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Lots of rain and big timber clearing storms that wreck houses are frequent now, too frequent... Humidity will melt you in the summer as well. I am a lifelong resident of Tn but I hate it here now, it’s out with the old and in with the “new” and the new isn’t good.I just drove thru some pretty country in eastern Tennessee. My wife said “we should sell Texas and buy something here.” It was raining!
Define “in the sticks in MD”?Me and the wife are contemplating the same kind of move, actually it's been our plan for the last 20 years once we retired. Well now I've been retired for a year and she is just a couple months away. The wife has always wanted the mountains and I told her that was fine with me as long as "Rocky" was in front of mountains. We don't want a big house or to be in a town, we live in the sticks here in MD and would like to keep it that way, maybe be within an hour or so of civilization. Montana? Idaho? Wyoming?
Gary
GeezDefine “in the sticks in MD”?
I'll second that although I live in Florida. Florida's pan-handle is where I'm looking. I've been in Florida since 1972, Back then my area was basically agricultural and the number of places to shoot were too many to count. Over time the population has exploded, places to shoot have disappeared, and I am left with only 2 places to go. One is indoors which I hate, and the other is almost an hours drive away. The pan-handle on the other hand hasn't experienced that growth, and I'm sure there are many, many places one can go to shoot.I think Huntsville, AL might deserve consideration. The quality of life, socio-economics, gun-friendly culture, generally warm weather, not to mention the recent endorsement from Remington.
Lived in central NJ until age 32 trapped in the prison corporate life. I was pretty well paid but the quality of life sucked. Finally got so frustrateg and fed-up that I quit and took family to Florida where jobs for Yankees were few and far between. Toughed it out, survived, opened my own business, and began to thrive.Steve, unreal, I just looked at where you live and thats where I was raised, my sister lives in Woodbury, and my nephew lives in West Deptford! Dad lives in Mantua.
I'd like to meet that fellow, arrange to build a small house on his property which would become his when I passed, and live the rest my life in tranquillity. BTW, I'm 83~!!!I met a fella at the range recently, 82 years old btw.. anyway he mentioned a friend of friend came from Texas and bought 127,000 acres somewhere here in Montana’ I have know idea what that size of ranch would look like but holy crap!! That’s a load of fence wire and post to run..![]()
Where you plan to go to escape the problems you mentioned? You can live in a remote area as a youngster. It gets exponentially more difficult in later years.Lived in central NJ until age 32 trapped in the prison corporate life. I was pretty well paid but the quality of life sucked. Finally got so frustrateg and fed-up that I quit and took family to Florida where jobs for Yankees were few and far between. Toughed it out, survived, opened my own business, and began to thrive.
Now my area which was dominated in '72 by the citrus and cattle industrial industries has withering the past 25 years as we've been invaded by Yankees who are changing the culture. In 1972 r/e taxes and h/o insurance costs were reasonable, but are now out of hand. In '72 there were uncountable numbers of places all very close to shoot. The number today can be counted on one hand with three fingers missing, and they are almost an hour's drive away.
Moving at age 83 will be a challenge, but I'm thinking very seriously about accepting that challenge~!
I should let you tell a good friend of mine that who has lived in Hayden for 32 years that, I suggest a good set of ear plugs.
Good point. You can't move away from problems. They'll follow you.People who stay in the same place for a very long time always complain when things change. Change is inevitable. We can either work to direct it, be overwhelmed by it, or move.....
Thinking its all conservatives moving to N.Idaho and Western Montana is a pipe dream. CHANGE! thats the problem people move because they don't like were they where and wanna change it just like were they came from. For some reason can't just be " When in Rome do as the Romans"People who stay in the same place for a very long time always complain when things change. Change is inevitable. We can either work to direct it, be overwhelmed by it, or move.....
Fairly close to my neck of the woods.I just drove thru some pretty country in eastern Tennessee. My wife said “we should sell Texas and buy something here.” It was raining!
In my simple mind the words "farm" and "street" do not belong in the same sentence. Just my take on it.Geez
Well, compared to Wyoming, I guess we are in the city. Lol
Nothing but farm across the street, woods and then more farms behind my place. A neighbor 150 yards on either side. Shoot rifles /kill deer in my field behind the house.
Does that make me a city slicker?
Gary
I think that people that don’t drive stretches of 100 miles between gas stations have a different definition of the sticks. But I’m certain there’s a lot about populated areas that I’d have to experience to understand.In my simple mind the words "farm" and "street" do not belong in the same sentence. Just my take on it.