Where I have chosen to make my home may not be the most intellectually advanced area with lots of artsy fartsy entertainment opportunities or government-funded recreational facilities, but here’s why I like it here:
http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/news/042704/Local/ST003.shtml.
Very nice gesture from your neighbors. Sounds like you’re in your element and made a good choice for yourself, but of course home is what you make it.
Before moving into a rural area I lived in a intellectual artsy fartsy liberal university town. I really miss it in so many ways. They definately think different out here in the boonies. The only other people that ride bikes are usually DUI’s.
What a heartwarming story. Sounds like a very good place to live.
Ironic though that “Bagdad Home Builders Inc.” is constructing the home…
Bagdad (no “h”) was originally a mill town on the Blackwater River (we’ve heard “Blackwater” too) that supposedly reminded someone of Baghdad on the Tigris, but they misspelled the name. The owner of Bagdad Builders, “Blackie” Black and his wife graduated HS with my wife.
It’s like living in a Faulkner novel or “To Kill a Mockingbird” here sometimes. I love it and would never go back to Colorado to live full-time, but I still like to visit.
Very nice. One of the suburbs out here has done the same and plans to do it for any veteran coming home.
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/03/31/MNGGO5U4P71.DTL
What a country!