on 16/7/02 15:40, Philip Stortz at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > i've lived in big cities, and i did like the shopping opportunities, but > that's the only thing about living just outside casper that i miss and > it's more than made up for by the natural beauty, air quality, general > friendliness and helpfulness of local people, and the beautiful mostly > unspoiled landscape. i'm in the best place i've ever been over all. > you can only see the air here when there's a forest fire.
The shopping is neat for me with respect to having easy access to cheap computer parts, but that's about it for my obsessions. Oh, how do I miss living in a small town -- clean air, QUIET, QUIET, QUIET, oh, and did I mention QUIET... but I don't miss more than half of the people (crude, red-neck and as racist & bigoted as you'll find in a good stereotypical Alabama country town) or the fact that you have to *drive* & pollute to get anywhere. > i used to > live in denver, back when the pollution was really bad, then i commuted > in for awhile. i'll never forget driving into the green haze that you > could see approaching denver, or the way that on a bad day buildings a > block away looked fuzzy, and it wasn't my eye's, it was pollution. & contributing to the pollution by commuting <chuckle>. The smog thing is insane (& a little annoying because roughly half of our smog problem is blown over from New York) Anyway, this is so far OT now that I'm stopping here. Take care & have fun. PS Anyone who's interested in griping about or commenting on smog and/or small towns and/or city living and/or other people's smog may want to drop by the Mac2Mac list (formerly affiliated with LEM lists before the transfer to MacLaunch) @ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] L8r, Eric. -- G-List is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | -- We have Apple Refurbished Monitors in stock! | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> G-List list info: <http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml> Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/g-list%40mail.maclaunch.com/> Using a Macintosh? Get free email and more at Applelinks! <http://www.applelinks.com>
