Thinking of moving, but WHERE???

[Up-the-Creek]

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Better stay north,...I don't believe they will play nice with natives.

 

[Tuffoldhen]

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Better stay north,...I don't believe they will play nice with natives.

LOL From one West Virginian to another!

 

[Xtina]

I keep thinking of the word "Goosfraba!" Did anyone else here see Anger Management with Adam Sandler?

I totally get being offended by the sentiment, but she did apologize! That's worth something, right?

 

[chickerdoodle]

I like to think outside of the box--I have to. I admit I grew up in NYC and had affluent parents, an excellent education that helped me receive several degrees and was a "white collar" professional. My aunt was a buyer for Sach's Fifth Avenue so I was always dressed to the nines. Perhaps I was rich, cultured, world traveled city girl. Guess what? I left NYC and moved to Oregon 30 years ago and live in jeans and sneakers. I only wear "nice" clothes to work because I have to. I fell in love with horses, learned to ride and got filthy cleaning stalls because I LOVED IT! I loved the smell and closeness of nature. My hubby is from a tiny town in Iowa and he was looking for what I had and I for what he had. So after finding each other we now live happily, neither as a "hick" or "city slicker" in the suburbs of Portland, Oregon. We are just ourselves. It doesn't matter how much formal education you have or do not have it's just how well you live your life, how happy you are and if you spread your happiness to others. I try to do it everyday. You can live anywhere if you can do that.

 

[Xtina]

Very well said. Very well. I just think the point of placing yourself where your kids can get a top notch education is that when they achieve that, the wide world is open to them. If they want to go live in a high rise and wear couture, they can. And if they want to go to the country and farm, there's nothing to stop them. If you've received a good education that taught you critical thinking skills and research skills, you can become excellent at whatever pursuit you want. The same can't be said for my husband's cousins. And I don't know about you, but I want there to be highly educated farmers who understand biology and chemistry and environmental science. I want to know that the stewards of the land aren't the kids who showed the least initiative and potential. I don't want them to be like my husband's cousins, who although they were born with the intellectual capacity to achieve, were systematically failed by their society. I don't want to get into exactly what's going on with them, because it's so not the point of this thread, but it has to be said that it's not so bad that the OP wants to be in a place with people who had more opportunities around them.

By the way, I think Portland is a great place for people like you and me. I love how laid back the city is about dress code. Sometimes, a little too laid back, even for me. And I didn't think that was possible.

Back on the point of this thread, I wanted to echo what some people said about North Carolina and the upper Midwest. The Asheville, NC area is supposed to be awesome. I recently did some market analysis for Cross Plains, Wisconsin and that seemed to be a really interesting small town with great property values. Madison, too, is supposed to be a great college town. BUT, it gets a whole heck of a lot colder in the Midwest than it does in New York, or so says my friend who grew up in Buffalo. He visited Minnesota last January with my husband and they had -20 degree temps and the inside of their van's windshield got icicles overnight. That's not cool.

 

[Laurieks]

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His bowls and other woodwork could be sold on line & shipped, so you could live anywhere! The bowl you posted is beautiful! If we had extra $ I'd buy one. Considering needing to stay close to family, I like the NC/SC option, or Virginia.

We 'thought' we were about to refinance with our local Credit Union and get away from Chase, who just bought our loan, but our appraisal came in too low!

. nearly as low as we paid 20 years ago, thanks to all the foreclosures going on. Sheesh. Grr wallstreet!
Living here is nice, but sales tax is nearing 10%, they want to tax Veterinary services, property tax is 1% of value 'on record' plus assessments etc, and of course it's getting more crowded by the minute. (ok, rant over for now)

 

[Mattemma]

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That sounds sweet! I would love a place like that.

I have relatives in AL close to Panama City FL,and they love it there.Kids all got decent education(nurse,wood worker).Dad did computer work for the military.

If I could I would trade my college BA cost for a few years with a homesteading family.I think I would have gotten more from them than the college I went too.

I thought the bowl looked nice.

 

[jafo]

Vermont, 4 seasons, 5 if you count mud, 1/2 acre, $2800.00 a year in taxes, side hill, brook across the road with trout, bear, moose, deer, turkey, fox, coyote. Very country. A love hate relationship. And yes, it snows.

 

[bargain]

nevermind. deleted original post

Have a blessed and happy day

 

[Katy]

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You are joking...right!!?? You obviously know nothing about farming. To survive in this economic world there is not a farmer around who doesn't know about those very things whether they went to school and got a degree for them or started farming straight out of high school! If you truely think the "stewards of the land" are those kids who showed the least initiative and potential you are very much wrong!! That is probably the most insulting statement I have ever read on here.

Just for the record...my husband has a college degree. Our life and livelihood is farming and ranching.