Tell me,do ya prefer living in mountains /flat lands /swamps

madman4570 · Post by **madman4570** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:15 pm

or a dreaded City Slicker

Me, I be a Mountain Man

:lol

m.wun · Post by **m.wun** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:18 pm

Being in Ca. the only good thing here is Im less than 1-2 hrs from any of them but I like
the mountains best.

FWiedner · Post by **FWiedner** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 6:53 pm

I like hills and desert.

RIHMFIRE · Post by **RIHMFIRE** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:07 pm

would like to move to tennessee smokey mountains...
kinda tired of the florida heat

L_Kilkenny · Post by **L_Kilkenny** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:09 pm

Only ever lived in Iowa

but having my druthers I'll take the high desert. If mosquitos out number me (and only me) than I cross it off my list of future homes. SO sick of the little bastards.

LK

JerryB · Post by **JerryB** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:11 pm

I am pretty well settled right here in north Arkansaw, real fine country.

jnyork · Post by **jnyork** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:20 pm

Just about anywhere in Wyoming is fine with me.

Well, almost anywhere, there IS Rock Springs.

hightime · Post by **hightime** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:39 pm

I like living here in the northwoods of Mn. I prefer thousands of acres of woods and swamps with no roads or people. Some good areas also are close with thousands of lakes and granite outcropings topped with huge white pines. I love it here........I sure like to visit the Rocky mountains now and then though.

TravisM · Post by **TravisM** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 7:58 pm

I'd love to move to the mountains.

6pt-sika · Post by **6pt-sika** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:02 pm

I live in the Piedmont region of central Virginia and have almost my entire life !

I also however like the Eastern Shore of Maryland ! Of course thats pretty much because I like hunting Sika Deer there !

I also like parts of Mindanao Island in the Philippines !

So you could say I like rolling hills , marshland and tropical islands !

Terry Murbach · Post by **Terry Murbach** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:13 pm

I LIKE IT RIGHT HERE IN THE HIGH LONESOME. THE ONLY THING BETTER IS TO HEAD FURTHER WEST TO THE HIGHER LONESOME. I DO LIKE THE HIGH PLAINS ALSO WHERE IN MANY PLACES YOU CAN DRIVE AT NIGHT AND NOT SEE A SINGLE LIGHT FOR TWENTY OR THIRTY MINUTES AT A TIME.

kimwcook · Post by **kimwcook** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:15 pm

Lived high desert, plains, mountains and some time on the ocean. I'll take the mountains anyday. But, it depends on the mountains.

LeverBob · Post by **LeverBob** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 8:17 pm

High desert 4500 ft. + & the Sierra Nevada Mtns. Y'all can have the cities. Carson City is too big: 52,000 Pop. Give me G-D's country.

LB

FF1063 · Post by **FF1063** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:06 pm

Born and raised on the Mississippi river, call me a river rat. Lived for years in a boat house (floating shack) until I met my wife and moved to dry land.
The only other area I fell in love with was the high deserts of the west.

Griff · Post by **Griff** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:20 pm

All of the above. As long as I can sit up and take nurishment... I'll take living over the alternative. BTW, the sittin' up part is optional.

AJMD429 · Post by **AJMD429** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:30 pm

If you are on really flat and treeless ground, you might need a hundred acres to get the same degree of visual privacy and noise reduction you'd get from five or ten acres of hilly/wooded ground, so for those who might want to shoot in their back yard, I always advise to look for hilly places, not just for 'backstop' reasons.

765x53 · Post by **765x53** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:39 pm

Here on Missouri's Osage Plains, I live close enough to the Ozarks to get my fill of hills, rocks and brush whenever I want. It takes about a day and a half to get all I can stand and it lasts a little over ten years.
I'm always so happy to get back to prairie, pasture and farm land where trees grow along the river bottoms where they belong.

Post by **Old Savage** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:46 pm

Moved from Iowa to the high desert - no bugs, no humidity, play golf year round.

Only spent one night in the swamps of Louisiana. Won't be headed back there.

Old Time Hunter · Post by **Old Time Hunter** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 9:53 pm

Every place other than big cities have their draws, hard for me to pick one. But it would have to be a place with trees, changes in climate, some natural water, and no people within a gun shot off my back porch.

NW Montana, north of St. Regis might work. The northern reaches of Wisconsin and the UP works for me also..been in some nice spots in Ontario, B.C., Idaho, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, dern too many nice places.

Tycer · Post by **Tycer** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 10:28 pm

The beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains. Every day I thank God for blessing me with this place.

earlmck · Post by **earlmck** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 10:44 pm

I've lived lots of places and most of them were good places. But Northern Nevada is danged close to perfection, far as I'm concerned: big valleys, rugged mountain ranges with lots of country above treeline, and most of it accessible without having to know or pay someone. Yeah, LeverBob's country. I'd be there yet if we didn't have all the family here in Oregon. But Central and Eastern Oregon is not too shabby, far as the land and the people go.

