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Lets try Presidio, Tx lower in the Big Bend area right on the Rio Grand River.
I do not know the living style you prefer but would be shocked if the Tx or NM locations were not significantly less expensive cost of living wise. I know weather seems to be more important to you than cost of living and leaving the familiar Ca.
I don't know if you need work...that could really restrict your searches. However, Shoshone is a small town near Death Valley. I don't know (really rather doubt) that there is any work available there, although if you're a handy man, you might find some work there.
I heard that there is work either at the Death Valley NP or at the Furnace Creek Inn (in Furnace Creek).
I don't know, Shoshone seems pretty interesting to me. So do Furnace Creek, Indian Village, and Stovepipe Wells.
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Lets try Presidio, Tx lower in the Big Bend area right on the Rio Grand River.
I do not know the living style you prefer but would be shocked if the Tx or NM locations were not significantly less expensive cost of living wise. I know weather seems to be more important to you than cost of living and leaving the familiar Ca.
Honestly, Presidio, TX actually looks pretty decent. I don't think I would mind living there.
Ah, yes. Needles seems to have just about everything I would desire. A considerate amount of trees for a desert, lots of tamarisk trees, at least one grocery store, big-chain restaurants, etc., very high temperatures, isolation, it's pretty darn affordable, and even a railroad. ��
It has now been added to almost the very top of my list for my future relocation some day.
Have you ever been to Needles? It's a place that looks like it's seen better times. There are old abandoned houses around town. It's near some kind of resort area on the Colorado River; one gets the impression that Needles used to serve that area, when tourism was much stronger there. Gas, btw, is very expensive in town, but much cheaper across the state line, in AZ. Needles doesn't seem as isolated to me, as you might think, looking at a roadmap, due to the presence of numerous resort towns north and south of it, on the river. These days, it's mostly a truck stop, though.
Have you ever been to Needles? It's a place that looks like it's seen better times. There are old abandoned houses around town. It's near some kind of resort area on the Colorado River; one gets the impression that Needles used to serve that area, when tourism was much stronger there. Gas, btw, is very expensive in town, but much cheaper across the state line, in AZ. Needles doesn't seem as isolated to me, as you might think, looking at a roadmap, due to the presence of numerous resort towns north and south of it, on the river. These days, it's mostly a truck stop, though.
Are you talking about Lake Havasu City, AZ?
Honestly, I don't think I have ever been to, or, at least through, Needles before. However, from looking on Google Street View, Needles seems pretty alright to me. I really don't mind truck stop towns. I know at least several more of those. Barstow, Baker, Thousand Palms, Cabazon, etc. I have even lived in one twice in my life (Thousand Palms).
Listen to Jevetta Steele singing “I’m Calling You.” Head to Newberry Springs, CA, in the Mojave Desert. Watch the movie Bagdad Cafe.
More than 30 yrs ago I stopped there on a late afternoon in autumn to ride my bike. Pancake-flat on the road, but beautiful mountains (the Chocolate Mtns???) around. HOT. I think there was a railroad track parallel to the road. I was on my long longed-for cross country road trip, in a lonely search for another part of the country to live. It was a period of big changes for me, and sometimes I felt so lost inside.
A year or two later I saw the movie. The theme song is as mesmerizing as the desert itself, and the CD and DVD that I later bought never fail to transport me back to that one hot late afternoon and a time of both overwhelming sadness yet great freedom.
Listen to Jevetta Steele singing “I’m Calling You.” Head to Newberry Springs, CA, in the Mojave Desert. Watch the movie Bagdad Cafe.
More than 30 yrs ago I stopped there on a late afternoon in autumn to ride my bike. Pancake-flat on the road, but beautiful mountains (the Chocolate Mtns???) around. HOT. I think there was a railroad track parallel to the road. I was on my long longed-for cross country road trip, in a lonely search for another part of the country to live. It was a period of big changes for me, and sometimes I felt so lost inside.
A year or two later I saw the movie. The theme song is as mesmerizing as the desert itself, and the CD and DVD that I later bought never fail to transport me back to that one hot late afternoon and a time of both overwhelming sadness yet great freedom.
I'm personally not really into that kind of music. I am far more into contemporary Christian music (Christian rock, Christian hip-hop/rap, Christian pop) and hip-hop/rap (and also a bit of electronic, techno, and progressive house music).
Yes, Newberry Springs actually does seem to be pretty darn nice. I actually began to research on that town, and also Yermo and Daggett, which are nearby, over a year ago (via images, Street View, etc.). I am honestly quite interested in all of them.
I was recently thinking that if I do relocate out to that area (or, Needles, Baker, California City, Ridgecrest, etc.) someday, I will have to get myself an ATV to own, so that way, I can go about exploring all over vast miles and miles and MILES of open desert scattered with shrubbery and scrubland (with a little bit of trees)!
In addition, I could probably sit and watch all of the freight trains going through back and forth all day if I would want to!
So, for these reasons (and my other bits of criteria, as well), these areas are at the very top of my list for that kind of relocation in the distant future.
On occasion I’m still flooded by the same feeling.
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Originally Posted by pikabike
a time of both overwhelming sadness yet great freedom.
Beautifully said.
I know that feeling. It’s rare and bittersweet.
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Wickenburgis nice, but...
