I grew up in Alexandria, moved to Florida, out in the boondocks, (which I loved, btw,) and when I was back working in Arlington would always drive out to Loudoun County when the city became too oppressive for me; it's gorgeous.
Love the horse country! But many of the people were a bit strange even then, in the 1980s, imo.
; ))
I didn't …
I grew up in Alexandria, moved to Florida, out in the boondocks, (which I loved, btw,) and when I was back working in Arlington would always drive out to Loudoun County when the city became too oppressive for me; it's gorgeous.
Love the horse country! But many of the people were a bit strange even then, in the 1980s, imo.
; ))
I didn't stay long in Arlington, had my own life back in North Central Florida, but eventually the growth there drove me out, lol.
No where I've found is as simple and as sane as the world I used to live in. We need to return to our American roots, in my perspective.
I remember a world without many huge multinational corporations, without the "woke" trying to indoctrinate my daughter into thinking she needs to have sex with anything that moves, or that she needs to suppress puberty because she is unsure about "becoming a woman," (heck, weren't we all??) when there were liability laws for pharmaceutical corporations, and your neighbors were reasonably sane, even if you didn't want to move in with them!
Low crime. No locked doors. Farms on every corner.
Education that actually taught you facts AND critical thinking skills.
Sigh. I remember my father complaining about what had changed in HIS lifetime. Now I'm there!
I grew up in Alexandria, moved to Florida, out in the boondocks, (which I loved, btw,) and when I was back working in Arlington would always drive out to Loudoun County when the city became too oppressive for me; it's gorgeous.
Love the horse country! But many of the people were a bit strange even then, in the 1980s, imo.
; ))
I didn't stay long in Arlington, had my own life back in North Central Florida, but eventually the growth there drove me out, lol.
No where I've found is as simple and as sane as the world I used to live in. We need to return to our American roots, in my perspective.
I remember a world without many huge multinational corporations, without the "woke" trying to indoctrinate my daughter into thinking she needs to have sex with anything that moves, or that she needs to suppress puberty because she is unsure about "becoming a woman," (heck, weren't we all??) when there were liability laws for pharmaceutical corporations, and your neighbors were reasonably sane, even if you didn't want to move in with them!
Low crime. No locked doors. Farms on every corner.
Education that actually taught you facts AND critical thinking skills.
Sigh. I remember my father complaining about what had changed in HIS lifetime. Now I'm there!