How many DUers live in the Boondocks?

We just bought a place with ten acres out in the middle of nowhere. AND I'm lovin' every minute of it.

I do have neighbors but it's still the unincorporated part of the county. :woohoo:

Too far out of town to be the 'burbs, too close to town (coupla miles) to be the boonies.

:thumbsup: Quiet, not much traffic.

:thumbsdown: Can't get cable.

that I can't even get Direct TV. But, my neighbors do make some great homebrew wine, so I ain't complaining....... :silly:

for a time when I was growing up, in Timberon. Ever heard of it? It's in the Sacramento Mtns. Up from Alamogordo.

my family owns about 5 lots up there. How interesting as Timberon hasn't had much action for YEARS.

except for the people who live up there. I lived there from 1984-1988. Went to school in the one room school house in 6th grade then traveled the hour and a half to Weed both ways through the river crossings every day for 7th, 8th, and 9th grade. I didn't appreciate it at that age. I moved back to NY with my dad. There is a website that my mom found that has pictures and newspaper links to the area www.mountaintimes.net it is interesting. The person who runs the Timberon part remembered my family, it was nice to chat with him.

most of the double wides there back in the eighties. They lived there, I stayed in Texas. I actually went most weekends in the summer and have had my distributor wet more than once in one of the many rivers, (and dried by a cowboy on horseback). I used to come up the back way off of 54 just at Oro Grande instead of through Cloudcroft. We used to sled a lot in the winters down the golf course there (in Cloudcroft). I was last there in 1997 it was a ghost town. The lodge was dead and the golf course was about the only place people could meet. The general store was closed but they had actually put up street signs. The cabin we were in was on Carson. Also the water was contaminated because of the cattle owned by the rancher up the way in the big white house with all those fireplaces. The opposite direction from weed. How interesting that you posted about Timberon. Nice to meet you fight4my3sons. :hi: :thumbsup:

I used to go sledding in Cloudcroft also, my parent would stop there to give me a break on our bi-weekly grocery shopping trips to Alamogordo. Nothing like the nearest full service grocery store being 1 1/2 hr away! (well, you could get milk and eggs at the general store at that time, but not much else) My step father was head of the TPOA at the Lodge - it's a shame that it was dead when you were last there, I don't remember it that way. My mom ran a small craft store at one time there. I spent the summers (7 weeks) with my dad in NY. Then the rest of the time there in Timberon. What a place. Most of my friends must have lived in those double wides your dad and brothers built. We had an
A-frame, but my mom and step-father sold it when they divorced. I'd like to take my husband and kids there one day. I don't think they can even imagine. I have shown my husband my Weed High yearbooks though :-)
He was born and raised in NY, a whole world away. I moved to Timberon from Midland, TX, but was born in NY.

5 wooded acres on a country road - 2 miles from Interstate 70 but 8 miles to get there! No pizza or newspaper delivery - and not much snow removal - but nice quiet calm! Agreed - lovin' every minute of it - enjoy!

in the Lower 48. It is a mixed blessing.

Augusta, Maine, the state capitol, but a couple miles up rte. 104 & in city limits are farm animals grazing (albeit not TODAY!). To many, all of Maine is the boondocks!

BTW, we're NEVER leaving Maine!

I live in a geographically large town however there are only "881 friendly folks and 1 ole grouch" as they say. The geography is due to about 8 small/medium lakes and one huge one; that, and the western mtn foothills. I do have close neighbors which is a new thing... but we own plenty of the frontage near Embden "Pond".

People don't realize how rural Maine is... My guess is that they think that it's an Eastern State, thus congested. Maybe it's a good thing that they have that misconception. Nonetheless I can't help but set the record straight- this one time. :-) Maine is larger then Vermont, NH, Mass, and RI combined, yet has a population of only 1.2 million. The majority of the folks live in S.Maine.

