From: ibuprofin@painkiller.example.tld.invalid   
      
   On Tue, 26 Feb 2013, in the Usenet newsgroup alt.os.linux.mandriva, in article   
   , Jim Beard wrote:   
      
   >Moe Trin wrote:   
      
   >> Jim Beard wrote:   
      
   >>> I can handle and even enjoy the heat.  Better over 100 degrees F   
   >>> than under 32, in my estimation.   
      
   >> Sections of the desert Southwest might be desirable.   
      
   >>> Swimming is good for fitness, but like walking requires hours of   
   >>> effort to accomplish anything for weight loss.   
      
   >> The reason I mentioned it is that it's easier on people with joint   
   >> problems or more fragile bones.   
      
   >The virtues of swimming are recognized, but the problem I had   
   >with a knee in the late 1980s healed enough by 2000 that I am   
   >good for anything but running.   
      
   The original mention was directed to Bobbie, but I'm more into the   
   hot-tub than a pool - the MSDF introduced me to it when I was working   
   there in the 1960s.   Running?  I think I last did that in college,   
   so that was a LONG time ago.   
      
   >I can double-time for short distances (few hundred yards), and   
   >probably could work up to normal double-time endurance but have never   
   >had the enthusiam to set up and follow the training routine required   
   >to do that without possibility of incurring new problems.   
      
   I'm not sure I could do multiple hundred yards - one would probably   
   be about the limit for me.   The bike riding keeps the pulmonologist   
   happy and keeps the dermatologist busy enough.   
      
   >My wife and I did consider Texas for the weather (and no state   
   >income tax, as a bonus) but our children are in New York City,   
   >southeast Colorado, and Chapel Hill NC.   
      
   Limited experience, but I felt Texas to be more warm/humid (yes, I   
   know Texas is a big state covering a lot of climate regions) than I   
   desired (been here 15 years, but spent 25 years before that living in   
   the South end of the San Francisco bay).  Taxes?  Well, yes and no.   
   The sales taxes in Texas are higher than Virginia, so things tend to   
   get more complicated.  I'd also look at the so-called "cost of living"   
   as well as "quality of life" and housing costs.   Remember that if you   
   own your home in Virginia, you have to buy up (or at least across) in   
   the new location, or pay Capital Gains taxes on the difference in the   
   price of the houses.  That one bit us when we moved from the Bay Area   
   (very expensive housing) to Phoenix (far better/larger house for the   
   money).   
      
   >Chapel Hill was considered, but my wife spent a couple of months   
   >there and decided it was not worth the cost of a move, so we have   
   >stayed put in Northern Virginia.   
      
   We were quite happy in California, but my wife's company moved, and I   
   was able to arrange a transfer to another division at mine.  Her   
   company paid the movers, and arranged for buying/selling houses.   
   Mentioned in my reply to Bobbie, I lost significant weight while   
   prepping the house for sale there.   
      
           Old guy   
      
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