So happy I got out of SW Missouri! COVID cases are up.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

[roamer65]

1. We glad you got out as well.

[elleng]

2. Good!

Misery sounds like such a Miserable State.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

4. The Southwestern corner, the closer you get to the county's of...

Newton, Jasper and McDonald. The more red it gets!

[Girard442]

9. I grew up in SW Missouri. It used to be better.

Now it's more and more like Alabama.

I've been in NY state since '84. Not planning on leaving.

[elleng]

10. Good. I grew up in New York (city and L.I.,)

and in MD now, so 'safe.'

[rurallib]

3. glad you got out also

Where you are at seems to be a much better area.

I had relatives in Springfield many years ago and they hated it.

[Cracklin Charlie]

5. It's too bad, though.

The area around Springfield, Missouri is beautiful. Lovely green rolling hills, limestone bluffs, deep green rivers.

Terrible politics. Glad you got away.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

6. Tucson, the Blue Capital of Arizona!

Way Happy that my MS made itself known here than there.

[rurallib]

8. We got relatives there also

they love it.

[wcmagumba]

7. Me too, both you and me....

Lived in Nixa (Springfield suberb, sort of ) and outside of Branson (hated the whole place)...just was there taking care of a relative...Just moved to the next state (KS) but at least they have a Dem Guv (for now) and in the Wichita area there are a few more Dems...I worked at that hospital in Springfield (Mercy) that is being overwhelmed right now...glad to be gone for the last four years....

[FormerOstrich]

11. I don't normally admit it

but I went to high school in Nixa. Branson was just a quaint little town back then. I loathe Nixa with the very fiber of my being. However, I loved the Ozarks and still do. I know some of the best people ever from the SouthWest MO area. I wouldn't be who I am today if not for many of them.

My mom worked for, then, St John's for like 30 years. I thought they treated her terrible....especially as her retirement time neared. Probably not unlike how they treat most of us old folks now...but I didn't realize it then.


Sometimes I'll get melancholy and skim the real estate listings. But just so I can think of lightening bugs, pig roasts & beer kegs, great local musicians and floating the rivers. Of a time that no longer exists. Not for me anyway.

Cheers!!!

[wcmagumba]

13. There were some good people and activities...

I only worked at St. John's (Mercy) for a couple of years (in the computer dept) and then needed to live down in Branson West to take care of my relative so I moved down there and worked in Branson doing computer work and other stuff at a couple of theaters and in travel related businesses...Met some decent folks there but some creepy ones too (the criminal jerk Jim Baker one time and did some work for a couple of time share companies (not sales, talk about evil predators pretending to be Christians). I did enjoy the mountain scenery and paddled several area rivers (I had a couple of kayaks). Anyway, I can see growing up there in a simpler time and loving it. Glad you had the experience...

By the way, just saw that the lovely citizens of Nixa are trying to recall the mayor for putting in a mask mandate to help with covid last year (this in the midst of overwhelmed hospitals full of covid delta variation patients...just wow...

[SoCalDavidS]

14. Some Won't Be Around To Vote In Recall Election

So there's that.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

12. Joplin MO was my torturer. N/T