*hugs*

... yeah.

This is about the time where, in real life, I'd offer you a cup of coffee (or the beverage of your choice), help you pack, and regale you with stories to help take some of the edge off. And tell you that you're a good person and did nothing wrong, and do that friend thing where I 'm totally allowed to get mad at them on your behalf, because I don't know them and you're far too nice to ever do anything like that.

Hmm, I can still do that last bit, can't I?

You're a good person, you did nothing wrong. You didn't deserve any of this treatment, and nothing you could have done differently during the time you were there would have imprived their reactions. You'll move out and have a wonderful life, and they'll be left with the ashes of what sounds like it could have been a beautiful relationship. Once you're gone they'll miss you so much they can't stand it, and realize just what they lost.

So there, meanies. *phhhhhbbbbt*

They are terrible, terrible people. I'm sorry you have to endure their company for any length of time. (I also feel sorry for them because they'll never have the mental capacity to realize what totally absolute dickwads they are.)

Grrrrrrr. I'm standing right behind Mags, helping you pack in e-magicworldland. And you know how mean I can be to people I don't know for reasons I make up and have high probabilities of being right. :-p

You and your family will get out, 'mano. And when you leave, those ungrateful mmphpfgrrrz* will be reeling from the huge empty hole in their lives without all of you.

*See, I censored myself; I'm trying to be nice.

The good times are all gone, it's time for moving on as the song says, although that place may never have held many good times anyway.
Just look forward now, skip the useless waste of energy looking backward.
You have to concentrate on living elsewhere, and eventually get away from the mania the population is undergoing in Oregon.
If you really have to stay there, you better face the fact that you are in a subtle war zone that may soon turn into something much more raw.
Pushing out the workers will only do damage to that economy so they are shooting themselves in the foot.
Meanwhile, again I hope you find a comfortable zone to live in soon.

They say this because they are thieves themselves, of material goods and of much else. Some people just *cannot imagine what it would be like not to be a thief.*

I am *not over* what my family got up to doing during Katrina/Rita. Sometimes it is useful to remind myself of what jerks they really were, because otherwise, I start thinking there must have been, or must be something I could do to fix it unilaterally.

So yes, look ahead and all, but when in doubt, remember, these people are jerks!

What cero said.

My mother once lied and said I made her fear for her life (WTF?!) and my brothers and sisters didn't speak to me for seven years, during which time my son died and I had no birth family to which to turn. Never have said I'm sorry, any of 'em.

Folks do the best they can. Imagine having the way they're treating you right now be the best you can do...yech!

*shakes head and resumes help with the psychic packing*

"When going through hell, it's best to keep going." -- Winston Churchill

I think about that often.

Sending good energy and prayers for your little family. Soon this will just be a bad memory.

they must have had some very bad experiences with humanity or are selfish f-wits. it could go either way.

"... it is important not to grow bitter or generalize an entire shade of people because of one or two or three or...."

i get told this once a week! :)

I wish your fam the best.