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post #61 of 68
2/4/11 at 8:59pm
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Originally Posted by Dakota rube View Post
You don't know flat until you come to the east Dakotas.

Just stepping up on the bumper of your pick-up truck allows you to watch your dog run away for a couple extra miles.

ha! in west texas the joke was that if you stood on a tuna fish can you could see another 10 miles. the FACT was that the highest elevation in 50 miles either way was a freeway overpass. my wife and i are from new mexico and she was always getting lost because there weren't any mountains to locate her; i had friends from there who would shudder at going to nm because they couldn't imagine being closed in by all those mountains.
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post #62 of 68
2/4/11 at 9:33pm
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Originally Posted by Dakota rube View Post
You don't know flat until you come to the east Dakotas.

Just stepping up on the bumper of your pick-up truck allows you to watch your dog run away for a couple extra miles.

So what you're saying is that in ND at least the dogs had the sense to run away.
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post #63 of 68
2/4/11 at 9:49pm
uff da!
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post #64 of 68
2/5/11 at 10:45pm
I've lived in Florida for 15 years, and I live in the right place, 4 miles from the beach/water/best inshore fishing in the country. And it's also near a bustling downtown with a lot to offer, comparable to many other Southern cities. But again the saltwater proximity is a neccessity for my me (and my career in science).

The summers do get a little old after a while, but the "fall/winter" mini season is fine with me. I do miss a lot about the Northeast, so I get my occasional NYC fix.
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post #65 of 68
2/5/11 at 10:55pm
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I've lived in Florida for 15 years, and I live in the right place, 4 miles from the beach/water/best inshore fishing in the country. And it's also near a bustling downtown with a lot to offer, comparable to many other Southern cities. But again the saltwater proximity is a neccessity for my me (and my career in science).

The summers do get a little old after a while, but the "fall/winter" mini season is fine with me. I do miss a lot about the Northeast, so I get my occasional NYC fix.
FL is def cheap enough that u can do that. I think I could do FL as it would be no prob to spend a week in NYC in the spring yearly
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post #66 of 68
2/7/11 at 5:56pm
While I have never "lived" in a Yankee city, I did live in London for three months and was generally miserable, and would imagine it to be much the same.
-The lack of a horizon line was depressing me at the time, though I only realized this later.

-Western North Carolina is God's country, and if I pray hard enough hopefully I can find a high paying job there.

-Tallahassee would be pretty close to perfect if it could sustain a decent restaurant.

R.I.P. Mon Père et Moi

Concession to ya'll Yanks: Boston was pretty awesome.
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post #67 of 68
2/7/11 at 6:25pm
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Have you ever been to Austin or Houston or Nashville or Charlotte or Denver? "The South" just seems a little broad a brush to use here. Sure there are plenty of "bumblefuck" cities down here, but if the demographic trends of the last 50 years continue, there are going to be a lot of really awesome ghost towns in the North by the time I retire.

And you can't just completely discount the weather because you live in an awesome city (which you clearly do). The weather still has to factor somewhat.

been to all of those cities, live in nashville. Love it here. So would FLMM.
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post #68 of 68
2/7/11 at 6:33pm
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been to all of those cities, live in nashville. Love it here. So would FLMM.

The one time I have been in Nashville, it snowed.
I watched with great amusement as your motorists there played out a real-life version of bumper cars.
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