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So hubby has wanted to move to Texas since I met him a looooong time ago. He has family in the Metroplex area and a brother in Bandera. I liked Texas BEFORE so many people moved in and have began ruining it....sometimes some of the political stuff just makes me shake my head (think, TransTexas/TransAmerican Corridor, vaccines, some school books and other Progressive/Socialist things). But the biggest thing against it (and other more Southern areas) for me is the heat and humidity! I just am miserable when it is hot AND humid. And the drier climes have too many rattlesnakes! I don't want to worry about me, my dogs and my horses getting bit.
So I like Utah, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana maybe parts of New Mexico (and the Flagstaff area of Arizona where the climate is a bit more tolerable for me, and gorgeous scenery. The more rural, the better. SO is there any affordable (say 150 to 200K) horse properties in these areas?
The whole prospect of moving scares the crap out of me. We have great neighbors (heard horror stories about bad ones), access to some good vets, a good blacksmith and all of our trucking contacts are out of here. How on Earth do y'all start from scratch??!!!
As far as rodeo and barrel racing, I am afraid that it will pretty much over for me because me and my horses are great at 12-13 second race track pens but suck at good ground and standard patterns so I would have to settle for 3D at shows that I don't enjoy going to anyways (would rather drive 6 hours for one rodeo run than 1/2 hour to sit all day at a barrel race for a couple of runs....that's just me).
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too bad you don't want to move to kansas! I know of a 3-4 bedroom house on 40 acres with outbuildings for like $180k lol
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| Every place has its pluses and its drawbacks. What you want to do for jobs is a huge factor so look for a strong economic base there. I live in a college town and I love it. Job stability is good and it's big enough for all the conveniences but small enough that in living just outside of town I can have acreage, my son goes to school in a "small town" and there is some decent barrel racing within 30 minutes to 3 hours any given direction. I am not a heat/humidity fan so Texas would be out for me. I love my seasons (even the part of winter where I can't ride).
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| brlraceaddict - 2015-10-15 5:45 PM
Every place has its pluses and its drawbacks. What you want to do for jobs is a huge factor so look for a strong economic base there. I live in a college town and I love it. Job stability is good and it's big enough for all the conveniences but small enough that in living just outside of town I can have acreage, my son goes to school in a "small town" and there is some decent barrel racing within 30 minutes to 3 hours any given direction. I am not a heat/humidity fan so Texas would be out for me. I love my seasons (even the part of winter where I can't ride).
But....you are keeping your location a secret.
Share please!
Pretty please?
edited to add: Trucking is our business.
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| rodeoveteran - 2015-10-15 3:52 PM brlraceaddict - 2015-10-15 5:45 PM Every place has its pluses and its drawbacks. What you want to do for jobs is a huge factor so look for a strong economic base there. I live in a college town and I love it. Job stability is good and it's big enough for all the conveniences but small enough that in living just outside of town I can have acreage, my son goes to school in a "small town" and there is some decent barrel racing within 30 minutes to 3 hours any given direction. I am not a heat/humidity fan so Texas would be out for me. I love my seasons (even the part of winter where I can't ride). But....you are keeping your location a secret. Share please! Pretty please?
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| brlraceaddict - 2015-10-15 5:54 PM
rodeoveteran - 2015-10-15 3:52 PM brlraceaddict - 2015-10-15 5:45 PM Every place has its pluses and its drawbacks. What you want to do for jobs is a huge factor so look for a strong economic base there. I live in a college town and I love it. Job stability is good and it's big enough for all the conveniences but small enough that in living just outside of town I can have acreage, my son goes to school in a "small town" and there is some decent barrel racing within 30 minutes to 3 hours any given direction. I am not a heat/humidity fan so Texas would be out for me. I love my seasons (even the part of winter where I can't ride). But....you are keeping your location a secret. Share please! Pretty please?
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it up there!!! The closest we came to buying a place before we bought here (ummm..cough.....cough...30 years a go) was in Santa, Idaho. We spent 8 years running team in a semi, cross country, all the time trying to decide where to buy. I hate the heat and humidity and he can't take the cold. We drove through that area and we BOTH said "I could live like this." We tried to buy 2 different places and neither would bargin (hubby likes to dicker) so we walked away from them. I still dream of that area...it's my idea of Heaven. Used to load down around Moscow, but it seems the biggest business was lumber and log trucks for us. As a matter of fact, I was looking in that area last week on the 'puter and found one of the places we looked at up for sale again.
