Theme: Agency

Q: “WHY DO YOU LIVE IN NEW ENGLAND?”
(implication: given it’s so pervasively left wing)

Practical short term reasons. I returned to rural Connecticut to care for my mother. She has died. As usual there’s legal nonsense as a result. Until that’s all setled it doesn’t make sense to move. On top of that my health for the past 18 months or so has made it impossible to do anything much at all, especially move. Though I seem to be doing better over the past few months. So I keep hope alive so to speak.

Even after I publish the current work, assuming I can finish it given my health, I have twenty years of work on religion, education, culture, and policy – largely religion – to keep me busy. And I doubt I’ll live that long. 😉 So my choice of location is determined largely by obtaining peace of mind via living where there is a lack of cultural and political warfare, while maintaining access to health care.

That said, I prefer to live in Europe – especially the UK, but until my work is published and understood the degree of thought and word persecution, and the increase in crime and destruction of culture in the UK has reached a point where my intellectual activism would put me at risk. Only the USA preserves free speech, and here it’s under constant attack. We are saved only by being the only country inthe world with the sovereignty of the law – not parliament.

We all have some internal feeling of being ‘home’. For me, home had becom Ukraine, but that’s off the table. After that, home is and always will be the Eastside of the Seattle area – where as an aspie nerd I’m in good company. Though the left has destroyed seattle as it has destroyed our other cities one by one.

There is nowhere else in the States that’s terribly appealing other than Texas where I can’t tolerate the climate, and New Hampsire where there isn’t a large enoug city.

After aesthetics, the optimum location for to work from if my health remains stable is somewhere in driving distance from DC for the simple reason of proximity to gatherings and events.

There are no american universities that remain viable enough for me to spend time in their shadow. Not unless the new university they’re creating in Austin, or Peterson’s online university take off. Though in the end, I’d prefer to live in the Oxford area and would be happy to spend the rest of my life there.

Thanks for asking.