well, not Texas, but…somewhere else. Somewhere secluded, self-sufficient, and defensible….
Well, not yet for me, anyway. I’m still working on my ten-year plan to get out of Kalifornia (or at least, have someplace outside Kali to go to if SHTF). Phil, on the other hand, has been making noises about movin’ towards Sandpoint, I-de-ho.
Well, lo & behold, a majority of the properties for sale on Jim Rawles’ new Survival Realty site are in or around Sandpoint. And this is a pretty cool survivalist-minded real estate site — with, among other things, a retreat analysis for each property, and lots of the right kind of pictures to evaluate the place from a survival perspective. You won’t find that, sad to say, on eaglestarlands or the multitude of other acreage-on-the-net sites I’ve been surfing since 2000 or thereabouts. (Now if wallowamountainproperties would adopt this approach, I’d be in heaven….)
In other Rawles stuff, I should point out that I just noticed he’d updated his screenplay for Patriots a couple months back. Looks like some significant (and needed) edits from the last time I read it several years ago. Check it out. In some ways, the old screenplay was a better read than Patriots itself. This updated version is better still.
Having been to Idaho, I’m not certain I would want to do the winters there.
And while we are on the subject, I’ve always thought that the way to go about this sort of endevor would be for a group of like minded folks get together and set up an “investment” corporation. Said corporation would be used to purchase a suitably large enough piece of property that all of the corporate investors could build on.
EMDFL, I don’t know about the idea you are proposing. That “compound” would be too tempting to the Feds to pester and/or raid at their convenience. Much better, if you like the area, to have many residents on many properties, with good (non-commercial) communications.
Remember what happened to Hayden Lake when the white supremacists put up a compound there. Attracted all sorts of unwanted attention, and it wasn’t even necessary, the area’s lily-white.
Other than that, I like the idea of the ID panhandle. The winters are cold, but not all that bad. Probably less than 10 nights a year below zero where my retired buddy has his place in the Coeur d’Alene valley. Ditto with snow: he is at 1500 feet MSL, and has only had enough snow for snowmobiles once out of three years.
The climate passes, IMHO, and so does the politics of the state.
That National Forest next door means immediate access to good off-road dirtbikin’! A man can go far with a KTM EXC-model, a rifle, and a tank of gas…
I wasn’t thinking “compound” more like a “gated community”, heh, with a shooting range and storage facilities
Damn, I forgot again. Years ago a friend who lived in that area semi-jokingly said that there were probably more .50BMG and 20mm guns up there than the US military had.
It is actually pretty easy to get out of CA – you just have to make up your mind.
I left in 1984 to a chorus of people who told me I would be back (I have visited the wine country from time to time….) You couldn’t pay me to live in that state.
Your choices are not limited to Idaho and Kalifornia. There are plenty of states with warm weather, good economies, and cheaper real estate than you can find in most cities in your state. And states that believe freedom is more important than political correctness.