Pumps' Perplexities

It seems that for the second year in a row,
some people have concluded that the State
of Vermont is the best place in the United
States to live.......

It appears that they have a lower rate of
smoking cigarettes, are less obese and
healthy, and have low childhood poverty......

Having lived there, I noted that they had
only one large city, Burlington......While
there are a little over 600 thousand people
that live in the state, the population of The
City of San Francisco in California is a
little over 700 thousand and larger.....

The reason people do not smoke cigarettes,
they do smoke other "stuff", is because they
do not make enough money to waste on
buying "smokes".......They are healthy
because if you really get sick they send you to
a hospital in another state, like New York
or New Hampshire.......

Maybe the childhood poverty has improved,
but when I lived their my babysitter took a
bath in a bathtub which was outdoors and
behind her house......

Also there are so many environmental
regulations it is difficult to start a business
in the state......I has taken one person over
6 years to grow grapes, press them into
wine and serve it....There is yet to be any
final approvals......

If you want peace and quiet, where no
"poll taker" will ever find you, then it
is the state to live in and drive 25 miles
to a supermarket.......Pumps