isis I'm an ex ny'r from downstate who moved to WV. I'm exceptionally happy here. I'd like to point out a rotten attitude that you can keep right where you are.
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Originally Posted by isis297
are there any areas of WV where people take pride in their health and appearance and health care is good?
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Are there any areas of upstate NY where people take pride in mental hygiene and common decency?
WV'rs are too polite to tell you how obnoxious you're being. I, on the other hand, feel no moral compunction to refrain. When people like yourself speak, I'm deeply ashamed to admit where I'm from. I've been to just about every state in the union and they all tell me... gee, you don't seem anything like the (Isis) stereotype.
I have serious doubts that you're prepared to locate to any culture different than your own 4 walls. This is not an HOA state, nor will it ever be. The motto is "montani semper liberi" meaning mountaineers are always free. You're free to take responsibility for yourself, but I can assure you, WV be
not be clear cutting it's forests to suit your asthmatic children over pollen season. Think again before you move anywhere or you'll be miserable, and anyone listening miserable, wherever you land. Look in the mirror first before abusing anyones good will and decent natures.
The irony has escaped you that a NY'r came to the WV forum seeking help with insults on her lips and now has to get an education about the life threatening illness of her own children, all the while wondering if health care is dicey anywhere!
Why didn't you know that parental mgmt in the home is crucial, and that no amount of quality/quantity health care can substitute a responsible parent? Why didn't your upstate doctors tell you, or did you fail to pay them the proper amount of chickens for services rendered? That wasn't very respectful of a downstater to say to an upstater, now was it? That's just what your attitude is all about. A subtle crime that erodes the general civility throughout USA, killing the very thing that could have helped you most. Dare to disrespect the house of your brother, you'll reap the consequences.
The 3 min google homework you left for someone else to do regarding the health of your children:
International Climates and Asthma | December 1999 | RT for Decision Makers in Respiratory Care
Asthma - The Effects of Climate and Altitude - Asthma Symptoms, Relief Therapies, Treatment and Medications on MedicineNet.com
ASTHMACAPITALS.COM
Hypoallergenic Bedding: A Guide to the Dust Mite and Allergy Free Bed
The consensus among western medicine here and abroad is that you should
not be moving away for the sake of asthma because it's all for naught. WV is
not on the map of hot spots for NOX pollution, but concentrated population problems are likely to happen in the eastern panhandle the more people & cars pile in. Being an informed patient, actively managing control through medication and cleanliness/climate controls in your own home are the only real defenses. Health care professionals in all states know, because if you mean to practice medicine in USA, you're required to pass through rigorous standards that are universally applicable. Doctors in WV get no reduced requirements just because this state hasn't contributed more than NY to GDP. WV has been a part of the USA pretty early on.
Just because WV didn't have anti smoking laws on the books for years doesn't mean it was ever acceptable for employees to smoke at chuck E cheese. People were not walking around with cigarettes in their mouths at the supermarket, in church, at the dinner table, or in schools prior to laws being formally legislated. The unwritten standard of allowing individual venues to decide what was appropriate and common courtesy from smokers was enough.
Once you sincerely apologize to these folks for your ugly american nonsense, in the spirit of WV hospitality, I'd be more than happy to go to direct message and help you out with specifics. It would spare you any further public embarrassment of my blunt language. While I can empathize with being caught between elderly parents and children who need you, their worst handicap shouldn't be you. Did you know that older seniors decline psychologically and physiologically when you move them? Will you blame WV 3 yrs from now for what nature dictates to us all? Insist on holding onto your unqualified attitudes, you've made yourself unworthy to be a resident before you ever came into this forum. Refuse to change yourself, you'll only propagate the very same things you're running away from where ever you may go.
Anyone else reading this post, WV isn't hostile to outsiders, and generally speaking has a live and let live attitude from it's origins right up to present tense. I say this as an adopted outsider welcomed into their homes. Bring grief here, they'll naturally reject you the same way any community in any state of our union would. Know thyself is crucial to find your best fit. Expect utopia? The last known location of the garden of eden is somewhere in the middle east, and good luck with that plan! Relocating to something and not running away from something is the horse sense you need to mind as decision makers. I wish you all find your happiness.
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