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Topic: So, where would you like to move?
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Leonard
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posted June 05, 2006 11:15 AM
I read, with interest, that home prices are slowing down. How is your situation, and are you looking to buy, sell, stay, or what? Naturally, I am looking for a nice area to relocate, just have not found it, yet. What you think, what's important? LB
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Tim Behle
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posted June 05, 2006 11:52 AM
What is important to me is probably something that most people want to avoid.
I prefer solitude. I love my music, and I have four speakers outside the house, and they play all day long. I couldn't do that if I had neighbors. I also like to do load development for my rifles. I'll work up three shots, and go out to my shooting bench on my back porch to try them. Then let the barrel cool while I load three more. I can't do that with neighbors.
I've thought quite a bit about replacing this house, there are just a lot of things that I wish I had done differently with it. But when and if I do, it will probably be on the same site or along the wash to the South of us.
My closest neighbors are a mile away, but if they got to with in a quarter mile, I'd probably start looking for some new land to build on.
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bigben
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posted June 05, 2006 02:45 PM
I do not think I would move outside of PA but maybe move to the northern tier of pa. I have a lot of family here. I have been to other places around this country of ours and I would think either new mexico or arizona would be next. or canada.
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Steve Craig
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posted June 05, 2006 05:07 PM
Staying right here.
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sparkyibewlocal440
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posted June 05, 2006 05:10 PM
I'm been wondering the same thing Leonard.Be retiring in the near future,looking for that small town within a couple hours drive of a big town.Need's to be close to good Coyote country and other varmints.Don't care much for the damn wind,been living with it for 40 years.Somewhere in Southern Idaho or perhaps around Elko NV.,don't know,any suggestions?
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Jack Roberts
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posted June 05, 2006 07:10 PM
I traveled all over the country for 7 years trying to decide where to retire, picked Elko and am glad I did. After being here 5+ years and doing a lot more traveling I have seen no place I think better.
We live here for 1/3 what it cost to live back in Maryland. The weather is reasonable summer and winter and lots of different hunting. This was the smallest town(19,000) that had everything we thought we needed. It has 4 different grocery stores, Super Wal-Mart, K-Mart, Builders-Mart, Home Depot, a hospital, good selection of doctors, nice airport, a 4 year college and friendly people. If you have to have a big city fix, Twin Falls, Boise, Salt Lake City and Reno are all less than 4 hours away.
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yuccabush
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posted June 05, 2006 07:14 PM
I would like to relocate. Not sure where though.
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Andy L
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posted June 05, 2006 07:28 PM
I travel alot with work and have seen damned near everywhere. Seen lots of places I like to or would like to visit.
But, when it comes to living, I dont think I will ever leave right here. I like MO. Pretty country, plenty to do and not too crowded, compared to most.
If I were to leave here, you could probably find me either in the Rawlins area or somewhere in Nevada.
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Cdog911
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posted June 05, 2006 07:30 PM
Kind of a tough, but timely question for me. When dad was alive, I pretty much had decided to stay put, but had often wondered what would keep me here once he was gone. Well, now he is and that question is looming overhead.
Ultimately, I'll end up right back here. Little plot of land that's all mine just east of my hometown of Solomon, Kansas. Sits high in the sandhills and if you look east in the morning, you can see the sun rise. Look west and you're looking right down into town. Walk around a bit and you see that this place has a lot of family history for me. Hommans going back as far as the very earliest 1800's. It's a cemetery. Prairie Mound Cemetery. All of us damned Protestants. (The Catholic cemetery is west of town.)
My mom, dad, all my grandparents, cousins, aunts, uncles, and a whole slew of ancestors I know nothing about are buried on that hillside and best I can figure, I will be, too.
My wife is adopted. She knows nothing about who she really is. To her, a last name is paper only. To me, it's history. Now that she's a Homman, too, seeing all those stones with our name - her name - on them gives her some sense of belonging.
I've spent my entire life hunting and trapping the fields around that cemetery and spent many an afternoon chasing frogs and crawdads in the creek just a quarter-mile to the east. I remember as a kid we'd ride our bikes or hike out to that creek with sack lunches my mom packed for us. We'd wave at the caretaker at the cemetery as we passed by and he'd wave back. He's buried there now. When I drive by now, it makes me think how I came from this Kansas sod and it only seems right that when I leave this world, I go back to her.
As far as where we live between now and when they carry me through those iron gates, I don't much care. I lost my wife for a time several years back to a medical condition that the doctors said would never get any better. Somehow, with His grace, she made it through and our marriage is all the better because of it. It didn't kill us, and we we're sure as hell stronger for having gone down that road. Thinking back on that, and all that's transpired the past few years, I'd be happy just to have her with me, the kids happy and healthy, and the rest of my family around so I have someone to laugh with that looks at the world just like I do. Gimme all that and keep me around to see my babies get married and make babies of their own and I'll be a happy man.
Oh yeah, there needs to be coyotes. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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TA17Rem
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posted June 05, 2006 08:10 PM
Green river Wyoming or central Montana, or GrandJuction Colo, would be some nice places to move to. And there is home here in S.C. Minn. Hmmm.
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The Outdoor Tripp
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posted June 05, 2006 09:06 PM
I'd look for good hunting, fishing, mountains close to prairie and some nice sized lakes with a large town within an hour's drive for healthcare and shopping.
Eastern Oregon is about 90 miles from Boise and a great area for example. I'm sure there are plenty of others.
