If you could move anywhere?

[spike camp]

Didn’t read all 12 pages, but the man can move anywhere, and Colorado Springs is suggested??!

 

[bradmacmt]

What I'm hearing, not what I'm seeing and his words not mine. This is a guy who's lived his entire life in MT so take that with a grain of salt.

I've been here for over 30 years (ok, been a landowner here for 31 years, only lived here 26 years). Raised my kids here K-12, both are MSU grads. My parents lived here in the 40's and 50's. Yeah, it's not what it was in the 1950's, but nothing in America is. In fact, nothing in America is what it was in the 1970's and 80's, or even 90's. But the guy you quoted just hasn't lived anywhere else, so while I get you were reporting second hand information, I'd take what he says with a bag of salt in each hand.

Aside, I wonder what the OP ever did, if anything?

 

[Blandry]

I've been here for over 30 years (ok, been a landowner here for 31 years, only lived here 26 years). Raised my kids here K-12, both are MSU grads. My parents lived here in the 40's and 50's. Yeah, it's not what it was in the 1950's, but nothing in America is. In fact, nothing in America is what it was in the 1970's and 80's, or even 90's. But the guy you quoted just hasn't lived anywhere else, so while I get you were reporting second hand information, I'd take what he says with a bag of salt in each hand.

Aside, I wonder what the OP ever did, if anything?

I don't know but he's lived in MT for over 30 years (at least) https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-holmes-4b44209a/

Most of our guys have extensive previous experience in state patrol or local LEO in their respective states so they know things that might get past the general public who have their heads in the sand.

 

[tkhuntsman]

My family and I relocated to MT from CO about 6 years ago just before the real estate and COVID explosion. I can say I wish we were in the northwest part of the state instead of the central part. It's financially out of reach for us to move again now though maybe my wife and I can retire further north in another 10 years. If I had a recommendation for this state it would be Columbia Falls or Libby. Avoid CO like the plague I was born and raised there and it's such a joke for an outdoorsman. Fun to visit friends and family but not the home I left.

 

[Hnthrdr]

Wonder if the Op made the plunge and where his family landed? Also if he is glad he made the switch, sometimes the grass isn’t always greener… but I guess if you live in Ohio just about everywhere is greener haha just wish more folks that were good with me living my life and them living theirs moved to Co… all we get is idiots who want to remake their crap states in Co

 

[Stalker69]

I would love to move to Texas but I would have to own a large place to hunt. And I can’t afford that, so it won’t ever happen.

 

[bradmacmt]

I don't know but he's lived in MT for over 30 years (at least) https://www.linkedin.com/in/bruce-holmes-4b44209a/

Most of our guys have extensive previous experience in state patrol or local LEO in their respective states so they know things that might get past the general public who have their heads in the sand.

Whatever. Law enforcement always sees the darkest side of life, and in their world the sky is always falling. Promise you that guy hasn't lived much outside Montana. You want drugs? You should have seen NYC in the 1970's. This is nothing by contrast, and I promise you Colorado has infinitely more drugs than Montana. But please, stay where you are. Montana is a "shit-show everywhere."

 

[Hnthrdr]

Whatever. Law enforcement always sees the darkest side of life, and in their world the sky is always falling. Promise you that guy hasn't lived much outside Montana. You want drugs? You should have seen NYC in the 1970's. This is nothing by contrast, and I promise you Colorado has infinitely more drugs than Montana. But please, stay where you are. Montana is a "shit-show everywhere."

1st responders do see the worst of it but often probably have a more keen sense of what is happening out in the public in certain areas work in a place where homes are in the million dollar range on one side of the street, other side has gangs, crack, meth, fent like you wouldn’t believe, crime spills over occasionally, most guys I work with live far far away from our station, we wouldn’t want our families anywhere near what goes on there, but ignorance is bliss right? This is in Co also, but like it has been states far worse than when I was born here but also double the population…

 

[TrailDog]

If I had a recommendation for this state it would be Columbia Falls or Libby.

Columbia Falls pride! Woot woot. Been here for 15 years, bought land at $9k an acre, which even then was expensive...now I'm a millionare! Seen a lot of change in the past five years, some good and most of it pretty shitty. But still, wouldn't move for the world. Best access to some of the hardest, worst hunting in the lower 48!

 

[MattB]

That's pretty funny. Everywhere in the USA has drugs, crime and the homeless, and I'd take those things here over most anywhere else. "A "shit-show everywhere"... give me a break.

Yeah, it is funny how people in low-crime places react to an increase in crime. They should go hang out in San Francisco for a weekend and would feel pretty good about where they live.

 

[LVaughn]

Hell, come to Colorado as long as you promise to vote right. We need all the help we can get.

Yes, Colorado needs your family

 

[Blandry]

I would love to move to Texas but I would have to own a large place to hunt. And I can’t afford that, so it won’t ever happen.

You could always pay $10k year to hunt on a ranch/windfarm like I used to. I went from 1000 acres for $2500/year to landowners asking $10k/year for 200 acres. That's when I packed up and left. I was tired of the heat anyway but my freezer was always full of venison, duck, and grouse not to mention reds, specked trout and all other saltwater fish. The sheer amount of game in south TX is something to behold.. or was.

 

[Stalker69]

You could always pay $10k year to hunt on a ranch/windfarm like I used to. I went from 1000 acres for $2500/year to landowners asking $10k/year for 200 acres. That's when I packed up and left. I was tired of the heat anyway but my freezer was always full of venison, duck, and grouse not to mention reds, specked trout and all other saltwater fish. The sheer amount of game in south TX is something to behold.. or was.

Oh I know, we hunt pigs down there every year, and it’s been “ affordable”, but now it’s getting more popular and the cost is getting to where we can’t do it either. It sucks, eventually only the very wealthiest will be able to afford to hunt.

 

[Wyo_hntr]

You could always pay $10k year to hunt on a ranch/windfarm like I used to. I went from 1000 acres for $2500/year to landowners asking $10k/year for 200 acres. That's when I packed up and left. I was tired of the heat anyway but my freezer was always full of venison, duck, and grouse not to mention reds, specked trout and all other saltwater fish. The sheer amount of game in south TX is something to behold.. or was.

Grouse? Que?

 

[D_Dubya]

Grouse? Que?

Maybe he means quail? Tons of them down here…but in 45 years here I’ve never seen a grouse

 

[Maverick1]

OP hasn’t been seen since August 2022…..

 

[bradyhunt]

You could always pay $10k year to hunt on a ranch/windfarm like I used to. I went from 1000 acres for $2500/year to landowners asking $10k/year for 200 acres. That's when I packed up and left. I was tired of the heat anyway but my freezer was always full of venison, duck, and grouse not to mention reds, specked trout and all other saltwater fish. The sheer amount of game in south TX is something to behold.. or was.

What grouse in TX?

 

[thegrouse]

What grouse in TX?

I am curious also

 

[Wyo_hntr]

Maybe he means quail? Tons of them down here…but in 45 years here I’ve never seen a grouse

The only other option would be either woodcock or chacalaca

 

[Pony Soldier]

How about an alternate thread on where you wouldn't move to and why?