re: #97 MsJ

Hey, did you see my questions from the other day? I was wondering how you wound up in NE. What made you decide on NE when you left OK? How did you find/determine the town you’re in? Were you househunting…why there? I am curious.

I apparently missed your question.

The GOP in Oklahoma passed a series of driving regulations requiring any person with certain medical conditions to get a sign off from a specialist (not a GP) and giving them one week to do that.

I got a form from the state saying I needed to see nine specialists in a week, and the VA said they did not cover that because it was not medically necessary.

We got the hell out of Oklahoma. My wife was looking for houses we could afford (at the bottom of the housing crash she could only sell our house at auction for $7,000), and this one popped up on her radar (long story behind how that happened).

So we bought this house with cash (which left us our house in Oklahoma as a temporary storage unit so we didn’t have to pay for something like that).

Now, Oklahoma has one of the highest uninsured and unlicensed driver rates in the nation, because most people could not afford to get those specialists to sign off on their medical conditions or schedule such appointments within a week.