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[Gene GeRue <genegerue AT ruralize.com>]

On Oct 23, 2008, at 9:58 PM, SJC wrote:

> One of my kids has ever since he left
> home lived, by choice, where there were few Caucasians and no native
> English-speakers.  He is now contemplating moving back to where more
> folks are multilingual, and recently he noted that one of the stresses
> of the past 20 years has been that wherever he's lived he's  
> occasionally
> wished for "somebody who thinks like I do" and when queried about that
> comment a few months ago, it turns out to be that what he's missing is
> the verbal expression of a value system, certain child-rearing  
> practices
> he doesn't see where he is/has been, other things that basically to  
> him
> say "home", "my people"......
>
> So it seems a natural thing to me to want to be with one's "own kind  
> of
> people".

The biggest mistake people make when choosing a country place is not  
checking out the nature of the community. They buy the property, move  
there, try to find compatible friends, try to get people to do things  
like where they came from, then sell and move again.

The notable Nearings are an illustrious example. They never fit in  
Vermont.