Looking For Land - Which State?

Well, the one factoid I am familiar with is that Missouri is the "cave state", with a huge amount of cave systems.

E.L. -That pic is beautiful!

 

Poke around on the NRA/ILA website. There are a couple other places too, that have compendia of state gun laws, more or less current. Googling up "gun laws" will turn up over a lot of info. We have a few MI folks on the forum that might have better info. When I lived there (a long time back) the paranoia wasn't as prevalent, ran into no problems with either long or short guns.

 

Corpus Christi. When I was there (and granted, it was summer) it was so hot and humid, that the air felt thick. I opted not to move there (plus, they have really large insects and scorpions).

 

Oh, good to know. not staying there.

I remember living in San Antonio in 2006 and thinking...."My gawd is that the sound of my brain frying in my skull?"

I will have to do some searching, though. I love Texas as a state, that's for sure. Freedom lovers galore. I might do as some here have suggested and look around a bit in that area north and East, possibly even other areas of Texas -I dunno. I am stuck here in the middle east until late '09.

 

I was looking at land in that area for a time but haven't actually been looking lately. Found 100,000 acres in the late 90's for $100 an acre. But they wouldn't split any, all or nothing. Couldn't get enough people together to buy it.

About 5 years ago I went there and looked at 180 acres that was listing for $180 an acre. Small pond, creek, about 2/3 going up the side of a mountain. But it faced a well traveled paved road and had a logging trail cut through the middle of it that locals used every weekend for 4-wheelers, 4X4's, and horsebacking. So turned it down. But I heard later that it finally sold for $140 an acre.

One advantage is that you can find smaller parcels that are adjacent to vast areas of wilderness. The Ouachita Natl. Forest is something like 3.5 million acres and Wehrhouser(?spelling) Paper company owns several hundred thousand acres that they log. You can get a permit to hunt,fish and camp thier land for $14 a year.

Lots of very remote mountain land available there for cheap. Some places are 4-wheel drive access only. I plan to retire there so I try to keep up with prices in the area. They got really high for awhile. Hundreds of OKC and Dallas/Ft. Worth people bought land there pre-Y2K. They started selling out by '02 except for a few who kept weekend places. Then the oil boom brought a lot of new income to the area. But with this economy they will probably drop back to normal or lower soon.