who would live here #2

[1fujifilm]

Pack up your stuff and head south to central Forest Co. We have ride-able snow!
Coming up friday night til Monday.
Show up and I might consider screening you to rent the place for a few weeks.

I'm riding through your area later today.
Leaving Green Bay on sled in a few hours enroute to Eagle River to ride with Harvest Rob.
I guess I can turn around if it gets too bad. Hope the 137 is long enough.
Been waiting for this ride for about 6 years since the last time there was enough snow to do it.

Bear

 

[Sandylake]

I'm not trying to be a knob about this but there are a whole lot of us yooper that dont want more people up here.

I dont mind if you visit but please just go back home which is hopefully far far away.


I find beauty in the solitude that my home offers. A huge storm is just a minor inconvenience. It's how the majority of you and I differ.....I mean, here we are on a website that celebrates snow and some of you are bitching about it.


My advice to you is the best snowmobiling, or anything for that matter, is three hundred miles in any direction from where I'm standing at any given time.

 

[slimcake]

This is my backyard. The drift is 6ft tall. I know its tough all over but come on guys this is why we live here!! They were plowing the gravel roads with d6 cats. Thats a site to see! Just said on the radio Lacrosse broke the all time snow record for Feb. 32.6 inches! Crazy.

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I'm not trying to be a knob about this but there are a whole lot of us yooper that dont want more people up here.

I dont mind if you visit but please just go back home which is hopefully far far away.


I find beauty in the solitude that my home offers. A huge storm is just a minor inconvenience. It's how the majority of you and I differ.....I mean, here we are on a website that celebrates snow and some of you are bitching about it.


My advice to you is the best snowmobiling, or anything for that matter, is three hundred miles in any direction from where I'm standing at any given time.

You must be a transplant because your tone doesn't sound like the Yoopers I know. Some of the nicest people I meet. you don't sound like one of em....

 

[Sandylake]

View attachment 60127 This is my backyard. The drift is 6ft tall. I know its tough all over but come on guys this is why we live here!! They were plowing the gravel roads with d6 cats. Thats a site to see! Just said on the radio Lacrosse broke the all time snow record for Feb. 32.6 inches! Crazy.

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You must be a transplant because your tone doesn't sound like the Yoopers I know. Some of the nicest people I meet. you don't sound like one of em....

I get your passive agression.

Born and raised here. Traveled the world. Seen enough of that.

We are some of the nicest people on the planet the problem is that we sometimes have to put up with the rest of you.
And I'm sorry if my honesty comes off as not being a nice person.


Again, here we are on a site that is all about snow and people are complaining.

 

[old abe]

Yeah John you should make this a sticky at the top so that when people start complaining about no snow they can look back and remember what they said! This is the way I remember winter and I'm not even that old!!

X2, but I am that old!

 

[slimcake]

And Abe!! LOL

 

[Pmknman]

Yup I have a house outside of Bruce ... love it work around metro Milwaukee and go up very regular... got to have goals.. work hard play harder... I leave again in the am...

 

[bonnevier]

I'm riding through your area later today.
Leaving Green Bay on sled in a few hours enroute to Eagle River to ride with Harvest Rob.
I guess I can turn around if it gets too bad. Hope the 137 is long enough.
Been waiting for this ride for about 6 years since the last time there was enough snow to do it.

Bear

YES!!!! Take pictures. Without them there is no proof it actually happened!

 

[snobuilder]

I'm riding through your area later today.
Leaving Green Bay on sled in a few hours enroute to Eagle River to ride with Harvest Rob.
I guess I can turn around if it gets too bad. Hope the 137 is long enough.
Been waiting for this ride for about 6 years since the last time there was enough snow to do it.

Bear

I think we got the wind but were dry slotted on the big snow totals....100 miler site is reporting they are grooming as they always are.

 

[1fujifilm]

X2, but I am that old!

Are you old enough to have a road named after you?

Lake of the Torches Resort Casino
510 Old Abe Road, Lac du Flambeau, WI 54538

Bear

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YES!!!! Take pictures. Without them there is no proof it actually happened!

Scuttle on up and join me.
I don't slow down enough to take pics, gas only for the 850.
If I make it, Harvest can vouch.
Ok, maybe I'll take a few pics.

