Washington is a superb place, it has everything one would need, unfortunately progressive liberals run the state and want the same laws as California. West of the Cascades in both Oregon and Washington today are known as California North, not a good thing.
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Here in Ga I feel like it is a backwards state most of the time. Stupid stuff like medical cannibus laws being legal, but no way to get it, etc. one thing however, this state does beileve in guns. There's a gun show within 50 miles every weekend here. This place is conservative through and through. I think being too liberal or conservative is a bad thing. What ever happened to common sense and middle ground? I don't put myself in either catagory but try to look at each individual issue and think about what makes the most sense. For example, the keystone pipeline. Both sides are polarized for or against. The reservation they are going through is a headwaters for safe drinkable water and wildlife. Why the hell not just route the pipeline around that area. Sure it's not as straight a shot, and will cost some more, but then you avoid a lot of the conflict and get what you wanted anyway. I personally think the billion dollars would be better served perusing cleaner energy, but I also live in the real world and know the system is hungry and wants to keep going. There is supposed to be give and take in our system. The problem is both sides have grown so far apart they can't see what makes sense anymore. Just my 2 cents worth here....
The area around Porthill that Mav is talking about has fairly mild winters, depending on elevation, and the summers don't get too hot. I lived for several years about 40 miles south east of there in the mountains near the Montana border. We'd get up to 30 feet of snow fall where we lived. Great hunting and fishing in the area too. And the people are good, honest and hard working. Most are Conservative too.
Lots of water up around their and not far from good hunting grounds so all in all. We are planning on buying regardless of what Washington does just to have in the ready in case something arises here, we will put the property under a life estate deed. Right now we are putting our ducks in a row and creating an alternative, something I should have done years ago.
there's no doubt that 'green energy' isn't there yet. My take on it though is look at the model t compared to a modern car. It was a simple machine with lots of drawbacks like the water pump needing to be repacked all the time, and brakes that barely stopped the thing. Now, roughly 100yrs later, cars go over 300k miles routinely with every creature comfort known to man. My point is that if we don't persue it, then the needed advancements won't ever happen. I know we can't just stop all fossil fuels, but I think that a mandated percentage of what comes out of them should be put into R&D to make it viable in the not so far off future. We are polluting the air we breathe and water we drink, I don't think that's even debatable any more. If it goes unchecked for too long there will be a point where it is unrecoverable. Considering all the truly clean energy that is emitted from the sun and even in all the atoms around us, we should be perusing it. To not is just irresponsible.
