You've got a great profile! Welcome to Mingle.

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Thank you very much Ruth.




It's mostly retires out here, that's been my problem of finding someone close to my age, lol, but now I'm catching up.

It would depend on how you like to live on what it would take to live here.

The nearest 'real' towns to get supplies... one is over 70 from my property to Pahrump, NV the next is 120 miles to Las Vegas, NV.

Many out here think they need to go to town a couple of times a week but maybe they don't have anything better to do.

I might go months before going to town but I do have someone who picks up supplies that I can't get online.

In the 13 years I've been out here things have changed a lot. Two years ago we got a new tower so now cell phones work & I finally get to have wifi :)
About a year ago Walmart started shipping items such as laundry soap, shampoo, ect... making it even more convenient.
Amazon ships a lot of groceries.

Sadly, when the housing market dropped in Las Vegas, Pahrump & other large towns in Nevada our prices went up here making my taxes triple over the last few years.

Right now you can buy a decent house in Las Vegas for $90,000 the same house that sold for 330,000 or more a few years ago.

Out here it would depend on how many acres, if you have your own well or on a community well, if you need power poles out to your property (I needed to pay for 3 poles to get my power).

But having sweet well water, being able to see the night Sky with trillion of stars, watching the shooting and falling stars, smelling the clean air, watching the Sunrise turning the Funeral Mountains from light pink, fuchsia, red, to purple, having magnificent Sunsets 333 days out of the year... PRICELESS!

Seventy miles to town?

So I guess that kind of puts meeting people at the local bar out of the question huh.

What the heck do folks do for a social life out there?

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There are a few bars not that far away, 6 brothels, and even a casino.

A lot of those who retired out here travel all over the World. I'm not one of them, I love being here.

This isn't the place for a people person. Maybe I can best describe it like Facebook... some people have 100's of 'friends' but they honestly don't really know more then a dz of them, and some, like me, have less then 60 'friends' but I honestly do know all of them.

Most chose to live out here for the serenity, tranquility. Those who relish having a beautiful scenery, being able to see the stars at night (we have one of the darkest skies in the US), breathing clean air.

Many out here are artist, craftsmen/women who craft pottery, crave wood, work with metal, there are a few published authors, retired geologists, retired scientists of many fields.
My favorite one died, he was 92 and had more letters behind his name then I do in my whole given name. His mind was still sharp as a tack but his body gave out.

Then there are also the 'junk/treasure' collectors. I know one man that has over 300 tractors.

A majority of us out here research. People come out from all over the World to do testing, research, explore, gather information about all the strange natural occurrences going on here, ever hear about the moving rocks, Singing Sand Dunes ect...? And they are more then happy to give lectures.

There is a lot to see & do out here if you enjoy hiking, seeing wild horses (I know where their secret watering hole is), camels, big horn sheep, ghost towns, old mines (copper, gold, lead, silver, borax, talc, quartz, marble, copper & more).

Then there's Area 51, Shoshone Cliffs, Crystal Lake, Hidden Lake, Amargosa Opera House, Borax 20 Mule Team, Devil's Hole where the World's only Devil Pupfish come from, Badwater (which is 282' below sea level), Devil's Golf Course, Furnace Creek, Death Valley's Stone Hedge, Devil's Racetrack, Scotty's Castle, Artist’s Palette, Ubehebe Crater, Telescope Peak (vertical drop from the peak to Badwater Basin is twice the depth of the Grand Canyon), Natural Bridge, Racetrack Playa, Dante's Peak, Golden Canyon, Ammonite Canyon (from the Hettangian Stage of the early Jurassic, around 198 million years old), Zabriskie Point, Stovepipe Wells, ect...

The old T&T railroad tracks were right out back of my property.

It's a rock hound's paradise for geodes, NV. Opals, Volcanic rock, Agate, Chalcedony, Amethyst, pyrite, rhyolite, Fossils, kaolinite, metamorphism (dating back 1,700 million years), and thousands more.

Or for those who collect arrowheads & other Native American tools. I have boxes & buckets full.

And I didn't even mention all the different kinds of critter species & botanicals.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_Valley_National_Park
http://www.nps.gov/deva/naturescience/geology.htm
http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/national-parks/death-valley-national-park/
http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/national-parks/death-valley-activities/
http://inyo.coffeecup.com/site/dv/dvfossils.htm

There is a lot to do here if you love nature, history & strange occurrences, things I listed above.
This area is differently not for most, you have to have survival skills, be self reliant, have respect for Mother Nature.

But to some of us DVNP is Paradise. I have met people from all around the World who have came to see it. But it is an area that one needs to be able to retire to or work from home as obviously there are few jobs out here.