Where is that PERFECT PLACE???

We are looking for just the right place to relocate.
Some things are very important to us, other things we aren't very picky about at all.
You may think we are picky when you hear what we want, but I believe that just the right place is out there just waiting for us.
I'd call myself extremely spiritual but NOT religious. Strong beliefs and views on what I feel is important (which is usually based off of my spiritual visions and guidance).
So if I haven't freaked you out yet, please read on.


What we want.
IS IT OUT THERE?

Most Important
Good long growing season (but we don't mind a snowy winter).
Forests (so not only open plains).
Not anywhere near fault lines or volcanoes.
Out of flooding zones and somewhat away from large lakes and large rivers.
Good community~ environmentally friendly~ good vibes.
Good laws on home schooling.
Not too windy or foggy. (hahaha, right about now you are probably thinking how unrealistic these things are.)
OH...and not near the coastlines, and NOT anywhere on the eastcoast.
NO nuclear power plants or stuff like that (chemicals) anywhere near by.
LOW population. (We now live in a town of 1700)



Things I would be interested in if you do know of a place that sounds good for us.
What grows good.
Seasons.
Community life.
Local music scene.
Organic food and farmers markets available??
Air and water quality.
Local happenings and type of people who live there.
Ect.


Don't feel you need to answer all of these, just one answer for one would be awesome!

My husband, our roommate and myself have been searching now for so long to find just the right place to move our family farm to. We've gone through many ideas, and finally have reached a point that we may really need to ask for some help. After learning what the websites say and chamber of commerce has to say, we realize we need some like minded folks saying what they know about the places, some real raw info that you can't find on those webpages painting their pretty little pictures for me.
At this point I am feeling someone else might know of just the place we are wanting just by hearing what we want.

Any ideas???


Thank you so much!

 

The thing that is hard is all the very nice climates are usually very populated or very expensive.

All the primo land I know of is very expensive…

Nth central costal area of Cali, parts of the Hawaiian islands, are very nice climates but a good livable peace of land will cost you a lot.. millions or close to it.

 

wow,, she said no fault lines or volcanoes and you recommend hawaii and california..

go figure....

 

bc canada is a sweet place

 

Well I like it here. Land is not to high, lots of festivals and such to go to, great deals on needed items and lots of bartering, people are cool, tomatoes grow here really well as well as other items but tomatoes will grow like weeds. Lots of wild life and places to go swimming. With the hills we have floods are limited to right around the little rivers so no big deal at all. Music seems mostly like blue grass stuff (not my scene) but if you like it there is tons of places all the time with inside and outside playing.

Hmm best I can tell ya.

www.ozarkhorsetrader.com
www.kuku.com look at trading post
www.heartoftheozarksradio.com trading post

 

She said a lot of things….

Do you know of a place with out all of those things with a climate like that?
(Do you have anything positive to contribute?)

 

i think you could find all youre looking for in british columbia.
roberts creek is wonderful, and has pretty much all youre looking for, but its on the coast. if youre still interested, i can tell you all about it, i live 10 mins away.
i think its great that you are in a position to relocate, and that you have such specific criteria im sure you will find somewhere lovely. you should just hit the road and stop when you find somewhere perfect.

 

I think our growing season is good, our soil is filled with ash from an ancient eruption
We have a lot of forests and woods
Next state over is a bunch of them, but their cool
most places are out of flooding, in spring some places flood, we have a lake but its not
We have good vibes, low crime, a few wiggers but they don't do anything violent(pussies)
not sure about home schooling
only summer is windless and its bad in the winter but spring and fall are decent
Idaho is nowhere east
no powerplants, a damn down south but thats it
hows 60,000? We aren't to big, but if you want, Hayden is smaller but attached to us

some veggies and a lot of flowers grow well, fruit is good too
winter is cold and SNOWY, broke a record this last year, spring is amazing but this year was slow, fall is rainy but ok, summer is 78-95 all the time, sunny and comfortable
we hike, lots of parks, a lake and river but their nice(not huge)
a few local metal bands in spokane, not much here... Its kinda lame
we have to organic stores, I really like them
air and water quality is very good, there is summer burning but its only a week or so, we are above an aquifer so we have great water
there are a bunch of hippies sprouting, there is a local gang of white teens but they won't hurt you, they just rip people off for drugs and act tough, but they get beat up all the time lol

I think you should look up Coeur d' Alene, Idaho sometime. I like it pretty well, although I plan on moving to California or Oregon later in life.

