Moving to ND/MN - Setting up an idea

nodak3 · #21 07/09/08, 03:56 PM

I LOVED North Dakota, but it is really no place for anyone with pollen allergies. Or mold allergies. TRUST ME ON THIS.

Also, some parts are experiencing a real old fashioned oil field boom, which will make housing scarce and expensive.

Before you commit, consider some dryer parts of the farm belt plains, such as eastern Colorado or western OK, TX, NM.

Wherever you land, avoid like the plague land and housing surrounded by farms. Again, planting season, crop spraying season, and worst of all harvest are gonna tear up your allergies eight ways from Sunday.

Add to that the high mold count in so much inexpensive housing in ND, and worse in Minn., and you are gonna be suffering.

Last time we moved back to ND, we did some renovating. When dh opened a wall to replace some stuff I LITERALLY stopped breathing totally due to mold exposure. Fortunately my vocal cords reopened quickly, but sheesh, no thank you!

newhomemaker · #22 07/10/08, 11:58 AM

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Originally Posted by Up North

Door County is a fruit producing and tourist area due to it's unique micro-climate. The Lake Effect basically means it will not get as hot in summer and not as cold in winter as the interior mainland of the surrounding states. Plenty of snow though, and usually plenty of precipitation. Pretty country, not too far a drive from Green Bay, WI which has a college and paper mill industries. WI does have fairly high real estate property taxes, so that's the downside. Good news is they have very reasonable auto licensing fees.

Thanks for the link! I got to clicking a reading and boy, WI just got so much more interesting.

And they have some awesome festivals about 45 min from the property. I'm super excited about that as well as a semi-local farmer's market. That would help while we get settled in.

We're sending the landlord our application information, but one thing is driving me nuts. He is bent on us seeing the property before we get there, but that's really going to force us to camp (at state parks) for the month of August.

Since DH and I are techies, we live off of details and technical information. And with speaking with the landlord, all of the technicals and then some are exactly what we're looking for. And I know some of you kind folks are going to agree with him, but we don't have the resources to drive to WI just to look at the property and then come back. And camping at the state parks for a month is going to be freaking expensive. So we're in little bit of a delima. I think I might have to pop on craigslist and see if anyone local to that would allow us to camp on their property in exhange for work and a small monetarty fee. I can't justify $18 a night x 41 days on top of a $1200 deposit. So we'll see what I can whip up.

(Might have to come back to your place cc-rider for a little wihle. :P ) But we'll work it out. We're young enough to be plenty adaptable and flexible.

I'm thinking DH just needs to talk to him. I seem to have more luck with DH having a man to man talk with him. So maybe we won't have to leave terribly soon and can wait till mid August before we head out (as apposed to July 19/20th! Eeek!)

I'll keep you folks updated as I get more news. And thanks again for your help and information.