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Originally Posted by mortpes
I visited Northern NH White Mountain area in the winter. (Winter sports) No jobs, Main roads very clean and open, Locals often had multiple jobs or lived with long term family, Isolated, Many areas & homes closed for the winter ( summer house type of state) And yes I would love to live there. You must have 4 wheel drive. Hint.
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Yeah... I'm looking into getting my wife a 4x4 Tahoe or something like that so that we'll have something for the winter. I love my truck and I've had very little need for 4x4 on it, but it is not a 4x4. No, sadly, it's about the worst type of vehicle for the winter... a 3500 heavy duty truck with single rear wheels, two-wheel drive, and 10-ply tires. I could get snow tires for it and swap them on every winter, but even at that, it's still two wheel drive with comparatively little weight over the drive wheels.
I don't mind rural and few jobs. Frankly, that's a pretty good scenario. Areas that are rural but have lots of available jobs wind up getting swamped with people, even if they're known for brutal winters... North Dakota has seen a lot of this lately with their oil boom. Your nice quiet rural area ain't so nice and quiet anymore when it gets overrun with gypsies who follow the boom & bust cycles from place to place. I know that's a heck of a thing to say when I myself am a proud gypsy... but you must admit, most gypsies bring problems with them such as drugs, alcohol, domestic violence, etc. I'm not one of them... so I like rural areas that are likely to stay rural. Besides, if I want a job, I can teach science or math at a school. That's my fall-back plan in case my wife and my "traveling musicians" dream doesn't work out.
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