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[Foxfyre]

Hi, Ms. Gracie! I hope all is well. Cheers!

mdk!!! You haven't been here in awhile too. So happy you dropped in.

 

[Foxfyre]

There is a small town in az...East of Tucson called Pearce. In-laws want to move there and have us join them. But...we have to go before them cuz they don't have the money for the deposit or first month's rent. I am a bit nervous about yhat

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Gracie, I have been thinking about you quite a bit lately....(so has Sherry). I am sending good thoughts your way and have been for a while.

Glad you have a place...

Happy you stopped in WQ. Nothing happens in or near Florida that I don't think of you and Sherry

 

[Foxfyre]

There is a small town in az...East of Tucson called Pearce. In-laws want to move there and have us join them. But...we have to go before them cuz they don't have the money for the deposit or first month's rent. I am a bit nervous about yhat

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Its a very small town there Gracie and long drives to get groceries, or any medical facilities.
Nearest big towns are Sierra Vista then 50 miles more to Tucson.
Its a real small town and nice people.
But if you like city life its very dificult to get used to.

Hi hon. Small towns are fine with me. I loathe large cities. However, I thing I am going to start prowling around upper az...flagstaff maybe or thatarea. Maybe even up higher...like in Colorado/cortez/Durango. I think my joints will be happier although my mind will always want the sea. But, wet is wet...so a lake or river will suffice.

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Durango has very few rentals if any at all and it's not really cheap. I just checked Trinidad and Walsenburg, both places that had cheap houses and cheap rents. No rentals and the house prices have tripled, I'm pretty sure the pot (marijuana) economy has something to do with it.
Basically if you draw a line from Pueblo CO east to west everything north of that hasn't changed much in the way of availability and prices.

Albuquerque does have some low rental housing and some of it is in really nice neighborhoods. But I don't see much where pets are allowed. And that is so silly to me as children, though we love them and bless them, are almost always going to be more damaging just being normal kids than will the average especially elderly dog.

 

[Foxfyre]

Seems like we scored the neighbors RV for a month or two! It's small, but it is 3 times the length of the van...and we can stand up in it. Big plus!

She wants to sell it but said we can use it for awhile and until both upcoming holidays are over. That means up to January! I think. I don't take anything for granted anymore, so....I will continue to be ready to move on if she says "OK. Need my RV back".

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Praise the Lord. Any shelter is better than no shelter. Meanwhile we'll keep the positive vibes going for a more permanent solution.

 

[Foxfyre]

Gracie check out subsidized housing in Truth or Consequences NM. There are three large HUD complexes there that give preference to folks like you and the Mr. This is a super small town in the middle of nowhere but it caters to retirees so there is a good health clinic there, sufficient shopping for groceries, etc., and you are within an hour or so of Las Cruces if you need a specialist or larger hospital facilities. Pure desert but New Mexico's largest lake, Elephant Butte, is within a few minutes. Hot summers, mild winters, but all four seasons. Rents are all 30% of your gross monthly income.and you pay utilities. I think all do take pets at least up to 25 pounds for one of the facilities; not sure if there are limits on others. The only problem is you would lose your Medical but Medicaid here is pretty good so I've heard.

And frankly it would scare me to death to think about leaving my known support services and familiar territory for an unknown like that.

 

[mdk]

Hi, Ms. Gracie! I hope all is well. Cheers!

mdk!!! You haven't been here in awhile too. So happy you dropped in.

I've been hanging out in the basement, but I still love this place b/c it was first stop here. I am at brunch and playing board games before the start of the Steeler game. Yay! Hope everyone has a wonderful Sunday. Cheers!

 

[peach174]

Hi, Ms. Gracie! I hope all is well. Cheers!

mdk!!! You haven't been here in awhile too. So happy you dropped in.

I've been hanging out in the basement, but I still love this place b/c it was first stop here. I am at brunch and playing board games before the start of the Steeler game. Yay! Hope everyone had a wonderful Sunday. Cheers!

Good to hear from you.
Please stop in a little more often, we missed you.

 

[Foxfyre]

Hi, Ms. Gracie! I hope all is well. Cheers!

mdk!!! You haven't been here in awhile too. So happy you dropped in.

I've been hanging out in the basement, but I still love this place b/c it was first stop here. I am at brunch and playing board games before the start of the Steeler game. Yay! Hope everyone has a wonderful Sunday. Cheers!

Well I'll be rooting for the Steelers today too. In fact I have them picked to score the most points today in my Pro Pickems league. Rothlisberger was my starting quarterback on my fantasy team last year which gave me an above average interest in your team.

 

[Ringel05]

Hi, Ms. Gracie! I hope all is well. Cheers!

mdk!!! You haven't been here in awhile too. So happy you dropped in.

I've been hanging out in the basement, but I still love this place b/c it was first stop here. I am at brunch and playing board games before the start of the Steeler game. Yay! Hope everyone has a wonderful Sunday. Cheers!

