Originally Posted by dwig

The wife and I headed the other way when, after living in TX for over 40 years, we pulled up stakes and headed for someplace warm and sunny. The software company outside of Dallas that I worked for began to throw in the towel, so we sold our house and 2/3rds of the stuff in it and drove east until we ran out of road and then south until we again ran out of road. While most things here are expensive, we only spend $150 or so a year on gasoline and I can walk to work in the dead of winter in shorts and a T-shirt, only occasionally needing a long sleeve shirt.