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Mickey D

Mickey D

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For the past three years I have been wanting to leave CA because I am fed up with the politics, taxes, gun laws, immigration issues, traffic, lack of water and forest fires.

I love the outdoors, ATV and motorcycle riding. The area I live in the SF East Bay in CA is nice, but the traffic has been horrific and getting worse. Even though I no longer commute, I have to plan my travel around commute times. The mountain areas are a 3 hour drive.

I retired one year ago, Dec 1 2013. I started looking for areas of Idaho to live and located a great small town with a population of about 3000. Looked for homes on line, went up and visited a couple times with a Realtor and made an offer of a 3500sq' custom home on 11.5 acres with a 30x60 shop in Carmen ID, 4 miles north of Salmon.

I look fwd to 4 seasons, the beauty of the Salmon River and Beaverhead mountains on the Continental Divide. Snow in this area is only 24-28" per season.

I move in the first week of January 2015.

The house in Carmen ID, the day we made the offer to buy.

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Looks like a great place to call home. I remember when in grade school, I had a pen pal from Carmen, Idaho. He did a lot of bird hunting, and made the place sound wonderful to me.
 
Welcome to the NW! AKA - Gods Country.

You will need a snow blower over there, so keep that in mind. If you get over this way - give us a shout!:D

Pete

A really good snow blower, preferably mounted to a John Deere tractor with a heated cab!!
 
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Interested?

Hey, I'm available for adoption. I'm clean, don't eat much and bring many guns for mutual enjoyment!

Good luck with your new home and locale. I might join you some day. My son lives in LA and there's no way I'd move to the most heavily taxed and regulated state in the nation.
 
I expect there will be a certain period of adjustment. :)

You're going to love the new place once you get past that. I hope you have many happy years there. Congratulations on your decision and having the will to make the break and get started in a new - and freer - world.
 
Most likely the biggest adjustment will be getting everything you need while you are out. Looks like there is a store on every corner, just no corners. I am still 5 miles from the closest store, so I have adjusted to that aspect years ago.
When I transferred out of Calif. back in '73 everyone at church told me I would be back, but 40+ years later I haven't missed it. May go out to San Diego in a couple of years if there is another reunion at the air station.
I thought a 30x60' shop would be big enough when I started planning for retirement several years ago but should have gone bigger. I know you are saying that you will never fill it up but you will.
Good luck with the move and may you have fair weather on the way. Enjoy.... Larry
 
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