Gord Hannah (1:17/23) wrote to Steven Horn at 07:35 on 03 May 2007:

 GH> As my wife has every place we look does not make sense, here we
 GH> have family 3 of the 6 kids, brothers-in-law and sisters-in-law,
 GH> nieces, nephews. So family does count.  We would also be short of
 GH> sunshine anywhere else.

We have no family here and my wife's family is in the States which is not
an option.  As for my family, my brothers are located in places like
Toronto where I would not live on a bet.  So I either have to look at
places I like (PEI) or where we have friends (Nanaimo).

 GH> You two may decide to retire in Whitehorse..:-)

We could but my wife is not keen, :-)

 GH> We gave up on ours we have 3 large evergreens in our front lawn and
 GH> the fall out from them. So letting it go back to "the wild".

We have two but the front lawn survived the winter better than the back
lawn.  We'll see.

 GH> The box store can be a double edge sword they do help bring prices
 GH> down and offer a bigger selection (which traditionally we did not
 GH> have), but at the cost of other smaller stores we had a General
 GH> Store in our area the could not compete and had to shut down after
 GH> 3 generations of running it. It had groceries, hardware, small
 GH> amount of clothes. Yes even wood floors. I loved the place.

I think we could write a book on that.  We had a little hardware store
which had neat stuff but it was torn down for a Tim Hortons.:-( 

 GH> Alas progress i suppose.

Try regress.:-)

Take care,

Steven Horn (steven.horn{at}northwestel.net)
Moderator, ALASKA_CHAT 
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