I've been looking to get out of jersey for a while now, and was wondering what your thoughts were on locations in the south west. Arizona/nevada/new mexico. Any one know any nice areas not too far from a decent size city(I still want enought space to play with my jeep in my backyard though)?
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The four wheeling center of the universe (Farmington/Aztec, NM) is a wheelers dream. Surrounded by BLM land, currently all open designation of over a million acres. Where I live in Aztec, I leave my house and can go wheeling, I live adjacent to BLM land. There are plenty of other places in the west, a lot of them are way expensive, not too bad here yet. Elevation is about 5500 ft. or so.
Brad
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Vice-Pres. Rock Garden 4 Wheelers, Farmington, NM
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Brad
ORC Land Use Section Editor
http://www.off-road.com/land
Vice-Pres. Rock Garden 4 Wheelers, Farmington, NM
http://rockgarden.rockcrawler.com
Cost of living is the main reason for me to leave. Auto insurance, rent, property tax are all incredibly high around here. While I know everyone compains about the cost of living, I can statisticly prove that I live in the most expensive county in the third most expensive state in the country.
Throw in the over developement and steadily rising population and the whole area is turning to SH!T. I'm hoping to get out in the next two years(hopefully sooner).
Throw in the over developement and steadily rising population and the whole area is turning to SH!T. I'm hoping to get out in the next two years(hopefully sooner).
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My folks and both brothers still live in Bergen County. I went to school in SC and stayed. Best choice I ever made other than buying a Jeep. (Oh yea-and getting married to the wife!)
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I know what my folks pay in property taxes. I pay $1100 for a $186,000 house and get GREAT SCHOOLS and city services. I grew up in Fair Lawn. Thanks for the answer to my question this past weekend, by the way.
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Jimmy, I live outside of boston, and I too am getting fed up with the soaring cost of housing here. A new 3 bedroom 1 1/2 bathroom house(1800 sq ft) of mediocre build quality, set on about a 1/3 acre of land goes for about 300,000 in a not so great neighboorhood, and 400,000 in a good neighboorhood. I'm disgusted at the fact that I can't afford to buy a house around here and I make a good living. Something just doesn't seem right, I pay TONS of taxes, am a law abiding citzen, go to work everyday, pay my bills, and still can't afford a house. And to Top it off, now the goverment has the right to arrest and jail me for J walking. What the hell is going on here?
$750 a month for a 1 bedroom apartment, and that's renting from family. I pay over $2500 a year for liability insurance on my car and I wouldn't even think of trying to buy a house around here. $3-400k for a house on a 100x100 lot. I've been looking at houses around arizona and am just waiting till I can pull some money from my 401k plan. But I want to find something with atleast 2 acres, prefferably Almost in the middle of no where.
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No room left out west, we're full!/wwwthreads_images/icons/wink.gif
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I live in Flagstaff, AZ. It's about 7000 ft up in the pines in northern AZ. The cost of living is high here, too. We just bought a manufactured home for $115K. It's 1500 sq-ft with a big garage. Jobs are a little tough to come by, as there's not much industry besides tourism. But, it was just voted having one of the cleanest airs in the country.
There are towns near here that aren't so expensive. Phoenix is booming, and has GREAT wheeling nearby.
I left Michigan because I got tired of the constant cloudiness. No problems with that here!
'86 CJ-7, 360, TFI, 727, OEM Dana 44 rear w/Truetrac, Dana 30 w/Powertrax No-Slip, 4" Superlift, 4:11s, Warn HS9500i
There are towns near here that aren't so expensive. Phoenix is booming, and has GREAT wheeling nearby.
I left Michigan because I got tired of the constant cloudiness. No problems with that here!
'86 CJ-7, 360, TFI, 727, OEM Dana 44 rear w/Truetrac, Dana 30 w/Powertrax No-Slip, 4" Superlift, 4:11s, Warn HS9500i
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Jimmy this is going to depend an awefull lot on just where you want to move Prescott Arizona is beauty full stuff goes on in the town square like you would see in the movies real family town with good four wheeling around it draw backs are high prices for houses and land because the town is surrounded by indian reservation and national forest.
Farmington as mentioned great four wheeling.
Albuquerque N.M. pretty good wheeling fairly low prices for housing draw back is low paying jobs very bad traffic management and for a city of it's size nothing to do.
