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To: Ilaine who wrote (36754)	8/31/1999 11:22:00 AM
From: Neocon	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

There are points of reference, I think, that we can adjust, but often don't. For example, I am used to an East Coast rhythm in table service in restaurants, and when I have been someplace like Santa Fe, I have run into some weird "manyana" attitude that makes me crazy. In the restaurant of one of the best hotels in town, not only was the service like molasses, but the waitress screwed up the order and was completely unapologetic. (As you might imagine, I was pretty iffy about being in New Mexico to begin with). In other instances, I think it is a sort of cost/benefit calculus: if you like ethnic restaurants, foreign films, museums, and feel like you are not getting into the city as much as you would like, then you think about moving closer. But finally, I think there is the sheer romance of it all: the monuments, the boulvards and parks, the hum of commerce, the bustle of purposeful humanity---- civilization!

To: Ilaine who wrote (36754)	8/31/1999 11:43:00 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Well said... Can't speak for anyone other than myself, but I've lived in big cities, suburbia, small towns, etc... Travelled around a bit too. But I like it out in the sticks. I guess I'm a bit like an old man that I saw interviewed on TV one time. I think he may have been from the Peace River area. When asked what he thought of the "new people" moving into his neck of the woods, he replied, "Time to move on... I can see the lights of other cabins at night". That's just about how I feel. When I travel, I look for the places where a lot of people don't or won't go. Down bumpy dirt roads that come to a dead end where you have to hike out to the end of some high windy lookout on a rocky point of land to watch the waves come crashing in. Or maybe some winding road into a pine forest where the needles make a 2-inch thick carpet. I like places where you don't have to worry much about whether you left the windows down on your car, or if you locked the door to your cabin, or if someone will try to steal the canoe off the roof of your truck while you're out hiking. Cities are OK to visit sometimes, but the air tastes like most of the oxygen is gone out of it...maybe because it's been breathed too many times, or because of all of the cars, trucks and buses. Too much noise... sirens, airbrakes, and just plain old "surface noise". You usually can't see the sky properly... too many houses or big buildings in every direction. I like a world where half of what I see is sky. Every morning I like to get up and look out in every direction to see what colour the horizon is and what kind of clouds are in sight so that I can plan out my day. Guess these things all have to do with your world view... a pretty subjective thing IMHO... That said, I just finished baking a peach pie and am trying to figure out how to use up a big basket of nectarines which I, in some temporary state of madness, purchased yesterday... I was kind of thinking of pickling them in halves in some kind of liqueur, but any and all alternative ideas would be welcome...(-: