I feel shamed by Michael and Debra's action, and my lack of same. I started hanging around on the forum back in October I believe, a good 2 weeks at least in front of them. But they are moving first. I shall reevaluate my life over the next couple of days. Maybe I can move now as well. I have been lazy for far too long.
Congratulations to Michael and Debra ( dont forget the cats!! ) 
Bigduane
There's no shame in dealing with life on life's terms.
I think what did it for us was thinking about something DJ's dad always quotes, "You can't cross a chasm in two small leaps." That and MamaLiberty being from SoCal and saying that she didn't wait to do it completely comfortably, she just
did it. I think if we waited to be comfortable, we would never do it. In the meantime, SoCal is getting worse and worse with crime, even the small town we live in, which never had much crime, has lots now. Violent crime, too. (And two earthquakes in the past two weeks may have nudged us a little, too!)
And re-reading "Surviving Y2K (
and other lovely disasters.)" Reading the part about how when the SHTF, "I'd rather be among the snow people than the sun people." SoCal is a powder keg warming on a skillet. And all this crazy "Mexico war on drugs creeping north" stuff ain't making me too comfy here. Even though we have a really comfy
situation here (good jobs, benefits, good house, good neighborhood), and it was hard to leave.
Bigduane, you're somewhere in the south east, aren't you? I think the comment in "Surviving Y2K" is something about how it will turn into a race riot about two weeks after the welfare checks are cut off. Having lived in Charlottesville, VA and in New Orleans, LA, that sounds about right to me.
I was looking at numbers on the NH FSP. They have like 700 people in the state and like 5000 pledged. I'm thinking "what's up with that?"
I'd rather "vote with my feet."
Again, no shame in not moving yet. But if our choice puts a little more coal on the fire under your butt, then yay!
MWD
