Yeah, they do have inspections and that is probably what does it.
Atlanta is great, culture wise, but fuck driving in that abomination. Peach Tree!
Huntsville was our more progressive city, but it has really changed, and not in a good way.
Thanks! Our former neighbor ran a meth lab for years, can’t be much worse than that.
Kayak questions, if you don’t mind.
My son and I like to go kayak camping and fishing. We have big old sit on top Lifetime fishing kayaks. We don’t do rough water or big rapids. I think level I/II is our thing.
Where should we go in the south west part of the state?
I fish for bream and catfish. Not into sport fishing, don’t care about bass. Eat what I catch. Was into fly fishing when I was younger but got over that sickness.
What should I fish for and what sort of tackle?
Thanks!
$165,000. Pictures were awful, and it has poor curb appeal due to asphalt shingle siding. However, the asbestos in the shingles mean it will last forever and it has hardwood floors throughout.
A little play farm near the big city has been our dream for a long time. We’ll have chickens, rabbits, maybe a steer. There are deer everywhere. Love venison but hate deer hunting, so efficiently and easily harvesting them will be great.
My wife works from home as a RN, I’ve been doing manufacturing consulting. Consulting has been miserable, so I’m just going to start my own machine shop.
Mobile is pretty different from the rest of the state. We’re from the northern end. Gulfport is in Mississippi, IIRC.
It’s a beautiful state, I’m really going to miss the land. Have a jar of the red clay dirt to take with me.
It’s so much quieter there. The muffler laws seem to actually be enforced. In Alabama, the penis trucks have become so loud they interrupt conversations inside.
At the voting booth, politics are about the same, however, our neighbors have become scary here. There have been major fascist changes in the state and it has gotten real spooky.
While rural is very much red in Pennsylvania, the cities are blue and that influences lots of things in rural areas. The schools are also way better, my son has been doing online school for a while due to how bad they are here. It will be good for him to actually go back to a physical school.
Yeah, the politics aren’t great there either, but it’s no where near as bad as what we’ve been dealing with.
I’m really looking forward to actually having seasons. First time we were there, people were talking about how bad a heat wave they were having and it was still better than Alabama.
I’m a redneck, and from what I’ve seen so far, I’ll mostly be at home with the people there.
Near Pittsburgh, close enough to go to the big city, but far enough out to be in the country.
Farm and eweka.
I drive a 98 Ranger XLT, it has a 5900 lb towing capacity. I’m pretty much going to keep fixing it forever.
The majority of pumps in my area play ads. Some of the pumps can’t be muted. For those, press the top left and right buttons, then next two down, then the next two and it throws it into maintenance mode. That shuts off the speaker.
I appreciate the kind words.
My wife is WFH. I’ve been working on building a manufacturing consulting and CNC programming business. Want to buy a small mill, can probably make good money just picking up odd jobs. These days I call myself a manufacturing consultant, but I’m really just an aerospace machinist.
We’ve literally been planning this move since 2020 when everyone around us lost their fucking minds. We’re hoping we have enough saved to get a mortgage on a small play farm.
I had to stop watching it for the same reason.
We’ve been saving since 2020, saw the writing on the wall then. We’re moving this summer.
Can’t afford to leave the country but at least we can get out of the South.
It was a hard decision. All I’ve ever known. I’m going to miss a lot of things. Especially the land and water.
I feel like I’ve lost my people. I don’t trust people that look like me and talk like me. It makes me sad. It makes me angry when they think I’m like them and say hateful things about other different people.
I keep my mouth shut and we keep to ourselves as much as possible. We’ll be out of here soon.
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary on DOS and Gameboy. DOS version was superior even though my mother threw away the manual in a move. I had to figure out the system locations by randomly going to all of them.
Machining and blacksmithing are highly correlated with right wing BS in the US. Check my uname and ask me how I know. 😁
Thank you for the advice.
We haven’t had much time this year, so far, to go. Went to Lake Ouchita in Arkansas for the eclipse. Carried 200lbs of gear or so and used my boy’s old sit on top child-size kayak for cargo.
Glad there are bluegill, we eat some pretty small ones so maybe it will be alright. Big cats will make my wife and myself happy.
Believe it or not, Alabama has a lot of clean rivers and I’m not used to worrying about pollution. There are some areas of the Tennessee River where it is a concern but that’s big water and we haven’t gone there. I’ll have to look into it. Thanks for the heads up.
Water moccasins aren’t a problem, used to them, there’s a 10’ gator in one of my favorite ponds.