We moved due to family too. 3000 miles West. The “kids” are still in the house back there. It’s not an income property. Some of them carry their own AARP cards. Start early. Escape early.
You don't leave many options at all.Unfortunately for me and my wife we prefer a bit on the larger size population towns. Either that or short drive access to them. I’m not a small town guy. Since most of the West Coast has been destroyed that leaves few options. Zero interest in going East - I would consider the Carolinas but too far from my wife’s family.
The whole country has - in a matter of speaking - been rezoned in the last twenty years making once highly desirable areas completely undesirable.
Excellent analysis. My dad went as rural as he could when he fled New York City to Penn State. He picked an area that was zoned industrial, next a stone quarry, but gerrymandered into the premium State College school district. The shack next door housed a welfare recipient during the 1960s. His strategy was to be insulated from the sprawl he knew would come, because of what was located outside his one acre property line. History proved him a savant, and he lived there for nearly 50 years.It's called urban sprawl and it's hard to keep away from people that continue to move to get away from the thing that keeps chasing them. I've had all kinds of homes. Some further out and some in developments. If you want to escape tighter areas you'll have to move out, I mean out. I've been followed and it took 10 years before I was in the middle of the city again with 1.5 acres and a lake and an assload of neigbhors. I won't do septic, I've had three and that, here anyway, requires 3 acres and that's takes me out to far anymore. Watch what you ask for, you want to have fun, buildings and playing dukes of hazzards. That's great, but the guy next door to you and all land touches someone else's land, may have the same idea and I don't want to look at what he thinks is great and I think is a shithole. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Good point about the trees. Dad always remarked about how well the trees he planted for sound protection from the quarry traffic grew around the drain field. Not surprising there was a downside. The hookup construction cost was a major issue in the areas of town we considered, because of the big lots. Many went on sewer during the era we purchased the current house, and a stomach churning 30K final expenditure was not unheard of.There’s nothing wrong with septic systems. You need to have the tanks emptied every 3-5 years. And if it’s a system that uses a leech field, you don’t plant trees anywhere near the lines. If it’s a sprinkler type, a few chlorine tablets (rated for septic systems and not pool tablets) once a month and the tanks need to be emptied every 3-5 years. Septic systems are very good, and a very low cost option if you can’t connect to city sewer lines. And if ya want to keep them from backing up into the house, you put a $30 one way door just before the tank that you can get to and inspect. Very simple indeed.
I have a peak in the back tank from time to time. As long as the **** ain't up to the outlet and silting the bed all is fine.Probably, but I’ve heard of people never pumping out the tank also.
Big difference, 150 foot was almost to much for the lots we had. 500 hundred and acres of land is a huge difference. That works.I have an 1800 gallon tank and 500 feet of weepers. Guess someday I should get around to pumping the tank, 26 years in... lol
We had a 1000 gal tank would pump every 6/7 years. Ya ya I know .I have an 1800 gallon tank and 500 feet of weepers. Guess someday I should get around to pumping the tank, 26 years in... lol
Oh yes - don’t I know it. And as I said I really don’t know what to de about it. I could take more of an outlier than my wife could. She lived most of her life in Saigon with a current population of about 10m and that’s not counting the burbs there. Just Metro Saigon - where her family lived. Right now there‘s something like 6,000 people per square Km. She’s been here now for 23 years. Moved here a month after 9-11. She’s just doesn’t get it nor does her family. They think of “country living” as going back out to the provinces where the parents were raised and even a couple of the older siblings. They think of the hardships they escaped - and there were many. Think of them living in Quan Tri Province the bloodiest area during the war - it was right on the DMZ. She never really experienced those hardships but she know’s of them.You don't leave many options at all.
Bigger cities are going to have the politics that you're trying to escape.
Rural areas are far more supportive of freedoms that are protected by the constitution.
Idaho is also way up there - I was pretty sure 97% on the Caucasian scale. If not that high - very close.
Why does there need to be a special vision for black people? It's the same vision as white brown red or green people.. Get a job... There are plenty to go around....