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Mudhen, I have been though your little town I believe.. Cool area.. Surprised to see one cannot get to Skeleton Canyon any more..
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17 miles to a nice little town. 70 or so to a walmart. Two kinds of deer out the door, pheasants, sometimes turkeys. Elk, grizzlies, wolves just up the creek closer than town is sometimes.
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HOME SWEET HOME ![[Linked Image]](http://i64.tinypic.com/6r7tiq.jpg)
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Our driveway is 7 miles long and it takes 15 min. to get to the county rd. threw 3 gates, then it's 65 miles west or 75 miles east to the Wal-mart or food stores,guess you could say I live in the sticks, wouldn't have it any other way, Rio7
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Everyone apparently had good interwebs access though.....
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Everyone apparently had good interwebs access though..... Lol. Good point. We’re 25 miles out, and go everyday for business. It’s a lifestyle choice. Not cheap, but affordable ![[Linked Image]](https://s10.postimg.org/5poseokvt/58_E8_D1_AB-4708-4524-_A13_D-_FBB8_BB0_C2_C79.jpg)
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When I was first married (1980) we lived out in the sticks it was miles to the nearest neighbor a dairy farmer another 15 miles to the nearest town with a grocery store and bank, etc but prices in that small town was so bad we drove an hour in the other direction. Work was daily 100 mile round trip and driving 3rd shift sucked in the winter.
Work moved me west to town of 100,000 with gas, banks and Walmart grocery store 1.5 miles away.
Miss that home in the sticks!
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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 . whats the name of your campground and where is it ?? on hwy 3?? norm
There is not enough darkness in all the world to put out the light of even one small candle----Robert Alden .
If it wern't entertaining, I wouldn't keep coming back.------the BigSky
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We can get fuel 25 miles up the road, but the grocery store, hospital, dentist, and truck parts are at least 75 miles one way. A good choice. Sometimes I don't leave here for 3 weeks.
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40 minutes into town once I leave my turn off
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Hey, I live in the 4th worst small town or the 10 worse small towns in America.!
What more could one hope for ?
At least according to a recent Youtube Video...
"Minus the killings, Washington has one of the lowest crime rates in the Country" Marion Barry, Mayor of Wash DC
“Owning guns is not a right. If it were a right, it would be in the Constitution.” ~Alexandria Ocasio Cortez
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We used to live in a small town? Big city moved out here
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Wife and I are on the 10 year plan heading towards retirement and moving out in the sticks. Would love to find some land within an hour of a town just big enough to cover our basic needs. (Car repairs, grocery store, medical clinic, etc.) Really looking forward to being able to sight in rifles right off my back porch, watch the deer and turkeys come into a backyard feeder, and hear nothing but silence most of the time. Tired of hearing car traffic. Would much rather trade that for the sound of farm equipment working the fields.
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
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I can do all those things. Backyard feeder=garden in these here parts.
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Gunner, have a look at the area near Big Falls, Minnesota. About 90 miles north of Bemidji. Timber, and near good fishing.
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
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Thanks to all of you who have shared pictures. Some of you live in spectacularly beautiful places.
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23 miles each way but there is a small gas station/convenience store about 4 miles from the house
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Proud deep sea diver for over 25 years, fairly paid and never once needed a union to do it for me.
"if you can't do it-you can't stay"
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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 . whats the name of your campground and where is it ?? on hwy 3?? norm No, we are about twelve miles south of Hwy3. We don't advertise; not even with a sign. GD
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Gunner, have a look at the area near Big Falls, Minnesota. About 90 miles north of Bemidji. Timber, and near good fishing. Yeah, we've been looking up east of Pine City right over on the border. We also looked at Wisconsin in the Ladysmith area. Really liked what we saw over there, but the properties we looked at were too far out for a daily commute to work, and it would be tough for me to find work in my field-I'm an optician working for Wal-Mart and would prefer to just finish out my career in one of their stores, but the one in Ladysmith doesn't have an optical shop.
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
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Gunner, have a look at the area near Big Falls, Minnesota. About 90 miles north of Bemidji. Timber, and near good fishing. Yeah, we've been looking up east of Pine City right over on the border. We also looked at Wisconsin in the Ladysmith area. Really liked what we saw over there, but the properties we looked at were too far out for a daily commute to work, and it would be tough for me to find work in my field-I'm an optician working for Wal-Mart and would prefer to just finish out my career in one of their stores, but the one in Ladysmith doesn't have an optical shop. I was born in Ladysmith Nice little town, low crime and great fishing in area especially on the Flambeau, decent deer hunting in that area.
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