I'm playing a bored game...... Posting on the USMB........

 

[Ringel05]

In between my bored game I'm also doing what many, if not most, would consider a boring pursuit. As most of you know i'm a historian and a living historian, as a serious living historian the idea is to know and apply everything that one can possibly know and utilize to properly represent the period of time one is portraying. Currently the time frame I am doing at Fort Stanton is 1858, as a smoker modern cigarettes are obviously a no no, cigars and pipes were the norm as such I am currently researching cigars.
The modern big honkers that most smoke weren't invented until the 1860s - 1870s, the huge honkers are distinctly modern. Cigars of that period (1850) were slightly bigger around than cigarettes and a little longer and typically not as neatly rolled as the later ones.
You see it's minutia levels that separates the serious living historians from the casual reenactor but there is also a major division among the serious living historians. A very few fully immerse themselves in the time period with everything correct down to the type of underwear worn and foods eaten others (like myself) take the approach that if it can't be seen then there isn't a problem. Campaigners worry about hand stitched clothing the rest of us only worry about hand stitching where it's visible, campaigners will eat weevilly hard tack, parched corn and drink acorn coffee, been there, done that, no thanks.........

 

[saveliberty]

Nice to hear from Gracie, mdk and Ropey in the CS. Please hang with us more often. Monday I get the x ray results and another oxygen level test. Expecting the oxygen to be 95 or above and two cracked ribs. I can feel them popping in and out when I cough. Ringel? Can you smoke downwind please.

 

[Gracie]

Mrg and I have decided to leave calif. Gonna head to az, just not sure where. Benson and Tombstnoe have nice small places within our price range from what I have seen on Zillow and Craigslist. But first, we have to get stuff done here
...teeth checked and cleaned and any fills if cavities found, plus refills on all meds, also clean out the storage and get rid of 90% of what we held on to so it all fits in his truck. Won't need a storage unit then...which saves us money and all we own goes with us in that truck. So, we are planning to do all this by January. His family lives on the rez, but he doesn't want to go there...said he doesn't know them anymore cuz it's been over 40 years since he saw the closest fam members. Unfortunately, this is going to be another scarey adventure for two old folks...in a new state, new territory we no nothing about and not one soul we could rely on to park in their driveway as we hunt for our own home.
This is definitely a whine...cuz this is scarier than hell, but we cannot stay here. I know that now.

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[peach174]

Mrg and I have decided to leave calif. Gonna head to az, just not sure where. Benson and Tombstnoe have nice small places within our price range from what I have seen on Zillow and Craigslist. But first, we have to get stuff done here
...teeth checked and cleaned and any fills if cavities found, plus refills on all meds, also clean out the storage and get rid of 90% of what we held on to so it all fits in his truck. Won't need a storage unit then...which saves us money and all we own goes with us in that truck. So, we are planning to do all this by January. His family lives on the rez, but he doesn't want to go there...said he doesn't know them anymore cuz it's been over 40 years since he saw the closest fam members. Unfortunately, this is going to be another scarey adventure for two old folks...in a new state, new territory we no nothing about and not one soul we could rely on to park in their driveway as we hunt for our own home.
This is definitely a whine...cuz this is scarier than hell, but we cannot stay here. I know that now.

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Look at the pricing for St. David and Pomerane they are small suburbs outside of Benson.
St. David is full of Mormons great people.
Many places are low in rent.
Our Hospital in Benson is one of the best.
Thers a VA in Sierra Vista.

 

[Gracie]

Mrg and I have decided to leave calif. Gonna head to az, just not sure where. Benson and Tombstnoe have nice small places within our price range from what I have seen on Zillow and Craigslist. But first, we have to get stuff done here
...teeth checked and cleaned and any fills if cavities found, plus refills on all meds, also clean out the storage and get rid of 90% of what we held on to so it all fits in his truck. Won't need a storage unit then...which saves us money and all we own goes with us in that truck. So, we are planning to do all this by January. His family lives on the rez, but he doesn't want to go there...said he doesn't know them anymore cuz it's been over 40 years since he saw the closest fam members. Unfortunately, this is going to be another scarey adventure for two old folks...in a new state, new territory we no nothing about and not one soul we could rely on to park in their driveway as we hunt for our own home.
This is definitely a whine...cuz this is scarier than hell, but we cannot stay here. I know that now.

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Look at the pricing for St. David and Pomerane they are small suburbs outside of Benson.
St. David is full of Mormons great people.
Many places are low in rent.
Our Hospital is Benson is one of the best.
Thers a VA in Sierra Vista.

Thank you for the info. Found a few in benson I plan to call tomorrow.

