{"id":24804,"date":"2007-03-02T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:55:05","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T05:55:05","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T05:55:05","slug":"should_i_move_to_florida_with_my_lib_husband","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2007\/03\/02\/should_i_move_to_florida_with_my_lib_husband\/","title":{"rendered":"Should I Move to Florida with My Lib Husband?"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: Kara in St. Paul, Minnesota. Hi, Kara, welcome to the Open Line Friday edition of our big broadcast.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Hello, Mr. Limbaugh. How are you?<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Fine. I\u2019m <emphasize>Rush, <\/emphasize>by the way. Thank you.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: It\u2019s such an honor to speak with you. I\u2019m a Rush baby, and it was great to talk to Mr. Snerdley, too. You have a wonderful team.<\/line><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125113.Par.0002.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"210\" class=\"alignleft\"\/>RUSH: Thank you. I appreciate that.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Well, we just got done digging out of our second storm in under a week.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Yeah, and in fact National Public Radio in Minnesota was going to do a giant seminar on global warming, and they had to <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.publicbroadcasting.net\/mpr\/events.eventsmain?action=showEvent&#038;eventID=544002\">cancel it<\/a> because of the blizzard.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Further proof of global warming.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Yeah. I have it here in the Global Warming Stack. There\u2019s a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2007\/02\/070228-mars-warming.html\">big story here about Mars<\/a>, by the way, getting a lot hotter. Here it is. ?Minnesota Public Radio presents ?Global Warming, The Home Front,? a public insight forum.? It was supposed to happen last night but they canceled it because of a blizzard.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Well, I\u2019ve been out shoveling doing my Doritos [sic] offsets.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Well, good for you.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: My husband and I have been married for about a year and a half, and he wants to move to Florida. I am conservative. He is not. Since Minnesota has become a wannabe socialist state, it\u2019s starting to look more and more attractive to move away &#8212; and get to a place that has more agreeable tax rates. I was wondering what you think of moving to Florida.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Well, I did it.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Yes.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: And on only a few occasions have I regretted it, for reasons that have nothing to do with Florida or its taxes or its climate. I say, &#8220;Come on down!&#8221; It\u2019s not nearly the liberal state people think, depending on where you live. You can find counties that are totally liberal down here, but you can find a lot of &#8212; and most of Florida is not. It\u2019s basically south Florida that\u2019s dominated by the libs, but you can find plenty of places in this state, especially the Left Coast, Naples, a number of places, all the way up to Tampa, where you\u2019ll be totally at home. Now, your husband might not be. He\u2019s the one that wants to move to Florida?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Well, yes. He wants to move someplace more tropical, someplace that\u2019s on the ocean &#8212; and of course Minnesota is not.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: No, but you have a lot of lakes there. You know where those lakes came from, by the way?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: No.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Minnesota is known for 15,000, 16,000 lakes, the land of lakes. The Los Angeles Lakers were originally the Minnesota Lakers, the Minneapolis Lakers. They were named after the lakes. The lakes came when the last glacier retreated from the last ice age. That warming happened long before humanity was building SUVs and so forth. That\u2019s why you have all the lakes there. So you do have bodies of water but you don\u2019t have an ocean, that\u2019s true.<\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>CALLER: That\u2019s correct.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Now, I don\u2019t know that it\u2019s relevant to the story, but I\u2019m intrigued. You mentioned your husband is a liberal and you\u2019re not. Does that have anything to do with moving to Florida?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Well, no. It\u2019s strictly climate change for him and not the human created kind.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Are you both Minnesota natives?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: No. Neither of us is. He is actually not from the US. I\u2019m from the Midwest, but not Minnesota.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Where\u2019s he from?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: (Pause.) A small country in Asia.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: A small country in Asia. Well, which country would that be?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: (Laughing.) Nepal.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Nepal.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Yes.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: All right. Well, that\u2019s understandable that he\u2019d want something closer to home, tropical and all that. Does the ideology disparity between the two of you affect the relationship in any meaningful way?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Extremely meaningful ways, yes.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: It does? Did you know that he was a commie before you married him?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Not commie, no, but I certainly knew he did not enjoy hanging around Republicans, and I consider myself a conservative first, so that didn\u2019t bother me.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: You know, love is blind. Now, it can work if both of your ideologies are not the defining characteristics of your existence. There\u2019s no strife in the marriage here, right? This move has nothing to do with that?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: There has been a lot of strife but we\u2019re making a lot of progress and working out the differences and I have a lot of respect for him. I would be so happy to bring joy to his life, so moving may be part of that.