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| These look like winter two years ago here....and it was da#% cold, especially for so much snow. Had to plow the drive at least 4 times that winter so that hubby could get IN. He usually plows to get out lol.
Edited to add: actually that is more like a regular winter. The year I was talking about was a double the normal amount and so cold it stayed all winter, accumulating and accumulating.
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Location: Some where I haven't left yet | Texas is big for trucking, depending on what you "pull" I'd love to move out of Colorado, but... I'm a local company and I'm established here. Texas has tempted me... but.
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| SW Oklahoma didn't hold my attention very much, but then I don't recall spending a lot of time there.
We are down to one flatbed, and it has a conestoga package on it,'tho I could hire on myself for some local work. We too are established here , but not with as strong of ties as we used to when we had 8 trucks. It's scary to contemplate actually pulling up stakes and going somewhere completely new. It is especially hard when you can't drive around, look at places and actually talk to the locals. |
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rodeoveteran - 2015-10-15 3:52 PM brlraceaddict - 2015-10-15 5:45 PM Every place has its pluses and its drawbacks. What you want to do for jobs is a huge factor so look for a strong economic base there. I live in a college town and I love it. Job stability is good and it's big enough for all the conveniences but small enough that in living just outside of town I can have acreage, my son goes to school in a "small town" and there is some decent barrel racing within 30 minutes to 3 hours any given direction. I am not a heat/humidity fan so Texas would be out for me. I love my seasons (even the part of winter where I can't ride). But....you are keeping your location a secret. Share please! Pretty please?
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it up there!!! The closest we came to buying a place before we bought here (ummm..cough.....cough...30 years a go ) was in Santa, Idaho. We spent 8 years running team in a semi, cross country, all the time trying to decide where to buy. I hate the heat and humidity and he can't take the cold. We drove through that area and we BOTH said "I could live like this." We tried to buy 2 different places and neither would bargin (hubby likes to dicker ) so we walked away from them. I still dream of that area...it's my idea of Heaven. Used to load down around Moscow, but it seems the biggest business was lumber and log trucks for us. As a matter of fact, I was looking in that area last week on the 'puter and found one of the places we looked at up for sale again.
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| rodeoveteran - 2015-10-15 4:15 PM brlraceaddict - 2015-10-15 5:54 PM rodeoveteran - 2015-10-15 3:52 PM brlraceaddict - 2015-10-15 5:45 PM Every place has its pluses and its drawbacks. What you want to do for jobs is a huge factor so look for a strong economic base there. I live in a college town and I love it. Job stability is good and it's big enough for all the conveniences but small enough that in living just outside of town I can have acreage, my son goes to school in a "small town" and there is some decent barrel racing within 30 minutes to 3 hours any given direction. I am not a heat/humidity fan so Texas would be out for me. I love my seasons (even the part of winter where I can't ride). But....you are keeping your location a secret. Share please! Pretty please? I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it up there!!! The closest we came to buying a place before we bought here (ummm..cough.....cough...30 years a go ) was in Santa, Idaho. We spent 8 years running team in a semi, cross country, all the time trying to decide where to buy. I hate the heat and humidity and he can't take the cold. We drove through that area and we BOTH said "I could live like this." We tried to buy 2 different places and neither would bargin (hubby likes to dicker ) so we walked away from them. I still dream of that area...it's my idea of Heaven. Used to load down around Moscow, but it seems the biggest business was lumber and log trucks for us. As a matter of fact, I was looking in that area last week on the 'puter and found one of the places we looked at up for sale again.
