Posted on 08/20/2016 5:32:33 PM PDT by Celerity
My wife and I are considering a move. Here's why:
We were both raised in CT. We've lived in other places, but in our 20s. During that time we chose our spot because of things like skiing and close proximity to race tracks and stuff. You know... young people stuff.
We met in CT and got married there. We left CT to move "Back to America". We're both heavy republican and we're becoming somewhat isolationist.
We moved to PA to be close to family, and still (officially) out of the NE. We really, really really do not like government telling us what to do.
Our move to PA has been great. Nice people. Good economics. Our area of PA is like 90% republican and filled with good people that we call neighbors.
The state itself has a few things going against it: 1. Mandatory Vaccinations. I don't want to start an argument, I just don't want to live somewhere that requires my kids be injected with something that I don't agree with. 2. Homeschooling. I won't get any argument here but PA supplies the curriculum and requires that we teach it. It's the same liberal garbage that is found in Philly. 3. Some place where the laws aren't setup to keep the poor down. DMV laws go a long way to this. CT has no actual DMV laws. It's like Mad Max out there. And I'm talking Beyond Thunderdome Mad Max. Cowcatchers on trucks and stuff (And YES there are quite a few cars and trucks in CT with cowcatchers and spikes and stuff. It's comical). But in PA it costs about $1200-$1500 just to register a car. And if you lapse the insurance they pull your reg for 90 days. That means no licence plates. No driving. (I lapsed 3 months ago and bought insurance again. And now that I have insurance they are suspending my licence and my registrations for 90 days because of the lapse... in the past.)
I also don't want anything to do with public transportation. I want businesses and employment, not programs and services.
So my wife and I are basically walking around Google, Wikipedia and the internet in general and we found Berea, KY.
Anyone here living in Kentucky wanna weigh in on this ? I want to be free again, be surrounded by like-minded people and in the midst of my countrymen should the SHTF.
Yeah, this is all sounding like what I want to hear.
Another thing that I have come to live with, that I want to leave behind:
Do you feel that your capitol and major cities are working against you ?
Up here in PA we’re all rural and right-wing as can be. But our major cities are throwing elections to Dems and they continually work against the majority of the landmass.
Example: At Harrisburg session, a bill was passed that required all cities and towns in PA to conform to state carry laws. And in response, Harrisburg, Philly and Pitt rejected the law and continue to operate as if they are another state or even country.
Are you guys united down there more than that ? Does the capital make a habit of sticking it to people in the country ?
“Kentucky rain is mighty cold.”
Elvis A. Presley
"The Daniel Boone National Forest embraces some of the most rugged terrain west of the Appalachian Mountains. Steep forested slopes, sandstone cliffs and narrow ravines characterize the land.
Visitors come here to hike, camp, picnic, rockclimb, boat, hunt, fish, ride, target shoot and relax. The forest contains three large lakes (Cave Run Lake, Laurel River Lake and Lake Cumberland), many rivers and streams, Clifty Wilderness, Beaver Creek Wilderness, Red River Gorge and the Sheltowee Trace National Recreation Trail that extends across the length of the forest.
Spread across 21 counties of southern and eastern Kentucky, more than 708,000 acres of national forest system lands are managed within a 2.1 million-acre proclamation boundary. The forest is divided into four ranger districts: Cumberland, London, Redbird and Stearns." Link
Berea is a libtard stronghold. But, it is a college town.
I like Ky. It is 1 mile from Cincinnati, my town.
Recently visited the Louisville area on a visit to Bourbon country. Was really bowled over how nice it was. Did NOT fit the stereotype I’d been taught by popular culture. It was great.
We have relatives who sold their modest farm in CT and moved to KY.
They raised their kids there and everyone really likes it.
KY is a truly strange state imho from several visits. The cities and schools pride themselves on being “mainstream” with a bit of the liberal propaganda.
However, if you drive away from the heavily populated areas into the backcountry it is a different world with pickup trucks with gun racks and confederate flags.
I also had to work with some folks from Louisville a few years back. My corporate bosses suspected that office was stealing a lot of stuff. They were correct—at least in that one industry everyone in Louisville was a liar and a thief.
