Jay Honeck wrote:

These are people who cannot conceive of moving even to someplace like
Monroe, LA, because it would be so far from home and family, and it's
not just the under-educated that think this way. (My wife worked with
an engineer who turned down a job offer that would have involved an
equivalent scale of relocation because his wife thought this way.) It's
also an attidude that is not limited to the deep south - I've seen it
expressed even more forcefully in Appalachia.

To you and me the decision would be a no-brainer. These people aren't
you and me.


It must be very limiting to be so tied to the land that you can't let go.

One of the greatest feelings of freedom I've experienced was when I realized
that "home" was a state of mind, and not a place.

Insanity is also a state of mind. :-)

Matt