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Complete this sentence: As long as I live, I never ever want to go back to (Original Post) Floyd R. Turbo May 2021 OP
Fort Polk, Louisiana. N/T pdxflyboy May 2021 #1
Us, too. Tikki May 2021 #14
Being a wife Walleye May 2021 #2
I'm Faux pas May 2021 #10
💁‍♀️ Walleye May 2021 #13
Republicans running anything. C_U_L8R May 2021 #3
Fort Benning, Georgia Glorfindel May 2021 #4
working in a cubical Yonnie3 May 2021 #5
Yeah me too luv2fly May 2021 #19
work jmbar2 May 2021 #6
being born again in the USA sanatanadharma May 2021 #7
Being more sane...it's too late. MiHale May 2021 #8
Living under MF45 or anyone like him. sinkingfeeling May 2021 #9
..not having a microwave oven. Chipper Chat May 2021 #11
... Faux pas May 2021 #12
The Other Guy's presidency. Polly Hennessey May 2021 #15
Working FT Freddie May 2021 #16
Being Young beemerphill May 2021 #17
Golden Corral. NT cinematicdiversions May 2021 #18
Dialup FreepFryer May 2021 #20
Driving through rural TX or LA and stopping at a small restaurant. lark May 2021 #21
2020 IngridsLittleAngel May 2021 #22
My childhood when my father was alive. I_UndergroundPanther May 2021 #23
The hospital. Midnight Writer May 2021 #24
My last hospital visit was to the locked psych ward. hunter May 2021 #28
Oh my! Demovictory9 May 2021 #33
THe Future! whistler162 May 2021 #25
My 99% affluent white home town. hunter May 2021 #26
The small, isolated, economically depressed town where my sister lives.* ShazzieB May 2021 #27
My parents were there for the work. As artists they couldn't be too picky about their day jobs. hunter May 2021 #29
Jeanette, PA beaglelover May 2021 #30
Mumbai... ProfessorGAC May 2021 #31
Florida liberaltrucker May 2021 #32

Glorfindel

(9,733 posts)
4. Fort Benning, Georgia
Mon May 24, 2021, 09:01 AM
May 2021

Eight weeks of basic training in May, June, and July was quite enough. Fortunately, I have never been in jail, but I have always thought I'd like to visit India. Not right now, of course.

Faux pas

(14,690 posts)
12. ...
Mon May 24, 2021, 09:29 AM
May 2021

Southern California! Was transplanted from Oregon as a four year old, took me 45 years to get back there. Now even happier in Washington State.

Freddie

(9,273 posts)
16. Working FT
Mon May 24, 2021, 09:39 AM
May 2021

Happily “retired” (watching my 2 yo granddaughter all day) and working PT from home about 8 hrs/week. One of the best things is wearing jeans and T-shirts and no makeup.

lark

(23,155 posts)
21. Driving through rural TX or LA and stopping at a small restaurant.
Mon May 24, 2021, 10:19 AM
May 2021

People there are mean as snakes to those who look different than them - had 2 run ins at small restaurants about 40 years ago and learned my lesson. Things might have changed, but I'm not putting my life on the line again so no thanks. Mean fucking rednecks have only gotten worse over the years, I avoid them like the plague.

I_UndergroundPanther

(12,480 posts)
23. My childhood when my father was alive.
Mon May 24, 2021, 12:28 PM
May 2021

And when trump was president don't want to go back to that. Was constantly afraid my ssi and medicaid and housing would be taken away.

I so hate conservatism aka fascism.

hunter

(38,326 posts)
28. My last hospital visit was to the locked psych ward.
Mon May 24, 2021, 03:54 PM
May 2021

It was very expensive, even with insurance covering 80%.

Still, much nicer than other stuff I've been hospitalized for.




hunter

(38,326 posts)
26. My 99% affluent white home town.
Mon May 24, 2021, 03:34 PM
May 2021

Those who stayed and embraced that lifestyle turned out twisted.

Even my years as a crazy homeless person were better. I have stories and scars. They have nothing.

ShazzieB

(16,511 posts)
27. The small, isolated, economically depressed town where my sister lives.*
Mon May 24, 2021, 03:54 PM
May 2021

I graduated from high school there, and couldn't wait to get out. She, otoh, married a local guy and is still there over 50 years later. I can tolerate visiting every now and then, but if I had to live there, I would lose my freaking mind.

*Note: It is NOT my "home town." I was 16 when my family moved there and it never felt like "home" to me.



hunter

(38,326 posts)
29. My parents were there for the work. As artists they couldn't be too picky about their day jobs.
Mon May 24, 2021, 04:03 PM
May 2021

When my dad retired my parents fled, as did me and all my siblings.

ProfessorGAC

(65,168 posts)
31. Mumbai...
Mon May 24, 2021, 06:32 PM
May 2021

Rio, Sofia (Bulgaria), & Manila.
Mumbai is grossly crowded, not at all clean. Makes NYC & Paris look like an operating room.
Rio is much the same. (I found Sao Paolo & Salvador much nicer.)
Sofia has some nice old architecture. The rest of the city is a visual archetype of the communist dictatorship.
Manila is also dirty and it's so hard to get around the city.
Here in the US, Nashville.
I was there for a conference. I don't like country music & like the culture of it even less.
That 5 days felt like 2 months, and I spent 60% of my waking hours at the conference.
Will never visit there again.

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