Posted on 01/15/2018 10:57:58 AM PST by Chickensoup
The kids are grown and gone. I live in the Northeast. I am looking to move to a small city or town or village. I am healthy, happy and adaptable.
I would prefer a place that has a conservative base. Every location on the lists of best places to move are leftist s***holes.
I am hoping for a place with four seasons, albeit, not as severe as the northeast. Elevations are fine, beauty is important, and so is the need of good, friendly people.
Any ideas?
I live in Texas. The town I live in has good medical, a university, thriving cultural scene, a nice river, a military base with a city population of about 100k. Housing is getting more expensive but property taxes are moderate with homestead and age exemptions. Crime getting worse. A little isolated.......not on an interstate and air travel connects through DFW. Not a bad place..actually it is my hometown that I moved back to some 14 years ago and have not regretted doing so. Where do I live?
I’m not an expert on Albuquerque by any means, just repeating what my inlaws have said. I think it’s a lovely place but NM is a really blue state politically, I could never live there for that reason.
But after two consecutive days of 12" and 13" of rain, everything surrounding the creek was underwater.
I remember seeing a VW bug in a tree down by the CC Plaza that the flood deposited 15 feet up into a tree. It was a real sight. I also think there was a big gas explosion and fire at the CC Plaza too.
My wife and I spent several hours under the crawl space in our house earlier that spring, listening to the radio in car in the garage next to us, as they tracked a big funnel through town. It was loud and scary, even in the crawl space.
We survived but there was real damage all around us. Gas station gone at the corner. Apartment building one street over sliced in half. Roof on home 3 doors down lifted off and deposited in the backyard.
I also remember the black ice in the winter and all the accidents it caused. My wife and I were leaving one Saturday evening to have dinner at some friends. We backed our Chevy Nova out of the driveway and kept going up into the yard across the street. We couldn't get the car back on the street because of the ice. We ended up leaving the car in the neighbor's front yard. We called our friends and cancelled. We couldn't even get our car on the street.
Sorry, but I'll take Arizona and the dry heat anytime. :-)
I have been near tornadoes but not hit by one.
People that didn’t grow up around them aren’t at-ease when they are nearby. We used to get a six pack of beverages and go out on the patio in lounge chairs and watch the fronts come in —wall cloud be damned. If the siren goes off, send the women folk and kids to the basement, we’ll join you when the car port blows off the community center down the block.
I spent some time on city commissions and know all about their disasters. It sounds like you got a real bad exposure and I don’t mean to chuckle at your incidents.
All that aside, in the sixty plus years I was in that area, it was a damn fine place to grow up, get educated, get healthcare and then raise a family.
Just talking you out of moving here and adding to the population. We love it here.
I have a cabin at the Lake of the Ozarks and Eric in the Ozarks also lives there full time. We both love it as far as price is concerned.
Western North Carolina!
Yes, I know about the plant. I graduated from Tongie HS in the late 60s but moved west for a few years in 71. Tongie was a town of 1700 back then. I’m originally from Missouri but lived in 6 other states before making it back for the duration. Family is important to me.
I expect there are several freepers that would assist you if you can muster the will to make the move. Let us know.
Since I work in aerospace and spend a good part of any free time volunteering at church, it is ok for me plus much of my family is here. Liberal politics rule in LA though. Drop me a private reply if you’re coming and I’d be glad to give you a welcome. Cheers.
How could I ever miss KU BB?
It’s not true.
Why do you say that? I live 10 miles away and believe me even people up there believe it. It is mentioned in newspapers and on line. I can’t imagine it being a folk tale. Why do you say that it isn’t true? Do you live close by?
I agree about Mt. Dora if he wanted a more “up and coming” place. It seems like he wants more small town America. Mt. Dora is growing big time. I would love to live there due to the beginnings of a faster paced down....Leesburg is very Mayberry to me even though I live here....lol.
Sadly, some people who used to joke that tornados were God’s answer to trailer parks! Not funny because those are the areas hardest hit in storm seasons.
I was building at Fort Leonard Wood a few year back and a tornado hit the fort within a mile and a half of my project. It destroyed 65 buildings of which 2/3s were dwellings. Lucky it was over the holidays and most people were gone. That same year while I was down there the Joplin tornado killed over fifty. The problem is for every fifty warnings there are ten real events and for every twenty real events there is one that is real nasty.
In KC there are few river floods, (1950 and 1993), few wild fires, no earthquakes and no Tsunami events.
Narses
Be quiet.
Mercier
The ticks are mouse size...and the chiggers are bigger than small frogs.
The weather in the summer is hotter..than Death Valley..and colder than Hillary's heart in the winter.
Tornadoes every spring that wipe out hundreds of people...
And it's going to be 6 degrees tonight.
I love the Grand Junction/Fruita area.
I have not lived there, but have driven through and stayed there many times on my way to Utah. Housing seems to be a lot cheaper than the Denver area. I enjoy making my way out to the Western slope whenever I can.
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