*** Quoting Cindy Haglund from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***


CH>  How do nattive born Floridian stand it . ...
CH> You know? All this northy stuff.
CH> I was born up in the north you see...
CH> And I find it so funeeeee
CH> when people of the south think...
CH> snow
CH> is pretteee

CH> hahahhhahahhhaha.

CH> But seriously Carol. I want to know. Don't people born in Florida and
CH> raised there resent the Northern INfluences?


What i seriously recall?  It wont be politically correct and i do not care.
I ¨wasnt born there, but I got there too young to recall other than vaguely
¨wearing those snow-suit things that made you look like a big ball.  I was
young ¨enough, big ball didnt bother me other than I could not move well.

What I recall was my disgust that a cuban immigree got a 40,000$ house and
full ¨subsistance upon arrival while we and others were mostly struggling
on a ¨substantially lesser house and income.  What made me very *proud* of
my fellow ¨new Americans is that MOST (and i mean that as far as i could
tell) got jobs ¨anyway having to give up the house and an almost welfare
payment for far less ¨money and get a JOB.

You dont hear about that often, but it's true.  It changed only just about
when ¨we left (around 1970 we saw even the cuban kids objecting to the new
ones and I ¨left by 1972).

I was proud of the USA helping but thought it a bit much that they all had
¨swimming pools and central AC but we all were proud that most considered
it a ¨short time to get started til they got a job.  Most used it just that
way.

I remain proud of how the USA treated the initial people who wanted to come
¨here and gave them short term (intended as such then I assure you) help to
get ¨established and very very proud of how so many made that leap to be
real ¨americans with jobs as fast as they could.  They took major financial
cuts but ¨did so because it was 'right'.  Became taxpayers and we loved
them.

Florida isnt the same now.

Rant off i guess.

CH> IE: Take the story of Robins being  a first sign of spring.
CH> They're a sign in the NORTH. Actually they fly there in the spring
CH> FROM the south. What do you say?

Huh?  Sorry.  Red ones, spring in Virginia.  Havent a clue which direction
they ¨were flying.  You only notice what stops in your yard .
                                       xxcarol

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