The last few winters have really been pretty mild. We only had to plow snow a couple of times. Those snow pictures are on the extreme side! I think this is the most beaufiful area. The main economy is University of Idaho and just across the border, Washington State University. But lots of trucking going on - hay and timber! |
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Location: North Dakota | Well don't move to North Dakota lol. At least in this area you MIGHT be able to buy a cardboard box for $200k. Just my 2 cents, but I hated Bozeman, MT because there were just too many darn hippie liberals running around. And Wyoming didn't impress me. I mean, I lived in Gillette which is like hell on earth but even driving through other areas it had a few nice places but overall no bueno. |
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Location: Kansas | MOGirl07 - 2015-10-15 5:01 PM hoofs_in_motion - 2015-10-15 4:51 PM too bad you don't want to move to kansas! I know of a 3-4 bedroom house on 40 acres with outbuildings for like $180k lol Shoot, where at in kansas? Hubby and I have been feeling the itch to move for years! Lol.
Valley Falls lol. We are looking at it, but it's a few thousands over our price range. We meet with her this evening to see if she will come down...if not you can have dibs LOL |
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rodeoveteran - 2015-10-15 4:15 PM brlraceaddict - 2015-10-15 5:54 PM rodeoveteran - 2015-10-15 3:52 PM brlraceaddict - 2015-10-15 5:45 PM Every place has its pluses and its drawbacks. What you want to do for jobs is a huge factor so look for a strong economic base there. I live in a college town and I love it. Job stability is good and it's big enough for all the conveniences but small enough that in living just outside of town I can have acreage, my son goes to school in a "small town" and there is some decent barrel racing within 30 minutes to 3 hours any given direction. I am not a heat/humidity fan so Texas would be out for me. I love my seasons (even the part of winter where I can't ride). But....you are keeping your location a secret. Share please! Pretty please? I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE it up there!!! The closest we came to buying a place before we bought here (ummm..cough.....cough...30 years a go ) was in Santa, Idaho. We spent 8 years running team in a semi, cross country, all the time trying to decide where to buy. I hate the heat and humidity and he can't take the cold. We drove through that area and we BOTH said "I could live like this." We tried to buy 2 different places and neither would bargin (hubby likes to dicker ) so we walked away from them. I still dream of that area...it's my idea of Heaven. Used to load down around Moscow, but it seems the biggest business was lumber and log trucks for us. As a matter of fact, I was looking in that area last week on the 'puter and found one of the places we looked at up for sale again.
I took a road trip north through Sun Valley one summer weekend. Once I got north over the mountain I hit the old Lewis & Clark trail at a point where they were still lost.
Most people don't know that expedition expected to paddle to the headwaters of the Missouri River (which they did) and go over the Eastern Slope.. (which they did) and grab a river to the Columbia. (SNAG!)
They didn't know they would have to cross 300 more miles of mountain ranges before they could find a river ( The Salmon) running in the right direction.
The road-trip I took that day picked up the old trail where it encountered the Salmon River, went North to Lolo Montana... then west to Lewiston ID... Following the old trail.
I made it a point to stop at all the historical markers along the way.
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| I remember (and have a picture somewhere) of a "monument" in Idaho where the US slaughtered almost the entire Appaloosa breed after they finally caught up to the Nez Perce they had been chasing for months. The cavalry horse could not keep up with the tough spotted horses.....so in typical bureaucratic fashion, they slaughtered them when they caught them, so that the Indians could not use them to flee again. Too bad they wiped a lot of good blood and draft horses were introduced to the bloodlines by the government to slow down whatever blood remained. Who knows what the breed would have been if this had not happened?
The pressure is off now. The guy still wants us to price our place in case we find somewhere we WANT to move in the next year or so.
Then our lawyer and his buddy showed up to hunt today and announced that they don't want us to sell (we live in big buck country). |
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Location: SE Louisiana | rodeoveteran - 2015-10-16 4:02 PM
I remember (and have a picture somewhere) of a "monument" in Idaho where the US slaughtered almost the entire Appaloosa breed after they finally caught up to the Nez Perce they had been chasing for months. The cavalry horse could not keep up with the tough spotted horses.....so in typical bureaucratic fashion, they slaughtered them when they caught them, so that the Indians could not use them to flee again. Too bad they wiped a lot of good blood and draft horses were introduced to the bloodlines by the government to slow down whatever blood remained. Who knows what the breed would have been if this had not happened?
The pressure is off now. The guy still wants us to price our place in case we find somewhere we WANT to move in the next year or so.
