple families with more than 2 kids, but they're rare. They all thought we were crazy when I got pregnant last year with my third (well, so did we, but for other reasons!! hehehe)
I just hate it here and can't wait to move. I keep looking at real estate sites in colorado and picking out my cozy little cabin. hehehe
We're both in the computer field - hubby does enterprise management stuff (he's an executive director at at&t gov't solutions in columbia) and I do computer fixey stuff and work for Marriott Headquarters supporting the law, communications, gov't affairs (lobbyists), and executive offices. I get paid lots of money to change toner at the moment. LOL!! I am looking for a new job - I used to be the help desk manager at a law firm in DC.
HA! i'm sure you KNEW you were crazy to begin with ;)
why colorado? it's COLD there!
oh yay! my hubby is computer geeky too! not that you're a geek, i dont even know you ;) but he works in jessup, 2.5 hours away from home. it's cute. not.
hey there is nothing wrong to be highly paid and do nothing! sign me up!
i just got my degree, but i cant really think of anythign i want to do with it
I'm a geek, it's totaly ok. I'm working on a degree, but I intend to switch fields drastically and teach history to high schoolers (cause apparently whiney executive types aren't bad enough). But it'll be quite a few years until I get my degree yet, who knows what will happen.
Colorado is close to home and hubby can stay with his company if we move there. So, its just an option. we just know we aren't going to stay in MD forever. Especially not in carroll county!
yeah but whiney executives have no excuse. teens do. if i was a teen again i'd be whiney as hell. i dont ever want to go through that think you! :)
he does 4 tens, so he stays overnight 2 nights a week and has off one day a week. so it's not SOOOO bad....if you spread it all out, 5 hours for 2 work days, so it's REALLY only about an hour and 15 min there and back if you think about it creatively....
you're from colorado? what on earth brought you here!?
from Utah but essentially I was dating a guy in St. Louis that I met online. My grandfather died (I was helping to care for him) and I had nothing left to keep me there, so I packed a suitcase and drove off into the sunrise.
When I got to St. Louis my guy informed me that I couldn't stay there and handed me $150 (he apparently was dating someone else - that would have been good to know before I'd started out!!) I'd gotten a job there, but when I reported for work the next day they told me they couldn't get a hold of me but that they decided not to create the position.
So I kept driving and here I am.
I think I stayed in the DC area because my grandparents had met here (they were both Navy - granddad was here being restationed and grandmom worked in the pentagon). With him having just passed away it felt right. I've been here ever since. Moved around between MD and VA a few times. On Feb. 17th I will have been living here for 12 years.
I lived on credit cards for about 4 months. There's more to the story - I first rented a room from a woman who took what I was paying in rent but never paid the overall rent and got us evicted. She also stole my credit cards. then I rented a room from a guy who 2 weeks after I moved in there was a drug raid on the house. after that I rented a room from a psychology professor from George Mason (my boss knew him and recommended it), and then I caught him going through my underwear one day!
It was nuts.
I want to move back closer to family - I feel like I'm missing out on that part of my life. I don't mind maryland I guess - and I definitely prefer the east coast, but who knows where we'll end up! :)
Alright, now that you know my sordid past, I'm adding you to my FL. feel free to add back. ;)
where in maryland do you live?
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i grew up in frederick
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and i like mt scary :)
i did a research project (yay frostburg...) about different places to live and mt airy was one of places i looked into.
according to the police, it has like no crime and is god's gift to man kind.
from my experience, it is yuppie paradise and full of suv's and holier then thou people
(i am assuming you are not one of them bc you hate it there and you're friends with lele)
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if you look at my house and car, yeah, I am one of THOSE people. But in my heart of hearts I'm NOT and neither is my husband. We've found we hate our neighbors (for above mentioned reasons) who ARE holier than though yuppies. Every day we are reminded that we aren't "their type" (really, do I care that you have a pool and that your kid goes to private school and that you sell hair products? nope!) and every day we pray the market comes back so we can sell and go live where we like the people.
Mt. scary itself is fine, but it definitely doesn't feel like home.
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My husband makes a buttload of money (likely more than my neighbors) and I don't make a slouchy salary, and as of March we will have no debt other than the house. My neighbors behind me have in the last year bought:
a pool
2 new cars
finished their basement
had their house professionally decorated
enrolled their kid in a private school
a bunch of other unnecessary shit
And when they answered their door at halloween and a couple older kids told them their parents said to come to our neighborhood cause we're all "rich" she laughed and told them no, they were just in debt up to their asses.
Wow.
I love stuff too, but not to the detriment of my family. I just don't get my neighbors AT ALL. I desperately miss our old neighborhood in calvert county. while we all had nice houses, etc. we weren't all snobs. :)
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I just hate it here and can't wait to move. I keep looking at real estate sites in colorado and picking out my cozy little cabin. hehehe
We're both in the computer field - hubby does enterprise management stuff (he's an executive director at at&t gov't solutions in columbia) and I do computer fixey stuff and work for Marriott Headquarters supporting the law, communications, gov't affairs (lobbyists), and executive offices. I get paid lots of money to change toner at the moment. LOL!! I am looking for a new job - I used to be the help desk manager at a law firm in DC.
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why colorado? it's COLD there!
oh yay! my hubby is computer geeky too! not that you're a geek, i dont even know you ;) but he works in jessup, 2.5 hours away from home. it's cute. not.
hey there is nothing wrong to be highly paid and do nothing! sign me up!
i just got my degree, but i cant really think of anythign i want to do with it
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Yikes, 2.5 hours away - that's quite a hike!!
I'm a geek, it's totaly ok. I'm working on a degree, but I intend to switch fields drastically and teach history to high schoolers (cause apparently whiney executive types aren't bad enough). But it'll be quite a few years until I get my degree yet, who knows what will happen.
Colorado is close to home and hubby can stay with his company if we move there. So, its just an option. we just know we aren't going to stay in MD forever. Especially not in carroll county!
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he does 4 tens, so he stays overnight 2 nights a week and has off one day a week. so it's not SOOOO bad....if you spread it all out, 5 hours for 2 work days, so it's REALLY only about an hour and 15 min there and back if you think about it creatively....
you're from colorado? what on earth brought you here!?
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When I got to St. Louis my guy informed me that I couldn't stay there and handed me $150 (he apparently was dating someone else - that would have been good to know before I'd started out!!) I'd gotten a job there, but when I reported for work the next day they told me they couldn't get a hold of me but that they decided not to create the position.
So I kept driving and here I am.
I think I stayed in the DC area because my grandparents had met here (they were both Navy - granddad was here being restationed and grandmom worked in the pentagon). With him having just passed away it felt right. I've been here ever since. Moved around between MD and VA a few times. On Feb. 17th I will have been living here for 12 years.
Crazy huh?
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you're so brave! i dont know if i could have just up and left! i dont know if i could have afforded it!
we live in maryland just because we live in maryland. if you know what i mean.
sometimes i wish we could go out and find a fantastic place to live that is perfect. but we dont want to move too far from his parents or his job.
i think 2.5 hours is plenty far enough ;)
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It was nuts.
I want to move back closer to family - I feel like I'm missing out on that part of my life. I don't mind maryland I guess - and I definitely prefer the east coast, but who knows where we'll end up! :)
Alright, now that you know my sordid past, I'm adding you to my FL. feel free to add back. ;)
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