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I live way off in another land far different than Texas. It is underpopulated, rural, largely unexplored, and inhabited by strange people with strange ways. We call ourselves 'Razorbacks' and we live in deepest darkest Arkansas! We have all kinds of climate with even some snow in the northern parts, but no wheres near as much snow and ice as those yankees. Homes are plentiful and cheap and everyone who can acquire (one way or the other) 2 X 4's and tar paper has one. Our favorite dishes day to day vary from venison, rabbit, possum, and even sometime armadillo. It mostly depends a lot on what was slow getting out of the way on the highway last night. Just eat around the tire tracks. It has been fun chatting with you alls but I has to go out and find us something to eat now. Bye.

well like the post above i am in arkansas but i hve lived in many states. arkansas is one of my favorites. i am right on the texas arkansas border in ogden. about 10 miles from texarkana. it is so pretty here and peaceful. big trees every where. fishing, hunting, lakes, rivers, parks, animals, flowers, etc. one thing i love about here is that the peole in the jails have to clean up the roads and stuch so we dont have trash everywhere it is nice. when we drive down stateline you can really tell the difference. arkansas is nice no trash and then on the other side of the street is texas and smoke butts, cans, paper, etc all over the place. not to mention we have trees on our side of the road to where texas side doesnt lol. food hmmm good old mash potatoes, gravy, chicken fried steak, fried catfish, pinto beans, cornbread. dont forget the homemade ice cream. right now we are hot, rainy, with light breeze. but usally we are the same of course. you can get a 3 bedroom house here for like 350.00 a month. in fact i have rental property here and they are 2-3 bedrooms for 275 a month. rent is alot cheaper and there are jobs here too. now i do like hunting season but here it is fishing seaon for us that is the big holiday. when you see all teh boats, rvs, and loaded up trucks headed to the rivers and lakes.

Hi my friend I live in central Illinois in the US. We live about 3 hours south of Chicago and 2 hours from St. Louis, MO. I live in a one story house in relatively quiet and nice neighborhood with my hubby and all my great pets. I typically spend my time in one room of the house, my office, unless I have to go to the bathroom that is. lol We have the regular four seasons here and right now it is the middle of summer and hotter than all get out.. In the 90's and that's too hot for me. lol Oh and by the way, I have two arms and two legs. Sorry, had to bring in the body parts. hehehe Have a great evening, Char

Hello Tess! How lovely for you, to live in a fishing village! I'm in Australia, about 20km from the ocean - but we do go to the beach for fish'n'chip lunches in the spring and summer. The climate where I live varies - cold in winter, hot in summer - but in the tropics of Australia it's hot all the time with a 'wet' or 'dry' season. One of our main 'delicacies' is a black spread called Vegemite, made of yeast. People eat it on bread or toast (yuck). It's similar to Marmite, which is British, but I don't think you have an equivalent in USA. (From what I've heard, when Americans taste Vegemite they hate it!) We have a holiday for ANZAC Day which is pretty important - it's a remembrance of Australian and New Zealand troops at Gallipoli, and we have marches all over the country where veterans and families remember. We also have Australia Day. Australians love a public holiday!

I'm from indonesia. The climate is just like any other country in southeast, those two season stuff = rainy or dry (Kinda envy you guys in the four season country ;) ) Though it also depends on which city you live in. My hometown, bogor, known as a rain-city as it rains almost every day. And when it's beyond 6 in the afternoon, fog starts to come and it's gonna be really cold. Maybe because it's situated in between three mountains. But that was a thing of the past. Nowadays, it's not cold anymore, the fog will be from the cars and other mass transportation, though it still rain often. Bogor located in west side of java island. The traditional people who live there came from the race of Sunda (the javanese that most foreign people know located in the middle and the east side of the island) Sundanese meal is usually kind of salty and like any other island-kind type of food, use excessive spices ;) And being born and grow up in bogor, i happen to love sundanese food :) As the dutch once ruled indonesia, some of the old houses in bogor got dutch influence. But the ones built after the dutch colonial era looks like your everyday average joe. Uhm.. i mean, house :) Small, one story house. Big, one story house. Big, two story house. We got it all :) The city where i live now, Jakarta, the capitol city, is more of a mixture. Especially since this is where people from all across the country wants to live and people from the rest of the world seems to visit (aside from bali) There's no distinctive style of housing (though we can still found some of old colonial dutch building. Some has been modified to serve as museums). The traditional people who occupy jakarta called Betawi people. The climate in jakarta is either 'hot' or 'extremely hot'. Just kidding :) Jakarta also have rain season in which, if the rains is very, very heavy, it can cause flood all over jakarta. It's kinda embarrassing to see the capitol city of your country is the news in cnn because of the flood lol. I think the biggest holiday in indonesia will be the independence day. Because there will be some sort of fair and games and etc. And it's big because the whole country's celebrating it. And dont forget Ie Dul Fitri ! Being the biggest populated muslim country, it is a special day too! The people who celebrates it will be sending 'ketupat' (rice grain puts inside a some sort of boxlike made from coconut leaves and then steamed) and its condiment away to their neighbours. No matter the neighbors celebrates it or not. Overall, with its ups and downs and developing-country nature, life in indonesia is not really all that bad. Especially when you know that stupid people, silly drivers, dim&dirty bureaucrats is a nature of people thus, it's everywhere. And this probably the longest post i've ever made in mylot! Sorry for tiring your eyes, but you have one good topic here, tess! :thumbs up: Too good perhaps, that i just babble nonstop, sorry for that!

I guess you already heard from someone about my country, the Philippines! It's tropical here. We only got two seasons, dry season and wet season. Somehow, global warming has changed our weathers oddly... one minute we get super hot ray of the sun, the next minute it's pouring down cats and dogs, sometimes causing floods... then it is very hot again. In the outskirts, houses are generally made of woods and nipa.. it's a material that allows air to go in and out the house. So it's cool in the morning, warm at night. the city house are just like any other houses i guess. made of bricks and concrete. I love the fish dishes. Especially bangus (milk fish) the country's national fish. it's really yummy, but just be careful with the many tiny and slender bones. Holidays? Generally, it's related to religion (christianity) because Spaniards have abused us, Filipinos, for many centuries. I hate them spaniards. Anyways, if you can think of a country conquered by Spaniards before and are now rich, tell me.

I live here in NY on the Hudson River, it is hot and humid in the summer and cold with some snow in the winter. I am about 3 miles from the river. Housing is expensive here, but cheaper then in NYC. I consider this to be rural, but my husband says NO. Food here is really pretty ordinary with no specialties in spite of the fact that the Culinary Institute of America is right now the road. Like you, I would guess our biggest Holiday is Christmas.

I've always lived in the US. I started out in Pittsburgh, PA, lived in Michigan, Florida and Texas, and now in Cincinnati, Ohio. Of all the places I've lived, I loved living in FL and TX the best, because I was near the beach. I love watching the sun come up at the beach. Of all the places I've visitd, North Carolina is my absolute favorite. Well, that and Hawaii, but I doubt I'll ever make it back there. I'd love to retire to North Carolina someday. It has mountains and beaches, and my hubby (who has never lived anywhere besides this particular community in Cincinnati) would like it because it still has all four seasons.