What is a good choice for a winter home

[woodman]

I have reached the point where I no longer wish to spend my winters in the North. I have been looking for property in the south but it is a big decision and one that I can't lightly jump into. I figured I could get some feedback from you guys. Maybe some of you have a winter get-away already or have been thinking about it.

I have considered Florida but it just seems so populous and commercialized. I would rather be somewhere where I can hike and climb hills and be alone when I want. I have also considered getting some type of RV and using it as a mobile unit to stay in, thus setting up wherever I see fit.

I have thought about the Southwest and even Mexico. Thoughts on this?

[cheka.]

the west half of tx has some decent choices. the bottom cone is all mexicsan. the eastern half has many africans

[midnight rambler]

Big Bend National Park can provide you with the hiking, hill climbing and solitude you see, and plenty of it. Suggest whatever you do go with a nice RV. An unattended place is subject to being wrecked by two-legged varmints. There's also Arkansas but how do you avoid the meth infested areas (that applies to a lot of remote locations these days I gather)?

You could also buy a piece of dirt and just put enough improvements on it to support parking your RV. A lot of snowbirds do that. Perhaps you can find an already improved RV lot some snowbird has already set up and now they’re ready to unload it saving you all that work (I’ve often seen those listed for sale).

Go to Meheco only if you've a death wish. Seriously.

[ziero0]

If you settle anywhere in the south likely Mexico will come to you.

[hoarder]

I used to own a section of land adjacent to Big Bend NP for recreational and investment purposes. True about too many Mexicans. North of there around Marfa etc is nicer, but remember in Texas you have to own land to go hiking unless you are near public land which is usually not the case. Also, the Permian is booming so you won't get any bang for your buck around there.
If I were to escape Montana winters I'd think about Northern Arizona. Maybe Flagstaff area or somewhere in those mountains. Lots of National Forest (which is much better than National Parks).

[hoarder]

You could also buy a piece of dirt and just put enough improvements on it to support parking your RV. A lot of snowbirds do that.This is a good idea. Instead of paying an RV park $40 a day buy it and sell it when you're tired of it. I know people who do that.

[Jewboo]

Perhaps you can find an already improved RV lot some snowbird has already set up and now they’re ready to unload it saving you all that work (I’ve often seen those listed for sale).





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:rolleyes: Study the linked photos to see just how unrealistic you naive goys are...this is 2019.

[woodman]

Thanks for the replies. I have been thinking Southwest USA. Somewhere where the sky is big and the sun shines in the winter. I have found Arizona to be a magical place. There is so much I have not seen. It would take a lifetime just to explore one state thoroughly.

Jewboo, those young ladies actually look pretty good. I don't see a bunch of fucked up tattoos on them.


The meth epidemic has hit as far and wide as the opiates. They are everywhere.

[Tumbleweed]

When I was driving around the country in an eighteen wheeler the place that looked like the best place to winter would be around Ocala, Florida. Lots of horses, grass, nice scenery and warm temperatures. I'd been in the northwest hauling loads and one of the last I hauled before I was sent south was in a white out blizzard in the Blue Mountains in Oregon. I wouldn't want to be in Florida in the summertime or anywhere else in the south for that matter because of the heat and humidity but Ocala looked good to me in the winter time.

This is a video below on Ocala that still looks good to me but I'm not going anywhere soon. I've learned to dress warm and stay comfortable in the frozen north in the winter and I think it's really the best place for me all things considered. :)






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pceOfuzHnDg

[woodman]

When I was driving around the country in an eighteen wheeler the place that looked like the best place to winter would be around Ocala, Florida. Lots of horses, grass, nice scenery and warm temperatures. I'd been in the northwest hauling loads and one of the last I hauled before I was sent south was in a white out blizzard in the Blue Mountains in Oregon. I wouldn't want to be in Florida in the summertime or anywhere else in the south for that matter because of the heat and humidity but Ocala looked good to me in the winter time.

This is a video below on Ocala that still looks good to me but I'm not going anywhere soon. I've learned to dress warm and stay comfortable in the frozen north in the winter and I think it's really the best place for me all things considered. :)






https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pceOfuzHnDg



Ocala is actually pretty nice. My brother lives there. He was trying to sell me a home in Scramble Town on the edge of the national forest there. It was nice but I don't want any close neighbors. Just one yapping dog would ruin my peace. I don't mind coyotes singing but a whining, yapping dog is grating on my nerves.

[Tumbleweed]

Ocala is actually pretty nice. My brother lives there. He was trying to sell me a home in Scramble Town on the edge of the national forest there. It was nice but I don't want any close neighbors. Just one yapping dog would ruin my peace. I don't mind coyotes singing but a whining, yapping dog is grating on my nerves.


