Stephen Fry In America: The Deep South
In episode two of this charming series, Fry visits the South. He has such an obvious affection for what makes us distinctive, including our friendliness and our love of our history (celebrating the...
View ArticleGroklaw takes its ball and goes home
Legal Site Groklaw Shuts Down Rather Than Face NSA I stopped flying years ago, because it offends me to be scanned, groped, and treated like a criminal in order exercise my fundamental human right of...
View ArticleRetiring abroad
Nova Scotia has an average of 8-10 feet of snow annually, which is too much for me. So retiring to Cape Breton Island is out. Retiring to Cape Breton Island is still a possibility. Looking at the...
View ArticleMoving forward
I realized yesterday that I don’t want to move to somewhere I have already lived. I think of that as moving backward. It occurs to me that this is not how most people think. Also, I would really like...
View ArticlePleasant places to retire
Pondering “pleasant” places to retire, and stumbled across Kelly Norton’s “most ‘pleasant’ days in a year” post. Rather surprised that southern Louisiana rates as highly as it does, by this criteria....
View ArticleNova Scotia vs Portugal
Pros for Nova Scotia: Much cooler all year Physically easier to get to No need to learn a new language https://moving2canada.com/questions-moving-to-canada-from-the-usa/...
View ArticleAlas, Ecuador
After several years of consideration (seriously — I started looking into this a little over five years ago), I have decided to exclude Ecuador as a possible retirement destination. It has its appeals,...
View ArticleAlas, Panama
Panama is attractive due to its ease of immigration and favourable tax laws, but it’s too hot, too wet, and just as expensive as the USA. We are excluding it from consideration. Areas of interest...
View ArticleUngrateful musings
I have been looking at other places in earnest since early 2016, but have fantasized about it since the early 2000s. Places that have come and gone on my list of potential destinations are Mexico,...
View ArticleMystiCon 2013 schedule
Here is my MystiCon 2013 schedule, in case you are interested in that sort of thing. Fri 8:00 PM Ballroom D Gaming for Beginners Fri 9:00 PM Ballroom E Game Development Sat 10:00 AM Ballroom C A...
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