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Post by Bwoods11 on Feb 7, 2021 13:42:19 GMT -6
I like Mn from May-December. All my kids are here, so I doubt I’ll spend too many months away from MN. Maybe a month? In 10 years I might think about residency? Who knows?
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Post by nhmountains on Feb 7, 2021 14:19:29 GMT -6
I like Mn from May-December. All my kids are here, so I doubt I’ll spend too many months away from MN. Maybe a month? In 10 years I might think about residency? Who knows? I figured you’d be a resident of Iowa for 6 months and 1 day a year like Mark Drury?
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Post by Bwoods11 on Feb 7, 2021 14:47:24 GMT -6
I like Mn from May-December. All my kids are here, so I doubt I’ll spend too many months away from MN. Maybe a month? In 10 years I might think about residency? Who knows? I figured you’d be a resident of Iowa for 6 months and 1 day a year like Mark Drury? Good point! I like Iowa, great hunting and nice people. Fun little small town bars, etc.. However, income taxes are not much different than MN, and I can’t be there for six months. They go as far as check cellphones now to confirm where you are during the year. It’s not easy to cheat that anymore.
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Post by nhmountains on Feb 7, 2021 15:53:58 GMT -6
I figured you’d be a resident of Iowa for 6 months and 1 day a year like Mark Drury? Good point! I like Iowa, great hunting and nice people. Fun little small town bars, etc.. However, income taxes are not much different than MN, and I can’t be there for six months. They go as far as check cellphones now to confirm where you are during the year. It’s not easy to cheat that anymore. How’s that work if you had three places? Let’s say 5 months Iowa , 4 months in Minnesota, and 3 in Florida? Would the 5 month state be the primary?
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Post by Bwoods11 on Feb 7, 2021 16:00:02 GMT -6
That’s a good question ? I’m not sure ?
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Post by sd51555 on Feb 7, 2021 16:50:32 GMT -6
I figured you’d be a resident of Iowa for 6 months and 1 day a year like Mark Drury? Good point! I like Iowa, great hunting and nice people. Fun little small town bars, etc.. However, income taxes are not much different than MN, and I can’t be there for six months. They go as far as check cellphones now to confirm where you are during the year. It’s not easy to cheat that anymore. They're checking more than that. There's a plethora of dealers out there that have location dirt on us from phones, to browsers, to points of sale (credit card), to utility companies, cable companies, and even your vehicle. I have this conversation with people all the time. They ask me how to get SD residency. I tell them it's no problem. The challenge is how hard it'll be to prove you left wherever you were that's the issue. Wyoming doesn't give a shit who moves to South Dakota. But Illinois might invest tens of millions each year in data to find out who moves to South Dakota. We'll see Foggy in prison yet because his electric company gave him up.
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Post by nhmountains on Feb 7, 2021 17:12:51 GMT -6
Good point! I like Iowa, great hunting and nice people. Fun little small town bars, etc.. However, income taxes are not much different than MN, and I can’t be there for six months. They go as far as check cellphones now to confirm where you are during the year. It’s not easy to cheat that anymore. They're checking more than that. There's a plethora of dealers out there that have location dirt on us from phones, to browsers, to points of sale (credit card), to utility companies, cable companies, and even your vehicle. I have this conversation with people all the time. They ask me how to get SD residency. I tell them it's no problem. The challenge is how hard it'll be to prove you left wherever you were that's the issue. Wyoming doesn't give a shit who moves to South Dakota. But Illinois might invest tens of millions each year in data to find out who moves to South Dakota. We'll see Foggy in prison yet because his electric company gave him up. The credit card companies freely gave the info on people in DC but, Apple wouldn’t help in unlocking the terrorists phones a few years ago. YouTube sensors Republicans but, let’s the Iranian Iyatolloh spew death to America. They will sensor every sporting good transaction down the road looking for guns and ammo.
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Post by Foggy on Feb 7, 2021 22:50:38 GMT -6
Seem sto me that if you have the evidence to prove that someone is cheating on their residency......you can get up to 50% of the cheaters tax delinquency for turning him in. So.....folks are specializing in this chit. I am crossing all my T's and dotting all my I's to be certain we are not in arrears in our move. Bank is here, church is here, cars are licensed here, will is here, drivers license is here, we vote here, and many more things. And we spend 185 days or more in OZ each year. No problem. MN can go suck an egg. I am over them scamming me for income tax. I paid 'em plenty......ythey got greedy.....now they get chit. . FORE!
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Post by buckvelvet on Feb 8, 2021 8:24:24 GMT -6
For me, I come from a different point of view.
I'd like to have the right person to retire with, some people like solitary confinement, they thrive on it, this guy won't be found in that category.
Good things come to those who wait, or so I'm told.
I will say I have burned wood since my oldest (now 13) was 1. 2x a day, in the real cold stretches 3x a day, for 5-6 mos. I'm over this shit, I'll probably do it 1 more season but I'm hoping to save enough to get my furnace converted to natural gas. They want so much money to run a line off the nearest connection it's ridiculous but LP companies are enough to piss you off so I don't necessarily want to go back to that wagon either.
Which brings me to the point of this thread, I really hate winter.
