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I got interviewed for a telework job, the problem with the job is I have to live within 250 miles of the Mexican border. I am a retired military guy, so living near a base is good, an hour is perfect. It is nice to have a real base hospital so emergency room visits for my 4 kids are easier/cheaper. My top thoughts, though we would have until the end of the year to move are: Kerrville, TX San Angelo, Texas Ruidoso, New Mexico Bullhead City, AZ My wife is a city slicker, so anyplace we go she needs to be close enough to feel like she can get her Nordstroms on within a couple hours. | ||
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I have never been down there, I have heard good things. The biggest downside for me is the idea of buying that 20-100 acres in the country and having coke mules running through the back forty at night. Need to take a look at Huachuca, as it is a great hunting and living place. For our family lifestyle I don't know that it will work. | |||
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Kerrville is 1 hour from San Antonio. Many retirees, good VA hospital. Reasonable cost of living with great hunting and fishing. Very friendly place to boot. Jim | |||
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We own 67.5 acres outside Nogales, Arizona, that is about an hour from Tucson's shopping malls, VA hospital (and four others) and Davis Monthan AFB that we can sell you. A small airport for private planes is nearby, and Tucson International Airport is about 45 minutes away. It is only about 35-40 miles to Sierra Vista and Fort Huachuca. Our property stretches across rolling hills that are green in the summer (and once owned by Stewart Granger and Jean Simmons). You can drive a cart to an 18-hole course from any of several homesites in perhaps three or four minutes. There are Coues whitetails and javelinas living on site. Its higher points overlook a scenic river valley and a couple of small ponds with rare migratory birdlife, and there are views of three mountain ranges and far into Mexico. A jaguar that wandered across the border years ago was shot very near our place when it still was legal to hunt them. It is within two air miles of the border, so there is occasional foot traffic across our land. However, the surrounding property is owned by a local citizen whom I have been told "went to Mexico and made a lot of money," so such visits are minimal. Bill Quimby | |||
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Is it 200 miles or 250 miles? Mike Legistine actu? Quid scripsi? Never under estimate the internet community's ability to reply to your post with their personal rant about their tangentially related, single occurrence issue.  What I have learned on AR, since 2001: 1. The proper answer to: Where is the best place in town to get a steak dinner? is…You should go to Mel's Diner and get the fried chicken. 2. Big game animals can tell the difference between .015 of an inch in diameter, 15 grains of bullet weight, and 150 fps. 3. There is a difference in the performance of two identical projectiles launched at the same velocity if they came from different cartridges. 4. While a double rifle is the perfect DGR, every 375HH bolt gun needs to be modified to carry at least 5 down. 5. While a floor plate and detachable box magazine both use a mechanical latch, only the floor plate latch is reliable. Disregard the fact that every modern military rifle uses a detachable box magazine. 6. The Remington 700 is unreliable regardless of the fact it is the basis of the USMC M40 sniper rifle for 40+ years with no changes to the receiver or extractor and is the choice of more military and law enforcement sniper units than any other rifle. 7. PF actions are not suitable for a DGR and it is irrelevant that the M1, M14, M16, & AK47 which were designed for hunting men that can shoot back are all PF actions. 8. 95 deg F in Africa is different than 95 deg F in TX or CA and that is why you must worry about ammunition temperature in Africa (even though most safaris take place in winter) but not in TX or in CA. 9. The size of a ding in a gun's finish doesn't matter, what matters is whether it’s a safe ding or not. 10. 1 in a row is a trend, 2 in a row is statistically significant, and 3 in a row is an irrefutable fact. 11. Never buy a WSM or RCM cartridge for a safari rifle or your go to rifle in the USA because if they lose your ammo you can't find replacement ammo but don't worry 280 Rem, 338-06, 35 Whelen, and all Weatherby cartridges abound in Africa and back country stores. 12. A well hit animal can run 75 yds. in the open and suddenly drop with no initial blood trail, but the one I shot from 200 yds. away that ran 10 yds. and disappeared into a thicket and was not found was lost because the bullet penciled thru. I am 100% certain of this even though I have no physical evidence. 13. A 300 Win Mag is a 500 yard elk cartridge but a 308 Win is not a 300 yard elk cartridge even though the same bullet is travelling at the same velocity at those respective distances. | |||
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If your wife likes cities Ruidoso is a long way from a city. Las Cruces might be an option. John Farner If you haven't, please join the NRA! | |||
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Mike 200, just checked. Bill, no thanks! Las Cruces isn't really an option. Was not a nice place in the 1990's when I was going to high school in Socorro, can't imagine it aged like fine wine. We liked Kerrville a lot too. Spent a good part of last year in New Braunfuls and did the trip a couple times. San Angelo is bigger and seems to have a lot more going on, but is farther from the big cities (which I personally like, but have to negotiate with the war department). If I get the job we are going to try and get moved by November of this year. It's telecomute so I am going to work from here in California until November. We are having another kid, so moving right now is a bad time. | |||
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Personally I'd give San Angelo a miss, big time. I'd consider Kerrville, Fredricksburg, and the various small towns outside of San Antonio. If you like salt water, beaches, and great fishing I'd really think hard on Corpus, Rockport, etc. If the 200 miles is as the crow flies, you could consider nice areas such as Wimberley, San Marcos, etc. xxxxxxxxxx When considering US based operations of guides/outfitters, check and see if they are NRA members. If not, why support someone who doesn't support us? Consider spending your money elsewhere. NEVER, EVER book a hunt with BLAIR WORLDWIDE HUNTING or JEFF BLAIR. I have come to understand that in hunting, the goal is not the goal but the process. | |||