Overall—I agree with the posters who prefer TN.
Stay in PA long enough to vote - we need PA......
If I were ever to move back to the South. I’d move to Murfreesboro, TN or area.Town of 25K. A steady economy. Home to MTSU. Nashville is 60-75 miles to the north. Smokies are an easy drive. Just my 2 cents.
Oh, I’m here for that. And my area is SOLID Trump supporters.
We’ll have 7 people at the polls in my area that day. I was actually told not to volunteer here. I’ll be in the next town over as a backup.
But PA has Philly which has a 110% voter turn out and apparently everyone is a democrat. Even the dearly deceased.
Whats law enforcement like down there ? I see that Kentucky has some interesting legal structures. Are all the judges voted in by public election ?
Are the Sheriffs departments and other LEO generally nice folk ?
I only ask because in my area, my Sheriffs are all pro-2a. My town cops are a mixture but a few of the guys have been REALLY bad (Pulling guns on legal citizens and the like) and the state cops are anti-gun. All 3 patrol our streets.
Yes, I changed it. I never liked the other one and this one fits. It’s what some of my neighbors call me in the spirit of Green Acres. :-)
Yeah, I’m in IT too. I took a $40k a year hit to move from Seattle to KY. However, my quality of life is substantially better and the cost of living is so much lower that the income is actually better, relatively speaking.
I moved from Seattle to south central KY. There is one complaint: The bugs.
But that’s the only real one. I’ve learned to deal with it via bug spray and permathrin. And it matters because I have 32 acres that is about 2/3 wooded and the rest fields. And I like to clear property. This means that the first time I used my weedeater, in shorts and t-shirt, in august, I was at the doctor 2 weeks later because of all the red and bites on my legs. It was unbelieveable.
But not any more. I call this state “The garden of Eden, but with more chiggers.”
The weather is wonderful, but I would not have moved here before air conditioning. It can be almost as humid as florida. The storms are AWESOME! My wife and I both love ‘em.
The people are really friendly, and much of it is in a Jed Clampet way. There are a lot of dry counties, which is odd to me, but that is what you get with a commonwealth. Counties have more power than in a state.
We love it here, but it is because we found an absolutely idyllic property for an empty nester couple. We can run around naked and nobody would know. We can shoot our own game, in and out of season, and nobody would know. We have two streams with all the drinking water we would ever need if the SHTF.
And the taxes are a mixed bag. There is state and often city income tax, and it is a fairly good bite. However, this means sales tax is low and property taxes (at least where we are) are ridiculously low. On our beautiful 32 acres with two streams, a house and large barn, and TONS of wood that we cold sell for really good money if we needed it, our ANNUAL property taxes are a bit more than one month’s car payment.
It’s 90 minutes to my favorite city in the country, Louisville - all the big city stuff with little congestion and dirt cheap parking. And it’s a beautiful drive on some of the most fun twisties in the country.
It is also a motorcyclist’s paradise.
But if you really need the big city, the happy hours, the massive selection of night clubs, etc., it’s probably not for you. If you want peace and freedom, it’s great, if you get out of the urban centers.
How is your banjo skils?
You want to fit in.
How is your banjo skils?
Yep. Our new governor (Bevin) is seriously shaking things up financially. A lot of people are REALLY unhappy about it, but they can pound sand.
Shepherdsville is a good choice. I drive through it every day on I-65. It’s close enough to Louisville to work there (about 15 minutes from downtown) but truly “in the sticks”. If I didn’t live here and was looking, that just might be my choice.
And one reason is that there are seldom backups of significance on the trip to downtown Louisville. The same can’t be said for those that live east or west of Louisville. Those people have to deal with Seattle type traffic on a significant part of their commute. Shepherdsville only sees backups when there was an accident, which does happen fairly regularly because it only takes the ability to fog a mirror to get a drivers license here. Also, for many people here, if you replace your tires before they are bald, you are living high on the hog.
That coupled with the “Kentucky rain” we get is a recipe for disaster for a lot of folks. Seriously.
BTW, here’s our place. All photos were taken on the property except the parking lot shot.
http://s409.photobucket.com/user/robbbb4/library/Kentucky%20home
Got it! Clever.
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