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I was born and raised in the same state my entire life.

@PepperJ that sounds nice for everyone - and stressful for you!

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Where do you find a job?

I've had success with LinkedIn.

Just be clear what you are looking for.

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I was born and raised in the same state my entire life.

Araz wrote:
I can handle any weather - in VA, we experience every single season. Itโ€™s also ridiculously humid.

Nicest weather I've ever lived in was southwestern VA. I lived in Blacksburg (nice college town), Christiansburg (very quiet, but near stuff to do), and Roanoke (pretty nice if you're in a nice section of town). But that was over 10 years ago. I don't know what it's like now.

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I was born and raised in the same state my entire life.

Araz wrote:

Honestly, I thought about near West Virginia (Shenandoah Valley area) but I think my husband really wants to do something different and I would like to as well.

West Virginia is beautiful, and a lovely place to visit, and cost of living is low, but the entire state suffers from poor economy, lack of good jobs, rampant drug and alcohol addictions and tragedies associated with that, and environmental abuses. Don't go live there unless you are prepared to accept these troubles, preferably including keeping a stockpile of clean water.

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I was born and raised in the same state my entire life.

I grew up in WV, but have lived in quiet parts of VA almost all of my adult life.

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I was born and raised in the same state my entire life.

Virginia is a slower paced state, except NoVA.

My suggestion is you rent a van and make a grand driving tour of the entire United States, then decide.

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My manager admitted to me yesterday that she looked at my social media and I donโ€™t know how I feel about it.

If you put it on the internet, it isn't spying, it's public.

Maybe she wants to be your friend.

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NaCtHoMaN wrote:

@smiley do you smile too much?

I'm like The Joker, apparently. It's just how my face is put on.

I was in army boot camp, and every morning the drill sergeant yelled at me and made me do push-ups for smiling in formation. One day I was at my limit, and I shouted back "I'm not smiling drill sergeant, it's just how my face is made." She was trying so hard to contain her laugh, she forgot to make me do push-ups that day or any other.

On another day, I used to work in an aquatic ecology lab, using larval fish to test toxicity of industrial effluents. One day, at the end of a 30 day test, I spent the whole day killing the test survivors so that they could be dried and weighed to assess chronic toxic effects. It's a necessary step, but always unpleasant. I'm a sensitive person and I don't enjoy hurting animals. I walked into Kung Fu class that evening, and the instructor commented that my smile looked less happy than usual.

So yeah, I smile too much. I'm also a generally cheerful person, but the two aren't entirely related.

@Yorick what moon are you pointing at? (What's your big dream?)

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@Yorick what inspired your username?

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ask me anything

NaCtHoMaN wrote:
.. would it help if i left?

Oh heck no! Please stay!

The difficulty with recruiting new helpers is that each of us likes our anonymity here and doesn't want to reveal ourselves to people we know in analog life or other social media.

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