Considering Utah, Idaho, Iowa and Tennessee.
Open to suggestions.
Utah is closer to the beach.
Like I said, where ever you go, leave your California ways behind. Examples of this: Don’t honk your horn so much and don’t look into your neighbors yards to see if they’re doing anything you don’t like (mowing their lawns or watering their grass at midday). Don’t run up the property values either.
That said, Utah is beautiful and needs to be unmormonized.
Oklahoma, South Carolina, Kentucky
Consider good water when choosing. After that, consider the growing climate for your garden. Make sure you buy property that is on high ground, preferably with a good southern exposure, a slight slope to the land going south is a good spot for your garden at the top of the slope.
Berry bushes and Fruit trees a plus. A well with a hand pump a plus. A good bunch of friendly neighbors also a plus. The ability to keep chickens and other farm animals a plus...
Happy hunting
Come on down south. Stay out of Florida. Too many people crowding in there now. Alabama, GA are nice also.
Nevada is on my list. Still close to CA and within driving distance to my kids. (until they move)
It goes without saying that Oregon and Washington are to be avoided.
Open to suggestions.
Skip the eastern states and head to Texas or your first two choices.
Nevada.
You mentioned Idaho, just in:
From recent testimony of a state employee commenting on what they are seeing on the front lines of the unemployment lines in Idaho.
“A year ago, Idaho had the lowest unemployment rate in the nation at 2.7 percent. This December, the rate had jumped to 6.4 percent. Clearly many states are seeing harsher circumstances than Idaho. Our neighbors Oregon and Washington are among them. But after posting the lowest rate
in the nation, nearly half the states now have lower rates. No state has seen as large a percentage increase in its unemployment rate as Idaho – 137 percent in 2008. No other state has had a percentage increase in their unemployment rate above 100 percent during this time period.”
“The impact has been felt throughout Idaho. At the end of 2007, only seven counties had unemployment rates over 5 percent, and the highest was 9 percent in Clearwater. Twenty
counties had rates below 3 percent. A year later, only 12 counties are under 5 percent, and 37 of the 44 have seen their jobless rates at least double. Nine counties have double digit rates. The highest is over 17 percent in Adams,
and Clearwater is above 16 percent. All 44 counties have more unemployment than a year ago. Only one – Owyhee – had a rate below 3 percent. The pressure for unemployment benefits and employment services has been intense.
Since Labor Day, the phone traffic into our 25 local offices has more than doubled. Initial applications for unemployment benefits during the last three months of 2008 exceeded 61 thousand – nearly double the number during the last quarter of 2007. Total weeks claimed – the number of workers getting checks — have more than doubled from last year at this time. Appeals of unemployment benefit decisions are 40 percent higher than December of last year.”
Iowa would certainly benefit from having more conservatives. We’re quite proud of our distinction as the birthplace of the 0bama-nation (partly because it helps people forget our pivotal role in Jimmuh Cahtuh’s ascendancy).
Both Idaho and Utah have been swamped with California refugees and real estate prices are sky high. Don’t know about Iowa or Tennesse, but pull up “Texas Real Estate” on google and you’ll see incredible houses, ranches even mansions for practically nothing. And it’s a Red State!
C’mon to Georgia, round Columbus or Savannah way. Stay out of Atlanta and Macon.