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S'està carregant… If You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie (edició 2019)de Christopher Ingraham (Autor)
Informació de l'obraIf You Lived Here You'd Be Home By Now: Why We Traded the Commuting Life for a Little House on the Prairie de Christopher Ingraham
   Cap No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra.  hmonkeyreads | Jan 25, 2024 |   bfister | Sep 1, 2023 |  ) Jeff.Rosendahl | Sep 21, 2021 |  ) Carmenere | Apr 12, 2021 | I'll recap the plot here, because it is such a great story: Ingraham crunches data and writes gee-whiz pieces for WaPo. He finds some data about the most pleasant counties to live in across the US, in terms of geographic features, weather, and things like that. Since every county in the country is ranked, not only are some places best, but some are inevitably the "worst" places to live - where were those places? Well, bottom of the list turned out to be Red Lake County, Minnesota. After Ingraham points this out in his article, he gets some hate mail - Minnesota style, which means understated and not very vitriolic - and invitations to come out and see their "ugly" county for himself. Which he does. And he likes it. And he moves there! Very interesting to me on a personal level is that Ingraham contrasts Red Lake County not just with the Baltimore/DC area, but with other places he and his wife have lived as well - including my county in Vermont. And Vermont doesn't come off very well. Vermonters aren't as welcoming as the Minnesotans; the Ingrahams made some friends, but never felt part of a community like they do in Red Lake County. I believe it. We're pretty standoffish round these parts. "If there is one thing - one sole, solitary piece of information - that I can convey to you about rural America it's this: rural America is not a nation apart. The people here are just as complex and fallible as people anywhere else. They consume the same media, cheer for the same sports teams, fight over the same political issues, and have the same dreams for their kids." I like that. (  ) Tytania | Mar 9, 2020 | Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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HTML: The hilarious, charming, and candid story of writer Christopher Ingraham's decision to uproot his life and move his family to Red Lake Falls, Minnesota, population 1,400â??the community he made famous as "the worst place to live in America" in a story he wrote for the Washington Post. Like so many young American couples, Chris Ingraham and his wife Briana were having a difficult time making ends meet as they tried to raise their twin boys in the East Coast suburbs. One day, Chrisâ??in his role as a "data guy" reporter at the Washington Postâ??stumbled on a study that would change his life. It was a ranking of America's 3,000+ counties from ugliest to most scenic. He quickly scrolled to the bottom of the list and gleefully wrote the words "The absolute worst place to live in America is (drumroll please) ... Red Lake County, Minn." The story went viral, to put it mildly. Among the reactions were many from residents of Red Lake County. While they were unflappably politeâ??it's not called "Minnesota Nice" for nothingâ??they challenged him to look beyond the spreadsheet and actually visit their community. Ingraham, with slight trepidation, accepted. Impressed by the locals' warmth, humor and hospitality â??and ever more aware of his financial situation and torturous commuteâ??Chris and Briana eventually decided to relocate to the town he'd just dragged through the dirt on the Internet. If You Lived Here You'd Be Home by Now is the story of making a decision that turns all your preconceptionsâ??good and badâ??on their heads. In Red Lake County, Ingraham experiences the intensity and power of small-town gossip, struggles to find a decent cup of coffee, suffers through winters with temperatures dropping to forty below zero, and unearths some truths about small-town life that the coastal media usually miss. It's a wry and charming taleâ??with data!â??of what happened to one family brave enough to move waa No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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His story about why he moved his young family from the DC burbs to northern Minnesota is an easy and thought provoking read. (