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I was wondering what are some good places in the country that would be good to move to that has a good aviation community/airport? I am not talking about moving near any big International or regional airport. But a decent airport with lots of general aviation activity? But also with jobs available? Avation jobs prefered but not recommended. I am more a country boy so please keep that in mind too. Although I dont mind a strip of food joints once in awhile too!

Thanks,
Nathan

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How about the Dallas / Fort Worth area?

We have "The Big Airport" (Dallas / Fort Worth International) and three regional airports (Dallas Love, Fort Worth Meacham, and Fort Worth Alliance), as well as "The Base" (with Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth at Carswell Field on one side of the main runway, and the sprawling Lockheed Martin plant on the other side). There are many, many, many small to midsize GA airports in the metro area, the suburban areas, and the rural areas. At one time, Addison Airport was the busiest GA airport in the USA. If you can't find an airport around here, you're just not trying. Take a look at the D/FW Sectional and you'll see what I mean.

We also have numerous aviation museums and organizations in the area:
Cavanaugh Flight Museum (Addison Airport)
CAF B-24/B-29 Squadron (Addison Airport)
Frontiers of Flight (Dallas Love Field)
Vintage Flying Museum (Fort Worth Meacham Airport)
also host to Greatest Generation Aircraft and CAF Invader Squadron
Forward Air Controllers Museum (Fort Worth Meacham Airport)
also host to OV-10 Bronco Association and Fort Worth Veterans Memorial Airpark
CAF D/FW Wing (Lancaster Airport)
Cold War Air Museum (Lancaster Airport)
C. R. Smith Museum (near D/FW Airport at American Airlines' world HQ)
EAA chapters at various airfields
and I'm sure I'm forgetting others!

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Dean Hemphill, K5DH
Port Charlotte, Florida

While you are ruminating over your next move, maybe you could scratch that itch with these folks:
http://www.eaglesmereairmuseum.org/
They appear to be only 30+ miles south of Towanda.

Something more rural? I am not fond of city living. Good advice though.

Personnal reasons keep me from visiting that museum.

I'd hate to live in Tornado country but what about Oklahoma?

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Wow, thanks k5dh! I just looked at this post just because and now I have many reasons to visit Dallas (from Norman, Ok.) I never knew about. Look forward to visiting!



~J~

Nathan: You might want to look at the sat photos of the DFW area. I live about 15 nat. miles from DFW airport, 5 from Texas Motor Speedway and 7 from Alliance airport, and there are more cows than people within a mile circle around my house. It runs the range from downtown living to working farms within the DFW area. Job location and commute time is going to dictate what kind of area you would domicile around here. If you don't mind a longer commute, it's pretty easy to find a home on acreage....even a home on an airstrip too.

A DFW sectional would help give you a good idea too.

Okie land is only about 38 miles north of me.

It's also cheap to live here in the DFW area.

And if you're worried about tornadoes, Oklahoma is NOT the place to be. You're much safer in the D/FW area. We rarely have tornadoes around here, but they get 'em fairly often in OK (earthquakes, too).

You don't have to live in the city. I live in a little town of 5,000 people. We just got our first stoplight last year!

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Port Charlotte, Florida

I do love farming! And I love to mow lawns. Whats the average price for rent? Does Texas have a first time buyers for homeowners program? I also here you all love your guns too. Hmmm.......I do have a few cousins living in Dallas but never had much contact with them. Saw my cousin last year and she mentioned all the air museums. I was like WOW! Nice to know that many a Texan knows about their warbird heritage.

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Nathan: rent is going to be all over the place, depending on what you want. It can range from somewhere in the 500$ a month area to in excess of 5K$ a month. Location and size are the driving factors. Purchase is not too bad. The house next door to me was listed at 104K$, corner lot, two car garage, 3 br (?) 2 bath, about 1600 sqft. lot size about .3 acres. Taxes run about 1-1.50$ sqft per year total for every place we've owned.

As to weapons...got a range less than 10 road miles from the house....only two big restrictions there...no full auto and no full metal jacketed ammo.

Higher education isn't neglected around here either..8 major universities within 90 miles and three big community college systems within 30 miles.

As to sports...you've got the Rangers in Arlington, the Cowchildren in Jerry's Deathstar there too, the Stars and the Mavericks in the AAC....the Cats in Fort Worth... FC Dallas plus college and high school sports too.

Overall, lots to see and do, with good living and tons of opportunities for an industrious soul. Come visit and maybe decide to emigrate to the state of Texas...

do you have any qualifications that make you employable in the aviation field? If that's where you want to work you may need to put having a good training program close to where you want to work high on the list.

I would suggest Charleston, S.C. as a start, Trident Tech has a good A&P program and Boeing is hiring all comers for the 787 production line. Boeing is also maybe not a bad place to work.

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