What do you think about your state - bad and good?

[Watchman]

Iowa got me started handgun hunting when they passed the straight wall cartridge act. Long ago now...

Ironically, I started hunting with a handgun in Oregon decades ago before I moved to Iowa.

The coast range, where I usually hunted, was so steep and dense that shots over 100 yards were uncommon, and having both hands free to grab brush when scrambling up hills or using binoculars was advantageous.

But then, I never was a stand or blind hunter. Glassing a clear cut all day to shoot a deer at 500 yards with my 7mm magnum seemed a boring waste of a glorious day better spent tracking game to a closer solution.

I still hunt handgun in Iowa, if you can call it that. The dogs in the kennel alert me to the deer's presence, I look out the dining room window to verify, then walk out the front door and around the corner of the house to shoot one or two. Usually@ 75 yards or so. The dogs never lie. Saves me a lot of freeze your ass off.

 

[Armybrat]

Codebreaker pretty much nailed it.

Are you very close to Muldrow?
I spent some time on a family friend's ranch north of that town back in the 1950s.

 

[Armybrat]

Texas

Bad: Any city larger than 100K people.
Good. All the rest.

Good…. TexMex & BBQ

 

[Colonialgirl]

Well, When we bought our place near Zephyrhills it was a pretty rural area and only busy when the snowbirds flocked down from up North, Now they are tearing down woodlands and throwing up housing the is elbow to elbow and all looks alike, Traffic has gotten worse but NO road improvement. I'm on an acre down a dirt road and the other properties are a minimum of an acre in my area. Property taxes aren't too bad but auto and property insurance runs a bit on the high side. NO STATE INCOME TAX !

Please STAY in your Northern YANKEE states and dont ruin Florida !

 

[rwp315]

I live in IL and complain about it all the time. On the other hand I have to admit that there are some good things here. For one thing, pensions are essentially exempt from state income tax. My income is primarily my military pension and Social Security and most years I pay zero state income tax. But the real estate tax on my modest home is $8k a year right now. Chicago is known as a very unfriendly city for gun owners, but if you live outside of Chicago and some of its immediate suburbs as I do, it is not gun unfriendly at all. I carry everyday, virtually everywhere. The weather is not great but its certainly not the extremes of places like Minnesotta or Texas. So on balance its not the worst place to live, even if not the best.

Same here. Just like any other state you get away from Democrat influenced cities and it's very conservative. We were going to move to Indiana but when building materials skyrocketed and needed closer healthcare we stayed. Real estate taxes will be climbing over there because of the influx of Illinois people. They are already asking for more schools, improving roads etc. Pension money is taxed and registration for our 3 cars would have been around $1,000. Our daughter just got their real estate tax bill and much higher than expected.

Every state will get their dues one way or another.

Problem is everyone thinks their home is worth more than it is. Not paying $800,000 + to live for example in Arizona on a postage stamp. Or $450,000 in a 2 bedroom 1 bath house In Montana. It's just crazy what the Plandemic created.

 

[Colonialgirl]

I'll probably (fer sure) stay here, I am relatively Close to Haley VA Hospital which is one of the best in the nation and have gotten good treatment there including a couple of brief stays in the hospital.

 

[dstegjas]

I've lived in Ohio all my life except for the 4 years in the military. So I don't have much to compare it too. I still live in the town I grew up in which has a population of about 36,000. Seems a lot since I've been here for over 60 years but I'm sure small by other peoples standards. I can go any where in the state in 2 1/2 hours. Hunting is good and the gun laws are good too. I can go fish Lake Erie for walleye or smallmouth for non stop action. Or go down in southern Ohio and fish for bass in the recreational ponds of Ohio Power. I hunt on private land these days but Ohio has great hunting on its national park lands.

All states have there plus and minuses including Ohio. We just go visit the others a few weeks out of the year. That's what vacations are for.

 

[Billy1953]

From behind enemy lines here in the "Peoples Republic Of Communist Massachusetts."
-- Two Words Say It All. --

"IT SUCKS"

 

[NH Rugerman]

New Hampshire, 45 minutes to the ocean, 45 minutes to the mountains (be nice) and constitutional carry…NO SALES OR INCOME TAXES…I love the four seasons, all of them, wouldn't want Christmas without snow and the fall foliage is spectacular.

LIVE FREE OR DIE…..and one of the homes of Sturm, Ruger and Co, Inc. where they build the single and double-action revolvers along with the venerable 10/22, Model 77 and the No.1 rifles.

 

[87flht]

Mississippi might rank pretty low on all the surveys that you see ,but most of the people here are the nicest folks around and I like cause it's rural

 

[arfmel]

"Those services are pretty poor due to the limited funding available to governments in the absence of a (Texas) state income tax."

For the record, I'm okay with that.

 

[Durango Dave]

Colorado
Good: I love the mountains. I love the scenery, hiking and jeeping. Mountains are the main reason I moved here.
Bad: The politics. Many new anti-gun laws but I guess that's true of most other states too.

The outdoors are very important to me, usually more important than the politics. Or at least that's the way it has been but politics have become oppressive in many areas in the US.

 

[DGW1949]

......"Saves me a lot of freeze your ass off."......I had to laugh at that because it is so true. Seems to me that the older I get, the more important that sort of thing becomes.

DGW

 

[RockyMT]

Quote from Chicago song "Lowdown" ....."The country I was brought up in fell apart and died." It breaks my heart to see my state in a full-speed-ahead race with CA and WA for weirdness and "progressive" social engineering.

 

[Randyzzz]

Quote from Chicago song "Lowdown" ....."The country I was brought up in fell apart and died." It breaks my heart to see my state in a full-speed-ahead race with CA and WA for weirdness and "progressive" social engineering.

Yep…I moved here to get away from CA some 23 years ago- and I'll be darned if it didn't follow me.

 

[RockyMT]

On the other hand, its really nice to be able to get to the ocean beaches or high the mountains within and hour's drive. Great natural beauty and hunting, fishing, hiking etc. Sadly though, over 4,000 miles of Forest Service roads have been blocked and/or demolished in the last few years making impossible for most of us to get into the truly remote areas.

 

[RockyMT]

Yep…I moved here to get away from CA some 23 years ago- and I'll be darned if it didn't follow me.

Next... on to Montana or Wyoming I guess.

 

[Daryll (Macbullet)]

Colorado
Good: I love the mountains. I love the scenery, hiking and jeeping. Mountains are the main reason I moved here.
Bad: The politics. Many new anti-gun laws but I guess that's true of most other states too.

The outdoors are very important to me, usually more important than the politics. Or at least that's the way it has been but politics have become oppressive in many areas in the US.

 

[Randyzzz]

Next... on to Montana or Wyoming I guess.

My thoughts exactly. We looked at ID- but where we wanted to be had gotten too pricey.

 

[Daryll (Macbullet)]

Colorado or maybe should call it Califorado as that is what it is now. Run by the liberal centers of Denver and Boulder, with a few other smaller towns thrown in. Property tax assessments went up by 45% here while some front range cities went up by 60% or more.
Was a pretty good state up until about 15 years ago, gone downhill since. Would think of moving, but where? I like the dry and cold (except for the summers) and the mountains.
Maybe Kentucky or Oklahoma, but hate the thought of moving all my stuff!! Not very dry there though.

We started losing Colorado in the early '70's. Got out of the front range and moved to the western slope and never looked back, unfortunately the californicators are slowly gaining ground here too. May see Wyoming before it's all over.