If you moved out of California, where and why did you go? (Lakewood: closing, living)

[.highnlite]

Originally Posted by misplaced1

Yuck. I love the outdoors, love gardening, hiking, boating, and those would be low on my list of places to live.

But why would that be? Admittedly gardening is an act of faith in North East Nevada, but it is truly America's Last Best Place. Miles and miles of trails and back roads to wander upon almost completely empty of people. Great Fishing in high mountain streams and lakes. I am mystified.

Here a couple photos of North East Nevada




the lake in this last image I came upon one July 15 and found it still frozen over. Not the typical and generally erroneous image of Nevada is it?

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by misplaced1

Yuck. I love the outdoors, love gardening, hiking, boating, and those would be low on my list of places to live.

I have to agree with you. We actually considered NE NV as well as a few other places in the state, but NE is just to open. I have to have some form of real life around me, plus more greenery.

Nita

[.highnlite]

Originally Posted by nmnita

I have to agree with you. We actually considered NE NV as well as a few other places in the state, but NE is just to open. I have to have some form of real life around me, plus more greenery.

Nita

What does "just to open" mean?

Not enough greenery in North East Nevada?







It is true that those who are overly fond of paved roads will not see much of Nevada. But those who are young or young at heart, and adventurous and like the out of doors will find, America's last best place.

[Coldjensens]

The first pictures you posted are mostly bleak and barren looking. The second group of pictures show some grass with mountains int he backgrount, but many people like to have trees. They do nto like to look out over miles and miles of flat, unbroken landscape. I think that they are referring to something like this:

[.highnlite]

[quote=Coldjensens;18825783]The first pictures you posted are mostly bleak and barren looking. The second group of pictures show some grass with mountains int he backgrount, but many people like to have trees. They do nto like to look out over miles and miles of flat, unbroken landscape. I think that they are referring to something like this:




If you consider an alpine landscape rising above green meadows "Bleak and Barren" you see the world very different from those to who I recommend Nevada.

[Snort]

[quote=.highnlite;18826268]

Originally Posted by Coldjensens

The first pictures you posted are mostly bleak and barren looking. The second group of pictures show some grass with mountains int he backgrount, but many people like to have trees. They do nto like to look out over miles and miles of flat, unbroken landscape. I think that they are referring to something like this:




If you consider an alpine landscape rising above green meadows "Bleak and Barren" you see the world very different from those to who I recommend Nevada.

I know you said northeast NV, but can you be more specific? The alpine parts of the state are nice; the desert, hmmmmmmm, not really. But, tastes vary.
You ever drive down a road in northern NV carpeted with Mormon crickets? Now that's an experience!

[.highnlite]

[quote=Snort;18826469]

Originally Posted by .highnlite

I know you said northeast NV, but can you be more specific? The alpine parts of the state are nice; the desert, hmmmmmmm, not really. But, tastes vary.
You ever drive down a road in northern NV carpeted with Mormon crickets? Now that's an experience!

Snort, cars wreck on the crickets, slide right off the road like they were ice.

I have ridden a horse for miles, stepping on the crickets the whole time.

Nevada is all a desert, but deserts don't have to be boring flats like Nevada's boring flats.

The two ranges pictured are Jarbidge and the Rubies, two of Nevada's 300 ranges.

My wife used to teach school at a two room schoolhouse in the Rubies, she lived in an apartment at the school. The school was 60 miles from pavement, her neighbors were all ranchers, she loved it out there.

These are places you can camp and hike for a month without seeing a soul.

[ExNooYawk]

I'm a born and bred NYer. Lived in the Bahamas for three years and learned to hate humidity. Lived in CT for many years and loved it but HATED those long winters. Lived in Thousand Oaks, CA and thought I'd come home. Loved it. LOVED it. Then my practical DH retired and said CA was too expensive so we moved to Ashland, Oregon. It's nice here but after five years I am gently nudging (do NOT use the word 'nag') him to move back to CA. Central Coast, north of Santa Barbara. Most beautiful place in the world.

We thought about AZ and haven't completely ruled it out since we have a daughter there, but the thought of those summers scares both of us.

OR is nice but we spend too much time in the house from November through until May. Life is too short not to be outside in the sun or at the beach.

Just my tuppence.

[trixie09]

Wow.. I hear ya on that! I moved from San Luis Obispo County to the Seattle area a few years ago for my husband's job, and as hard as I try to like it.. it just isn't working.

Oregon is quite lovely.. especially Ashland, and I've tried to tell myself that maybe moving to Oregon would cure my homesickness for SLO County, but my friends and family finally told me to give it up. They know that I need to be back on the Central Coast.

I think that most everyone has a place in their hear that feels like home... whether it's their original or adopted home. And nothing compares to the Central Coast for me. No amount of gorgeous forests, and clean lakes, or food carts, can change how I feel about sitting at the beach in Avila having an ice cream cone on a summer evening.

Best of luck getting back to where you belong!

Originally Posted by ExNooYawk

I'm a born and bred NYer. Lived in the Bahamas for three years and learned to hate humidity. Lived in CT for many years and loved it but HATED those long winters. Lived in Thousand Oaks, CA and thought I'd come home. Loved it. LOVED it. Then my practical DH retired and said CA was too expensive so we moved to Ashland, Oregon. It's nice here but after five years I am gently nudging (do NOT use the word 'nag') him to move back to CA. Central Coast, north of Santa Barbara. Most beautiful place in the world.

We thought about AZ and haven't completely ruled it out since we have a daughter there, but the thought of those summers scares both of us.

OR is nice but we spend too much time in the house from November through until May. Life is too short not to be outside in the sun or at the beach.

Just my tuppence.

[Hawk J]

Originally Posted by ExNooYawk

I'm a born and bred NYer. Lived in the Bahamas for three years and learned to hate humidity. Lived in CT for many years and loved it but HATED those long winters. Lived in Thousand Oaks, CA and thought I'd come home. Loved it. LOVED it. Then my practical DH retired and said CA was too expensive so we moved to Ashland, Oregon. It's nice here but after five years I am gently nudging (do NOT use the word 'nag') him to move back to CA. Central Coast, north of Santa Barbara. Most beautiful place in the world.

We thought about AZ and haven't completely ruled it out since we have a daughter there, but the thought of those summers scares both of us.

OR is nice but we spend too much time in the house from November through until May. Life is too short not to be outside in the sun or at the beach.

Just my tuppence.

If y'all wanna, you could buy a reasonable priced used rv (pull trailer, 5th wheel, or motorhome, etc) then camp/park anywhere you like in the wintertime. Stay where the weather suits you in the winter, then head home.