I used to hike all the mountains and looking down at the valley, I couldn't help but see Phx. as a whole lot of people trapped by mountains and only a few ways in and out. Not good if TSHTF. Still...I have those times when I miss everyone and Az. Maybe someplace up north?
Real estate took such a hit that I don't think I could afford to sell here and Az. got way too expensive right after I left. I've got some great neighbors now and I've learned to appreciate how important great neighbors are. So different than the walled neighborhoods in Phx.
Your advice about moving before you get too old is good. Also, thanks for TipNut.com! Lots of great info there!! I need to learn how to can veggies. I never paid enough attention when I was a kid and now I regret it. Never too late to learn, I guess.
Real estate took such a hit that I don’t think I could afford to sell here and Az. got way too expensive right after I left. I’ve got some great neighbors now and I’ve learned to appreciate how important great neighbors are. So different than the walled neighborhoods in Phx.<<<
Kingman is much cheaper than Phoenix and less crime, but it is coming and of course the dope making goes on, there are meth labs all over and they keep arresting them and more come in.
Prescott and Flagstaff are college towns and expensive.
In 1990, I spent a week in Cedar City, Utah and wanted to move there, but the time was not right.
It is also a college town, but I think different from what we have here, they had classes and stage productions going on for the town to join in.
I was looking at a small home and managed to lock my keys in the car, so asked the man across the street what to do and he said call the cops first, if they can, they will open the door.
It was a Lincoln and you couldn’t pick /jimmy the lock, so the beautiful young man called for a locksmith and stayed with me until he came.
I found out that since the house was 3 or 4 miles from the college, none of the students lived there and that he had never had a call to this block before.
And how much he loved Cedar City.
Cedar City has desert to the west of town and to the east it is fancy ski resorts.
The street was a 100’ wide and huge trees shaded it.
Just plain beautiful.
If I had not found Cedar City, I was thinking of the tree country, areas of Texas, LOL, not the flat land where I was born in the Panhandle.
Now, it is impossible and I won’t make any more moves in this lifetime.
I really think that listening to the police scanners will decide on the area you move to, for some area’s have so many gangs that the bullets will come through your walls and kill you.
Las Vegas is out, that is a real hellhole now, the gangs shoot up the areas on an hourly basis.
Bullhead City and Laughlin, Nv. have all the problems Las Vegas does and they are only 35 miles from Kingman.
Phoenix and Tucson are both bad areas, for if there is a big nuclear blast in San Diego, the air currents are said to be such that they will dump the fallout on them.
Next time you come this way, take a few days and check out southern Utah, I like what I have seen of it.
Good luck with making it happen, you could put the house on the market and wait until someone buys it, a long wait no doubt, but it sure will not sell, if it isn’t listed.
For canning food, you only need to read through the posts of Dela Where, he is doing it right and has posted several reports and links to canning, following the latest guides for safe canning.
LOL, I am out of date and would need to start all over again.