| Author | Message | ||
     Boogiman1981 |
Besides the obvious weather related jokes stuff. Anybody know what the deal is there? Environment, people, food, shopping, cell service, internets etc? | ||
| Kenm123t |
Airforce base small city when I was there last with my ex. The people are wonderful salt of the earth. Mostly Norsk German and a few Swedes. My ex had family near by in Velva ND. Small Airport they stop for fuel on the way to China. Main Airlines are Northwest Orient and United. Safe place for kids and family but beware the cold. it is a Killer not just uncomfortable KILLER. When you understand the people and area its great place to live. Hunting shooting ice fishing and snow machines. Short Buell season some years I have a cool tee shirt that says " minus 40 below Keeps the Riff Raff Out! (Message edited by kenm123t on December 26, 2012) | ||
| Two_seasons |
Not so safe with the rif raf that has moved there since the oil boom. I have a brother up there. No housing to rent or buy. Or, if you are lucky, $300 a week for a room, shared bath. | ||
| Thumper74 |
I was looking into it myself and had an offer as maintenance tech on equipment. If you can find someplace to live it's pricy, really pricy. Found a 800 sq/ft house on 2 acres for $500,000. No thanks. The alternatives are PA, southern OH and WV. Comparable wages, lower cost of living... | ||
| Boogiman1981 |
nothing in concrete as of yet. personally I'd rather be in Afghanistan but so far this is what's biting... | ||
| Kenm123t |
Minot ND has rolling hills but compared to over there its FLAT | ||
| Kenm123t |
Minot ND has rolling hills but compared to over there its FLAT If you can find work dad has old place you can rent in Springhill WV. | ||
| Aesquire |
I can only address the people and climate. Haven't been there in years, and the new crop of imports changes traffic, etc. ( If you're from Fl, or have been there a while you know it's the mix of bad habits that kills you. Like DC. Folk move there from everywhere. ) People though, natives, salt of the Earth, pretty typical Americans, and a bit like the sit coms from Ca, except there's no beach. There's pretty much nothing. Miles of it.... Kids do what they can for amusement. Weirdness of note. I believe ND is a free range state, which means don't hit a cow. In closed range states, like NE, you hit a cow and no one knows it. In open range states, you hit a cow and it's a prize winner worth a fortune. naturally, this increases the chances of having a half ton of beef standing stupidly in the road. And boy are cows stupid. We breed them that way. Geography/Climate. Between Minot and the North Pole, there are no geographical features worth noticing. A 500 ft cliff on the arctic ocean, and dozens of meteor craters on the Precambrian shield. Nothing to stop the wind. On really rare and bad occasions you get freezing fog just like Siberia. These can, and have frozen troops of cavalry solid in the saddles. At 50 deg F below zero, when you spit in the snow, it "cracks" like broken glass. If it cracks in mid air, it's colder than that. Go inside, have a coffee.  http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/environment/average_time_of_first_freeze.htm Great place to raise kids, and if you have money, retire. If you like the climate. | ||
| Mnrider |
It's pretty close to Devils lake for some great year round Walleye fishing  | ||
| Luftkoph |
why not minot,freezin's the reason | ||
| Boogiman1981 |
thanks for the info guys ken will def keep that in mind as time progresses | ||
| Aesquire |
Don't let the deep freeze season throw you too much. After a few years, you get the insulation layer, and actually don't notice as much. OTOH, after a few years in southern climes, the cold resistance wears off. Summer in ND can be great. Most natives enjoy that week, a lot. ( joking ) Pheasant hunting, Bear in the Hills, Deer on the highway, ( they are the ones with multiple horns, not just 2 slightly curved ones ) Prairie Dogs at 400+ yds. From time to time, you can hunt Bison. Awesome rug, enough lean meat for a village, and a chance to use that 19th Century military rifle for real. ( or an AR in .50 Beowulf, same ballistics ) Surfing? not so much ( here, they surf on the Barge canal. I got really weird looks and, ahem, arrested for body surfing in Lake Ontario. Water cold, waves big, dangerous rip? Just like Pendelton! Oddly the police didn't understand that. ) An oddity for a FL native. is that the Cube Square law means that critters get bigger in colder climates. Megafauna like Moose, Elk, Bison. A Key Deer is like a toy. A Caribou is like an F450. (I keep hoping for them to bring Mammoth back, they must have been delicious!) |
