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Colorado is like 2 states...the Front Range (all metro from Ft Collins down thru Co Spgs) and the Western Slope. To those on the Front Range, the Western Slope does not exist. To those out on the Western Slope, well, they have no use for the Front Range. The WS is still pretty red, including county sheriffs that refuse to enforce the recent batch of firearm laws coming from Denver.
In fact, in the late 70s (I think, maybe early 80s) there was a movement for the Western Slope to break off and form a new state with Grand Junction as the capitol.That wound up dying on the vine.

California tried to divide up into difference states too. That is old idea which sounds like democrats dividing up districts for votes.

a state of bliss.

RoninPhx,

I met a guy who had all the money he needed and then some. He had a house in Tucson and a house outside of Flag on the shoulder of the Peaks.

I'd say he was pretty well set.

Sycamore

Utah sucks......

forget about it......

Most anything in the Salt Lake Valley does any more it seems. I can not believe the traffic and bustle there nowadays...and it has only been 6-7 years since I left! If I was to like in Utah, I'd like to be around Panguitch somewhere.

Plan on staying in Texas but moving out of the DFW metromess.

Gracias, and I wish the same for all here.

It ain’t so much the time we’re allotted, but how we spend that time. I’m grateful for the time I’ve spent so far, it’s been a hoot

Tennessee. Extremely low property taxes where we live. Costs $29 a year to register any car or truck, no state income tax, no toll roads. Utilities are dirt cheap. Fishing is fantastic. Hunting is very good.
75% of the population of the USA can be reached within a one days drive.

Previously lived in CO and before that Alaska for over 30 years.

We lived here now for over 3 years and like it more and more every day.

Heeler, was born in Humansville and raised in Bolivar, gooooo Liberators Lol


Save you from digging out the Atlas, 30 miles north of Springfield on hwy 13, 70 miles north of Branson.,


Still love my old MO home, just love AK more.

In every man’s heart is a beauty to be won and an adventure to be lived. Alaska gave it all to me, will love this place till the day I die

I reconnected with my best friend from college after 25 years a few weeks ago. He changed careers s 30 years ago, moved to Ca and became a teacher. He is about to retire and has already bought a house in Texas. He told me that CA is a lot worse than you see on the news.

I weren't as lucky as you, but I knew when I was 15 that I should have gone to Alaska...

Second worst blunder of my entire life - the first was moving to Texass 4-1/2 years ago. Now the grim reaper has me too and I couldn't leave if I wanted to. It's a curse.

Sounds like you lived the life I dreamed of.

KYHillChick and I are planning on retiring to the Trans-Bluegrass of Kentucky.

We'll be 63 miles from Fountain Square in Cincinnati, but I'll have whitetails, and turkeys peaking in the windows. We have the occasional elk, black bear, and bobcat.

There are fishing ponds on the farm, and I'm less than 10 miles from a good bass lake. We're five miles from the Licking River and 10 miles from the Ohio. I've seen Musky jumping in the Licking.

We'll be in Zone 1, which means I can harvest any number of antlerless whitetails.

Weather is not horrible. Cincinnati is known to be muggy in the summer and wet and cold in the winter. Where we'll be has drier, cleaner air for most of the summer and when Cincinnati is getting snow, we'll be mostly getting rain.

We're an hour from a shopping mall and 90 minutes from the hospitals. The nearest source of milk and groceries is about a half hour away.

Here's what it looks like out the back of the house:

Already retired in Montana----the same state that three generations before me retired in!

Kentucky or Tennessee.

Karl sorry to hear of your health probs and sorry it didn’t work out for you to be in AK, it’s a beautiful place, no doubt I’ve been spoiled

Gents when you have your health all possibilities remain, be grateful indeed for good health, but no matter where you’ve lived or what you’ve done getting to participate in this game called life is a blessing

Thank you sir. I admit its a [bleep] feeling and it gets to me - I am just praying to God that somehow I can be buried anywhere else, that is how bad I detest this [bleep] hole. I'm hoping that my sister can bring me back home when the time comes so I can be buried there.

Staring at ones own mortality is indeed sobering and reflective.

I always liked Texas, go figure, but it wasn’t meant to be my home.

I’m skipping the whole burial gig, and will be turned to ashes. Another very personal choice for certain.

But what made the decision for me was my good pards explaining to me, you don’t want to just move to a really hot climate from AK, that I needed to acclimate myself first.

Hell it made sense to me 🤷🏻‍♂️😂

Have have visited New Mexico prob’ly at least twenty years out of the last forty, but never at attempted to hunt there.

The strange this to me is, big and wild as it is, and as much public land as it has, big game opportunities seem strangely limited. IIRC a lottery system for even deer in the various administrative regions.

Maybe this reflects the fact that at the end of the day, desert and other arid ecosystems just ain’t all that productive, biologically speaking.

Texas!