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Skriven 2011-02-04 10:59:32 av Roy Witt (1:387/22)
  Kommentar till text 13893 av Robert Bashe (2:2448/44)
Ärende: Interesting article...
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04 Feb 11 11:55, Robert Bashe wrote to Roy Witt:

 RB> Roy Witt wrote to Robert Bashe on Thursday February 03 2011 at 16:45:

 RW>> I have the youngest daughter living in Okeechobee, just north of
 RW>> Miami. She's a water bug, so I can understand her motives for living
 RW>> there.

 RB> Seems strange to me, though.

Don't know why you'd think that.

 RB> Okeechobee is a very shallow, large inland lake that's almost
 RB> impossible to approach (swampy shores) and not really a water buff's
 RB> paradise.

Look at a map of the lake and you'll see a road that goes around the lake
at or near the shoreline.

 RB> I once tried to get near it when exploring Florida by car, but
 RB> couldn't find any access.

:o) That must have been a hundred years ago, Bob...

 RB> But who knows, maybe the locals have better knowledge.

I'm sure they do. She lived in Tampa before she married a local Okee boy.

 RB>>> On the other hand, Illinois would be too far north for my taste - I
 RB>>> don't like snow and ice either.

 RW>> Neither do I. :o) My neices oldest (21) daughter just moved back to
 RW>> Florida last week, so that has to tell you something about Illinois.

 RB> ;-) Only a pity that California has such lousy politics - it'd
 RB> otherwise be such a wonderful place to live. I personally wouldn't
 RB> want to live in Florida - as you already mentioned, just too much
 RB> humidity for me. And too many old people (don't laugh - I may be old
 RB> myself, but I hate to be surrounded by old geezers). The idea of
 RB> ending my days in an old folks' home with nothing to do but sit
 RB> around bridge tournements (I don't play bridge) is a horror vision
 RB> for me.

That's the same here. I usually try not to get too aquainted with the
older generation. I still go to highschool basketball games...

 RW>> In-between Austin and the gulf coast, it doesn't get much better
 RW>> than this. Although you can have the humidity of Houston. Not so bad
 RW>> in Corpus and Brownsville.

 RB> I can remember a friend of my mother who really was enthusiastic
 RB> about "Coh-pus" ;-) Never been there myself.

I was disappointed, especially knowing that there are places like San
Diego with blue water instead of mud colored water. Even the sand is a
dirty brown, whereas San Diego's sand may not be white like Florida sand,
but it's got some white to it.

 RB>>> If you can pick your place of living, Texas offers nearly
 RB>>> everything a person could want - just have to move to the proper
 RB>>> area. I still think it's the best place in the world.

 RW>> I think I was telling Joe Delahaye the other day about the 5
 RW>> different climates that could be found in Texas.

 RB> Yeah, isn't it wonderful?

I think so.

 RW>> Spring type weather usually comes in the latter part of February
 RW>> here in south Texas. This is what the snow birds (northers) come
 RW>> for.

 RB> I know - and long for that here. At least we have no snow at the
 RB> moment, and the temperatures are above freezing. But I'm ready for
 RB> winter to end.

When I worked for Boeing, in Seattle, I worked with a German who had moved
to Italy years before he came to the states. He was an adventurist, moving
from place to place most of his adult life. Italy was his favorite at that
point. It would have been nice to keep in touch and see how far he had
wondered all these years.

                R\%/itt

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