Good place to live in the USA??

[20cows]

West Texas

The Davis Mountain area down south to the Big Bend. Sparsely populated, the country still has a wild feel to it, as I imagine the Arizona areas mentioned also have. There is not much public land in Texas, but there is the Black Gap Wildlife Management Area (I think it's called), which is state land, not FEDERAL (they just couldn't grab ahold in Texas). They do allow hunting there in season (no closed season on varmints).

For your money there, you could probably have enough land so as to not need a public range, but there are some.

I do not live there personally, but do spend a lot of time in the area. I hope I'm not speaking out of turn, but at least one of our members, Art Eatman, does live out there and would be the guy to ask.

Art, I appologize if I presume too much.

BTW, You won't find an area more friendly in general as well as gun friendly. There are several Christian church camps out there too (Methodist, Babtist, etc.). Folks'll even wave to you on the highway as they pass by. And they will stop to render aid on the side of the road when you need it. (When you need it, you really need it, we're talking remote here).

West Texas friendly is for real.

 

[Tom Servo]

Sounds alot like North Georgia and/or Tennessee. I live just far enough north of Atlanta (about 25 miles) to be within reasonable driving-distance of stuff, but far away enough not to feel the crime or traffic much. As you go further north towards the Blue Ridge Mtns, property costs plummet, there's plenty of hunting land, and there are several DNR ranges.

Georgia's a shall-issue state (without even a training requirement), though permits can take awhile in the more urban counties. Just about everybody has a permit, and alot carry. The police are very friendly about it, and "are you carrying a firearm?" is more of an icebreaker than a intimation of suspicion

 

[ajkurp]

Idaho's not the place unless you like ticks. We are known as "The Tick Fever State". Damn things as big and as numerous as cockroaches in California. Bad water, too.

 

[stevelyn]

Welcome to Alaska. We've got what you're looking for.
Good Hunting in most areas.
Fantastic Fishing.
Access to more public land than you'll ever have time for in a lifetime.
Lots of open space.
Concealed carry either with or without gov documentation. AK CHL is good for 5 years, exercising your VT style right to carry is good for life as long as you don't aquire any legal disabilities like felonies and DV convictions. Ak recognizes all state issued permits issued out of state and allows non-resident VT concealed carry for visitors. Concealed carry is if you can pick it up and carry it, you can carry it.
Full auto friendly.
No state income taxes.
Plenty of land available outside borough and municiple boundries if you have an aversion (like I have) to property taxes and you don't mind living a self-sufficient lifestyle.
Bunny huggers, socialists, granola crunchers, earth-muffins, sheeple and the like, tend to gravitate mainly around Anchorage, the UA campuses in Fairbanks and Anchorage, and Denali NP.
Did I mention winters tend to be long, cold and dark? Temps of -40F and colder are not uncommon in the Interior, and -20F temps are not uncommon south of the Alaska Range, a bit warmer in coastal areas.

 

[20cows]

Sounds like some of us need to be in the real estate business.

It also sounds like a lot of us are happy with our homes and proud to be where we are.

We are blessed indeed.

 

[Redneck Revolver]

Come to Alabama

will do! i actually plan on moving there in a few months. dont really know how im gonna do it (lack of money being a prime concern) but hell i'll try it at least. so how is the climate, not just gun wise but weather wise, etc. any good places near the georgian border? (my girlfriend has family in georgia near the alabama border so we'd probably wanna end up near by.)

 

[RevDisk]

Central Pennsylvania.

Easy to get a CCW permit

$19, set by law. No training required. Takes a week for the background check. The most extreme case I've ever heard was two weeks. Paperwork fell behind a desk, sheriff personally apologized.

If I remember correctly, PA has one of the highest number CCW's per population in the US.

Gun Friendly
Good outdoor shooting ranges

No permits required, NFA weapons allowed, PICS takes maybe five minutes. PLENTY of ranges, most very reasonably priced.

Good hunting, easy access to public land to hunt, and not big hassles to get hunting permits

Plenty of hunting here in central PA. Hunting permits can be bought at a bunch of different places.

Affordable housing. A nice place in nice neighborhood or rural area for $125,000 to $150,000.

Except for really close to Harrisburg or Philly, that'll get you three bedrooms, two baths easily.

Conservative Pro Christian family values (no rainbow flags, tributes to Michael Moore, etc..)

Uhh... Well. I guess outside of Pittsburg and Philly, that's everywhere. Generally, I don't interview my neighbors for their theological views. If any of them interrogate me for mine, we'd have issues.

To each their own.

No trailer park areas please.

They're around. Not really common here in PA.

 

[skwang]

You should check into some areas AK, no ccw permit required. if you don't hunt thats ok, but if you don't like anyone to hunt they will drag you outa town. anywhere in AK you are no more than 10 miles from a place that you could walk out of civilization. I would suggest south central or somwhere in south east alaska, south east can be kinda rainy though, and south central gets only kinda cold.

Skwang

 

[TheDutchman]

Texas would be at the top of the list.I live in Austin, Texas. The rest and not in order are Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida,and Arizona. I know Texas and Florida do not have state income tax. Back on the Texas subject. Central and West Texas are great places to live very scenic bunch of places to shoot,hunt, and fish. Here is a list of links below.


http://www.tpwd.state.tx.us/

http://www.texfiles.com/

http://www.traveltex.com/

 

[Maxinquaye]

I gotta put in a plug for North Carolina here. Everything you listed and yet still has culture. Nice weather, all fours seasons but they're all mild; no extremes. Moved here from California last June and absolutely love it.

