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Idaho sucks..Not here for sure..

I am a Canuck in Eastern British Columbia. West slope of the Rockies. Hunting and Rodeo are my primary interests. I sheep hunt for approx.2 months every fall and could not imagine not having this at my backdoor.

I moved to Texass 4-1/2 years ago. All I have seen since moving here are a bunch of disgusting blowhards that all hire low wage illegal alien workers while concurrently complaining about a wall or the welfare that the illegal collects, as well as the welfare the out of work American seeks, while ignoring that fact that Beto almost beat Ted Cruz. This is because of the nature of Texans - they cannot stand paying anyone to work, and even the $8.00 an hour they pay the illegal is too much - and the out of work American is who paid for his F350 and bass boat.

Then when you challenge them on it, they call you a liberal or a Yankee...

I have nothing against an F350 and/or bass boat - if you got it without taking it from your neighbor's or fellow countryman's pocket.

I'd much rather be a Yankee and, in case you missed it, I wouldn't accept a penny from any Texan even if my life depended on it.

In truth - I think America should pay Mexico to take Texass back.

You're a yankee ain'tcha! You caused me to remember a certain yankee accented couple standing in front of the fresh hams in a Texas super market and saying "where are the canned hams", don't these people know anything?
Well, I wouldn't give you a penny. But some free advice, drop the hate unless you want a shorter life, adios.

Dumbest thing the wife and I was to move to Colorado.
The smartest thing was the day we moved out.
Colorado has the most unfriendly people we ever experienced in our lives.

Dumbest thing the wife and I was to move to Colorado.
The smartest thing was the day we moved out.
Colorado has the most unfriendly people we ever experienced in our lives.

Washington has them beat! Zero social skills, zero intelligence, they drive with their head up their azz, and litter everywhere they go. Seattle and Puget Sound are definite shizzle holes, avoid at all costs.

Colorado was a hunter's paradise. Now the DOW thinks more about hiking trails the welfare of the animals. Now drugs legal and illegal have ruined the state and most cities. Denver and surrounding cites allow homeless to live and crap any where they want. Denver and surrounding cites are sanctuary cities. They give away driver licenses, free housing, free schooling, free medical, and free income to illegals. There are muslin training camps and skin head training camps in Colorado.


But even with all the problems the mountains are a great place to live and hunt. I refuse to give up.

Colofornia even has the "Bush People", the wolf howling yahoos as new residents. Alaska kicked 'em out and they followed the Californians to the mountains of your State.

I stumbled across this area when I was 19 years old,.....never left. It was just a lucky pick. At age 19 I didn't have enough sense to pick an area this pretty on purpose.

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:

I moved my brother and I moved another guy with 2000 pounds of reloading gear. They both went to a small town where we hunted 900 miles from Seattle.
They both had $0.5M from selling their Seattle shacks. They both bought big houses for $100k+.
Now we are facing a 4 hour commute to a real doctor.
I am driving them to doctors when we should be hunting.

Lesson: retire near a doctor and commute to the hunting and fishing.... one of them did get a 4' long northern yesterday on a one hour commute.

Lotsa places I’d live in Colorado. Denver ain’t one of em. I really like the Durango area.