Question of the Day?

all! Keeping it simple today but good enough that it should still give everyone insight about you. If you could live anywhere in the world, where would it be? I have never been outside of the US. I would like to travel outside of the US one day but I do not know if I would live in another country. I would probably say Chicago. I have been there once and would love to go back. It seems like a place I could get used to quickly. I like the South but I do not like Heat. I would rather live somewhere cooler. So, Chicago for me. Oprah, here I come!

Misty, Chicago has a name called windy city for a reason. We were stationed in Great Lakes,IL not only are the winters bitter cold, but very harsh. I can actually say I survived winter of 78/79. It was horrible. When the snow sets in you will have a of a time getting in and around. Buy a snow mobile. I always said if I win the lottery, I wanted to live in Williamsburg, VA. But I like where I am except for the lady bugs. I really thought I would be spared this year, but with the warm weather this last few days, they are all over my wooden trailer. UGH!!! They drive me is putting it mildly. I think my second choice would be to live between Knoxville and Nashville, just close enough to my sons in Nashville but not that close. It's real painful :: trying to focus as my eyes are swollen shut and irrated so I will check with you later. Kathy's

Kathy, That is one reason I would want to leave TN - The Allergies! They seem to be triple here. Hope you get to feeling better. Misty

oooo...boy do I know the answer to this one - it'd be somewhere tropical. Outside the US, somewhere in the southern Mediterranean. I've always wanted to plan a long stay in Tuscany - until I watched Under the Tuscan Sun and saw that **ACK** it snows there! No way. I want warm all of the time. My friend who lived there said we'd have to plan to live closer to Sicily- but that wouldn't be bad at all. And tropical would go great with the new body I'll get post surgery! Actually, Chicago is called The Windy City because of the politicians, even though that applies well to its climate. Oklahoma City, OK, is actually the windiest city climate-wise in the nation. Having lived in the area for several years, I'd agree. I HATE cold. Yep, it's hot here in July and August, no doubt about that. But it's only two months out of the year. When it gets c-c-cold here (20s or sometimes lower) it's only for a couple of days at a time- always less than a week. I can't remember the last time the daytime temp didn't get above freezing. Even though we are USDA zone 7 just like Maryland, when they get cold they stay that way. So I appreciate our warmer winters but it's not enough. We stayed in Naples, Florida for several days in February a few years ago and I am SO all about that - year-round gardening, driving with the top down. Everything lush and green. Give me the tropics any day! I don't even mind the idea of hurricanes- we'd just batten down, load the camper, and head inland for an unscheduled vacation. Denise in Ark

Denise. We are total opposites. . You like sunny, I like snow. I would love to visit a place once with 12 feet of snow and build a tunnel through it. Although going somwhere sunny is nice too. I went to FL in Feb a couple of years ago and got sunburned. Sunburned in Feb -- uggghhh - not the place for for me to live. .