About 10 miles south of Kansas City, MO, been here about 4 years. Was born in southern Missouri, lived in Saratoga, WY then Fairfield, ID for a couple years each then to Minneapolis, MN for about 16 years now here.

I sure do miss the scenery & mountains out west. Would love to get back out there someday.

Sure wouldn't miss Missouri much, for being the Show-Me-State, no one has ever shown these people how to build or pave a highway worth a darn.

If you're ever traveling thru KC let me know, would like to meet up with some of you all.

Eric

 

They build a highway like you build a pond, put rock and concrete down and then mound clay up around it.Add water and turns the hole base into mud. I guess all you can call it is stupid. I have lived in northern mid-missouri all my life.Not a bad place town has about 2000 people and whole county has about 7000. Not a stop light in the whole county. Good hunting and 18000 acre fishing lake only 5 miles away. If we could get rid of welfare it would get rid of 90 percent of the drug problems around here. We got a few jeep trails around but most are private invitation. I guess I'll probably stay, got kin buried here back to the early 1800's.

 

Sounds like here....the only stop light is the flashing one at the stop sign out on the highway.... Money and a good job doesnt always buy happiness...

 

Almost midway between Nashville and Knoxville, TENNESSEE. I-40 exit 317.

Reason for being here..........STUCK!! ...... too many grandkids, not enough money to leave.

Crime??? Diesel... too much.

Glock 22, 15 round clip and AK47 with 75 round drum of jacketed hollow points.

Druggies Welcome on a first come, first shot basis.

 

Bet Jim's unsubscribed from this thread cause his e-mail is full of responses...I live just SW of Houston in a small rural town called Damon, TX...lookin to move out of town and back in the woods where I was raised...alot quieter there, but it seems that crime's higher due to your neighbor being at least a half mile down the road and not being able to keep an eye on your place. We have low a crime rate in town right now except for the kids getting rowdy now and then. Spending about $1.89 for fuel now... Trying to find some people in my area that have Bombed trucks...most around here are farmers that ask why my truck smokes like a Case International pullin' an 8 row plow through black gumbo in the middle of summer..?? I have to tell them..."cause I like that way!!"

 

I live about 15 miles outside of Tucson, Arizona...our weather is great..lil to no humidity, rarely snows<where i live>, rains but nothing that aint bareable...and in the course of a day it can turn from cold, then rainy n dreary to bright sunny and in the 70's all within hours..i love this weather..live in the desert so its prudy dry and alotta places to head out with the horses, hunting aint to bad, fishin is purdy good, and diesel prices suck lately..they have been floating up n down like crazy but havent droped nuff yet..one week its 2.05 n the next its 2.15...seems to float within 10 cents so not to bad...as far as the crime goes it isn't outta hand but car theift and robbery, and drugs seem to be the favorites....lived here all my life so don't really know any better lol but i do know I hate the cold so Arizona seems to suit me just fine.
~Heather~

 

I wouldnt mind living in your neck of the woods...

 

I live in Stillwater Oklahoma, home of the OSU Cowboys and twenty thousand other students that can't drive to save their souls. One more reason to bolt steel on the front of a pickup! Diesel just went up from $1.78 to $1.99 two days ago. I'm fixin' (that's a redneck word for the CA folks) to move out into the country where I can shoot deer off my back porch and catch bass about 100 feet from the house. Now that's livin'! I just got to get busy and finish the house.

 

**Hey,
Not at all I am still here and reading everyone of them. Thanks alot for letting me (all of us) in on your personal lives. Your parts of the country sound great. Sunday I got fuel for $2.19 and this AM on my way home I just paid $2.39. $47.00 and I wasn't even empty..
Again thanks for being better than my neighbors.
Jim in California

 

New Meadows, Idaho
Two largest towns...
Roughly 180 miles north of Boise, Idaho or 150 miles south of Lewiston, idaho

Closest town is...Population of 200 people...
Currently diesel is $2.749 a gallon in Riggins, Idaho approx 15 miles north of me.

Out here we have more dirt roads than paved. So if you want to travel you better have 4 wheel drive and good tires. Pavement is for cars! (or going to town for food & fuel!)

Every morning while read my email and messages here I watch the deer come down on the yard and feed. (Boy that buck got a nice rack!)