Believe me, I would love to and would have done so years ago if it weren't a matter of personal responsibilities keeping me trapped here, at least for the time being.
I have mused wistfully over places like Idaho, Montana.....even though they kept reelecting Daschle for years, I've heard that South Dakota is actually a great place. On another recent FR thread, several people had spoken of how great Texas is....I don't know "sigh". I have this naive mental image of The South, where the people are courteous and gracious and sane, and the women don't glare at you or say nasty, militant-feminist things to you if you hold the door open for them at the shopping mall as they do here. I dream of living in a place where a man can hold a lady's chair for her as she sits down at a restaurant or help her on or off with a heavy coat without people nearby glaring at you in utter astonishment, thinking that there is SUCH a Neanderthal among us....how dare he oppress her so and treat her so badly..... I regret that most of the travelling I've done has been overseas and I don't know my own country nearly as well as I'd like. I will miss the climate here which, although not to many people's taste (11 months of gray skies and drizzle every year gives us a high suicide rate) is what I'm accustomed to. The scenery is spectacular.....but the people and the politics and the economics here are just absolutely awful. "sigh"
sorry to ramble on this way........
Yeah...I live in Massachusetts. Your state is nearly as liberal as mine.
Notice I said "Nearly".
I understand you musings. I shared them while living in Massatushitts. But now I'm in Virginia, and enjoying it very much.
I was standing on a street corner in Ft. Worth once when a guy behind me made a wolf whistle at a really attractive woman across the street. Being from the north, I was scared that she would think that I did it and make some nasty remark. Instead when we were crossing the street she looked at him and said "Thank you, Sugar". God Blessed Texas.