It's a bargain to live in Upstate

this from a Forbes survey, cited in the paper this morning....stable housing market is the big factor.....36F on my morning walk.....as I was going down Pitts, the guy driving the leaf vacuum truck stopped to talk....he said he had grown up right down the block....he told me that where the barber shop is now there used to be a pretty rowdy beer bar....that makes sense, the place looks like an old bar, with a big gravel and grass parking area around it.....and a couple of blocks from the mill would have been a good place for a beer joint.....the storm that was out West is headed this way, it looks pretty close on the radar, already crossed over from Georgia, so another walk this morning is iffy....