the PERFECT place to live

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Soon I will escape the PRofMaryland! Given choices, I will seek a place I can thrive in. So I wonder...

Does the perfect place to live exist?

Please help me find this place!!!!!!!!!!

Let me clarify: this is to be MY perfect place, as you read you will see that some of these things wont matter a bit to others.

Here are the characteristics below. After that, any help naming the place would be great!

A decent Catholic community
Good schools, private or public OK
Homeschooling allowed

Shall-issue CCW ---and NO danger of soon losing it (i.e. I used to like Indiana, but someone transplanted socialists there and their gun laws,, etc are being challenged more and more. I want a place where majority opinion is so overwhelmingly pro-gun that that wont happen)

Class III/NFA ok

No 'no-knock' warrant/searches

Low amounts of biting insects
low humidity

Good ranges near residential areas
and/or allowed to shoot on your property (given space limits)
Good hunting/fishing/camping
low pollen/allergies (ha ha, thought I'd throw that in)

loose building permits, so if i want to landscape or paint my house, or do whatever I dont have to ask a gestapo-like homeowners association for permission

There, that about covers it! Anything I missed? :)
thanks,
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really?

Is there really NOWHERE in the USA where 'no knocks' are not allowed? (except in extreme cases, like pursuing a fleeing suspect into a building, etc..)

Yeah, my boss (wife) has already nixed Alaska.

C-
 
The low # of biting insects and low humidity rules out Texas, we'd love ya to come and join us.

But hey we can't all be perfect like the PRK.:rolleyes:
 
VA,TX

VA is too close, although if by some fluke Uncle Sam keeps me in the Capital area, i will move- already told my wife she can eith er come or not!~ ha ha. Still too near to avoid all the local politics, police poking the muzzle of a SMG in my car window lookign for snipers, and a governor who is a little wishy washy on gun rights.

But she does know how very much I loathe MD.

I have a buddy who is leaving VA specifically for the biting insect population.
He says his kids can never go outside: too cold in winter, and covered in bug bites in the summer- they cant even play in their own front lawn.

Maybe if I could move a little inland...

really, i could live with the bugs if everything else was in place!

re: texas. I am actually a TX resident, sort of (since i dont live there anymore). But my Home of record is TX. I liked the El Paso area, but didn't care too much for El Paso itself.

TX is not off the list- just dont put alot of stock in getting back there soon.

Any other places?

I hear North and South Carolina has some nice places I might like.

I basically want a place where my major complaints will be:"When is thsi rain going to stop?" or "Man, we sure could use some rain" or "Another price increase on my cable modem" or "What do you mean the range is closed at 0500?!?!?!"

Stuff like that.
 
Northern Louisian isn't so bad. It doesn't get too cold in winter, but there is that whole biting insect thing. You really can't get away from that anywhere you go. If there is standing water around then you will have mosquitos.

Your choices might also be limited by the type of work you do.
 
Don't look to anywhere in the South if you want low humidity, other than Key West, perhaps.

As to no-knocks, it isn't just an issue by state, but something the federales might do, making the point moot.
 
Western Texas, once you're a bit west of I-35, has low humidity and fewer "biting bugs". Eastern or "wet" Texas is a different matter...

If you're outside the corporate limits of a town or city, and on an acreage tract, you can pretty much do what you want to. E.g., I built my house myself, without the need for any permits or inspection by any "official person". Bench rest on the front porch for my 100-yard range.

:), Art
 
I like Oregon. I have friends in Sandy, OR by Mount Hood that shoot in thier back yard. I live on the east side of Portland and have 2 indoor ranges within 5-10 min and 2 large outdoor ranges within 30-40 min. We have shall issue CCW and I got one for WA also. Class III is allowed, but I heard that there are a few counties where it is hard to get signed off on one. I like WA also but I think that you can't have all Class III stuff. I can be to the beach in 1.5 hours, to the mountain in less than an hour, Seattle in 3, Canada in a day trip. The economy isn't the greatest right now, but I have a feeling that it is like that in most places.

Lars
 
Put a plug in for WVa. Does have insects;humidity. Fits the others. especially the freedom to build, shoot, and pro gun.
Caveat--Good luck geting and affording a job. Jobs are not way plentiful, and the State extracts a high duty for the PRIVILEGE of working. A lot of berdering states will honor CCH--VA, KY,TN,.
 
We went through this when we decided to leave CA.

The problem is - CA literally has the best weather in the country.

We ruled out the arid states because my wife and son have dry skin and I havetrouble breathing when its so dry.

