Sorry, that may have been somewhat a rash statement. Embarrassed I actually know several very good folks living in PRK.
I guess I was looking at it personally. I have lived in Calif. and I couldn't stand the place.
I certainly didn't move there for the gun laws, just the job offer I couldn't refuse from by very best friend, along with the 'stars in alignment' for my wife and family.
I've been here for nearly 10 years and initially didn't mind it so much but then I started learning about things like my rights, guns... You know all those pesky things that places like Kalifornia frown on so badly.
Bailed way before it got as bad as it is now. But I wasn't married then! Makes it a whole lot easier...
Certainly does. If I was single I might have been gone some time ago.
I know how marriage adds difficulty to this decision. It took me at least two years of very low pressure sales tactics to sell my wife on Wyoming. And she grew up in Hong Kong, which doesn't get much snow. Wink For her the solution seems to be to live half-time there and back in Oregon the rest of the time. I'll be able to stay longer. Winter, I like, and having grown up in Wisconsin don't find it to be a big deal. But I know a lot of folks go the sunbird route, even native Wyomingites. Maybe you can talk her into something like that. I've been looking at big 5th wheel trailers but haven't been able to talk her into it - yet.
My wife isn't so much opposed to Wyoming or any other place in particular except that she does not move well at all. Changes to weather patterns, seasons, etc. truly impact her. She is actually quite 'on board' with the idea of moving from Kalifornia but she knows that it will be a long period of adjustment time.
It's not the aboslute level of bad weather (temperature, snow, etc.) but the overall length of the bad weather season that gets to her. In Wyoming the 'good weather' is quite a short period of time compared to where we are now and where we came from in the southwest.
Not being able to go outside
comfortably for months at a time is not going to sit well with her I'm afraid. Yes, I know that appropriate dress is required, but 'comfortably' doesn't include arctic wear for her.
She's also now working at the first job that she truly likes, with people she truly likes since I met her.
All in all, it's going to be a tough sell in some ways to change our plans from the property that we already own in Idaho to Wyoming.
Idaho was tops on our list because it was very near the top of Boston's list of best states for gun laws, and there is a VA Hospital within 20 miles (in Boise) of where we have property, but not in the county with Boise.
We don't have infinite resources to allow us to live in multiple places at this time or the 'escape' location in a warmer climate would be my choice also. Incurring debt to finance such an endeavor is not even close to being on the table.
