Comments on: This Green And Pleasant Land

By: vkaryl

vkaryl — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 02:04:06 +0000

We can hope he’ll be gone sooner. There are some burgeoning impeachment initiatives….

By: vkaryl

vkaryl — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:50:44 +0000

I can do without California entirely – too many people, though what of the landscape is left is pretty.

Washington/Oregon on the coastal side of the mountains are nice (but boy have they got drowned this year…. even for THAT part of the world!)

By: Andy @ Yellow Swordfish

Andy @ Yellow Swordfish — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:52:27 +0000

Yes – I smoke but nowhere is smoker friendly anymore in English speaking countries as far as I know. I DO like green though. I only know Utah second-hand. I loved what I saw of Washington state and Oregon as well and am hoping this May, as part of our trip, to visit northern California as well and I have a hunch I’m going to like that. I like havng seasons but a winter that is just a day or two long would suit me just fine!

By: vkaryl

vkaryl — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:35:03 +0000

Andy, I highly recommend Utah for plenty of space NOT in towns/cities….

While Utah has its downsides (I’m NOT going there in this post since I’m not likely to be “fair”, being female and old), the upsides most likely far outweigh them. There’s really only one metropolis – the Ogden/SLC/Provo corridor. If you don’t “have” to live there, the rest of the state is a playground. The only other sizable town in the state is St George, nearer to Las Vegas than SLC, and even as of the latest local census less than 100k population.

Clean air, quiet lightless star-filled nights, snow in the winter, actually four REAL seasons, geese in their Vs flying over calling to the moon…. oh yes, I can wax lyrical about living here. Um…. you smoke I think, so the not necessarily smoker-friendly climate wouldn’t appeal I guess….

But there are a lot of plusses. You can buy a nice house on a quarter acre of land (enough for a horse and a garden) for about $125k US as long as you don’t want to be IN St George or the SLC metroplex (or at one of the resort summer-home areas). If you NEED green, Utah’s not for you, but there are other levels of beauty (and while where I really want to live is the Pac NW, I’ve come to an “agreement” of sorts with Utah….)

Hmmm. Sorry for the length….

By: Andy @ Yellow Swordfish

Andy @ Yellow Swordfish — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 23:15:44 +0000

But you guys have so much space…. That’s one of the attractions for me – if not the major one. Andf the Shrub will be gone at the end of next year….

By: Jeannine

Jeannine — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 22:33:09 +0000

I agree – I saw it when I was there & have been seeing it in the DC area for the last 15 years. All the beautiful farmland in DC’s surrounding counties is now ugly developments with too many people & too many cars.

By: Drew

Drew — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 09:45:08 +0000

I’m sorry to say I have to agree with you, we do need a good old war and/or a few pesky diseases to both bring the population levels down and to make people be grateful for what they have rather than expect the state to give them handouts for doing nothing.