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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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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 6-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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(...) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 5-May-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)

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