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I am eye balling this. Winters are getting longer as I get older here in WI.
http://www.zillow.com/homes/for_sale/ho ... ?3col=true

Price looks good if it is somewhere you want to live. I can't handle heat, so moving south isn't an option for me. If I had to move, it would be north where it is cooler. I can handle winter, but summer hurts.

I dont know anyone who has personally lived around there, so I have no "lay of the land" too speak of.

Heat with fuel oil.

Water from personal well.

Red neck neighbors(the best kind ).

Close to Bristol(if you like NASCAR).

Likely an economically depressed area.(good if you do not need to work for a living)

Winters milder than WI, but elevation is a bit high so really bad stuff can happen.

Why does this look familiar?

JPG wrote:Heat with fuel oil.

Water from personal well.

Red neck neighbors(the best kind ).

Close to Bristol(if you like NASCAR).

Likely an economically depressed area.(good if you do not need to work for a living)

Winters milder than WI, but elevation is a bit high so really bad stuff can happen.

Why does this look familiar?

Thanks JPG, I posted one a ways back, and was looking for your thoughts, since you live in the region kinda.

What is the correlation between higher elevation and bad things?
Did a weather averages, not very warm in Jan and Feb high and lows temps.

Higher elevations tend to get harsher weather due (I suppose) to higher in the atmosphere is where that stuff originates.

Examples are freezing rain(ice) storms in late spring. Heavy snows in April. Add the vertically varying terrain and travel can be not only difficult, but life threatening(sliding into a 100 foot ravine). Guard rails are for sissies and flatlanders. Oh and no room for road 'shoulders'.

'Flatlanders' often comment about the 'hazardous roads' even in perfect weather. WELCOME TO DE "MOUNTAINS". These 'mountains' pale by comparison to the rockies, but are an obstacle none the less.

BTW they are called the 'apple at cha ns' by locals not appa la shuns.

P.S. Propane is another fuel source(cooking and heating). I am guessing that object in one of the pictures is a space heater. From the propaganda it apparently does not have 'central heating'.

One good thing is there is not a 'snow line from late fall to spring'. Any that arrives seldom stays around long.

If you like to fish, there are an abundance of significant lakes(think TVA dams).

It has been on the market for quite a long while and viewed by a goodly number of potential buyers.....why????

It looks like it might be a nice place to live. Do you need to make a living? Finding a job in that area may be difficult. Do you speak the local language?

As I mentioned it is an economically challenged area. Jobs are scarce. 'House trailers' are all too prevalent. 6 figure dwellings are simply to high on the hog for most locals. Those who have funds typically do not want to reside in remote areas(notice this is at the 'end of the road'.

As for 'the language', I can assure a transplant from North of Chicago will definitely sound strange to the locals(and vice versa).

Oh and the local liquid refreshment is not martinis, but a 'shinier' beverage.

If you are thinking moving to warmer climes then go far enough south to where they almost never if ever get snow. You live where snow is a 6 month a year reality and people/municipalities know how to deal with it. If you go some where where they have occasional snow it can be a disaster when the snow arrives. They don't have the snow removal equipment, personnel or budget to deal with it. 6" of snow in North Carolina is a disaster. Where you live it is just another day.

Kincheloe AFB in the UP of Michigan in the late 70's. 500" of snow a year. I got there right after the Edmund Fitzgerald went down outside of Whitefish Bay. Never had a problem going anywhere because of snow. In the late 80's we used to go TDY from Hill AFB to Holloman AFB NM for 30 days each year to be able to fly enough hours to keep current. One year Holloman got about 4" of snow. The base had no snow removal equipment. Their answer was to wait until it melted. We were there to fly F-16's. Well we waited for it to melt and lost a day and a half of flying.