Posted on 05/16/2020 8:38:14 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
I lived in the Chicago area and Chicago for the first 28 years of my life. For these last 31 plus years I’ve lived in a semi-rural area of E TN about 22 mmi. from Downtown Knoxville on two semi-wooded acres. Best place I’ve ever lived; indeed so good (AND REPUBLICAN) that I’d gladly pay NOT to be given an all expenses paid first class trip to Shitcago.
Don't be surprised when you take the space...and come back to find a pile of snow where you left your car.
Gogeo's Law #4...quality of public services varies in inverse proportion to funding.
ROFL...before I understood 'winter cars' I knew a couple who drove a couple beaters. Said they couldn't wait until spring so the Corvettes could come out of the garage. I thought "Yeah, and my other car is a Rolls."
Glad I didn't say anything...first day of spring...
“I came back to near NW Chicago Christmas, 1967, 1 week before the Tet offensive. In 1968 there were 7 separate murders on my block, all by the same Street Gang. One of my teen age friends, loosely associated with one of the many other gangs, joined the Marines. He accurately figured it would be safer for him in Viet Nam than in Chicago.”
I vaguely, remember someone publishing something about it was more dangerous to live in certain American Cites like Chicago, Oakland, LA, DC and Baltimore than to serve in Nam after the TET offensive.
Maryville, TN has always been on my Short List of retirement locations if, for some reason, I would ever leave Wisconsin. ;)
I lived and worked in the Milwaukee area for 12 2/3 yr. until my employer went bankrupt, forcing me to go job hunting and ending up here in E TN. No bankruptcy, probably no move. WI was a great place to live and work. Indeed, the cross-country skiing, biking, and sailing on Lake Michigan, a true vest pocket wilderness, were fantastic.
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