WANTED: New hometown

Oh, put on a sweater. Portland's awesome.

 

Did I know you growing up?

 

Another vote for Oxford, MS. Easy ride up to the airport in Memphis.

Can't speak on the quality of its school system and damned if I know where you'd fly out of (Charlotte?), but I could see you enjoying Asheville, NC. I highly recommend The Orange Peel Social Aid & Pleasure Club ...

 

I once read that Asheville has highest diabetic rate in country. Health officials attribute it to sweat tea.

 

This all-encompassing list should begin and end with San Luis Obispo, CA.

Although Chattanooga and Savannah are both excellent alternatives if you like cool yet small downtowns.

 

Jones, you can always try BoomLand.

Thing is, while no one lives there and there's plenty of hot air circulating around the lands, the schools would be exceedingly narrow in thinking and airport access might be lacking ... the only thing that flies in the area is lots of knee-jerk, ignorant thoughts.

 

or better yet go to sam mill town where everyone is dead.

 

ZING! I'll never live this one down.

Your consistent slagging on the South has become a horse that was beaten to death years ago. And it's done in such a smarmy tone looking down your nose at everyone else that I had had enough. If you can't take it, be smart enough not to dish it out, eh?

And it's Sam Mills. With an "s." I know accuracy isn't your strong suit, but it's not a terribly complex name.

 

Hey Sam fuck you - go read your facts before you spout off . Check on something called "The Ashville Project" - came about as a result of high rates of diabetes in Ashville area- attributed to high use of sugar.

 

A friend of mine lives out there. He works at the college, so his room and board are already paid. That's the only way he could afford to live there. I don't think he's ever moving back to the Right Coast.

 

At least you spelled my handle's forename correctly and the other four-letter word. Now about the name of the city ... from someone who claims he read something on the city, undoubtedly mentioning the name of the place more than once.

http://www.aphafoundation.org/programs/Asheville_Project/

http://www.pharmacytimes.com/files/articlefiles/TheAshevilleProject.pdf

http://www.ncpharmacists.org/associations/4188/files/AshevilleProjMaille.pdf

In none of these three documents did it link anything to drinking sweet tea or sweat tea (sic). So, as usual, instead of actually READING the documents, you chose to take a cheap shot.

But that's easier to do, so why am I not surprised?

 

New Job Title for Druggists: Diabetes Coach


By IAN URBINA
Published: December 30, 2006

ASHEVILLE, N.C. — In an office behind the Hershey’s candy rack at a Kerr Drug here, Stuart Rohrbaugh shifts in his chair as his pharmacist stares at a dangerously high blood sugar reading from last month.


“I think that was the day a buddy of mine brought over his home-brew beer,” stammers Mr. Rohrbaugh, whose diabetes was diagnosed six years ago.

Silently, the pharmacist lifts her eyes, sending Mr. Rohrbaugh’s gaze to the floor.

“I know, I know,” he says.

Mr. Rohrbaugh, 37, learned relatively late in life that he had Type 1 diabetes, a malfunction of the immune system that usually surfaces in childhood. There are hundreds in Asheville with that type, and even more with the more prevalent Type 2, which often hits as a consequence of obesity or age.

And so in this town of 75,000, where people like to use sugar in their coffee and in their iced tea, and as a term of endearment, Mr. Rohrbaugh and the others face the formidable challenge of either managing their diabetes or suffering its potential ravages: blindness, organ failure, stroke.