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In reply to the discussion: Very troubling phone call from daughter [View all]Cheezoholic
(3,535 posts)If I sold there's NO WAY I could afford to get another place to live, to rent let alone buy, in a blue state. You tell me how I could take maybe 150k bucks if I sold my paid off home and moved to say Michigan? I would have to change physicians which is a big deal to me as I've had the same one for 18 years. Where can I buy a house sitting on 3 acres in the middle of nowhere where I'm not going to get bothered in a blue state? The taxes etc. involved in transferring my license plates, my home and car insurance alone would break me on my minimal SSDI fixed income. I have no savings because as I said, I paid for my kids college with it and paid this house off. I don't live in a van and dont want to. People who tell people like me to just shut up and move to a blue state have no idea.
The area I like in is a blue micro dot in a deep red state. My point was I'm so sick of these fucking redneck mini monster truck driving fuck heads making the decisions for me and others in my country. I've been very active in politics since I was 16 years old being the child of a civil rights "radical left" activist. I've been fighting the good fight all my life. But there's a point you get to, especially when your health unexpectedly takes a turn for the worse, that you feel helpless and so so very tired when these fucking fascists keep pressing and pressing no matter how hard you fight back that you just want to walk. To spend the rest of your life in a place where people are kind and good for the most part. I am where I am and there's nothing I can do about it.
Time to go feed the donkey....