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Originally Posted by CRussel
Yes, and that's the GOOD NEWS. 
Where I am, it's an hour to the nearest Tim Horton's, or a half hour to the nearest Starbucks. But only about 2 1/2 hours to downtown Vancouver, and much of that on the ferry. (or 20 minutes by float plane.) So I'm more than close enough to a big city to be able to take advantage of it if I want to, but remote enough to never have to deal with a traffic jam. Our idea of bad traffic is when we get a dozen cars in a row going by from the ferry arrival. But I still have very good internet, with a choice of providers, and am no more than 5 minutes by car from virtually everything I need. (Bank, supermarket, post office, medical centre, liquor store, pub, butcher, restaurants (multiple), building centre, etc.)
We moved here 13 years ago, and I have never looked back or regretted the decision. |
Yes, that's much like where we are, except the "5 minutes" part. We're close enough to Phoenix that I tell people "Phoenix," but we're actually at the far northern edge of the county, at the base of the mountains, next to the federal preserve. We're a bit different than you--our nearest convenience store (the closest commercial thing of any kind) is 10 miles, grocery/drugstore is 15. But, what that buys us in inconvenience is there's no such thing as traffic, at all--we can hear a car coming from a mile away, and so forth.
And yes, because we're higher in elevation, it's probably 5-8 degrees, Farenheit, cooler here than it is in downtown Phoenix, which is a good 40+ miles from here. About the same distance, I'd guess, for your hour drive?
There are
always tradeoffs. Our place in the mountains (Wyo) is wonderful; we watch antelope, moose, bison, etc., all day long. However, it has satellite, for Internet, and that's just dog slow if you run an Internet biz. I'd use up in a day the entire "allocation" for a month, and they'd throttle me pronto.
Ah, well.
Hitch