Thanks! My wife is a Soldier. We sometimes have interesting conversations about stuff like this.
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Thanks! My wife is a Soldier. We sometimes have interesting conversations about stuff like this.
Our government has completely lost its way. The Founders would be both appalled and ashamed.
I guess I’ve never been able to figure out which group of Iranian-backed terrorists are the good guys.
When you support the Houthis you support the stoning of homosexuals.
I forget, aren’t we supposed to be cheering for the Houthis? I thought that was the new cool thing to be doing.
60yo here.
I spent the first 40 years of my life in Portland, OR (it used to be a great city). Then I married a Soldier and I’ve lived in several other places. We started in Denver spent two years there. It’s a fantastic city, but really expensive. Then we spent 3.5 years on Long Island, living in East Meadow, I hated how crowded it was, what the traffic was like. My wife has an 18 mile commute that often took 90 minutes. Then we moved to Fort Knox, Kentucky. We bought a house off post. The cost of living is much lower than other places we’ve lived. Our town is 2600 people. The people are polite and kind and our plan is after our next PCS next summer, to return here when my wife retires at 30 years.
You get a reply just because it’s the quality of your post
That is a really interesting anecdote I find it both surprising and completely understandable.
Gosh, thank you so much!
This is my answer also. I wish I was multi-lingual.
I’m regularly on calls with people for whom English is not their primary language. Almost without fail they apologize for their poor English. I regularly tell those people, “please don’t apologize, you do me that courtesy of communicating with me in my native tongue. I am completely unable to reciprocate that courtesy.”
I’d love to be fluent in Spanish, French, German.
Given so many nannys on this thread, this is a fantastically helpful (if not relevant to the OP post).
In the States I’ve actually found Waze to meet most of my needs.
Cop: why are you nervous?
Me: I’m always nervous around people who can kill me with impunity and get a paid vacation for doing so.
I laughed.
They’re working her too hard and paint her too little. In seven years she’ll be at 30 years and it will be time to be done.
It’s beautiful.
From where we live a bunch of interesting places are within an easy drive. Nashville, Indianapolis, Cincinnati are all three hours or less away.
The people are mostly kind and mostly polite.
The cost of living is relatively low.
The pace of life feels slower.
I can’t recommend Kentucky enough. It ain’t blue, but it meets your other criteria. House prices are very reasonable. We live just outside Fort Knox and when the Army is done with my wife we’re moving back
That got a laugh!
Gosh sometimes people disagreed with me. That was horrible!
I stock up on those things, they’re damn expensive! But I just think about how I feel when I drink too many, the fact that it is controlling me, not the other way around and reject that. If you drink eight a day, cut back to seven, then six and so on. You’ll get there.
Gotta go with python here, though vim would be a close second.
I’m 247.5 Oreo Cookies tall, that is many more Oreos than most, but not as many as some.