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I'd move from the Gulf Coast humidity to the Texas Hill Country tomorrow if my wife would let me (grand-kids nearby).

Or maybe somewhat north and a little west of there, where the land is cheaper. I was looking at 640 acres for $800,000 in Fisher County Texas, just yesterday, that was all set up for hunting.

Love that place, couple a little cafe's, good food.
But don't care for Mormon coffee....

Hope to move about 8hrs Northeast of where I'm at now, in a couple years or so.

Well there goes the neighborhood. But seriously, better get here before the wall is built. Some are already talking about walling in the whole state. Keeps them in and out. Let the jokes begin.

Funds permitting, spring through fall in AK, winter in Hawaii

What area do you live?


And the answer to your question is Tassie.

I grew up in SD and still have the farm there. I go back once or twice a month now, but hope to make it full time in a year or two

Tennessee. Warmer winters and southern charm and rifle hunting and no state income tax and on and on...

Something as beautiful as Texas should be preserved.



Travis

I'm gonna need 2 places. Lookin at moving to the Yukon in a few years, but eventually would like a place some
where warmer when the winter gets too long.

Stay out Wyoming at all costs, you will not be happy here. Winters are long and cold, they start about the 20th of August and last until around the 1st of June. Summer is usually the 7th of July and maybe the morning of the 8th. The wind blows incessantly, 24-7, a calm day is when you can keep your hat on your head without a chin strap. There are no cultural events like cello recitals, gay poetry readings or book signings by liberal activist movie stars. This is due to the fact the natives HAVE no culture, they are all a bunch of beer swilling, tobacco spitting, gun toting ignorant rednecks to whom getting dressed to go out to dinner means a clean pair of jeans and a shirt that's been ironed , and never mind the cow manure on the boots. We have been "discovered" by Californians, refugees from Seattle and Portland, along with a whole herd of yuppified folks from Back East. This has driven real estate prices out of sight, I just last week saw a 1/4 acre lot with an outhouse and a wall tent go for $350,000. Fishing and hunting truely suck, you cant wet a line or walk in the woods without getting run over by a 4-wheeler with a Colorado license plate. Plus, there’s a real good chance you will perish in the volcanic explosion of the Yellowstone caldera.
No, better you should go to Montana, I hear it's real nice up there.

East Tennessee and the Smoky Mountains have always appealed to me.

The Black Hills of SD as well.

But I'll probably stay right where I'm at in MN lakes country.

Well said jn!!! I have lived in this town for 40+ years.. don't see a move in my future.. But we spend a lot of time in the travel trailer.. Mt. and Idaho are favorite spots, with some Az. time in the winter.. Texas is lovely, and the hunting great,but the lack of public land, the cost of leases, it could never be home... But it is a fun place to visit.

Mississippi seems nice on google earth.
Or Cleveland.

Northern Minnesota in summers and AZ in the winter. Both are truly magical.

Lots of nice places out there though. Tough to beat the west, period.

South Addison, Maine in the summer. Looking at St. George Island, Florida in the winter.

This is my dream.

I love it here in Maryland. I'd be here from the beginning of April until the middle of June and enjoy the spring time and drink plenty of beer.

Then I'd buy a house on Nantucket, Mass. and spend the summer from June until the middle of October sitting on beautiful beaches, cruising in my boat, catching a lot of big fish and drinking a lot of cold beer.

In October, I'd come back to Maryland for hunting season. I would stay here through Christmas and kill some nice bucks and drink more beer.

After Christmas, I'll go down to St. Thomas, where I'll buy a house, and spend the winter there until April. I'll have a boat there too. Right, while I'm down there, I'll drink a ton of beer.

That's my plan.....and I'm sticking to it.

Oh, also, I'll have my private jet to take me to all of my high end hunting, fishing and skiing trips to the Rockies so that I can drink beer.

I'll be fortunate to be able to retire...

Yep, it costs to hunt... 1200 a year for us here, to have access 4 months of the year to do whatever we want.

At least our fall vacation the hunt is free. No pay to get on the land.

Only costs about 1000 bucks for the flight, 5-600 for the tag, some incidental costs of about 1000-2000, for the free land access. LOL. WOn't keep me from going though...

I'm with ya on that one brother.

Ruidoso, NM possibly.