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Skriven 2010-01-28 21:35:08 av hap newsom (1:124/311)
     Kommentar till en text av bill swisher
Ärende: Re: Monty say NO!
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Hey Bill!
-> 
-> > it's due east of Aberdeen/Hoquiam and is in just about the most
-> > depressed portion of the state.  Friend of mine (former co
-> > worker) is the Post Master there. It's very affordable if you're
-> > retired or don't need a job...most of the local population
-> > is on some sort of aid, those that do have jobs most are
-> > state workers at the local fish hatcheries, or such.
-> 
-> He jokingly referred to Ocean Shores as Open Sores because of the large 
-> amounts of money that was poured into it and it was still bleeding the 
-> investors dry.  He's "retired", CHF, and his brother, I think there's 
-> only one in your part of the world, works at the mill loading 
-> sawdust/chips into freighters bound west.  He originally came from 
-> Vermont or New Hampshire or one of them microstates on the other coast 
-> and the rest of his family is back there.  We hitchhiked from Boston to 
-> Denver, where I was from, in...hmmm...1970 I guess it was. 

Ocean Shores has been "in development" for the last 50 
years at least...and as long as there is only one road in
and one road out it will pretty much stay as it has been
for another century or so. It's really a nice place if you 
want to just go there and sit (and be in 1962 or so) but 
if you want to actually DO anything, or need medical 
service you're in Deeeep doodoo. Now that it has a nice
big Indian Casino it's doing a little better but not much.

-> Got dirty 
-> looks from everybody when we were dropped off in Muskogee
    Oklahoma,yeah 
-> it really exists.  Both of us fresh out of the Navy but our hair was to 
-> long since it'd been weeks since we'd gotten it cut.  Took a bus out of 
-> that town.  Later I was the best man at his wedding and even later we 
-> worked on a seiner in Ketchikan one summer.  He went on to a crab boat 
-> out of Dutch Harbor in the Aleutians before returning to sanity and 
-> going back to Seattle.
->
Been through Muskogee twice....and that's 
three times too many.
 
-> > Weather? wetter than Seattle yes, Seattle has
-> > the benefit of the "Olympic rain shadow" while there's
-> > little between Montesano and the Pacific other than
-> > a small range of hils.
-> 
-> About what I figured.  Years ago we flew into Seattle and rented a small 
-> motorhome.  Drove on over to Aberdeen and then down the coast to Coos 
-> Bay Oregon before returning to Seattle on I-5.  Our purpose was to scout 
-> out retirement prospects, meaning winter places.  Later Connie started 
-> having aches/pains in her hands.  I decided that the Great North Wet 
-> wasn't the place to be, now we're in Arizona for the winter.  This is 
-> after looking really hard at south Georgia.
-> 
I'd live a LOT of places before I'd live in 
South Georgia...even in the winter!!
I'd look at the florida pan handle first!
chat with you soon!
hap 
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