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Re: MN and WI suck was(Re: TRU Kudos!)
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Wed, 5 May 1999 22:12:53 GMT
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"Christopher L. Weeks" wrote:
> 
> I've been there and I know better.  Minnesota is - as they say - God's
> country.  There are two places that are about equally desirable for me
> to spend the rest of my life, the North shore of Lake Superior (or maybe
> parts of MI's UP), or the Oregon coast.  Both very beautiful.  Both very
> expensive.  Neither place has jobs for me.  Oh well. :-(

Just wait. We're 5 years away at most from a LOT more jobs being
completely disassociated from location. That's a prophecy.

But I always thought of da UP as being cheap. It was when I went to
school, you could buy a house in downtown Houghton for 40K (late 70s,
early 80s). Have things changed? Or are you just talking lakefront
property?

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  Re: MN and WI suck was(Re: TRU Kudos!)
 
(...) It's harder to manage people (but it's getting better, I agree), which is what I do right now anyway, from a distance than it is to (for instance) code. (...) I am...that's really the point of that area as far as I'm concerned. I was there in (...) (27 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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  Re: MN and WI suck was(Re: TRU Kudos!)
 
(...) You can't trick us all, buddy. I've been there and I know better. Minnesota is - as they say - God's country. There are two places that are about equally desirable for me to spend the rest of my life, the North shore of Lake Superior (or maybe (...) (27 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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