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we might be moving to USA

Its not looking good.
They want us to live in Chase City!!!
The house looks great but its miles from anywhere.The nearest big city is Durham, 60 miles away,the town itsself only has 3000 people in it and half a dozen shops.I don't think we could live in such isolation.
 
Wow, Sorry to hear that. They won't let you live anywhere else? I come from a small town also, but not THAT small. Hope your able to talk them into letting you live in a larger town. Good Luck!
 
jollyjak said:
Its not looking good.
They want us to live in Chase City!!!
The house looks great but its miles from anywhere.The nearest big city is Durham, 60 miles away,the town itsself only has 3000 people in it and half a dozen shops.I don't think we could live in such isolation.
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Well, Chase City is no city, it has "town" status. I've been through there and it's a neat place to visit, but its is definately a small town. I don't think it would be a bad place to live, if you don't mind small towns :shrugs: . The best part about it is it's near Lake Kerr (great fishing). It's not terribly far from Danville, Virginia, which is a nice small city.

That's a bummer, jolly. Living in Hampton Roads would have been terrific. You have to be a special breed, though, to live in a small town like Chase.
 
There is nothing better than living in a small town! You guys that want traffic and pollution and not being able to get in a restaurant and neighbors in your business, that live five feet away from you, are crazy! I would never go back!

Nanci
 
The areas I suggested to Jolly, Virginia Beach and Chesapeake, are big cities in area, but the majority of these cities are rural farmland. Neither has a "down town." Both are spread out. The city of Chesapeake contains a huge national Wildlife Refuge - the Great Dismal Swamp NWR. Virginia Beach has the Back Bay NWR. I live in Newport News, VA. My city has the second largest municipal park in the US, where you can wander the forest and never see another person, or hear a car. It's not unusual to have bears wander around out cities. Only Norfolk and Portsmouth are really congested and typically "city like." I wouldn't live in either of them.
 
My husband is Czech and HATES small towns. He says it's unnatural to live so far away from "civilization". We lived on a 159 acre farm, in a small community that didn't even have a gas station. Big difference from Prague, it messed him up completely. He won't even move to Atlanta, he hates Georgia more than anything now, and I hate Florida, go figure. I LOVE small towns though, I can't stand having other people living near me, and we're moving into a subdivision, which even has rules about what kind and how many plants can be planted in our front yard... it's tempting to just move back home. :sidestep: *saves money for farm* Small towns are great in that, everybody knows your business, but they're far enough away from you they can only know what you want them to.
 
It will be ok if we can find out more about the area.You can get some info from the internet but its not the same as seeing it for yourself.The kids are really hoping we go because there is 42 acres of land with the house,mostly trees,and they could run around and be noisy and not bother anyone.I am starting to warm to the idea,it all depends now on whether my husband accepts the job or not
 
Also, it is going to take some getting used to the size difference.In England you go to the shops on foot and the next village is only a mile away ( or less sometimes ). in Amereica you need the car for everything and the next village or town is 10 miles away. I suppose you would get used to it after a while but even the kids will need driving to school AND I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TIMES THEY WOULD GO TO SCHOOL!!! I still want to come tho
 
jollyjak said:
It will be ok if we can find out more about the area.You can get some info from the internet but its not the same as seeing it for yourself.The kids are really hoping we go because there is 42 acres of land with the house,mostly trees,and they could run around and be noisy and not bother anyone.I am starting to warm to the idea,it all depends now on whether my husband accepts the job or not
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42 acres? Jeez, now I'm jealous. I'm sold. Do it. If anything, Mecklenburg County, where Chase City is, is beautiful country. LOTS of things to do outdoors. On 42 acres, you have LOTS of space.

Chase City isn't really all that out of the way. It's nestled in south central Virginia. It's between South Boston and Emporia, a big town and a small city respectively. Both have everything you need. Danville is a very nice small city with all necessities.

http://www.danville-va.gov/home.asp
http://www.southboston.com/
http://www.ci.emporia.va.us/

The good part about Virginia is that you really aren't more than a couple of hours from anything in the state. It would be a few hours to the coast, or a few hours to the mountains, both do-able. You could go north to Richmond (medium sized city) in about an hour or south to Raleigh-Durham (very nice medium sized cities) in about the same time. In three, or three and a half hours you could be in Washington, DC.

The more I think about it, the better it sounds.

One thing, Chase City is COUNTRY. If you REALLY want to fit in ;), your husband might consider acquiring the following:

A pick up truck, with or without a gun rack. A trailer hitch is a must.
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A couple of these:
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Because these are very plentiful, fun to catch:
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Oh, and since you would be living so close to Lake Kerr, arguably the best lake in Virginia for fishing, one of these wouldn't hurt:
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If you move here, we'll get you turned into a Virginian real fast :D
 
Daeraelle, where do you live in Florida? Don't go to Georgia anyway- your husband is right. You can't keep any native snakes- that means corns!

Nanci
 
My husband loves fishing and that truck would be right up his street.But you say everything is "only" 3 hours away.It doesn't take us that long to drive to London and we live in the North of England.Just goes to prove the difference in size that we are going tp have to get used to.How do you do it? Do you also have more hours in the day??? haha
 
Ahhh, you'll get used to it. One good thing about Chase City is that you probably won't run into many traffic jams :rolleyes:.
 
Yes, the differences can seem strange. The first time we went to Europe (before the EU changed a lot of things), it seemed like we would drive a couple of hours, then change money, language, everything! And then a couple more hours, and do it again! Seemed very strange since we were used to driving from coast to coast in the US.

And in Europe, it seemed like you were either in the middle of a city, or out in the country. Nothing in between. It was really strange not to have Wal Marts and such all along the highways, city or country. Very strange, but depends on what you are used to. Of course, it has been years since I have been there, so Wal Marts and McDonald's may be on every street corner by now, I suppose.

We live in a tiny "town" with a post office, convenience store, and diner. Nothing more. But only 12 miles away in different directions are 2 small - med. size towns. And Ft. Myers is only about 30 miles away. I hate big cities!

If you know you can move in a year or two, you can look at it as a great adventure, whether it turns out you like it or not. I would even consider living in a big city for a year, just because I never did it before. But if you are going to be stuck there for many years, it would be nice to be fairly sure you will like it.
 
Nooooooooo
dont go over to the dark side lol
If youre in britain then stay there it is the best.
Britain rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
 
http://www.meck.k12.va.us/ - that's the school system that they'll be in. I know up here in Northern VA our schools start between 7:25 and 9:00 depending on the age. In a smaller school district it might be different though but I'm sure you could e-mail someone and ask or search around on the webstie.

~Katie
 
PtDnsr said:
http://www.meck.k12.va.us/ - that's the school system that they'll be in. I know up here in Northern VA our schools start between 7:25 and 9:00 depending on the age. In a smaller school district it might be different though but I'm sure you could e-mail someone and ask or search around on the webstie.

~Katie
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7.25 !!! Oh my daughter (also called Katie by the way) is not going to be happy about that.She's usually still in her pit (bed) at that time.My son should be alright tho,he gets up whenever he hears me get up.If they start that early does it mean they also finish early?
 
I would like to know how common it is to come across snakes in the wild,particularly the venomous ones.As you can imagine, we do not get anything like that here. Also, is there anything else we should know about,like spiders. I wouldn't go near a spider anyway but my daughter is likely to pick up anything she sees.For a girl she is very un-squeamish,not like my son who would run if he saw anything move that was not a dog or cat. :eek1:
 
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