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There is very little snow down here so far this winter and the weather has been pretty mild. A couple nice days and the ground will thaw back out. Either that or you can run some gold-screws in your tires and ride any time.
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The weather is a little more varied than SoCal, and you can find a decent place to live and without all the issues that SoCal is known for. Plus the choices for riding up here are pretty darn good.
The closest track to me is 11 miles (408mx -open 4 days a week and with lights for the evenings), and the guy that runs it preps it very, very well. Also, there is no less than 3 other public riding spots within less than 1 hours drive (Hollister, Metcalf, and Club Moto).
The tracks closer to Sacramento are plentiful and varied terrain, and are generally well prepared (MMX, E-Street, Riverfront, Hangtown, Argyle, etc).
I rode on both Xmas eve and New Years eve, which was fun, and a nice way to spend the holiday. Couldn't do that when I lived in New York.
That said, the idea of your own rural ranch with a giant garage and hundreds of acres of riding in a place like Utah or Colorado sounds pretty cool - not to mention easy access to other public riding lands.
I know there are quite a few really good places in and around Durango, Colorado and Aztec, NM, and that land cost is pretty darn cheap. But, the grass is always greener, and i am sure there are drawback to that as well.
On the east coast, riding in South Eastern Mass used to be very good, hundreds of miles of sandy trails and little no man's land tracks cut into the pine scrub - but development killed alot of that in the last ten years or so.
I hear North Carolina has a TON of tracks - like 40+ or something throughout the state? The weather down there is pretty mild as well, so that seems like a good moto spot as well.
Is the decision based solely on access to groomed MX tracks?
For me, I want both access to (multiple) good tracks, as well the ability to have access to good off road riding / woods riding.
I actually started a thread about this on Thumpertalk a few years back, here is a link...
http://www.thumpertalk.com/forum/showthread.php?t=708680
Titled "seeking moto paradise"
has it all. Even GNCC and Worcs type terrain, lots of moto, and anything else you could ever want.
Its a bit wetter than So Cal, so it really is better for off road off the track.
So cal is a god damn shithole when you break it down.
And dont say So Cal has more hotties because Nor Cal has plenty of Bimbos just the same. Just go to Infineon, Laguna seca or Hangtown.
You might just have better bimbos. Not so 909 skanked out tattooed white trash hoes.
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Since everyone's ripping on the north, I'll defend it. I like the change of seasons, and don't know how long I'd last in a place where the weather never changes. I like the off-season - winter is time to heal up, do an off-season workout program, plan what you're going to do different next year, maybe take a trip down south to ride, get your bike mint for the next year.
I've been in every state except Hawaii. I guess if I left MN I'd move somewhere out west with mountains and even more snow. MX in the summer and ski in the winter. Somewhere with good public schools, cheap land, and water not too far away that doesn't rain all the time.
sanfran and up could fall into the ocean, we wouldnt care, we might notice.
im pretty stoked on where i live now (south orange county) but when i pack up and move, its gonna be to europe, probably france cause thats where most my friends are.
For the moto relevance to this thread I live in a pretty good part of the country for riding I think.
I live right on the Ga/AL line. Im 40 miles from Monster Mountain, about 75-80 to Millcreek mx and about 75 to 80 miles to Bremen and AMP MX. Then, to top it off I'm 75-80 miles away from Atlanta. So, if I want big city life it's there an hour away. We get the Atlanta SX, usually in feb.
It never really gets too cold here (although it's been brutal this winter so far). The summer can be hot but if you live here awhile it becomes bearable..
PM me your email and I will send you info on my 120, with barn, just 300 miles south of you. The track is (temporarily) gone but it was an mx track for 16 years.
RR400, research FL for work. I've spoke to several travelers who said patient loads in FL are high if you're not in the ICU due to high % of geries. Stay away from the tele floor there, is what I heard. Trust me, you don't want to end up handling 6-8 tele pt.s right out of school, f'n nightmare. Congrats on graduation.
Back to thread, DFW, loads of tracks within an hour, but summer from mid June to mid September is unbearable for riding in my book. City hospitals, typically have decent pt loads. Real estate, cost of living is dirt cheap compared to CA.
Gunnison or more than likely, Salida, CO for me sometime in the next 10 years. Kayaking, public riding areas for both moto and mountain bikes, 2 awesome cc series, fly fishing, hunting, boarding and on and on.
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