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In reply to the discussion: Looking to move to a low cost state? [View all]southernyankeebelle
(11,304 posts)if you treat people decent they will treat decent back. I am a yankee living in the south and I consider myself a social democrat like my mother was. I don't hate my government. I have lived here about 18 yrs. You will find bigots all over the place in every region. They are that way because they don't want to mingle and learn about other cultures. Funny thing today my daughter-in-law was over. She is about 29 and is liberal thinking. But her family are nothing but bigots and none of them would vote for President Obama because he was black. Here is the sad part. Her grandparents are both on social security and both are on medicare plus they get food stamps. Her grandie was lucky because she has heart problems so she was praying she would make it to medicare. Her grandpa is going blind. They listen to Fox News everyday. Her mother is in her 40s and adopted a crack baby. He needs constant help. He he in a wheel chair and can't walk or speak. He hardly sleeps. He is at the present time on Tenncare. This poor kid is in and out of the hospital all the time. They took her off of Tncare once. But they ended putting him back on it. Now the state is talking about taking him off again. This kid can't even feed himself. He is 12 yrs old and still wearing a diaper. Yet the Governor today said they weren't going to extend medicad under the Obamacare. I mean how many people does the state want to die? Yet her mother still voted for Romney and this ass we have now as governor. Our state is going backwards. We don't have a state income tax. If you want trash pickup you have to pay for it. Same for the Volunteer fire fighters. You get the minimum here in Tn. So yes it may be alittle cheaper but so are the wages and believe me just because its cheaper it doesn't necessarily mean its better. Trust me.