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Everyone is running away from something these days looking for a better place to live. Myself, I cannot bring myself to leave my home area. I have lived in a few places but have always had that connection to my home area. I live in the very north eastern part of California with Klamath Falls the closest city to me in Oregon. I grew up logging and farming and love the rural life. I hauled a lot of logs into Southern Oregon back in the late 80's. Work has me living an hour or so from my home town. I have property in my home town area that has a well and septic. I have no plans to leave my home area as I don't want to be a transplant anywhere. Ideally I want to develop my property further and retire there in a few years but as I age the hardships of living in the rural area are getting real for me.
Where I am currently is a little lower elevation and a little closer to civilization. It's a nice balance but the summer heat is killing us. The trade off would be the summer heat for the winter cold and snow. Everything I own is paid for but trying to maintain two properties, one for summer and one for winter, is a full time job when you have animals like we do. It's also not feasible to let one property sit vacant while we live on the other as no matter where you are some knucklehead is going to mess with your stuff while you are away. I will most likely never have the funds to make the vacant property secure while we are living in the other.
Changing states is just delaying the inevitable....the cancer of the left will always creep into other areas with the mass migration of people. One of my co-workers is very much conservative and will be leaving Ca. once he retires and he wants a conservative place to live. One day he was telling me he might stay put in the same town we both live in. He said it was really almost perfect. He just wished we had a big box hardware store and big grocery store. That is when I hit him....wanting those stores is what brings more people and more people bring liberal ideas with them. I have fought this my entire life....folks move to the country for its beauty then want to change it....they want street lights, sidewalks, stores......all that brings ugliness to a rural setting, the setting you fell in love with. Rural life means leaving all that in the city and you traveling to get services.
My hometown is shrinking, jobs are scarce and businesses are not growing. Retirement folks moving to the area are 50/50 on who makes it two winters. They all see the first winter they live there as an anomaly and the winter won't be that bad again.....then the next winter hits and they realize they don't like living the snow and cold for half the year. They sell out, after building a giant home they can't afford to heat, to the next retiree and the process starts over.
For now I am maintaining both properties without sinking lots of money into the one without a house. I'm playing it by ear and just living my life. We have everything we want right here. My wife and I can get on our horses at the house and ride into a very large park for hours. We can trailer 20 minutes and ride thousands of acres and do it year around. Everything we need is right here.....I'm not going to move to another place and start over as a transplant. Stay and fight!
Where I am currently is a little lower elevation and a little closer to civilization. It's a nice balance but the summer heat is killing us. The trade off would be the summer heat for the winter cold and snow. Everything I own is paid for but trying to maintain two properties, one for summer and one for winter, is a full time job when you have animals like we do. It's also not feasible to let one property sit vacant while we live on the other as no matter where you are some knucklehead is going to mess with your stuff while you are away. I will most likely never have the funds to make the vacant property secure while we are living in the other.
Changing states is just delaying the inevitable....the cancer of the left will always creep into other areas with the mass migration of people. One of my co-workers is very much conservative and will be leaving Ca. once he retires and he wants a conservative place to live. One day he was telling me he might stay put in the same town we both live in. He said it was really almost perfect. He just wished we had a big box hardware store and big grocery store. That is when I hit him....wanting those stores is what brings more people and more people bring liberal ideas with them. I have fought this my entire life....folks move to the country for its beauty then want to change it....they want street lights, sidewalks, stores......all that brings ugliness to a rural setting, the setting you fell in love with. Rural life means leaving all that in the city and you traveling to get services.
My hometown is shrinking, jobs are scarce and businesses are not growing. Retirement folks moving to the area are 50/50 on who makes it two winters. They all see the first winter they live there as an anomaly and the winter won't be that bad again.....then the next winter hits and they realize they don't like living the snow and cold for half the year. They sell out, after building a giant home they can't afford to heat, to the next retiree and the process starts over.
For now I am maintaining both properties without sinking lots of money into the one without a house. I'm playing it by ear and just living my life. We have everything we want right here. My wife and I can get on our horses at the house and ride into a very large park for hours. We can trailer 20 minutes and ride thousands of acres and do it year around. Everything we need is right here.....I'm not going to move to another place and start over as a transplant. Stay and fight!