Getting Out of Blue Area

April 9, 2002 | Henrietta

[southern rock]

So in other words, you like sushi and green tea? Well,I guess that's to be expected in Oregon. Tell ya what, work on dropping those habits, and then we'll see about that move of yours. :)

[freeperfromnj]

Can't help other than to bump. I'm looking to get out of NJ.

I'm looking to get out of NJ too. Visited friends who moved from NY to a suburb of Houston a couple of years ago. I have been there a couple of times and I absolutely fell in love with Texas. Try convincing a high school freshman to relocate.

[hillsborofox]

This is so easy. Of course you must move to Tennessee! We have four seasons, beautiful countryside, a friendly populace, no state-income-tax, an NO AL GORE for starters.

Well, actually he and tipsy are moving to Nashville but they're too irrelevant to bother us anymore.

[Greeklawyer]

In Florida we have a state constitutional amendment
which specifically prohibits the state income tax.

Florida also have a very reasonable concealed weapons permit
system.

Homestead protection is unlimited to 1/2 acre in a municipality, per Florida constitution.

[rustbucket]

My family and I moved from Houston to NJ. Took 4 years of 'this is a foreign country', 'when are we going back home', and 'when is spring ever going to arrive' from the wife and kids, but we finally got back to Houston!

[firewalk]

Try convincing a high school freshman to relocate...

Trick them, tell them you're all just taking an extended trip! *big smiles*

My older kids would probably love to move with me, once I decide where it is I want to go. Especially if they didn't have to get their own places once we got there. My youngest who's 14 wants to get out of Jersey too. (this surprised me) He says it's not the same here anymore. He's right.

[Henrietta]

From your post, it looks like you don't mind cold weather...have you thought about S Dakota? No state income tax or business income tax.

[Myrddin]

I've spent almost 8 months working a contract in West Palm Beach. That was enough. Heat. Humidity. Bugs. I had to use a coin-op laundry each week. I was the only English speaking, white person in the building. The rest were black and spoke French or Spanish. My favorite Thai restaurant was full of old Jewish ladies with a heavy New York accent. The roller skating rink in Lantana is the best I've ever patronized in ANY place in the U.S. It was a unique experience. I would welcome a return VISIT, but it wouldn't be a place I'd choose to be a homeowner. My Idaho CCW is recognized in Florida.

Many military people choose Florida as their home state for the explicit purpose of avoiding state income tax. The corrupt politicians in Florida did everything possible to disenfranchise their military voting community in the last presidential election. The New York transplants tend to vote Democrat as well.

[Myrddin]

After all my careful real estate research into the Pocatello, ID area, I did overlook one item. Wind. The winter snow is generally fine powder and quite pleasant. Summers are warm and dry (like a perpetual Santa Ana in Southern California). My wife and I went to our outdoor range one afternoon. The ambient temperature was 41 F. The wind was steady at 35 MPH with occasional gusts to 50 MPH. Not exactly the ideal arrangement for shooting bullseye targets with a handgun. We ditched the paper for some really nice metal silhouettes. Shifting to the outdoor range was a MAJOR change compared to our prior habit of patronizing an indoor, 25 yard range 3 days per week in San Diego, CA.

I went home during the week of 3/25 to 3/30. The wind was so powerful that it pulled my rain gutters out of the edge of my roof. That required yanking 10 spikes out of the wood simultaneously. Each spike was driven 6 inches into the wood on the eaves with 4 inches spanning the gutter. It took quite a gust to do that.

[KineticKitty]

Yes, actually we've thought of S. Dakota as well. :) We figure the colder the better, and any of the states that people tend to leave out, when they are asked to name all of the States in the U.S., couldn't be to bad either! lol