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Craig Earl
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| Posted: 24 November 2024 at 12:24pm | IP Logged | 1
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Heading for the South Coast of England when I retire. I live in a very expensive area of the UK. It would be nice to get more for my money by settling by the seaside for my final chapter.
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Doug Centers
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| Posted: 24 November 2024 at 1:08pm | IP Logged | 2
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Been thinking about it a lot the last couple of years. I've got about 5 years left, 3 if I want to pay full medical, so have been getting the financials in order. Paid down the house so that'll be done in 3 years, the truck has 1 year, moved moneys around to a high yield savings account and went more conservative on my Roth.
Where to move? Well the original plan was moving near my siblings in western KY where I have spot waiting if I want it, the negatives- I would be 600 miles from my children and man does it get hot and humid there in the summer, then if you do go out you have to worry about the tick's and chigger's!
I do want to downsize the house get away from all the stairs in the 2 story but I'll probably stay in MI, love the change of seasons Fall especially. That's the plan......today.
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Brian Floyd
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| Posted: 24 November 2024 at 1:22pm | IP Logged | 3
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You'd think that I'd take offense at Matt calling TN a rat hole, but I somewhat agree. I'm in Knoxville, which is fine but not great, but I was absolutely unimpressed when I went to Chattanooga and the first time I went to Nashville. Nashville's downtown area is impressive, but the rest looks like a slum compared to my city.
We're in the Bible Belt, and the state is too full of rednecks who love guns and Trump.
If I could, I'd move to either Washington state, where my stepdaughter and her wife live, or to a blue state outside the Bible Belt.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 24 November 2024 at 1:57pm | IP Logged | 4
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Nashville's downtown area is impressive, but the rest looks like a slum compared to my city. ••• A close friend lives in Nashville and loves it. But when I googled her neighborhood, I thought I was looking at a scene from TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 24 November 2024 at 2:07pm | IP Logged | 5
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Most depressing part of this thread is realizing how many of my fans are deep into geezerhood—a reminder of where that puts me. My first published work, done as a catalog for a show of comicbook art brought into the gallery at ACA, came out in May of 1971. Soon to be 53 years ago. My first professional sale, to THE MONSTER TIMES, a tabloid, came a few weeks later, just before my 21st birthday.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 24 November 2024 at 2:34pm | IP Logged | 6
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Speaking of which, THIS.sigh
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Brian Floyd
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| Posted: 24 November 2024 at 2:52pm | IP Logged | 7
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You really want to feel old? I was born in April 1971.
The first comic I read was in 1975 or 76.
And I've been a JB fan since I bought a comic 3 pack at the grocery store that had Uncanny X-Men #129 and #136 in it. I couldn't tell you what the third comic was, but it was most likely either Marvel Tales or Amazing Spider-Man.
Edited by Brian Floyd on 24 November 2024 at 2:55pm
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John Byrne
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I’ve been to Chicago once, in the height of summer.Humid as hell & twice as hot.••• There were invariably four or five days every summer when breathing was nearly impossible.
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Brian Floyd
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Chicago is on my want to visit list. But it has to be during Baseball season with the Cubs playing at home.
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John Byrne
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| Posted: 24 November 2024 at 5:14pm | IP Logged | 10
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Chicago has SO much more to offer than kid's games played by adults.
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Craig Earl
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As much as I enjoy holidays abroad in the sun, the changing seasons of good old Blighty are where it's at for me.
The summers can be disappointing (the standard joke of the difference between summer and winter is that the rain is warmer in summer), but there's nowhere I'd rather be for the finish.
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