Re: best places to live for amateur astronomers

AstroSketcher wrote:

On Aug 2, 1:08 pm, Edward Erbeck <E...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

     Aww, you rural folks. Our Family Dollar is only a 12 mile round trip. A
couple of years ago they stuck one in Sunsites. Pickup the Mail, hit Family
Dollar and the Hardware Store and Home again, Home again ;-)

My wife and I went to our nearest Wal-Mart (among other stores)
today. I found a suitable, inexpensive camera tripod for my new
camera at a nearby business. The round trip was 230 miles. We could
have shaved about 50 miles off that distance by taking the 'scenic
route', but the scenic route would have involved more miles of
primitive dirt/rock road than pavement. That would have been fine for
my Jeep, but we took my wife's more fuel efficient Honda Civic. We
had lunch in the city and returned home with some fresh fruit, meat
and other goodies.


As of 2 years ago our nearest Wally World is <100 miles down from 120
for 3 different ones!
My truck has been parked for 6 months now (8.1L V8). Wifes Forrester
works just fine.

We have to go to the nearest small town (in a different county) to
pick up our mail. The post office doesn't deliver to our home. Home
mail delivery is not an option for us. Back when I ordered my AP
refractor, AP called with concerns over the UPS delivery address I had
provided. At the time we had no house number nor street address. I
ended up providing a photograph of our home to AP to include on the
scope's address label! Our area UPS driver was suitably impressed and
commented on the photo upon delivery of the package . . .

Up until 4 years ago our UPS Address was the Northwest Corner of an
intersection. Had to go to Rural addressing for what they called a "911
number". But anytime FedEx, Airborne or DHL (UPS Knows where we are) need
directions there is a Guest Ranch 1/2 mile west of here that they do know
about and we just tell we're the last place before them.

Then there was the time that my wife filed a complaint with some state
official when some business refused to honor a mail-in rebate on the
grounds that we hadn't provided a street address. To make a somewhat
longer story short, we ended up getting the rebate. Some city folk
just don't understand what it means to live in a rural area ;-)


Had that happen with the Satellite TV Folks.
I'll agree that Cities have their Place. I'm just glad it ain't HERE
;-)

Crazy Ed

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