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Lady Freedom Returns

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14. Well I know that coming to Tucson was a big change.

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Tue Jun 25, 2013, 08:19 PM

Jun 2013

People were different. Yeah we have a large conservative group here. But they are way more liberal than their Joplin Mo counterparts.
Not that they would admit such a thing I'm sure.

I have even heard that you can vote for your mayor here. That was a big change for me. We elect the city council back in Joplin, then from one of them a mayor would be picked. If you were lucky enough to be in the city council room at the time of the vote, you could raise your hand for one of them.

This place and people are/is way different.

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I used to think if I could live in a different location, I would be so happy, and I’d be different. [View all] raccoon Jun 2013 OP

My grandmother said that if you want nice neighbors .... Scuba Jun 2013 #1

Maybe... I don't particularly have a Shangri-La Location Xyzse Jun 2013 #2

Sometimes it does work out... Ron Obvious Jun 2013 #3

I have been coming "home " to L.A. for 37 years and it doesn't feel right. olddots Jun 2013 #4

We relocated to Maryland from New Jersey 23 years ago LiberalEsto Jun 2013 #5

I escaped my home town. It worked out well. hunter Jun 2013 #6

The problem with that kind of thinking, and I used to think like that, too, Tobin S. Jun 2013 #7

Yeah, another way of saying, wherever you go, there you are. raccoon Jun 2013 #9

I just found myself saying this very same thing with my SO MrMickeysMom Jun 2013 #8

I dislike the weather here. In_The_Wind Jun 2013 #10

I have lived in several states and have come back home to PA. femmocrat Jun 2013 #11

I was transplanted from northern NJ to southern CA when I was a teenager in 1965 mnhtnbb Jun 2013 #12

I (finally) came home to Alabama. trof Jun 2013 #13

Well I know that coming to Tucson was a big change. Lady Freedom Returns Jun 2013 #14

Shit happens, wherever you are u4ic Jun 2013 #15