So where should we move?

[Wifezilla]

Yeah, the air force people are fighting to get to Colorado

Can't blame them. It IS pretty out here. Wish it was a little warmer and less busy-body so I wouldn't have to move.

 

[Dunkopf]

That surprised me about CO too. Then I learned about Bentinite! LOL

Are you saying Colorado doesn't have basements? I don't think I've ever come across a house in Co. that didn't have a basement.

I had a contractor tell me that houses in cold climates usually have basements because the foundation has to go below freeze line. So they might as well add another 4 ft of wall and have a basement.

Bentinite is a problem along the front range. They just sink piers down to the bedrock and build the foundation on the piers now.

 

[abifae]

Dunkopf... a lot don't. And the concept of digging in a new cellar is foreign LOL. Anyone who builds their own certainly doesn't have a basement. On the other hand, a lot of straw insulated houses and other such things.

It's like: there's the big city... everywhere else either tries to look like a city or runs towards SS. No in between. We are not a middle of the road sort of state LOL.

We have the People's Republic of Boulder, for example.

 

[Wifezilla]

Most of the older homes do not have basements. Newer ones do, but not all. It isn't an automatic thing out here like it is in Wisconsin.

 

[Dunkopf]

Actually it's like one big city from Boulder to Monument. Then you have a break and it's the republic of Colorado Springs. Boulder is absolutely a Socialist Democracy with a lot of very wealthy people. One of the few places besides Hollywood where people with a lot of money have a social conscience. Of course they tend to overdo it a little.

I've been in a lot of houses in Colorado and I've only been in one that didn't have a basement. It was a shack that I lived in when I was 18. Even all the really old houses in downtown Denver have basements, including those in the ghetto areas. So I don't think it's an economic issue. Of course the Springs developed completely around the military bases and I imagine they have a lot of the cracker box houses that were very popular with the military families.

 

[Wifezilla]

We live in those military houses thrown up in the 50's.

For an interesting view of Boulder...
http://www.mattbrozovich.com/rage_boulder.html

 

[Bethanial]

Those ginormo cockroaches have a name, and they're not only in Texas. They're called Palmetto Bugs (South Caroline, anybody?) and they are all over the south. And try convincing non-natives (ie, yankees - no offense intended) that just because one gets in your house does NOT mean that your neighbors thing you're a horrible housekeeper. Not that I like the little wimpy cockroaches, either, but....

I HATE THOSE THINGS! Anything that makes a LOUD, DISTINCTIVE C-R-U-N-C-H when squished is just too big!

 

[Mackay]

The Banana belt of Idaho... near Hagarman.

Taxes are low and the state is still operating in the black.
Kind of conservative but a real live and let live attitude here.

Tea Party is growing here... which leans more to libertarian than republican.

 

[Mackay]

Around Blanco Texas and Fredricksburg is nice too and maybe a bit warmer than the Banana belt.. People are liberal to libertarian there, I think anyway... or maybe liberals that finally grew up.

 

[Henrietta23]

Don't forget "stickers", snakes(!)* lots of them, scorpions, mosqitoes, giant flying roaches, angry drivers in giant trucks, hurricanes, the heat and humidity that wont give up for 10 months out of the year, tornados**...

I could go on and on about why I hate Texas...



*I got bit by a water moccasin when I was a teenager.
**I was also in a tornado.

CT is sounding better and better.....