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Change of leadership

Posted on by Dede

What’s one thing that would instantly improve your city?

My city would improve with a change of leadership. Our mayor profited off the data center. The zoning committee has yet to require new communities to have sidewalks.

The roads are in bad shape and they seem to repair the same roads over and over but leave really bad roads in the same condition.

They have yet to pursue a high quality private non-religious school to open here. It is either public school, homeschool, a strict Christian school or a half and half program of homeschooling and religious education.

The mall has died. There has been no intervention to try and save it. All major retailers have left except for Dillards.

If I could leave this town and this state, I would. However I need to remember to buy a lottery ticket so I have a chance to win. Then I could leave.

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How do you know?

Posted on by Dede

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   For all of you bloggers and readers out there, how did you know you were living where you belonged? If your place of residence was not your choice but the choice of your partner or company, how did you go about making it feel like home? If made the choice to move, how did you decide where to go? I moved quite a few times between the ages of 9 and 14 every time my father received a business promotion. As a child, of course you don’t have a choice, you go where ever your parents take you. Then I married and moved again to my ex-husband’s home state followed by a move to Texas when he was hired at AA. I lived in the Dallas area for 30 years and recently relocated to Austin.

   I feel unsettled. I never chose Texas as a home but as long as I was married, it’s where I belonged. Now that I am divorced, I have a choice where to live. I moved to Austin to be closer to a daughter, but she and her husband have their own lives. And I don’t anticipate that they will permanently reside in Temple, TX which means in less than four years, there is a good chance they will be relocating. So where do I go? How do I decide? My finances are limited so an apartment on 5th Avenue in NYC is not an option nor is an oceanfront property in Seattle.

  So I am asking you to send me either places to consider or questions I should ask myself before I move. In my life I have lived where it get extremely hot and extremely cold, so any type of weather is fine. I just can’t go somewhere that has mostly cloudy as the general forecast. I have some time to decide and plan, so let me hear from you.