fiver
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one is all it takes to sort the southerners from the northerners.Can't imagine those notorious winters being such a huge attraction.
it's the difference between geezus it snows a lot here, and F-this place i'm out.
one is all it takes to sort the southerners from the northerners.Can't imagine those notorious winters being such a huge attraction.
And it has wide open spaces with very few people.If you can stand the winters and summers, Nebraska is a great hunting and fishing state, especially the western half.
Inyokern is quieter than Mojave! I ike it up there. I just try to stay away from Trona! You can still smell it 10 miles away! LOL
And on that cheery frickin' note I turned 68 yesterday.In the rural West, we have a lot of hospitals. They have a couple of good docs, many good nurses and 10 year old tech. But they will take care of 99% of what you need. Remember, after three score and ten, you can die any second.
My folks enjoyed living there for close to 20 years, but got too old to continue doing it. Dad probably could have stayed a while longer, but Mom was going down hill fast and he really wasn't up to that care level, so older sister talked them into moving to the Wichita area close to her and a lot closer to me than Texas. Mom passed a few years later and Dad is pretty foggy now in an assisted living place. I go down that way pretty often, seems like there's a gun show close every few weeks so we do that. When the weather permits, I'll take him to the range.It is a small world, I used to own a place not far from Alvord and used to shoot my Barrett at the 800 yard range just south of the Grasslands area. I went to school in Denton and worked in Corinth after, commuted from eastern Decatur (edge of Wise county). It was really nice, way out in the countryside, just little farms and occasional unincorporated communities. I traded the commute (and later to NW Fort Worth, over an hour each way) for living in the middle of the mess. I'm from the Hill Country originally and bought cemetery plots here when I moved back and put down some deep roots on family land, so I guess this is it for me. Been lots of other places that were quite appealing and I'd be quite happy there, but a person has to choose somewhere to settle and Wifey and I decided we'd raise our kids where they could know all their grandparents and after they're gone, no reason to leave.