So say you were going to pick everything up and go live somewhere else (in the states), where? Why?

[Jamastiene]

82. I don't have a particular city in mind, but I do want

a place that is close enough to a larger city with plenty of museums, science centers, and other interesting hobbies, but out in the woods far enough that I don't have to hear cars going down the road every minute of the day and night.

My step dad says I am dreaming and that place doesn't exist. I wish it did. If I could find that place and pot was legal there and it was an affordable place to live, I'd want to go there, get a few acres of land(I wish I could afford more, of all forested land), build a cabin in the center of it(really the largest sized shed like they sell at Lowes, with modifications to bring it up to code and modify the insides of it), and let the rest stay wilderness/forest. Only use the little area in a small clearing for my cabin and a path in and out to go to town.

I could live happily ever after if it was also a place with regular snow. It doesn't have to be ass deep in snow year round, just snow more often than once a year if you are lucky. I want any place I would go to actually have cold weather and cold winters. Where I was born and still live now, I don't have enough fingers and toes to count how many times I have spent Christmas in shorts and a t-shirt sweating to Christmas carols and no snow that winter at all. I hate that. I want snow around. So, for a place to be perfect for me, it has to also have actual cold winters and snow.

Other than a cabin on a few acres of land in a wilderness area with good winters and snow next to a nice big city where I can go entertain myself, I'm not asking for much, right? My family tells me there is no such Utopia and I need to quit dreaming. So, I let 5/6ths of my yard grow wild and all of the wildlife in the neighborhood lives with me here.

I do enjoy that all of the wildlife in the neighborhood is comfortable around me but not other humans in the neighborhood, and they all live with me, but it's too damn hot here, too many right wingers surround me, there is no place for gay people here to meet each other or feel safe, there is no culture for intelligent people, and it is in the Bible Belt.

When I walk into my jungle of a backyard (I'm not talking about a few dandelions like most people when they call their yard a jungle, I'm talking wisteria, Japanese, knotweed, old pecan and oak trees, lots of underbrush, and tons of wildlife), I can almost forget the city where I live is a pit of despair in the Bible Belt...almost. And I own it now. So, I guess I'll stay put....at least until I win a lottery or get lots of money somehow. Then, I want acreage and a cabin and oodles of wildlife that is comfortable around me, a small music studio inside of part of the cabin, and snow, miles and miles of forests/wilderness filled with snow.