Orchidflower
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Since within a year we will need to have passports to enter Mexico or Canada, I got to wondering about my cousin and a friend who live in Seattle and Bellingham. They keep trying to urge me to relocate to Bellingham someday, but I don't know...
Other than the radical climate change from Texas, I wonder how difficult it would be then to get into Vancouver, Canada, from Bellingham what with passports needed and all. Anybody have a clue?
And I know that Bellingham is supposed to be 11% high than the Dallas area. It supposedly is a college town (one is a professor there, other sells insurance) with tons of college kids (= low costs for food, anyway) and lots of retirees coming there according to them. True or not? With my luck, the retirees will all be married, too.
Is it really worth the 11% increase it would cost me to live there? Is it really all that that they say?
Vancouver, according to some of the charts I have pulled off this board regarding international cities, is said to have the 3rd highest quality of life in the world! Wow! At least I could visit there...IF we can get in to Vancouver easily once this passport thing passes.
Where are are American cities on that chart ranking cities of the world, I wonder? And how sad that we have slipped so far down the chart in rankings of our cities. Shame on us, America! Now I see why my son wants to go into politics to make changes from the inside. It's depressing almost.
Gosh, I'm so old I can remember when Illinois gave FREE i.q. tests, more than one vocational test (one in Jr. Hi, one in Sr. hi) to all the kids. That was before Illinois became broke and stopped everything.
I even went to college on the Illinois State Scholarship for students who wanted to return to college after 25. It practically paid for my total education. That's gone.
What have we ever done to this State? And country?
Anyway, back to the Bellingham question. Any input on the area would be appreciated. My cousin and friend are biased, and trying to get me there. I tend to half believe their hype sometimes as I think they just want the company...haha! They say I keep them laughing, so maybe it is so boring they just need the entertainment? I can't say as I have never been to Bellingham, let along the State of Washington.
Any input on Bellingham?
Orchidflower
Other than the radical climate change from Texas, I wonder how difficult it would be then to get into Vancouver, Canada, from Bellingham what with passports needed and all. Anybody have a clue?
And I know that Bellingham is supposed to be 11% high than the Dallas area. It supposedly is a college town (one is a professor there, other sells insurance) with tons of college kids (= low costs for food, anyway) and lots of retirees coming there according to them. True or not? With my luck, the retirees will all be married, too.
Is it really worth the 11% increase it would cost me to live there? Is it really all that that they say?
Vancouver, according to some of the charts I have pulled off this board regarding international cities, is said to have the 3rd highest quality of life in the world! Wow! At least I could visit there...IF we can get in to Vancouver easily once this passport thing passes.
Where are are American cities on that chart ranking cities of the world, I wonder? And how sad that we have slipped so far down the chart in rankings of our cities. Shame on us, America! Now I see why my son wants to go into politics to make changes from the inside. It's depressing almost.
Gosh, I'm so old I can remember when Illinois gave FREE i.q. tests, more than one vocational test (one in Jr. Hi, one in Sr. hi) to all the kids. That was before Illinois became broke and stopped everything.
I even went to college on the Illinois State Scholarship for students who wanted to return to college after 25. It practically paid for my total education. That's gone.
What have we ever done to this State? And country?
Anyway, back to the Bellingham question. Any input on the area would be appreciated. My cousin and friend are biased, and trying to get me there. I tend to half believe their hype sometimes as I think they just want the company...haha! They say I keep them laughing, so maybe it is so boring they just need the entertainment? I can't say as I have never been to Bellingham, let along the State of Washington.
Any input on Bellingham?
Orchidflower