Reply #10: Thanks for all that - great post...

[Vektor]

I actually moved out here with my parents when I was in my teens. (My mom got a great paying job.) I've been here about 14 years. My entire family has migrated to CA, with the exception of one brother - he and his wife and kids live in Warwick, R.I. now.

I met my husband here, in 2000, and we were married pretty quickly after meeting. We have a wonderful relationship - and he has a job that would allow him to live anywhere, as do I, but sadly, his mother is terminally ill, so we will definitely be staying in this area while she is still alive. I have talked with him about the possibility of maybe at least getting a summer house in MA in the future (we both like the weather here, but little else) and maybe getting another place in a better part of CA, or maybe Oregon - somewhere more liberal, but still relatively close to his family and the rest of mine. I know he doesn't necessarily want to live too far from his hometown, but neither do I from mine...so we'll see how that turns out. I am thinking a bi-coastal lifestyle might be in our future someday. I hope so.