Why Do People Live There?

Ever wonder why people live in some of the most senseless places? The Bedouins always come to mind first. Go back a couple of thousand years. There you are in a desert. No water except the occasional oasis. You ride for days and days on a camel to get there. Nothing grows there. Have to wonder what they ate.

Why didn’t they head south until they found grass? There they’d have a lot of water and could eat. In fact, they could have celebrated the first night with a huge camel roast.

That’s the Bedouins. I’m thinking of the United States. Why do people live in some of the spots they do? Places like Alaska. Okay, the Inuit came over the land bridge from Mongolia and got stuck here when the bridge sank. Granted, Mongolia has it’s own unlivable conditions but it’s still better than Alaska. It would almost have to be.

Nothing grows in Alaska either, especially trees. The Eskimos built their homes from ice. They had to crawl through a tunnel to get in. When they got in it was the same as out. They had furs down to try to keep their butts from getting frostbite. They huddled around a small fire fueled by blubber. They couldn’t even lean back and get comfortable. If they did they got stuck to the walls. What were they thinking?

Then there’s Maine. I don’t know why but there it is. It used to be part of Massachusetts. Then they wanted to be a state of their own. Massachusetts was glad to see them go. It raised the average IQ in Massachusetts by 20 points- at least. One thing about Maine is that you don’t have to worry about your daughter when she’s on a date. Between the boy’s 78 layers of clothing and your daughter’s 109 layers nothing is going to happen.

Let’s head south to Mississippi. Their simply is no excuse for this place. the state motto is- “Someone has to be last”.

Louisiana is a special case. Napoleon sold it to Thomas Jefferson cheap. One of them got taken on the deal and it may have been Tom. Louisiana is the only place that falling in your yard might cause you to drown. They have to bury people standing up.

When the Frenchies in Canada started getting arrogant with the British, the Brits didn’t fool around with them. They shipped them to the worst place they could think of- Louisiana. The swamps. The Bayou. The French took to this like a bear to a camper. Talk to one of them and you won’t understand one word of what they say. They can’t even talk to each other. They like it that way.

Outside of Las Vegas, why live in Nevada? It’s just a wasteland. We used it for years to test nuclear weapons. As the Pentagon PR man said,“ Didn’t change the landscape, so who would know or care?”