Here is another car parts sculpture in the Texas Hill Country.

 

ever try going to a place that is a match to the things you like in life?

try Find Your Spot | Find Your Spot answer honestly and you will get some great ideas.

even with all the industry here people are leaving like crazy...a buddy bought 6 acres with a 4 bedroom house 2 garages and 2 story huge barn for 115,000.00......then my neighbor bought a run down house for 1,200.00 and flipped it for 35,000.00......you never know.

good luck on your search.

 

As someone who's really never been anywhere. I like the area I live in but the government and most of the people are the problem. By the time I retire my cars might not be legal to drive, paint, work on..... it's getting sad. That said I'm looking into Williams Az., of course I like the smaller town idea and have had it with Large cities or they're suburbs.

 

Well the price on homes in fl. are lower then up north and you can't beat the weather. A friend of mine just sold a small home in new york and he could buy 3 homes in fl. for what he sold it for. YOU will have to put up with folks you don't even know waving at ya. learn how to say yall/ain't/ and put up with skeeters and 10,000 other bugs. I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU DO FOR A LIVING BUT that could be a problem. GOOD LUCK AND if you do get a trailer i know some cheap places to park it while you check out the job market. But its 35 to 55 miles to any big town . I will help anyway i can if its in north fl. DALE

 

i would highly recommend Brattleboro, Vermont...it's an excellent place for an artist and/or tradesman to flourish...

 

I find it interesting....most of the folks who have responded really like their part of the world. Everybody needs some place that feels like home.

I was on a business trip to Los Angeles with a friend of mine several years ago. As we drove into the LA basin, I made some comment about not really liking Los Angeles. His reply was a quote from some author who I can't remember....it went like this....Los Angeles is all right...all it needs is more water and a better class of people.....but then....hell has the same problems!!

 

According to the map, yer not too far from the North Dakota oil boom area. That would be tempting, even if for not long long term. I'd be tempted to get in there, make some of that black gold money, save it up, and move to my real long term location.

FWIW, even Oklahoma economy is still in the tank. It seems everytime we get some good economic news more bad news pops up; AmericanAirlines filing CH 11, AA moving maintenance groups to TX, Whirlpool laying off and tempted to leave the state,etc....

Seems that oil and manufacturing industries here are just now starting to climb out of the depressed economy and are hiring and growing. Medical careers are always available all over the state.

Austin is not far from Round Rock. I lived in Round Rock a few years as a kid. It was nice to be in that growing little town and still be close enough to all the big city stuff in Austin. (FYI, Austin made a list on CNN recently; Dont think that would make me wanna move there.


As your searching the web try to google the cities and live cam. Many of the bigger high tech cities, even Tulsa, have live streaming cams to see what the weather and city looks like.

Best of luck on your decision and move.

 

I couldn't resist.

 

I live near Forney Tx, 20 to 25 min. from downtown Dallas. Dallas is hard to beat if its work your looking for. Ive never lacked for work even during my 20 year old Jimmy Carter years, and it got tuff almost everywhere.

 

Paradise CA, a favorite location where retired cops from the LAPD move to. Another favorite LAPD cop 'move to' location is Coeur d'Alene ID

 

My brother-in-law and sister-in-law lived in Poway, CA for years, had enough and moved to Lewiston, ID. 3 years ago and just love it there.

 

Poway is no longer the 'backwater' rural town it once was. Today it's a 'bedroom community' composed of dozens of housing tracts.

Driving north from San Diego on the I-15 freeway, you'll see one housing tract after another. So you cannot determine one suburb from another, unless you read the freeway exit signs.

I've been to Sheridan WY, stopped there after visiting Custer, er...Little Big Horn Battlefield, stayed at the Holiday Inn and visited King's Saddlery & Museum.

It's a nice little town, but appears to offer few opportunities to make a living.

Buffalo WY (located in Johnson County) is another nice little town, close to Kaycee where Hole in the Wall is located (made famous by the Butch Cassidy gang).

The Occidental Hotel where Owen Wister wrote "The Virginian" and the Jim Gatchell Memorial Museum are worth visits. The famous Johnson County War (cow-boys vs ranchers) occurred in the Powder River Basin in 1892.

 

As a black smith myself i would assume that you are using a propane forge so that's not a issue since your not set on warm have a peek at Rochester mn with the mayo it has money and lots of it there's plenty of places for a bartender to work as far as dental that's a tough one anywere

 

Round Rock isn't soo little anymore. All the growth in the last 10 years has changed the place. They have built all the new tollways and overpasses. And all the new jammed in housing development have eaten up the beautiful country-side.

They started referring to the area as the "Austin-Round Rock Metro area". I've started calling the area "Little California". It's not the rural place it use to be.

 

You are dead right on that! Austin, Round Rock, Georgetown are all one now. What a zoo.