Where would you prefer to live?

[Allan]

I don't know about that...I guess it's somewhat relative. We worked hard, have always been rather frugal and with some good luck thrown in things have worked out well for us in retirement. We bought our then "cottage" 27 years ago for next to nothing, sold our home in Toronto (Oakville actually) for a ridiculous amount of money (the market there is insane !). We both worked the majority of our working lives at a very large Telecommunications company that has an awsome pensions........the stars aligned : )

Defined indexed pensions rock! My company went to a defined contribution pension but I was grandfathered.

 

[Callen]

It’s so silly you actually believe visiting Florida is a danger to your health.

I actually don't think it is that much of a danger to my health, I am 2X vaxxed. Two issues, first we are not allowed to travel into the States by car so can't get there. Second, we likely will not come this winter if things are as bad as they are now because our kids would definitely not bring their little ones to visit. One of the things we love best about being there in the winter is haveing family come visit.

 

[Grand Mal]

Imagine If your forebears were this cowardly your country wouldn’t even exist. It’s so silly you actually believe visiting Florida is a danger to your health.

too much safetyism in modern society.

whenever people tell me to be scared of coronavirus I remember my great grandfather lived through the war and the depression and it inspires me to not be a coward, too bad many didn’t get to know such influences.

I used to be brave for a living, it was my job to do things nearly everybody else was too afraid to do, and I wouldn't go to Florida either. Not because of my own health, I'm fully vaccinated, but I could catch and pass on the Delta variant. I hate wearing the mask but will comply with any effort to return to normal, including staying away from pestilential hotspots like Florida.
Your taunts of cowardice are just juvenile schoolyard trash talk.

 

[EMNofSeattle]

I used to be brave for a living, it was my job to do things nearly everybody else was too afraid to do, and I wouldn't go to Florida either. Not because of my own health, I'm fully vaccinated, but I could catch and pass on the Delta variant. I hate wearing the mask but will comply with any effort to return to normal, including staying away from pestilential hotspots like Florida.
Your taunts of cowardice are just juvenile schoolyard trash talk.

Naw it’s true.

because regardless of how you justify it you are either scared of the virus or scared of your social standing if you question clearly ridiculous measures meant to strip you of your rights. You clearly have willingly given up a thousand year tradition of Anglo political liberty because of a disease that is harmless to 99% of people who get it.

I have shot one of the vaccine and am getting the second soon. I am not carrying my papers with me and will not comply with vaccine passports.

 

[Eriech]

And small towns never worked out for characters in any Stephen King book, ever.

Unfortunately Ruby Ridge wasn't fiction.

 

[Grand Mal]

Naw it’s true.

because regardless of how you justify it you are either scared of the virus or scared of your social standing if you question clearly ridiculous measures meant to strip you of your rights.

I have shot one of the vaccine and am getting the second soon. I am not carrying my papers with me and will not comply with vaccine passports.

Well, doesn't your courage just put me to shame.
Tell me, does fear drive most of your decisions? Fear of seeming afraid, in this case. I refuse to make a campfire during fire-ban season too, is that from fear?
Listen up. Adults make their decisions around behaviour based on all kinds of information and considerations. Guess what kind of person sees all those decisions being based on fear of one thing or another?

 

[Eriech]

I used to be brave for a living, it was my job to do things nearly everybody else was too afraid to do, and I wouldn't go to Florida either. Not because of my own health, I'm fully vaccinated, but I could catch and pass on the Delta variant. I hate wearing the mask but will comply with any effort to return to normal, including staying away from pestilential hotspots like Florida.
Your taunts of cowardice are just juvenile schoolyard trash talk.

I am headed to Broward county a week from Monday.

 

[GDViking]

It is not like Trump, DeSantis, and the unmasked are going away. Funny!

Wall their followers are dropping like mosquitoes around a bug zapper,, so yes they are going away...

 

[Grand Mal]

I am headed to Broward county a week from Monday.

Uh, okay.
Am I supposed to know what this means?

 

[GDViking]

I like where I live- at the end of a dirt road. It isn't the middle of nowhere but from atop my roof you can see it...

A place where I can own enough land to make a good retirement ranch without being born rich. Flat enough to have pistol and rifle ranges right outside my front door. Can sit and watch deer walk past of a morning. Turkeys strutting by and those damn feral hog rooting spots in my pastures. At night I can see the Milky Way with the naked eye- my city born wife first thought it was odd to see 'clouds' at night. Today, cell phones and microwave internet bring the world to us- when we first moved out there AT&T wanted a king's ransom for a land line.

My suburban friends complain of car break-ins, daytime burglaries and a meth/illegal pot grow on their block. Bitching about 'that family' on the block seems a universal past time form many of them. I do enjoy visiting 'the big city' once in a while- shopping the bigger sports, grocery, thrift stores. Lots of interesting food places and back when younger- places to dance. Nice movie theatres and I buy my trucks there.

But I love where I live... OD- Out Dere...

Sounds nice, I didn't k ow Oklahoma has scenic views...