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: (sigh) You know, you\u2019re gonna&#8230; Number one: do you want the brazen, blunt truth?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Of course.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: You can\u2019t &#8220;bring happiness&#8221; to his life or anybody else\u2019s except your own &#8212; and that\u2019s how you do it, by being happy yourself. But it\u2019s up to <emphasize>him <\/emphasize>to be happy. Number two: it\u2019s going to be really, really hard for him to be happy if he\u2019s a real liberal.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: True. I\u2019m having some influence on him, anyhow.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Well, I know. You\u2019re a wife. I mean that happens. But, look, this is none of my business. I\u2019m just trying to get the whole picture here because sometimes a geographic move &#8212; while looked upon as a solution to relationship problems and so forth &#8212; really won\u2019t matter a hill of beans. You\u2019re thinking he\u2019ll be happier?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Yes, and I refused to move during the time when we were having our worst troubles, but since we have come together so well&#8230;<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Well, if you\u2019re not from Minnesota and you\u2019re from somewhere in the Midwest, why were you so ardently opposed to relocating?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Well, I\u2019ve been here since \u201998, and I love the people here.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: They\u2019re a bunch of libs up there!<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: But not, my friends. My friends are wonderful.<\/line><\/p>\n<p><BR\/>RUSH: Well, that\u2019s tough. Moving and leaving friends and making new ones, that\u2019s tough. I don\u2019t know what your economic circumstances are. A lot of people (800 people a day) are moving to Florida, and depending on where you go, property values are up or down. It depends on what part of the state that you choose to live. Do you guys own a house now or do you rent?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Yes. We own a house.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: You own a house. All right. Well, and you would seek to do the same here?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Yes.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Does your husband work?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: He does.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Amazing. He\u2019s a liberal and works. Okay.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Well, he\u2019s in the immigration process so he has his work permits and we\u2019re renewing that for another year.<\/line><BR\/><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125113.Par.0010.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"205\" height=\"261\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: You just keep adding cherries to the top of this ice cream cone. Well, let\u2019s get back to the root question. I would encourage anybody who wants to move to where they want, to go to do it. Most of the limitations we place on ourselves, Kara, are self-imposed, and the biggest self-imposition that we have on ourselves is where we choose to live. I tell this theory of mine to as many people as ask me. A lot of people complain about their opportunities are not all that great. <\/line><BR\/>I say, ?Where do you live?? <\/line><BR\/> ?Well, I live in a small town.? <\/line><BR\/> ?Okay. Do you like living there?? <\/line><BR\/>?Yeah, I do.? <\/line><BR\/>?Well, you\u2019re going to be bound by the limitation, then, of choosing to live there.? <\/line><BR\/>There is all kinds of opportunity in the country, but it may not be what you want where you live. You have to be willing to <emphasize>chase <\/emphasize>the opportunity if that\u2019s what you want, but if you choose not to you can\u2019t blame anybody but yourself &#8212; and it\u2019s not <emphasize>blame, <\/emphasize>really, but that\u2019s an example of the self-imposed limitation. Any change, major change, that\u2019s difficult &#8212; precisely because it\u2019s change, and I can understand that it\u2019s unsettling. It\u2019s probably more that than whether or not it\u2019s Florida. You\u2019d probably be asking me this if you were deciding to move to Texas.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: True.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: So if it\u2019s just a matter of fear over change and your husband wants to and his happiness is important to you &#8212; the relationship, that\u2019s important, and you really have no objections to it &#8212; you can find any number of places here to live where you would love the lifestyle.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Good enough for me.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: And you\u2019ll find plenty of economic opportunity here. There are all kinds of people moving here, and there are opportunities expanding here to accommodate them.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Well, we may run into each other on a golf course someday.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: You play golf?<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: (Laughing.) Not as well as you. Of course, I don\u2019t smoke cigars while I golf either.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: I don\u2019t play that well. I just like being out there: fresh air, the green grass, the manure, fertilizer. No, it\u2019s a fun state, and you live outside and they have outside activities year round.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Yeah. We do up here. They\u2019re just different types.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Yeah, the ice festival and that sort of thing. Yeah. But you know what I\u2019m talking about, where you wear shorts year round.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Yeah. You wouldn\u2019t want to do that here.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: No. Except indoors. All right, Kara, I have to run, but all the best.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Thank you, sir.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: My fingers are crossed for you here.<\/line><BR\/>CALLER: Appreciate that.<\/line><BR\/>RUSH: Take care. Adios. <\/line><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: Kara in St. Paul, Minnesota. Hi, Kara, welcome to the Open Line Friday edition of our big broadcast.CALLER: Hello, Mr. Limbaugh. How are you?RUSH: Fine. I\u2019m Rush, by the way. Thank you.CALLER: It\u2019s such an honor to speak with you. 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