If you got yourself a good set of earplugs it sounds like it would be perfect for you. ;D

I hardly ever hear the dogs bark or the birds sing because my hearing is so bad I don't need ear plugs. :)

[hoarder]

Ocala sounds nice but the demographics....yikes.
http://www.city-data.com/city/Ocala-Florida.html

[Hitch]

Personally, I'd go with a well set up RV with solar, off grid set up. Travel, explore, see the whole southern region, deserts, swamps, all of it. If you can, get a diesel RV for fuel economy, something small to fit into those campsites that have restrictions. If you have an off grid RV, camping saves a lot of money over crowded noisy RV parks.

[Horn]

I always liked either east Tennesee or north border Alabama.

Had a chance to move there once but pay is paultry.

[woodman]

If you got yourself a good set of earplugs it sounds like it would be perfect for you. ;D

I hardly ever hear the dogs bark or the birds sing because my hearing is so bad I don't need ear plugs. :)


My hearing is bad too. Too many years working in factories, foundries and running equipment on job sites. I hear a constant ringing that is very loud; like conversation loud. For some reason, certain sounds are piercing to me. Bass and dog barking seem to go right through my skull. I guess I'm just an old sand burr. I don't think I could handle living in a city anymore.

[Half Sense]

North Florida and the panhandle have some very rural and nearly empty counties. I have a friend in Hernando County in Central FL who loves it. I think it is 90% white. I also know some folks on the Santa Fe River in Gilchrist County, near Ginnie Springs and ichetucknee Springs. A beautiful area and very thinly populated. Dixie County, where the Suwannee River dumps into the Gulf, is also empty.

[hoarder]

North Florida and the panhandle have some very rural and nearly empty counties. I have a friend in Hernando County in Central FL who loves it. I think it is 90% white. I also know some folks on the Santa Fe River in Gilchrist County, near Ginnie Springs and ichetucknee Springs. A beautiful area and very thinly populated. Dixie County, where the Suwannee River dumps into the Gulf, is also empty.78% Hernando County https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/hernandocountyflorida

Gilchrist County 17,600 http://www.city-data.com/county/Gilchrist_County-FL.html
Too bad they don't give the mosquito population. My Uncle had a place in Florida and I remember getting blood surgically removed by "no-see-ums" that flew right through screens. Florida can be a pretty fun place if you're an avid boater and fisherman though. I wouldn't mind spending a couple weeks a year there.
Also it has a very large population of Khazars, which means they run everything political, including law enforcement and courts.
"Today, the Jewish population of Florida is about 750,000. It is the third largest concentration of Jews in the country, and South Florida has the single largest concentration of Jews (13 percent of the total population) outside of Israel." https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/florida-jewish-history

[ziero0]

I don't think I could handle living in a city anymore.

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Road noise is seldom a problem at my winter camp. A10 Warthogs passing 50 ft overhead is another story.

[woodman]

http://oi68.tinypic.com/qywtw2.jpg
Road noise is seldom a problem at my winter camp. A10 Warthogs passing 50 ft overhead is another story.


Looks like a nice place. You go south for the winter then? My folks used to live near an airport in Mississippi. You do get used to the planes overhead. It was not a constant thing. I remember as a kid, there was a train that would go through a couple of miles away in the night. It was a very comforting sound. Planes not so much.

Where is your winter camp? That looks like the Southwest. New Mexico.

[ziero0]

Where is your winter camp? That looks like the Southwest. New Mexico.
Apacheria. The view is of the Chiricahua Mountains in the distance with some foothills north of the Swisshelm mountains. Standing on the Dragoon mountain south of Cochise Stronghold. From the home I have a 60 mile view over 200 degrees of the horizon.

[woodman]

Apacheria. The view is of the Chiricahua Mountains in the distance with some foothills north of the Swisshelm mountains. Standing on the Dragoon mountain south of Cochise Stronghold. From the home I have a 60 mile view over 200 degrees of the horizon.

Sweet!

[ziero0]

Sweet!

The cabin started as a 13 x 13 ft. with a loft. Interior paneling is 2x12 tongue and groove knotty pine. Structural is 3x6". Later it was expanded to include kitchen, full bath and bedroom but they only used 1x8 knotty pine.

[Hitch]

The cabin started as a 13 x 13 ft. with a loft. Interior paneling is 2x12 tongue and groove knotty pine. Structural is 3x6". Later it was expanded to include kitchen, full bath and bedroom but they only used 1x8 knotty pine.

That is awesome. Like the view as well. :) An addiction of mine is www.landwatch.com. On my bucket list one day is to build an off the grid cabin on a nice piece of land.

[ziero0]

On my bucket list one day is to build an off the grid cabin on a nice piece of land.

Lots of raw land for sale around me. The neighbors ran a KOA in Idaho and built a fantastic adobe home on the dome of an extinct volcano to retire on. Mines all around me but none working except perhaps the turquoise ones. The Dragoons must be older than the rockies 'cause the granite is all breaking down into gravel size chunks leaving big hunks of milk quartz (must be more durable than granite). At the summit about half a mile from me Tombstone and Sierra Vista can be seen.