3 of the 13 counties (mine included) have a population density of less the 2 people per square mile. As a Maine State Rep I worked w/in a district about the size of Vermont. (It went by a population of 8000/district) I represented towns, plantations , and unincorporated territories. In one of my Plantations, I witnessed 100% voter turnout with 22 voters in 2000! :bounce:

Sadly though- only 1 out of my 87 Unorganized Territories have an official voting place. The place? Their school which has an enrollment of 11 .....K-8

...that geographically we're about the same size as PA, but only 1/10th of the population.

As a political person and someone whose been here longer than I have, do you think we'll be able to defend Gov. Baldacci next year? Do you think Snowe is someone we might have a shot at with the right person running?

Allow me to say that I'm more optimistic about both of these after this year's elections!

And you?

Smack bang in the heart of London. The Middle of Somewhere. But I'm spending Xmas in the sticks.

I grew up in town and hated it. Once I got out here, I settled down some, but I despise having to take my garbage out to the dump. I grew up with people picking it up for me. As a matter of fact, I never knew about the out of city limits, fend for yourself thing until I got older. Damn, I've fallen so far down. Oh, well. They shoot guns outside the city limits too. I duck all the way to the car this time of year. They like to drink alcohol and then shoot randomly at anything and everything blowing in the wind around here. I guess you can tell I'm more of a city girl when it comes to convenience and security.

You'll eventually get used to the battlefield! :evilgrin: (I'm from NJ originally)

all the yahoos running around trying to shoot anything that moves (often after waayyyyy too much beer) and lugging all my trash and recycling to the dump. Ugh! I hate dealing with my trash, I've been doing it for 6 years and just don't like it. Don't. Like. It.

Now, I've lived in NYC, LA, San Diego, Washington DC and Atlanta and I much prefer the quiet and less stressful lifestyle of where I am now, but the trash thing rankles. Grrr.

where I live now. I can't count to three between loud trucks going down the road, even late at night. I would think the world ended if I didn't hear those loud trucks full of country music and screaming people going down the road. And the gun shots all day and all night. LOL.

Where I live there is a recycling after you dump it policy. In other words, you just put stuff in the trash and take it to the dump. They have either machines or people who sift throug it and recycle at a centralized place I don't want to see. :evilgrin: I know I don't want that job. I know what I put in my trash. There is a reason I take it to the dump when I do. Pee-yuuu.

Can you walk to your mailbox naked and no one will ever see or know? That is my dream. Not that I would, but that I could.

There are four other houses on our dead-end lane, and we're in the first house as you enter.

Back to 56k dialup, being surrounded by fundies and other sorts of freeper types, and sheer utter boredom.

I'll be counting down the days until I go back to Stevens Point on the 22nd of January.

right across the street.Used to be able to sit on my front porch, pick a grapefruit off the tree squeeze it into a glass of vodka and watch the sunset. OTOH, it's worth a lot of money now.

Oh yeah, I think we're called an exburb.

neighbor, 15 miles to the nearest town with actual shops and 60 miles from the big city (Tucson) Unfortunatly (except for medical emergencies then the gratitude comes out) the interstate is just about 1/4 of a mile from the house....

How can you stand it? Not the rural part; I'm used to that. In fact, I have it worse from what you describe....

What I'm talking about is how can you stand living in a desert? The weather there sucks! OK I'm only basing it on a 6 day conferance in Tucson but still it WAS October and locals told me that Oct is not nearly as hot as other months. Evenings and nights were heavenly but days sucked and I'm not a night person.

Also (and please don't take this wrong) I thought the landscape was awful to behold. And I don't just mean Tuscon but the surrounding areas as well... everything was brown, brown, brown. We have our ugly moments here (such as mud season) but it eventually goes away.

That's a pretty nice pic though. :-)

like it - Northern Mexico, Turkey, parts of Austrailia etc.

We are actually about 1000 feet higher than Tucson so a little bit wetter and cooler but you probably would not be able to tell the dif! (And hey that mountain was green for a week or two in August, I swear!) October? yeah it was a hot one - usually Oct is the BEST month for the area. I don't remember what mud is but I think we were complaining abut it one winter 15 or 20 years ago! It would be nice to see again. (the SW is smack in the middle of a drought estimated to be one of the worste in 100's of years and to last about 20 - BLEH.)

