[Blindtlk] Best places to live

[Gary Wunder]

I'm not prepared to say that there is a best place for blind people to live.
I will only share my story which is that I came from a town of 216 people
and all it had was a gas station and a post office. If I had decided to live
there or had been forced by circumstance to stay there, my independent
mobility would've been limited to the post office and, I guess if I wanted a
candy bar, the gas station.

One of the things I find very frustrating as a state President is handling
telephone calls from people who want better for themselves but have no
intention of moving from where they now live. If you live in a place small
enough that there is no public transportation and no job opportunities
unless you can drive 30 miles, at some point you have to decide whether your
Desire to earn a living makes it worth the move. I know what it's like to be
dependent on the kindness of others for transportation, and, although I
value this kindness and have sometimes benefited from it, I get very tired
of doing what I need to do on someone else's schedule. Being able to control
something as simple as being able to go where I want to go when I want to go
has made a tremendous difference not only in my economic life but in my
self-concept. I offer this without the least desire to be argumentative. It
is simply my experience.

Gary