Relocation

It seems very likely, in the upper 90% likely, that in the next month or so I will change jobs and relocate to a new state, where I'll be in the northern Southeast. Not too far from where my original Colonial ancestors arrived in America in the latest few years of the 1600s or the earliest few years of the 1700s. Although that's neither here nor there, as they didn't stay on the shores of South Carolina for long, and I consider my more immediate ancestors to be backwoods Georgia people, because they moved out west. 

"My people" are therefore pretty solid backwoods Dukes of Hazzard southerners on my father's side, and I tend to favor that culture and personality in my own personality, in other words. My mother's side, on the other hand, were Massachusetts natives who had gone west with the pioneers and grew up as rural farmers in the Rocky Mountain west for generations. My mom still lived in tiny little towns in the countryside of the intermountain West region. I did not grow up rural, although the modest sized town that I grew up in in Texas could probably best be described as suburbia-like, except not attached at the time to any major metropolitan urban area (I think as urban sprawl has grown, that's arguably not true anymore. But I haven't lived in the town I grew up in for ~25 years now. I've felt pretty fish out of water in many ways living in the suburban northern Midwest; this relocation will bring me closer to home in one way; into the South (although I wonder how culturally or even genetically the South still remains the South these days) but farther away from the West, which is my other half of heritage.

I've said before that I feel in many ways more at home culturally in the rural south but more at home geographically in the west. I like the cooler, drier, sunnier weather and the beautiful mountains, valleys, and deserts of the American West. Of course, as noted above, the South isn't necessarily the South anymore as the whole nation has been in commotion and people have moved all over, so I've kind of decided that a solid mostly rural red state like Wyoming or Montana is my preferred place to live, with even western South Dakota or Nebraska or some place like that being an acceptable alternative. But moving someplace like western (but not West) Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, etc. would still be seen as an improvement from my current situation, at least in terms of "feeling at home."

Where am I going with this? My "D&D" game, which only ever had one session before we got too busy and it never seemed to happen again, will be unlikely to have any success in the future. We'll be too dispersed. However, maybe there's an opportunity to find new players in my new location. Regardless, I'm starting to have some new thoughts and stuff going on with regards to DFX, so look for some new content related to that setting later in the summer. 

I'm always hesitant to open up more new areas, but I do kind of like the idea of what's left of abandoned Hyperborea is a Hoth-like mammoth tundra with many glaciers and year-round snow cover.