I`ve lived in NY for 60yrs, not much i dont know about it...lol
wow. And I thought 24 years there was too long.
Just got back home about an hour ago after making a run to the reservation for gas and smokes, and stopping in with the room mate to visit with my dad, and drop of his pup. Just gifted him a 6 week old fox red lab.
I used to enjoy leaving NY for the day, and dred coming back. Now it's the other way around. I dred the visit, but enjoy that feeling I get after passing exit 61 on I 90, as i know I'l less than a mile from having rights again.
And no, this is not meant to rub anyone's nose in the fact that I am out, and can leave any time I want. just to maybe give a few others whoi do want to get out the desire and drive to do so.
I honestly felt trapped, as each time I tried to get out, something pulled me back or kept me there. Mom's health when i was out in AZ looking for work, the ex wife when I was in CO on vacation, and taking interviews with a avionics company in CO Springs, My divorce while in the Carolinas and Florida, and a few other times when a chance came up, that I could not take due to obligations back in the Vampire State. then having to go on disability, and promising to help my uncles take care of my grandfather.
when he passed, I had opportunity, and the means finally presented it's self the following year. I had to cash in some investments, sell off some of my guns, sell off my snow machines, one of the bikes, and 2 of our cars to do it, but if that was what it took, i was more than willing to do it. Here's why in a nut shell.
I was born somewhere else, and had lived the first 15 years of my life, going where Uncle Sam ordered dad to go, so i knew for a fact that the grass is greener elsewhere. I also knew I could make it, no matter where I landed. We just happened to find a place about 50 miles from where "home" was that left both us and the room mates in a position to save up, and still be comfortable.
So, to all of my Brothers and Sisters in NY, if you can find a way to go, take that chance, and do it. there is no perfect place to live, but there are better ones.