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Thank You Moses...your answer was the one I was expecting about stress levels, your Authority on the matter validates mine...and doesn't make it seem like I am a complainer.

Friendships exist on several levels...I would say "Close" and "Casual." I have a handfull of Close friends that I have known for years...it takes time and patience to develop these bonds of trust...they do not happen overnight. These people I have stayed in contact with throughout my sojourn here in LV. The more Cassual ones I have not kept in much contact with. I also have my neighbors which also have the same legal problem as I did (my case has been settled), and as such I have a "close" friendship developing there...but the casual end is pretty weak....

I would say Legal Suits are Hughly Stressfull even in the best of circumstances...they drag on and on raking you over the coals never knowing what the next turn of events or BS is going to be...this is the event upon arriving in an unknown town that ripped the bottom out of my boat emotionally....I felt like I just had to gut it out, you have no other choich... I have survived it and have now setteld the case, I now have to repair the house (late february) and make a number of decisions....

I personally think that I am in a period of thawing out after the Legal Suit...now I can allow myself to feel how hard it has been... and give myself some freedom... but the important thing is for ME TO REMEMBER is that I NEED MY FRIENDS....and to keep telling them how I feel...I must admit that recently here I forgot my own axiom...and have paid a price for it, by feeling completely isolated... and that my friends is a scary place to be...Hmmm somehow I think certain members of this Board should being listening closely here...

BTW: I have had 3 people tell me now to get out of this House because of the bad vibe....I think that is good advice...