John Larkin wrote:

On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:27:35 -0400, "Michael A. Terrell"
wrote:


flipper wrote:

On Thu, 30 Jun 2011 16:01:49 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

Narcissism Capitol of the World...

http://tinyurl.com/3vazgwj

"Land of the Free," my ass.


'Land of the Freaks' is more like it.

I grew up in the south, living with mud, sweat, bugs, ragweed pollen,
bad tasting water, dumb rednecks, and corrupt cops. See the HBO series
"Treme". When TANO Corp fired me - best day of my life - I started
researching America... traveling, reading books, subscribing to
newspapers, going to job interviews. I picked San Francisco, with
Portland runner-up. Packed all my stuff into my MG Midget and headed
West. It was a step function of life getting better.


Sigh. I missed you on these group when i kill filed you. I turned
down three job offers in California when I moved south. I too, looked
at the job market, cost of living and all the other details and said
Screw those freaks! I was hired at the first place I applied when I
arrived in Florida, and had no trouble finding work, until my health
failed completely.


Freaks? By your standards, probably so. SF is jammed with smart,
creative, energetic, athletic, multiracial, often quirky people. And
wonderful women. It's physically intricate and spectacular. It's a
hotbed of technology: silicon, biotech, software.


Only when compared to the cesspool you grew up in. It is full of
dying tech companies that have outsourced their production. It is full
of liars, has beens, wannabes, neverwillbes and plastic yuppie vermin
who think they are important. This area has a lot of manufacturing,
including a lot of Lockheed Martin plants in Ocala and Orlando.


How's the temperature down there? It's going to be warm here today,
high of 68F predicted. We're headed up into the mountains, where I
plan to snow ski on the 4th of July. Freaky!


It was 88 and slightly cloudy, and just humid enough to keep the
snowbirds and west coast liberal losers away.

Who the hell wants to ski? I would have stayed in Alaska if i gave a
damn about dodging trees on a couple scraps of a pallet. You can ski
year round near Delta Junction. You can hunt and fish, if that floats
your boat. I found the place boring as hell, but some GIs retired there
and loved it.


After I rented my first apartment here, I was alarmed to find that
there was no air conditioning and no window screens. Didn't need them.


I didn't need air conditioning until my health failed. 95 degrees
and the humidity didn't bother me a bit, since i grew up without it in
the Ohio River Valley.


If you prefer living in a flat swamp or a bleak desert, that's your
choice. We are the freaks, and you are the people who stayed behind.


It's obvious you don't know a dammed thing about Florida but that's
no surprise, considering how little you know about anything. This isn't
swampland, and I have never seen any desert in Florida. This area is
mostly Pine and oak forests. The country's largest retirement community
is a few miles south of here, there is plenty to do year round, and we
don't have brain dead old hippies running the state. Marion County has
quite a few world class horse farms, and very rich soil. My best friend
from my time in the service lives in Bakersfield, and has tried to get
me to move out there since the late '70s, but I have always turned him
down because I just can't see myself living there.


As far as the Board of Stupidvisors goes, we're happy for them to
debate goldfish. Keeps them from passing more serious laws, 98% of
which we'd ignore anyhow.


Again, it's no surprise that you ignore any laws. the fact that they
even consider such legislation proves just how ****ed up the place is.


This is Harry Street, which is actually just a wooden staircase; 237
steps, by my count. I can't imagine how the people who live on Harry
deal with groceries and refrigerators and pianos.

ftp://jjlarkin.lmi.net/Harry_1.jpg

ftp://jjlarkin.lmi.net/Harry_2.jpg

ftp://jjlarkin.lmi.net/Harry_3.jpg


What the hell does that have to do with North Central Florida? There
are very few steps in Central Florida. Yes, you need AC for part of the
year, but until a few years ago, most people didn't need a lot of heat
in the winter. A central fan to blow warm air from the house and
through the attic was all that was used in the '60s in this area to cool
a house enough to sleep.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Central_Florida


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