Had to put my foot down tonight....

[TeenageRooster's Dad]

We've been house hunting for a couple of months now... moving from SoCal to AZ or... Vegas (far second choice for me)...

Wife wants a cookie cutter, newer, "ready to move in" tract home.... for the love of me, I just can't do it, would first and foremost mean donating the girls, my neighbor will take em, she's is super sweet, a veterinarian and runs her horse property, had chickens forever, so they would be in good hands...

But I'm 40yo and tired of "compromising". Wife is kinda of a neat freak hates "dirt" and the current house we're in... 3100sqft ranch house on 2 acres... "boo hoo" right...

Got tired of this charade earlier and told her we're getting a property big enough for the girls or no go. I'm also sleeping in the garage I think.

long story short, what's the life expectancy of a single 40yo living by himself in a double wide on a dirt patch? might have to start hitting http://www.farmersonly.com/ soon

Sorry pure rambling lol... "Dear diary...."

 

[perchie.girl]

LOL.... pick a state that doesnt have income tax... Nevada is a good choice. Lived in Vegas for about four years as a child. But there are nice places and not so nice places...

Not all of Nevada is Blazing hot in the summer time. I like the area around Elko or Ely.... Old mining towns lots of character and land... snow in the winter but Nothing like the midwest gets. Pharump is interesting but Um NO... go visit and you will see why About as hot as Baker. 115 on good days in the summer.

Of course it all depends on what you do for a living. Myself I have just under twenty acres out in the high Desert Near the Mexico border. About two miles from Mexico and two miles from paved road. San Diego County is pretty big.

Wildomar would be much more humid than most of Nevada. When we moved here I had never seen fog before.... I was amazed at it.. Course when you are thirteen everything new was amazing.

Oh and a Belated Welcome to BYC from the San Diego High Desert.

happy house hunting.... Hey I hear Liberace house was for sale.... LOL. a bit bigger than 3000 sf.

deb

 

[TeenageRooster's Dad]

Thanks Deb, really helpful! I actually considered Campo, Jacumba area as well before moving here. I'm a Sales Engineer and work from home or travel few days a week. As long as I'm within an hour of the airport I'm all good to go... Campo would've been feasible with good planning.

Will be sad to leave SoCal, but taxes wise and politically, it's just getting too crunchy. I'm a gun owner and let's just say our state sucks 2A wise here and about to get even worse.

AZ is the entire opposite but comes with dehydration

 

[perchie.girl]

Awesome about the job.... I was a Manufacturing Engineer... I always thought a Sales Engineer would be a good option for me... But I like drawing too much... LOL sometimes Id get enough samples to do a prototype....

But then My job got sold to Argentina... and China..... and Japan.

OUT in Jacumba its pretty wild west... You can keep the gun Even pack it on your hip if you are out and about working on your property.There are a couple of private gun ranges within ear shot of my place. I hear Automatic gun fire from there quite often. And I swear to god The occasional Artillery shots go off.

Watch out for both Arizona and Colorado.... Some places the water table is over a thousand feet down People Get their water delivered rather than drill. Nevada around Reno within about a hundred miles you can drill two wells ONe for drinking water ONe for hot water to use for home heating.... Geothermal activity.

LOL one Ranch owner was drilling a well and opened up a gyser.... Fly Gyser is only fifty years old

Its also in the same area as Burning Man the Black Rock Desert

Lots of people come from burning man to a small Art Festival here in Jacumba... Crazy money maker... for the town.

deb

 

[perchie.girl]

Oh and some places you can get a whole section of land for a hundred K.

deb

 

[TeenageRooster's Dad]

Awesome about the job.... I was a Manufacturing Engineer... I always thought a Sales Engineer would be a good option for me... But I like drawing too much... LOL sometimes Id get enough samples to do a prototype....

But then My job got sold to Argentina... and China..... and Japan.

OUT in Jacumba its pretty wild west... You can keep the gun Even pack it on your hip if you are out and about working on your property.There are a couple of private gun ranges within ear shot of my place. I hear Automatic gun fire from there quite often. And I swear to god The occasional Artillery shots go off.

Watch out for both Arizona and Colorado.... Some places the water table is over a thousand feet down People Get their water delivered rather than drill. Nevada around Reno within about a hundred miles you can drill two wells ONe for drinking water ONe for hot water to use for home heating.... Geothermal activity.

LOL one Ranch owner was drilling a well and opened up a gyser.... Fly Gyser is only fifty years old

Its also in the same area as Burning Man the Black Rock Desert

Lots of people come from burning man to a small Art Festival here in Jacumba... Crazy money maker... for the town.

deb

LOL I hear you... sales can be fun but I do miss designing and writing code too. Sorry to hear, outsourcing sucks. When I was at Teradata some years ago I had to travel to Bangalore every quarter... I wouldn't even brush my teeth with faucet water... and eat protein bars or anything I could pack for 10 whole days. Yuk.

Yea AZ and Vegas water is a huge concern. Lake Mead is drying up form what I've heard.

We also considered Reno; my wife's family is all around Sacramento so it would've make sense... except in the winter . Having a lil' backyard geyser would be pretty awesome indeed!

We'll see... few months left until my 5yo is out of school... that's another thing... dang schools .

 

[perchie.girl]

Vegas Aquefer comes from the snow in the Mount Charleston range....

The area around Reno in Nevada is at a lower elevation so there would be some snow but not a huge amount. enough for the kids to play in and driveways would need to be shoveled a bit. possilby scraped with a Lawnmower with a grader attachment. Jacumba gets snow too. At my elevation which is at 3000 feet. it lasts a total of seventy two hours here.

deb

 

[N F C]

What Deb said about AZ is right on...we were considering north AZ (around Williams and Flagstaff) until we found out more on the water situation. We would have had to have water delivered and that didn't seem like a good situation to put ourselves into.

It seems there should be some common ground you and the DW could find, as long as there's give and take on both sides.

Deb has given you some good food for thought. Hope you can find the right spot!