Re: Awfully quiet in here...

On Sun, 10 Nov 2024 22:27:51 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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On Sun, 10 Nov 2024, Scott Dorsey wrote:
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D  <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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Sounds excellent! Since I generally do not like people, being in the
middle of nowhere, with a dog or two sounds like heaven! Sadly it is not
going to fly with the wife since she wants culture, opera and all that
stuff. So I imagine that sadly, in the end, it would have to be 2-3 hours
by car from some kind of bigger city. =(

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You will not find European-grade opera in many places in the US.  (I will
say surprisingly good things about here in Williamsburg, VA).  Hmm... but
if you're looking for isolationist politics, quiet rural areas, and
proximity to a good opera company you could consider New Mexico.  Also
very dry, but you can wear a cowboy hat and carry a pistol and still go
to the Santa Fe Opera which is really pretty amazingly good.
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Maybe Central City Colorado too?  Colorado is another oddly divided state.

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We'll see... I couldn't care less. The wife will judge the quality.
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You might like Alaska in that Alaska is filled with people who have an
intense interest in personal independence.  Unfortunately it is also
filled with people who have problems who had thought that if they could
just get to Alaska that everything would be fine, and so they brought
their problems with them to Alaska.

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Alaska is on my list! I did find anchorageopera.org so maybe that could
work! ;)

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You could do worse.  But they aren't the Met or the KO, let alone La Scala.

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Sigh... at some point in the future I will be forced by the wife to go to
La Scala. I wish she would not like travelling so much. =(

This seems to be a reasonable (but not optimal, perhaps) place to
point out that the very areas you are most attracted to may not be as
accepting of "furriners" (and even less so of "immigrants") as you
might like.

Of course, if you look like a Northern European and speak English
without a foreign accent ("foreign" possibly including the Northeast)
and don't wave your green card in their faces they may never catch on.
--
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"