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Originally posted by darthfuster:

None of that could be worse than the flood of Californians pouring into Utah.

Hate to bear bad news but they’re flocking to Tennessee as well.

We have been discussing moving for 10 years. Don't know where to go. Getting too old and sickly now

I've been wanting to move for the last 10 years. My wife's parents are still alive and sickly though. Hopefully we can get out of here before we become to old ourselves.

OP I think as was mentioned in your previous post it comes down to budget. A good friend of mine just bought a small ranch just outside of Livingston MT but it may be more than what you are interested in spending..

If you are possibly interested in Arkansas a quick search came up with these ..
https://www.landsofamerica.com...ALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds

And specifically this listing..

https://www.landsofamerica.com...y-Arkansas/13028910/

One place that has not been mentioned previously is Kansas, yes Kansas. I had always thought of this state as flat and nothing but corn fields but having been through there several times in the past few years I was surprised at the beautiful rolling hills and the friendly (and conservative) people. Here’s an example..


https://www.landwatch.com/elk-...r-sale/pid/412037746

Northern Minnesota. We are the exact opposite of the Mpls. St. Paul area. Very conservative and lots of gun owners. More fishing and boating than you can do in a lifetime. Deer and bear hunting for game. Lots of bird hunting opportunities. Sportsman paradise really. There is no better place in the summer months but much like what Yooper Sig says run for you're life in the wintertime. However if you're a hearty soul ice fishing and snowmobiling can be great times.

Lots of hunting property to be purchased from 40 acres to several hundred. Fairly reasonable. Lake property can be a challenge to find and expensive. Most lake shore properties are too crowded for my taste anyhow. Cabins are all lined up pretty close. We bought three acres with the lake being right across the road plus we have deeded access just down the road where we have dock space to put the pontoon. You are always just a short drive from away from any lake.

Dont come to Oklahoma, land of Obama haters and guns everywhere.........

We went through the same exercise. Both born and brought up in South Florida where we still live. Very sick of what it is now, just endless urban/suburban sprawl.

About 10 years ago while in our 50's we bought property and built a home in the mountains of Western North Carolina. We are on five acres and own another 170 acres not quite adjacent but a short four minute UTV ride from the house. We plan to spend most of our time here when I retire. Nice moderate temps and humidity in the summers, beautiful falls, winters can have their moments but mostly not so harsh. People are very friendly and helpful. I rarely ever hear someone beeping their horn at someone else and when I do its usually an out of state plate, Urban areas like Charlotte are not too far - 2 1/2 hours away - and predictably liberal but not where we are, Sizable properties are available although affordability is higher now and relative to you and your circumstances so I can't comment too much on that.

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Originally posted by P210:

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Originally posted by darthfuster:

None of that could be worse than the flood of Californians pouring into Utah.

Hate to bear bad news but they’re flocking to Tennessee as well.

Too late now. Mrs DF has chosen the floor plans. Guess we'll have to hope for the best. We lead sold the ranch we were building out here.

Thanks guys, I appreciate the discussion and suggestions.

What drives me is the desire for a large piece of land. Our current properties are great. But a larger piece of land as I mentioned is what my motivation is.

Whether I can make that happen is debatable on my current budget. I may have to wait or it could never happen.

As a few of you have said it is something I think about quite often.

We (I) must remember how blessed I am, but it is fun to think about our dreams. Some come true, some do not.

Please continue to provide thoughts. Thanks guys.

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Originally posted by Il Cattivo:
Not the reddest state around, but give northern New Mexico a look.

+1 to this, though the state is nearly all red except for Santa Fe and Albuquerque. It checks most of your boxes, though you may have to scrutinize the area for fishing spots (they DO exist here). The weather is great, and much of the state (especially up north) is not desert-like at all. Hunting includes a good variety (you can read that here).

If you don't mind boring a well, you can get lots of land within reasonable distance to a freeway. We just got our 5.4 acres a few years back, but saw lots of very affordable, larger plots that were a bit further out than we are now.

We up and moved to a town we had never known existed in an area we had never looked in previously and it all worked out just fine.

About the time Mrs john1 snowshoed up the snowdrift behind the house to get on the roof, we decided we'd hadabout enough of Colorado.

I had lived in SW Oklahoma for 3 years in the mid 80s and we returned from a Gettysburg trip through Fort Gibson and the Washita battlefield in the motorhome a few years back, and that was the extent of our familiarity with the state.

The final capper in the decision to move was on the 4th of July of that year when a passing car on the highway honked as I was raising the flag, I waved and looked up to see that I was getting flipped off. So we said "screw this California East bullshit", so we sold the house, loaded the dogs in the motorhome and headed southeast with no particular location in mind except "Oklahoma".

We started looking in NW Oklahoma and traveled about checking out different other towns until we stumbled on this spot. When we saw it, we knew that it was where we were meant to be.

We had a list of eight things necessary in the new house and it turns out we have absolutely none of them in the place we found. We have a refurbed 1910 era house right in town (first time living in a town in 40-some years), with a small yard and it's a lot smaller house than the one we sold. The only thing sort of from the list was the price, and for a buyer, OK prices are real nice compared to CO.

This is exactly the America that we were looking for-more flags flying then I've ever seen before, I haven't met a liberal yet, Constitutional carry, the cops are still cops here (not armed social workers), and the people are genuinally the nicest you would ever meet.

We hadn't planned on working but Mrs john1 found a good job with the city while we were still in the motorhome waiting for the abstract to clear with decent money and the city totally covering her health care costs. I got on full-time as a jailer (a non-sworn position) 4 evenings a week and along with the paycheck the county also pays all the health insurance. For an old retired guy, this is a pretty sweet deal.

So I fully go for the idea of going to a place you have no connection to, as long as it's going where the climate suits your clothes...

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Originally posted by old rugged cross:
Thanks guys, I appreciate the discussion and suggestions.

What drives me is the desire for a large piece of land. Our current properties are great. But a larger piece of land as I mentioned is what my motivation is.

Whether I can make that happen is debatable on my current budget. I may have to wait or it could never happen.

As a few of you have said it is something I think about quite often.

We (I) must remember how blessed I am, but it is fun to think about our dreams. Some come true, some do not.

Please continue to provide thoughts. Thanks guys.

Your post got me to thinking and in doing a little searching I ran across this website. It seems that even if they don’t have exactly what you’d want they will try and find it for you…

https://www.landio.com/land-for-sale

800+ acres in the remote U. P. Of MI. It’s a bit lonely, though private.

Absolutely.

Don't have the wherewithal to do so at the moment, but it is a long range plan to get a place in NH or MT or WY. We've even talked about getting a place in Iceland.

This might be worth a looking into; it might help fund getting the land you want:

Places That Pay You To Move There in 2022

My bug out State is SD, YMMV.

This winter here in the Seattle metro area I've had a fantasy about just buying a 1980's $80k furnished single wide mobile home in some age restricted community in Arizona and chill out there for 1-3 months while the weather is poor here (read: sucks). My wife is still working so I guess that would be selfish...

Every dang day.

Jasper, Arkansas. Harrison, Arkansas. Berryville, Arkansas. Southwest Missouri between Harrison, Arkansas and Branson, Missouri is magical.

South-central Idaho.

I live 1/4 mile each way from my two childhood homes. When my daughter ended up in Madison Wisconsin, we planned to move there to be with our grandsons, and now granddaughter on the way. Wife was house shopping and we were inches away from listing our house. Luckily we realized the value of the community we are part of and both of us are glad we didn't sell. Such a blessing to be home and run into people we know so often. Living in Madison part time for the last 5 years has reinforced the value of old friends even though we have made new ones.