koda2000
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listen fellas I moved to within 60 miles of Canada the closest town has a population of 7500 people with the biggest city of Spokane Washington being 1.75 hours away.
This is rural America, alot less money and customers then my old stomping grounds....but I have found that people here will come from even further away and are even more careful with their money and they keep their trucks ALOT longer...parts and work may not sell as quickly, but the people still find a way. Parts still sell, trucks still sell and people will come from 6-10 hours away to buy stuff/get things fixed if it is at a good price.
I was not going to raise my kid and grandkids that near 7 million people with all the corruption, gangs, pressure....I wanted them to grow up more like we did, back to our roots!
Parts market strong or not....if you post it they will come.
I hear what you're saying. I moved to a very small rural town, from a large northern suburb of Atlanta, nearly 20 years ago. At the time I was mainly looking for a slower pace of life and less traffic. Now all I see on the Atlanta news is car break-in's, shootings, murders, gangs, drugs and the traffic has gone from bad to ridiculous. Any time I'm looking for a used vehicle (or anything used in good condition) it takes forever to locate what I want and it's pretty much a given that I'll have to travel to the Atlanta area to buy something. This is because there's not much money in my area and as I like to say "you can't find good used stuff in the town I live in, because this town is where stuff comes to die". I recently spent close to 2 years looking for a good used car for one of my daughters (I'm very picky on condition) and when i found one we had to drive 2 hours each way to go get it. If I still wanted to fix other peoples cars I could make a good living doing it.
Don't get me wrong, there are still plenty of drug users in my town. Their drug of choice seems to be mostly meth and of course pot is everywhere these days. There are occasional drug busts in my town, but I'm not reading of many/any shootings over it. That's probably because when the meth users here run low they just make more.