NH.
The Live Free or Die state.
Coincidentally , we moved to the states in 1995 ( reason for a very long story I won’t bore you with ) and we lived in West Swanzey , NH for about 3 months when I got a hernia from working in the produce dept. of the Shaws in Keene . Hospital wanted to operate at a cost of $ 20,000 and I had no insurance as I was still searching for full-time employment . So , we returned to Japan and thanks to Japan’s universal health care system ( we were able to use my wife’s parent’s insurance ) and the doctors determined that via physical therapy I would recover and I did . I was in hospital for a couple of months but it ended up costing me just $ 2,000 and while I was in hospital I was offered a teaching job at the JHS in my wife’s hometown so when I was released just before the new school year started I had work . It all worked out for the best in the end methinks . Fate ? Destiny ? Who knows . Oh - our daughter ended up a high school English teacher here in Kumamoto . She married a math teacher last December so they’ll be OK .