Then our lawyer and his buddy showed up to hunt today and announced that they don't want us to sell (we live in big buck country).
You forget the buffalo....
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Location: Phoenix | I say you do what YOU want to do, not what everyone else wants to do.
The PNW has tons of amateur rodeos if that's what you want to do. The Westside will have lots of rain and the east side will have lots of snow. South of Yakima will have decent winter weather. I'm no help because I live in the Phoenix area and I love it and can't imagine living anywhere cold and having to live there permanently. |
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Location: SE Louisiana | rodeoveteran - 2015-10-16 4:02 PM
I remember (and have a picture somewhere) of a "monument" in Idaho where the US slaughtered almost the entire Appaloosa breed after they finally caught up to the Nez Perce they had been chasing for months. The cavalry horse could not keep up with the tough spotted horses.....so in typical bureaucratic fashion, they slaughtered them when they caught them, so that the Indians could not use them to flee again. Too bad they wiped a lot of good blood and draft horses were introduced to the bloodlines by the government to slow down whatever blood remained. Who knows what the breed would have been if this had not happened?
The pressure is off now. The guy still wants us to price our place in case we find somewhere we WANT to move in the next year or so.
Then our lawyer and his buddy showed up to hunt today and announced that they don't want us to sell (we live in big buck country).
WANT!!! I wish I was you!!! If someone WANTS the land I was sitting on top of...... I'd investigate and find out WHY!! |
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Location: Where the stars at night are big and bright, TX | If you don't like poorly run welfare states with dismal politics and a poorly educated population don't move to NM. It's beautiful though and we miss the scenery. I am not sure you'd find decent homes and horse properties that cheap.
Wyoming was home but too **** cold for me. The mosquitoes would eat us alive in the summers and the ticks were terrible.
I love Texas, but we are in a remote area in the mountains of far southwest Texas. I have no idea what you mean about vaccines in Texas and if you stay outside of Austin you aren't too overwhelmed with progressive agendas. Sure aren't any out here. We allow guns in businesses and our schools all have signs saying the staff are armed, and many being ranch wives or law enforcement wives they know how to use them. Our National Day of Prayer is held inside or at our courthouse, and while we are considered a democratic county, overwhelmingly they all vote republican. The kids ride horses through town, we have a massive bonfire at homecoming, we correct each others kids, people come from all over the state and nation to watch our 4th of July parade and they don't give 2 rips if you opt out of vaccinations here.
....and while I have yet to see one where I happen to live, all those states you mentioned do have rattlesnakes. Wyoming was the worst for them (and I lived in Arizona for years too). 
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Location: 100 miles from Nowhere, AR | Tilt The Kilt - 2015-10-17 10:47 AM If you don't like poorly run welfare states with dismal politics and a poorly educated population don't move to NM. It's beautiful though and we miss the scenery. I am not sure you'd find decent homes and horse properties that cheap.
Wyoming was home but too **** cold for me. The mosquitoes would eat us alive in the summers and the ticks were terrible.
I love Texas, but we are in a remote area in the mountains of far southwest Texas. I have no idea what you mean about vaccines in Texas and if you stay outside of Austin you aren't too overwhelmed with progressive agendas. Sure aren't any out here. We allow guns in businesses and our schools all have signs saying the staff are armed, and many being ranch wives or law enforcement wives they know how to use them. Our National Day of Prayer is held inside or at our courthouse, and while we are considered a democratic county, overwhelmingly they all vote republican. The kids ride horses through town, we have a massive bonfire at homecoming, we correct each others kids, people come from all over the state and nation to watch our 4th of July parade and they don't give 2 rips if you opt out of vaccinations here.
....and while I have yet to see one where I happen to live, all those states you mentioned do have rattlesnakes. Wyoming was the worst for them (and I lived in Arizona for years too).
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Location: Sanderson, TX | Three 4 Luck - 2015-10-17 10:59 AM Tilt The Kilt - 2015-10-17 10:47 AM If you don't like poorly run welfare states with dismal politics and a poorly educated population don't move to NM. It's beautiful though and we miss the scenery. I am not sure you'd find decent homes and horse properties that cheap.
Wyoming was home but too **** cold for me. The mosquitoes would eat us alive in the summers and the ticks were terrible.
