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Nope. It's kinda nice really. I've lived in Germany, Florida, Nebraska, Mississippi, Virginia, and Pennsylvania. There are times I miss being a part of a military family, the life experiences where pretty great growing up. The complete opposite is my husband who has lived in this state all his life. To me THAT is unusual.
So, you're from Possum Trot too, huh?? Do you know poochy boy??
Actually, my formative years were somewhat nomadic.. I was a ski bum, who traveled the west seeking best powder snow.. You're right.. I had no money.. I paid my rent and bought my season pass by working as a lowly breakfast cook.. It was terrible.. I HATED living in Aspen meeting new people.
When the snow melted, I drifted on down to a beach in Mazatlan.. Yeah.. That life really sucked..
Hey Outlaw, it's cruel of you not to believe that exconvict is a wandering black American nomadic Jewish chef who has served in our confidential navy, ( you know the one which operates out of Illinois via a top secret classified underground ocean) and has served time in jail for a crime so heinous he daren't mention what it was.
Is this guy for real or is he a marauding robot suffering from a series of spectacular sparking short circuits?
I know, he's a real funny, not funny ha ha, but funny weird, guy, why I bet back home down in Bongoland he dem blackies falling out of the trees with laughter.
Oak Harbor, WA; San Diego, CA; Parkland, WA; San Diego, CA; Tacoma, WA; San Diego, CA; Amarillo, TX; Dallas, TX; South Carolina.
I have lived, worked, and attended universities in 3 of the 4 corners of the US, and in the southern Great Plains (and travelled in 24 states). I want to live in New England and in the northern Midwest/Great Lakes region so that I will have lived in all six major cultural regions of the United States (Pacific Northwest, Southwest, Great Plains, the South, the Northeast, and the upper Midwest). I would like to get Alaska in there, but that may be a stretch.
For those of you who have never lived in the US (or those who have only lived in one region) talking about Americans as if we are all the same is like talking about Europeans as if they are all the same. Southerners are as similar to people on the West Coast as Italians are similar to Germans.
Hell, even within a cultural region there is wide variation.
You have stayed primarily in the Southwest with a foray into Mexico and the Pacific Northwest. Try Texas next; it is special. Texas seems to be a custodian of the values that built the US: hard work, personal responsibility, self-reliance, rugged individualism, pride. Just as California is the most intolerant place I have ever lived, Texas in general is the most tolerant (Do whatever you want, just do it on your own land). I think that is why Texas is so good at making everybody who moves there into Texans.
I've done time in a county jail, a penitentiary, a correctional institution, a half way house, a prison farm, a brig, a work release center, and a Mexican jail. I've been chained up, chained down, chained to the guy next to me and worn a ball and chain.. I've been on parole, probation, pre-release, and time on escape..
