7th Most Miserable City in the U.S.

This morning, I read that my town ranks 7th as the most miserable city in the U.S. I know it has been hot and all of that stuff, but really? I wondered who they interviewed.

Right up there with the jabs from Hollywood it seems Gallup polls are getting into the action. It makes me laugh. Somebody always knows someone from Bakersfield. I think one of the neatest stories was I have a friend who lives in England. I had mailed her a box for her birthday. She wasn't home when they delivered it so the postman left it with the neighbors next door. She told me later that she went next door and knocked on the door to get her package and the neighbors came to the door all smiling and happy and asked her whom did she know in Bakersfield? She told them and they told her how they had lived here.

It is a giant melting pot filled with lots and lots of people. Bakersfield is now one of the only cities in California that is coming out of the recession not broke. Our Governor, Mr. Jerry Moonbeam Brown if he had his way would wipe us off the map. He hates Bakersfield and makes no bones about it.

One of the things I love about it is when Laura Bush was working to get the Karren People out of Burma because they were being tortured and stuff by the generals in that country. We have a large population of Burmese people who have made this their home.  I had the wonderful joy and privileged of being invited to the New Year Celebration. Me and my family were a few of the white people invited and to be introduced to their food and their culture. Sometimes I think we need a tiny statue of liberty standing at our county line because we have so many people that come here yearning to be free.

 So of course, when I read that we are the 7th most miserable I wonder about that. My family came here because of the dust bowl and because of WW ll but it is home and I am thankful this is where I live. Though I might have to move soon for the boys to find wives. My son came home from college to tell me about this girl he met. " He said, " I thought maybe I should come home and ask you her name before I went any further because I was thinking I might be related to her. " I asked what her name was and he told me and I said, " Yep, she is your cousin." So maybe it is time to branch out.

Have a great Thursday,
~Kim~