Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Work and live in Cali but want to own hunting property out of state

Every state has rules on residency, most often one has to reside in the state for the cheaper hunting license. I own land in MN and AR and I am a non resident in both, even though I pay property taxes in both, and have registered deeds in both.

Sounds like you are doing something wrong.lol 😆

And this, in a nutshell, is my point. He's already paying twice, and at higher rates, and some on here think it ain't high enough.
Personally, I think he's getting screwed.

No, doing nothing wrong. Drivers license is not from those states, also no utility bills etc. Playing by the rules.

CA transplants dont last long around here. Washington State Oregon and New England area people don't either pretty much Outsiders don't

Maybe some here ought to re-read this.^^^^

This is the same guy that wont go look at potential properties.


Just keeps asking the same questions....over and over.




No animosity towards Californians from me Geno.......I just get tired of this LUNG guy.

Hey, it's still a free country. Californians can still buy property despite your lame protestations.
You're punching at clouds.

I kinda get a kick out of all you sanctimonious MFers saying he's not welcome in your precious state.
Give me a break.

Has he brought this up before?

If so, I don't recall it. Perhaps he just needs some impetus. I think instead of MT, WY or that area he should go to MO. Property is reasonable there, you're right in the middle of the country, only a few hours drive from anywhere in the state to KC or St Louis and a major Airport. Branson is there for those inclined to that type of entertainment. The Stanley Cup Champions play in St Louis. Maybe it deserves a look. The area down in the south central is nice, I hunted there with a buddy one year. Nice folks down there too.

Geno

Go to Baton Rouge Louisiana! You'll fit right in.....lots of a ssholes down there!

BGG,

yep, this garden spot is treating me OK today, and most days. If only, Jeeze if ONLY, it wasn't in California. It's that time of year of 50 degree temperature swings. I love it. It's the interior west for sure. Fall calves are dropping in the pastures, geese are flocking up, flycatcher or phoebe stopped by for some bugs today on its way south, robins showing up for the juniper berries, leaves are turning colors. Jeeze if ONLY it wasn't in Kommiefornia.

I feel your pain, and likely that of your children down the road. I'd still likely be living in SoCal if they hadn't allowed so many people in there. Grow most anything year round, decent amount of public land to play on, go to the desert, mountains, and beach all in the same day if you choose, offshore fishing, great bass fishing, quail, some deer. But the f'rs wanted growth, growth, growth and more growth. My brother still lives and works down there building and building and building. He has to split rent with someone as even on his good wages he can't afford a decent place/neighborhood by himself. Traffic traffic traffic, and more traffic, And still they don't do anything to slow growth.

I lived through exactly the situation you described regarding the seasonal housing. My wife and I moved to the White Mountains of AZ in mid December a number of years back. Stayed in a motel with 2 dogs and 2 cats for over a month, looking for places every day. Driving around and seeing houses that would suit our needs quite well, with snow in the driveway that you could tell fell on Thanksgiving. We could live in that house, why aren't the owners?

It's not just out of state seasonal owners, most of those places were owned by desert dwellers in PHX and Tucson areas. Second houses for mom and kids to get away from the heat, dad drives up on Friday (made it a real zoo on Fri and Sun nights on the highways leaving the mountains). And they came up for the Ski Resort in the winter and then there was the ones up for the casino too. Priced the local regular wage earners out of the market in some of the areas. If you could find a place that is.

I always figured the ideal is to find paradise (SoCal was nearly that at one time, hence the attraction) and stay there and if one couldn't, then do like our primitive ancestors and migrate with the seasons. Too cold and the acorns are all gone, and the elk have moved off the mountain......time to go to the valleys. Or in SoCal the natives went to the beach and ate lobster, clams, and abalone! I can't blame a person of means for doing the same in the modern world. It sucks in many ways, but the only way to stop it is to limit growth, then the city fathers and mothers hear from the locals that they're not able to split their 10 acres into lots to sell to the lowlanders and they're being "deprived of their property rights".

I'm glad this is a sort of dying/stable area. It's likely the empty lot (couple of acres) across the street is not ever going to be developed. My nearest neighbor has no intention of splitting his lots, I'm certainly not going to. And there's no big drive by developers to get BLM to sell off the flat sage lands behind me. The remoteness keeps many desiring a calmer way of life away. It's just about 120 mile drive in any direction, on two lane winding highways, to get to ANYWHERE.

It would be nice in some respects to see an infux of cash from somewhere, to bring back some industry to the city. And a few more variety restaurants, and not Jack in the Box types.

I certainly don't know how to solve the "gentrification" of the rural west, but I do realize it sucks in many respects. What's left for folks like us when the city folks move into the area and start to change things? (even tho I grew up in the burbs it was a way different time. They don't let kids run around there with BB guns and 22's anymore) I guess a fella could pull up stakes and move to the Rust Belt places where populations are decreasing, but then one would lose the mountains, elk, antelope, Big Skies, etc.

I just can't see telling a person to stay away, stay "home" in situation they don't enjoy, don't start planning for the future, and whatever you do, Don't Come Here.

Well, I can see doing it, but it sorta starts to reek of the NIMBY mentality. Which I hold to when it affects me.

Such is life, full of dilemmas, eh?

I wish you and yours the best there, and certainly hope your kids get a chance to stay in the area they grew up in, find an affordable place, and raise a family if that's what they choose to do. But if they move to another place I hope they don't run into the "Don't bring your rural ideas here" folks.

Enjoy the conversation.

Geno

That’s what people without money say. I didn’t ask for your opinion. Don’t hate because I work hard and have a successful business. There are plenty of Californians that are just as conservative and red blooded as people in idaho

There just mad that I have a successful thriving business and I have the option to buy property. I’m not worried about people like them. I’m living a great life

Your and idiot I lived in Idaho for a few years and worked as a wild land forest firefighter in my summers between college at Boise state. Moved back here and now that I have a successful contracting business I’m looking for prooerty

That’s the reason I want to leave this state. Full of a bunch of [bleep] for brain libs

Those folks oughta look for a better higher paying profession I don’t feel bad for being successful in my life

I’m a constitutional conservative. Just because I’m from California doesn’t mean I don’t think the same politically as people in Idaho.

Ya but the quality of animals is [bleep] and the fish and game doesn’t manage our resources correctly. Major drought kill and predation issues

That’s another reason I wanna leave Cali to many illegal aliens

I’m as red blooded as they come Trump 2020 “liberals cry again”