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[superchemicalgirl]

I'm with you, latestarter. As soon as I'm done working I am blowing this joint. I've been looking for land up north in the middle of nowhere. Unfortunately it will have more winter than here, but it will have less people, too.

 

[ronott1]

I'm with you, latestarter. As soon as I'm done working I am blowing this joint. I've been looking for land up north in the middle of nowhere. Unfortunately it will have more winter than here, but it will have less people, too.

Aurora Colorado was listed as one of the best places to move too. You might be able to find a place outside of there there fits what you want but still be able to use the stuff of modern life.

 

[Bdaychicks15]

My chicks swelling has gone down a little yay!

 

[perchie.girl]

My chicks swelling has gone down a little yay!

yay

 

[perchie.girl]

Sorry to hear it @Bunnylady . That's the primary reason I'm selling where I'm at and moving to an area where there's little to no employment, no shopping malls anywhere nearby, no highway's within easy reach, land is "cheap", people are scarce & moving away from the area, and hopefully development is not likely in my or my kid's lifetime. Have you considered cashing out yourself and moving to a less populated area? I know it's tough when you're all set up and established...

Thats what I did. Sixty miles to the nearest Real Grocery store, Fast food joint and hospital. Twenty miles to the nearest Feed store. Thirty miles to the feed store that I prefer, a 7 percent grade to get there and 115 degrees in the summer. Lot size minimum is ten acres most are twenty and more. Antisocial people are drawn to the desert. So better get an invite if you are going visiting. Make sure you have a deeded Easment to get to your house. you dont want road wars over access.

Plan on having a months worth of food on hand at all times. Medication can be delivered by mail but if you have a mail box on the road it needs to be lockable. Because the mail man wont deliver if your road isnt wide enough to pass another car without pulling off the road. Or get a PO box.

My little local town is only about 3 miles away there is a Sheriffs station and a fire department that covers Both areas of Boulevard and Jacumba. There is also a department of forestry fire station closer to campo. Last time I had to have some one call 911 up there it took ten minutes to find me... Not bad.

If you plan on being off grid make sure you have Cell reception. I dont have Cell REception and No telephone at my house. Oh I have telephone at the pump house but my underground wires got mess up .... very long story but in order to restore them I need to do them above ground... run in conduit strung along a fence line. Then fish taped to go under my driveway... Part of the reason the Illegals pass my house by is there is little to tell them there is a house up there. and the lower road is easier to use.


deb

 

[Latestarter]

Aurora Colorado was listed as one of the best places to move too. You might be able to find a place outside of there there fits what you want but still be able to use the stuff of modern life.

You have to remember that those articles promoting certain areas as "best places" to move/live/etc. are virtually all based on commercial interests. My daughter lives in Aurora, I've been there, through there, around there many times. It's essentially a Denver suburb; very crowded, very expensive, lots of traffic, high cost/taxes, over regulated (oh, I can only have 3 chickens? and no rooster?)... pretty much exactly what people like me are trying to get far away from. Boulder, Colorado is another place that generally ranks high in the "best places" department... It's an ultra liberal, over priced, extremely expensive, extremely crowded, college town, and no place l would ever consider moving to (even if I could afford it). I wouldn't even move within Boulder county, simply because of the taxes!

 

[ronott1]

You have to remember that those articles promoting certain areas as "best places" to move/live/etc. are virtually all based on commercial interests. My daughter lives in Aurora, I've been there, through there, around there many times. It's essentially a Denver suburb; very crowded, very expensive, lots of traffic, high cost/taxes, over regulated (oh, I can only have 3 chickens? and no rooster?)... pretty much exactly what people like me are trying to get far away from. Boulder, Colorado is another place that generally ranks high in the "best places" department... It's an ultra liberal, over priced, extremely expensive, extremely crowded, college town, and no place l would ever consider moving to (even if I could afford it). I wouldn't even move within Boulder county, simply because of the taxes!

They were looking into a lot of things--but to be truthful, some of the things bad on your list are great on mine.

We each have our own set of criteria.

They listed housing and living costs as being low.

One of the lowest cost places to live was a City in Italy and another in some South America City.

 

[Latestarter]

Sorry Ron, I have to be nosy... What on my list did/would you consider "good" things? I mean, I live here (20 minutes from Aurora)...

The housing market took a hit here just like everywhere nationally when it crashed, but prices are screaming right back up and new construction (adding to the crowds) is busting at the seams again... Most housing here is in the 200-300K range and up. and that's for a postage stamp with a cookie cutter house on it. You can buy older homes that are in serious need of repair/upgrade/modernization, still in over populated, cramped subdevelopments in the 150K + range, but you get what you pay for based on the market, and most folks aren't looking for those older trashed homes unless they are flippers..

In the end though, you're exactly right... some people ARE looking for what I'm trying to escape ("civilization"?), otherwise, the big builders wouldn't be here adding more homes. I can see the front range of Colorado following in Las Vegas's footsteps; no water but they just keep adding in more people...

 

[ronott1]

Sorry Ron, I have to be nosy... What on my list did/would you consider "good" things? I mean, I live here (20 minutes from Aurora)...

The housing market took a hit here just like everywhere nationally when it crashed, but prices are screaming right back up and new construction (adding to the crowds) is busting at the seams again... Most housing here is in the 200-300K range and up. and that's for a postage stamp with a cookie cutter house on it. You can buy older homes that are in serious need of repair/upgrade/modernization, still in over populated, cramped subdevelopments in the 150K + range, but you get what you pay for based on the market, and most folks aren't looking for those older trashed homes unless they are flippers..

In the end though, you're exactly right... some people ARE looking for what I'm trying to escape ("civilization"?), otherwise, the big builders wouldn't be here adding more homes. I can see the front range of Colorado following in Las Vegas's footsteps; no water but they just keep adding in more people...

I like college towns and even though Ultra liberals and ultra conservatives are not great, I have lived in an ultra conservative place for a long time.

I would kind of like to see what a liberal place is like. Tehama County was terrible and Yolo county is not much better.

Thanks for letting me know what Aurora is like. I will have to do a lot more research before retiring--I do have a bit more than 4 years to go! Not living in a place that is hot like Hell is important so Colorado gets points for that. What about Northern Idaho?

 

[superchemicalgirl]

Turkey girl is feeling much better. She laid an egg today! Her feet are moderately swollen but are much better than where they started out. The worst of her feet (left) still has a pretty swollen pad. It feels like there's a scab inside the pad, which is why it isn't going down, but there's really not much of a scab to pick at on the surface. I'll give it another week or so of antibiotics and then decide to cut or not at that point.

Edited to add the swollen areas between the toes are pretty much gone.