What a refreshing read!
Don’t worry, demonrats will wreck it soon enough
Georgi, get beck to us after they Winter one or two times in SD.
Moved and brought their vile voting habits with them?
‘eff those people.
Well, just don’t screw it up. You must let go of all Washingtonistic beliefs. Sounds like you are off to a good start. Had we foreseen current events we may have chosen a different retirement location.
Refreshing read!
During the craziness last summer, it suddenly jumped from $150K to $180K. Just people wanting to get out of the craziness of our nearest big city, Pittsburgh, about an hour to the northwest. We even had people calling and writing with cash offers.
Since China's puppet emperor took office, it has risen to a modest $190K in the past year or so. After the county delivered a stinging rebuke to the Democrat party in the election earlier in the month (ever D swept out of office, including a couple of decent ones for whom I actually voted), Zillow now has us at $220K.
That's how crazy things are getting, people. It doesn't hurt that we have at least four Pennsylvania state troopers living in our neighborhood and parking their cruisers in the driveway.
I could have written this about California to Idaho.
Had to laugh at this: “By May, I was indignant enough to rip the caution tape off the playground”
By May 2020, I was ripping all the damned caution tape off of park benches in the parks on the San Francisco peninsula. I couldn’t think of anything more preposterous than keeping everybody off of a park bench. For what? That two people might be three feet apart for a few minutes? I’m sure if you could analyze every single COVID transmission in the world, you’d find ZERO cases of two people sitting outdoors on a park bench transmitting COVID.
The yellow caution tape on park benches told me everything I needed to know about the insanity of the whole situation.
Even worse, they shut down all the parks on the Peninsula and put traffic cones on all the nearby streets to prevent people from even parking nearby and walking into a park.
Actually, it was quite nice for a few months because I continued to get into the parks and had them all to myself. Especially after I ripped down the damned yellow caution tape.
I just vacationed in the state in August. Nice scenery. The eastern half is agriculture and west half is ranching and has the mountains. I visited Custer, Rapid City and Chamberlain. Turns out commentator Tomi Lahren is from Rapid City. I enjoyed Custer State Park and The Badlands.
Here is more on the state:
https://youtu.be/LCOGW5dvuuc
Welcome to my home state, South Dakota. My family came there to homestead when it was still a territory and my father was born in a sod house on the wind swept prairie. I grew up in a small town that still had Saturday night band concerts every summer on a small town square and a parade every Memorial Day. Sure the summers are hot and the winters cold, but the people are welcoming and still believe in the American dream.
Sadly due to job and family I now live in the People’s Republic of Minnesota a socialist utopia with riots, car jackings, defunded police and COVID madness. However, South Dakota will always be my home and example of how great this country used to be.
Good. Now don’t F things up. The first tie you think, “back in Washington they did this cool thing...”. Stifle yourself.
Does anyone here know what the property real estate taxes are like?
Enjoy the blizzards, tornadoes and droughts
Enjoy flying to Denver or Chicago if you get really sick
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South Dakota was originally high on my list but culled due to cold and snow and potential for wind. If I had to move South Dakota, I would take Sioux Falls over Rapid City. It is great to live near the Black Hills, which to me is the best place in South Dakota, but not at the price of living in Rapid City. I’m not saying Rapid City is bad as much as I find Sioux Falls to be much better. If it wasn’t for Cold & Snow, I would probably be there.
Here is praying she is either conservative or will soon become conservative, and not left leaning and bringing liberalism with her. No doubt she clearly understands why she is fleeing Washington, but too many liberals can’t reason as to why they created the hellhole they are fleeing from, and then pollute their beautiful new home with the same ills. Not much not at first, but gradually over time as they miss what they liked about their old state.
Does anybody know if she’s conservative or is she a liberal transplant who is going to ruin South Dakota? All she talks about is Covid mandates and associated economic ruin. How does she feel about limited government generally, low taxes, abortion, gun control, social justice, etc & etc?
Better even than moving to a ruby red state would be moving to a red state that has a slim red majority or a purple state. Think Georgia, Arizona and North Carolina. Think Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan. With enough effort, Occupied Northern Virginia could be overpowered by Blue State refugees and Virginia could be rescued.
I’ve been thinking about moving out there, especially if I get fired from my govn job over vaccine mandates.
I won't move further away from my family....
I will say that the extended family here in Washington is dwindling fast....92 yro MIL is still kicking around...one nephew and his wife and a grand nephew and his girlfriend and a grand niece....no children yet from them...two elderly aunts and a few cousins rarely seen.
the property taxes are killing us....