Any die hard hunters on here ever have to move from prime hunting areas to less desirable areas?

[NorthIdahoDude]

Thanks for taking the time with a detailed response like that! I haven’t lived in the east kootneys before but every day I check the weather for years and they are always significantly warmer than up here and more sunshine which helps a lot.

I am glad to see that gaining citizenship is hard in the states in a way. Canada you can just show up and get everything handed to you now. Hence why the country is collapsing.

Also seems like the healthcare is manageable if you have health insurance


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Happy to share what I know.

The EK definitely gets a lot of sunshine, compared to the surrounding area. Grand Forks does as well.

To be clear, I wasn't talking about citizenship, I was just talking about legal immigration (getting a green card, which is roughly the same thing is getting your permanent resident card in Canada). After living here as a legal resident for about 10 years my wife went ahead and got her citizenship, and that part was pretty easy, fill out some paperwork, wait about 9 months for it to get processed, then go get sworn in, and that was done.

And yes, health insurance is very manageable. Definitely not as big a deal as some people are making it out to be. I mean, it certainly can be a huge deal depending on the situation (ie: if you have to go buy your own on an individual plan), but employer funded health insurance where you can pay a bit extra to get your whole family covered is super common down here, to the point of being pretty much a universal benefit for any professional job. And my wife and I both have non-trivial chronic medical conditions we live with (epilepsy and autoimmune disease, respectively), so I have a ton of in-depth experience in dealing with the system down here (and up there as well). Both systems have their upsides and downsides, but in my view it all roughly comes out in the wash. Medical problems are just a b**** on both sides of the border.

 

[Blowdowner]

I know nearly nothing about Western Canada. But was thinking something like Utah for example with much milder winters.

I live in MN and we have lots of hunting but not the type that would appeal to someone used to Western mountain hunting.

Actually MN would be great. OP you need to start asking yourself "where can i turn my kids into hunters easiest"

 

[Kurts86]

For a 15 years I left all the hunting opportunities I knew to chase professional career growth. It was not easy for the first few years seeing people you knew at home have a lot more hunting opportunity. Even if you move to a new area with comparable opportunities you will set yourself back years relearning a new area and you loose the connections to knowledgeable people and land access. For a while you lie to yourself, take trips back home like you never left but at some point you have to find a new focus.

I have a way different outlook on hunting having moved around a bunch but it’s tiring and time intensive. A lot of really successful hunters know one area really well and never really left. Some really top level guys become better because they are exposed to diverse environments and experiences.

 

[Speaks]

Actually MN would be great. OP you need to start asking yourself "where can i turn my kids into hunters easiest"

Yea its overall great for outdoor activities. With my job I can really live anywhere as long as I have access to a major airport with a reasonable number of direct flights.

In MN I can live in a rural area and still be an hour from a hub airport. I have 3 boat launches within a 3 mile radius of my house and dozens within a 10 mile radius. I have a couple hundred acres of public land half a mile away, a 300 and a 2600 acre chunk about 3 miles away, and another 12k acre chunk with accesses as close as 7-8 miles and as far as over 20. Lots and lots of other ones as well (and this is just the ones open to hunting). Drive 90 minutes north or east and there is more or less endless county land open to hunting.

There is more good grouse hunting than I know what to do with. Going north or east for deer is generally woods hunting which I do but it not my favorite style but there are options going the other direction for more open country. I mostly hunt, fish, and recreate in NE MN and NW WI but the Dakotas are really not that far either.

I wouldnt mind some mountains, but its overall a pretty sweet set up here.

 

[NRA4LIFE]

I moved from MO (fantastic deer hunting on our land) to WA (suckass hunting in general on public land). I now travel back to our land in MO every year to hunt and it makes me happy.