are you fed up with this state

[jackelope]

i agree, except for the cheap part.

[HuntingFanatic]

I am hoping by this time next year I will be in Montana. My sister is there....all I need to do now is get out from under my mortgage and I very well could be on my way.

[Special T]

Armidillo I gota call you out on the Subaru's They make Great Hunting rigs. My brother and i prefer the 79-86 vintage with the hi-low transfer case. with stock tires they get 30mpg and for hunting you slap 30in tires on and they're UNSTOPABLE!!!!. one slight modification is nessary. You MUST reroute the exhaust through the hood. It keeps you from snagging on any rock stumps or downed trees when you going x-county to retrieve yer game

[Armadillo]

Oh I have nothing against the cars themselves, great design, lots of room, reliability, performance. Its the crowd of people who put stickers saying "PETA" on the bumper that I have a problem with. I can see how that would make an excellent huntin outfit

[Special T]

Nothing makes a bunny hugger from Issaquah go nuts like an animal strapped to the roof, then walking into Krispy Cream for Coffie and a Dougnut.

[westsideoutdoorsman]

Born and Bred in Washington State, this is where I plan to live the rest of my undeployed life.  Everything's perfect here, excluding the current political environment, which we can change.  Change we can believe in!  Hutchison for King County Exec!

[muleysgirl13]

It's not the stae I don't like... I was born and raised here... I would love to stay here if it was what it was when I was born but it's too congested on the Wet-side I grew up in Redmond and when I was born there were maybe 2 dozen stop lights? Last time I looked it up (2 years ago) there were 458 just in the city of Redmond!  I miss when Redmond was reffered to as a town and it wasn't a mini metropolitan addition to seattle & bellevue.  I just want out of the congestion.  The rest of it I love.. well maybe minus the politics but that can be changed come election time

[Mike_D]

i moved here on purpose.
 
the simple facts are that there aren't too many other places in this country that offer most people the opportunity to make a decent-great living and have the outdoor opportunities we have here. if you could move anywhere just based on where's the best place to live for hunting then thats one thing, but for most, you need to make an income as well...it doesn't happen in too many other places like it does here.
i don't like the government and there's things i don't like about our hunting and fishing issues we have here but there's a lot worse in other states...trust me, i've been there. my family will move to eastern washington at some point, but not right now.

if you don't like the californicators moving here, then how do you think the alaskans feel about washingtonians moving there? probably the same way as you feel about the californians.
 

I think its different in Alaska... the people (for the most part) simply want to be left alone, and people who move the there pretty much want the same thing.   The californians moved for different reasons... (similar state, different taxes, laws), and then want to change the area to be more "californian"...  I'm looking at Idaho (since I've already built a house there), but I do worry about the income tax that hits your retirement every year (or at least so I was told)... 

I've been to fairbanks, and it can get so remote, it feels almost deadly... (makes the hair on my neck stand up), but I would love a hunting trip up there.

[Armadillo]

Nothing makes a bunny hugger from Issaquah go nuts like an animal strapped to the roof, then walking into Krispy Cream for Coffie and a Dougnut.

Nothin makes the donut taste sweeter then the look on their face

[Tom Tamer]

Lots of good points about staying or going, I being a lifetimer too love the fact this State really is unique in the fact it has evrything in one state that the country has as a whole, Desert, to rain forrest. Mountians to prairies and everything in between. And as a far as wildlife well near as I can figure the only thing we don't have is alligators other than that we have just about every animal here that the entire country has. While some aren't huntable numbers( Caribou, antelope) they're here.

 The Gov't SUX bad and treats us all as advesaries instead of working with us. And I am not as hopeful about that changing when on county can control how an vote goes statewide.

 I'm stuck here at least til my kids' Grand parents move on to the next life. Then who know's may just try and move East of the Mountains and retire.