Posted on 07/21/2013 2:21:41 PM PDT by Doc Savage
Amen to northern Michigan.....I will take Manton...
Madison, MS is pretty nice from what I hear.
I’m really hoping that you meant to say “They feed me.”
We retired from working for the DOD overseas (military children’s schools) and settled in (very) south Georgia. Sort of by accident...or God’s provision? Anyway, it’s a very quiet little lake town, sort of out of the way...not near a big city, but a mile from the interstate if one needed to evacuate or go somewhere. It is a mild climate overall, but the summers are hot and dry (not this one, but usually). It is located in a small triangle where storms pass around and leave us with heavy rain or downed branches while everywhere else seems to get pounded. We feel blessed, really. We’d love to be closer to our kids and their families in Tampa, but we have less damage from storms than they do. We also found a great church where our pastoral staff rightly divides the Word of Truth each Sunday and the fellowship is sweet.
We’ve never lived in GA, and both of us were from different parts of the country before we married. We lived in GERMANY longer than we lived anywhere else, to be honest. Even growing up, we both moved right after HS to totally different parts of the US. I don’t know how long we’ll be here, but it is as safe a place as I’ve seen. I grew up in Kokomo, IN, experiencing a couple tornados growing up. We had one come one block from our street in Arkansas, as well. In Germany, we were on the autobahn when a major hurricane struck, downing 200 million trees on over 2 million acres of land. We had to find a different way home, and an American was killed going on a small back road my husband had come safely through less than 5 minutes before!
Where we are now seems to be a pretty good area to settle and be left alone.
Wouldn’t you have loved to have been the guy who pulled that creature from it’s lair?
Probably somewhere in the arrowhead on northern MN. Vast woods, limitless freshwater and fish and good elevation. Backup plan is quick access to Ontario.
I'll take the winters. Keeps the riff-raff out.
The proper camouflage for avoiding administration attention is natural fibers and Birkenstocks...
He said no blizzards......
Well, there is a reason we call it GreenAcres!
Howdy neighbor!
Excellent!
9494FT!!!
Your problem would be oxygen deprivation...
Yes there is. I know exactly where it is and I’m going back some day.
Nor am I.
autocorrect! Yikes!
Pardon me, but does Texas in your ‘Population’ map really look like that?
And, just because Tornados may be rare, the rare ones can still be whoppers.
Right now, with Hurricane prediction improving like it is, I can get me and mine out of the way a lot better than anything other than floods.
I live near a river, high enough that chances of being flooded out are extremely remote, but close enough to walk to a good fishing hole. My well was drilled in the line of some artesian springs during a long dry period, so my water supply is good.
My neighbors are all Hispanic, some natives and some illegals who are documented now, some who speak English, and some who don’t. A Hispanic gang moved in, and the Hispanic men in the area moved them out at gunpoint. We all go to the same church. ...Blacks make up about 2 percent of the population, and they all seem like good people. Muslims are slightly more numerous, but there are a lot of well armed Sikhs to take care of them.
Tornadoes are very unlikely to happen here, and I built my house like a vault. Winds have been as high as 70 mph with higher gusts, and the only way to tell it is blowing is to walk outside. We are well insulated from forest or brush fire areas. Taxes are low. ...We can grow our own food, and kill an elk for meat. We heat with firewood, and have enough cut split and stacked to last for more than ten years.
...My wife knows everyone in a fifty mile radius, or knows someone they are related to. I won’t go into a store with her because it is like going to a reunion. The local Indian tribe has adopted her. She gets invited to all of their events, even the ones not open to the public. We could eat every night at someone else’s home, if I weren’t such a recluse. ...I could die tomorrow with a heart attack, or die in a car wreck, or get shot in the Wal Mart parking lot, so no one should move here. It isn’t safe.
You truly made me LOL. Thanks.
My area looks pretty good according to those maps, but a third overlay of precipitation is what kills us around here (central Texas).
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