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In reply to the discussion: The South was not sufficiently punished after the war [View all]raging moderate
(4,305 posts)My husband and I are actively trying to sell our house here in Northern Illinois, and we are looking for a comparable house in Maryland. Partly, we are trying to be near our daughter and her family (they fled several years ago). For all of us, it is these horrendous winters that have become more horrendous in recent years. I read that there is this change in the winds due to melting of some Arctic ice, so that some cold winds that used to swing down on Alaska are now free to swing down on us. Anyway, we both injured ourselves shoveling snow after each of these huge blizzards, and it took my husband months of medication and physical therapy to recover. He is 72, and I am 67. We figure we'd better get out of here before we get too old to do it. It has NOTHING to do with lower prices. Actually, we are avoiding the Deep South, because of the poor social conditions that lead to lower prices. I told my husband we might wind up paying unofficial "taxes" in such a place, in bail money for me, if I am present during one of these White Supremacist incidents.