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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple style='word-wrap:break-word'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>EricS’s advice is good. Find a happy person and go stay near them. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Still, do you know that in Florida, they drive on the beaches? (Well, that was true 20 years ago.)<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I think you are right to talk this up on the list! Somebody on FRIAM will know of somebody with a vacation cabin that doesn’t usually rent it because of the hassle but would be delighted to rent to a quiet, cultuhed, European Couple to tone up the place. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>N<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Nick Thompson<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="mailto:ThompNickSon2@gmail.com"><span style='color:#0563C1'>ThompNickSon2@gmail.com</span></a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/"><span style='color:#0563C1'>https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/</span></a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From:</b> Friam <friam-bounces@redfish.com> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Jochen Fromm<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 1, 2021 9:22 AM<br><b>To:</b> The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [FRIAM] The Dream of Florida<o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>Florida is closer to Europe, but it has a Republican governor and lots of MAGA people who voted for him. Plus Trump in Mar-a-lago. I was thinking about Jacksonville which is attractive because it is far away from Miami and Trump, and because a former colleague of my wife lives there. From Jacksonville it is 2 hours by car to Orlando or to the Kennedy Space Center. Not sure if this is a good idea :-/<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-J.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>-------- Original message --------<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>From: Pieter Steenekamp <<a href="mailto:pieters@randcontrols.co.za">pieters@randcontrols.co.za</a>> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Date: 7/1/21 10:12 (GMT+01:00) <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <<a href="mailto:friam@redfish.com">friam@redfish.com</a>> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The Dream of Florida <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I've spent about 8 months in total in the US on different trips both for pleasure and work and visited a number of states.<br><br>Every person is different, so I don't really want to give a recommendation, but if parallel universes do exists and I could recommend myself in another universe that has not been to the US, I would recommend to do the East Coast, including maybe a subset (I would not include too much for one visit) of Boston, New York, Washington and then Kennedy Space Centre, Fort Lauderdale and Miami in Florida.<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Thu, 1 Jul 2021 at 08:15, Jochen Fromm <<a href="mailto:jofr@cas-group.net">jofr@cas-group.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='border:none;border-left:solid #CCCCCC 1.0pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 6.0pt;margin-left:4.8pt;margin-right:0in'><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>We are planning a vacation in the USA next year, if we are still healthy and do not lose our jobs. What do you think is the best sunshine state to relax, Florida or California? Or maybe New Mexico? The best time for Florida is probably spring or early summer before the hurricanes? Or is Florida in a crisis now too?<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><a href="https://slate.com/business/2021/06/miami-condo-collapse-florida-building-industry-crisis.html">https://slate.com/business/2021/06/miami-condo-collapse-florida-building-industry-crisis.html</a><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>-J.<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal>- .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. .<br>FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv<br>Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 <a href="http://bit.ly/virtualfriam">bit.ly/virtualfriam</a><br>un/subscribe <a href="http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com">http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com</a><br>FRIAM-COMIC <a href="http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/">http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/</a><br>archives: <a href="http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/">http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/</a><o:p></o:p></p></blockquote></div></div></body></html>