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I see lots of people wanting to go to Idaho, or Arizona, or Nevada. I don't get why people are wanting to go to arid areas that could barely support 1% of the current population before irrigation was brought to the area.
7 years ago I moved to the Ozarks of Missouri, bought a home on 5 acres for $23k. There are no major natural disasters (an occasional tornado, but not in tornado alley or dixie alley), there are year-round rains, a much longer growing season, low housing prices, plenty of freedoms.
Missouri just passed the SAPA, Second Amendment Protection Act, which forbids Missouri law enforcement from enforcing federal gun control laws or assisting federal agents in doing so. Missouri has Constitutional carry, where you are allowed to concealed carry any place where you can legally open carry. F2F transfers are legal.
It seems like the secret is out, and people are flooding in, raising the housing prices significantly, but still insignificant compared to California housing.
I dunno; as I watch my cows graze on the green, green grass, the garden growing like crazy, the rolling hills, clean air and clean water... I think of how lucky I am to have escaped. Honest people and clean neighbors, four seasons, regular rainfall, tons of fishing and hunting, boating and other recreation... and freedoms.
Much of the midwest I couldn't take, I'm used to mountains and valleys rather than flatland, but the Ozarks are definitely everything I wanted. Except Ocean... I do miss that.
Just a thought.
7 years ago I moved to the Ozarks of Missouri, bought a home on 5 acres for $23k. There are no major natural disasters (an occasional tornado, but not in tornado alley or dixie alley), there are year-round rains, a much longer growing season, low housing prices, plenty of freedoms.
Missouri just passed the SAPA, Second Amendment Protection Act, which forbids Missouri law enforcement from enforcing federal gun control laws or assisting federal agents in doing so. Missouri has Constitutional carry, where you are allowed to concealed carry any place where you can legally open carry. F2F transfers are legal.
It seems like the secret is out, and people are flooding in, raising the housing prices significantly, but still insignificant compared to California housing.
I dunno; as I watch my cows graze on the green, green grass, the garden growing like crazy, the rolling hills, clean air and clean water... I think of how lucky I am to have escaped. Honest people and clean neighbors, four seasons, regular rainfall, tons of fishing and hunting, boating and other recreation... and freedoms.
Much of the midwest I couldn't take, I'm used to mountains and valleys rather than flatland, but the Ozarks are definitely everything I wanted. Except Ocean... I do miss that.
Just a thought.
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