December 10, 2005

Vince and I are packing up today in preparation for moving to Tennessee next week. I saw this over at GayPatriot this morning about he and his partner's move from the D.C. area to North Carolina.

John and I have only been in Charlotte for one week, and are only able to move into the new house this weekend. But we have experienced such a change of culture that it has been quite eyeopening. We have been treated more as real-life human beings — with courtesy, respect and genuine acceptance — in the past week than during the six entire years we lived in the DC metro area.

The people we have encountered in Charlotte are so kind and open that it has been such a pleasant change from living in the “what can you do for me” environment of the nation’s capital. I am so happy to have made the move down here that I wonder what took me so long to escape the self-absorbed mindset of DC.
[Relocation to Charlotte, Part II - GayPatriot - 12-09-05]