After a lot of thinking and discussing my wife and I have come to realize
that air and water quality are extremely important factors to consider when
we move.
Personally I'd like to get off grid or at least have some options that would
keep power bill to minimum.
Now as to where to move that's the rub. Each place seems to have it's own can o' worms. If it's near a Rural sprawl there's gangs and drugs, Up in the far
reaches of Missouri there's the meth labs and intolerant clannish folks.
Montana seems to have water problems and California is ...Well California is
just plain weird. So that leaves maybe Nebraska or perhaps South Dakota.
We've looked at Tennessee and found a spot or two that might work.
Have you ever read Louis L'amour Sackett tales? We'd like to have friends
like the Talons and Sacketts.
Since I don't know how much or how little you guys know about us I may be
retelling our histories but here goes. I was born and raised in NC. My
mother left me at 6 months old. My Aunt and her son raised me. I grew up on
a farm that had very little amenities. It was 1976 when we got indoor
plumbing and it was 1980 when we first got a telephone. We got A/C in 1992.
Maybe that is why I try to give my family more of the creature comforts. I
know how it felt not to have them.
I graduated From High School in the Academic Top Ten. I invented the Gas Spring Safety Clamp and sold it in 1988. From there I invented the Good Health Microwave Cookware and in 1992 raised the money to get it off the ground. Due to some bad choices and a molasses speed Board of
Directors we shut down the corporation in 1994.
In 1997 I had Triple By-pass heart surgery. In 2004 after taking insulin and
Actos I developed Congestive Heart Failure. I have good days and rough days.
My wife was in a bad wreck in Florida and has 4 herniated disk in her back.
My wife was born in N.C., Moved to Florida and after 7 years came
back to NC and we hooked up and produced the light of our hearts, our daughter, Angel.
Our Employment background is varied. My background includes business plan
writing, inventing, contract writing, product development, research,
graphics, advertising, book-keeping, management, buyer, retailer,
wholesaler and creative problem solver.
My wife’s background includes management, assembly, research, creative arts
and computers. She can upload data from cameras, scanners or off the net.
Has experience in handling employees, customer complaints, and sales.
My wife enjoys Cooking, Knitting, Crochet and quilting. She also
is an excellent cook, cake and cookie maker. My hobbies include amateur radio, posting on HT, reading and plinking.
What were looking for is 3-10 acres with mostly trees, 3 bed 2 bath (stick built or brick preferred but will consider mobile/manufactured in great shape), CH&A, storage buildings, garden spot, sweet water (well), Clean Air, Great neighbors, small community, good intermediate school with small classes & terrific teachers, low taxes, inexpensive electricity and employment opportunity with regards to light industrial assembly, clerical, management. Or if the opportunity presented itself and something in the crafts industry was available that'd be cool too. We would prefer to buy for $75,000 or less keeping the payments low.
So where in the USA is this located? 
Please send pictures and driving directions. 
Kenneth in NC
Please think carefully!
Here is a link to the Sioux Falls, SD newspaper. It is called The Argus Leader. Sioux Falls is the biggest town in SD at around 130,000 people. 
What you are looking for would run right around $150,00+ close to Sioux Falls. 
We tend to have snow and lots of it! It is also a damp cold up here so arthritis will hurt more. I would think very carefully about moving to an area with snow. It is fairly common to get 4+ inches of wet heavy snow overnight. I am 30 and in fairly good shape. MY DH is slightly older and in fairly good shape. We are both sweating and tired by the time we shovel our driveway and sidewalks. After the first storm like this of the season, the news media does a story on how many people had heart attacks while out shoveling and the oldest one was 40. Anyone older than that has lived long enough to know how to shovel this wet heavy snow.
Gravity and I tend to see eye to floor 
