I live in southern Virginia, and I must say. It sucks here. 95% of the towns here are retirement towns, full of old people... Which is cool, if you're an old person. Hell I think my graduating class in high school was like 65 or something like that... I've heard of schools around the country having 1000's... So yeah, pathetic... that's the PUBLIC school by the way. As far as the weather, I cannot complain. We have as many good days as we do crappy ones, and a good day in Virginia makes me forget about the bad ones. Nice warm sun, cool breeze. Can't beat it. I enjoy the herping here. Lots of watersnakes, tons of garters, the basic eastern US hots being copperheads and cottonmouths, yet to see a rattler but I hear they are around if you look hard enough. I've found a handful of eastern kingsnakes, gorgeous little things.



oh... and property value??? everything here was built in like 1900. it's all cheap. we live in a 3 story, 6 bedroom, 5 bathroom home and it was about 200,000. granted it's old, but it's nice.