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    It not all about MONEY, or the stuff that money can buy BUT it is about the FAMILY and their happiness.

    " DeGraffreed OUT" ha Ha.

    couldn't have said it better myself, exactly the point I was trying to make

    My Bro-in-law is moving away from family....for stuff! That's nuts to me.

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    J...I understand what you are saying. My mom lived in Hendersen, NV (Vegas) for 4 years. I hated to go visit. Rude people, traffic, filth....I guess I'm just not too interested in the spice of life. When I was 15 in High School, I use to have a fake i.d. and me and a couple friends would ditch school and go to Hollywood clubbin. I thought it was so much fun, until reality sets in and you realize how stupid you were. Man, I was dumb. All that brought me was trouble, pain and a whole lotta hard work to get back on track.

    Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that it's a bad thing, I just don't understand why someone considers it better?

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    For starters, skies the limit on how large you can grow your P.W. business, or any other business for that matter.

    Thank you Lance, those are the kind of answers that I'm looking for. However, my hood cleaning business is about maxed out for me in my town. If I get any bigger I will have to hire people and then comes the headaches. I can make what I make by myself with a helper, or I can grow a lot bigger, make more gross income, but net about the same that I make now....

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    Hotshot, I have been to Barstow. NO thanks, the only place worse is Needles, except that they have a river.

    so do we, it's just underground except for about 3 days out of the year, when we get heavy rain. :)

    What do any of these other places offer that Barstow can't? We are about two hours away from anything we could possibly want to do. Vegas, Mountains, L.A., Beach, San Diego...you name it. When I go down to these places it can take that long to get to and from the grocery store. I can be 150 miles down the road in that time.

    In Feb, I went to a Lakers game and it took 1 hour 15 mins to go 88 miles...then it took another hour to go another 20....

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    J....you cannot get a cheap mortgage in Compton, but I think you definetely have the wrong impression of Barstow. It's nothing like you have in your head.

    The point of this thread was to understand what would make somebody want to move to traffic, crime, high cost of living? If you were already there when you started your business, that's understandable. Or, if the small town that you live in can't support your business that, I can understand....but why would anybody want to move to that when they are making a good living between the two of them about 120k a year....I just don't understand it.

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    If they want to leave Barstow congratulate them!!! I mean please Barstow is great if you are a lizard or a speed cook.

    or if your a hood cleaner/pwer making 6 figures with a mortgage payment of $612 with 2 1/2 acres. However you want to look at it. Oh yeah, at 28 years old too.

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    Another reason I like the small town. I'm not a monopoly by any means, but loyolty actually means something to people here it seems. If you treat people right they seem to return the favor. In a big city, I don't think they could care less with whom their doing business as long as they're the cheapest.

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    I live in a fairly small town with about 25,000 people. The things that I enjoy about it are: Low crime, no traffic, everybody knows everybody, low cost of living. Some of the things that I dislike are: everybody knows everybody, not a whole lot to do socially without traveling and that's pretty much it.

    My bro-in-law and his family want to move to a fairly big city because they say that there is no opportunity around here. To a degree, I see their point, but what's really important to a person may not be to another. It's the last thing in the world I want to do is deal with big city traffic. I would shoot myself or somebody else. It's not important to me to go to a "show" ( like an opera or something). Half the time I don't even lock my doors in my truck, where he's going you wouldn't think about running into the post office real quick to get your mail and leave your car running......it's just different.

    I guess I'm just wondering if I'm letting my daughter miss out on stuff that's more important than what my little town has to offer. I don't consider stuff like poetry night at the starbucks too high on my priority list. Am I wrong?

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    I'm no where near fulltime with pwing. However, I have more than I can handle with hoods. That's my fulltime steady work, pwing is icing on the cake. However, I would like to buildup the pwing so I could do that and just have a crew or two for hoods. The only bad thing though, is I checked on workers comp for hood cleaning....my goodness, it's $30-$40 per $100 of payroll. Between that and taxes then actually paying a couple guys a decent wage.....I don't think I could afford it anymore.

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