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Feb 5, 2019 10:00:06   #
jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY
 


Tough to decide.

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Feb 5, 2019 11:28:20   #
Meadwilliam
 
And you carry oven mitts in the car in Phoenix.

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Feb 5, 2019 13:21:40   #
TH Loc: minnesota
 
Sorry. In Minnesota nobody makes casserole. But we do have hotdish. Usually served with Jello salad with julianned carrots and raisins in it. TH

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Feb 5, 2019 14:19:26   #
OneShot1 Loc: Wichita, KS, USA
 
Bingo on Kansas! Born here, moved away, came home.

Add "people are friendly to strangers", "all the big city amenities without the hassle", "you can fly a kite 350 days a year", "golf is cheap", "if you've ridden a Boeing 737 it came from Wichita", "it ain't flat like it's cliched to be", and "you can carry a gun, but don't need it".

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Feb 5, 2019 14:24:14   #
Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.
 
Ive been retired over 25 years and still cant make up mind. I was thinking about getting a part time job with an undertaker just to get the discount.

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Feb 5, 2019 15:37:21   #
lmTrying Loc: WV Northern Panhandle
 
Hal81 wrote:
Ive been retired over 25 years and still cant make up mind. I was thinking about getting a part time job with an undertaker just to get the discount.


Hal:
Your are just too funny!

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Feb 5, 2019 15:54:31   #
rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
 
Longshadow wrote:
The Pfffffff sound was probably the door gaskets screaming (Cars aren't airtight.)
Have you tried baking biscuits or cookies on the dash?


I thought the same thing, cars aren't airtight, how could pressure build up. I don't know. The car was a 1980 Mazda RX7. The rear hatch was one large sheet of glass that rested on a rubber seal. The doors also rested on a rubber seal. It was well over 100 degrees outside and I couldn't guess what the temperature inside the car was.
The one big problem with the car was, we had replaced the original 1.2 liter engine with a rebuilt, higher performance 1.3 liter engine. The original engine had an AC compressor but the replacement engine did not and we never got around to reinstalling the AC compressor to the replacement engine. That car had good old fashion 2/60 air conditioning. Ironically, it had a great heater.

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Feb 5, 2019 16:01:28   #
Ka2azman Loc: Tucson, Az
 
Hal81 wrote:
Ive been retired over 25 years and still cant make up mind. I was thinking about getting a part time job with an undertaker just to get the discount.


If you use the discount you will never see it!

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Feb 5, 2019 16:05:09   #
rmorrison1116 Loc: Near Valley Forge, Pennsylvania
 
Longshadow wrote:
I lived in Florida for 27 years. I got tired of the sweltering heat 10 months out of the year, missed the four seasons, moved back to PA.


I can relate. Have family in Ortona Florida and visit fairly often. It's a nice place to visit but I wouldn't want to live there. I like the trees up here.

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Feb 5, 2019 17:06:48   #
alamomike47 Loc: San Antonio, Texas
 

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Feb 5, 2019 17:59:28   #
PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place
 
Know all about the Florida tail

Don

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Feb 5, 2019 18:01:26   #
sbohne
 
When I was in my 50's my parents lived in Florida. I was too young to buy a home in their retirement community. The state drives me insane because there are two types of drivers: those who never drive over 20 MPH, and those who can't see and don't give a freak. The average age was about a million. No Florida for me. Key West, FL maybe, but not the rest.

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Feb 5, 2019 19:31:44   #
FiddleMaker Loc: Merrimac, MA
 
John_F wrote:
You can retire to Phoenix, Arizona where
1. You are willing to park three blocks away from your house because you found shade.
2. You've experienced condensation on your rear-end from the hot water in the toilet bowl.
3. You can drive for four hours in one direction and never leave town.
4. You have over 100 recipes for Mexican food.
5. You know that "dry heat" is comparable to what hits you in the face when you open your oven door at 500 degrees.
6. The four seasons are: tolerable, hot, really hot, and ARE YOU KIDDING ME??

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You can retire to California where...
1. You make over $450,000 and you still can't afford to buy a house.
2. The fastest part of your commute is going down your driveway.
3. You know how to eat an artichoke.
4. When someone asks you how far something is, you tell them how long it will take to get there rather than how many miles away it is.
5. The four seasons are: Fire, Flood, Mud and Drought.

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You can retire to New York City where..
1 You say, "the city" and expect everyone to know you mean Manhattan.
2. You can get into a four-hour argument about how to get from Columbus Circle to Battery Park, but can't find Wisconsin on a map.
3. You think Central Park is "nature."
4. You believe that being able to swear at people in their own language makes you multilingual.
5. You've worn out a car horn. (IF you have a car.)
6. You think eye contact is an act of aggression.

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You can retire to Minnesota where...
1. You only have three spices: salt, pepper and ketchup.
2. Halloween costumes must fit over parkas.
3. You have seventeen recipes for casserole.
4. Sexy lingerie is anything flannel with less than eight buttons.
5. The four seasons are: almost winter, winter, still winter, and road repair.
6. The highest level of criticism is "He is different,”” She is different," or "It was different!"

OR

You can retire to The Deep South where...
1. You can rent a movie and buy bait in the same store.
2 ”Y'all" is singular and "all y'all" is plural.
3. "He needed killin" is a valid defense.
4. Everyone has two first names: Billy Bob, Jimmy Bob, Joe Bob, Betty Jean, Mary Beth, etc.
5. Everything is either: "in yonder," "over yonder" or "out yonder.”
6. You can say anything about anyone, as long as you say, "Bless his heart” at the end!

OR

You can move to Colorado where...
1. You carry your $3,000 mountain bike atop your $500 car.
2. You tell your husband to pick up Granola on his way home, so he stops at the day care center.
3. A pass does not involve a football or dating.
4. The top of your head is bald, but you still have a pony tail.

OR

You can retire to Nebraska or Kansas where...
1. You've never met any celebrities, but the mayor knows your name.
2. Your idea of a traffic jam is three cars waiting to pass a tractor.
3. You have had to switch from "heat" to "A/C" on the same day.
4. You end sentences with a preposition; "Where's my coat at?"

OR

FINALLY, you can retire to Florida where...
1. You eat dinner at 3:15 in the afternoon.
2. All purchases include a coupon of some kind - even houses and cars.
3. Everyone can recommend an excellent cardiologist, dermatologist, proctologist, podiatrist, or orthopedist.
4. Road construction never ends anywhere in the state.
5. Cars in front of you often appear to be driven by headless people.
You can retire to Phoenix, Arizona where br 1. Yo... (show quote)


Definitely Funny !!!

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Feb 5, 2019 19:47:05   #
Curmudgeon Loc: SE Arizona
 
California was the place to be 60 years ago. Used to put my shotgun on the handlebars of my bike, ride to the shore of San Francisco Bay and shoot ducks.

Arizona was the place to be in the 70s, even Phoenix was tolerable then. Then came the 2000s with the influx of retiring Baby Boomers. Mid-westerners were kind of ok, but Californians. The first thing Californians did when they moved here was to inflate housing prices by getting into bidding wars with each other over $90,000 houses, the next thing they did was demand paved roads, sidewalks and street lights. They are on track to turn Arizona into a California clone.

Think I'll have another beer and go shoot out a few street lights in protest.

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Feb 5, 2019 23:11:59   #
preacherman Loc: Milton/Pensacola, FL
 
Born and raised in Pensacola, Florida and never moving from northwest Florida!

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