2X22 · Post by **2X22** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:06 pm

I live up here in the mountains 20.5 miles from the crater of Mt St Helens. I love the mountains and wouldn't have it any other way. Plus in 2 hours I can be at the ocean or in the desert, depending if I want to go East or West.

Biggest drawback are all the durned elk...

gak · Post by **gak** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:20 pm

Mountain valleys for me. SW Colorado comes to mind. One of the beauties there is it's pretty clear sailing outta there south (to where I am!) when it gets too cold or snowy. Otherwise, In my mind I've gotta be near either the ocean or the mountains, preferably Pacific and Rocky respectively. Being half way inbetween's not a bad gig, but it is still too far (6-8 hours) to significant quantities of either. Not complaining though: There are many spots in our fair land much further to either than I am!

shooter · Post by **shooter** » Thu Jul 28, 2011 11:25 pm

That's a tough one. They all have their attraction and own beauty to me. I've lived in the Texas Hill Country and the New Mexico desert, and spent a lot of time in the mountains and various other terrains. I'm not too picky on what kind of country I live in as long as there aren't too many people around me. I'd love to get out of the city and to a place where I can shoot off the back porch if I was of a mind to.

If I had to pick one type of place to live....I just don't know if I could do it. It would be hard to choose between the mountains in the Capitan/Ruidoso area of New Mexico, the Texas Hill Country, or somewhere like the Smokey Mountains/Ozarks, etc.

olyinaz · Post by **olyinaz** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 3:19 am

The only thing I don't like is flat plains. Other than that I find it all very pretty and would live pretty much anywhere. Heck, I even like New York City for its own charms. Be a gun lover's nightmare however...

Cheers,
Oly

Stan in SC · Post by **Stan in SC** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 4:17 am

Raised in western part of Georgia and lived in Atlanta 30 years.We moved here to upstate South Carolina about 14 years ago by choice.Great place.Good people.Good climate.30 minutes to the mountains.4 hours to the beach.This is just a great place to be.

Stan in SC

bigbore442001 · Post by **bigbore442001** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 7:57 am

Currently I live in what you can call low rolling hills, southern New England specifically. Ideally I wish to live elsewhere. A prime example is what happened this morning. I don't do heat and humidity very well and in a nutshell I expectorated quite a bit. Last weeks heat wave was actually painful.

Out of the three catagories it would be the mountains. Clear, cool and dry.

Rube Burrows · Post by **Rube Burrows** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:02 am

Well there are things I enjoy about each of the places I have lived. I grew up on 250 acres in north Alabama where the mountains/hills are. Now I live in Louisiana 2 min away from Honey Island Swamp. Both have some beautiful scenery and both have some things I like and things I dislike.

Bruce · Post by **Bruce** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:09 am

The Florida flatwoods is my choice. We have some nice rivers and some beautiful hardwood hammocks. A rise or hill to us is where someone pushed up a pile of dirt and forgot to level it back out.

rock-steady · Post by **rock-steady** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:16 am

I'm from the southern swamp. Humidity so high you can chew it. Cypress knees and Tupelo Gum, cottonmouths and gators, I love it.

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 8:28 am

The semi-sticks, auld phart park in western Washington ain't too bad. There's livestock, and fowl I hear every morning. Very close to Puget Sound, Mt Rainier, open hunting land where ever you look. Almost unlimited fishing opps. Temperate clime (if a bit cloudy and damp). Yet only an hour to Seattle, a little less to Tacoma, if I feel a need for good live music, or a ball game. I have to admit, I've grown fond of high speed internet and good cell phone coverage

harry · Post by **harry** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 1:57 pm

Wyoming

rjohns94 · Post by **rjohns94** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 3:16 pm

Personally, I favor the mountains over all other climes. next would be the Ocean for the sailing and fishing.

hfcable · Post by **hfcable** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 6:20 pm

we have all three in much of alaska, including within the city limits here in anchorage

Mike D. · Post by **Mike D.** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 7:06 pm

I reside in both flats and mountains.

Canuck Bob · Post by **Canuck Bob** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 7:14 pm

I'm pretty lucky. Calgary is close to the Rockies, Banff is an hour away and the Crown Land foothills and mountains are about 30 minutes. East is the dry badland country. Given my preference though give me the Canadian Boreal Forest and Shield Country. I love the bush.

O.S.O.K. · Post by **O.S.O.K.** » Fri Jul 29, 2011 7:22 pm

I too love the mountains but my chosen work and location needed for that pretty much excludes living in them.

I am looking forward to moving to the land that I recently purchased in north-central Mississippi - rolling hills, piney woods - super super productive land for wildlife and anything you'd care to raise or grow - really a great place to be should you end up having to live off of the land and just outstanding for the sportsman. How many places do you know have a deer season that starts in October and ends at the end of January and allows one deer PER DAY? There are all kinds of hunters there but even with this liberal limit, the yearly harvest falls short of what is considered "ideal" by the DNR. And when you're not deer hunting you can hunt turkey, dove, pigs, and all of the usual small game species with squirrel and rabbit topping the list. And then there's the fishing...

