Aftermath, going home (for a week or two)

I do get it that I am not welcome.

Oh. I thought you were just very, very "home" sick, osso.

I didn't know this, osso. Gosh.

I think I might have unknowingly blundered into iffy territory!

I'm a mix on that, ms olga.
I am homesick - but I wish I had my old grip and ability to argue change. I do like this place, however lacking it is re services.

I understand, osso.
You're a California girl, through & through.

I wasn't talking about your age, Osso. I'm pre-historic myself. Made me think that just when you think you know somebody, they show you a whole new side of themselves. That's cool!

Have a good trip and a good visit. I understand how you feel about going "home." Sometimes I hear the Bronx calling my name.

Are too!

Eh! You said you didn't know about the Bronx.

; )

What I meant about wishing I could get a grip and argue change is that the younger me would be storming city planning and various other departments to push for better pedestrian access and better bus transportation, more mixed use building areas here in Albuquerque. I'd be active in the rather large neighborhood association and be writing letters to the editor, on and on. Yawn, makes me tired to think about it.

This also isn't the first time I've run into anti-californian sentiment. Oregon is famously (well, to californians) california phobic. And Norther Californians are often caustic about Southern Californians.

I hope you have a great trip, osso.

Enjoy - and I'm sure you will. (Having some distance to the dys and roger will be recreational as well).

Pfffttt!

That's NM dialect for "bravo!"?

Suuuure it is.

All 49 states make fun of us Californians, which is okay - we still live in paradise

Don't know nuttin' about Brooklyn, Queens, or Staten Island. I know da Bronx.

Don't want to hijack the thread, osso.

I take a dim view of lots of places. Southern California? Too much warmth and sun. Same holds true for Florida. Albuquerque? Not enough air. Same applies to Denver.

Hijack it? I'm Ms. Tangential Comment herself, so go to it....
Speaking of da Bronx, I lived there too.. for a short while.
I think you might have been a baby or toddler, then, Roberta, when I was eight. Or maybe still a gleam in the eye.

I think I was running around when you were there.