 

[cortez kid]

My vote is for PA. Tons of rural space, lakes galore, running streams, every kind of game you can think of. Came to PA from california. Once you get over the winter weather, some people actually like it. Got 30 acres and no one complains about my shooting, all of which is big bore and often. Walk in get a hand gun and walk out. NICS check and about 8 mins, as long as your a good guy. Thats only fair. Can't tell about CCW, don't have one myself, yet. First day of deer season is an actual school holiday. PA has what is known as the big "T", Pittsburg onthe left, Philly on the right, and Alabama in the middle. Housing is reasonable.
good shootin
kid

 

[OH25shooter]

Forget Ohio... Not much to offer. Two seasons (winter and summer), grey overcast skies, buggy in the summer, plus humid. Everyone knows about the CCW problems. Seems like a lot of 'out-of-the-country' people are moving to many parts of Ohio. And, Columbus is ahead of or right behind San Francisco in the number of gay residents. No, I wouldn't recommend Ohio.

 

[Bear Gulch]

Even the worst places in the USA beat the better places elsewhere!

 

[mutt]

Matagorda

I live in Matagorda county Texas,, Not a bad place. Pop. 48000. .....MUTT

 

[gulogulo1970]

If you can take very hot weather, Texas is a gun owner's paradise.

And most of our diehard lefties live in Austin, the rest of the state is about as conservitive as they come.

You will have a drive ahead of you to hunt or shoot in about any part of this state just becuse its so large.

 

[Shanghai McCoy]

I'll put in a vote for NE Oklahoma.Tulsa and the area around it was a good place to live and I still have some land out in Creek County.Two good clubs in Tulsa,Oil capitol and Red Castle.Houses and land were affordable and the job market seems to have picked up since we moved.Good people too,Oklahoma is the "Buckle" of the bible belt...
Can ya tell that I still miss the place?

 

[gego]

Please don't include rural Southern Missouri in your list. There are so many Californicates moving in here, before you know it they will vote in the same herky/jerky laws that no sane person would consider.

They sell out their 1/2 million dollar shacks and then move over here and drive up the price of barely workable cattle, hay, and orchard land to levels where nobody can live like a real human being. I am really surprised we don't have our own border partrol to keep them out.

 

[GT]

Forget about CT

Real Estate is too expensive, most of the state is Socialist (fortunately I live in the one red county in an otherwise disgustingly blue state)
But worst of all, the AWB is still alive and well here (pistol grip on that auto shotgun? You're going to jail boy!).

Frankly the whole NE is a total write off for your purposes.

But a billion times better than living in England!

G

 

[ralphie98]

An excellent place to figure out where you might want to live:
www.findyourspot.com

I checked this site out, did their survey. First two places listed were Charleston and Greenville, SC. Next was Jacksonville, FL followed by Athens, GA. I've taken a couple other surveys like this and Athens has been up there on my list. Sounds like that's where I need to go, not that it helps out the poster of this thread any. I just thought it was interesting that the top 4 on my list are places I've never even considered. My wife and I have been talking about moving to TX, specifically the Dallas suburbs.

 

[EVIL5LITER]

will do! i actually plan on moving there in a few months. dont really know how im gonna do it (lack of money being a prime concern) but hell i'll try it at least. so how is the climate, not just gun wise but weather wise, etc. any good places near the georgian border? (my girlfriend has family in georgia near the alabama border so we'd probably wanna end up near by.)

I live in Mobile, and contrary to what Ala Dan says, crime is not bad here. Like any city of a larger population (Mobile is about 500,000), you have your bad parts of town, but the crime rate here is very low and liveable. Biggest problem here, like any rural area, is going to be methlabs.

The climate is great if you hate the cold. It's warm in the winter, with many days in the 60's and 70's, and if you live near the coast, like I do, it's tolerable in the summer. Humidity is high, but that's to be expected. In this area, near the Gulf of Mexico, low 90's are the norm in the heat of summer. If you go farther north, it occasionally hits the low 100's, but not that often.

In my opinion, Alabama is one of the true sportsman's paradises. You have a vast amount of plentiful game to hunt, one of the longest deer season's in the country (if not the longest), great fishing available to you, including saltwater, very relaxed gun laws (my CCW took me ten minutes to get )

Real estate here is dirt cheap.

This area has a real benefit to it as it is no different than the Florida Panhandle (in fact, it used to be part of Florida), but the housing is cheaper, and the population is lower.

New Orleans is 2 hours away, Biloxi 45 minutes, Pensacola 30 minutes, and Panama City Beach is 2.5 hours away. Anything you could want is within a short drive.

I hope I'm not leaving anything out.

 

[Bladeandbarrel]

I took this survey and Greenville, S came up #1.
Ironically, Greenville is where my wife and I met. We loved it there and would like to go back one day permanently
Good survey!

 

[Ridge]

My Vote would go for Kentucky

Kentucky is a pretty good place to live,open carry is legal here (Was carring a pistol when I turned 14 and I still am carring) C.C.W. is very easy to get.

You can find a good place to live for a fair price,alot of people are pretty friendly around here.

 

[k5bellman]

I live in the Peoples Republic of California and not prowd but in Nor-Cal, Butte County to be more precise, is everything youre looking for

 

[MikeIsaj]

Pennsylvania should be on your short list. Good hunting and fishing, reasonable gun laws, easy purchase, no registration, shall issue state. Just stay away from the sewers, er, cities and it's a beautiful state. Real estate prices are affordable in most of the state, again stay away from the cities.

Come to Pa. We still have some room left.

 

[BlkHawk73]

The area I'm in here in maine fit's your list as well. Well, except for the housing costs (add $100K easily) unless you want to be quite a ways out of a town.