What state to move to, to escape life?

[losangeles]

This is a hypothetical question assuming you have the following assumptions:

1. You don't have much money (maybe only $5,000), no assets
2. You have a car
3. You don't have many marketable skills, maybe too middle-aged for new skills
4. You're by yourself, no family
5. You have a lot of guns. And can do gun instruction training or be a security guard.
6 You just want to cut ties from urban living and start somewhere new, subsist and not care about big financial goals.

Maybe even become some type of hermit. Bare subsistance. What state would you go to?

 

[RNB65]

Montana, of course!

 

[Malone LaVeigh]

Montana, of course!

Get a dental floss ranch.

 

[TexasRifleman]

Alaska, half the population there did the same thing and are very happy.

It's tempting even when things are going pretty good!

 

[Mannlicher]

I think a person in that situation needs a trained counselor, not an escape. Its darn hard to run away from problems.

 

[CSA 357]

I been trying to for years, i think its to late all the good places are took up

 

[MountainBear]

Get over the fact that getting guns through Canada is a BITCH, and go to Alaska. Even bare bones laborers do okay up there. And if they decide to put in the new natural gas pipeline, there will be jobs coming out thier ears. For mild winters, move south, but for more rural, go North. I spend summers up there and it gets me out of urban life for five months at a time.
And for what its worth, wanting to get out of urban life does not mean you need a counselor, it means you are aware enough of your surroundings to be sickened by urban life (I've been back in the urban life for a month and I miss Alaska already). Another 18 months and I'm going back as well.

 

[Mr White]

He didn't really mention problems, other than the 'not a lot of money' thing. Sounds like he just wants to escape the rat race and find a simpler life.

Montana would probably be my first choice were I in that situation. Lots of room. Lots of good hunting and fishing. A good, red state. Not a lot of people, and the ones there would be more to my liking than most of the ones I've met in urban areas. Land out there is pertty cheap. W/o lots of job skills, maybe you could pick up work as a ranch hand or something. The only drawback out there would be the winters. I imagine you'd need more than just a car to get around.

 

[shermacman]

You could easily fulfill your desire right in the heart of any big city. Anonymity, blending in, a job in security and/or firearms.

Re-evaluate what you want, seriously, you probably already have it right in your hands.

 

[Famine]

My brother-in-law’s brother, a 38 year old attorney who has always lived a "material" life, just got out of his lucrative law practice, cashed in all of his investments, and moved to Montana (from Michigan). Nothing in his life was out of whack, no real reason to go, he just up and moved to get away. He is now writing a book and skiing.

 

[SoCalShooter]

Alaska and try and get a place with oil reserves that you could get paid for.

 

[DRMMR02]

it depends on if you like mosquitos. I say Nevada or Montana.

 

[Huddog]

Personally, I'd chose Alaska but I've never been to Montana.

 

[Wesker]

Eesh, those prerequisites are kind of a downer I hope that isn't you. Is this thread a cry for help?

Oh, and there are parts of Florida that aren't so huge and urban. Many a small, and quaint town.

Get a dental floss ranch.

Haha! A Zappa fan! Don't forget to bring a pair of heavy duty zircon encrusted tweezers!

 

[FM2Wildcat]

Fence Lake New Mexico

Try camping and hunting in the area. Makes you never want to come back to civilization and I use word 'civilization' very loosely.
The mule deer there are huge! You'll need a couple of horses to get them out lol. A 300 Savage should serve you nicely.

 

[Ohen Cepel]

I would go with MS, MO, AL, Arkansas (not sure of the abbreviation for that one ) or WV over the ones you listed, but that's just me.

Several of the states you listed have gotten expensive and fashionable by the Kali folks so it might be a harder go there.

 

[Pumpkinheaver]

Missouri

 

[News Shooter]

It is amazing to me

That no one, but NO one has even mentioned the great Commonwealth of Massachusetts

 

[crunker]

India. I'd fit in, I can understand (and speak, to an extent) the language of Karnataka. If you don't live in the city then you live in the jungle (which has tigers, cobras and all sorts of nasty animals) or farmland. You can bribe your way out of illegal gun possesion, but if you get a gun license then you can carry and own any gun except for machineguns and DDs. But again you can bribe your way out of that. Also, compared to American prices, Indian prices are damn low.

 

[hatterasurf]

no question, the Outer Banks of NC

 

[lee n. field]

Get a dental floss ranch.

Who else remembers that?

 

[FM2Wildcat]

Isn't that near St Alfonso's Pancake Breakfast?

 

[MyRoad]

I took a step in that direction, but sadly, it wasn't far enough. The hard part is that if you're going to do it on little or no money, I hate to say it, but you're likely to end out where no one with money (or in other words -- a choice), would go.

That's because the government has created a law structure which does not allow people to live outside the system, because if too many people are not contributing to the economy by consuming and not supporting the government through taxes, the rich would find it difficult to keep getting richer. So we don't readily have the ability to just go live off the land, we have to either take part in society or live in its fringes.

If you don't mind doing menial labor until the day you die (because the local economy has little or no options), and never owning a house or land of your own (because the opportunity to save or establish credit is non-existent), then there are plenty of sparsely populated rural areas in just about every state that you can eek out an existence in. Subsistence at or below the "poverty" level I believe is the fastest growing segment of our population, you'll have lots of company. Its a strange world we live in, being human isn't what it used to be.

Best of luck to you.

 

[Ala Dan]

North Dakota

 

[SigfanUSAF]

The other state of Maine, the northeastern half.