Why you should be careful before moving anywhere (Rolla, Ozark: new home, camping)

[missy1793]

Originally Posted by linicx

Visitors rarely do mundane things scoping out a new area. They eat out, sleep in a motel and check out the tourist traps and shows. They don't read a local newspaper, pick up the phone book or browe the local stores. If they did they would learn a lot. When I first moved to Missouri I didn't know I could not buy Koop's mustard, Fanny May Candy or prime beef or that I had to ask for spaghetti sauce if I ordered Pasta when I went out to eat. I never ordered steak or spaghetti again. I didn't know what F4 beef was or that I could not find a park that was at least 600 acres, or a really big lake unless I went to Table Rock of Lake of the Ozarks.

A weekend is not enough. If you stay 10 days to first time, you come back and stay a lifetime. If you don't you'll be surprised at what you did not know. It's a hard lesson.

I agree with you 110%, everytime I go to visit I pick up the newspaper a couple even. I also watch the news at the hotel and ride around just checking things out. I have been wanting to move back to MO for over 5 years and I haven't been able to do anything until now, but it is still hard even with several short trips over these years. So I am planning to do at least 4-5 days in June when my job ends, so I can really figure it out! I appreciate you being honest with people, that is what I value about this website, I don't like for people to sugar coat stuff at all! I have three kids, so I really have to make sure it is the right decision right now! Good luck to all you new Missourians, I am hoping to be one within the next year if not this summer or fall!

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by kshe95girl

I was hoping you would pop in and take that ball and run with it!

Happy to oblige!

In his own, subtle way I think Ozarksboy is simply trying to warn the out-of-state masses that the fescue is not always more verdant on the opposite side of the barrier!

[kshe95girl]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

Happy to oblige!

In his own, subtle way I think Ozarksboy is simply trying to warn the out-of-state masses that the fescue is not always more verdant on the opposite side of the barrier!

Well said, my verbosely gifted friend!

[Cali BassMan]

Originally Posted by Curmudgeon

the fescue is not always more verdant on the opposite side of the barrier!

Hey you using that Cali-Mex-spanglish stuff there?
besides it could be a Kentucky Blue thats not always more Kelly......or in late summer around these parts I think the color would be Chartruse

[Curmudgeon]

Originally Posted by Cali BassMan

......or in late summer around these parts I think the color would be Chartruse

Or withered!

[ozarksboy]

Originally Posted by Inoxkeeper

OB are you a native Missourian?

No, Inoxkeeper, I am not a native Missourian. You know that. I've told you my story before, but here we go again: I was born at Werner-Robbins AFB in Georgia while my Dad was in the Air Force. Weeks later, he flew off to Japan for a year and Mama brought me back to her native state to live with her parents, also natives of Missouri. They weren't going to let me into the state, because I was a Georgian, but as I was still on the tit, they decided to go ahead and accept me into both the family and the state.

Oh, wait, now I get what you mean, Inoxkeeper. Duh!Of course, you brought up my flukey Southern birth as a way to remind me that all the Californian, Floridian, Wisconsinite, New Hampshiresque and other newbies are just like I was. They're just little tittie-babies, too! And they need to be accepted and welcomed and nurtured, and maybe they, too, will grow up to be Missourians, just like me!

Oh, Inoxkeeper, and all the rest of you guys. You'ns are so smart. You're always way ahead of the dumb old Ozarks Boy.

[kshe95girl]

Originally Posted by ozarksboy

No, Inoxkeeper, I am not a native Missourian. You know that. I've told you my story before, but here we go again: I was born at Werner-Robbins AFB in Georgia while my Dad was in the Air Force. Weeks later, he flew off to Japan for a year and Mama brought me back to her native state to live with her parents, also natives of Missouri. They weren't going to let me into the state, because I was a Georgian, but as I was still on the tit, they decided to go ahead and accept me into both the family and the state.

Oh, wait, now I get what you mean, Inoxkeeper. Duh!Of course, you brought up my flukey Southern birth as a way to remind me that all the Californian, Floridian, Wisconsinite, New Hampshiresque and other newbies are just like I was. They're just little tittie-babies, too! And they need to be accepted and welcomed and nurtured, and maybe they, too, will grow up to be Missourians, just like me!

Oh, Inoxkeeper, and all the rest of you guys. You'ns are so smart. You're always way ahead of the dumb old Ozarks Boy.

Ah, there is hope for the ole boy yet! I have been waiting most of the day, hoping you would finally get it! Most importantly, perhaps they will come to have the love of the land, as you do, if they are nurtured. Just as much as us hillbilly natives.

[Inoxkeeper]

I am holding out a "little" hope for OB. I see a few veiled comments that
appear to be having a little sport with us natives. It's a reap what you sow
world so it's all good, at least for now.

Originally Posted by kshe95girl

Ah, there is hope for the ole boy yet! I have been waiting most of the day, hoping you would finally get it! Most importantly, perhaps they will come to have the love of the land, as you do, if they are nurtured. Just as much as us hillbilly natives.

[ozarksboy]

Originally Posted by Inoxkeeper

I am holding out a "little" hope for OB. I see a few veiled comments that appear to be having a little sport with us natives.

Inoxkeeper, as an old Georgia-born Southern boy transplanted relatively recently to the Missouri Ozarks, let me unveil my comments. I have to say you natives have certainly not done much with the state. The ditches are full of trash. The roadsides are littered with dead armadillos. And are you one of those natives who operates on Ozarks time? Have to stop and do a little fishing every now and again, do you? Got a satellite dish on the ole double-wide, too? Chew a little "terbacky" and have to spit after every sentence?

And I could not believe this:

Originally Posted by kshe95girl

Ah, but see, where I want to be, they won't be coming in droves. There is not even a clothing store in the entire county, so it wont even be a blip on the out-of-staters radar
Which makes it perfect, ya know? I am sure you have noticed that I dont talk much about WHERE in Missouri I wanna be, and I am gonna keep it that way......

This woman seems to think it is perfectly acceptable that there is no clothing store in her county. I guess she's a native woman who wants to go native. We Georgians always knew you hillbillies wore feed sacks for clothing; now we have the evidence, straight from kshe95girl.
I also read where she was bragging that they took the stoplight down in her town. We didn't even know you had highways in the Ozarks. We figured you just used horse and buggy.

Well, at least there's some business coming to your town. Even a Californian, someone with taste, has recently moved in. Perhaps things will change. Maybe you will be able to do some "serious shopping" sometime soon. That'll give you something to do besides sitting around shucking corn and "pickin' the banjer." LOL

It's definitely not like this back home in Georgia.

Ozarks Boy
Georgia native
Recently (relatively speaking) transplanted to Missouri

[kshe95girl]

Originally Posted by ozarksboy

And I could not believe this:

This woman seems to think it is perfectly acceptable that there is no clothing store in her county. I guess she's a native woman who wants to go native. We Georgians always knew you hillbillies wore feed sacks for clothing; now we have the evidence, straight from kshe95girl.
I also read where she was bragging that they took the stoplight down in her town. We didn't even know you had highways in the Ozarks. We figured you just used horse and buggy.


Ozarks Boy
Georgia native
Recently (relatively speaking) transplanted to Missouri

At least the lack of clothing stores will keep the Kaliforeigners out! Technically speaking, the county of which I am speaking is on the eastern side of the state.
So iffen I get tired of the old feed sacks, I can scoot up I-55 and get me some new bibs at Grandpa Pidgeons
But those pesky stoplights keep getting in the way.....