This past week I took my kids up to my parents house in the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York. I want to move up there like yesterday. I’ll give you the reasons not to first.
The cost of housing is crazy. There is no more land to build on as the State does not want the whole Adirondack Park look like Like Lake George. There are also no jobs. Great place to live and raise a family but you can’t find a house or a job. There is no middle class. The Adirondacks are still in New York State, subject to the prosperity chocking taxes and regulations. The price of goods were already high before inflation as the park on the Central and West side are an hour away from an interstate. It’s an hour away from a Walmart or mall. My father makes a day out of it. The weather is harsh. Winters brutal and in April its called “Mud Season” as all the snow melts and everything turns to mud. Its too warm to ski and too cold to fish! The closest hospital is over an hour away! The closest big city is Utica. A thriving Metropolis Utica is not.
But: I would move here tomorrow as there is no crime. Car doors are unlocked and keys are in the ignition. If someone stole a car, they better cover it up on a flatbed as everyone knows everyone’s cars and trucks. The biggest offense is driving drunk! The people here are as nice as can be. And the people that have money don’t show it with the exception of a nicer truck, boat and or house. You don’t know if people are multimillionaires or flat broke. They all dress the same and don’t care. You can have a multimillionaire drinking beer next to a dishwasher at a bar.
The Confederate flag is shown with pride and nobody says anything. I have seen more Confederate flags in this part of New York than in Northern Virginia where Bull Run, Manassas, and Fredericksburg were all fought less than an hour from DC.
There are plenty of churches. None of the churches are woke with rainbows and Black Lives Matters flags anywhere! You see crosses.
The politics are far right. There are American flags, Confederate flags, and Trump flags everywhere as well as Let’s Go Brandon and Fuck Joe Biden! There are no tranny’s and no pronouns or any of the garbage we see on the nightly news. There are gay people who visit, but they keep to themselves.
I took my youngest kids to an amusement park. It was reasonably priced and despite the large crowd I did not have to keep my “Spidey Senses” up. People were well behaved, and there were no police in the park. There was no metal detectors and no security searching your bag! People left their towels and other personal items on a beach chair and went on the water rides.
The view is spectacular, All around my folks house is trees. Around my house my neighbor’s houses and a parking lot.
One of the best times of my life was sitting on my dad’s boat. His cell phone has reception in the mountains. His boat has a Bluetooth system so we were listening to the Rolling Stones, Jeff Beck and The Allman Brothers Band in the middle of the lake looking at the girls in small bikini’s. It’s been a while since I went to the beach and man, I want to thank the men who designed these bikini’s! I just need to find burka’s for my daughters!
Someday somehow I will move back up north!
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