I agree with you about the fire ants. I hate them. I want to stay North of them.
Well if that's what you're after you'll have to move to New Zealand
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I love your thinking @NickF, it's an excellent plan. I'm sure there's sufficient market for this to be an excellent business investment for yourself while helping a lot of people.
Political trajectory dear... Once upon a time that would have been a good recommendation, but at this stage if we weren't already settled down the recommendation would be for us to move to Tennessee also.Well if that's what you're after you'll have to move to New Zealand
And give up the pew-pews?!?Well if that's what you're after you'll have to move to New Zealand
Right! I don't want to give up the pew pews. They seem more important all the time.
Well, having lived there for 5 years myself, it's far from my favorite part of Texas, Bartato, but, again, other than Montana, there's nowhere else in the country one can go where one can get as far away from strategic bombing targets in combination with being as far away from urban centers and highway arteries that serve as conduits between urban centers that will generate outflow during a SHTF event. I used to sell survivalist maps in the classifieds of The Whole Earth Catalog magazine until it deep-sixed in the 1990s. One showed the likely patterns of nuclear fall-out from nuclear power plants based on prevailing wind patterns in the event of missile strike or plant malfunction. Nacogdoches is in a 6-country region that is the second-largest such region that would likely have minimal impact in the event of nuclear war.
Texas will not go the way of Austin. In fact, I predict Austin will eventually implode as well. And I love Austin but just wouldn't want to live there because of the wokeness even if it weren't so damn expensive. Dallas is liberal, but Fort Worth will be larger within 10 years.
Part of what concerns me about Tennessee, Idaho, and Texas is that average Californians might see them as acceptable places to move. Boise is turning into Austin too.
I love saying Naccodoches. It’s a fun word.Not 1000 acres, but, other than Montana, one can't beat Nacogdoches County TX for being off the beaten path, and your representative in Congress is Louis Gohmert. It's one of those areas where staying out of one another's business is the rule of the day. Lots of colorful history. High humidity, but, then again, so are all these other locations y'all are mentioning.
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Interestingly, the fire ants have receded here significantly. They’re still around but greatly reduced. They used to have a mound every ten feet in grassy areas and there was nothing you could do about it. Now it’s rare to see a mound, let alone the sea of them there used to be. I think wetter, slightly cooler summers are to blame but also they seem to have interbred with the native ants and thus blend in more.
I agree with Zec and Jeremy on SC.
The data is already in on where Californians are moving, in this order:
At the tail end of our vacation we purposefully drove through both Nachitoches and Nacogdoches, named after the 'twin' sons of Chief Caddo. Both are fun to pronounce (Nackuhdotches and Nackuhtish), and its a great legend primarily based on true events that also produced the first formal road in Texas, El Camino Real, which first ran from Nachitoches to Nacogdoches but was eventually extended to San Antonio. We drove over half of it. Only in one place was it redirected from its original meandering route.
My perspective on them is that folks overly freaked out about them, much like they did the Threat of Killer Bees. Don't get me wrong, fire ants are nasty critters, and mainly because they have some undetectable but recognizable method of communicating with each other from a distance. Their greatest weapon is swarming onto something, and then when one gives the signal they all begin biting at once. I've been the unfortunate victim of this twice in my life. It sucks, but it's not a tornado or anything.
You could have stopped by to say hi. You were probably only about 45 mins to an hour from me at some point on your drive!
Really? We drove from Fort Worth to Rock Hill SC then down to Orlando and on to Key West and back up to Fort Lauderdale before heading back through New Orleans. Where are you along that route?
Climate change.
I know two people who have spent time in the hospital due to anaphylactic shock after being bitten. Our garden is presently overrun.
