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Originally Posted By AeroE: Head out to Old Monroe, Foley, and Winfield for any hope of 80 affordable acres close in and out that direction. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By AeroE: Originally Posted By 67Firebird: Originally Posted By Rick_NE: We're also wanting to be a bit closer to STL for easier and quicker travel to the airport since we travel to the tropics a few times a year. That would be past the top left corner of the Judgemental map posted above. |
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From looking at google maps and realtor.com it looks like a fair amount of timber but also tillable farmland up in the area. Maybe you can find 80 hilly, rocky acres for cheaper but I'm seeing prices north of $10,000/acre up there
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Originally Posted By defender: From looking at google maps and realtor.com it looks like a fair amount of timber but also tillable farmland up in the area. Maybe you can find 80 hilly, rocky acres for cheaper but I'm seeing prices north of $10,000/acre up there View Quote I didn't write anything about cheap property that way, just cheaper for the area. In general the lowest cost property is found in large tracts of brush, and a little lower if it's hilly and rocky. The trouble with the last part in an area where folks are moving in is that those properties can be subdivided into 3 to 5 acre home sites that sell from $20k to $55k per acre (depending on location). I'll bet I can find tillable property up that direction for no more than $5k to $6k per acre. If the cost needs to be less, move 30 mile's farther southwest. If it needs to be higher to support the requirement for airport access, look south of 61 in St. Charles county or anywhere closer to Lambert for that matter. Someone that wants much lower price can hunt in Jefferson or Washington counties, or Montgomery or Warren county. Part of my point is that we don't really know the requirements, except for 80 acres and an airport tolerably close for several exotic vacations every year, so maybe a $10k per acre property is perfect. |
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Originally Posted By 67Firebird: ... Before I bought the house, I contacted Centurylink, and they assured me that I'd get good internet service here. After I bought the place, they said that I'm too far from the switch, and they can't sell me sell me service. I asked about dialup, and it's not available here. I got WildBlue satellite, which was eventually bought out by Excede. It's much better, but still sucks. View Quote We've used other providers since. Haven't used CenturyLink for a number of years. |
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My closest neighbor (about 100 yards away) has it and is constantly having trouble. They told him that he's the last one on the line, due to distance from the switch, and they can't do any better.
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Originally Posted By Bladeswitcher: That's probably why all y'all country bumpkins never wear nothing but carpenter jeans, flannel work shirts and chore coats you bought at the local Feed and Ivermectin getting place . . . View Quote You say that like it's a bad thing!! I even get to the big city from time to time and I still dress like that about everywhere but church!! |
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"When you need it and ain't got it, you're singin' a different tune..."
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Originally Posted By Bladeswitcher: I recently moved from Jefferson City (state capital) to a home just outside of Holt Summit, about 10 miles away. In town, I had internet through my cable company. It sucked. Barely sufficient to stream, and I experienced lots of outages, drops, etc. Now I'm on fiber. It's better than I could have imagined. My wife works from home, online all day. We get TV over the fiber, too. Great service. I mean truly outstanding internet. The key is to buy a home that's served by a rural electric cooperative that has gotten into the fiber internet business. Not all of them have, but the ones that have made the move offer truly wonderful internet. View Quote A pretty good chunk of the middle of the state is served by the Co-Mo Electric (Co-Mo Connect) rural electric co-op. They ran fiber to every member's house in their service area. It is fabulous. |
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Originally Posted By midmo: A pretty good chunk of the middle of the state is served by the Co-Mo Electric (Co-Mo Connect) rural electric co-op. They ran fiber to every member's house in their service area. It is fabulous. View Quote Generally speaking, they cover Morgan, Cooper and Moniteau County. Callaway also has fiber to home and they generally cover Callaway (duh) and western Warren County. |
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"When you need it and ain't got it, you're singin' a different tune..."
