Get out of Dodge

My plan was to get a degree and move to my dream house in the Pacific Northwest before Gotterdammerung. I have a double lot very close to the University of Minnesota, and I’ve been working toward legally parceling the lot in two and building a second house while adding on to the first. A tall order, I know, and at a meeting with the city planner I learned that to divide the lot involves a thousand dollars in city fees. I paid that much already for a boundary and topographical survey I needed before the planner would even meet with me.

But Minneapolis is descending into savagery a lot faster than even I expected. This is the Age of Information ®, and I no longer have to be tranquilized by the local paper and its cartoonish view of mankind. Local newsblogs have been covering the various assaults, murders, and kidnappings much more realistically. Particularly useful have been Anti-strib and Rambix.

The Neocons are also being uncooperative. War seems inevitable, but you probably don’t think about it and the implications if you don’t read the daily war news-- http://www.antiwar.com/. That’s where you’ll find the real conservatives like Pat Buchanan, Justin Raimondo, and William Lind.

My small house in the heart of Minneapolis simply won’t be tenable during the sorts of civil unrest I’m expecting. In point of fact, I’ve already been burgled, so technically it is untenable now.

So I think I’m altering the plan. I think I’m going to get out RFN. I can move northwest of the Twin Cities, close enough to work in the suburbs, and close to my family both the ones in western Minnesota, and the ones up north.

I need to finish the semester, of course, but after that the remaining eleven courses I need can all be taken on-line. I also need to do some minor improvements in order to get an acceptable offer on my house—landscaping mostly, but I won’t want to dilly-dally, I need to be ahead of the herd on this one.

Comments

[Jess]

I still want to buy your house.

[Steve]

"But Minneapolis is descending into savagery a lot faster than even I expected."

It's the Minneapocalypse!