Many small towns in Texas have very cheap housing, plus no state income taxes,problem is finding employment. I lived in Big Spring Texas for a while I loved it my wife hated it.
Las Vegas Nevada good four wheeling excelent job opportunities housing in all price levels, no state income taxes, always some thing to do 24 hours a day.
Hope this helps out at least a little.
Farmington as mentioned great four wheeling.
Albuquerque N.M. pretty good wheeling fairly low prices for housing draw back is low paying jobs very bad traffic management and for a city of it's size nothing to do.
Many small towns in Texas have very cheap housing, plus no state income taxes,problem is finding employment. I lived in Big Spring Texas for a while I loved it my wife hated it.
Las Vegas Nevada good four wheeling excelent job opportunities housing in all price levels, no state income taxes, always some thing to do 24 hours a day.
Hope this helps out at least a little.
G
One thing about Albuquerque, it probably has more gang bangers per capita than anywhere in the US, crime is terrible.
Brad
ORC Land Use Section Editor
http://www.off-road.com/land
Vice-Pres. Rock Garden 4 Wheelers, Farmington, NM
http://rockgarden.rockcrawler.com
Brad
ORC Land Use Section Editor
http://www.off-road.com/land
Vice-Pres. Rock Garden 4 Wheelers, Farmington, NM
http://rockgarden.rockcrawler.com
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What cjjeepercreeper says is absolutely right,there was an article on AOL yesterday that picked New Mexico as the second worse state to live in an it refered to the high crime as the biggest problem. I can also atest to this from first hand information because I used to be a corrections office in the Albuquerque, Bernalio county Detension Center.
As Brad mentioned, the Farmington/Aztec area is a great place to live.
We are fairly isolated here at the base of the Rockies from the big city crime scene and it has always been a peaceful community area with temerate weather, reasonable taxes and tremendous recreation areas.
It rarely gets above 100* and rarely below 0* in winter.
We need only swamp coolers in the summer and we are in the middle of a huge natural gas drilling area so heating is also inexpensive.
Durango is 45 minutes north with mountians to camp and clime in plus skiing in the winter. We have a big lake 'Navajo' with bass and salmon and a blue ribbon trout steam at this dam's tailwaters plus more fishing just north in Colorado.
Lake Powell is just a few hours drive west.
I was born here and will die here. I've only been to CA once, just to see what the ocean and smog looked like.
Here's a view of the infamous crawling area Chokecherry Canyon - viewed from my deck at home .... it just doesn't get much better than this .... /wwwthreads_images/icons/smile.gif
Colorado and Utah are in the horizon in the pic.
The corners of AZ, UT and CO states are all within an hours driving from here ... that's why it's called "4-Corners" We're at the big X on the map.
And X marks the spot as far as I'm concerned /wwwthreads_images/icons/smile.gif
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We are fairly isolated here at the base of the Rockies from the big city crime scene and it has always been a peaceful community area with temerate weather, reasonable taxes and tremendous recreation areas.
It rarely gets above 100* and rarely below 0* in winter.
We need only swamp coolers in the summer and we are in the middle of a huge natural gas drilling area so heating is also inexpensive.
Durango is 45 minutes north with mountians to camp and clime in plus skiing in the winter. We have a big lake 'Navajo' with bass and salmon and a blue ribbon trout steam at this dam's tailwaters plus more fishing just north in Colorado.
Lake Powell is just a few hours drive west.
I was born here and will die here. I've only been to CA once, just to see what the ocean and smog looked like.
Here's a view of the infamous crawling area Chokecherry Canyon - viewed from my deck at home .... it just doesn't get much better than this .... /wwwthreads_images/icons/smile.gif
Colorado and Utah are in the horizon in the pic.
The corners of AZ, UT and CO states are all within an hours driving from here ... that's why it's called "4-Corners" We're at the big X on the map.
And X marks the spot as far as I'm concerned /wwwthreads_images/icons/smile.gif
JAF
http://www.monsterslayer.com/jeep
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Jimmy, I hope you know I am kidding about the full bit. Come on out, just don't tell any non-off road enthusiast types about how great it is./wwwthreads_images/icons/cool.gif
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Jeepfiend
All my Jeeps are in pieces!
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All my Jeeps are in pieces!
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