Where are you from?

[onlytruth]

Hi lomarah , just outside Vancouver,the bible belt, what made you move from back east ?

[misszoolander]

Impressed to see I am not the only kiwi on here  :dsunny:

[lomarah]

Hi lomarah , just outside Vancouver,the bible belt, what made you move from back east ?

Yay I'm not alone out here lol!

The same thing that makes all of the younger people move out west: a major job shortage in the east and huge opportunities for good jobs in the west. It's a shame because I love Nova Scotia and miss my family but I am happy here in our new little town (we live just north of Grande Prairie) and the major bonus is that my husband makes enough out here that I don't have to work, I get to be a stay at home mom and focus on raising my children. I love being a stay at home mom, I feel so blessed to be able to do it in this day and age.

[onlytruth]

Glad you are able to stay home , try to keep warm!
Blessings

[Lazarus Short]

lomarah, the east/west job situation is just like Stan Rogers described in his song "The Idiot."  Are you familiar with it?  The song dates back to 1982, maybe older.  I had to look through my collection to find the song - I've got nine CD's of his, and a few LP's.  Here's the lyrics:

I often take these night shift walks
When the foreman's not around
I turn my back on the cooling stacks
And make for open ground
Far out beyond the tank-farm fence
Where the gas flare makes no sound
I forget the stink and I always think
Back to that Eastern town

I remember back six years ago
This western life I chose
And every day the news would say
Some factory's going to close
Well, I could have stayed to take the dole
But I'm not one of those.
I take nothing free, and that makes me,
An idiot, I suppose.

Chorus:
So I bid farewell to the Eastern town
I never more will see
But work I must so I eat this dust
And breathe refinery
Oh I miss the green and the woods and streams
And I don't like cowboy clothes
But I like being free and that makes me
An idiot, I suppose.

So come all you fine young fellows
Who've been beaten to the ground
This western life's no paradise,
But it's better than lying down.
Oh the streets aren't clean, and there's nothing green,
And the hills are dirty brown,
But the government dole will rot your soul
Back there in your home town.

So bid farewell to the Eastern town
You never more will see.
There's self-respect and a steady cheque
In this refinery.
You will miss the green and the woods and streams
And the dust will fill your nose.
But you'll be free, and just like me,
An idiot, I suppose.

[lomarah]

Yeah onlytruth, staying warm is the key out here lol. The first day I was here I burned my hand on the metal doorknob outside of our apartment building. I had no idea you could burn yourself from a metal doorknob being too cold!  :Oops:  :NewB1: LOL

Wow Laz, that pretty well describes it lol. Except that no one considers us idiots. I can't tell you how many people move out west from down home... at least half of the people I graduated with. No joke. The job market there is not ideal. Out here you can pretty much do anything you want. It's so different.

The only complaint I have is the minus 39 temperatures. And I still haven't seen the northern lights. 

[Lazarus Short]

A fellow I used to know told me he once had his car in a barn on the Canadian prairie, worked on by his girlfriend's father, a native of the area.  He was handling metal tools with his bare hands at forty below.  You'll adjust, it just takes time.  My brother has lived in Wyoming at about a 7000 foot elevation for years, and loves it - climate much like yours I think.

[lomarah]

OMG! His hands didn't freeze off?? It's a miracle from God LOL!

[ded2daworld]

I thought when it got down to 55 last night my hands were gonna freeze off! :Peace2:

[lomarah]

LOL!!

Yeah the other day my friend in Indiana had posted that she was going fishing. I said FISHING?!? The only fishing around here would be ice fishing LOL!!

[dajomaco]

Hi lomarah , just outside Vancouver,the bible belt, what made you move from back east ?

Yay I'm not alone out here lol!

The same thing that makes all of the younger people move out west: a major job shortage in the east and huge opportunities for good jobs in the west. It's a shame because I love Nova Scotia and miss my family but I am happy here in our new little town (we live just north of Grande Prairie) and the major bonus is that my husband makes enough out here that I don't have to work, I get to be a stay at home mom and focus on raising my children. I love being a stay at home mom, I feel so blessed to be able to do it in this day and age.

I live on Vancouver Island In Victoria.
As I sit here on my little mountain the sun is shining .
I can see over the city.
Every morning I look out over the straight of Juan Da Fuca.
I see my American brothers back yard the Olympic mountains

[Lazarus Short]

I thought when it got down to 55 last night my hands were gonna freeze off! :Peace2:

That's the difference between a Floridian and a Canadian...

[dajomaco]

I see my American brothers back yard the Olympic mountains.
According to Sara.P. this gives me a special relationship with them.

[ded2daworld]

IMO, canadians and americans have always had a special relationship. -Where else could my classmates escape to during the draft and 'nam? :Peace2:

[lomarah]

Daj I thought I remembered reading that you live in Vancouver. I plan on visiting my friend there at some point if the Lord wills.

[Harmony]

I'm from Oregon.  Often referred to as "God's Country".  Would love to touch base with like-minded believers.  We live 20 or so miles from Eugene/Springfield, in the small town of Cottage Grove.  (Although we do have a super WalMart now)

[redhotmagma]

Harmony,

Jackson Baer lives in Lebanon Oregon.  He wrote the book "what the hell".  You can friend him on Facebook.  Also EdwardTulane82 a member here lives near Portland.  They are both great guys and know a lot of people that are UR there.

[Harmony]

The only Jackson Baer I found on FB was in Lexington, Kentucky.  I'll try again.

[VineBranch]

I'm Mercy
I'm from all around the state of AZ

A lesson I've learned lately: "Never wrestle with a pig.  It annoys the pig and you just get dirty" (George Bernard Shaw)    ;)

Generally for quotes, George MacDonald and CS Lewis are two of my favorites. I'm reading a Geo Mac book right now and its full of little pithy nuggets.  Here's one on the last page I read: "Without knowing it, she held the main secret of all good manners: she was simple. She never pretended, never wished to appear anything other than what she was."

"Never wrestle with George Bernard Shaw, it makes the pig jealous."  (me)

[Lazarus Short]

"Never wrestle with George Bernard Shaw, it makes the pig jealous."  (me)

...and you don't get dirty.

[reFORMer]

I'm from Oregon.  Often referred to as "God's Country".  Would love to touch base with like-minded believers.  We live 20 or so miles from Eugene/Springfield, in the small town of Cottage Grove.  (Although we do have a super WalMart now)

I lived in Canyonville, OR about '63-'64, maybe a year later, and attended what was called Canyonville Bible Academy (CBA) for my Sophmore and Junior year of high school.  My Dad was Headmaster then.  The live-in high school is now called Canyonville Christian Academy.  You live just next door.

[englishman]

I have often browsed Tentmakers never noticed anyone from the UK
so If anyone in the future may notice for it will be so encouraging to share locally the
Christian Universalists view, God bless all :HeartThrob:

[reFORMer]

The famous writer John Stott is at All Souls Church in London, I think.  It's possible someone there could direct you to others in your neighborhood.  With so much veiling, tradition and spiritual deadness, the way I view gathering with other believers is it's a mission field.  God usually gives me a person or a family for real spiritual fellowship, though we don't always see eye to eye intellectually.

[jbertonbounds]

J Berton
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Home of the University of Alabama

[redhotmagma]

My wife went to Alabama.  Roll Tide.