If a freedom loving Brit ever wanted to move to the USA, where would be the best location?
For additional hypothetical requirements: nowhere near a city, sound 2A attitudes, low crime, strong family values and reasonable property values.
In the UK it's hard for us to get our head around just how big the US actually is so finding suitable locations is pretty daunting.
South Carolina on down
And I say that as someone who lives in the northeast.
The government has ruined these great states up here
Thanks, where not to go is definitely useful info too :)
President Trump has pointed out that South Carolina was the best state for being open during the C19 psyop as it never shut down. The coast is tourist area but small towns and 30 minutes inland is wide open spaces. Very 2A friendly with shooting ranges everywhere and shooting on your own property unrestricted other than in city limits. Also, very conservative state.
My aunt and uncle moved down there and love it.
I believe they open carry there.
Open or concealed carry with CWP (state wanted people to take safety course first) and everybody can keep a gun in their car as part of the Castle Doctrine. Property taxes are dirt cheap as are prices for consumer goods. Tons of free entertainment as well at very low cost for the entertainment that you have to pay for such as concerts.
Texas, Oklahoma most resemble your list of hypotheticals, though one can find a great spot just about anywhere. 😄
Avoid California, Oregon, Washington state, Illinois, New York. All leftie-run states with high crime, high taxes, high prices, and high lunacy.
Im from a quiet part of WA and I agree. Idaho or South Dakota. These states are very quiet and almost never in the news. Idaho panhandle is rural, and almost purely small business oriented.
The American South. You might not like the hot humid summers, but if you can stand living in a predominantly black town, then anywhere in Louisiana and Mississippi have lots and lots of cheap land and shacks. You can get five acres in the south for a reasonable price, anywhere from $500 to $10000 an acre. You will have to do some legwork on the interwebs to find such a place, but there are diamonds in the rough.
Fren, if humidity was a problem, our pal across the pond woud've moved out from the UK a loooong time ago.
The foothills of North Carolina.
I live in East Tennessee and call it "God's country." It's mostly mountainous, has only three large cities (Knoxville, Chattanooga, and the Johnson City area); otherwise it's a lot of small towns and largely agricultural, with some light industry. I regularly attend gun shows that occur here every two months, and Tennessee is a Constitutional Carry state for citizens.
Mostly mild winters with only the occasional Arctic Vortex that brings very cold weather from Canada, lovely springs and autumns, and summers that range from mild to rather hot and humid, but it's bearable.
Low taxes overall, NO state income tax, and the state has sound fiscal principles and normally runs a surplus and a healthy "prudent reserve." The people here are fiercely independent, except in the aforementioned cities, which lean somewhat Democrat. But overall, the state is firmly "red" (conservative). Religion still means something to most of us.
I know a Scotsman and an Englishman who live here and they both seem happy (although the Scotsman leans a bit left; however, he does love owning guns.)
Best of luck to you, no matter where you end up.
Thanks, that sounds awesome :) I love me some mountains - my spiritual home is North Wales (Snowdonia)
My family roots are in Wales, my mother's side was named Llewellyn. I've traveled by rail through Wales, around Cornwall, from Cardiff to Manchester, and it was SO reminiscent of my home in east Tennessee. Having Welsh DNA, I am a natural musician and play many different instruments; they just come easy to me.
The Llewellyn side of my family came here in the 1700s, landed , in North Carolina, and migrated into the mountains of remote east Tennessee. We've traced the Llewellyn name back to about 1250 or thereabouts.
The Appalachian Mountains here are geologically older, so they are not as awesome as those out west, being more sculpted by retreating ice after the last Ice Age and weathered over thousands of years. Gentle rolling mountains. To get an idea of what that is like, Google "Smoky Mountains National Park" (a mere 40 miles from where I sit typing this) and take a "street view" trip through some of the roads.
I live far west of Knoxville in a semi-rural place, so you might want to virtually "tour" this area too.
Cheers!
Thanks, that sounds amazing.
There's an old joke in Wales that says the Welsh stole so much land from the English that they had to pile it high to fit it all in ;)
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Never heard that one before.
If you really want to be nowhere near a city, then West Virginia is about the farthest to the end of that spectrum East of the Mississippi.
But frankly, it's not for everyone. Lots of people move here and then leave. But if you're resourceful and independent, it's hard to beat and spectacularly beautiful.
Texas is nice, but a once beautiful Austin has turned into a bit of a shithole if you move in to close. The suburbs are still pretty nice. It's real pretty. Georgetown, north of Austin, is fairly right leaning, still puts you in skipping distance of all of the wonderful bodies of water that we have to enjoy. Even through all of the BS, it's still in Texas. I ain't leaving before the world settles. Then, on to the mountains somewhere. Hopefully, Montana.
Look at weather and temperatures. Southern states rarely see snow. Northern states get cold.
Also measure driving distances. What all is within a day’s drive—a reasonable vacation distance? Oceans, mountains, etc.
Rapid City, South Dakota. If you ever visit take a quiet drive along Nemo Road from Rapid City and all through the Black Hills. Beautiful country and has all you seek.
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/lifesite-launches-new-interactive-map-tracking-abortion-laws-in-all-50-states/
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/full-list-abortion-is-now-illegal-in-at-least-10-states-more-to-follow/
Montana