I remember in the early 80's driving back to Illinois for a family reunion of husband's family and getting into the endless GREEN cornfields of Kansas - at first it was cool then started to bug me. (I have been to Hawaii, Japan, Taiwan and the Pacific NW, so I have seen greeneryand it is pretty and nice to see (and MUCH more productive, that's for sure), but the desert tends to really grab some people. I am one.

Summer thunderstorms are the best - and sunsets - did you see any? Snow on the desert is rare and beautifull. There are real seasonal changes, but they are subtle and it takes time to know them. After a wet winter the deasert explodes with wildflowers unrivaled by anywhere else IMO.

now just in an overpriced, fancy version of the same.
I miss Louisiana alot, but for now Cali does...

:)

I can't see any neighbors homes from my property. I am on 15 acres in southern Tennessee. The nearest grocery store is 15 miles away. No cable, no city water, I drive to the dump once a week.
My dogs run off leash (small dogs-beagle mix).
The only thing that pisses me off is the a-holes who seem to think the roadways are their personal garbage can. Seems as if people think its "OK" to litter on the country roads.
I could probably go get my mail naked- there is some traffic on my road (about 5-10 cars a day).

the city. I live in a rural area...yes we have the Freeps and fundies. Honestly aside from their views they are not all bad people. We have our debates but when there is a need they genuinely help out. These people are not the hate-filled people we like to stereotype. My lawn had the only Kerry sign for miles and miles.

I just have to jump over the income hurdle- how to survive without a job.

The closest place to buy 1/2 & 1/2 is 5 miles away.

I bring in my bird-feeders at night in the early Spring, otherwise the bears destroy them.

My dog only sees deer or wild turkey when she goes out in the morning.

But I'm not too far out there. Our neighborhood has cable for my computer these days. That is when it's not too windy or stormy.

I live on 12 acres in the hills overlooking the Napa Valley. I only rent, but I've been here 20 years. Love the place.

Napa Valley. Lucky you. If I still lived in the Bay Area and had untold millions I'd have a house in the Berkeley Hills and maybe a weekend getaway in Napa. Yeah, dream on ...

by the Napa Valley apellation. I'm one of the poor folks who lucked into a good deal twenty years ago. If my landlords ever decided to raise my rent I couldn't afford to live here. But in the mean time it's glorious.

(I, too, serve kitties.)

Right out in the country. Moved to the big city as soon as I graduated high school.

Now, 32 years later, I'm in a small town of about 3500. Semi boonies, I guess.

My former country home is now condos and high-buck strip malls.

in the county has about 6000 pop. it is 8 miles away. I lived in the DC area 2 years and hated it, sometimes I don't mind going to Pittsburgh or Columbus for a short visit, these are not really large cities and I can't see why anyone would want to live there and fight the traffic, crime, congestion and high prices. The picture on Kali's post looks like heaven to me, would like to move someplace like that when I retire.

I live in a small town just northwest of Atlanta. When I moved here I thought I was in the middle of nowhere. But not anymore -- housing developments and shopping malls have been built all around me. Seems the city has moved northward.

Ten years ago, we were surrounded by horses and cows. Now it's strip malls, with every nearby lot going commercial.

:toast:

offices was limited.

/Unabomber

and ditto on the lovin' every minute of it...

small freeper town in the middle of nowhere.

But then again, most people think my entire state is the boonies.

Nothin' like it!

It's about 35 miles south of Dallas. We have no sewers. We are all on septics. The only way to get good Internets service is to use a wireless ISP. There is no broadband here. Most of the people who live out here are on at least an acre. My acre backs up to a hay farm that is also used for cattle. It's growing quickly though. We'll be considered a suburb soon enough.

The Boondocks are an hour away. Seriously.