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Rich Higgins
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posted June 05, 2006 09:38 PM
I would like to retire and buy a motorhome. Park in any RV park or NF in any state where the coyote calling strikes my fancy. I've called in 22 states, that leaves 26 contiguous and Alaska. That should keep me busy into my 90s. By that time coyotes will probably have taken hold in Hawaii. I can spend my last few years on the beach with my howler, a Sceery and a Sony.
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Leonard
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posted June 05, 2006 09:41 PM
Well, as it stands right now, I would like to get the hell out of CA where I have spent most of my life.
I like Nevada and Arizona. Next would be New Mexico, possibly Idaho or Wyoming. After that, could be interested in Utah or Colorado, although CO has become decidedly liberal bent, as has NM. Montana, slight interest in SD, but at least it's not a definate NO.
Completely ruled out: Washington, Oregon, Texas and anything east of the big muddy.
Jack, I clearly remember when every town along the northern Interstate had less than 5,000 population, including Elko. But, I think I would prefer Lovelock or Winnemucca, maybe Battle Mountain or Carlin? I am much more familiar with those areas, having hunted around there since the sixties. But, I have been thinking Gardenerville, too, even Lake Topaz.
Arizona? Somewhere around Tucson, maybe as far north as Oracle, Casa Grande. Snowflake is nice, St John? Too far from civilization.
NM, I like Raton and Taos. Possibly Trinidad?
Beaver, St George, Minersville, possibly Hurricane, UT.
Sure narrows it down, donut? LB
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Locohead
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posted June 05, 2006 10:12 PM
Trinidad Colorado? On the New Mexico border?
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brad h
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posted June 05, 2006 10:35 PM
I couldn't imagine moving from here.
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JD
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posted June 05, 2006 11:02 PM
I kinda like that Trinidad-Raton area too, Northern NM in general is a nice place, of course that`s from a "just passing through" point of view, lots of places I could think of that would be nice to live but personally I have to agree with Rich, why not take your pick & move on down the road whenever you wanted, drop in on some old friends from time to time & call to your hearts content.
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Tim Behle
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posted June 06, 2006 07:50 AM
Leonard,
Since I can't seem to convince you that Vic has killed all of the coyotes in Cochise County, maybe you would like to move here and find out for yourself?
We have three different developers currently building in and around Douglas, who have bought up quite a bit of land and they are determined to make this area into a new retirement community. Homes are starting at about $120,000.
Personally, I like the ones on the Golf course, they are working on a 350 house development there, which includes rebuilding the front nine ( The back nine are in great shape )
Just to the North and east of there is a new 500 house development going in.
The developers in both of these have plans on marketing primarily to CA retiree's
Our Hospital isn't much more than a glorified Clinic at this point, but we do have our own helicopter to take emergencies to Tucson, where two of the top hospitals in the country are located.
Bisbee does have a larger hospital, typical of a small town hospital. And it is only thirty minutes away. If your prescription insurance is lacking, there are a number of full Pharmacia's just a short drive to the south in Mexico, and nearly every Mexican Pharmacist that I have met, speaks good English.
And even a retiree can afford the house cleaners in this area. For $25 and a ride to and from the Port of entry, Rita will clean your house from top to bottom, and scrub everything in between. A friend uses a laundry service in town, I believe a weeks worth of Laundry costs him under $10, which includes a starch and press on his shirts.
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Cal Taylor
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posted June 06, 2006 09:35 AM
Wyoming is the least populated, least liberal state in the US. I think I'll stay. It would be a little better if Yellowstone errupted and wiped Jackson Hole off the face of the planet, but other than that it suits me.
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Leonard
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posted June 06, 2006 10:45 AM
Homes on the golf course for how much? I already need a housekeeper; starch and press my shirts for $10? If only Vic had not killed all the coyotes in Cochise County, I'd probably be a resident before the end of the year? Is there a limit on those houses?
Good hunting. LB
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Rob
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posted June 06, 2006 04:57 PM
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Raven
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posted June 07, 2006 12:45 AM
Some day I will live In Italy! Even if it's just for a year or so! I don't care what it takes... Someday I'll have a nice little villa over looking a nice crop of grape vines. I'll watch the sunset on the whole scene and drink some vino and smile! (Here's hoping)
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Leonard
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posted June 07, 2006 01:03 AM
So, now you want that instead of the Jeep? I see no problem....Trip?
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Raven
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posted June 07, 2006 07:29 AM
LOL I don't kow who is more of a Trip! Leonard or Tripp!? LOL
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Cowboyvon
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posted June 07, 2006 10:31 AM
I would like to get enough freedom to be able to just ramble around some... like JD and Rich said. Still keep my place here in NM but be able to go out on some extended rambles calling and running my dogs.
My brother in laws father has bought several ranches up around Jackpot NV they say thats a good area and that I could stay as long as I want. I've never even been through there but I'm planing on making a trip this coming fall. I know some of you know that country.. how is it?
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Leonard
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posted June 07, 2006 01:51 PM
Jackpot area USED to be some of the best coyote hunting in eastern Nevada? That's where Sam Winston died, made tires; I used to see him at the Gun Club before he moved up that way.
Maybe it still is good, but the Utah hunters have been hitting it hard for many years, which is why I have not been back in five or six. I'll just stay in western and central Nevada, for the time being. But, I bet they are still there, you have to get 'em before the air gunners screw things up. Beyond doubt, it's excellent coyote country.
Good hunting. LB
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