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MyMission

(2,000 posts)
4. I don't hate it here
Sat Mar 4, 2017, 01:33 AM
Mar 2017

Since you asked, I moved to NC due to family responsibilities, which ended last May when my mother passed away. I was contemplating my options, my future, traveling to find a place I might choose, rather than one I ended up in.

Then the election happened , and I was devastated and disrupted, like many Americans . As a Jew, my fight or flight reaction said flight...run far and fast. But where to go? Back to the (blue) northeast, or out West? My Jewish blood screams at me to leave the country, so maybe Mexico, which is warm and has a large Jewish community, or Canada, where I have some family. So for now, until I decide where I'll go, I'm living and doing battle in NC. Glad my vote also helped to elect Cooper .

I saw the gerrymandering done and the results. I AM hopeful we can un-fix what they fixed, and i know it will take work, which is why I'm sticking around for now.
Didn't mean to insult your home state, which is my state too, for now.

Great. Another example of bad protoplasm from NC. mnhtnbb Mar 2017 #1
NC gave us moral Mondays! MyMission Mar 2017 #2
You don't love it here? bathroommonkey76 Mar 2017 #3
I don't hate it here MyMission Mar 2017 #4
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