 

north georgia,western north carolina..
i dont consider either "east coast" as both are 8 hour drives from the "coast"..

there i contributed something positive..

 

Moving to a foreign country can be tough, no walmarts or all those things you'r used to. That being said, i think the Canary islands atracts me the most for it's climate and abundance of european vacationers, and inexpensive hotels..

The Canary islands are old volcanoes, I don't think they're active, and the land might be quite steep or pricey where flat.

(Ok, I struck out on the coast-line thingy)

 

Virginia?

 

i think it having two places make living good . it's traditional to have winter and summer camps . or maybe it's some other dynamic that's important - like remote and social - or wet and dry . me ... i guess i got three . a wet garden fertile space and then a cool mountain place and a social hippy winter camp .

 

quote=l00l;4396414]... no walmarts or all those things you'r used to.... [/quote]
Wal Mart has 2800 stores outside the US. MacDonalds, PizzaHut, Burger King, Coca Cola, Pepsi, all the cigarette companies, car companies, etc are all international. It's pretty hard these days to get AWAY from the familiar US companies.

Which has nothing to do with the subject of this thread... but anyway...

"Perfect Place" - as far as I can tell if there was a perfect place, so many folks would move there that it would be ruined. Over crowded, real estate & other prices sky high, etc. Better to find a place you can work with and turn it into your own vision of perfection.

Peace, eace:
Poor_old_dad

 

I was thinking of moving to Morrocco, Like West Coast climate at an East Coast price. I'll trade Walmart for date palms.

 

There is no perfect place, I've chased that illusion for too many years now, and I'm getting tired of wandering.

 

How about like Arkansas or Missouri? Or southern Illinois? There are forests (Ozarks), it is pretty warm, so you should be able to garden...snowy winters, low cost of living...I think it's gorgeous, but my husband doesn't really like the Ozarks. It's a peaceful place, I think.

 

What about some rich person's backyard? You could sneak in, set up camouflage tents and live underground, and maybe the rich people would mistake you for pesky groundhogs that they can never manage to catch. Each week you could devise a new cunning plan to steal food from them or to just generally get the better of them, and you could entertain all of hipforums with your crazy adventures!

 

If you didn't mind moving all the way to Australia - - then I can recommend Tasmania! The entire island is like one big countryside, absolutely full of dense forests, crawling with wildlife, mountains, and so forth. It is kind of perfect.

 

Ozarks...Hot ass summers, tornadoes, freezing winters. Ice storms and downed powerlines, no power for weeks at a time. Declared disaster areas for the last several years, more tornadoes...New Madrid fault line ready to wake up any minute...even more tornadoes and a bible belt conservative spirit that would make any evangelist proud. Oh and I did forget the floods...I especially enjoyed the floods. I think you should skim right over that area myself, but it is cheap to live there, unless you factor in costs associated with the above mentioned inconveniences.

 

It sounds like you're looking for the perfect: OMG the SHTF and all possible natural/pollitical/toxic/biological disasters are gonna happen all at once, except on our property type deals.

I agree with a few other posters, can't be found, some places come close though.

for referance check the old "how to survive a ________" fill in the blank books. A lot of them have maps of the world or just north america and show things such as elevation, wind charts(for tracking nuclear fallout), growth zones, climate zones, fault lines, and army bases(nuclear facilities/pollution zones...). By looking at those maps you'll see that the majority of the west cost(not directly on the coast but further inland) is pretty good and the further north you go, the less people and the less pollution. Chances that you find that perfect place are very close to zero, esp if you rely more on internet forum posts than on research to get your info.

and like poor old dad said, perfert is what you make of it. Good luck, you'll need it.