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From: Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Awfully quiet in here...
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 08:54:09 -0800
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On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 22:08:49 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

>
>
>On Fri, 8 Nov 2024, Paul S Person wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 16:23:34 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 7 Nov 2024, Cryptoengineer wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 11/7/2024 8:08 AM, James Nicoll wrote:
>>>>> In article <lp3qduFb8jqU1@mid.individual.net>,
>>>>> Gary R. Schmidt <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote:
>>>>>> Hey!
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Is anybody else out there?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Or has the disaster that is the USA meant that they've already =
started
>>>>>> trucking people off to the ovens???
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Only a few message from James and one from Lynn - well, apart from=
 the
>>>>>> people/bots that I filter, that is.
>>>>>
>>>>> I imagine the American posters are either updating their passports
>>>>> or making lists of which neighbours to inform on and the rest of us
>>>>> are trying to work out if we're Austria or Poland.
>>>>>
>>>>> (if you have to ask, you're always Poland)
>>>>
>>>> My wife and I have had serious discussions about moving.
>>>> I have the possibility to get an EU citizenship, I
>>>> grew up as an expatriate, and we both travel, so the idea
>>>> isn't as alien as it would be to some. We're both retired,
>>>> and have sufficient funds to be accepted in many countries.
>>>>
>>>> For the moment, we're sitting tight. Trump only got a 3%
>>>> margin - there are plenty of non-Trumpers left in the
>>>> country.
>>>>
>>>> Personally, I concur with Bernie Sanders that the Democrats
>>>> abandoned supporting working class interests, and Trump said
>>>> all the right things to pick that demographic up. I'm pretty
>>>> doubtful that he'll actually deliver for that group. He's
>>>> a lame duck, unconstrained by re-election. He will strip mine
>>>> the country to benefit billionaires.
>>>>
>>>> pt
>>>
>>> If you have any democrat/socialist leanings, in all honestly, I =
cannot
>>> recommend europe enough. I think you would be very happy with society=
 in
>>> Sweden, Norway or Finland.
>>>
>>> I'm in the exact opposite position! I hate living in europe, and when=
 I
>>> retire, the plan it for me and my wife to move to rural, red US to =
the
>>> most conservative and bible thumping place we can find! =3D)
>>
>> Ah.
>>
>> Idaho.
>>
>> Or Montana.
>>
>> (When our IRS call site adopted "team concept", we decided to divide
>> incoming calls among teams by SSN rather than State because, as one of
>> us put it, "I don't want to spend an entire day talking to Idaho". Of
>> course, that was in the days of Rev Butler and Aryan Nations. Current
>> conditions may be better. Or not, at least medically.)
>>
>
>Thank you Paul, that confirms what I have so far been thinking about in=20
>terms of places to move to. I have also heard good things about Wyoming,=
=20
>South dakota, and someone, as strange as it may sound, also recommended=20
>the far eastern parts of oregon. Not sure about that one, but that was =
one=20
>recommendation as well.

IIRC, there is a movement in Eastern Oregon to ... become part of
Idaho.

Back in the 70s (or 60s, or 80s), a mail-order firm had, on its order
blank, the question "Have you ever met someone from Wyomng?".

So if not having a lot of people around is a good thing, Wyoming would
probably work.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"