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[Ringel05]

Mrg and I have decided to leave calif. Gonna head to az, just not sure where. Benson and Tombstnoe have nice small places within our price range from what I have seen on Zillow and Craigslist. But first, we have to get stuff done here
...teeth checked and cleaned and any fills if cavities found, plus refills on all meds, also clean out the storage and get rid of 90% of what we held on to so it all fits in his truck. Won't need a storage unit then...which saves us money and all we own goes with us in that truck. So, we are planning to do all this by January. His family lives on the rez, but he doesn't want to go there...said he doesn't know them anymore cuz it's been over 40 years since he saw the closest fam members. Unfortunately, this is going to be another scarey adventure for two old folks...in a new state, new territory we no nothing about and not one soul we could rely on to park in their driveway as we hunt for our own home.
This is definitely a whine...cuz this is scarier than hell, but we cannot stay here. I know that now.

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Be prepared, Benson and Tombstone are in the middle of the desert, pretty but if your initial reaction was like mine you won't think so. But then again you might be one of those like us that the desert grows on and you come to love.

 

[Gracie]

Mrg and I have decided to leave calif. Gonna head to az, just not sure where. Benson and Tombstnoe have nice small places within our price range from what I have seen on Zillow and Craigslist. But first, we have to get stuff done here
...teeth checked and cleaned and any fills if cavities found, plus refills on all meds, also clean out the storage and get rid of 90% of what we held on to so it all fits in his truck. Won't need a storage unit then...which saves us money and all we own goes with us in that truck. So, we are planning to do all this by January. His family lives on the rez, but he doesn't want to go there...said he doesn't know them anymore cuz it's been over 40 years since he saw the closest fam members. Unfortunately, this is going to be another scarey adventure for two old folks...in a new state, new territory we no nothing about and not one soul we could rely on to park in their driveway as we hunt for our own home.
This is definitely a whine...cuz this is scarier than hell, but we cannot stay here. I know that now.

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Be prepared, Benson and Tombstone are in the middle of the desert, pretty but if your initial reaction was like mine you won't think so. But then again you might be one of those like us that the desert grows on and you come to love.

Pretty sure I will hate it...but my body will love it. If I find a quaint small home, I can make it beachy on the inside, tropical in the yard or patio...if I can find succulents that look tropical, lol.

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[peach174]

St. David has plenty of water,big trees, natural well springs and even a small lake.

 

[Gracie]

I just know now in my heart...this is the end here. I got 30 years of this place. My remaining years will be somewhere else. Unless a miracle happens...which I doubt.

You don't realize how much you miss when you don't have it any more. Like, a real toilet, a warm shower, TV, a fridge. We haven't had any of those things in over a month. Ice chest, fast food, sponge baths with cold water, and a cell phone. Except tonight. Every Sunday, we get a room at motel 6, do our laundry, shower twice (tonight and again in the morning) a real flushing toilet, and TV! Once a week, heaven to us! Only thing missing is a kitchen.

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[Gracie]

9009 E Highway 181,Pearce, AZ 85625

3 beds · 2 baths · 1,344 sqft

FOR RENT

$600/mo

Rent Zestimate[emoji768]: $750/mo

List your rental on Zillow. It's free!

Nice Manufactured Home on 20 Acres near Turkey Creek - Three bedroom 2 bath home with split floor plan, washer and dryer hookups, private well, propane tank, on 20 private acres. Large storage building, some fencing, room for horses.



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[Ringel05]

Mrg and I have decided to leave calif. Gonna head to az, just not sure where. Benson and Tombstnoe have nice small places within our price range from what I have seen on Zillow and Craigslist. But first, we have to get stuff done here
...teeth checked and cleaned and any fills if cavities found, plus refills on all meds, also clean out the storage and get rid of 90% of what we held on to so it all fits in his truck. Won't need a storage unit then...which saves us money and all we own goes with us in that truck. So, we are planning to do all this by January. His family lives on the rez, but he doesn't want to go there...said he doesn't know them anymore cuz it's been over 40 years since he saw the closest fam members. Unfortunately, this is going to be another scarey adventure for two old folks...in a new state, new territory we no nothing about and not one soul we could rely on to park in their driveway as we hunt for our own home.
This is definitely a whine...cuz this is scarier than hell, but we cannot stay here. I know that now.

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Be prepared, Benson and Tombstone are in the middle of the desert, pretty but if your initial reaction was like mine you won't think so. But then again you might be one of those like us that the desert grows on and you come to love.

Pretty sure I will hate it...but my body will love it. If I find a quaint small home, I can make it beachy on the inside, tropical in the yard or patio...if I can find succulents that look tropical, lol.

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You may also want to consider New Mexico, Truth or Consequences it next to Elephant Butte Lake on the Rio Grande.

Alamogordo is nestled up against the Sacramento Mountains, 30 minute drive up to Ruidoso or Cloudcroft, mountains, trees, water, etc.

Alamogordo;

Ruidoso;

Cloudcroft;