Can’t even drive your pretty little car without scrapping the bottom of it around here.
I mean really Kansas is just flat ground, nothing to do around these parts, so please if you love your life don’t stay here.
And, I’m sure St.George would agree with me that this just looks awful, the woods? Hunting? Might get dirt under your nails.
And, really no one likes dirt under their nails. So, you just stay out of Kansas and Missouri, I’m sure Push has you convinced about Wyoming and Montana.
Look at this picture…I just threw up in my mouth.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
Cost of living index:
Gillette, WY 84.0
Trenton, NJ 115.0
US average 100.0[/quote]
Crime Scale 1-10 (Violent Crimes/Property Crimes):
Trenton, NJ: 9/5
Deerfield, KS: 2/2
Nation: 4/4
Deerfield, KS: Cost of living 72.5
With a medium income 50,000
Spending over an hour scouring the web in a humiliatingly fruitless attempt to defend your podunk, cow tipping, educationally challenged, animal fucking, moonshine swigging, banjo plucking, tourist raping, snaggle-toothed, backwoods, inbred, jerkwater hickville of a state?
Priceless.
[quote]Brother Chris wrote:
Put some whiskers on her and I’m ready to go noodlin’. [/quote]
You can count me in on that action. Although I don’t want to get my shoes wet. Rivers are dirty. I mean who really wants to be anywhere other than Trenton New Jersey where there are absolutely no hobos or persons of ill will. Obviously, a crowded city is the place to be. Fuck trees. … figuratively. Or literally if that’s what you’re in to. I won’t judge.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]cwill1973 wrote:
Guess I forgot to mention it was in 1994 when I moved. But if X says it can’t be done then I guess it’s not possible. Good thing the internet wasn’t around in the 1800’s or the west would still be empty but for the Indians.
If you have no one you’re responsible for, have some balls and a brain, and want adventure go for it.
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I agree. But then again I have done this. More than once.
I have a lot of stories as a result and life has been good to me.[/quote]
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Last I checked, there wasn’t a RECESSION in 1994 and telling people to have a plan has never been bad advice. I didn’t have anything other than one suitcase when I went into the military. Being an officer meant that they preferred you stay off base which means I had to acquire a place to stay and a car when I got there. What I didn’t do was jump in my car with no thought about what comes next and move to Florida.
Yes, I am VERY glad that worked out for you. Now tell your story to all of those street kids living in New York and Cali who moved much the same way but didn’t end up with such a positive outcome.
I am by no means against seeing the world. I did that. Most people didn’t even know some of the places I’ve been existed. But then, I had a plan…and clearly that is the pussy way to do it.
[quote]pushharder wrote:
[quote]XanderBuilt wrote:
EDIT - I’m not sure what you do for a living Push but I’ve seen a few videos here and there from you (about deers), the photo of your “ride” being a horse and know very little about Montana - but that to me, living that lifestyle would be escaping the rat race for me. I don’t know how long I could do it for, but it would give a lot of pleasure even if it was for a short time.[/quote]
One opinion was “Live where you can best make a living and go to the places you want to see on your vacation time and with your big fat wallet firmly ensconced in your pocket.”
The other opinion was “Move to where you want to be and find work there.”
I obviously went with #2.
I do now have the luxury of having been almost everywhere in the US (except parts of New England) and much of Canada. I’ve seen it all…from Key West to Denali National Park and from Kauai to Tijuana to Boston. I know what much of the rest of North America looks like and a fair amount of what the lifestyles of folks out there are. So I think I may have some insight in this regard.
Comes down to this > > > if you’re more skeered of “What if I never go…” than you are of “What if I fail when I do go…” then you need to pack your saddlebags, climb on your steed, and head out.[/quote]
Thanks Push. That’s how I ended up in Singapore, with a one way ticket, a suitcase, 4 boxes and about 1000USD. I found my job here while on a two week “vacation” a few months prior to that. The year is 2001.
What amazes me is that you’ve lived in different parts of the USA and can see the changes in culture within the same country. That is very cool and very rare. But as for my earlier point I see your life as a grand adventure, taking the bull by the horns so to speak - and being able to do that, to live it, is escaping the rat race.
What I learned from my experience, is that getting out of the “Comfort Zone” makes us better people always. It’s when our minds are saying “i’m afraid…” is when we definitely need to do it.
Those pictures make me cry. Can’t wait to move.