But, the DMV registration fees are friggin high!!!
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Prudhoe Bay, AK? 
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Donāt bother with Florida, though we love like-minded people here. Exactly what you describe in Alabama is happening here.
Forever, Ocala was a sleepy little horse town in Central Florida with beautiful rolling, hilly horse pastures, huge live oaks, and a nice small town feel. Now I just saw where itās the fastest growing city in the country. Traffic is horrible, itās dominated by huge warehouses like Amazon and Chewey, and tracts of thousands and thousands of new houses, all 10ā apart from each other. Just to the south, rural Citrus county is now welcoming a giant data center that will suck the aquifer dry, while dumping polluted water back into the Withlachoochee river. All in the middle of a residential area the developer is getting re-zoned.
Weāre victims of our own success.
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I look online at the Live oak/Mayo area real estate on occasion. Any idea if thatās the same? Seems like 5-10 acre lots are the norm, but no idea on any changes. That was one of the areas on our get out of CT list, but never went in person.
Sisterās in Cape Coral. Talk about overdevelopment, itās crazy there.
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I donāt get up to that area all that often, but last time I went through, it was fairly unchanged. However, being near the junction of two of the largest interstate highways in the country (I-75 and I-10) I would expect, at minimum, a lot of warehouse and shipping infrastructure development soon, if itās not happening already.
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You wont like the Keweenaw of Michigan
360.3 inches of snow this snow season
no invaders
2 people per square mile
campers in the summer
snowmobiles in the winter
skeeters will drag you off into the woods
ticks the size of roaches
need I say more
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But what if you just like to shoot?
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My choices would be SC, WV and UT.
Rural or semi-rural areas of those, of course. And also keeping hurricane and wildfire risks in mind.
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ā¦..Picturesque! Iām packing now! 
Honestly, MOO! There is no perfect place for us to move to anymore. What were once āstaplesā in the āPerfect place to build a Log Cabinā or Summer/Winter retreat I would now worry about the House and stuff I leave when Iām not there 24/7. The Southworst may not be Nirvana but weāve carved out a Safe Zone, luckily found an area that combined with decent neighbors (we arenāt all budās but we co-exist nicely) and you HAVE TO WANT TO GET TO MY NEIGHBORHOOD NOWā- sparse Mass Transit systemāLotās of walking UPHILL if you need to get to work or School.
Iām staying put.
Once the dust settles things may open up and that could change everything but for now HOME IS WHERE THE HEART IS.
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A good friend and smartest guy I ever met was a gold miner up in Prudhoe bay decades back.Spent the winter in a one room cabin and took some crazy photos out his 1 square foot window. No violent people, but a pack of hungry wolves attacking a moose was pretty crazy.
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āThose who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safetyā
Recent history tells me all I need to know about NZ.
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When I separated for the Air Force back in ā92, I would drop my wife (now ex-wife) off at the base library at RAF Upper Heyford, England, so she could do research on where she wanted to move. I gave her the entire continental United States to choose from. She did that for six months and decided on Bryan, Texas.
The searched information on schools, weather, job opportunities, crime rates, hospitalsā¦EVERYTHING. She did so much research, had so many files laying around that other airmen would go to her at the library to ask questions about where they were going, she would find the correct file, copy the info, and send them with the copy. She kept the originals. She had her own key and office at the library.
The base personnel office offered her a job to stay in the library and continue doing what she was doing with a tax-free paycheck of $120K a year. She turned them down. āHe!! No! I hate England! Iām going TF Home!ā
Anyway, Sheās the ex now.
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Colion Noir writes:
British Government Tells A Man Heās On An ISIS Kill List & Heāll Be Prosecuted IF He Arms Himself
A man in the UK finds out heās named in an ISIS publication.
He calls the police. Their exact response:
āWe canāt protect you 24 hours a day. And if you get a weapon to defend yourself ā you will be prosecuted.ā
Let that sink in. The government admits it canāt protect him.
Then threatens to prosecute him for protecting himself.
UK and NZ have something in common. 
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Good luck. I moved to the middle of nowhere in WI (I thought), now we have solar panels, windmills turbines, high tension powerless everywhere, and data centers moving in. Thereās no say in whether it happens, and no way to stop it, from what Iāve seen.
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You swim to Australia and shoot kangaroosā¦ 
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You may have to move to another planet
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Iām down for a trip to Mars!
Iām too fat for orbital insertion, let alone interplanetary flightā¦.
But I would be honored to be able the first person to die on another planet!
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Remember the movie with the line āIf you build it, they will come!ā?
Well, āIf you find the perfect place, they will come and ruin it too!ā
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That would be interesting, especially if youād like to exercise 2nd Amendment (if exists).
Be careful not shooting yourself in the backā¦ 
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But then who would you box?
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