AZ and NM. Isn't it, like, 125º there?![]()
I'll take negative temps over 100º+ days every time. By 10am I'd be feeling like one of Gandhi's dingle berries.
Louisiana is pretty awesome! I swear one day I will own land in southern Louisiana! Every time we go to areas like Basile to visit family I feel like I'm in USA from 20 years ago! I love it. Everyone I talked to has to drive an hour to work, or they make money off of their land, but it's awesome!
The down side.... It's one of the most humid places in the world (IMO). And I think you have to be willing to put down some miles to find a job.
I'll take negative temps over 100º+ days every time. By 10am I'd be feeling like one of Gandhi's dingle berries.
AZ and NM. Isn't it, like, 125º there?![]()
AZ and NM. Isn't it, like, 125º there?![]()
Strangely I've never been there, close, but never been. Looks beautiful, less heat than AZ, etc. I know wages are low, but in 5 years that won't matter to me.
Santa Fe, ABQ, or Las Cruces?
In the low deserts, yes. Arizona is full of mountains too. New Mexico is the same way. Ever look at a map?
In the low deserts, yes. Arizona is full of mountains too. New Mexico is the same way. Ever look at a map?
I'd skip all three of those places. Santa Fe is the Berkeley of NM, ABQ is the state's hemorrhoid covered asshole, and Las Cruces is too hot with not enough mountains IMO. It depends on what you are looking for as far as proximity to amenities and how rural you want to live. The state is poor and seems to always vote blue with a tendency to get more blue as time goes on. Woods and Gary can continue to think the state is just like where Bugs Bunny shoulda turned left, but there is a pretty great diversity of terrain and weather.
Yes, but not close enough to care about your neck of the woods. Or mountains, apparently.
Actually now that you mention it, wasn't the final season of Breaking Bad filmed in NM? Forgot about that.
And Nevada too. It's the most mountainous state...or it might be Colorado or West Virginia depending on the criteria.
Near all the states are turning blue, sadly.
2A is obviously important, access to decent health care (wife has a condition that could turn bad), low state and or property taxes. Don't want to live in a metro area anymore, but don't want to drive an hour to buy groceries. Cooler temp, (anyplace is cooler than here), minimal snowfall would be fine, don't go to bars or restaurants or movie theaters so don't need any of that. Shit, since I got out of the business 5 years ago, I've only been to two concerts.
Nevada is a bad example. It's almost like they intentionally outlined the most miserable area in the west, then someone said, wait wtf, can we at least have part of lake Tahoe so we can build casinos there 150 years from now?
Ive heard Elko has trees, but that's a ways from anything.
Sounds like the middle of the state is what you may be looking at then. I worked in ABQ for 25 years and really dislike that place, all the violence of a big city and none of the wages. I live up North along the NM/CO border and that would not fit your criteria since we get a lot of snow and it's at least an hour one way to a grocery store. East of ABQ out where Sceep lives may better fit your needs, aside from slightly more snow that melts fairly quickly anyway. Maybe he'll chime in on that area. SF and most of the area surrounding it can be pricey to buy into and it's a notoriously liberal area, with all the typical liberal restrictions. The state is fairly 2A friendly, easy to get a CCW license and you can carry whatever you want, however you want in your vehicle since the state recognizes your vehicle as an extension of your home.
Property taxes are low (I pay about 1200 a year on a fairly big house on acreage) and income taxes are 6% IIRC.
There are some really beautiful parts of Nevada, but you have to know where to look. I always say when they were drawing up the states they drew a line around all the ugly desert and named it Nevada...except for the ugly part of CA where the Hammers are. As soon as you go into Utah or Arizona it's much nicer to look at.
I think all the seasons were filmed there. Dude I worked with in Vegas was a cousin to that fat kid dope dealer that got shot by the kid on the bicycle, got the part in an open casting call with no acting experience.
Black Hills Sodak.
I know people in chico who have to run their ac basically all night during the summer.![]()
Doubt it, my cousins aren't the type of dudes that have jobs or earn money.The dump truck at my job site today said Texarkana, of course 45acp popped into my head. I'm sure he's got at least 2 cousins that might have made that mud flap.![]()
I didn't read the posts, but if history is correct you kids all stayed exactly on topic, so here's my response.
Since 2006 I've had 14 addresses in 4 states. I've learned a lot. The statement "everywhere you go, there you are" is the most important thing. If you don't change to your new surroundings you'll still be miserable no matter what patch of dirt you live on. I've also learned that the places I like the most are the ones that everyone parrots the same negative phrases without thought.
I learned that I have demographic requirements similar to Costco. If I lived in an area that could support a Costco I was able to find the rest of the retail, entertainment and recreational things I like to have. If there wasn't a Costco where I lived I found myself driving to a nearby city with a one all too often. Not to go to Costco, but to for the rest of the stuff I like to do.
I'm in the outskirts of Louisville now. If you told me two years ago that I'd live in Kentucky I would have laughed at you. I had the stereotype in my head about the place. My wife had an interview here, so I made a list of impossible "must haves". An entire notebook page of things that were important to me, and we methodically checked off all but that last one. When I read off the final thing, which was "access to the ocean" my wife pointed out the airport. I was shocked with how much I liked it here. It's the first place that we lived where I had no feeling of regret for the first couple of months.
So, yes. there are still hidden gem cities all over the country, but there's a trick. They are where the people in CA, NY and similar low quality of life places speak poorly of. Really dig down on what you enjoy, what climate you like and the infrastructure you need to be comfortable, put that into Google Maps and see what you find. Go there and leave the old place behind. Yes, the pizza will suck, you'll think the old place did things better and you won't be able to find some things at the grocery store, but you'll discover a million new things that make you a better person.
Stay away from anything even remotely close to a confederate state. "OMG they have to run AC at night..."Mother fucker you will die here. People die in the night with AC that went out and are found the next day a puddle of purple goo.
If you think running AC at night is even remotely strange you need to stay west and/or stay north. I could cut the AC off when we all go to bed at night and Jim Jones my entire family.![]()
The other one is "I dont like southern accents".