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Post by hikerjer on Jan 26, 2020 19:54:55 GMT -8
Point taken. Can I plead "stream of consciousness"? I'll try t fix it later. You would have gotten along well with Ms. Aden, my 7th grade English teacher.
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Post by LetsGo on Jan 26, 2020 20:24:14 GMT -8
Point taken. Can I plead "stream of consciousness"? I'll try t fix it later. You would have gotten along well with Ms. Aden, my 7th grade English teacher. I liked your paragraph the way it is. Thanks for the discussion input.
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Post by hikerjer on Jan 26, 2020 20:35:54 GMT -8
I liked your paragraph the way it is. Thanks for the discussion input. God, this is a hard group to please.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Jan 27, 2020 5:50:28 GMT -8
I always wanted to pay the highest taxes in the nation. Dream achieved!
But I gotta admit, other than the high taxes, lack of political representation, and perpetually-struggling economy (due to the first two factors), it's a great area to live with multiple ecological zones within an hour, four true seasons, and plenty of hiking opportunities.
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Post by bradmacmt on Jan 27, 2020 6:43:30 GMT -8
I always wanted to pay the highest taxes in the nation. Dream achieved! NY?
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Post by balzaccom on Jan 27, 2020 6:44:05 GMT -8
Absarokanaut: Crestone looks nice and...COLD. We're looking for somewhere that the snow melts in a day or two. That's why Flagstaff isn't on our list any more. Nine feet of snow a year is more than we want to deal with. Remember, we're born and raised Californios--we think 32 degrees F is cold.
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Post by cweston on Jan 27, 2020 7:03:09 GMT -8
Our moves have been for career reasons. Proximity to the mountains would have been a huge plus in choosing jobs, but it just never really happened. We have been in Manhattan, KS for almost 20 years now, and will almost surely be here at least until retirement, which is still a little ways away. (I'm 55.) As a tenured full professor, I wear the "golden handcuffs": there are just very, very few hires made at that level in academia, with the exception of Harvard, Yale, and Princeton poaching each other's stars.
It is nice that I can be to trailheads in some of my favorite places in CO in 8-9 hours of driving--that's not a small thing to me.
We may move to a different place after retirement, but that might depend on the location of children and hypothetical grandchildren more than anything else. Although, I do definitely dream of retiring to somewhere in the mountain west.
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Post by toejam on Jan 27, 2020 7:09:21 GMT -8
Will probably be Santa Barbara. You must be a lot more wealthy than I assumed. We'll have to get together when you move out. But I gotta admit, other than the high taxes, lack of political representation, and perpetually-struggling economy (due to the first two factors), it's a great area to live with multiple ecological zones within an hour, four true seasons, and plenty of hiking opportunities. My feelings exactly. I'm in CA because my wife is from here, but I love where I live. I could retire, pay cash for a house in my Missouri hometown, spend a week every month hiking in CA, and be fine financially. Can't convince my wife though.
So I'm still working, which I'm not happy about. Running out of good days for hiking.
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Post by bradmacmt on Jan 27, 2020 7:22:56 GMT -8
Can't convince my wife though. Native Californian's often don't do real well outside of California. See it all the time here. Sell the house in CA, move to Bozeman (or wherever). Buy an equivalent house for less, put a good chunk of money in the bank, and proceed to miss CA over the next 5 years, at which point one is now priced out of moving back to CA because one's tax basis is gone. I always encourage native CA's to think long and hard before leaving... especially those living in SLO
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Post by trinity on Jan 27, 2020 7:23:06 GMT -8
I was born in Austin, and have lived in central Texas most of my life. My wife also is a native Texan. However, neither of us feel at home here anymore. There is very little public land, especially in this part of Texas. We have hiked every square inch of the state parks a gazillion times. Without sending this to TPA, I will just say that Texas has drifted further and further out of line with our own politics. Austin, once a cool little college town, is now a pretentious megalopolis. We just feel done with Texas. But, like cweston , I won't likely be able to retire any time soon, and I really enjoy where I work, so I expect we'll be here for another 8-10 years. We love the mountain west, and are currently targeting Pagosa Springs as a retirement destination. Also under consideration is Chama, NM. Primary considerations are proximity to public land, good fishing, and snowy but not brutal winters (i.e., probably not Montana, as much as both love it). We also like small-town living, so we're not likely to be anywhere near the Front Range.