Bear

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I think we got the wind but were dry slotted on the big snow totals....100 miler site is reporting they are grooming as they always are.

Good, at least I can make it to Crandon then west to Monico, WI and then north to E.R.
Trying to skip the trails east of 3 lakes.

Bear

 

[POLARISDAN]

I gotta admit, I really never thought that there would be a post to this discussion board crying about too much snow, but I guess give it enough time and anything is possible!

-John

hahahahaha....remember i never cried about no snow..i was the one that said just wait..and walla..here it is

 

[POLARISDAN]

I get your passive agression.

Born and raised here. Traveled the world. Seen enough of that.

We are some of the nicest people on the planet the problem is that we sometimes have to put up with the rest of you.
And I'm sorry if my honesty comes off as not being a nice person.


Again, here we are on a site that is all about snow and people are complaining.

uh..nobody is complaining except YOU..in reality i was being a little fecisious..so lighten UP francis

 

[WorkHardPlayHrd]

I get your passive agression.

Born and raised here. Traveled the world. Seen enough of that.

We are some of the nicest people on the planet the problem is that we sometimes have to put up with the rest of you.
And I'm sorry if my honesty comes off as not being a nice person.


Again, here we are on a site that is all about snow and people are complaining.

Sandylake your attitude reminds me so much of my grandfather. He was born outside of Calumet Mi in 1923. My great grandfather built the stone fountain at Lakeside cemetery outside of Calumet. My great grandmother wouldn't leave the home in Calumet that she lived in from the time she came over from Italy. Even at the end, and it still had an outhouse. If it's still standing it's a wreck. Grandpa loved the U.P.served in the CCC on Isle Royal joined 10 mountain and served in World War 2. Was moved around for 20 years till he settled in La Crosse WI. He went back religiously once every winter and spring because he just needed to. I wish I'd have listened more, and found more time for all his stories about when he was younger up there. He loved it, so do I.

 

[ICT Sledder]

Who are these imaginary people who are relocating to and flooding the UP? Is there a single county in the entire UP that doesn’t shrink in population every census?

I mean in Keweenaw or Houghton counties you can buy a nice sized home that has been completely updated/remodeled with modernized mechanicals, a 2 car garage, and a nice lot for $75K-$100K. If you want something that takes a little sweat equity you can find livable, structurally sound stuff for $25K. Buy land for $100 an acre in some cases. There’s maybe not a cheaper (more depressed) residential real estate market in the entire US. None of this happens because there are a lot of people moving there; it happens because people are leaving.

Not to say I wouldn’t personally jump at the chance to move up there, but few people in the country share that take. It’s a place to:

- retire
- sit around mired in laziness and poverty
- bust total arse to make a go of it, eek out a middle class life, and somehow make it work because you love it there

The “go away don’t move here” locals are generally in the middle group.

 

[old abe]

fuji I'm no casino guy?

 

[Cirrus_Driver]

Who are these imaginary people who are relocating to and flooding the UP? Is there a single county in the entire UP that doesn’t shrink in population every census?

I mean in Keweenaw or Houghton counties you can buy a nice sized home that has been completely updated/remodeled with modernized mechanicals, a 2 car garage, and a nice lot for $75K-$100K. If you want something that takes a little sweat equity you can find livable, structurally sound stuff for $25K. Buy land for $100 an acre in some cases. There’s maybe not a cheaper (more depressed) residential real estate market in the entire US. None of this happens because there are a lot of people moving there; it happens because people are leaving.

Not to say I wouldn’t personally jump at the chance to move up there, but few people in the country share that take. It’s a place to:

- retire
- sit around mired in laziness and poverty
- bust total arse to make a go of it, eek out a middle class life, and somehow make it work because you love it there

The “go away don’t move here” locals are generally in the middle group.

Tell us how you really feel.
Truth hurts, I'm sure. Reality's a bia-yatch.

 

[snobuilder]

Who are these imaginary people who are relocating to and flooding the UP? Is there a single county in the entire UP that doesn’t shrink in population every census?

I mean in Keweenaw or Houghton counties you can buy a nice sized home that has been completely updated/remodeled with modernized mechanicals, a 2 car garage, and a nice lot for $75K-$100K. If you want something that takes a little sweat equity you can find livable, structurally sound stuff for $25K. Buy land for $100 an acre in some cases. There’s maybe not a cheaper (more depressed) residential real estate market in the entire US. None of this happens because there are a lot of people moving there; it happens because people are leaving.

