Re: Awfully quiet in here...

D wrote:

  On Fri, 8 Nov 2024, Paul S Person wrote:
 

On Fri, 8 Nov 2024 16:23:34 +0100, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:
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On Thu, 7 Nov 2024, Cryptoengineer wrote:
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On 11/7/2024 8:08 AM, James Nicoll wrote:

In article <lp3qduFb8jqU1@mid.individual.net>,
Gary R. Schmidt <grschmidt@acm.org> wrote:

Hey!
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Is anybody else out there?
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Or has the disaster that is the USA meant that they've already started
trucking people off to the ovens???
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Only a few message from James and one from Lynn - well, apart from the
people/bots that I filter, that is.

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I imagine the American posters are either updating their passports
or making lists of which neighbours to inform on and the rest of us
are trying to work out if we're Austria or Poland.
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(if you have to ask, you're always Poland)

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My wife and I have had serious discussions about moving.
I have the possibility to get an EU citizenship, I
grew up as an expatriate, and we both travel, so the idea
isn't as alien as it would be to some. We're both retired,
and have sufficient funds to be accepted in many countries.
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For the moment, we're sitting tight. Trump only got a 3%
margin - there are plenty of non-Trumpers left in the
country.
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Personally, I concur with Bernie Sanders that the Democrats
abandoned supporting working class interests, and Trump said
all the right things to pick that demographic up. I'm pretty
doubtful that he'll actually deliver for that group. He's
a lame duck, unconstrained by re-election. He will strip mine
the country to benefit billionaires.
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If you have any democrat/socialist leanings, in all honestly, I cannot
recommend europe enough. I think you would be very happy with society in
Sweden, Norway or Finland.
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I'm in the exact opposite position! I hate living in europe, and when I
retire, the plan it for me and my wife to move to rural, red US to the
most conservative and bible thumping place we can find! =)

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Ah.
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Idaho.
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Or Montana.
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(When our IRS call site adopted "team concept", we decided to divide
incoming calls among teams by SSN rather than State because, as one of
us put it, "I don't want to spend an entire day talking to Idaho". Of
course, that was in the days of Rev Butler and Aryan Nations. Current
conditions may be better. Or not, at least medically.)
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 Thank you Paul, that confirms what I have so far been thinking about in terms of places to move to. I have also heard good things about Wyoming, South dakota, and someone, as strange as it may sound, also recommended the far eastern parts of oregon. Not sure about that one, but that was one recommendation as well.

Eastern Oregon is indeed very conservative.
But if you want warm weather, I would recommend College Station, TX, which usually votes more republican than the state as a whole.  Its twin town, Bryan, has experienced something of a rebirth.  When I was there it sported cracked sidewalks and a downtown that was empty after 5  pm But it now has  good restaurants and uncracked sidewalks. Even College station now has sidewalks, though there's nowhere to take them.
Though perhaps the sidewalks have attracted flocks of liberals.  They do that.
Do take note, though, that if a state official harms you or your family, say by running you over, shooting you, or so on, the compensation you can get is strictly capped at a low figure.   Best have really good insurance.
Still, it's worth it so as to live without people who senselessly hold opinions that differ from yours constantly visible to you.
OBSF, Gene Wolfe studied there, in the days when female students were not allowed.
William Hyde