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I know - my father's from Cranston, so we spent vacations either in Meshanticut Park or around the cousins on Charlestown Pond. Then grad school at URI (lived on Ten Rod Road for one year, Wakefield the other 3). Gotta find some way to convince Ann that it's better than the South. She's got this strange thing about "cold"?

Scottes - think about the Blue Ridge and Appalachians of NC. Highest mountains in the East. Techie opportunities in the Piedmont at Charlotte, Winston-Salem, or the Research Triangle. Bit of a commute (4 hr. from RDU to the Blue Ridge; little over an hour from Winston-Salem).

OK ... I live about 3 miles from URI (wife works there, Math Dept) and about 4 or 5 from Wickford ... out near the turf farms.

Unfortunatly, it's the fastest growing area here in RI. It was very rural when we moved here in '76. Now it's getting very busy.

There goes the neighborhood! I used to bike in in the summer.

We musta overlapped; I finished in '77.

That is about the only area that I could consider. But what about birds? I'm sure that wildlife is plentiful, but there's no birding hotspots in NC...

I could deal with NC, just have to find some birding spots...


I once traveled to Raleigh NC for business. By the time I landed it had snowed about an inch, and the city started shutting down when it hit 2 inches. I was almost alone on the highway, doing about 65 mph while the 3 cars in the right lane were doing 25mph and the drivers were staring at me like I had 3 heads...

Shore birds you'll have to head for the coast - Cape Hatteras and the Outer Banks. Pretty good range of climate-appropriate birds as you move through the zones up into the mountains, although no real hot spots, you're right. Still, lots of other wildlife from striped ground squirrels to bears, coyote, and elk. Research Triangle would have you 4-5 hours from either end of the state (it's a big state!) (Texas, no comments please or we'll let out all your natural gas and helium!).