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Celebrating the Winter Solstice
CellarDweller:
OH, I've definitely noticed a difference here.
Sason:
I'll be so happy when I notice it here!
CellarDweller:
Just give it time. The light is staying here longer each day.
Sason:
Yup. Should be noticable in a week or so. Can't wait!
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Sason on December 28, 2014, 09:23:20 am ---You're right. I don't particularly like the weather we have here most of the time, but I'm used to it and know how to deal with it.
And this is where my home is, an important factor.
--- End quote ---
That second sentence stopped me for a moment. For a second I thought, well how nice, she feels so deeply at home where she lives now that she wouldn't consider moving.
Then I realized -- duh! takes me a while sometimes -- that it wouldn't be that easy for you to move to a completely different climate. I'm constantly daydreaming about moving to some warmer state, and really the only thing that stops me is that I don't have work anywhere warm and most of my friends and family are here. But I have some f & f in Colorado, which is warmER, and Louisiana, which is actually too warm, so those places are possibilities. And even if I wanted to move to, say, Arizona, where I know no one, it wouldn't be a huge deal. I could eventually find work, I speak the language, etc. -- I could just move there and hope to adjust. So it's a lot easier than moving from, say, Sweden to Spain.
I guess that's a little compensation for not having national health care and paid parental leave and all of the other advantages that you Eurobrokies have.
I have a friend who lived here in MInnesota then sold everything she owned and moved to San Miguel de Allende in Mexico. She sounds like she has a lot of fun and the idea is tempting, but I probably wouldn't do it because, like you, I feel this country is my home.
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