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How far from your last home do you live? Why did you move and are you glad you did?
Submitted by Matthew 25.
It looks like 2,706 mi. by highway, if you believe Google Maps. We were seriously running out of money back in New England, and, really, all of my life I wanted to live somewhere other than where I grew up. Not so much because I disliked the absurd cost of living, the armchair socialists, or the closed-door you-have-to-know-someone attitude of Boston, but because I wanted to get to know another part of the country.
My pops-- we'll call him E. B. Mook-- did a lot of traveling when I was a kid. Mostly Europe, some Asia, some domestic, and the occasional trip to the Dominican Republic. (Actually, I was more or less grown when his company was doing work in the DR, but that's neither here nor there.) Anyway, he got to see a fair amount of sights as a tourist and business traveler, but since I'm that sort of contrary son, I always thought that the best kind of tourism was citizen tourism. Go somewhere and really live there, as the locals do. So, for no other reason, Cowboy Country is such a different experience from the Northeast that I'm glad I came.