I love Texas, but we are in a remote area in the mountains of far southwest Texas. I have no idea what you mean about vaccines in Texas and if you stay outside of Austin you aren't too overwhelmed with progressive agendas. Sure aren't any out here. We allow guns in businesses and our schools all have signs saying the staff are armed, and many being ranch wives or law enforcement wives they know how to use them. Our National Day of Prayer is held inside or at our courthouse, and while we are considered a democratic county, overwhelmingly they all vote republican. The kids ride horses through town, we have a massive bonfire at homecoming, we correct each others kids, people come from all over the state and nation to watch our 4th of July parade and they don't give 2 rips if you opt out of vaccinations here.
....and while I have yet to see one where I happen to live, all those states you mentioned do have rattlesnakes. Wyoming was the worst for them (and I lived in Arizona for years too).
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Location: Where the stars at night are big and bright, TX | Three 4 Luck - 2015-10-17 10:59 AM Tilt The Kilt - 2015-10-17 10:47 AM If you don't like poorly run welfare states with dismal politics and a poorly educated population don't move to NM. It's beautiful though and we miss the scenery. I am not sure you'd find decent homes and horse properties that cheap.
Wyoming was home but too **** cold for me. The mosquitoes would eat us alive in the summers and the ticks were terrible.
I love Texas, but we are in a remote area in the mountains of far southwest Texas. I have no idea what you mean about vaccines in Texas and if you stay outside of Austin you aren't too overwhelmed with progressive agendas. Sure aren't any out here. We allow guns in businesses and our schools all have signs saying the staff are armed, and many being ranch wives or law enforcement wives they know how to use them. Our National Day of Prayer is held inside or at our courthouse, and while we are considered a democratic county, overwhelmingly they all vote republican. The kids ride horses through town, we have a massive bonfire at homecoming, we correct each others kids, people come from all over the state and nation to watch our 4th of July parade and they don't give 2 rips if you opt out of vaccinations here.
....and while I have yet to see one where I happen to live, all those states you mentioned do have rattlesnakes. Wyoming was the worst for them (and I lived in Arizona for years too).
Nope. No required vaccines.
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| Politics is one of the biggest reasons I want to get out of here. It's a heavy Democratic, 'tho somehow we landed in a very Conservative county. Heavy on the welfare and the economy still sucks.
No buffalo here Komet  (cattle and sheep) and his roping habits (outdoor and small indoor arena, swamp and woods for cattle, 10 acre hayfield. He would have to fence in the area he wants to run cattle (had earlier asked if we would lease it to him for this purpose0 and put up sheep type fence along the beautiful pipe fence that hubby has built, it is very private despite being on a fairly major US highway) and it is still just close enough for him to keep his current sheep customers. No hidden gold here. In the future it would probably be easy to get a industrial/business zoning but like I said, the economy sucks here so that's a crap shoot. there was talk about running an interstate highway thru or close but in that case, we want to be gone anyways and I don't think that they would choose this route and wouldn't expect to get compensated well for it anyways.
Like I said, the biggest reason for us to sell would be to downsize and put any extra money away for retirement....that weighs heavier and heavier on hubby's mind as each year passes. Heck, everyone thinks that he should be retired now at 72 but I won't let him! LOL He gets VERY cranky if he is home for more than 2 weeks and mellows out as soon as his truck is loaded. If I won the lottery I think that I would still have to send him out on the road for the sake of out marriage!
The reasons not to move? Our place is paid for, I finally have a nice barn! I LOVE our neighbors. Lot's of rodeos to go to within 300 miles (we went to 30 rodeos in 60 days this summer. And I seem to fair much better on the racetrack pens than big pens on about any horse I ride. The nice days are glorious if not frequent enough. Most of my sisters are within 100 miles. Most of the trees and stuff I planted here are from the house I grew up in, and we have too many dogs, cats and horses buried here ( I have told hubby that the hardest thing to leave would be all the things I planted, including graves even tho I know those critters are no longer here).
One of the biggest reasons to sell? We can't sell ice to a rich man in the desert when we try, so am wondering if this is opportunity knocking and that we should open the door.
