Having resided in Memphis for the last half-dozen years, I can only shake my head and wistfully ask the same question: Alaska, Vermont, Montana, Idaho, New Hampshire, North Dakota, and a couple of chilly others. Cold and Northern, and some downright Yankeefied, and where well-prepared grits may even be hard to find...the horror!
I can only figure that clime and climate have likely discouraged others, less hardy, from taking up residence in some of those harsher possibilities and doing their best to ruin those colder spots as they have others to which they've migrated. But it'll be a chance for me to get a little more use out of my skis, which have been out of the storage building around three times since I came to Memphis. When life hands ya a lemon, make lemonade.
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