[Overpaid Slacker]

Livi -
Perhaps we'll arrange a visit where Sweden and I can audition each other!

I've gotten along famously with every Swede I've met, so it could be a great time. Except for the shipping of 6 cars, a bike, a quad and two truckloads of other toys to Sweden.

The reality is, unless I'm going to switch vocations (which I'm open to, for the right $) I'll need to be close enough to (i) a reasonably sized metropolitan area or (ii) a company that requires sophisticated legal counsel. After 10 years of securities/joint venture/capital markets/international transactions/M&A work, I'm not going to hang out a shingle to do parking tickets and divorces.

Pat - thanks for the insight, NC is looking like a promising candidate. I have family in Charleston (which I'm visiting in 2 weeks) and I've considered moving there, but (1) the heat, (2) the humidity, (3) the lack of a sophisticated legal market/business requiring my skills, and (4) see 1 & 2, above.

Tabby - I really like it out west; especially Colorado. A friend is moving there in a month or so to attend some ridiculously elite gunsmithing school. Parts of WA and OR are supposed to be fantastic. I'd need to stumble on an opportunity out there, however, not having contacts or a real chance to go check it out for myself.

It's not the weather, smartass. Just one more rule/reg today that would otherwise be innocuous enough just broke my back. They're just passing **** b/c they can, w/o thought to additional burdens or need, or anything we'd call reason. And I have a choice whether or not to subject myself to these pinheads' whims. I choose no. And the beauty is, when I leave, there isn't someone clamoring to take my place, to pay my taxes, to bear my share of inane regulatory burden. The last one to leave New York won't have to turn out the lights...

JP