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| rodeorun68 - 2015-10-16 11:19 PM
If you have no real complaints about where you live now, I don't think I would move. By the time you sell your place, buy a new home, pay for a move and have to recover lost business it's a dicey deal at best for you. Now that being said, here's a nice place in Milford UT:
https://www.facebook.com/ccarl52/posts/10156130527125416
I love, LOVE this place! I am going to call today!
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| Kaycee - 2015-10-18 12:21 PM
RV, where are you located? I think I read the entire post and still don't know where this "gem" is located.
My place? Unfortunately in southern Michigan. If it was any number of other places we wouldn't be selling. Hubby has always said that Michigan is a good place to be FROM. 'Tho we were both born and raised here, he never wanted to stay here. Our place sounds nice, but it has its drawbacks. The house is a manufactured house, and not on a basement. WE like it. We waited until they got the quality standards up and for a floorplan we like, so it FEELS like a house and home to us. The barn is 60 x 120 with a 14' lean off the length of it, but it is all open, I store my hay in it and use the arena as a giant run in.
There is a decent amount of pipe fence, but it is still a work in progress, so there is a stretch of "high tensile" to be replaced and quite a bit of hot wire on pens either next to the woods or in lots we are still developing.
We got 8 feet of snow last year! And it is in Michigan a beautiful but liberal and economically failing state. |
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Location: Oregon | Whoa! No wonder you want to move !! 8 FEET OF SNOW!!!!!!!! That place in Utah looks great. |
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Location: Where I am happiest | You will LOVE Utah! |
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Location: My Own Little World | Now that I see you are from Michigan, I'd move too and politics would have a lot to do with it. You will find the winter in Milford pretty mild compared to what you are used to. Summer can get pretty warm but not like Vegas lol. Come on out and visit :) |
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| rodeorun68 - 2015-10-18 4:04 PM
Now that I see you are from Michigan, I'd move too and politics would have a lot to do with it. You will find the winter in Milford pretty mild compared to what you are used to. Summer can get pretty warm but not like Vegas lol. Come on out and visit :)
We might have to come out and have a look. Talked to the guy a couple of minutes ago and he said he moved there 2 years ago and everything that is there, he put there. Says the job he moved there for is about done and his next will be in Indiana or West Virginia. The only real way to evaluate is with boots on the ground. Can we stay at your place?? You said....... :o) |
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Location: SE Louisiana | rodeoveteran - 2015-10-18 11:57 AM
Politics is one of the biggest reasons I want to get out of here. It's a heavy Democratic, 'tho somehow we landed in a very Conservative county. Heavy on the welfare and the economy still sucks.
No buffalo here Komet (cattle and sheep ) and his roping habits (outdoor and small indoor arena, swamp and woods for cattle, 10 acre hayfield. He would have to fence in the area he wants to run cattle (had earlier asked if we would lease it to him for this purpose0 and put up sheep type fence along the beautiful pipe fence that hubby has built, it is very private despite being on a fairly major US highway ) and it is still just close enough for him to keep his current sheep customers. No hidden gold here. In the future it would probably be easy to get a industrial/business zoning but like I said, the economy sucks here so that's a crap shoot. there was talk about running an interstate highway thru or close but in that case, we want to be gone anyways and I don't think that they would choose this route and wouldn't expect to get compensated well for it anyways.
Like I said, the biggest reason for us to sell would be to downsize and put any extra money away for retirement....that weighs heavier and heavier on hubby's mind as each year passes. Heck, everyone thinks that he should be retired now at 72 but I won't let him! LOL He gets VERY cranky if he is home for more than 2 weeks and mellows out as soon as his truck is loaded. If I won the lottery I think that I would still have to send him out on the road for the sake of out marriage!
The reasons not to move? Our place is paid for, I finally have a nice barn! I LOVE our neighbors. Lot's of rodeos to go to within 300 miles (we went to 30 rodeos in 60 days this summer. And I seem to fair much better on the racetrack pens than big pens on about any horse I ride. The nice days are glorious if not frequent enough. Most of my sisters are within 100 miles. Most of the trees and stuff I planted here are from the house I grew up in, and we have too many dogs, cats and horses buried here ( I have told hubby that the hardest thing to leave would be all the things I planted, including graves even tho I know those critters are no longer here ).
