eweissenbach:
I grew up in the Boston area, but moved to St. Louis in '58, 'cause my bride was already working there and I had no reason not to.
Lived in the same St. Louis (Central West End) house for nearly 43 years, including several after my wife passed away.
My friends there thought (no, they knew) that I'd lost my mind when I announced that I was moving to Florida! For many of them, that meant an unaffordable 7th-floor, one-bedroom, dumpster-view condo in a 40-story building on a grogeous but crowded beach, for too much money.
That I bought my lot here in TV the same week that Hurricane Frances swept through confirmed their opinion of my state of mind!
Guess who now wonders if my "bed & breakfast" has room on such-and-such dates!
I've made more friends here than I ever had "up north." Among my many social activities is a mostly-monthly get-together with the St. Louis Club. The membership roster is, I think, more than 300, and 100 may be a small attendance at parties.
As you are sure to acknowledge, there's a world of difference between us eastern Missourians and you westerners! How to pronounce Missouri being a key indicator, I guess. The same differences seem to surface between various other mid-west regions - Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, etc. But, when people get here, those disappear and become positives of your past!
Whatever, you really, really should take a week sometime and do a Lifestyle Preview Visit here. You'll not want to go home, again!
SWR
