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Hello boys and girls! Well, for all of youse that know me, the fact that I've been dying to get off this rock is no news. I've finally found a very possible out. I've applied for a job that will allow me to relocate to the 2 places mentioned, as well as Swanton, VT or Houlton, ME. I've discarded the Maine and Vermont, but haven't decided between Grand Forks and Havre. Have any of you guys been to either place? Could you tell me more about them? Yes, I know they're both cold. I can tell they're both in the boonies...
Thanks!
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PuertoRicoSigns.Com Luquillo, PR Posts: 2023 | From: Luquillo, Puerto Rico, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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I have friends that live in Sherwood ND...2 miles from the Canadian border...They love it...they crop farm 12,000 acres and have a junkyard of old cars...and no one complains. BTW, your kids will love it...you can get your driver's permit at 14 and drive at 15 ( including semi's)-farm kids..
-------------------- Nikki Goral Image Advantage Signs 4050 Champeau Road New Franken, WI 54229 920-465-4500 "Finish every day and be done with it. Tomorrow is a new day."-Ralph Waldo Emerson Posts: 443 | From: New Franken, WI (East Green Bay) | Registered: Jun 2007
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If you want to move to North Dakota, you must really desperate to move off that rock, eh?
Seriously, good luck to you and in your new adventure! Stop by for coffee on your way.
-------------------- Bruce Bowers St. Cloud, Minnesota
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Yup Bruce. Geez man I'm sorry I've never made it your way (yet). I've been up there 3 times this year! Went to Duluth last month! Loved it! Oh, and Manitowish Waters, WI. AWESOME place!
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PuertoRicoSigns.Com Luquillo, PR Posts: 2023 | From: Luquillo, Puerto Rico, USA | Registered: Nov 2000
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Duluth's a cool place... in every sense of the word.
Wisconsin's a beautiful state--both my parents are from there and I've got cheesehead relatives all over Wisconsin.
I also had cousins in Havre when I was a kid. I'm a mountain freak, and Havre is closer to the Rockies than North Dakota. The Bear Paw Mountains are just south of town.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 2970 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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I was staioned in Grand Forks in the early 70's while in the Air Force. Great place if you like to hunt and fish. Lotsa of potatoes grown there...also I remember the people were very nice and it was a University town. The weather waz brutal!!!! You will have to plug your car in at night during the winter using a block heater or dipstick heater device or you won't be able to start your car. The economy was not too vibrant...and I don't suspect much has changed, but I know that talented people, (Like Mike Jackson - Wyoming) can succeed in communities that appear to be limited from a market perspective. Good Luck
-------------------- Tony Lucero Eagle Graphics Waterford, MI www.eaglegph.com Posts: 232 | From: Waterford, MI, USA | Registered: Apr 2000
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FELIX!!! You're thinking of moving from Puerto Rico to North Dakota or Montana? Quickly now... run down to your doctor, tell him you think you are in the first stages of dementia... I'm really worried about you! I guess it'd be my dream to move to an island...
I have relatives living in Wisconsin, Michigan and Montana. I've visited them in the winter and you literally could not force me to live there November - February. Pretty country, nice summers, but that cold is brutal to a Southern boy who's acclimated to hot and beachy weather...
/Good luck with whatever you decide to do... //But don't burn your bridges in PR....
-------------------- Jon Jantz Snappysign.com jjantz21@gmail.com http://www.allcw.com Posts: 2044 | From: Atmore, AL | Registered: Nov 2005
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I refuse to recognize North & South Dakota as 2 seperate states. Honestly, it's time for them to just put aside their differences, get over it & join to become "Dakota."
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Roy, the tropical weather is "South" Dakota.
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I agree with all of the above. Right now it is 74 degrees, a little overcast, but comfortable because the humidity is at a normal level...about 60 percent. Nice breeze, absolutely perfect day to work outside.
Winter's up here suck...only now that I am an adult and have suffered through countless weather related sicknesses as a younger person; sunstroke, heatstroke, hypothermia, frostbite, 2nd degree sunburn....
In the winter's here as a kid it was AWESOME!!!! Lots of snow, building things out of snow, 3-wheelers with sleds behind towing 5 kids at a time, snowmobiles, ice fishing...great memories.
However, once you get hypothermia and frostbite, any coldness just ticks you off...even 55 degrees.
Again, the summers can be wicked too. Everyone thinks it's just winter that is a bag. I have family in Phoenix and the "dry heat" has something to it. Let's compare: 94 degrees in Phoenix with 7 percent humidity is VERY NICE!! Not scorching...but 117 is hot no matter what! Now take the same 94 degrees and add in the humidity of 85%...you literally cannot breathe. It will stay that way until midnight...no relief. AC is your only savior. And hopefully you don't live in the woods cuz the skeeters love it even more!
After a couple of bouts with that, you again contemplate why you would live in the northern midwest.
Ahhh, yes...the real reasons...weather you can acclimate yourself to; social conditions, which is Felix is referring to, IS the reason to move. Us midwesterners (especially us German, Belgian & Polish ones-which most of North Dakota is German-settled by Germans) have a certain standard of responsibility. Hard work is expected.
Nothing is set in concrete that he has to STAY there either. From what Felix has told me, (almost)ANYWHERE IN THE US is better than PR.
Get out and have fun!
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