happy 235th anniversary America

SmarterThanYou said:
on this day in 1775, the battles of lexington and concord started the Revolutionary war with the 'shot heard round the world'.


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The true battle is nothing like depicted in popular lore. An excellent historical text on the subject is Lexington and Concord, by Arthur Bernon Tourtellot, written in 1959.

On page 181 and 189 there is a description of the English using artillery for the first time by sending a four pound ball through Reverend Jonas Clarke's meetinghouse from 1000 yards, causing an immediate retreat. The ball "killed no one but seemed to have considerable psychological effect as the militia saw the ball hit the meetinghouse, go in the front wall, and emerge from the back wall over the pulpit".
 
Nothing like patriots day around here comparable to Saint patties even. Have a few Sam Adams and watch a reenactment of the battles, check out the Boston marathon, or perhaps a morning Sox game or evening bruins playoff game.
 
Chap, that would be the only advantage I can find about living in the NE. ;) I would love to be there on days like this...as well as other holidays commemorating events in our great nation's history.
 
leaningright said:
Chap, that would be the only advantage I can find about living in the NE. ;) I would love to be there on days like this...as well as other holidays commemorating events in our great nation's history.
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aww plenty to love about new England if you can stomach the cold winters. :good4u:
 
Yea, cold Winters. Don't like those either. We had a little over 2 foot of snow here all Winter long. You guys get that in an afternoon snow shower. I spend way too much time outside for such Winters. When it snows here I am out the back door with my .410 and beagle trailing along. Snow there might keep me in the house for too many days straight and then that could cause a divorce. :)
 
Southern Man said:
Winters were noting. Its the taxes and the whole police-state thing.
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Ohh, taxes. I have to admit that I wouldn't like them either but don't ever consider them when I think about the differences. I just know I wouldn't be able to do the things I like to do. I also wouldn't be able to live as well as I live on the $40,000 per year that I make....due not only to taxes but to the cost of living as well. I mean my house payment is only $450 per month right now.
 
Southern Man said:
Winters were noting. Its the taxes and the whole police-state thing.
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True that, you will pay 4-5K a year real-estate tax on a 2000sf home, 5% state income tax, 6.25% sales tax, and of course tolls.

Good news is you will make 15-20% more per year here.
 
Its the essential role that New England played in producing the Revolution that has always earned my respect. Also, from colonial times into the postwar, its inhabitants created the greatest culture, institutions, governments, and values in the whole of America. Though it has largely betrayed all of these values, and shifted from ultra paleoconservatism to leftism, the institutions remain strong and intact to the present day.


I always date America's birthday to June 21, 1788, because that is the day New Hampshire became the 9th state to ratify the Constitution. Previously, I used March 4, 1789, because that's when Washington was inaugurated and the document truly went into effect. Essentially, this June 21 the country will be 222 years old.
 
Chapdog said:
True that, you will pay 4-5K a year real-estate tax on a 2000sf home, 5% state income tax, 6.25% sales tax, and of course tolls.

Good news is you will make 15-20% more per year here.
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That's what my boss said before I left my engineering job in Boston for an engineering job in Syracuse, but I got a 20% raise by moving. The housing costs were a lot less in Syracuse so I got a raise that way as well.

When I left Syracuse for the Yadkin Valley, NC the housing costs were about the same, but the real estate taxes were about 70% less, and we got more services. And the schools are better.

The house I grew up in near Boston is smaller than mine, much older, smaller lot, no neighborhood pool, wood sided instead of brick, and is currently valued at four times what mine's worth. And my tax rate is less; I pay $3200 for 3100sf, not including a full finished basement which is my office.
 
T&A said:
Its the essential role that New England played in producing the Revolution that has always earned my respect. Also, from colonial times into the postwar, its inhabitants created the greatest culture, institutions, governments, and values in the whole of America. Though it has largely betrayed all of these values, and shifted from ultra paleoconservatism to leftism, the institutions remain strong and intact to the present day.


I always date America's birthday to June 21, 1788, because that is the day New Hampshire became the 9th state to ratify the Constitution. Previously, I used March 4, 1789, because that's when Washington was inaugurated and the document truly went into effect. Essentially, this June 21 the country will be 222 years old.
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The period under the Articles of Confederation is just as valid.

The constitution is the beginning of federation, not the beginning of the republic.
 
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