JLaw, just asked the wife, she said her relative's live in Beallsville OH. Thought it was funny, she came back from their trip and said they were bigger 'rednecks' than us, lol, impossible! I think of Ohio as Chicago etc...Probably how they think of NY. I just looked up the town, WOW! pretty interesting " As of the 2010 census, the village population was 409. The village gained national attention during the Vietnam War by having lost six of its 475 citizens to the war, the worst per-capita loss of life experienced by any place in the country."
They said there is tons of jobs in the area now though, I think mostly in the natural gas industry.
Stuffedcritter, yeah, roots run deep, I don't see us moving, but we keep debating it. The biggest thing that keeps me here is the wish and want to get back into the Bluestone industry, there is no place on earth that has it, except for some of northern PA but it isn't as good as our area. Wife doesn't want me to get back in to it, she likes the guaranteed paychecks and health insurance, doesn't care about my happiness LOL! Being a self employed business owner in NY is not a winning career right now. My father is, doesn't have to deal with DEC regulations right now cause he keeps his quarry small time, doesn't move a lot of material, but he has to deal with MSHA, same people that came into the mines on Gold Rush Alaska. They gave him tons of fines, can't have 'burs' on his chisels, 'they could cut you', had burs on his chisels for 30+ yrs, nobody got hurt, Fine$. So much more 'crap' I could fill a page, man works for himself, by himself, raised a family on it and paid his bills, NY regulations will probably put him into poverty.
They said there is tons of jobs in the area now though, I think mostly in the natural gas industry.
Stuffedcritter, yeah, roots run deep, I don't see us moving, but we keep debating it. The biggest thing that keeps me here is the wish and want to get back into the Bluestone industry, there is no place on earth that has it, except for some of northern PA but it isn't as good as our area. Wife doesn't want me to get back in to it, she likes the guaranteed paychecks and health insurance, doesn't care about my happiness LOL! Being a self employed business owner in NY is not a winning career right now. My father is, doesn't have to deal with DEC regulations right now cause he keeps his quarry small time, doesn't move a lot of material, but he has to deal with MSHA, same people that came into the mines on Gold Rush Alaska. They gave him tons of fines, can't have 'burs' on his chisels, 'they could cut you', had burs on his chisels for 30+ yrs, nobody got hurt, Fine$. So much more 'crap' I could fill a page, man works for himself, by himself, raised a family on it and paid his bills, NY regulations will probably put him into poverty.
