Posted on 11/16/2021 8:13:24 AM PST by Kaslin
South Dakota was originally high on my list but culled due to cold and snow and potential for wind. If I had to move South Dakota, I would take Sioux Falls over Rapid City. It is great to live near the Black Hills, which to me is the best place in South Dakota, but not at the price of living in Rapid City. I’m not saying Rapid City is bad as much as I find Sioux Falls to be much better. If it wasn’t for Cold & Snow, I would probably be there.
On second thought, no. I would still be in Knoxville. Sioiux Falls would have to be much closer to the east coast. I like being no more than a day away from the beach and Knoxville is a little prettier than Sioux Falls IMHO. But I still really like Sioux Falls. It is a keeper.
Here is praying she is either conservative or will soon become conservative, and not left leaning and bringing liberalism with her. No doubt she clearly understands why she is fleeing Washington, but too many liberals can’t reason as to why they created the hellhole they are fleeing from, and then pollute their beautiful new home with the same ills. Not much not at first, but gradually over time as they miss what they liked about their old state.
Does anybody know if she’s conservative or is she a liberal transplant who is going to ruin South Dakota? All she talks about is Covid mandates and associated economic ruin. How does she feel about limited government generally, low taxes, abortion, gun control, social justice, etc & etc?
Better even than moving to a ruby red state would be moving to a red state that has a slim red majority or a purple state. Think Georgia, Arizona and North Carolina. Think Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan. With enough effort, Occupied Northern Virginia could be overpowered by Blue State refugees and Virginia could be rescued.
I’ve been thinking about moving out there, especially if I get fired from my govn job over vaccine mandates.
I won't move further away from my family....
I will say that the extended family here in Washington is dwindling fast....92 yro MIL is still kicking around...one nephew and his wife and a grand nephew and his girlfriend and a grand niece....no children yet from them...two elderly aunts and a few cousins rarely seen.
the property taxes are killing us....
Spent a week in Rapid City in June as a belated birthday present from my wife. We saw Mt. Rushmore, Crazy Horse Memorial (very well done but doubt it will be completed in my lifetime), Badlands, Devil’s Tower, Spearfish Canyon, Custer State Park, Sturgis (barely noticed without the crowds), and Deadwood. Scenery was great but it was the local people that impressed me the most. They were some of the most friendly and polite we have encountered in our travels. This attitude applied to many an overworked employee as there was a severe shortage of workers which forced some businesses to remain closed despite South Dakota being an “open” state. Even residents encountered in local stores had this attitude. A great state but not enough to tempt us to move from Florida.
I loved growing up in upstate NY....autumn especially...beautiful countryside, lots of farms, lots of lakes, orchards, etc...
to this day, I regret moving clear across the country....because NYS will always be my home....
of course now you can't live there easily....its very sad what they have done.
“Don’t worry, demonrats will wreck it soon enough”
Probably including the person who wrote this article and/or his extended family. How did the place they left get to be how it was? The people living there.
My MIL retired to the Finger Lakes region.
She is surrounded by great Mennonite neighbors.
The winters are nasty though.
I’m in urban Central Florida with a really nice bug-out destination in rural W. Tennessee. But I’m having a lot of trouble with the notion of leaving a state run by Gov. DeSantis for a state that might conceivably turn blue.
It is great when you have options like this. I’m sadly stuck in the liberal hell hole I reside in.
I grew up in Utica (Whitesboro), Ithaca (Cayuga Heights), and Syracuse (Fayetteville). I always have fond remembrance of the state as a kid, but my earliest political memories (around 1961) are of the adults complaining about exorbitant taxes and how all the tax dollars flowed to NYC! Yes, 60 years ago!
I had a job offer from Corning, Inc. around 2004 and went to Corning, NY for an interview in late April. The day of the interview I woke up to eight inches of new snow on the ground and realized there was no way I was moving back to the Finger Lakes from sunny California.
But California got SO bad since then that, about four years ago, we bought a house in Idaho only 100 miles south of Canada. At least the Inland Northwest winters are not as harsh as upstate NY.
Yep, Northern Virginia to West Virginia—only three hours’ drive, but what a world of difference. We’d come out here to look at houses, and it sucked every time we had to go back. Working on getting my brother to pull up roots from Maryland now.
You voted for a Dim.....??
POLITICIAN: We are NOT raising your taxes!
ME: Not the RATE! but when my home's 'VALUE' goes up; so do my assessed taxes.
For coroner. He was a decent guy of the old mold. The Republican candidate had zero medical experience.
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