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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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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: My Own Little World | 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 |
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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).
I think TX was requiring HPV for girls. They may have backed off that? I haven't kept up. |
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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.
Now I'm gonna go look at that link to the Utah property someone posted. |
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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: 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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