That F-150 I ride past on my way home with Missouri plates 🛻

You know, I find it quite odd to pass by that pickup truck I ride past most days on my bike with Missouri plates. Why on earth would anybody choose to move to New York from Missouri? The cold winter tundra, the expensive and highly regulated state?

Now I get that my notion of Missouri probably isn’t the lived experience of many if not most Missourians. Probably most are not off-gridders, don’t have burn barrels, cattle or hogs, own lots of guns, don’t live in little shacks, sheds-to-houses and other minimal ways of living close to the land.

Still it strains my imagination to think why anybody would move from Missouri to New York, especially Albany, NY. Especially somebody who own a pickup truck.