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Rolling Acres - This and That
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Bruce
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Um, OK.
3 of my grandparents were born in Spain and moved to So. Cal (all separately, unknown to each other) in the early 1900's. Other grandfather said "Chicago is a nice place to be FROM". They moved to So. Cal. for his health when he was a child so about the same time as my other grandparents.
I was born in So. Cal. and was a "farm boy" until I was 2 then Dad decided he didn't really want to farm (he grew up on a farm, Grandpa was a sugar beet farmer). So we moved to the city. Dad had a degree in geology and spend his work life owning and running a rubber manufacturing business. I had no interest in doing that. I got a degree in Business Data Processing at Cal Poly Pomona and after graduating looked for jobs NOT in the overly hot and overly populated area called So. Cal.. Got a job with IBM in Vermont and retired from that in 2013 when they were downsizing so Global Foundries would TAKE a couple Billion dollars to "buy" IBM's chip manufacturing business.
3 of my grandparents were born in Spain and moved to So. Cal (all separately, unknown to each other) in the early 1900's. Other grandfather said "Chicago is a nice place to be FROM". They moved to So. Cal. for his health when he was a child so about the same time as my other grandparents.
I was born in So. Cal. and was a "farm boy" until I was 2 then Dad decided he didn't really want to farm (he grew up on a farm, Grandpa was a sugar beet farmer). So we moved to the city. Dad had a degree in geology and spend his work life owning and running a rubber manufacturing business. I had no interest in doing that. I got a degree in Business Data Processing at Cal Poly Pomona and after graduating looked for jobs NOT in the overly hot and overly populated area called So. Cal.. Got a job with IBM in Vermont and retired from that in 2013 when they were downsizing so Global Foundries would TAKE a couple Billion dollars to "buy" IBM's chip manufacturing business.
Yeah and I bet it took me a LOT longer to move too! It is a ~2,900 mile drive.
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RollingAcres
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Thank you for sharing Bruce. So you worked for IBM all those years until you retired?
Perhaps it's @Senile_Texas_Aggie 's turn to share a little background. I read in your journal that you moved from TX to AR. Were you born in TX and grew up there?
It probably did! It probably took you a few days driving.
Perhaps it's @Senile_Texas_Aggie 's turn to share a little background. I read in your journal that you moved from TX to AR. Were you born in TX and grew up there?
Bruce
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Yes and yes, like 7 days of driving.
Senile_Texas_Aggie
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Both my wife and I were born in northeast Texas, she in New Boston and I in De Kalb. I went to college at Texarkana College (2 years), then Texas A&M for 2 years (Computer Science). When I graduated from A&M in 1975, the economy was only starting to recover from the recession caused by the Arab oil embargo in 1973. I received ONE job offer, from a company in Huntsville, AL. We lived there for 2 years, then moved to Florida (Fort Walton Beach) because we both loved the beach. Only stayed there less than a year when the contract I was working on ended. Then moved to Reston, Virginia for 4 months (BIG mistake), then to Warner Robins, GA for 17 years, working for a company, TRW, that has since been bought out by Northop Gumman. In 1997 I took a job with Raytheon in north Dallas, residing in McKinney. In 2000 moved to San Diego, going back to work for TRW. Another BIG mistake, as I went to work for the boss from hell. (See this post by @greybeard and you will get the idea: https://www.backyardherds.com/threads/rammys-ramblings.37884/page-37#post-565881 ). Moved back to Dallas and Raytheon and worked 17 more years. Retired Oct 1, 2017. After months of waiting for our house to sell, and then months more looking (I didn't know Miss @Baymule then or she would have found us a place in a week), we found this place in western Arkansas, moved in Apr 16, 2018, and then been wondering what the heck are we doing ever since.
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Bruce
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Clearly STA is not a "northern" type 
Senile_Texas_Aggie
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Clearly STA is not a "northern" type
Believe it or not, we did look for property in the East, Northeast and the Rockies. While my wife and I are both native Texans, we have got to the point that we have a hard time dealing with the heat down here. We looked on realtor.com in Tennessee, Virginia, New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine. We almost bought a place in Cheyenne, WY, but finally decided that we didn't like the place that much for the price. We started looking in Arkansas and had about given up when we found our current place. We had hoped that it wouldn't be as hot here as it was in Dallas, but WRONG! So Vermont and upstate New York sounds pretty nice -- until this winter!
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RollingAcres
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It's still nice in the winter with all that white snow. It's quite peaceful watching tje snowfall if you don't have to drive in it.
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RollingAcres
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Wow STA you moved to many places. Your place in AR is beautiful!
Bruce
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True, and being retired they can just hang out until the snow is plowedIt's still nice in the winter with all that white snow. It's quite peaceful watching tje snowfall if you don't have to drive in it.
. Folks think we have snow every day all day in the winter here. Fact is we get a few storms and it is rare that the roads are not plowed within a few hours of it stopping. And they are plowed during the storms as well. I remember only one time, Feb 14 some years ago, that is snowed 27" in about 12 hours. The plows couldn't keep up. But a day later, clean dry pavement. I don't think I got the garden tractor with snow blower out even 10 times last winter. They seem to be getting more snow down in MA than here (which bugs DW no end).
