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Post by kapitanprien on Mar 5, 2011 18:00:48 GMT -5
I decided to create this as I was curious to see what types of environment/s you like/love/enjoy and (if any) what types you don't.
For me - it would have to be the French coast, secluded places in the French countryside mainly. I like these places because they were a stark contrast to war torn Germany. They were peaceful oasis-like places...where one could mentally 'get away' from the war in all its forms.
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Post by mccoyxyz on Mar 5, 2011 18:12:06 GMT -5
Small Quebec towns are fabulous, my favorite would be Magog, spent a number of summers there while growing up; still like the place as an adult, even though the relatives I had there have been dead for several years.
Nice lake and beach, old fashioned and polite people, I'm guessing it becomes something of a retirement haven as baby boomers start to retire. They can't afford Montreal or Toronto anymore on their reduced incomes, so they look around.
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Post by Storm on Mar 5, 2011 18:13:31 GMT -5
I dislike built up areas and love woodlands, hills and mountains, meadows and waterfalls, the sea and lakes. I also love 18th century English landscaped gardens full of secret little temples and grottos and echoes of a more elegant age.
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Post by kapitanprien on Mar 5, 2011 18:16:43 GMT -5
Re McCoy - that sounds nice and I can relate to it a bit. I like 'old fashioned and polite' folks too.
Re SSKarma - I think English gardens are really nice as well. I liked to look at some photos of them and compare them to what I like of France...and while they are wonderful...there is just something about France that I love - I guess it has something to do with that carefree feeling we had when ashore that I miss.
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Post by Iseke on Mar 5, 2011 23:34:31 GMT -5
I love: small mountain towns, especially old mining/gold rush places. Hippy ocean towns. Misty redwood forests. Foggy places. Places with deep snowfall. Also, I have a deep fondness for the Tucson desert where I grew up.
Environments that I do not like...city sprawl. Freeways. Ugly flat cities with nothing but box stores and seedy video rental places. /much of California.
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Post by mccoyxyz on Mar 6, 2011 7:09:02 GMT -5
If I'm allowed a second item, I'd say Seattle of the past.
When I was a kid, I spent three months there, it was I think the city I've liked best in my entire life.
Now I realize, a lot has changed since then, I probably wouldn't like it anymore. It'd be like Victoria, 20 years ago I thought the place was fabulous, even five years ago liked it, but now I have no further intentions of ever going there again. Too much ripped down to put up too many highrise condos.
Now you Americans are actually lucky, there is a huge choice available for people seeking warmer climates. In Canada it's a lot more focused, the east coast is very wintry, everyone pours into Victoria. Once the baby boomers retiring arrive there in force, it will be Hades on earth. I know several people there, who have intentions of retiring elsewhere, how about that?
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Post by kapitanprien on Mar 6, 2011 9:22:54 GMT -5
Re Iseke - Hippy ocean towns...I could probably do that, as long as the 'touchy feely' part wasn't overboard but balanced with some common sense and a realistic outlook. Re McCoy - Sure you can list other places.  I would have to list another myself - port city water front areas. I miss Hamburg as it was during the '20's and 30's...I can't stand to see that hideous graffiti marring the once beautiful buildings. |
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Post by Laurasia on Mar 9, 2011 15:31:33 GMT -5
I love the woods, mountains, lakes, fjords....and winter. (Did I ever mention to you guys that I do have a past life as a Viking by the way? LOL!  ) Basically open, natural places. I don't like big cities...too many people, too much noise, too much bustle. Sincerely, Laurasia |
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Post by kapitanprien on Mar 9, 2011 16:01:38 GMT -5
Oh no, I didn't know about you having been a Viking. Did the 'occult aspect' of the SS interest you then due to this? Makes sense then that you'd enjoy those places. |
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Post by Laurasia on Mar 9, 2011 17:36:55 GMT -5
Hi Prien. I have indeed tried exploring whether or not something along those lines was true of Hans, but he is rather reluctant to offer any information regarding such matters. The only thing that I know for sure comes from a questionnaire that he filled out labeling himself as "God-fearing"...he doesn't specify denomination at all, though he does list his fiance (at that time) as being Lutheran. So I'm not sure what to think about that. He was EXTREMELY Scorpionic in nature though & Scorpios apparently are supposed to be very much into esoteric topics & such. The thing with Hans though is that much of his "natural personality" was forced into blending in with everyone else after he was sent to be raised in that Nazi group home. So Hans spent most of his life suppressing his true feelings about many things. So I've never gotten much of a grasp of any religious or spiritual feelings from him. Whenever I try to do so I mostly get numbness. So I'm not sure if that is because he had to suppress all of it so much, because his faith had been so badly shattered, or because he simply wasn't very spiritual to begin with.  Sincerely, Laurasia |
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Post by kapitanprien on Mar 9, 2011 17:47:54 GMT -5
Oh ok. I know this is totally off topic but I was curious to know. I was Evangelical Lutheran back then (one of the more 'liberal' types of Christianity) but I was not really any 'follower'. My views/outlook was entirely Agnostic - this can even be found in a book by Wolfgang Frank who went out on patrol with me and I had said to him about not knowing whether or not it is true when one goes to Heaven or Hell when they're dead...but that I'd like to go to Heaven for five minutes to have given St. Peter a piece of my mind for the bad weather we were having on that patrol. Bottom line for me - I didn't care. Even with what's happened to me having reincarnated this way - I don't care. For me it's not beliefs...but experience that matters. And besides...I spent so much time out at sea away from all the religious trappings that land life has that...it was irrelevant. One could say I felt closer to the Divine out at sea than I could have ever felt on land. |
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Post by Miss Bothmann on Mar 9, 2011 18:46:38 GMT -5
For me, my favorite place to be is on the beach on a long stretch of coastline. No houses visible..and when I look straight across the water, the only thing I like to see is horizon. To me, seeing the other side ruins the effect that you are looking at infinity (strange I know). I have loved this ever since I was a kid.
Also, I love being in the woodlands with the sound of nothing but nature..no car horns or exhausts.
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Post by kapitanprien on Mar 9, 2011 19:03:39 GMT -5
Miss Bothmann: For me, my favorite place to be is on the beach on a long stretch of coastline. No houses visible..and when I look straight across the water, the only thing I like to see is horizon. To me, seeing the other side ruins the effect that you are looking at infinity (strange I know). I have loved this ever since I was a kid. That's 'my speed' too. I like 'deserted' beaches - not those 'touristy' beaches loaded with people strutting around, or kids screaming, etc. The ones where there is no one...and it's just you, and perhaps the one you love, the seagulls cries...the sound of the waves crashing...ahh yeah...and I know what you mean about 'looking at infinity'. That's what it was like for me out at sea...nothing on land can come even close. |
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Post by Miss Bothmann on Mar 9, 2011 19:30:15 GMT -5
*hugs* Somehow I knew that you would understand prien. |
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Post by kapitanprien on Mar 9, 2011 19:37:59 GMT -5
Yep...I sure do. I think that's another reason why I'm trying to move closer to the coast. |
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I would have to list another myself - port city water front areas. I miss Hamburg as it was during the '20's and 30's...I can't stand to see that hideous graffiti marring the once beautiful buildings.
) Basically open, natural places. I don't like big cities...too many people, too much noise, too much bustle. 
