Posted on 06/05/2005 11:30:18 AM PDT by Cowman
OK I have had it with life here in the Peoples Republic Of Massachusetts. The break has been coming for a while but the corporate AND Liberal lunacy coupled with the high cost of living here have finally taken their toll and I'm ready to escape. I am going up to coastal Maine for a few days to detoxify from the Boston / New York area but then I will be looking for work and housing elsewhere.
I have worked in nonclinical research (mostly Toxicology) for the last six years and I have a degree in Animal Science.
I want to get to an area where I can own a country place and not have to deal with the city unless absolutely necessary (I don't think I could take hearing another minute of cRap music). I have looked around at real estate listings in eastern Maine and the prices there are feasible if I could secure a salary similar to what I make now. (around 45k)
Anybody out there have any suggestions?
But nobody listens to me anyway. I'm just a geezer living in the People Republic of Oregon.
It's not a big problem I just find the sound of that stuff annoying. I could probably put up with a lot of minor annoyances like that if I could escape the big ones like Political Correctness and Kerry Koolaiders. I hadn't considered the deep south but I will have to put AL on my list
I to am an ex Texan (ok I was born in OK). I would recommend that you stay away from California. Perhaps NH, the chosen state of some libertarian project.
It is pretty agricultural, so animal science would work well there.
This is sorely tempting to me. Free land in Kansas, same goes for areas of Nebraska and Oklahoma.
http://www.kansasfreeland.com/
I have family in NH. In order to get away from nuttiness you have to be north of Hanover. Otherwise the place has been infiltrated by Liberals that have screwed up MA and NY Now they are screwing up southern NH. Some of the folks there want to start a Minuteman project on the MA border.
TEXAS! Houston area and the Woodlands like mnehrling said.
You got that right. We are truly blessed here in Texas. Something for everyone!
Northern Alabama - particularly Madison, Limestone counties. The housing is reasonable as are the property taxes. Nashville, Birmingham are about 2 hours drive away, Atlanta is a 4 hour drive and the Gulf Coast is an 8 hour drive. We rarely get snow or ice - and when we get our couple of inches it shuts down the area. Tornadoes are an occassional problem. The summers are hot and humid and the winters mild. Autumn and spring are beautiful. If you like fishing or boating this is an excellent area.
If you're planning to live in southern Maine, then you might want to check out the University of New Hampshire in Durham on the seacoast. They've got an Animal Science program in the Thompson School of Applied Science, and a College of Life Sciences and Agriculture.
http://www.unh.edu
http://www.unh.edu/thompson-school/
http://www.colsa.unh.edu/
http://www.unh.edu/Campus/employ/
research triangle, North Carolina.
A Cancer Research Center is under construction in Mobile right now. They've also opened a tech park, and are building a hotel among other things. (this is all University of South Alabama, but different locations around the city)
And while you'd have to work in the city, some things to consider.
I live in the City of Mobile in an area on Dog River, and you can't see a single house from the street. If you took a picture of the roadway, you'd think you were in the rural areas. (I chose this place because land was cheap, and I wanted to have neighbors I wouldn't have to talk to.)
There are plenty of areas like that in the city, and there are other areas not in the city, which have real close interstate access, like Kushla-Mauvila, lower Dauphin Island Parkway (south of Deer River)
Belle Fontaine, Mon Luis, Rangeline Road, and of course, we're started to sprout gated communities.
Now, back into the city, one of less developed areas is Dauphin Island Parkway North (where I live off of), but you have to be real careful where you buy there, because some parts are good, and some parts are not..
In the same vicinity, on the otherside of Dog River, is the Navco/Venetia area. Once you go south of the railroad tracks on Navco Road, the only way in is the way you came out, and the city has posted cameras, so that every license plate that goes into the area is recorded.
As such, there's no crime down there, even though the part of Navco north of the tracks has become somewhat rundown.
There are million dollar homes (which is equivalent probably to 3 million dollar homes in Mass) down on Venetia and Point Legere Road, and because the Navco area was never developed (Navco village before it was annexed had 450 people, and today, at best, the south of the tracks area has maybe 1100, and a 4 sq mi are located below the tracks)
It's another area that if you just took a picture of it, you wouldn't know it was in the state's second largest city. Point Legere Road is not paved.
Other attractions in the Mobile area include Mardi Gras (the original one), and the metropolitan area has a month long Mardi Gras season. The first parade is always on Dauphin Island exactly one month before Mardi Gras day. For two weeks, we have parades downtown, and alot of the suburbs have their own parades as well.
Mobile is 30 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico, and we are vulnerable to hurricanes, but we're also close to alot of beaches, like Dauphin Island, Gulf Shores (still being rebuilt) and Orange Beach (also being rebuilt)
And finally, if your Catholic, unlike in other Southern cities, Mobile has a fairly sizeable Catholic proportion population, and the Catholic community here is influential. One thing though, if you have kids and you move down here, you're best off putting them in private schools, word of advice.
Get the job first, at least the offer, and then go look. Any place without the Kennedy dynasty is a lot easier to take when the job is good.
RTP NC - 2 Republican senators but RAT governor and state legislature - still all in all pretty nice place to live for all kinds of reasons.
For God's sake don't come to California. Just about everyone I know is trying to gell the h*ll out of here.
You are going to Maine to recoup from political correctness and Massholes?
We have both...and way too many in the summer.
I'm heading to the family ancestral home (about 3 generations removed) in Nova Scotia and you have to traverse Maine to get there. I think northern Maine is much better off than we are though but from here to Calais is going to be a gauntlet.
I listen, and heed.
I gotta get away from the west coast.
I'm heading to the family ancestral home (about 3 generations removed) in Nova Scotia
Sounds wonderful. Have a great time! I am stuck here in Maine!
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