Not to say I wouldn’t personally jump at the chance to move up there, but few people in the country share that take. It’s a place to:

- retire
- sit around mired in laziness and poverty
- bust total arse to make a go of it, eek out a middle class life, and somehow make it work because you love it there

The “go away don’t move here” locals are generally in the middle group.

But at least the POT is legal now.
My next vote is for pot infused socialism...nirvana!

 

[Sandylake]

Who are these imaginary people who are relocating to and flooding the UP? Is there a single county in the entire UP that doesn’t shrink in population every census?

I mean in Keweenaw or Houghton counties you can buy a nice sized home that has been completely updated/remodeled with modernized mechanicals, a 2 car garage, and a nice lot for $75K-$100K. If you want something that takes a little sweat equity you can find livable, structurally sound stuff for $25K. Buy land for $100 an acre in some cases. There’s maybe not a cheaper (more depressed) residential real estate market in the entire US. None of this happens because there are a lot of people moving there; it happens because people are leaving.

Not to say I wouldn’t personally jump at the chance to move up there, but few people in the country share that take. It’s a place to:

- retire
- sit around mired in laziness and poverty
- bust total arse to make a go of it, eek out a middle class life, and somehow make it work because you love it there

The “go away don’t move here” locals are generally in the middle group.

So I'm generally in the middle group. Okay.

Believe what you need to so that you feel better and keep your world turning.

The next time you're on trail 17 heading north right before the Boston Loc. stop look left. That's me. I'm darn near in the poor house.

Same thing at Sandy. Look for the real log cabin on the point.


I just dont make my daily bread off of tourist and weekend warriors so they really dont matter to me. I'm not saying that all of them aren't good people but it still just doesn't matter.

The poster that said he was being facetious has that right with the luxury of taking any angle he wants in hindsight.

I was being facetious all along too too I guess. Right?

 

[blkhwkbob]

So I'm generally in the middle group. Okay.

Believe what you need to so that you feel better and keep your world turning.

The next time you're on trail 17 heading north right before the Boston Loc. stop look left. That's me. I'm darn near in the poor house.

Same thing at Sandy. Look for the real log cabin on the point.


I just dont make my daily bread off of tourist and weekend warriors so they really dont matter to me. I'm not saying that all of them aren't good people but it still just doesn't matter.

The poster that said he was being facetious has that right with the luxury of taking any angle he wants in hindsight.

I was being facetious all along too too I guess. Right?

If I had all that money I'd have one home where it's warm and one where it's cold. Not two of the same. Just sayin.'

 

[Sandylake]

If I had all that money I'd have one home where it's warm and one where it's cold. Not two of the same. Just sayin.'

Well, my cabin is my future home, probably in about two years I'll be there permanently.

It's like this: I've been fortunate enough to see the world. I lived in the UK for two years. I've lived on the northern west coast. When we traveled we would do extended vacations. Spain for a month and a half. Puerto Rico for a month, etc. As far as hot climates go, I'm really not into them. Take Spain in example, their entire culture is based around avoiding the hottest part of the day. Sweating my nards off just isn't my thing. I'd much rather be in a cold climate and relax next to a warm fire. And it isn't that cold here thanks to Lake Superior, at least not like Minnesota cold.
As far as living some other place, I just dont know? Seems like there is a lot of problems in the world and the U.P. is just about far enough away that it filters some of that other world I'm not fond of.
I'm a single dad raising two great teenagers and taking care of my elderly parents.
This place is a great place to raise kids.
I know what I like and I know what I dont like. I know I have stated that I'm somewhat of a introvert but people tell me that I'm the most outgoing person they've ever met. At the same time I find great comfort in my solitude. Something about if you don't enjoy solitude then you're hanging out with the wrong people.

I just like it up here.
And it's because of many reasons....and snow is one of those reasons.

I understand that it's not for everyone. A few years ago some people from Rhinelander moved in a few houses away. They were huge into snowmobiling. They last one year. Too much snow. Keeping their 40 foot driveway clear was just too much for them and they felt like they were trapped...or something.