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[hippie_lettuce]

We didn't drive through there, but I did do a real estate search online. I want this dome house..it's a good price and the house looks amazing!
What kind of jobs do they have around there, again, if any? lol

 

[weeddaddy50]

now that is a deal

now that is a deal

So power wise you can grow indoors in Washington for 1/3 of the price you can in California.....that's right a 1/3.....so that $800 bill for 4 lights in Cali....would be $264 in Washington......now these are just talking numbers....and I did not really check if those rates posted by LeeROI were correct.....but you would save about 6k a year in power costs.....WOW

Puget Sound Energy (WA) residential rate:
The first 600 KWHs is $.088594 Per KWH.
After that, $.107172 Per KWH.

 

[SeaMaiden]

Weeddaddy, don't forget that a huge part of the reason why California has such high power rates is because the citizens have continually voted down measures and propositions that would have created power generating plants within the state. That leaves us powerless, and so we buy power from states like... Washington, Oregon, and Texas.

We didn't drive through there, but I did do a real estate search online. I want this dome house..it's a good price and the house looks amazing!
What kind of jobs do they have around there, again, if any? lol

I'd show you the jobs section of the Ledger-Dispatch, but it's been months since I've been able to log in. MyMotherlode might be more helpful there.

The big employers in this county are the Jackson Rancheria, the government (we have two prisons, one for adults and one for kids, Mule Creek State Prison and Preston Youth, but Preston's going away. We also have the California Youth Authority Fire Camp, but I'm not sure if the state's going to continue funding that facility), I *think* the pulp mill down in Martell (right next to Jackson), Volcano Telephone/Communications. I don't believe Volcano's hiring at this time, haven't a clue about Department of Corrections, but I know that if you want to go that route there may be testing or other requirements before you're considered for hire. I took certain tests that qualified me for particular types of jobs, but I've got to say that the vibe at both facilities was just sooooooooo skeegy, I couldn't take it and stopped responding to the notices for possible job ops.

This is why I decided to do what I have done most of my life and make my own work. Much easier prospect in the LA area, given my skillset, but at least we've got a little land here that allows me to grow some veggies. Last year lost most of the cole crops, but now that California has the cottage food law in place, I can expand my activities to include pickles and the like. It is important to my business model, however, that I attain organic certification. Not quite ready to contact the state & certifiers yet, though.

 

[toughmudderdave]

Weeddaddy, don't forget that a huge part of the reason why California has such high power rates is because the citizens have continually voted down measures and propositions that would have created power generating plants within the state. That leaves us powerless, and so we buy power from states like... Washington, Oregon, and Texas.


I'd show you the jobs section of the Ledger-Dispatch, but it's been months since I've been able to log in. MyMotherlode might be more helpful there.

The big employers in this county are the Jackson Rancheria, the government (we have two prisons, one for adults and one for kids, Mule Creek State Prison and Preston Youth, but Preston's going away. We also have the California Youth Authority Fire Camp, but I'm not sure if the state's going to continue funding that facility), I *think* the pulp mill down in Martell (right next to Jackson), Volcano Telephone/Communications. I don't believe Volcano's hiring at this time, haven't a clue about Department of Corrections, but I know that if you want to go that route there may be testing or other requirements before you're considered for hire. I took certain tests that qualified me for particular types of jobs, but I've got to say that the vibe at both facilities was just sooooooooo skeegy, I couldn't take it and stopped responding to the notices for possible job ops.

This is why I decided to do what I have done most of my life and make my own work. Much easier prospect in the LA area, given my skillset, but at least we've got a little land here that allows me to grow some veggies. Last year lost most of the cole crops, but now that California has the cottage food law in place, I can expand my activities to include pickles and the like. It is important to my business model, however, that I attain organic certification. Not quite ready to contact the state & certifiers yet, though.

After our conversation this mornin' darlin' I just remembered that the gold mine that has reopened is hiring as well.

 

[hippie_lettuce]

Don't really want to talk about my job here, but it does require security clearance. My dream has always been to start a small farm and like you, make my own work. It's gonna take some time to save up for a house with some land though for CA.

Was it just recently that CA put that cottage food law to action?
What's the weather like in that part of CA (how much snow, rain, etc)?

 

[SeaMaiden]

This last year the cottage food law was enacted, a friend of mine and I were talking about it and how we might be able to take advantage.

We're a little over an hour from the Capitol (or is only the nation's capitol capitalized?). When I applied with DoC, I had to go through a background check, but not clearance.

How much snow & rain depends a good bit on the elevation you should choose. Where we are, we are basically 'above the fog & below the snow.' We don't always get the precip the higher elevations do, Buckhorn (high end of Pioneer) usually gets more than we do a few hundred feet lower in terms of both rain and snow, but especially snow. Many roads are not plowed, including the private road we live on, so you must have 4WD or AWD with appropriate skins on the vehicle. This would be especially important if you're really considering the higher elevations.

 

[spoon1g]

Anywhere in central Cali. Homes with around 10 acres runs for 240-300 ish.