That’s a tongue-in-cheek name for a town I don’t want to name, for privacy reasons.
Blah blah blah. Texas is nice and the grass is greener there too, same with Delaware, or New Mexico, if that’s where you’re from, and you’re homesick. That’s all it’s about for me, so don’t make it more than it is. This is some sort of knee-jerk thing going on with you, and frankly, it’s not my problem.
That’s all it ever was. MY default preference, because I’m homesick. La-de-dah. I’m the first person in existence to be homesick. Because heaven knows, people who are from Oregon, or New Hampshire, they never get homesick and mention the things that they could do back home. No. It’s only Californians who do that. And when they do that, it’s a secret code for “California is better than anywhere else on the entire planet.” Yes, you’ve found me out. That’s what it means.
Look—I can’t imaging getting actually pissed off if someone else’s default preference was Sweden, or South Dakota, and their homesickness for it, because their love for Sweden, or South Dakota, see, it takes nothing away from me or the places I love. So I don’t really care what other people’s “default preferences” are, and I can’t imagine why my default preference matters to anyone else either.
Where are you getting this from? From my post on this thread where I said how great Atlanta or New Orleans is? Give me a frickin’ break. I make a pretty innocuous comment about how some people don’t like to move a whole long way away from where everyone they know lives, and you make it into far more than it ever was meant to be. I even mentioned that maybe sven might want to move to a neighboring state—you know, like a state that is not California—because she’d still be within reasonable proximity to her family and loved ones. Obviously my whole point was that she shouldn’t have to move far, far away from where she’s from.
And I’d like you to find some post of mine where I said that she couldn’t. It just seemed a little extreme to me for people to suggest that she move so far away from where she’s spent most of her life, in case that’s not something she wants to do. If she was currently living in Oklahoma I’d say the same thing—if she didn’t want to move away from her family living in Oklahoma City, well, man, I’d be totally supportive of that too. That’s all I was saying and you want to make it far more than it is. You found offense where none existed.
