Posted: 1/22/2015 1:54:07 PM EDT
| I can't be the only one who is starting to think of moving out of state. Not just for 2A freedom, but also a less flooded job market and that sense of down-home-america that left new york long ago. I ask because i'm now 35 years old, about several months away from completing an HVAC/R training program, and been grinding through the rat race to make the mortgage and monthlies. The grapevine claims that other parts of the country have better job opportunities and overall quality of life. What i ask is for any and all suggestions from you all because this seems like a place filled with like-minded, great individuals. Thanks for reading. |
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I can't be the only one who is starting to think of moving out of state. Not just for 2A freedom, but also a less flooded job market and that sense of down-home-america that left new york long ago. I ask because i'm now 35 years old, about several months away from completing an HVAC/R training program, and been grinding through the rat race to make the mortgage and monthlies. The grapevine claims that other parts of the country have better job opportunities and overall quality of life. What i ask is for any and all suggestions from you all because this seems like a place filled with like-minded, great individuals. Thanks for reading. Hvac.... go to the midwest. Missouri specifically. Kansas City is big on AC |
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Yep - I already been there - We ended up buying a home outside Atlanta - renting it out til our kids graduate and get my folks settled then we are out of here!
I'm sure Andrew Cuomo and the rest of NY will be much better off without my evil gun owning taxpayer dollars. I seem to recall a Radio address indicating I was not welcome in his state so I am excusing myself - Good luck. Upstate will turn into Detroit-like libtard run democracy soon enough. |
You watch long enough around here and you'll see just how many have left and how many more are headed out. If it were solely up to me, I'd have a semi-trailer backed up to the door right now. 
http://www.upack.com/moving-quotes/quote.asp?NLOView=2 |
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Quoted: Hvac.... go to the midwest. Missouri specifically. Kansas City is big on AC Quoted: Quoted: I can't be the only one who is starting to think of moving out of state. Not just for 2A freedom, but also a less flooded job market and that sense of down-home-america that left new york long ago. I ask because i'm now 35 years old, about several months away from completing an HVAC/R training program, and been grinding through the rat race to make the mortgage and monthlies. The grapevine claims that other parts of the country have better job opportunities and overall quality of life. What i ask is for any and all suggestions from you all because this seems like a place filled with like-minded, great individuals. Thanks for reading. Hvac.... go to the midwest. Missouri specifically. Kansas City is big on AC Look on monster for HVAC service techs right now. Almost every employer in the midwest is offering signing bonuses. Pay might be a shade less than in NY depending on what you know, but taxes will be far more favorable.
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You watch long enough around here and you'll see just how many have left and how many more are headed out. If it were solely up to me, I'd have a semi-trailer backed up to the door right now.
http://www.upack.com/moving-quotes/quote.asp?NLOView=2 http://www.upack.com/moving-quotes/quote.asp?NLOView=2 Just as a seamless plug, my old man works in relocation... owns his own company and is connected with Unigroup (United and Mayflower) and Arpin. Anyone who does look to go, maybe he can help. You never know. |
| I can retire in three years, but my youngest has 5 more years of school. Then 4 years of college before he relocates and starts his career. My plan as of now is to retire in 2018, then try for a job that I can get a second pension after 10 years of service. I will be 55, and looking to gtfo with two monthly checks and my retirement savings. Hopefully my boys aren't too far away from each other, so we can settle somewhere within visiting distance of both of them. If it weren't for the politics, taxes and tyranny, I wouldn't be thinking about driving my family out of NY. What a shame. |
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I'd leave here in a second if I could. Same here. But I think the 2016 elections will see Republicans dominate the legislature and by 2017 Cuomo should be an ex governor. Stranger reversals have happened in politics. Cuomo has alienated a lot of traditional Democrat groups, and is after the Teachers now. He really is a tyrant, an unthinking egotist who feels entitled to his position and untouchable by the peasantry. |
| Starting to plan it myself. Been a lifelong resident and New York is definitely one of the most beautiful states in the union. Turning 64 this March so retirement is near. All 4 of our kids have had to leave NY to find a decent job. Elderly in laws are the main reason we are staying. My father in law is 95 and I don't know how much longer he has. My mother in law is dying of cancer and has already outlived expectations. But I would like to leave the state while I am still young enough to enjoy a few years of freedom. It's a shame when the place that you love and call home no longer wants you. |
| My girl and I are on our way out. 3 years or less. Looking at North and South Carolina. I have a friend with a business in North Carolina that employ me if I move there so we are really trying to find something near Raleigh. I am a service tech for a propane and oil company. I service a large area from dutchess county to Sullivan County and it is such a shame that with all of the beautiful country side we have and all the memories I have enjoying it growing up that I feel forced to leave. I am absolutely disgusted with NY at this point. I have little to no hope that it will get better and really feel that permits and full registration on all types of firearms is in the very near future for NY. Taxes are out of control. I am in people's homes every day and I see welfare fraud first hand on almost a daily basis. You would be shocked to see who gets free brand new heating systems installed, free oil, and free propane all paid for with our tax dollars. Just the general ignorant libral attitude of most of the community around me is enough to leave. So less taxes, more freedom and class III here I come! |
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If I was on my own, I would head west. Montana, Idaho, Wyoming. Something like that. But once you have family, you have to think of them first. Quoted:
If I was on my own, I would head west. Montana, Idaho, Wyoming. Something like that. But once you have family, you have to think of them first. Yep, I wanted northern AZ but moved here to be close to my parents. Quoted:
I'll be in GA next week trying to convince the wife thats where we need to be, my mind is already made up, just have to convince her, she wants to move buy isn't sure where. If you pick GA remember to include the TAVT on your vehicles in your moving costs. |
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Quoted: if I could I would be gone, I love this place, but the assholes running it I hate. I'd be somewhere warm and free pretty much this... the ones that are free to move have already ,, the ones that are working on it will soon be gone.. then there are some of us that its not an option... we just have to push through until the opportunity presents itself
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I have 10 years to go before I can retire. But I just got called to start testing for a LE job out in Arizona. still up in the air. Might go and do all the testing and make a final decision when I get the job offer.