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Originally Posted By Buckshot4U: Generally speaking, they cover Morgan, Cooper and Moniteau County. Callaway also has fiber to home and they generally cover Callaway (duh) and western Warren County. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Buckshot4U: Originally Posted By midmo: A pretty good chunk of the middle of the state is served by the Co-Mo Electric (Co-Mo Connect) rural electric co-op. They ran fiber to every member's house in their service area. It is fabulous. Generally speaking, they cover Morgan, Cooper and Moniteau County. Callaway also has fiber to home and they generally cover Callaway (duh) and western Warren County. Yep. My Callabyte service (Callaway Electric Cooperative) is tied into CoMoConnect. Can't say enough about how good it is. SO much better than than the cable-based internet I had in Jefferson City. |
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In a truly free country, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms would be the name of a convenience store, not a federal agency
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Originally Posted By Bladeswitcher: Yep. My Callabyte service (Callaway Electric Cooperative) is tied into CoMoConnect. Can't say enough about how good it is. SO much better than than the cable-based internet I had in Jefferson City. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Originally Posted By Bladeswitcher: Originally Posted By Buckshot4U: Originally Posted By midmo: A pretty good chunk of the middle of the state is served by the Co-Mo Electric (Co-Mo Connect) rural electric co-op. They ran fiber to every member's house in their service area. It is fabulous. Generally speaking, they cover Morgan, Cooper and Moniteau County. Callaway also has fiber to home and they generally cover Callaway (duh) and western Warren County. Yep. My Callabyte service (Callaway Electric Cooperative) is tied into CoMoConnect. Can't say enough about how good it is. SO much better than than the cable-based internet I had in Jefferson City. Yeah, I went through dialup, then satellite (back when Exceed was Wildblue, and included very restrictive download limits under their Fair Access Policy (FAP - go ahead boys, get those chuckles out ), then the fiber. There's no comparison between the three. It just goes from extra sucky, to sucky, to wonderful. The downside right now is that rural and small town properties are really hot, with all the city folk figuring out that if they can work from home, they can live wherever they want. Fiber gives them that option. There's not much for sale or rent around here anymore. |
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Originally Posted By midmo: The downside right now is that rural and small town properties are really hot, with all the city folk figuring out that if they can work from home, they can live wherever they want. Fiber gives them that option. There's not much for sale or rent around here anymore. View Quote Last year we sold our 110-year-old house on a crowded busy street in Jeff and moved to a suburban home just outside Holts Summit. It was less than a 10-mile move, but wow, what a difference. We're not "in the country" but the change in lifestyle is quite remarkable. My wife works from home, and is online all day in meetings, crunching data and conducting training classes from her home office. The old cable internet was always going down and even when it was running, it wasn't very good. Here, there are no limits. |
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In a truly free country, Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms would be the name of a convenience store, not a federal agency
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einnor1040 Posted: 2/3/2022 7:42:05 AM CST
Anyone have any info on western Iron County? Specifically around the Viburnum area. Found a house and some property that interests me. Looking for a retirement home so jobs and schools don't matter. ------------------------------------------ smullen Posted 2/3/2022 8:06:13 AM CST I have a buddy that I think lives close to there, in Irondale... Its a fairly nice area geographically.. Doesn't have high crime or a bad reputation to my knowledge. Not alot around there retail wise, you'd probably drive to Park hills, Potosi, Farmington or Bonnetere for shopping and more restaurants... The biggest negative will be the secret meth heads... Sadly, it seems like many small town have them. Another reason I like to live outside of town Less rules, regs and you can do/build whatever you want and no one will say shit or give you any static... If you can, I'd drive around the area alot before you buy anything... I'm about 45 mins SE of there just below Fredericktown, but above Cherokee Pass not far off 67... But, im out far enough I can shoot in my back yard.. ------------------------------------------- Bladeswitcher Posted: 2/3/2022 8:20:04 AM CST What do you want to know? Beautiful area, but there's not much there (which may be what you're looking for). The western part of the county is mostly Mark Twain National Forest. You can probably count the paved roads in that part of the county on one hand. It's rough country, and a lot of rough people live there. Again, that may be just what you're looking for. If you want any sort of amenities or services, you're going to be driving. This is the kind of place you move to to get lost. If you want to get some sense of what's beyond the blacktop, take a look at these photos from the 100-Acre Wood Rally race, which is held just west of the area you're talking about. This mostly takes place in the neighboring counties but the land and roads look just the same in western Iron county. And, yes, these are public roads: (100 acre Wood Rally) https://www.google.com/search?q=100+acre+wood+rally&client=firefox-b-1-d&hl=en&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj6xLy53OP1AhV3JTQIHeIIAMYQ_AUoAHoECAEQCg&biw=1348&bih=693&dpr=1.82 ----------------------------------------------------- einnor1040 Posted: 2/3/2022 8:20:29 AM CST The place I'm looking at is about 15 miles east of Viburnum. Away from everything. Is cell service and internet available in that