re: #353 Guanxi88

Probably a bit more “exotic” than she’d bargained for.

I imagine it just seemed faraway and with idyllic weather when she picked it out, and then it was real, and more complicated and foreign than she expected.

I went back East for similar reasons, and burned out fast on the snow, and Easterners. And the hippie school I ended up at. But one of my high school friends loves it, has developed an MA accent, and bought a condo in Salem.