We'are retiring to NC on Lake James. The folks there are soooo nice. And, they actually speak English.
There are times that Karen and I wish that we had not had children. This country is doomed. There is no concept of the work ethic which founded this country. Those who succeed are taxed to the Nth degree. Others are blood-suckers. There will be a "brain-drain" to Argentina or Australia. Then the Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton crowds can rip the copper pipes from the tennaments in the Bronx of NYC and complain that it is all the "rich / fat-cat's" responsibility for not providing money for those who are too lazy to work.
Nah. I lived in the Cumberland Mountains in Tennessee. We were hicks. Two hours from Nashville and a million miles from the rest of the world.
NC means North Carolina, right? I lived in Durham, for a while. When I was there, there must have been every bit of 12 people who lived there. Now, I hear there's about 312,000, and crime is rampant.
I know what you mean about fears for our children. This is not the America I bargained for.
I wouldn't know where to go to find the true America, today. Born in Louisville, grew up in Indiana. But lived all over.
The closest I ever got to MN was when I lived in Michigan. The UP is nice, there.