Where to move?

[Mark W]

I have lived in Louisiana, Florida, Pennsylvania, West Virginia for a short time, and now Ohio.

At some point I will want to move back towards the south unless we decide to do the snowbird thing for a while. We really like our place in Ohio.

Right now our short list of states is Tennessee, Texas, and Florida in no particular order.

 

[redrockranger]

What is the value of a property with $50K in property taxes? It's been a couple if decades but my first house didn't cost that much.

Local government spending is out of control. In IOWA. We have a 28E agreement that allows one entity to give dollars to another for a project. Needs to be repealed.

 

[redrockranger]

Could very well be all the Plum Creek- Weyerhaeuser land west of Kalispell down Hubbard dam road and Thompson River Rd. I know somebody from Texas bought a crap load there recently.
I dont even know if there's half of the old Plum Creek million acres left, I believe last I looked it was down to 400,00 acres that wasn't sold off.

Could that already harvested lumber be in CHINA ?

 

[L.Sherm]

Could that already harvested lumber be in CHINA ?

Couldn't tell ya, lumber and plywood I know. I do know I saw the writing on the wall when P.C. sold to Weyerhaeuser saw the same thing 35 years ago in Washington state with Scott Paper company

 

[redrockranger]

Couldn't tell ya, lumber and plywood I know. I do know I saw the writing on the wall when P.C. sold to Weyerhaeuser saw the same thing 35 years ago in Washington state with Scott Paper company

My conservative { Republican }U. S. Senator @ 89 { ? } just doesn't get it. I came to the conclusion that he is a closet Conservative DEMOCRAT. Senator we need term limits.

 

[L.Sherm]

I used to laugh at Plum Creek at the full page ads that they would take out in the Daily Interlake newspaper claiming to be sustainable forestry, what a joke anybody who worked in the timber industry like me at the time new it was.
When they put a new CEO in place who was a developer and classified some of there ground Higher Better Use you knew it was over, every single tree that had a 2x4 was cut and put on a truck down the road.

 

[dryhumor]

By golly this IS a ten year old thread…. Wish those date stamps had bigger print.

Meh, still useful info. A lot has changed in our country in the last ten years. I imagine more people are on the move in the last three or 4 years, than they were ten years ago.

 

[Dgd6mm]

If I was a young man I'd be going to South Dakota or to my property in Wyoming.

 

[cmysix]

Alabama everything you asked for and more, houses from 50.000 to millions you chose, fly fishing here and in Geogia , fresh water fishing on day salt the next, hog hunting. we consider them varmint's, but have all the others too, low taxes, red state your vote counts. FTF firearms sales between residents, no permits

 

[Texas Solo]

I left MD on 2007 for the same reasons.
Nanny state and too expensive.
Went to TX for 10 years. Much better, but has it's cons too. Folks always mention no income tax, but you WILL pay more in crazy high property tax. Sales tax varies, but I was at 8.25%.
The illegal aliens are getting worse each year. The crime rate in major cities has skyrocketed & gangs are in most of the big cities like Houston. I left TX in 2019 for Alabama. BEST MOVE EVER! No income tax on any retirement income.
No property tax over 65. Housing is very reasonable. Alabama is very Conservative & religious. Very gun friendly too. Plenty of hunting & fishing, all types. Stay away from Birmingham or Montgomery as they can have some bad areas. As mentioned, Huntsville is nice, but there's plenty of small rural towns to chose from.

 

[markT]

What is going to interesting is what is going to happen to the blue states and cities over time. Everything seems to switch back and force over long cycles. The blue libs have won. And now what? Keep on taxing and spending? Oh wait, presidents will spend billions on green jobs that employ unions and keep ‘em voting.. rinse and repeat.

 

[Brians356]

Growing up in Idaho, I was puzzled by Louisiana's license plate "Sportsman's Paradise". I thought that's where I was living! Elk, moose, mule deer, whitetail deer, pronghorns, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, black bear, grizzly bear, three species of marmots, prairie dogs, ground squirrels, tree squirrels, chinook salmon, steelhead, cutthroat, rainbow, brook and lake trout, white sturgeon, largemouth and smallmouth bass, whitefish, catfish, turkey, pheasant, valley quail, mourning dove, collared dove, blue grouse, ruffed grouse, sage grouse, sharp-tailed grouse, chukar partridge, grey partridge, mountain lion, bobcat, marten, fisher, mink, wolverine, red fox, kit fox, coyote, and now again plenty of grey wolves. Just off the top of my head. Of course no alligators, so there's that ...
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[snert]

Growing up in Idaho, I was puzzled by Louisiana's license plate "Sportsman's Paradise". I thought that's where I was living. Elk, moose, mule deer, whitetail deer, pronghorns, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, black bear, grizzly bear, three species of marmots, prairie dogs, ground squirrels, salmon, steelhead, cutthroat, rainbow, brook and lake trout, white sturgeon, largemouth and smallmouth bass, whitefish, catfish, turkey, pheasant, quail, mourning dove, collared dove, blue grouse, ruffed grouse, sage grouse, chukar partridge, grey partridge, mountain lion, bobcat, marten, fisher, mink, wolverine, and now again plenty of grey wolves. Just off the top of my head. Of course no alligators, so there's that ...
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Idaho it is!

 

[leakeyjohn]

Salt Lake city Utah. But I live in Wyoming..

We live in Logan Ut. It was at my wifes insistance and the house is very nice. Salt Lake area is a huge metropolitan area with all the +and- that they have. Logan is nice from March to October sometimes a month more.

 

[DShortt]

I have to say that I spent 50 years building houses for people with a lot more money than I’ll ever have, some were affluent some not but in all those years I never once thought that they were better than I or counted their money or felt they were better parents or felt my kids couldn’t hang with their kids.
Every one here has value and positive input to share, please don’t feel as you don’t belong.

I had to think about this for a bit. The hypocrisy is what riled me up. Money don't make the man. That much I've known for a long time.

Thanks for your reply.

 

[Infrequent Shooter]

IOWA SUCKS don't come here. Too cold, too hot, too humid, bugs are terrible, and then the locusts come. But the worst part is the conservatives. They're controlling the State Government and forcing us to pay a flat tax....woe is me....

Iceland and Greenland.

 

[snert]

Iceland and Greenland.

Didnt trump buy that?

 

[Kracken McGraw]

I had to think about this for a bit. The hypocrisy is what riled me up. Money don't make the man. That much I've known for a long time.

Thanks for your reply.

Yes Sir and 80% of those that act like they have the money, probably just have a lot of debt.

 

[INTJ]

I am enjoying N. Idaho. Moved here in Jan 2021 from Oregon. Even though ID has both a sales tax and an income tax, the cost of living is less here than either OR or WA. Property takes here are a third of what they were in Western Oregon, but house prices are high because this is a place conservatives are escaping to.

We have four seasons. We do have a real winter, but it only seems to last from the last week of Nov to the first week of Jan. During that time the slow plows are busy and a snowblower is a very good idea to keep the driveway clear. Summers are hot in Jul and Aug.

 

[L.Sherm]

this is a place conservatives are escaping to

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.