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.
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.