I really like Arizona, its warm, plenty of hiking, plenty of 4x4 trails, its a class 3 state, and nothing like driving out to the middle of the desert to shoot. |
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I'll be in GA next week trying to convince the wife thats where we need to be, my mind is already made up, just have to convince her, she wants to move buy isn't sure where. My wife wasn't either at first. Now she in enjoying the hell out of temps in the 50-70 degree range in January. 
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Yep, I wanted northern AZ but moved here to be close to my parents. If you pick GA remember to include the TAVT on your vehicles in your moving costs. Quoted:
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If I was on my own, I would head west. Montana, Idaho, Wyoming. Something like that. But once you have family, you have to think of them first. Yep, I wanted northern AZ but moved here to be close to my parents. Quoted:
I'll be in GA next week trying to convince the wife thats where we need to be, my mind is already made up, just have to convince her, she wants to move buy isn't sure where. If you pick GA remember to include the TAVT on your vehicles in your moving costs. YEah, been looking into that, even with a brand new vehicle, it will still be far less taxes than I pay now |
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My wife wasn't either at first. Now she in enjoying the hell out of temps in the 50-70 degree range in January. Quoted:
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I'll be in GA next week trying to convince the wife thats where we need to be, my mind is already made up, just have to convince her, she wants to move buy isn't sure where. My wife wasn't either at first. Now she in enjoying the hell out of temps in the 50-70 degree range in January. Its the traffic, she doesn't understand that WNY has about 800,000 people in it and the Atlanta area has 6.5 million, there's gonna be traffic. Good trade off in my book, |
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I'll be in GA next week trying to convince the wife thats where we need to be, my mind is already made up, just have to convince her, she wants to move buy isn't sure where. If you pick GA remember to include the TAVT on your vehicles in your moving costs. YEah, been looking into that, even with a brand new vehicle, it will still be far less taxes than I pay now It was a $3000 hit for me when I registered my car here. |
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I'll be in GA next week trying to convince the wife thats where we need to be, my mind is already made up, just have to convince her, she wants to move buy isn't sure where. If you pick GA remember to include the TAVT on your vehicles in your moving costs. YEah, been looking into that, even with a brand new vehicle, it will still be far less taxes than I pay now It was a $3000 hit for me when I registered my car here. Holy crap! $3k?! Under $1k for 2 vehicles for us. Then again, we both own older vehicles. My wife has a 2004 Xterra and I have a 2005 GMC Sierra. You must be driving one of those luxury sedans 
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I'm stuck for a while.......kids are close enough to graduating high school that I wouldn't want to uproot them, and my parents are here.
Still, when I can bail, if things haven't changed........I'm gone. I've already got my out of state punch out home purchased and when the time is right I could go. I'd hate to, I love my slice of NYS, I just hate what this state has become. |
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Greenville SC area.
We moved here in July and love it. Best thing we did. We don't miss New York at all. Lots of beautiful scenery here, gun rights are very good, taxes are low, weather is better, people are nice, very conservative politically. Religion and patriotism is important to the people here, and I like that. FUAC. |
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I spent 10 years in Upstate NY (Herkimer county). I had never really settled in and called it home but was able to deal with all of the issues. The lack of quality jobs was a real bummer, the only places that where looking for people paid min wage and offered 20-25 hours a week. I worked 2-3 jobs at a time just to stay afloat.
In 2013 I took my wife and family back to Colorado to visit and show them where I grew up. They fell in love with the place and plans to move where started before we even got back home. About 9 months later we hit the road and headed west. Her major gripes about moving.... The traffic, the population, and missing family. All of those are not too bad though. Going from an area with 10k people to 3mil just took some time getting use too. The gun laws here are semi decent. New mags over 15 rounds are banned but every gun store on every block sells "parts kits" and nobody seems to care. Being that all mags prior to July 2013 are legal, its just too much for LEO to bother with. Either way, good luck with the move and give NY the bird for me when you cross the line. |
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We're moving to coastal SC this summer but only because we have family that relocated down there already. If I was on my own, I would head west. Montana, Idaho, Wyoming. Something like that. But once you have family, you have to think of them first. You motherfuck. I mean that in an endearing way 
I'm glad you're finally finding freedom in America. I will be sad that another patriot who says "FUCK IT" is leaving the state, however. |