Where to move?

[J.d. Popkes]

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

Define “in the sticks in MD”?

 

[rjtfroggy]

I always dreamed of moving south when I retired, somewhere where neighbors were not an everyday sight out the window. Now I just want to downsize. Something happened while I waited for the wife to retire, I GOT OLD, body parts are worn out and in need of replacement, and I have realized I just can't do what I used to do.

 

[M-61]

I never let the old man in.
However proximity to a VA hospital is mandatory. If not, availability of reloading supplies won't be of any concern.
NY is terrible, BUT the VA system is one of the best, or I'd be long gone. All VA's are not even close to being alike so it has been a hard search.
Except for the VA, this state stands for nearly everything I dislike. Then again finding another state .......well that playing field is shrinking faster each day.

 

[Gary in MD]

Define “in the sticks in MD”?

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

 

[Brians356]

Define “in the sticks in MD”?

Look for yourself. The gray shaded areas, and much of the light yellow. From 2010 census, but I guarantee density hasn't increased much anywhere. In fact MD is currently losing population.


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[COLT45SA]

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.

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.

 

[COLT45SA]

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.

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~!

 

[COLT45SA]

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..

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~!!!

 

[DShortt]

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~!

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.

 

[DogBuster]

Grew up in west PA.......moved here to Utah in '80

So I'm native now.......

I live here for the wide open spaces.....76% public land

Adventures await in any direction....mostly southern or eastern Utah for me

Three hours to SLC....the concrete jungle....no thank you

Retired 12 years ago....wife soon to do the same

No where is perfect...pic recent outing

I describe Utah as.....'You can kill a horse.....or wear out an off road machine'

 

[INTJ]

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.

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.....

 

[DShortt]

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.....

Good point. You can't move away from problems. They'll follow you.

 

[L.Sherm]

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"
You'll see just look at the jail rosters, watch the political movement in your state and local elections, school boards etc.
Change is only inevitable if the people moving in want the change.

 

[DShortt]

Never understood why folks move to a rural area and set about paving the gravel roads and voting for tax increases to put in strip mall,convince store and 6 screen movie theater.

Why did you move? You already had that.

 

[itchyTF]

I just drove thru some pretty country in eastern Tennessee. My wife said “we should sell Texas and buy something here.” It was raining!

Fairly close to my neck of the woods.
I was told recently by a long time resident that middle and western TN has higher humidity than eastern. Don’t know if that’s true.

 

[Toddmack]

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

In my simple mind the words "farm" and "street" do not belong in the same sentence. Just my take on it.

 

[J.d. Popkes]

In my simple mind the words "farm" and "street" do not belong in the same sentence. Just my take on it.

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.

 

[Tesoro]

The southern oregon coast - Brookings. no we are more red here than about anywhere so lay off on your lack of gepolitics knowledge!. I got a billion acres of ocean to fish on and 500,000+ acres of public land to hunt on 20 minutes drive. Mediterranean mild climate. 20,000 population in a county as big as many of the states back east.( elk is trophy a friend shot last year. piss me off).

 

[DirtySteve]

I drive 8 miles to my mail box.. Am I in the sticks...? lol.. 75 miles to a Walmart..

 

[Scalloper]

There are plenty of flats along the Texas coast where you can catch redfish on a flyrod in knee deep water

Sadly, public hunting areas are very slim in the whole state of Texas from the few trips I have made there.