Moving
 

I am moving from Hendersonville, North Carolina to Eureka, California. Woo!

Shouldn't that be... "EUREKA!"



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Well, I've already lived there twice, so I already found it.

Why on earth would you move back into a dumpster fire of a state? The only one that competes on the race to bankruptcy is Illinoisy, where I currenty live.

QUOTE=Joe Wooten]Why on earth would you move back into a dumpster fire of a state? The only one that competes on the race to bankruptcy is Illinoisy, where I currenty live.[/QUOTE]

I'm moving to where the giant redwoods grow, the Lost Coast. 250 miles north of San Francisco. 50 to 70 F average temp all year round.

If the wind blows wrong, you should be able to smell the crap on the sidewalk in Frisco. :rolleyes:

Those are some serious rocket eating trees.

Saturn V with a single D12-3 should eject below the canopy of those 300+ foot beasts for a great flight and recovery! :D
(might need to trim away those 100 ft "sprouts" first)

Nope. Wind blows in from west. And stop dissing my new home. It's great, not like middle California where Frisco is.

If you find peace and happiness there, enjoy and be blessed. :)

Thank you. True Northern California is quite beautiful, we'll be 250 miles north of San Francisco, almost Oregon.

One of the most beautiful places in the world
Congrats

If you make pay check scale income CA pays for your health insurance and has tax credits.

If you earn a generous salary you pay high sales taxes, income taxes, and property taxes. I have three friends that moved out of state to avoid that. I went to Vegas last month off the beaten path and the growth is astounding.

It extends miles to every direction of the strip and notably a whole bunch to the west and south. They are paving the desert. If you go to Vegas go on the stratosphere, sit and have a cold drink for an hour and look out in spiral distances to get an idea of scale.

[We're moving to a little fishing and logging town far north of all that. Oregon is less than an hour north of where we'll be.

You can launch at Brothers/Bend. Great site.

Sold the house!

Great you sold the house.

I gotta ask this though....being in No-Cal you get all the negatives of the high taxes, enviro-whacko-ness, and over-regulation California has to offer, but none of the benefits of So-Cal like great year-round weather.

WHAT is the upside ?

Giant Sequoia/Redwood rocket eating trees!

Uhhhhhh....I don't see that as ANY upside whatsoever.
High taxes, over regulation, enviro-whackos, and lousy (cold) winters.....YECHHHHHH.

All the things you mentioned.

Uhhhhhh....NO.....those are what absolutely SUCK about Cali.

Enjoy.

Like you have much room to talk, you live in Michigan. Home of over regulation, union dues and that war zone known as Detroit.

About the only saving grace is Michigan's proximity to Ohio.

Michigan for the most part is NOT over regulated.
We have zero emissions and safety inspections for non commercial vehicles.
Freeway speed limits are merely suggestions.... it's not uncommon for rush hour traffic on I-75 to be going over 90mph.
About the only bad things here are the high fuel taxes and the vast UNDERTAXATION of the wealthy.

If you like your benefits for your job you should drop to your knees to THANK THE UNIONS.

BLOWhio is a fetid cesspool.
I'll take Detroit over that fecal-pit cleveland.

Will you just stay put somewhere?

My son took me on a "bucket list" tour of northern California last October so I could see the giant redwoods at least once before I assume room temperature. We stayed at the Historic Benbow Inn near Garberville, toured the Avenue of the Giants and then made a side trip up to Eureka just for the hell of it. We discovered a great oyster bar https://www.cafewaterfronteureka.com/ and had some fantastic Alaskan Halibut, then went up the coast to Moonstone Beach and wet our feet in the Pacific Ocean.

Say what you will about California but I'd go back in a heartbeat if I had the money.

Happy Birthday Doug!

Thank you friend.

Eureka is a beautiful place right where the redwoods meet the ocean. If someone can't appreciate something like that, I can only think they must be fit to be institutionalized. Who wouldn't want a drink by the bay in a nice little town at sunset?

Doug,
Your shrockets link no longer works, at least for me.

Good timing. That's a heck of a storm blowing in.

Well, I'm not really doing that anymore. I'm just doing art, I'm in the Novaspace gallery now.

I'm calling BS on this statement. When I've driven in MI the troopers with the idiotic Police Squad-esque single bubble gum machine light on top were all over the place ticketing speeders. Luckily I use a high end detector on long trips and didn't get nabbed.

They only ticket outside of rush hour.
If you are doing over 81 in a 70 or 86 in a 75 mph zone they will pull you over and ticket you in some cases.
I was last pulled over for 91 in a 70; I got a stern warning with a question of the top speed of my vehicle. I informed him of the top speed, verified on a test track.
I have the latest version Valentine One detector and always run the Waze app.
The only reason he got me was due to being on an on ramp rushing into traffic and not turning on Ka band until he painted ME.

I use a jammer. Never fails. No worries about instant-ons or lasers.
You still have to be vigilant and always be on the look out. All the unit does is give you chance to defeat speed detection. I don't depend on it at night mainly because of all the unmarked units out there.

Now, back to Shrox's big move!

Allen

That may be because the LEO's don't want to leave themselves exposed for long periods of time in the #3 murder rate (per 100k, 2015 numbers) city in the US.

We're not moving to a big city.

I wasn't speaking of inside the city limits of Detroit, which is a total dump only surpassed by CLEVELAND as a TURD PIT.
This is I-75 20+ miles north of Detroit and 96/696 10 miles North of Detroit as well.
Low crime, high $$ areas.

True radar jammers are highly illegal.
Real ones are only available in kit form.
You can build jammers that amplify the power signal so high they will actually overload and destroy radar guns into a smoking heap of circuit boards.

What are you going on about anyway? Sorry if California isn't good enough for you.

The biggest problem facing California is not wildfires and earthquakes. It is its natural wonders, climate and resources coupled with an overly generous welfare system that will be its downfall.

That, and the Zombies.

So, do you still have the "shuttle craft". That seems like it would be great for visiting the countryside.

as to GH, I wouldn't worry about him. I feel much safer from any "toilet pranks" he may want to play by living in a place he complains about and would never visit. :chuckle:

I sold it last year. Now just waiting for the rain to stop, might be three more days. Then it's off to NorCal!

Best of luck on the move!

There's a fairly active rocket club in Eugene, FWIW. Might be closer than Livermore.