Out of all the places you have lived, where was your least favorite ??

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I was going to say far western Nebraska, because it was so deadly dull...but then I remembered some of the things I loved about it.

My least favorite has to be a rooming house where I lived for less than a year right here in Plymouth. The "stairs" going down to the basement where the laundry was located were more like a ladder. The basement was always full of about a foot of water. If you dropped something taking it out of the dryer, it would go right into that filthy water. The basement door wouldn't close, and skunks used to get inside. I could go on and on...there was so much that was so horrible.

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4meAndyou · F

@cherokeepatti We just wouldn't go down into my grandmother's root cellar on the farm. When there was a tornado, we would all pile into my grandfather's car, and he would drove us to the potato pit, and drive down into it. Then we were all told not to get out of the car because of the snakes.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@4meAndyou That seems like a good way to get shelter. You are safe inside your car in an underground shelter like that. I have never seen a potato pit, must have been huge for a car to fit inside of it.

4meAndyou · F

@cherokeepatti Yup. My grandfather used my Uncles as sharecroppers, and I still remember seeing the potatoes in the fields.

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

Nebraska. It was damn cold in the winter. They called off school one day in the morning because the temperature had gotten below -20 F. And there was a state law that we had to go home because if it got much colder the buses might stall out and endanger our lives. And very few trees except near rivers where we lived or those tall trees that were planted for windbreaks around farms after the Dust Bowl. I did enjoy visiting my grandparents in Grand Island, it had more trees and the city seemed very peaceful.

fun4us2b · M

Probably Binghamton NY - but only because of the weather. It rained or snowed at least once a day every day I was there (which is actually good in a way) - otherwise it was ok...

rinkydinkydoink · M

Victoria, BC - for a very short while (less than a month til I got a larger, windowed room with a fridge, hot plate and a sink in the same building) I lived in a room in a skid row, fleabag hotel. The room was taller than it was wide or long.

exexec · 70-79, C

In an apartment just off the main runways of Dobbins Air Force Base. It was also where Lockheed built C-5 monsters. Our apartment shook every time an F-100 took off over us. No friends. Didn't live there very long.

ChiefJustWalks · 26-30

Abandoned building in Southside Phoenix, near downtown. The floors were caving in & I got my electricity through an extension cord from my neighbors window