dirtclod Az.
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California is great. I'd concentrate there...
I would look at jobs, housing, activities, community in various areas.
wllm1313 that not even remotely funny....Ha!,Ha!
Trying to figure out the proper approach to moving out west
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wllm1313 that not even remotely funny....Ha!,Ha!
shootbrownelk
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Colorado, the Front range. You can't beat it. Largest elk herd in the rocky mountain states, and easy to draw tags.
C17loadclear
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We used city-data.com to help narrow down the part of the country to live in and then made trips to get a feel.
Sounds easy but it has been a 2 year project...
Sounds easy but it has been a 2 year project...
ChrisC
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That's very true. My hope is that we will be able to narrow the places down to just a few and do longer vacations. My wife and I are hoping to check these spots out without the kids (4 and 1 ) so we can maximize the time exploring. I'm not sure we can get away with very long vacations to explore the places, but if we are able to narrow the locations down to two or three it may be doable.
ChrisC
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Being from New England, I don't expect the cold weather to be as much of a shock as it would be for people coming from other parts of the country. I've travelled to Wyoming and remember the constant wind being something I wasn't used to.
ChrisC
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Thats for the suggestion, i haven't gone to that site yet. Our expectation is to be out west within 5 years. It's a big decision and we want to have time to do our due diligence.We used city-data.com to help narrow down the part of the country to live in and then made trips to get a feel.
Sounds easy but it has been a 2 year project...
geetar
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Is Bozeman too popular of a destination for yuppies of late or something? Seems to always be jokes surrounding Bozeman as a bad place to live lately but I have limited experience there.
Duck-Slayer
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Idaho is full lol 
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antlerradar
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Sheridan, WY
LopeHunter
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I've been scanning the popular "moving out west" threads, as my wife and I are strongly considering a move. I'm not asking the "what state" question since I don't have any specific requirements at this point to help guide an answer. What I would like to know, if possible, is if anyone has any opinions/experience with the process of trying to find a place.
At this point, our approach is to find a few places across the western states that seem interesting and take separate long weekend trips to each place to get a feel for it. Our hope is to find a place that feels right and rent, rather than buy, a house for a year to make sure it's right before we commit to buying a house.
Any problems with this approach, suggestions, etc.?
As it relates to moving, I can't help but think there is a real strong interest in the HuntTalk community for folks looking to move to Massachusetts - happy to help!
Renting is a great strategy. I moved West from the Midwest because of a job transfer opportunity in Los Angeles and did no hunting in the West until moved to NW a few years later. I like the West Coast and the desert SW more than the Midwest.
I could like in multiple cities in about 5 of the Western states and be happy. I am older now but when still driving upwards in my career I wanted multiple potential employers of my skill set in my city, a large airport within an hour drive where could fly non-stop in the West and with one stop to the major cities back East and overseas. I now look for specialist docs and quality medical facilities but that was not on my radar until hit 50.
Is easier to find a great job when have a good job. Not as easy if jobless as hunt.
When my wife and I were ready to move from L.A. we got a paper map of the USA and four colors of highlighters. We each had a color for "would move to" and a color for "would not move to" and if about 15 minutes we narrowed the entire USA down to about 12 metro regions. We then each ranked those metros and began job-hunting. We had been to most of the metros in the prior two years as were both in hi-tech sales and traveled a lot thus the need to be near an airport.
We did a similar process with a map of the USA to pick where to buy our retirement home. We may spend the first few years of retirement in Spain on the Mediterranean coast or in San Miguel in MX. A few years before have to decide.
Most of my hunts are out-of-state and I rarely fish so I was less concerned with what a particular metro offered for hunting and fishing as long as could drive to the states I wanted to hunt in one long day or one day plus a few hours of driving on the second day. If you plan on a lot of out-of-state hunts then Colorado is easy access to just about all the states in the West and as a resident you have a decent shot to draw one or more tags for sheep, goat or moose if you apply for 25 years or so.
Good luck.
I think Idaho is full, though.
geetar
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Gotcha! They can’t leave well enough alone and let it be what it is and soon no one even recognizes the place and they move on to do their destruction in the name of progress somewhere else. The same thing happens here in NC. New York bankers get a job transfer to Charlotte area and move out into the country 30 minutes outside of the city and fall in love with the place and next you thing you know they are trying to make it just like New York with their liberal politics and yuppie ideas and yea I don’t recognize the area I grew up in anymore.
rideold
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I'd browse the news and travel literature and mark off the list every city that gets mentioned by Outside Magazine, USA Today, AAA, Etc. !!!
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It's not so much the temp as the length of the winter, NE winters are super short by comparison. I grew up in Eagle, CO and went to school in Vermont, I was blown away by the fact that you could mt. bike well into December and that pretty much all the snow was gone by mid march. Nor'easters are no joke but it's another thing entirely when all the ski resorts close, but there is still so much snow that you aren't going to be able to hike/ bike for 4 months... lots of trails in the CO high country have just started to open up for the summer. If you pick a town up in the mt be prepared that you could have snowy weather from Oct - June.
Obviously it depends on where you are in the Rockies, but this is June 24th... even in Denver we are still having to dig our cars out occasionally in May.
LuketheDog
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Omaha, I hear they have good steaks...
ChrisC
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so it seems like the good-sounding states are full, any research i find on the internet saying certain towns should be considered should, in fact, not be considered, and when I do chose a place I will like it too much and eventually ruin it for myself and everyone else.
3855WIN
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Narrow the list by cities where you can find work. Then narrow it down to cities that have good schools. Leave now before the kids start school. It’ll be much easier.
What type work do you do?
What type work do you do?
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ChrisC
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I have a business degree but the job I have since graduating - almost 10 years - has had me learn CAD, sales, in-house software design, and product design (industrial instrumentation)...small company wearing a lot of hats. not sure what catchall term would be appropriate.
3855WIN
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Call Weatherby in Sheridan today and see what they have for you. If that works, the rest will fall into place.
ChrisC
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Thanks for the suggestion. I'll do some looking into the Sheridan area.