area? ------------------------------------------------------- Bladeswitcher Posted: 2/3/2022 8:28:57 AM CST You might get lucky and get one or two bars on your phone if you're on a ridge. Internet? . . . ETA: Have you looked at Google Earth? That will tell you a lot about what to expect. I'm guessing right about https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7055001,-91.0416692,912m/data=!3m1!1e3 ---------------------------------------------------- Bladeswitcher Posted: 2/3/2022 9:32:49 AM CST There's some great scenery of the area in this video. Most of this was shot within about 40 miles (west and south) of where the OP is looking: https://youtu.be/S149HBGqPko ---------------------------------------------------- GMG3TROUTT Posted: 2/3/2022 10:06:39 AM CST The area up there is beautiful. For cell and internet we use T Mobile and other the cell coverage being spotty sometimes when you get down into low areas it's great. I pulled up a coverage map for Viburnum and it's there but it's spotty the further out you get from town, but that's due to terrain. The zip code is 65566. You should be able to find the place you're looking at on the coverage map. https://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/coverage-map ------------------------------------------------------ AeroE Posted: 2/3/2022 11:06:01 AM CST You'll feel at home if you're in eastern Tennessee now. I don't expect cell service in rural Missouri unless I am in town, and maybe not then. Rural internet service is spotty and slow. -------------------------------------------------------- einnor1040 Posted: 2/3/2022 11:22:48 AM CST According to that T mobile service map it has 4g service and internet is available thru Viasat. If true, this is looking very good. I know when we are around Eminence everyone is using AT&T cell service or some local company that uses the AT&T network. Verizon is a no go. ---------------------------------------------------- JAD762 Posted: 2/3/2022 7:34:29 PM CST It's a nice retirement area, I'd kind of want to retire in the area myself. I don't know about your age/health but you might want to check doctor/hospital availability. I rarely have a problem with cell coverage, but others do. Like others have said, you're not getting awesome high speed Internet. Methbillys are a thing, but you just need to stay vigilant & you'll be fine. ------------------------------------------------------ GUNGUY148 Posted: 2/4/2022 6:00:59 AM CST Beautiful area, not many people, much gov land, much land owned by the mines so there's plenty of trees. Hwy 32 from Bixby to hwy A is a glorious stretch of pavement is you like curves. If you get car sickness the entire area will suck. Bixby store has the best chicken strips I've ever ate. Verizon has some service in that area, I've seen full bars and 4g in spots. Lots of dead area too though. ------------------------------------------------------ thorshammerblow Posted: 2/4/2022 6:52:59 AM CST I looked at several plots of land in Iron county and for each one of them the mineral rights did not come with them. The realtor I talked to said most properties outside of towns did not come with the rights. So just check to be sure about that. It is beautiful there, but that was a deal breaker for me-so I bought in Shannon County instead. --------------------------------------------------- Bladeswitcher Posted: 2/4/2022 8:24:37 AM CST You didn't say what you enjoy doing, but . . . if you enjoy paddling/river recreation, you've come to the right place. You'd be within an hours drive of most of the best float streams in Missouri. If you're not familiar, the Ozark float trip is one of the biggest draws in the area. The rivers run clear and cool at about 2-3 miles per hour so you don't need to paddle much except for steering and negotiating obstacles. It's not really paddling, it's floating. Not whitewater, either. Just a relaxing day on the river. Perfect really . . . You don't need to own a canoe. THere are plenty of folks who will rent you a canoe and pick you up at your take out: https://missourifloating.com/ The many Ozark streams also provide lots of great fishing for smallmouth bass and trout. In fact, most of the trout fishing streams are close to where you're looking: trout fishing in Missouri Hunting opportunities will be all around you in the National Forest, as well as several large state-managed Conservation areas. It's also great country for horseback riding. There are some outfitters who cater to trail riding . . . Groups of folks on horseback who ride for miles and miles in the woods. The best known destination for this is in Emminence, which is just a little south of where you're looking: https://crosscountrytrailrides.com/ If off-roading is your thing, check out Flat Nasty off road park near Jadwin: https://www.facebook.com/flatnastyoffroadpark/ If music is more your thing, check out the fall concert series at Wildwood Springs Lodge. There's also regular bluegrass concerts at Meramec Music Theater. Both are in Steelville. There are also several bluegrass festivals in the area each year. Fancy some wine? You'll have to drive a couple of hours, but there are some really good wineries all around you. Head north to Herman and Augusta to discover Missouri's incredible history of winemaking. Go west and north to check out St. James Winery and Peaceful Bend (both of those are less than an hour away). Head to the southeast for a bunch of wineries around St. Genevieve Missouri wine. Lots of opportunities for cool day trips. --------------------------------------------------- einnor1040 Posted: 2/4/2022 12:12:25 PM CST The wife and I grew up in Stoddard county in the bootheel. I have floated the current river many times. I love the area. That is why we want to retire there. I love what the area has to offer. we already have a trip planned in June to float and look at property. --------------------------------------------------- @einnor1040 Please continue in this thread, so we can keep all of this info. |
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Small towns around Jefferson City have been getting fiber recently through Callabyte and Socket.
I had gigabit fiber installed at my house south of JC in early 2021 with static IP. It’s $80 a month. |
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