Why did you move to another state?

Lower Taxes, Lower Crime, Fresh air, More enjoyable people(Not Stressed),
More open land. Need I add more?

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Well, I am in Louisiana and I hate it, except for the food. I grew up here, all my kids are here now, though I think all of them would like to move. My wife introduced me to Montana about fifteen years ago and I fell in love. Over ten years ago, the wife and I bought a cabin in the moutains of Montana out of Helena the capital. We have been working on the cabin and have it pretty much fixed up now. We had a daughter living in Montana, but she is now getting a divorce and has been back down in Louisiana for over a year now and hates it. I am tired of the humid- heat, bugs, and crime. I figured I have lived 46 years here, I would like to move to Montana. My daughter says she is going back. My youngest daughter said she is not raising her kids in this state and is moving out west. My oldest daughter will move wherever her mother goes. My son is married here and his wife will probably not want to move. We have six grandkids here, the last I counted. My mom and dad is still alive and I hate to move from them. My dad and mom are divorced, so my dad says move, but my mom would hate for me to move. I live next door to my mom. My wife is ready to move now, but she is waiting to retire, which is in 17 months. I was hoping to retire in 4 to 6 years, then sell my house here and move to Montana. I would keep the house here and may still, because we had thought to live down here in the winter and in Montana in the summer, mainly to see the kids and grandkids. Keeping a house in Louisiana in the summer, which is most of the year, requires the a/c to run, and the grass to be mowed. My money will only go so far. I am leaning now to sell the house and move to Montana after I retire. If my daughter goes back to Montana, who got the divorce, my wife will go with her, after she retires, for a while to help her settle in with the baby; and to also tease me into moving. In four years most everything I own will be paid for, so retirement will be looked at hard. We are still talking all of this out. Mercy, this got long. Hope you understand it. I guess I am saying, I have not moved yet, but want too. Now I only need six numbers!!

Nuff said.
Prices in FL where we were, were just way to high. I have family here even though the place we bought is 30 mins away. To get somewhat away from the hurricanes you still can feel them all the way up here though. Course round here we get tornado and we even have a storm cellar. Which the boys really want to play in.
Wanting to have lots of space for the boys to be able to RUN.
Being able to breathe.
We have 11 acres here, I do sort of see this as training farm though. I would to get more land and a bigger house. But I am not complaining as this is ours.
If I were to go else where I would go to either KY or MO. We have friends in KY but MO, what I saw of it in 2003 when I was getting DH from Basic @ Ft Lost in the Woods was beautiful. He didn't really agree at the time.

Blessings,
Debi

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Montana to Kentucky, mostly for "practical" reasons.

I love Montana and Wyoming and it will always be home for me, but don't think I could ever live there again, too many painful memories.

From a practical point of view, when I moved, I had been breeding sporthorses for 10 years and simply did not have the market there, so moving closer to where the active market was made sense. I could either change what I was doing, which I didn't want to do, or move closer to where the market was so I could continue doing what I preferred.

Well we haven't moved YET!! We live in MO and there are a few reasons we're moving (To VT eventually)

Perhaps first and formost is the weather.. To hot for far to long here.. and not near enough snow and winter.

Secondly this is a republican state

Thirdly to many religious zelots here in the bible belt

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I was born in WI, grew up in FL, worked two years in GA and about 20 in OH. Had no interest in (early) retiring in any of them.

I had driven through TN a number of times and it just appealed to me. Not far enough North to get really cold. Not far enough South to get really hot. Temperate climate (at least in my area). As I have found since the problem isn't getting things to grow, but to keep them from growing where you don't want them.

TN is really three states in one, which is why you see the three stars on the flag. The eastern third is more associated with the Appalachians, the middle more associated with the Mid-West and the western third the South. I searched for a farm in the middle and found one which literally 'called' to me.

I can't think of a single reason worth moving for again.

zealot: enthuslast, fanatic-- guess i've been called worse, lol--any saved Christian is enthuslastic, i guess, even if i havent been to church in some time, i try to treat others as i would like to be treated.
hot? was doggone hot this summer, kinda unusual tho
Republican--naw, i just vote either for the person--or against him.
snow? i remember as a kid, drifts 6' high, miss them too.
myself, mom and dad moved me here from iowa at 4 years old, after 65 years, guess i'll stay.
so, pcdreams, sorry you didn't like us--we have so many ways, theres surely some you can like--

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I grew up here. There are some good folks and some not so good folks (like anywhere I guess).. I pretty much do as you do though (treating others like I want to be treated. I follow a more earth based (environmental friendly) belief.. but to each his/her own

VT seems to be a bit more liberal politics wise (though not as liberal as I would classify myself..)

Mostly the heat though.. Anytime its over about 80 I get sick (think 6-8 mths of diareah(sp?).. YUCK!!.. Yea I can turn on the air but prefer not to.. Prefer off grid actually.. which is another reason to go..

Glad you like it here though.