 

[Helix]

Small town or out in the country. However, it's too far from our jobs, and road construction makes it even worse.

 

[Grand Mal]

I live in the best of both worlds, in a small size city of about 150,000 people that is surrounded by wide open spaces.

We have the arts, public transit, international cuisine, but do without the smog or traffic jams of big cities.

However, I did grow up in a big city, and miss a few aspects of the big city, the variety of venues, the multi-cultural community, the vibrancy of a city.

Others prefer small town or country life. Away from the hustle and bustle of city life.

Suburban life I don't get. Not the advantages of country life, nor the excitement of city life, sort of a place where "dull" rules. But suburbs at least have a reputation for being low on crime and peaceful (so I have heard, never having lived in one).

So, not so much where DO you live but if given the opportunity where would you PREFER to live? (Of course, if you are lucky, you ARE living where you prefer to live)

I grew up in Surrey, a small place not far from Vancouver, and it was a wonderful place to be a kid. Bush, farmland, and small housing developments like islands. But the city came in like a tide that didn't go back out. Now I live in the bush on a remote island and we love it. We're 6 or 7 K from a village of about 400 people and I wouldn't live there, too crowded.

 

[EMNofSeattle]

Well, doesn't your courage just put me to shame.
Tell me, does fear drive most of your decisions? Fear of seeming afraid, in this case. I refuse to make a campfire during fire-ban season too, is that from fear?
Listen up. Adults make their decisions around behaviour based on all kinds of information and considerations. Guess what kind of person sees all those decisions being based on fear of one thing or another?

Blah blah blah
. Your analogies are a non relevant excuse. Fire bans are to prevent wildfires, not test your loyalty to the regime that wants to destroy your rights.

 

[notquiteright]

Sounds nice, I didn't k ow Oklahoma has scenic views...

Miles and miles of miles and miles...

'Scenic' is in the eye of the beholder I figure. My creek bottom is as pretty to me as many natural wonders are to tourists.

Eastern Oklahoma has much more terrain features and trees. It is a lot like Arkansas but a lot more Indian land and Casinos...

 

[Logophile]

I think of small town and country as about the same, so I'm not sure how to respond. I prefer to live in the country with a small town as its hub. Thanks~!!

 

[Peter]

Mars.

 

[GDViking]

Miles and miles of miles and miles...

'Scenic' is in the eye of the beholder I figure. My creek bottom is as pretty to me as many natural wonders are to tourists.

Eastern Oklahoma has much more terrain features and trees. It is a lot like Arkansas but a lot more Indian land and Casinos...

Maybe so but it's just too close to Texas for comfort...

 

[notquiteright]

Maybe so but it's just too close to Texas for comfort...

True dat...

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

And we appreciate that, immensely.

AMEN!

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

Naw it’s true.

because regardless of how you justify it you are either scared of the virus or scared of your social standing if you question clearly ridiculous measures meant to strip you of your rights. You clearly have willingly given up a thousand year tradition of Anglo political liberty because of a disease that is harmless to 99% of people who get it.

I have shot one of the vaccine and am getting the second soon. I am not carrying my papers with me and will not comply with vaccine passports.

as Grand Mal said: Your taunts of cowardice are just juvenile schoolyard trash talk.
we know you like to pass yourself off as more manly or macho or whatever than the rest of us, yet we suspect the need to do so might tell us more about you than your big words do.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

Listen up. Adults make their decisions around behaviour based on all kinds of information and considerations. Guess what kind of person sees all those decisions being based on fear of one thing or another?

People who need to brag and belittle others........... are often the most insecure.

 

[Grand Mal]

Blah blah blah
. Your analogies are a non relevant excuse. Fire bans are to prevent wildfires, not test your loyalty to the regime that wants to destroy your rights.

And there it is. There's what's driving your resistance to Covid measures, a crackpot conspiracy theory.
How do you know the fire risk is high enough to warrant a fire ban? Why does it only happen in summer, when people want to get out into the back country? Forests can burn in winter too, you know. Are you sure the government isn't just scheming to keep everyone in their cities and towns where they can be more easily monitored instead of being out of sight and out of reach? Half the time you can't even be tracked by cell service out in the bush.

 

[jamesrage]

A small city. I like being able to drive a couple minutes or a little bit longer and be able to get things I need, get something to eat or go to work. And its easy to rent or buy a home really cheap without having to live miles outside the city.

 

[SNOWFLAKE]

And there it is. There's what's driving your resistance to Covid measures, a crackpot conspiracy theory.
How do you know the fire risk is high enough to warrant a fire ban? Why does it only happen in summer, when people want to get out into the back country? Forests can burn in winter too, you know. Are you sure the government isn't just scheming to keep everyone in their cities and towns where they can be more easily monitored instead of being out of sight and out of reach? Half the time you can't even be tracked by cell service out in the bush.

he is attempting to take this discussion off course to discuss his anger at Covid measures, don't get sucked in.

 

[Grand Mal]

People who need to brag and belittle others........... are often the most insecure.

And people who insist that decisions are made based on fears probably are afraid of one thing or another every day.