A Change In Life

[Sylandra]

I am back to work after back surgery, and soon will be full time. Soon as I am, I will be putting in applications for fed work, hopefully VA work (as in Vet Admin, not Virginia), but can work in any federal department with my degree and experience on how not to get myself tied up in the red tape we plaster all over others.

Anyways, soon i will be moving somewhere. Oklahoma sounds good actually. Elfie has been telling me to get my butt there for years. Also, anyone know much about New Mexico? I know OK is closer than here at any rate. Wouldn't mind living closer to my Mom. She's a cool girl, and her husband is a rock-licker (geologist/geophysicist) and an interesting guy. He has maps to mine vent shafts that go miles deep. Good for dumping bodies. Good info to have just in case...heehee.

This place is KILLING me!!!

And thanx to you all for the suggestions. I appreciate it A LOT. *Hugs*

[Sylandra]

I got to looking at the Ft. Eglin area, and thought it looked really fun!. But man, Florida is sweaty. That and the gigantic cock roaches (y'all can call them palmetto bugs all you like) that I remember from vacations in years gone by, are my only reason for thinking "no". And really, considering I wanted to move to New Orleans for the LONGEST time (still kinda do actually), and lived in Tyler, TX for a few years, I guess I am not all that put off by such things.

Someone tell Elfie I want to move to OK. She will bring boxes and packers and movers to my house, she wants me out of here so bad.

And I want out too.

California, Sacramento especially, is just not good for me. Too much money for all the pain I have endured while living here, and it just never seems to fucking STOP! Slowed down a bit maybe, but just never stops.

[Grunt]

It is humid and hot in the summer but so is OK
They have exterminators that take care of the bugs now
I have never met anyone who did not like the area
It does get old if you are used to the city tho

[TEVA]

Come to Texas the Austin Area
We have music festivals skiing and sosos crime rate.
There is two VA clinics in Austin area and VA Hospital hour away in Temple Texas.

[Lady Maven]

We have been considering moving to Corpus Christi. My cousin is moving there, and I have desperately missed being near her and her kids.

But we cannot move ANYWHERE until his son is 18.

[TEVA]

Sorry you have to wait to move ....
Corpus Christi is nice place and I think there is VA hospital close by.

[Tara]

Funny I saw this thread when I come to the boards to post something about my redemption here in the sticks =)

The place you describe is northern New England..very, very northern NE. Small town living around alot of really cool stuff. They still call themselves "The village of...." and that's just charm, and it's where you'll find a retired under sec. of somethingorother for Clinton or Bush or Reagan has coffee and debates policy at the country store w/ the counter help, the fire chief and some random student from seriously the best school we've ever lived around and we've moved ALOT. Our resident politico was w/ Clinton and he's so cool, let me use his pickup truck when he overheard me talking about moving from the apt. to the house we're in now, when I worked at the store I describe here. History still means something to people up here, the school's charter was signed by daniel webster, it's private supported by alums and donations and sales of alot of stuff and sends teams to states every year for sports, academics and the arts and that's awesome too.

The people are cool, very laid back for the most part and the only thing looked down on is laziness and wasted time =)

1700 could get you a nice house in town or a decent house w/ land outside town. Actually 1700 would go a long long way for housing up here and feel like you're not wasting your money on a crappy 3bdr in a smog filled drug infested city. Where we live has the oldest county fair in the state and makes this town & surroundings swell to 300k people over it's week. All the locals work it and for that week, somewhere at the fair ya can make a lot of money.

Outdoor stuff, all you mentioned +, mount washington valley is very touristy for all seasons (winter-snow stuff, spring, still snow but hiking & stuff, summer on the rivers, fall "leaf peeping" they call it, I never saw autumn colors like I do up here) but that means a decent economy overall (if yer not workin, yer not lookin) and always deals on stuff to do for locals.

It's not utopia or anything, but it's pretty cool, if ya wanna be lazy you'll struggle, just like anywhere, but if ya wanna work hard you can play harder and live a damn decent life.

If ya need a quick fix of city life, places like Montreal, NYC, Boston, DC, Philly, all of 'em, within a day's drive, between 2 & 8hrs.

And it's soooo clean up here.

At night I can stand on my deck and listen to the wind coming off the mountains; while there's still snow caps, every now and then on a really windy night you get the "in a snow globe effect" I like to call it. Not really "snowing" but the trees shaking off their coats ;>

My town literally sells it's faucet water to Nestle too btw - it's Poland Springs water..that's our tap water & Nestle bottles & sells it. Beat that.

[asoc]

My town literally sells it's faucet water to Nestle too btw - it's Poland Springs water..that's our tap water & Nestle bottles & sells it. Beat that.

That new show on the History Channel called "How States got their shape" was talking about the water up there and Poland Springs water.

Was pretty interesting stuff.

The reason why it is so clean is because of Glaciers. All the different layers that were left behind acts as a super filter. So all the water that seeps into the ground goes through that and then comes out in Natural springs with some of the best water in the world.

[Appolyon]

Wellington.