Thinking of moving, but WHERE???

[mrbstephens]

If you want cheap the hicks come with it. Just don't talk about politics, religion, guns, gays or minorities and you'll be ok.

 

[mrbstephens]

Any thoughts on Maryland or Delaware???

 

[ScottSD]

no income tax in SD.....

the unemployment rate is pretty low here too

Scott.........how bad do the winters get out there? Know any GOOD real estate agents?

Jim, the winters here are not too bad.....compared to ND where I grew up. However, it's supposed to get to about -8 tonight and that is below normal.

I don't know how it compares to Ohio. It is probably much windier here, but you get used to it.

And I think you would like the hunting.

It's a good thing we have global warming. Can you imagine how cold it would be with out that?

And why, yes, I do know a good real estate agent. I go the same church as he does. In fact, his son took my daughter to the prom last year. A great family.

If you are interested, I can hook you up.

 

[Ldychef2k]

As part of my continuing efforts to control my blood pressure, I try to avoid your posts, but this was particularly unkind and I needed to comment. It saddens me that someone on a self sufficiency forum would think it clever or even appropriate to say something like this. I am proud to be considered a "hick", and it has absolutely nothing to do with the stereotypes mentioned.

If you want cheap the hicks come with it. Just don't talk about politics, religion, guns, gays or minorities and you'll be ok.

 

[patandchickens]

Any thoughts on Maryland or Delaware???

Been a while since I lived in that area but I doubt that the following has changed all that much:

As of like 20 or so yrs ago, even the out-of-the-way rural(ish) areas were significantly more expensive than a lot of rural parts of upstate NY, and in those rural(ish) areas e.g. much of the southern 2/3 of DE you may not find the sort of Culture you may be looking for. To me anyhow, the southern 2/3 of DE and parts of rural E MD have a lot in common with, say, the NC coastal plain and Sandhills, i.e. what I am pretty sure you would call southern(ish) hicks and hick attitudes. (I am good with that myself, but if a person is wanting to live somewhere more Democrat-voting and urban-attitude-ed, then dot dot dot).

Honestly if you want most of your neighbors to have the same political and social preferences/prejudices as you do, and yours seem to be more sort of urban than rural ("hick"), other than staying near a college town where there is more fine-scale mixing of the two, you may be a bit stuck or have to make some real compromises in terms of social climate or real estate.

Pat

 

[Henrietta23]

I had an uncle who lived in Watertown and my DH went to SUNT Oswego, to the south but right on the lake. The wind and lake effect storms were brutal. My NY family is all to the west in the Rochester area or centered around Cortland. Not cheap there I don't think.

 

[Wifezilla]

Big Daddy and I don't agree on much, but his joke was not far off target. As a libertarian atheists living in church central, we do have to avoid most of those topics. The only safe topic in his list for us is GUNS!

 

[ScottSD]

Big Daddy and I don't agree on much, but his joke was not far off target. As a libertarian atheists living in church central, we do have to avoid most of those topics. The only safe topic in his list for us is GUNS!

That was a joke?

It sounded more like a derogatory attack.

 

[miss_thenorth]

Play nice peeps.

 

[Big Daddy]

Big Daddy and I don't agree on much, but his joke was not far off target. As a libertarian atheists living in church central, we do have to avoid most of those topics. The only safe topic in his list for us is GUNS!

Wifezilla we don't agree on a whole lot, but I appreciate the fact that you can tell when I'm joking. Yes you probably have more mega churches than any place on earth. Except maybe Branson Missouri.

By the way what does derogatory mean?