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Post by desert dweller on Jan 27, 2020 7:24:37 GMT -8
Being an army brat, we moved pretty much every three years everywhere from Maryland to Germany to Hawaii and various places in the U.S. till I was 18. At 18, a few weeks out of high school in Fayetteville, NC, I joined the army just to get out of Fayetteville. For those 7 years I spent 39 months in Augsburg, Germany and then 36 months at Fort Huachuca, southern Arizona.
After getting out of the army in 1980, I moved to Tucson, mostly because it was the closest big town. At first, I stayed because of school but over the years I realized it was a pretty good town with a good music scene, countless outdoor destinations, good weather and a good liberal mindset. The idea of leaving never really entered my mind even though I was offered jobs elsewhere.
This year, in April, I will have been in Tucson for 40 years. I can't imagine living anyplace else. When I retire, I'll probably travel some around the Country, but Tucson will always be my base.
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Post by whistlepunk on Jan 27, 2020 8:18:39 GMT -8
Not really.
Early in our marriage my wife and I agreed to stay put and I would not uproot the family every few years chasing the next promotion. We understood that would limit my career advancement, a trade-off we were willing to make. We did move once, from L.A. to where I live now in far northeast California (I escaped!). Family and grandkids are nearby, the house is paid off, so there is no real incentive to move. Sometimes I think I would like to leave the Granola state and move to Reno area -- still close to the kids yet out of the dysfunctional clown cabal of Cali. But I probably never will.
I can walk to a 7000 acre lake, launch a boat, and be the only one in sight. I can mountain bike or hike all day starting from my house, and not see another soul. The town is so small we do not have a town drunk. So we all take turns. The 'Welcome to ...' and 'Leaving...' signs are on the same post.
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Post by walkswithblackflies on Jan 27, 2020 8:34:36 GMT -8
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Post by hikerchick395 on Jan 27, 2020 8:43:10 GMT -8
In a nutshell, no, it wasn't a struggle. We moved for religious purposes. You see, the Sierra is our church. One year before getting married, my husband and I had a five year plan. Our anthem was The Animals' song "We Gotta Get Out Of This Place." Our destination was the Eastern Sierra. The only "struggle" was to pick the location, ranging from the Alabama Hills to June Lake. I will be a "local" this year...living half my life here and learning to pronounce Sabrina SAH-BRY-NAH instead of SAH-BREE-NAH. LetsGo but you have kids, then, maybe someday, grandkids. That will probably be a factor in your future residence. I know that it is for the rest of our family.
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Post by davesenesac on Jan 27, 2020 8:43:42 GMT -8
Yeah life itself for most of us is a struggle. For most people given education and skills, where one moves as an adult is limited by where employment is possible. My early life is a story of being rootless that I hated. As an adult with no wife and children due to severe medical damage at age 20 I expected to die from, have lived in the one region with industry I could make a career at while given my interest in the outdoors, would also provide enjoyment and purpose to my life.
Born in downtown LA, and grew up in urban areas within San Mateo, Santa Clara, Sacramento, and San Diego counties of California with 2 years near Columbus, OH, and a bit near Hartford, CO. Went to 11 different schools, so always the new short, young looking, ignored kid at the bottom of pecking orders. To avoid being a grunt carrying an M16 in a Mekong Delta swamp, escaped into the USAF and was sent to San Antonio, Biloxi, Riverside, Atwater, and 2 tours in Asia. After discharge with little assets, moved to Santa Clara County because of the electronics industry and made a career out of very mentally difficult work.
After early moving in this vast urban hi tech area 3 times, have now lived in the same rental residence for over 4 decades. Has never looked or felt like a home but rather a guys "hideout". The last couple decades, it has been virtually impossible for this frugal peon to move anywhere else locally because of ridiculous market rates on rentals, so am stuck. Decades of friends and acquaintances have come and gone with little reason socially at this point to otherwise continue to cement my life herein. But now retired with good health and fitness, modest funds, and a near max SS monthly benefit, have an eye out to eventually move somewhere cheaper. With a wife to share a life with, I might move out of this vast urban nightmare to a smaller city or town, but as a single retired person there is a great deal of interest to keep me here. I've visited small rural places all my adult life so know what that is about, a yawn for an older person lacking social roots. I could enjoy living at a smaller city near the Pacific Ocean, and would move to somewhere like Monterey/Pacific Grove were it not for expensive housing as many others feel likewise. The Sierra Nevada with much skiing, hiking, photography, and adventure is a rather long drive from the SF Bay Area that I would tend to move closer to if necessary out in the cheaper mid Central Valley or Reno-Carson urban areas.
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