As much as I love the mountains, they simply can't hold a candle to land like that in terms of productivity. But they sure are pretty.

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:48 am

High Mountains. If it doesn't have a treeline/snow within sight in August, it's just a hill.

Old Ironsights · Post by **Old Ironsights** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 9:51 am

harry wrote:Wyoming

About the only thing that excludes is real swamps... and even that's iffy.

Ah well. At least Laramie Peak isn't too far away from the WyoBraska flats...

Malamute · Post by **Malamute** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 10:24 am

Front yard,

Some of the country I like to hang out in,

JReed · Post by **JReed** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 11:12 am

I would rather be in scrub covered foothills then any where else. I like the feeling of standing on a ridge and being able to see unobstructed

Blaine · Post by **Blaine** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 11:15 am

JReed wrote:I would rather be in scrub covered foothills then any where else. I like the feeling of standing on a ridge and being able to see unobstructed

Especially with a Ma Duce or MK19

jeepnik · Post by **jeepnik** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 11:27 am

Well, kinda a hard question to answer. I really don't want to give up living at the beach. The weather is so pleasant, what with the great moderator (ocean) being so close. Now, my favorite outdoor venue would be the high desert. Here in SoCal, it gets the least amount of "visitors", so it's easier to get away from folks there. Plus, we have lots of it a few hours away.

As was mentioned earlier, the mountains and deserts are all pretty close. I could easily leave my house, play in the snow in a couple of hours, have lunch and shoot jacks around lunch, and be back at the beach for a beautiful sunset, in a single day. It's also nice to have the retail and entertainment options available. Now, if we could do something about the political climate, this area would be perfect.

With all that said, my retirement plans are to relocate to the desert, somewhere outside of California. The beach won't be as close, but the mountains can be. In addition, the areas I'm looking at have a lower cost of living, and a much better political climate. Heck, property costs alone are tremendously lower. Even if I just rented this place out, and rented another (never gonna happen, I'm not giving money up for a place to live and not ending up with it permanently) I'd be well ahead financially.

COSteve · Post by **COSteve** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 1:35 pm

Lived by the beach, lived in the suburbs, lived in the country, and now I live in a small valley right up against the Rockies. We can see the Denver metro area from a cut in the hills around our valley but we've not a single commercial building in here. Its an eight minute drive and I'm at 9,000ft in the mountains I love, but a 5 minute drive to both a freeway and grocery store right outside our valley so my wife is happy. I won't be moving from here until I'm carried away.

hfcable · Post by **hfcable** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 2:06 pm

Fantastic front yard view!

Bigahh · Post by **Bigahh** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 2:52 pm

I love a Combo of Heavy Oak Ridges with scattered Cedar Swamps. Like this....

horsesoldier03 · Post by **horsesoldier03** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 3:04 pm

The only time I dont like the mountains or swamps is when I am walking. That being said, I am pretty much a flatlander, although I do appreciate what each has to offer.

JReed · Post by **JReed** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 3:28 pm

BlaineG wrote:
JReed wrote:I would rather be in scrub covered foothills then any where else. I like the feeling of standing on a ridge and being able to see unobstructed
Especially with a Ma Duce or MK19

Actually I was thinking a long barreled 30-06 with a 6.5-20x44 PA Viper Vortex scope.

Streetstar · Post by **Streetstar** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 8:09 pm

Im in Denver now on bizness. I greatly prefer the front range to Oklahoma, but I have too many ties to Okieland to walk away.
Plus I have a nice house and 10 acres there for the price of a much smaller place here. Ditto for the beach. Had an apartment in Chula Vista (San diego) with ready beach acces. Loved it, but I would have a hard time buying a house there.
In a way, Oklahoma plains play second fiddle to both the beach and mountains for me, but the qualty of life is nice, employment is good in my vocation and cost of living is great.
So while I still think wistfully about the front range and the beach as well, living on the plains has its own perks.

damienph · Post by **damienph** » Sat Jul 30, 2011 8:24 pm

Growing up in the military, I've lived in and seen quite a few different places. I love vacationing in the Rockies, and I love going "home" to south Louisiana to visit (and to eat). But I live in the Flint Hills Region of Kansas by choice. I like watching the sun rise and the moon rise on the east horizon, and to watch both set in the west. We may have to put up with some serious wind at times but the rolling hills and the tall grass prairie are beautiful. Good hunting; White Tails in the east, Mulies in the west, Antelope, Turkeys, Upland game birds, cotton tails, jacks and squirrels. What is not to like?

Oh, and any one who thinks that Kansas is flat, has never ridden from the west to the east on a bicycle (BAK - Biking Across Kansas).