I began in Newton Mass, the second closest town to the west of Boston.
At 4 or so we moved to Brookline Mass. The first town west of Boston. My house was 2.5 miles from Fenway Park.
For 3 years I lived in Wilbraham Mass which was 90 miles west of Boston. It was a private school, that was 3 of the best years of my life. I owned the place, had a hottie girlfriend which was right next to the school. They had horses cows, huge house huge chunk of land, I would guess 5 acres or so.
I barely graduated high school and then went to Boston University. I made it through a 2 year program before I dropped out. I hated school, I sucked at school and I couldn't take it anymore.
I had an apartment in Brighton Mass which was 2-4 miles west of the city. I bought my first piece of property in 1986. A condo in Waltham Mass right in the middle of a high tech labor market with places like IBM and many other high tec companies.
My next move was to Warwick R.I where I had opened my pool hall. I rented for a year as I only had the one kid at this time. Next kid came and so did a house. in West Warwick R,I 3 bedroom home with a nice finished basement with full size glass doors and it had a bathroom down there as well. We had a pool and the bathroom was for that mostly. a few years later and another kid and I bought a bigger house with some land.
It was a great party home with a deck that wrapped around the entire back of the house. Huge 20 by 40 kidney shaped pool with a 350,000 BTU heater. May first would come and my pool would be 86-89 degrees give or take a couple.Yes the electric bill was stupid(around 600) and I didn't give a shit. My pool was in use starting May 1 all the way to October1 every year. Had a huge hot tub in main bathroom. Kids loved that thing.
2003 I moved to Sarasota Florida for good. In 1998 my mother and sister bought a vacation home on the Island of Venice in a nice 4 bedroom home with a nice pool and heater of course. We used it a lot until I moved down for good. My mother moved down full time a couple of years later.
2007 did the divorce thing and I ended up buying a 3 bed 3 bath town home in a country club type place with tennis courts, full court basketball, everything was lit at night. I bought this place in 2010 or so. I am still living in Sarasota, 2 miles from my first house and the golf club I belonged to. I live maybe 8 miles from the beach, another 5-6 at the tennis club I was a member at.
Since I am crippled I cannot use my tennis courts or the basketball court. There is a huge community pool that they heat all year long.
I am not complaining as my home is perfect size. My last house was over 4000SQft, a kids playroom. The lanai was huge and I did brick pavers to cover the entire thing since what they had down was slippery and dangerous. I also put a safety net all around the pool until my youngest learned to swim which was almost at 5 years old, just a couple of months of shy. All my kids grew up with pools so they all learned to swim at the latest 5 years old.
I lived within 10 miles of the water my entire life.
