Posted on 01/29/2006 7:17:24 AM PST by SmithL
Not me FRiend, out here there is no plan. The plan is for those in the cities. Good luck.
I have two hats. One for summer (Tilley) and one for winter (Australian wax cloth). I wear them as city dinks like you drive by and ask where the bar is.....
"Not me FRiend, out here there is no plan. The plan is for those in the cities. Good luck."
I try to make my own luck. Just bought 15 acres 25 miles from town. Be living there by summer.
Did I read up-thread that you're in Elk City? Been there. Born and raised in very small town in south central Oklahoma. Glad to hear the oil patch is coming back. Had a oil well in my back yard (not ours).
About 9 miles from Cheyenne. We're booming here, can't get enough tanker drivers nor "rig workers". Welders are considered "blessings from the lord", no pun intended. You can even buy starbucks, or just go to the Flamingo and have breakfast.......
"You can even buy starbucks, or just go to the Flamingo and have breakfast......."
Latte drinking roustabouts? Almost as bad as 'gay cowboys'.
I can remember times when welders were gifts from God, back in the late 70s. Dad used to say he could tell how good the oil business was by the cowboy boots being worn. Plain cow leather, things were bad. Rare leathers, oil was good. Enjoy while this lasts.
Then buy it, keep it as is and stop whining.
We all get it, your fantasy world is stuck in the 50's. What you don't GET is there is demand for these stores in the area or they would close.
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A friend of mine has something he calls "the one full tank of gas" theory. To wit, when the real crisis comes, one will need to be far enough away from any urban/suburban center so that it would take more than one tank of gas to drive there. (He alos speculates that in a real crisis, fuel distribution will would be cut off, leaving people trapped within cities and suburbs that shall descend into chaos.)
Having said that, I believe the only way to truly escape suburban sprawl for the long-term (notice that I did not say "forever", but merely for the long-term, that being at least the remainder of my own life) is to locate to some rural area or small town that is indeed too far to reach from any major city or suburban area on that one tank of gas.
- John
It happened in Frisco, Texas (the "highway" 121 corridor)... it is a nightmare trying to navigate east/west, much less north/south on Preston Rd. (state highway 289). What the heck are these local governments doing with all the tax revenue gathered? Why do not they use it to build "FREE" roads (that one doesn't have to pay a toll to drive on?).
Highway 121 is going to be a toll road (they're going to gleen the windfall money to support roads in other locales - total bs if you ask me, but what do I know, I'm just one of the minion voters?).
The folks in McKinney/Frisco/Allen/Plano/other locales east and north will have to pay a toll just to get to/from D/FW airport. If they're going to toll the roads, then the Wright Amendment (restricting flights to/from Dallas Love Field airport) should be 100% repealed.
That's my soap-box rant - please drive through.
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