Charles+
You're pretty much on the mark. That and the fact that I'll bet the five
cities mentioned are where no one BUT a yankee or a foreigner would want to
live, and you betrayed your own thinking along this line by saying that you
wanted to buy a lot in (near) Orlando. Try a place like Live Oak or Mossy
Head or Two Egg and you'll find things a whole lot different.
MLW+
----- Original Message -----
From: "Charles Scott" <crscott@...>
To: <faithandlife@...>
Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2002 10:57 PM
Subject: [FaithandLife] STROLLING
>
>
>
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> STROLLING
>
> I have been considering purchasing a lot on which to build a home if and
> when I ever retire. The location is near Orlando.
>
> However an article in the Cincinnati Enquirer is enough to make one think
> two or three times about such a move.
>
> Cincinnati has the fewest pedestrian deaths of the 49 major urban areas in
> this country according to Washington's Surface Transportation Policy
> Project.
>
> Cincinnati has an average of 0.7 pedestrian deaths per 100,000 people,
> compared with 3.3 fatalities per 100,000 people in Orlando which is tops
on
> the hit list.
>
> The article goes on to say, "Florida, in general, isn't the best place to
> walk. The Sunshine State placed five cities in the report's six most
> dangerous places of pedestrians."
>
> What's going on here? Has the North sent all its slowest retired people
to
> Florida so that they just can't make it across the street before the light
> changes? Or are Florida drivers less observant?
>
> As usual, I have a theory. When I moved to Cincinnati as a teenager, I
> noticed that the people walked more quickly on the city streets than I, an
> immigrant from Appalachia. When I visited Chicago and New York, I found
> that people walked even more briskly, and so I picked up the habit. Now,
> as a senior citizen, I find that Duke and I move more quickly than most.
>
> By contrast, when I was out West and down South, I found that people
> "moseyed" or "ambled," an annoyance to one who is attempting to move
quickly
> toward a goal.
>
> Now stay with me on this. I have also observed that there are no native
> Floridians, as at least 50% of the population is from New York, Ohio, or
> West- by-God Virginia and 40% from foreign islands.
>
> After considering all the facts, I came to this conclusion.
>
> The horrendous rate of run-overs in Florida has to be the fault of the
Damn
> Yankees and the Furriners. I say this to defend Southern Honor.
>
> It isn't the moseying and ambling of any native Floridian that is the
> problem. The problem is that the Northern States send their "snow birds"
to
> Florida. These birds are so decrepit that they can't get out of the way
of
> the Furriners, who, everyone knows, drive with reckless abandon.
>
> Obviously, the only solution to the problem is to partition the state into
> two zones. The one would be occupied by the snow birds, and nothing that
> can move faster than the tricycles with bicycle size wheels would be
allowed
> to mingle with pedestrian traffic. Also, this area would be a no-jogging
> zone. Shuffling, ambling, strolling, and moseying will be the normal
speed
> of human traffic.
>
> The other zone would have free ways with unlimited speed limits, and no
> traffic signals in the cities as these aren't observed any way.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Charles
>
>
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