(12-10-2018, 01:25 PM)PhilNH5 Wrote: (12-09-2018, 11:44 PM)Freddy Wrote: (12-09-2018, 11:01 PM)HighSpeed Wrote: I admit to admiring how you folks live the dream. Meanwhile, I'm stuck here in my den, watching the quiet, lovely snowfall, and I have to trudge all the way over to the sideboard to pick up the remote and turn on the gas fireplace.
Now you know why John Denver never sang a song titled Thank God I'm a City Boy.
A man after my own heart!
Oh no you don't. I saw that picture. The one with you in farmer overalls and holding a duck. Add in you winter visits to Buffalo - one of the snowiest cities in the USA. You are not fooling anyone. Remember that 60s cigarette commercial " You can take Salem out of the country. but you can't take the county out of Salem" sung in a catchy jingle.
I think we can apply that line to you
LOL! Yes, Phil, but I don't smoke.
Besides, a 20 mile CAR commute!
That, right there, is purgatory. Now, if the subway or light rail station was half a block from where you lived then I could see the point of living in John Denver country.
As for the overalls, they were a gift (which I still have
) so that I would fit in when I visited a friend in Back of Beyond Wisconsin. Poor Wonky the duck has since gone on to duck heaven.
Buffalo is another story. I keep asking my friend to order me 70 degrees and sunny for my winter visits but he never listens.
He actually lives in a small village in a rural part of Erie County, about 20 miles from downtown Buffalo and while a lovely part of the Greater Buffalo area, I'd go stir crazy if I actually had to live there. There isn't even public transportation to get one into the city itself and who wants to drive everywhere?
Nope, being a country boy isn't for me. Being a big city lazy slug is where it's happening.
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