My daughter came in for her Christmas, the seventh of January, (long story behind that choice of religion).
Weeks before she mentioned again that she wanted to buy another house in Winona and have me move out there.
I used the excuse I would need a tractor trailer to load all my crap and then try to figure out how to pack a gold fish pond.
But the politics there and the illegals welcomed by that state are my biggest reason why not.
Pennsylvania is bad enough.
Don’t wanna jump from the frying pan into the fire…
If you can drag your fish pond farther, come to Idaho. I just became a resident.
Our “Escape from New York” plan was hatched around the time of Hochul’s election as governor in 2022. Giving that objectively unintelligent mannequin a full term was the last straw. It took a few years, living here part-time along the way while working my way to retirement, but now it’s done.
One of the things you do in a new place is to find doctors. My wife has some medical issues and just saw a primary care physician here to get some referrals. The referred doctors started calling her to set up appointments immediately. As in, before we could even get out of the waiting room. Perhaps that’s one of the benefits of not having illegals gumming up the works.
I am hoping this experience continues, and I never take it for granted.
