It's terrible -- really awful -- to reach the age where you just want to live your life peaceably and instead you have to consider moving.
I was born and raised in Baltimore, spent 30 years in the Baltimore City Fire Department, and have lived in Maryland all my life...and I no longer even recognize this state. Our idiotic gun laws...our sky-high taxes...the far-left agenda of our elected officials...the wild, out-of-control crime in and around the urban areas of the state...it's too much.
I really want to leave, but I'll be 68 next month, and the thought of packing up my home and garage, and starting over, is really depressing. I tell people that I'm only staying here for the crabcakes and Scrapple...