"Memphis Jim" wrote in message
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Kyle:

I moved from St. Louis to Memphis seven years ago gasp. I dream of
going
back to a place as horrible for flyfishing as St. Louis. It sure beats
Memphis. In fact, with the exception of barbeque, blues, bible thumpers,
just about everything in St. Louis is better than in Memphis. Despite all
its (many) problems, in my opinion, St. Louis is one of the great American
cities; a great place to live- and I'm not even from there.

Memphis Jim
(The Pacific Northwest still looks like where me and the doctor will end
up)


It's interesting - St Louis is generally regarded, if it is regarded at all,
as kind of a mystery place somewhere between Paducah and Davenport . . .
somewhere upstream from Cairo. Yeah - that's it - the place with the golden
arch, right?

Actually, you're right. It is a pretty good place to live. After you get
used to it and learn how to pronounce all those French street names like
"Gravois." Where I work, we find that the best people to recruit are people
who used to live here and now live in other metropolii such as Boston, New
York, or Moorseville.

And it's the home of toasted ravioli, Scott Joplin, Chuck Berry, Budweiser,
and the Cardinals. And now the Rams, who've been here for almost ten years
so St Louis is almost ready to claim them. Even if you don't like Budweiser,
the fact that the biggest business in town brews beer says something!

Finally, I really can be in a wild trout stream in an hour.

Bob