We finally settled on a humid area (San Antonio). Its not as humid as a lot of places - so they tell me, but its pretty humid.

Other than the humidity, lack of flowers and not knowing anybody, we like it pretty good so far.
 
I'd have to say NH or VT. I'll be escaping MA soon for NH after years of detrimental politics (I still miss Ted Kennedy... but my aim is improving).

I don't know about no-knock warrants other than to say that in NH such things would most likely result in a "bad shoot;" and since I keep hearing about the occasional armed standoff in the state, hopefully such things are rare if not non-existant.

CCW? There to stay. You'd might as well try to move the Old Man of the Mountain (oops, bad example). Seriously though, you've got nothing to worry about. NH would sooner secede from the union than pull the CCW laws.

Class III? From what I've heard, it's a piece of cake.
 
this is really good stuff!

Art, so when can I come visit! Sounds like you've got a nice spot.

re KY: I hear that because it is a commonwealth it has some unusual economic and social problems. Can you address this as a resident? See, I heard it from a KY resident but one who had been shot in the chest and flown 22-hours on a bumpy C-130 with a chest tube stuck in her side- she was probably a little edgy during our conversation.

West VA: tell me more about that!

Devonai, makes it sound nice. How's the weather compared to Alaska- the cold is why my boss nixed it. So any other cold place is pretty much out.

Pendragon (Arthur's father, right?), San Antonio is a place I could be stationed at- if there are openings and its pretty popular in my social-work circles. But I have been there, and its not bad. I'd want to be outside of town though. I think...

Keep it coming! this is great!
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I don't think a perfect place exists. Unless you like Sir Thomas Moore's Utopia

Older gent and I visiting, talking about always working and not having money, he is retired and still has no money. His dad and grandad probably had the best deal for "supplimental" income...they made moonshine whiskey. He left the hills and lived in West Texas, wished he'd stayed.His advise to me, and especially with gummit meddlin , watching the "net ...quit school, quit work, go to west Texas and make "alternative fuels". If someone chooses to inhib because of taxes on package store stuff...so what.

Hey Art, your trucks need fuelin' up ? ;)
 
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Where's Duloc?

I have family in OR actually, one batch in Tigard near Portland; and another in Grant's Pass. So OR is also on the list, too.

The no knock thing isn't really going to make or break it for me. I dont ever anticipate having to deal with it. It just pisses me off that so much animosity and 'us-vs-them' attitidue and 'everyone is just an unapprehended criminal' exists in law enforcement that the police themselves wouldn't object to inappropriate use of such tactics. Says something about the community.

ESPECIALLY when they get the wrong house!

Burns me good to think now any clown can go to the costume and weddign dress rental store and dress up like a cop, barge into my house unannounced and I'm supposed to stop and think,"Hmm wait. They might be real cops at the worng place. I guess I'll hold my fire until we calmly work this thin out. Especially since I'll be up on charges if i kill a cop- no DA in the world will say I am justified."

Burns me even more that I could be blown away by real cops if i defend myself- and no charges will be filed as they were following proper procedure (except for the small detail of GETTING THE WRONG HOUSE); or blown away by crooks if I don't!

Grrrrrrrr!!!! Man, they just did that to a guy in Annapolis! That (fool white supremacist, but that's incidental to my point) guy who's home they raided and sacked while his wife was alone. Hacked down his front door with an axe because they thought he was dangerous- even though they said they knew he was at work! Initiated the 'no-knock' in the first place because he had guns- even though he wouldn't be able to dispose of them in the 2 seconds between the knock and the door opening. Grrrrr!!!! Man, this STINKS of abuse.

OK, so I'm venting my spleen. I feel better, now.

But since the chances of either cops or criminals barging in on me are pretty remote, we can largely leave it off the list for discussion purposes.

Would be nice though.

OK, so besides the cops and insects does any other place sound nice?

Also, and i wasn't clear so sorry aout that, I am looking for a little more specifics: like names of towns and cities as well. Since a guy just can't decide to move to a state and leave it at that. Gotta pick a specific place. Anyone know of any nice communities like I need/want? anyoen actually live in one?
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There ain't no perfect place to live.

If there was, everybody would move there and it wouldn't be perfect anymore.

Seems to me that anymore the worse the weather, the nicer the people. Most of the jerks can't take the heat / cold / wind or whatever.
 
Colorado would be good. Shall issue, most everywhere has decent people. Excellent, semi-arid climate. Pretty good economy - what line of work are you in?

Wyoming would be great too, but a less robust economy, and if you want urban/suburban life Colorado would be better.
 
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