Exactly because I have a wife, and daughters.

SD wasn't on anybody's radar except mine.


If I had been single like I was even I moved to Seattle, I would be in South Dakota today.


We have a phenomenal life, so it all worked out.

That's a great question

Apparently there's nothing to do up there. They all come down here on the weekends

My new street.  How refreshing.

Attached File

Duh.


You guys have the ark. Complete with dinosaurs!


Been here 17 months, been to Kentucky zero times. Corvette museum is on the list, but that probably will never happen

That is a pretty big deal, still haven't gone

The Red River Gorge is the main attraction though. Chock full of cars with Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois license plates

Where can I find that site?

https://voterrecords.com/address-search
Of course WA doesn't register party...

That's encouraging. I drive through Lewiston every weekend during the warm months to work on my property that I'm eventually moving to. Lewiston seems like a scaled-down version of where I live now (minus the leftism). I imagine living there would be more like the "good old days."

Aside from not registering to vote, how would one go about not having their information show up on that website?  It's kind of scary. Lol

Don’t do stuff that is public record.

I've lived in WA since 2000, and I'm tired of living behind enemy lines. I'm headed to NE Wyoming soon.

Thank you

Yes, Constitutional Carry.
Everything is Legal Here.

Lots of Hunting and Fishing.
Plenty to do here.
God's Country.

I've spent time in Yankton over the winter.  Winter is rough in SD.

Bet the skeeters are too. Ive been to devils lake ND. Driving down the road one day it looked like a semi truck rolling coal had just been through leaving a trail of smoke. It was skeeters.

Switching a grain elevator at 2am in -30° weather is one of the highlights of my career.

Alaska is like that. They’d get so big we’d use them to drill for oil.

It's coming up on five years this April that I escaped Washington.  I lived there a few weeks shy of 21 years.  It was a beautiful state with fairly agreeable politics when I arrived on the great ship USS Rodney M. Davis (FFG 60) in Everett on May 5, 1998.  

By 2015, I started looking into transferring out of state with my job because things were starting to slide towards no bueno.  My divorce in 2017-2018 fast-tracked my move, as I had to sell my house and I couldn't afford to purchase anything else within commuting distance of my job.  In late 2018, I got a break when a colleague hooked me up with a transfer to Detroit of all places!  At first, I was beyond skeptical; but the more I researched, the more I liked Detroit.

I ended up getting a raise to come here, and then pay got restructured so now I make much more than I did in Washington.  The cost of living is much less.  I paid $130k for a house 3.5 years ago--it would have cost me at least $450k for a comparable house in Western Washington!  Gas is running me $2.67 a gallon currently.  

The downside is that car insurance is insane in Michigan, and there's an income tax here.  Currently, Lansing is Democrat, but that cycles back and forth in these parts.  Washington just seems to creep further and further left as the years go by.  Hell, Trump leads Biden in the most recent polls here, which is something you would never read about Washington.

The best part of moving here?  People are not afraid to drive the speed limit or above and they tend to keep the fuck out of the passing lane unless they are actively passing traffic.  I set my cruise control to 9 MPH over and stay to the right--even at rush hour!  Try that on I-5 or I-405.

Fancy that... CavVet and I are neighbors now, kinda!

Correct on  (all) a number of points.

Funny shit (AWESOME) living in a neighborhood I could only drive through in Washington, never living in as a truck driver, and owning a house there here.

And like you, ended up making more money here than ever. That's counter intuitive af.

Last point is best point. See you at Cedar Point this summer

Ohio has great roller coasters. I went to high school and college in Indiana and we would take trips to Kings Island.
I don’t even know where the closest decent roller coaster is around here.

Silverwood. Just north of Coeur d’ Alene, ID. Decent.

It’s really starting to suck that we’re being forced to choose between living in geographical wonderlands and flat, boring places where the roller coasters are the biggest highlight.

No kidding.  I borrowed a buddy's pole saw to trim some branches over my driveway.  Thought to myself "this is pretty slick, I should buy one of these".  Then I realized there are no trees in my new yard taller than I am.  But I can buy a machine gun there...

Moving sale items will include all my chain saws.  Probably my wood chipper.

In the market, what do you got and where are you

That wood chipper might be useful in WA some day for...a thing.

This winter not bad at all.
And the Winter, keeps out all the RIF RAF!

Land of the Free!

Looking at Idaho as well.