In 2009, following a job, JilBee and her partner T (who requests to receive correspondence as Dr. Knife) moved from their dusty, lead-paint lined (and yet beloved) apartment in downtown Portland, Oregon, for a new adventure in a remote small town in the American Midwest. It's the region from which both hail, though it's been about ten years since either has been stuck behind a tractor, seen a Friday night sports show dedicated entirely to high school football, mowed a lawn, or left the house with doors unlocked (okay, they still don't do that).
As long as there's Netflix and the Internet you can live anywhere, right? In this blog, Jilbee attempts to explore and chronicle: What's with the red state/blue state thing--or is it the rural and urban (and wealth) divide widening, and what are the consequences? Is it important to have roots, and in the modern world does anyone, and how does anyone, and what do they look like? What is it about where you live that shapes you,and what is simply myth? Nostalgia? And if so, how is this nostalgia particular to those who once left the Midwest, and who find themselves returned.
In the past ten years, JilBee has lived in the U.S. Midwest, Southwest, and Northwest. She doesn't have anything against the East Coast, or other countries for that matter.