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We moved from NH to VT because the homeschool laws/regulations are better here in VT. In NH, at the time we made the decision, you had to prove the school was detrimental to your child in order to be allowed to homeschool. That sets up an instant adversarial relationship just to get what is a basic right, to raise our own kids. Ick. VT is great for homeschooling.

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Let's hear it for Tucson!!! Woo Hoo~

I still live in my home state but if I ever consciously move again (not to follow my husband's job), I will want to go abroad first and find a nice place. I'm an odd duck - I LOVE the city and the forever-hours action and bright lights (think Tokyo, Japan or Las Vegas, Nevada) but I adore the simplicity of the country (like Ireland or somewhere wonderfully green and lush like that) and horses and city don't mix!

I've never even left North America. *sigh*

39 years ago moved from CT to NY (not far) for DH new job; been here ever since. Not because for love of it but just evolved. Had kids, homes and now a 160 acre farm in central NY. DH and I are both retired now and are raising beefers and having fun. But, I would love to go back to my never forgotten roots in CT. Problem is housing and property is so expensive don't know if I can ever do it.

Taxes..

If I had my "druthers", I'd druther be living back in Pennsylvania about 2 hours West of Philadelphia..yet I see no reason to pay $4K/year in taxes and $350K for an identical piece of property that I can have right here in Missouri without needing to be wealthy..same soil, same hills, less snow/ice..for me the difference is the history/culture between the two areas..I do miss what I'm most fond of..but certainly not enough to live there again! Visiting is just fine. I was there in September...my friends who own 30 acres and a very modest farmhouse + a 2 story barn are now paying $8,750/year property taxes..My good friends in Mountain Grove, Missouri have nearly an identical set up..their taxes are below $500/year. Yes, visiting works for me.

Missouri may not have everything that I want..yet it sure does have everything that I need. It's my adopted state and I'm delighted to be here..suits me just fine. I'll be long dead before the taxes ever get as high as the Northeast in rural Missouri.

we may need to move elsewhere from michigan. there are no jobs here. we can't make it on one income, which is primarily mine, DO was laid off of his job of 9 years, job went to Mexico, then started driving bus for our school district, who cut bussing this year. my job is just part time, 28 hrs/wk, but am making almost $12/hr. its like a full time job with no benefits, and half the time. I love my job, and where we live. Is there anywhere out there that might have potential, and could furnish at least one of us with a good job???
Renee

well if you're looking for a good job then don't come to missouri.. Least not to the springfield area.. Nothing here but dime an hour (ok thats an exaggeration) jobs..

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I was born in Missouri, but left at an early age for California. I lived in Rhode Island while hubby was in the Navy. We returned to California. Divorced, moved numerous times around Northern California. I now enjoy something that most don't and that is we have two homes; one little one in northern Idaho and a little home in northern California. They are both only two bedrooms, but we've been able to pay them both off. We enjoy the Idaho home in the spring, summer and fall, and hubby hunts elk in the winter in Idaho. We have to be frugal to enjoy these two homes. I would prefer to live in Idaho, but the kids, grandkids and family are all in Californa...

reneeearle: Montana is trying to hire laid off Michigan industrial workers. They like the skills levels and those from MI would be use to similar winters in MT. It is predominately the natural gas exporation/drilling companies which are paying pretty big bucks for associated skilled labor. If your husband has a skill they need perhaps he can go out on his own and they you follow sometime in the future when he is settled in and there is also a job opening for you in a support area. Right now housing is at a premium.

If you have kids MT is literally shoveling money at the state's education system from the natural gas royalties it is receiving.

Because I lived in NJ~~~ DUH!! No Brainer! When I saw Big $$$$ Developers condemn ocean neighborhood homes under the "RIGHT OF DOMAIN" ( ) Act for their Big $$$$ Condos they were building, I said "GET ME OUTTA HERE". Now I have the prettiest place! My own fish pond & enough garden space to grow my own veggies for a year, one of the best barns in my area and more game lands to hunt in than I can ever possibly explore in my lifetime (that's left).I live on top of a mountain with a metropolis population of 26 (!!!!).Most of our property tax goes to the school system which is terrific!! Great school with all kinds of activities (you get what you pay for).But I returned to my grammer school in Bayonne,NJ (Horace MAnn) a few years ago & was APPALLED!!!! What a disgrace.Bayonne has property taxes OFF THE CHARTS!! That school was still dressed in the same get-up from the depression era when it was built! Yikes! I graduated 8th grade in 1967. EVERYTHING looked the same! It was pathetic. Where's that money going?The Cooking Class got a new kitchen in the 1960's but I couldn't recognize anything else upgraded.
I work for a hospital in central Pa that I'm VERY VERY proud to be a part of (GEISINGER in DANVILLE).Rated #26 in the country.I've been a patient & a nurse there.
Now my daughter's family is up here too. All of us HATE going back to NJ for events, but we have to.We want to be here. I don't even feel the need to go on vacation. I want to spend my time HERE.I LOVE THIS place. In one of the most God Blessed states in America.