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Our gun shop sells beer.

I don't know that we really live in the sticks, Sometimes it feels pretty crowded. About 40 miles to Cranbrook, about 30 to Fernie, and about the same to Eureka. Closest larger city is Kalispell, about an hour and a half. We can get gas about ten miles away and usually end up going to one of the big towns once a week. In the summer time, there are a lot of tourists which isn't all bad, I guess, since we own a campground. I don't know when we'll ever want to move to town but I suppose the time will come. GD

Never missed the bay area for a second in the almost 21 years we've been gone. Went back a few times to visit family, it only re-enforced what I already knew.

im about 25 miles out and off the grid

last winter was a beeyatch to deal with.

summers are nice though



sometimes the neighbors party too much and have to yell at them to be quiet

We are not quite "in town" these days, but our little village has a post office, a ranch/hardware/feed store and a "convenience store" that mostly stocks beer and liquor. It's 35 miles up to Lordsburg which is the county seat--one small grocery store, one package store and a couple of restaurants.

Silver City and Deming are both about 80 miles away, and you can get pretty much anything you need in either place, if they have it at Walmart. Douglas, AZ, is about the same, but the only groceries there are at a big Walmart which exists primarily to serve folks who come across the Mexican border from Aqua Prieta (population 125,000). As a friend said (after his first visit), "I have never been in a store where they have family reunions in the aisles." As for airports, we are almost exactly halfway between Tucson and El Paso, and both are a 5-6 hour round-trip, depending on the time of day.

Still, the country is beautiful, the people are friendly and there is good hunting for desert mule deer, Coues whitetails, pronghorns and three species of quail.

30 miles to work in the "big town", 18 miles to the small town with a feed store and a MacDonald's, 4 miles to a little town with one gas station, a Quicky Mart and five churches, population 399.

Dang ribka , that's a fantastic place. Are there trout in the creek below?

We live in a small town of 1500 or so.. Two gas stations, couple bars, rip off grocery !!! Our main grocery is 40 miles.. But once I leave to town limits about 400 yards from my drive, I am free to shoot anything from gophers to elk.. My step daughter just ask, if I could move anywhere where would it be.. I realized right here.. If I ever found a better place, I always said I would move, been here 45 years.. So guess this will be it.. Lots of places I like, Montana to fish, and shoot gophers.. Western Wy. to fish.. Az. and NM for quail, all are awesome, but I guess I will stay right here..

i dont think too many places in the world are better than wyoming

Half hour or so to town. I'm on 5 acres, not much, but off the road. I can't see my nearest neighbor. Deer, turkeys, during the rut I can hear bulls bugling on the hill behind me. I traded insults with one last September. He was pissed.

No complaints.






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Im 10 miles from a small town, but they have a Walmart, and 4 miles from Boon, party store with a gas pump, and a post office only open 3hrs a day! I like it!

I don’t really live in the sticks either.

The ‘burbs is more like it. Just a little water between here and the “big city”.

Rockinbar: For me its 106 miles (each way!) to the nearest CostCo!
And 66 miles each way to the nearest sporting goods chain store.
I like it here though.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

i dont think too many places in the world are better than wyoming
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I agree, I would move to the Newcastle area if we work up a property trade with someone wanting to move to Louisiana but that probably aint happening. Has to be cow property.

15 miles to the towns both north and south.

The northern town is the county seat and the other is larger.

45 miles to Hobbs NM.
55 or so to Lubbock and about 1hour and 15 to Midland.

I guess I'm a townie. Always lived in town, or darn close. The edge of town was never more than a mile away, tho, except Pueblo which was a darn big small town.

But the towns have been, almost without exception, small or smallish. And I honestly feel sorry for people who have to commute to town more than five miles to work. I guess if you're healthy and have planning skills, it's okay to live in the sticks, but I like to be close, just not TOO close, to basic services, the social activities (not "culture," mind you), schools, ammo supplies. I like places where the sticks are close, I guess.

Now I'm about three miles from the store and post office, walk across a creek every day to and from work. Cows mow the lawn and what the cows miss gets hit with a tractor.

But I'm really a townie.

About 7 miles to town proper,.......but the Tractor Supply store is only about 5.5.

It is only six miles to town, but I only go there when I absolutely have to. There are weeks at a time I don't make it to town, but that is great in my book. My bride tries to go there once a week for groceries.

My shooting bench is just out the back door and I can start deer hunting when I step outside during the season. Turkeys and ruffed grouse have been known to die when they go through the yard, in season of course.

11 miles (one way) to a C-Store, 18 miles the other way to a community ("town" ?) of 800 with a small grocery store, bank, Dr., ... semi-civilized. 106 miles round-trip to a town of 8,000 with a ... Walmart! Real city of 100,000 ... 150 miles.

The skies here are ... very ... dark.

I live 30 miles from town.
Not really "the sticks" by my definition, but city people complain about how far they have to drive to get to my place.

Looking west over the creek at my house in the oaks.



The road I live on looking north east at the pasture that burned behind the house October 9th.
My house is by the big yellow tree...center right.