What do you like about where you live?

Dallas--you know, home of the Cowboys....give a ring if you can while you're here!
@steve white
You don't seriously consider the Dull ARSE Cowboys a team do you. That's like saying the 243 is a good cartridge. Both fairy tales.
Now the GREEN BAY PACKERS that's a real team.
Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha Ha
Bob
 
So it was YOU that started the invasion of Californians in the early to mid 90s!?! :V Make My Day: Yanno you left the gate open behind you!!! :S Rant: Seemed like every other vehicle we saw had CA plates on it in those days as Colorado Springs became the new Silicone Valley.
Colorado is the 8th state I've lived in, and the 1st I got to choose to live in (Dad was a Marine pilot). Still like living here, although I'd rather a return to the politics 20+ years ago instead of the BS being shoved on us by the flake in the Governor's seat leading the dark blue House & Senate.
Only real complaint is that it's getting too crowded for my tastes, even out here on the prairie. When I arrived 42+ years ago, once the ridge east of the Springs was crested, it was a black void at night. Just a handful of sodium lights dotting the landscape. Now, it looks like a city. Fortunately, my house backs up to a large sandcreek, with state trust land and a sod farm to the east, so I can shoot in the backyard and not see the crowding in of homes. Good chance I'll be putting the house on the market if/when a big box store lands in Ellicott, and look to buy towards the eastern border or even in west Kansas. Bonus is that will put me closer to my son and his family who already call western KS home.
Hard to beat the access to hunting here, and the view of Pikes Peak with a fresh skiff of snow on her. That view never got old driving to work in the morning. 300+ days of sunshine coupled with typically mild weather (short episodes of extreme cold in the winter, short sessions of extreme heat). Usually we have all 4 seasons; sometimes in the same day! lol
Ha! Ha! When I moved here in ‘89, there was almost NOBODY from anywhere moving here. There were NO jobs and for a time, it was the foreclosure capital of the country due to the ‘87 Savings and Loan implosion. It seemed that every other home in many parts of the city/county were vacant and foreclosed on. I took a 50 percent pay cut to move here. It was worth it to me because I was able to hunt elk, deer and pronghorn. But now, it’s become California West to a certain degree, although not even close to the toilet Denver has become. It is what it is and has become.
 
Is Texas ready for “The Bob” ?
 
I grew up in upstate South Carolina, Greenville specifically. It would be a great place to retire. Decent weather and reasonably good health care. Lots of public land for hunting and not too expensive clubs for private land.

I have a vacation home in St Michaels in the Eastern Shore of Chesapeake Bay. Good hunting for waterfowl deer and turkey. Lots of retirees in town but healthcare is limited except that Johns Hopkins is about 90 minutes away. Town is about half retirees and half weekenders. Retirees are from all over. My neighbors are from San Jose, Greenwich Connecticut and New York City.
 
I live by the sea in southern Norway.. We enjoy pretty nice summers with boating and a nice archipelago outside..

I also enjoy being at our mountain cabin..good grouse hunting in the fall, trekking, skiing in winter..

The cabin..

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Hunting grouse over standing setters with friends.

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Reza Call me any time you want to talk about Elephant. hunting and CMS.
I've hunted two Elephant with CMS.
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Gents here are my final itinerary for the USA Marketing trip 2025!

Itinerary 2025
12-02 Lexington South Carolina

13-02 Huntsville, Alabama

14-02 Pigott, Arkansas

15-02 Pigott, Arkansas

17-02 Richmond Texas

18-02 Sapulpa Oklahoma

19-02 Ava Missouri

20-02 Maxwell, Iowa

22-02 Montrose Colorado

24-02 Salmon Idaho
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