Originally Posted By ecdc >>Speaking of broken records, have you considered moving? You clearly don't like living in West Virginia, as it has surfaced as a major complaint of yours in many many topics. If you are really as miserable as you make it sound, why don't you go somewhere else?<< Ditto that. dshyates, you sound like a great guy and deserve to be happy. I know picking up and moving isn't always the easiest option, but I hope you can work something out. I know I'm certainly trying to work it out sometime in the next year or two. I gotta get out of here to a place that feels more like me The latest Utah embarrassment: <a href="http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_11748528" target="_blank">http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_11748528</a>
Originally Posted By hopemax But would either of you leave your children behind, to remain in that environment without you around to provide at least some protection? It's not like he has an option to take them with them, or force his ex to leave with them.
Originally Posted By ecdc ^^^^I wouldn't leave my children. I'd forgotten that aspect of his situation. I have a good friend who's in this situation. He hates where he lives and wants desperately to move. But his kids and ex-wife live here. It's a real struggle for him because he's stuck in a dead-end job and he's so talented, he deserves better. But he won't leave his children. So I do understand.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 <<I can show you what the GOP base around here is like. And I am so FRICKIN' sick of listening to their racist crap it makes me want to puke.>> <Speaking of broken records, have you considered moving? You clearly don't like living in West Virginia, as it has surfaced as a major complaint of yours in many many topics. If you are really as miserable as you make it sound, why don't you go somewhere else? > dshyates does have his family situation keeping him in WV. But aside from that, if he was single and moved, it wouldn't make his point about what the GOP base in his part of the country is like any less valid.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I'm pretty sure that there are parts of Virginia and Ohio that aren't too far away from WV that are pretty different (politically speaking) than most of WV. That could always be an option, since it's close enough for weekend visits and things like that, but far enough that it's not WV. Of course if he wants to see his family more often than that, which is completely understandable, then that would probably be a little more difficult to do.
Originally Posted By mele I think dsh has his reasons for being where he's at right now and maybe we should stop telling him where he needs to move.
Originally Posted By dshyates Actually I have resumes out from Conn. to Miami and have for a year. I interviewd 2 weeks ago with Central Florida News 13. I would leave this place the second someone gives me a job. I have sent over 200 resumes over the past year. But yes, it has occured to me to leave. I would be leaving my kids here, but sometimes you really do have to take your own sanity into consideration. I would get them when I can. Half the summer and what not. And yes I am pretty miserable here.
Originally Posted By avro_imagineer ^^ Look on the bright side, could be worst you could be in Canada. Everything is about perspective. I have a saying as well "Perception is always years behind reality". Every media has its slant. For example the vast majority of media outlets here would say Liberal is good. Yeah let's see the track record. More promises broken: Check, More jobs lost: Check, Increased taxation: Check, Loss of services: Check, Environmental blunders: check. Pretty much undone all the progress made by the Big Blue Machine/Natural Ruling Party: check. Wonder why for the last 2 elections they have yet to be re-elected. Think about it our current PM (minority government) has a popularity rating higher than Bill Clinton did. Yet they claim he's the least popular PM ever. Guess it's all about perspective. Remember your POV may be different. Up North what we call conservative aligns mightily close to what you would call democratic.
Originally Posted By dshyates I should add that I only get my kids 6 nights a month as it is because my ex has them so far in the woods now that it really isn't practical to drive them that far to school in the morning. We have to leave here at 5:45am on the 2 Monday's a month I do drive them to school.
Originally Posted By avro_imagineer Just one more thought to ponder. Both parties have good and bad traits. Neither are as crazy as 2 of our parties (NDP and Liberal). We've had parties based on "mediating to create a protective bubble over the country".
