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To: robert b furman who wrote (2153)	10/17/2014 10:34:43 AM
From: Kirk ©	Respond to of 26443

Nothing wrong with people having different preferences to live. I'm glad you have places to live you love. For me, how many Chinese, Japanese, Fresh Seafood and Italian restaurants do you have within an hours drive to sample? Then put a filter and ask how many get Michelin mentions? You've see my faceplant posts of all the places we like to eat... I had my first tech job interview here, I could walk to it if I wanted to walk along smelly El Camino Real and it remains one of my favorite places to get fresh crab stew thefishmarket.com That reminds me, one of the guys who interviewed me there in 1978 and hired me for his new optical communication department at HP is a good friend today... I'll have to suggest we meet there for lunch this winter when crabs come into season. Funny... he had a beautiful home on a big lot in Los Altos Hills where we used to work on our Fiat X1/9s in the 1980s. He sold it in a divorce and bought a smaller house in the woods of Woodside. After retiring he and his new wife bought a second home in SF but sold it for a nice bungalow near the beach in Santa Cruz. They can live in the woods a 30 min drive from SF and a 30 min drive to the college pool he swims at several times a week for exercise. Santa Cruz is probably less than an hour away. Nice life.

To: robert b furman who wrote (2153)	10/17/2014 11:04:12 AM
From: Chip McVickar	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 26443

I have a foot into both worlds... It's a conundrum... Both have draw-backs and both hold fascinations In the city you have to be selective In the woods you're more expansive In the city you have the punks... In the country the red-necks who aren't really any different today Growing your own vegetables is hard work I think I'd raise chickens... Living on venison is tiresome - I've done it <smile> Pemmican is great stuff - I've made it en.wikipedia.org Eating in restaurants requires patience and a lot of money Food access is greater in the city, I love Goat Cheese Both worlds are satisfying Required to chose... that would be difficult.

To: robert b furman who wrote (2153)	10/17/2014 12:29:56 PM
From: Jerome	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 26443

Hey Bob,....... I think that the big city dwellers believe that they living in the center of the universe. This is OK but I suspect that they are leaving too much unexplored territory, by the wayside. A couple of hours in a deer stand watching the forest nearby can be a great mental balm. Even without seeing a deer its never time wasted. I was in the Hiawatha Forest last week helping my neighbor gather some firewood, when I noticed out of the corner of my eye a brown bear was watching me. I moved slowly in to my truck and waited for him to move on. My jacket laying on a nearby log, had my cell phone and camera. The bear hung around for a half hour despite me shouting at him and a few honks on my truck horn. So much for bears being people shy. Black bears are common in N.Wisconsin and the UP of Mich. (about 18,000 at last count). But that was the first brown bear I had ever seen in the wild. The solitude of the great north woods is probably unappreciated by most city dwellers.