Ever think of just uprooting and moving to the middle of nowhere?

[alexwcovington]

We could sure use a few of those folks out here.

[Birthmark]

1. Where is "out here?"

I'm constantly thinking about getting the hell away from what passes for civilization.

[alexwcovington]

3. The signature says it all...

North Dakota.

[Birthmark]

22. Doh!

I seldom read signatures. ND is too cold for my Florida-born wife. We lived in Albany, NY for three years and had to move back to FL. She just couldn't stand six months of winter. :)

[LastKnight]

5. i could use some company...

down in south dakota too... lol

thats IT! all DU'ers should pick up and move to the midwest, surprise the crap outta everyone when the sudden political demographic of the midwest suddenly jumps by about 40k lol

-LK

[alexwcovington]

7. Meh I'll visit someday

I hear you have blackened hills and some kind of pier on the Missouri, worth a look.

[POed_Ex_Repub]

2. Well actually...

I moved here FROM the middle of nowhere. Why would I want to go back? :hi:

[LiberalVoice]

4. I've been wondering how happy...

I might be if I got away from civilisation for awhile...

[DenverDem]

6. I'm getting off the grid

and onto my spring fed, sustainable and defendable compound in East Texas as soon as possible. It may not be adequate to survive the horror of the impending Energy Crash, but I want to give myself and my family a fighting chance, at least.

[aquart]

8. I have a takeout menu file.

Does North Dakota do Thai, English Tea Room, fish and chips, Indian, Italian, French, Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Cuban, Cuban-Chinese, pizza, Tibetan, Greek diner, and VietNamese takeout?

Can I call and get a decent poppyseed bagel with veggie cream cheese? Can I?

[foreigncorrespondent]

9. Yes.

But Sapphocrat and I have found our little haven in the form of a little country town here in Victoria. :)

I can't wait for the day when Sappho and I are finally in the same country together and in the car moving to our little haven.

[Sapphocrat]

19. Haven, yes...

...but you can't call any town with a Chinese restaurant and three real estate agents in the same block "the middle of nowhere." :D

[foreigncorrespondent]

21. LOL

I know THAT! That is why I added the "but." ;)

[A HERETIC I AM]

10. I dont live in the middle of nowhere, but i can see it from here.

n/t

[DemBones DemBones]

11. Been there, done that, now people are moving out here,

all of 'em city slickers who put up those stupid outside security lights. There's one about a mile away, way too close, IMO.

We do have a buffer zone around us but the new people a few miles down the road haven't brought us county water (which is OK, we have a good well) or garbage pick-up (which would be nice.) It's nice to go outside and hear the quiet.

[Liberal Veteran]

12. Those lights piss me off.

It's like :wtf: !!!! You moved all the way out to the country to find out you were afraid of the dark????

As an amateur astronomer, I go out of my way to get away from lights that inhibit my stargazing.

[everythingsxen]

13. I uh.. did just that..

recently.

I now live in Woodinville.. on top of a hill. It takes me a half hour to get down the hill and 45 back up. No busses, taxis or pizza delivery.

[Melsky]

14. I just did that

Been living in the middle of the desert for a year.

View from my yard.

I'm selling my house and moving to Toronto, which is where my husband found a job. He's been living there since November and really likes it.

It will be fun to live in a city again.

[lucidmadman]

15. I'm moving to the SW corner of ND this spring...

...I've lived on the West Coast most of my 52 years and I'm just about through with it. I'm taking my hand crank pasta machine and a few other things 'you don't see everyday' in ND. I'm looking forward to it. I was there last February. It was -18 the day I took the train back. I was there in July and August and experienced the summer. Seeing the night sky was amazing. There's stars! The 'fundies' all stare at me and my girl. But I just stare back. The furnace in the house we're buying is over 100 years old and the inspector guy said it would easily last another 100 years. I'm ready to get away from people in SUVs talking to other people in SUVS on cell phones careening down the streets and almost hitting me....color me gone...

[Shanty Oilish]

16. I help people do that

It's an avocation. I relocate people who need to uproot and move to the middle of nowhere. Very rewarding way to pass the time and they are all very pleased with the results. (They're dv survivors.)
I'm an expert at middle of nowhere places! :)

[Flaxbee]

25. Oooh! Tell me more!

I'm looking at moving someplace more remote than I am currently, our mountain used to be relatively sparsely populated but now it's considered commuting distance to DC and the whole place is popping with houses, lots that supposedly wouldn't perk now have homes on them (I'm sure lots of greased palms along the way...).

Any middle of nowhere places that are warmer than Virginia?

And, to expose my ignorance, what/who are dv survivors...?

[izzie]

17. I have . I live in a small town in Maine.

:crazy:

[Robin Hood]

18. I keep dreaming of Hilo Hawaii.

Plam trees blowing in the sweet wind.

[KamaAina]

26. Don't stop dreaming!

The area around Hilo is the last place in the islands where land can still be had cheap (well, reasonable anyway). Look in the Puna district, south of Hilo and anchored by the authentic hippie town of Pahoa, or up Hwy. 11 towards Volcano (home to an artists' colony), or perhaps along the Hamakua Coast north of Hilo, with authentic paniolo (cowboy) towns.

http://www.hawaiiinformation.com

There are quite a number of people in East Hawai'i (Hawai'i County covers the Big Island; West Hawaii is the Kona coast) who are living "off the grid". Not coincidentally, Hawai'i County has one of the few elected Green officials, county council member Bob Jacobson.

http://www.greenhawaii.org/bob/index.htm

Plenty of Dems, too, though Repuke mayor (county executive) Harry Kim needs to be shown the door.

Let me know what you come up with! Even Honolulu is getting rather crowded, citified, and almost "mainland-like"... :scared:

[MercutioATC]

20. Yes, but to Costa Rica, not to the frozen wastelands...

;)


Seriously, there's a reason why North Dakota is sparsely populated...it gets DAMN COLD.

When I was at the FAA's air traffic control academy we were prodded to study with the threat that if we didn't, we'd be assigned to Minot tower...

[ScreamingMeemie]

23. We just looked at houses in the middle of nowhere last week.

I'd love to move. :hi:

[tinrobot]

24. I could totally do it...

Sell my high priced California house, move just about anywhere else and buy a house for cash... certainly tempting.

But then I'd have to get a new job, new friends, etc...

Not this year.