[Taxman]

As a native Virginian, I can tell you that it is a fine place to live. So far, taxes aren't too bad, and we can still smoke, iffen we gottem.

HST, there are other equally good states to live in down thisaway, but y'all best start larnin' yo southren accent rat now! A little advance practice will keep you FRom drawin' unwanted "DamYankee" attention to yo'self! LOL! :-)

[VermiciousKnid]

Not to worry, Taxman...I'll fit right in down there. I have miraculously been spared the curse of the New York accent (though I certainly can do a wicked one if I want to).

Be that as it may, I KNOW that somehow I am a country girl trapped in a city girl's body. When I was a kid, my family would spend the summer at my grandparents' cottage on a lake in rural Pennsylvania. Every single time we left there, I cried inconsolably from the moment we turned off the dirt road at the lake until hours after we arrived back home in NYC. I never wanted to leave, and when I take my own kids up there in the summers now, I still get misty-eyed on the way back home.

I'll fit right in, you'll see -- I'll charm 'em with my sparkling personality and my decidedly UN-Damnyankee attitude. (Heck, I'm not even a Yankee fan -- I prefer to torture myself by being a Met fan instead).

Regards,