One of the biggest reasons to sell? We can't sell ice to a rich man in the desert when we try, so am wondering if this is opportunity knocking and that we should open the door.
Now I'm gonna go look at that link to the Utah property someone posted.
No nO NO!!! For those of you that don't know about "lake effect snow"... Please bow out... Anybody that lives in Michigan... knows what I'm talking about.
This is One (1) night of snow...
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Location: Red Raiderland | Oh RV, I had no idea you were in Michigan. Heck, I would take the Texas heat we have any day over that snow! Although Utah is beautiful and no humidity. We live in east Texas and have never seen a rattlesnake here or where I grew up in North Texas, BUT we do have copperheads and water mocasins in these areas. We just killed a water mocasin yesterday while walking the dogs. I hate em but I would not want tolive anywhere else. We also don't have much of a problem with mosquitoes year around. I think we have total of 5 or 6 weeks of mosquitos a year. Anyway, the west or panhandle of Texas is not humid and the nicest folks live out there. Texas is so big that you can get different climates and cultures in each area. You'll want to avoid the Austin area as they are the "hippie" area of the state.  Good luck no matter where you end up. I think y'all should take leap of faith!!!
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| Thanks. been to and thru much of Texas. I remember really likiin the rolling, greener area around Austin but am also aware of the "University effect" as I grew up about 20 miles from U of M.......a friend from high school called it being Ann Arb.orized. He thought that he was SO much cooler than anybody else once it happened to him.....LOL....I called it getting ruined.
So this is what I know about Texas climate....East Texas- Piney woods, very humid. Far East Texas-Louisiana like. Central Texas- more rolling, more open grasslands, not as humid yielding into the drier, even more rolling Texas Hill country (when land prices are getting outrageous for desert, IMHO!). South Texas- hot, humid with lots of snow birds. North Texas nice horse country, Denton area too rich for my bank account, yielding farther west to the drier rattlesnake infested areas I have no interest in living (had a terminal in Quanah where we were warned not to get out of truck in the night or early am as the rattlers like to curl up around the tires for warmth and were often found IN the terminal in the furniture....ummm...no thanks!). Panhandle- very flat with lots of cattle lots, can get lots of snow at times , for which they lack snow removal equipment and everybody just stays home until it is gone. Have driven on an almost impassable I40 that had so may deep potholes in the packed snow that it would break your truck apart. SO am a little familiar with Texas climate....I think..... |
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Location: Red Raiderland | You've got a pretty good grasp of the Texas climate. We are about an hour east of Dallas in an area called the Post Oak Savannah and we are not far enough for the pine trees. We have beautiful sandy loam soil and we can get humid for part of the summer but I hate humidity and could not live farther out into east Texas. We have nice grass, when it rains ugh(drought conditions right now), and the oak trees are big and gorgeous. I think this area is a bit of a secret right now as Dallasites have not thought about heading east to get out of the urban and suburban sprawl but I am seeing it slowly start to move this way, which kind of makes me sad.  The land in this area is priced very nicely. PM me and I will give exact locations near me that have small acreage to large acreage. Of course we have plenty of barrel races and team ropings in this area, too. Ammy and pro rodeos, too. I'll see if I can post a pic of our area.
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Location: Where I am happiest | Holy toledo!! With that kind of snow posted above you couldnt get me out of Michigan fast enough!!! You will not ever get snow like that in Milford Utah. You will absolutelly love Utah. |
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Location: Central Washington | brlraceaddict - 2015-10-15 3:45 PM Every place has its pluses and its drawbacks. What you want to do for jobs is a huge factor so look for a strong economic base there. I live in a college town and I love it. Job stability is good and it's big enough for all the conveniences but small enough that in living just outside of town I can have acreage, my son goes to school in a "small town" and there is some decent barrel racing within 30 minutes to 3 hours any given direction. I am not a heat/humidity fan so Texas would be out for me. I love my seasons (even the part of winter where I can't ride).
I have family in Pomeroy, WA and I have always wanted to move that direction! It's gorgeous, lots of cute little nice towns. This would definetely be one of my top places to move. |
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