Wife and I have been talking about moving for a while, but with the recent stupid shit in CA (she's more pissed about the retroactive tax increases than the upcoming new bans) she's thinking we should move out timeline WAY up, to either this or next year.
I'm OK with Seattle and Austin, she's saying I need to seriously look at NC, specifically the RTP area. It looks like as long as we stay near RTP we'll be OK for work for both of us, but what's life like in that area?
We're wanting a few acres of land and a smaller house, wife wants chickens and goats, I want to be able to shoot my bow in my yard and not have to drive 4+ hours just to find a place to hunt small game. We know we'll lose the ability to just walk down the street for coffee/restaurants/etc but figure having to take care of the land will get us out of the house on a daily basis anyway.
I've lived in Oregon, Washington and Colorado, got my CCW at 21 but obviously haven't enjoyed that since moving back to CA in '99. Hoping the situation is better there but it's not been high on my research list so far, more concerned about jobs, taxes, housing.
Lots of CA people moved there and ruined it like they've done to this state?
We're headed out there in a few months for me to take a look around, will be checking out housing, traffic, availability of good food, what the people are like on the street, etc. Probably have to check the local gun ranges out too, just to be complete.
I'm OK with Seattle and Austin, she's saying I need to seriously look at NC, specifically the RTP area. It looks like as long as we stay near RTP we'll be OK for work for both of us, but what's life like in that area?
We're wanting a few acres of land and a smaller house, wife wants chickens and goats, I want to be able to shoot my bow in my yard and not have to drive 4+ hours just to find a place to hunt small game. We know we'll lose the ability to just walk down the street for coffee/restaurants/etc but figure having to take care of the land will get us out of the house on a daily basis anyway.
I've lived in Oregon, Washington and Colorado, got my CCW at 21 but obviously haven't enjoyed that since moving back to CA in '99. Hoping the situation is better there but it's not been high on my research list so far, more concerned about jobs, taxes, housing.
Lots of CA people moved there and ruined it like they've done to this state?
We're headed out there in a few months for me to take a look around, will be checking out housing, traffic, availability of good food, what the people are like on the street, etc. Probably have to check the local gun ranges out too, just to be complete.