I don't snowmobile, I don't snow shoe (though I think I could see myself do it in the non bitter cold stretches), I don't ice fish, frankly I hate being cold. I lost a pile of weight the last 24 mos and I freeze my ass off these days and shiver. That cat around here would probably call me a pussy but damnet I hate being cold!
If I could live here from April-December and live somewhere else January-March I could hang.
I'm not a beach sitter or a book reader but I could see myself doing that right now.
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Post by smsmith on Feb 8, 2021 8:33:05 GMT -6
For me, I come from a different point of view.
I'd like to have the right person to retire with, some people like solitary confinement, they thrive on it, this guy won't be found in that category.
Good things come to those who wait, or so I'm told.
I will say I have burned wood since my oldest (now 13) was 1. 2x a day, in the real cold stretches 3x a day, for 5-6 mos. I'm over this shit, I'll probably do it 1 more season but I'm hoping to save enough to get my furnace converted to natural gas. They want so much money to run a line off the nearest connection it's ridiculous but LP companies are enough to piss you off so I don't necessarily want to go back to that wagon either.
Which brings me to the point of this thread, I really hate winter.
I don't snowmobile, I don't snow shoe (though I think I could see myself do it in the non bitter cold stretches), I don't ice fish, frankly I hate being cold. I lost a pile of weight the last 24 mos and I freeze my ass off these days and shiver. That cat around here would probably call me a pussy but damnet I hate being cold!
If I could live here from April-December and live somewhere else January-March I could hang.
I'm not a beach sitter or a book reader but I could see myself doing that right now.
Having someone to share your life with is important. I hope you find the "right one" As far as being a beach sitter/book reader...when I was young I couldn't see myself doing those things either. The older I get, the better I get at doing nothing. FWIW...I would be just fine without winter too. I said to my wife yesterday that I think we should figure out how to get out of here January - March once she retires. We've been looking at long term rentals in SW FL. Looks like we could rent a really nice place (3 bedrooms, 2 baths, heated pool, huge TVs, etc. etc. etc.) for a few grand a month.
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Post by Bob on Feb 8, 2021 9:18:37 GMT -6
That cat around here would probably call me a pussy...
You haven't earned it.
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Post by nitro27 on Feb 22, 2021 13:40:13 GMT -6
Makes me think I'm qualified as retired.
I received this in an email a while ago. I thought it was worth sharing. ************ LOST WORDS Murgatroyd, remember that word? Would you believe the email spell checker did not recognize the word Murgatroyd? Heavens to Murgatroyd! Lost Words from our childhood: Words gone as fast as the buggy whip! Sad really! The other day a not so elderly lady said something to her son about driving a Jalopy and he looked at her quizzically and said, "What the heck is a Jalopy?" OMG (new phrase)! He never heard of the word jalopy!! She knew she was old.... but not that old. Well, I hope you are Hunky Dory after you read this and chuckle. About a month ago, I illuminated some old expressions that have become obsolete because of the inexorable march of technology. These phrases included "Don't touch that dial," "Carbon copy," "You sound like a broken record" and "Hung out to dry." Back in the olden days we had a lot of 'moxie.' We'd put on our best 'bib and tucker' to' straighten up and fly right’. Heavens to Betsy! Gee whillikers! Jumping Jehoshaphat! Holy moley! We were 'in like Flynn' and 'living the life of Riley''. Even a regular guy couldn't accuse us of being a knucklehead, a nincompoop or a pill. Not for all the tea in China! Back in the olden days, life used to be swell, but when's the last time anything was swell? Swell has gone the way of beehives, pageboys and the D.A ....... of spats, knickers, fedoras, poodle skirts, saddle shoes, penny loafers, and pedal pushers ... AND DON'T FORGET... Saddle Stitched Pants. Oh, my aching back! Kilroy was here, but he isn't anymore. We wake up from what surely has been just a short nap, and before we can say, Well, I'll be 'a monkey's uncle!' Or, This is a 'fine kettle of fish'! We discover that the words we grew up with, the words that seemed omnipresent, as oxygen, have vanished with scarcely a notice from our tongues and our pens and our keyboards. Poof, go the words of our youth, the words we've left behind. We blink, and they're gone. Where have all those great phrases gone? Long gone: Pshaw, The milkman did it. Hey! It's your nickel. Don't forget to pull the chain. Knee high to a grasshopper. Well, Fiddlesticks! Going like sixty. I'll see you in the funny papers. Don't take any wooden nickels. Wake up and smell the roses. It turns out there are more of these lost words and expressions than Carter has liver pills. This can be disturbing stuff! ("Carter's Little Liver Pills" are gone too We of a certain age have been blessed to live in changeable times. For a child each new word is like a shiny toy, a toy that has no age. We at the other end of the chronological arc have the advantage of remembering there are words that once existed ........ and there were words that once strutted their hour upon the earthly stage and now are heard no more, except in our collective memory. It's one of the greatest advantages of aging. Leaves us to wonder where Superman will find a phone booth ... See ya later, alligator! Okidoki WE ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE FABULOUS 50'S ….. OR BEFORE! NO ONE WILL EVER HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY AGAIN... WE WERE GIVEN ONE OF OUR MOST PRECIOUS GIFTS: …. OUR MEMORIES
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