On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:12:31 -0500, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 8/15/2010 4:48 PM, Oren wrote:
On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 15:10:16 -0500, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 8/15/2010 11:12 AM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 23:58:30 -0500, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 8/14/2010 11:05 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 20:50:46 -0500, The Daring Dufas
wrote:

On 8/14/2010 7:34 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:
On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 16:18:11 -0700, wrote:

On Sat, 14 Aug 2010 15:00:59 -0700 (PDT), RicodJour
wrote:

People are people, and _all_ of them are not perfectly
behaved at all times.

Something not mentioned yet, is employee "burnout". Years ago we had
class sessions on how to avoid it. Burnout starts to come around in
10-12 years on the job. At 20-25 years people avoid you!

SWMBO says she now understands what "cabin fever" is after living up
"nawth" in the harsh winters.

I lived in the North until two years ago. One of the nicest things about
living in the South now isn't so much the warmer Winters, rather being able to
see the sun once in a while.

One of my grownup girlfriends was having a problem with
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) when she lived in
Spokane, WA. She got one of those full spectrum lights
to spend time under when she was reading or knitting and
it seemed to help. Now she's back in Alabamastan and
breathing a sigh of relief for many reasons.

It didn't make me SAD for my taxes to drop by more than half (property tax
dropped by 75%), either. ;-)

You must have been in New Jersey. I have Yankee cousins there and in
New York and Long Island.

Vermont (and NY before that)

Those Damn Yankees come down here to Alabamastan and we can't get them
to go home. That's why we've been actively promoting all of those
terrible stereotypes with the banjo music, toothless terrorists,
lynchings and racial strife to scare them off. It doesn't work, when
they get here and discover that everything they thought they knew about
the Southeast was a bucket of Hollywood hogwash, they won't go away.
We're being invaded by the North again. 8-)

TDD

I could live with the Snow Birds for a short duration. They would go
home, eventually. Mostly I got ticked off when they stopped in the
road -- acting as if lost.

Those Damn Yankees, well the stay in the south and form HOA's.

I remember my maternal great aunt and uncle visiting us on the
mountain in NE Alabamastan back in the 1960's from New Jersey.
They were freaked out by the speed of the vehicles on our
uncrowded interstate highways. They were hysterically funny,
I think it was the culture shock.

They were freaked by the uncrowded highways, not the speed. Have you ever
driven on the Jersey Pike? 90MPH bumper-to-bumper, and 2" from a Jersey
barrier.