[/quote] biggest problem in this area, is the 1970's recession never left. There are just no jobs for the young people, so they have to leave. A lot come back to retire, but the community is getting older and older, and losing a lot of it's vitality. Taxes in Wisconsin are very high, and that doesn't help either. We have a Republican legislature and a Republican governor, but they aren't doing anything significant about taxes. But it is beautiful. A lot of clean water, nice hills, and a lot of forest. My Avatar is usually an Eagle because we have a nesting pair 200 feet from our house in a 140 foot white pine. It would be hard to move except in January to April.[/quote]
As the depression was,I do`nt think this area ever did leave the depression,like You stated, there are no jobs here,well, until recently when eastern North Dakota discovered horizontal drilling.
Now there are jobs to the east of us and the boom is moving this direction, so I better be out in the hills and plains as much as possible because when it comes everything will be shut down to permission only or absolutely no trespassing.The jobs will be here though. :cowboy:
On the Eagles, a very funny story.
My youngest Boychild was here from Alaska,He wanted to setline some catfish to take back with Him for a fishfry with some of His friends.
We had set our lines in one location and He wanted to hit this sandbar just about under the Yellowstone river bridge, on the uphill side across from town.
We were walking down the steep grade under the bridge and soon He exclaims,"Dadgummit dad, someones throwing whole catfish away, here`s a skeleton of one".Well He makes a few more steps and another exclamation about heres another one,he is slightly suset about this, afew steps further and another catfish skeleton, well by now He is fuming about them wastefull people dumping their fish like that and something about if they are to lazy to clean them then they should just saty home, I`m a saying He was quite pizzled and internally I`m like busting a gut whe nthere`s another skeleton He sets of in real anger about it now.I await until he kind of slows down and I mention something to the affect about maby it could be Eagles catching and scattering them carcasses about like that, You should have seen the expression on His face, like the wind had just abruptly left His sails, OH Dad, I think You might be right about that. for once in My life, Dad was right. :cowboy: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:
foxhunter wrote: I live on a farm in southern Illinois. nearest neighbor is a half mile away. It takes 10 min to drive the 7 miles to work. This is the foothills of the ozarks where flat farmland meets rolling hills and the hunting and fishing is great. 4 pleasant seasons. Far enough south that the ponds only get frozen hard enough to skate on about every third year.
The taxes and politics suck thanks to Chicago though, and if I had it to do over again I would have settled in West Tennessee
I have been over in that territory a couple of times, just passing through to get to Tennessee where I have a cousin that lives west of Clarksville.
My other cousin that does tree work was traveling with Me, He lives in Marquette Nebraska, He and I went for a drive so He could try and find some tree work.
We left Mitch and Debs house and headed westwards, kind of drifted around, the hills kept getting bigger, pretty soon We were climbing in elevation, after traveling along like this for about an hour or so, I started hearing banjo music. :ohmy: :rotfl:
Well, it was real pretty country, an area that I think I could move too, far enough into the woods to recluse and close enough to a bigger city where parts and supplies are redily available. :cowboy:
Just like all things in life that sucks, you can get used to it.