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I have not been to San Angelo, what's the big miss on it? | |||
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It's really not that bad, I just think there are many more that are better. For one thing, it is overrun with oil trucks, etc etc. For another, when you leave San Angelo, the closest city of any size is Abilene or Sweetwater, and that ain't saying much either. OTOH, if you're thinking of buying a ranch outside of town, now that is different and there are some nice areas depending on what rows your boat. The fact is that most places and the people there in Texas can be nice if the area fits your needs. xxxxxxxxxx When considering US based operations of guides/outfitters, check and see if they are NRA members. If not, why support someone who doesn't support us? Consider spending your money elsewhere. NEVER, EVER book a hunt with BLAIR WORLDWIDE HUNTING or JEFF BLAIR. I have come to understand that in hunting, the goal is not the goal but the process. | |||
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I've been spending time around Sierra Vista and really like it. They have many major stores, many restaurants, everything you'll ever need can be found in Tucson, the bird hunting is great and San Carlos, Mexico with great bill fishing is only 5 hours away. "There are worse memorials to a life well-lived than a pair of elephant tusks." Robert Ruark | |||
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Gatogordo (Fat Cat hehehe), Thanks, we'd be looking at 50 plus acres, hopefully 150. San Angelo is about a 80% discount from Kerrville in mini-ranch prices. SBT, My brother in law was in the Army there and they loved it. We'd have to experience that one ourselves. Those bastards at the game and fish in Arizona don't beleive in land owner tags. So we'd be watching javelina and deer we may never get a tag for. One of my old Colonels retired and lives in Tucson, they have told us to come check it out. I love Arizona, but hate the completely bow-centered wildlife management of the state. | |||
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ruidoso is a really nice area. you're in the start of the mountains, quite a vacation spot, horse racing track brings in lots of people. area around has mule deer aoudad etc. only a few miles to white sands. great people there | |||
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I have not been there in a long time. The base in Alamagordo isn't n any jeopardy of being shut down. Like you said lots of oryx, elk and aoudad. Tags for the 3 are pretty available for New Mexico residents. I currently live in the Northern Mojave, Ruidoso has quite a bit better weather. And a bit of snow every year, so that's nice. If I end up with the job it is on of my top 5 places to take a look. | |||
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I will second that. I am in San Angelo a lot lately. While the town isn't bad and I enjoy visiting, if I had to live there I would get bored as there isn't a whole ton to do and there's not much shopping for your wife. There isn't much close by either. ____________________________ If you died tomorrow, what would you have done today ... 2018 Zimbabwe - Tuskless w/ Nengasha Safaris 2011 Mozambique - Buffalo w/ Mashambanzou Safaris | |||
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Ok, so San Angelo, is a maybe. We'll have to check it out if we get the job. | |||
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Many consider San Angelo to be the crown jewel of west Texas. I have met some of the nicest people ever in San Angelo. They are still friendly and down to earth. They also have nice respectable sized deer there. Not the little rabbit sized deer that are common to the hill country areas such as Kerrville, Fredericksberg, San Marcos or Wimberly. No San Angelo is not an L.A., Austin, Dallas or Denver and thank God for that! As for the statement about no shopping for the wife, well I guess it depends on what your wife will be shopping for. People there still believe in hard work and earning a living rather than having someone hand it to them. I don't know how long that will last in view of the current mentality of the country. If you want something similiar to the California mentality, I suggest you move to the Austin/San Marcos area. High aggressive property taxation. Cannibus-smoke blowing crowd with purple hair and rings through their nostrils......mmmmmmm nice! Since you want to be near a base and close to the border, you might want to consider El Paso. I have worked there a lot over the last several years. The climate is great, the people are friendly, the food is wonderful and you are close to the mountains of New Mexico for hunting. The only down side to El Paso is the dust blows every once in a while and well ......there aint much shade. But then it isn't much different than Tuscon or Phoenix in any of those aspects except for the fact you are closer to rifle hunting in New Mehico. Formerly Rae59 1 Trillion seconds = 31,709 years | |||
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RAE59, San Angelo sounds better suited to us than I previously thought. We have small children, and my wife gets kind of bored here in our 20,000 person town out in the middle of the Mojave desert. We have a walmart and about 60% of the businesses in town are empty. I am not an Austin kind of guy. Hell any city over about 150,000 is too big, and really someplace like Casper, Wyoming with it's 60,000 people is about perfect. But Casper, is the mecca of Wyoming for anything. I can't think of anything in the world that couldn't be aquired in Casper. Near a border is relative. The job requires 200 miles. There is some periodic travel to asses the border crossings. | |||
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I almost hit one of the biggest elk I have ever seen around Capitan Peak. Luckly, I was driving a friends car  "though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression." ---Thomas Jefferson | |||
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San Angelo is a nice town. Friendly and has grown a lot in the last 30 years. My Family is from there I it sure has changed. Very pleasant climate, good hunting and some decent bass fishing. BTW They have a Nordstroms in Angelo---LOL "The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane." Mark Twain TANSTAAFL www.savannagems.com A unique way to own a piece of Africa. DSC Life NRA Life | |||
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Nordstroms, Commisary and Exchange. If we get the job she say's that's it!
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