Re: Helleborus foetiditus

thanks, tony. i'm always curious about what motivates people to move from one geography to another, having done it a few times myself. it wasn't too long ago, remember, that those who moved were considered misfits and other types of wackos--much of the literature about settling the western united states, for example, suggests that there was something a tad askew about anyone who would leave philadelphia for the wild and wooly environs of saint louis.


At 10:09 AM 4/8/03 -0700, you wrote:
motivated you to move from so-cal to vancouver
IJ - First it was economics, ie, retirement benefits. Real estate was
much ceaper here.  next, my wife has family here & we have close friends
who moved from S Barbara here also. I love the greenery & the rain isn't
as bad many make it out to be. When the sun is out you forget those past
rain days. We have beautiful summers here.The winter is very mild with
little or no snow where we live . Considered Portland / Vancouver Metro
area.You must visit the Columbia Gorge - AWSOME. The plus side too, as a
retired nurseryman, it open up a whole new world of olants for me. I
enjoy every day when I see a new flower, etc. Your sister lives near
Salem, capitol of Ore.Quite nice down there too

Tony Veca <><
Another Gr888 Day in Paradise !!!!!
Vancouver, WA
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On Mon, 07 Apr 2003 17:42:01 -0400 Island Jim <jsinger@igc.org> writes:
> tony, OT question. what motivated you to move from so-cal to
> vancouver?
>
> i find moving from a mediterranean climate to a temperate rainforest
>
> climate, well, difficult to internalize. in short, i guess i
> couldn't do
> it. my instincts tell me to go the other way. costa rica, maybe.
>
> i must confess most of my tribe has migrated from so-cal [and
> nor-cal] to
> oregon, and i don't understand it entirely. my sister, for example,
>
> recently retired from the legislative counsel's office in sacramento
> and
> moved to oregon--keizer [wherever that is]--presumably [my take] to
> be
> close to a whole gaggle of female relatives with whom she has always
> felt
> simpatico.
>
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