Not for the trapping,just for the night life.

Find you one of them swinging chicks wearing a berka maybe?

I liked New York the government didn't like me! New Mexico is nice all trapped out north of I-40! I'am really getting to like this lion trapping, gives me an excuse to trap beaver----lion bait!

I am trying to talk the wife into going to Wyoming or Alaska, if MN ever passes the crazy BS gun laws or restricts more of my trapping stuff then she will no longer have a say in it. I did stay in NM for a bit in the late 90s, if you live in the northern area it is absolutely beautiful and I wouldn't mind going back.

Uppity Canadians Can't Vote, BOCO !!!

But You Can Have Detroit Back Since We Whooped You For It In 1812 !!

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Any state that has smallmouth bass within a reasonable driving distance and isn't stupid cold nor stupid hot.
I have found that any state which has smallmouth bass generally has everything else which an outdoors person wants and needs.

i will go with you !! LOL..would love to trap both places.

Eric can have North Jersey.But I agree with him
I'v trapped all over this county.
I'll take South Jersey Port Republic Is where I live.
To the east of my house
Tide water Nacote (naket)Creek in my back yard Which leads to the Mullica river one of the 3 cleanest rivers on the intire east coast. The other two rivers run into the Mullica. The Mullica umptys into the cleanest bay on the east coast .The bay to the ocean.All of which I have made a good living on.I have made my living off the water and land all my life year round. Where else can you do that
To the west west of my house.
1.1 milion acers of open land The PINE BARRENS.Yes that is in NJ
Plenty of land and water animals to (Unlimted Antlerless deer)hunt and trap
Much milder weather than Eric has.And no darn mountins FLAT LAND I love it.
Down here we do not have bears of bobcats that Eric has to put up with.
Now about making a living off the water and land here. ITS fast becoming a thing of the past. To many liberails . They have reglated out of a living. But I'm 67 now. My body is all but wore out. Its time to slow down any how. NOT give up tho. Glad I have Socoal Surity check now.

Income, and Family ties make that only partially true.

I was thinking the same thing. I'm forced to live where I do. Something's You can't control. I guess if your born with silver spoon in your mouth you get to do what you want to do in life not what you have to do. I'm not complaining about Virginia or West Virginia. But if I had the money to travel and see new places. I may very well move.

A state to live in and trap in might be totally different. A friend moved to WI for certain reasons but soon found their trapping regs were not what he was expecting. He's glad he kept his license in MN.

As Bob W said. Never move just for trapping opportunities. My trucks wheels are round and goes anywhere I point it.

Alaska sounds great but competitive trapping is not allowed. Isn't that the way it is in Canada as well?
And talk about a welfare state, Les....Alaska has us beat. I'm also not crazy about checking my traps in the dark all the time...and months of very limited sunlight.

I was born in PA and we moved to MI when I was about 8 years old. I'm 60 now and consider MI one of the finest states for outdoors men. Some Great Lakes trivia - You are never more than 85 miles from a Great Lake, MI has more than 11,000 inland lakes, you are never more than 6 miles from water(river, lake, or great lake), 1,300 public boat ramps, more than 80 public harbors, 3,288 miles of Great Lake shoreline.
It's getting a little crowded here in S. MI but for the most part the trapping and hunting is pretty good. I think I'll stay here.

I don't know. I've never left the east coast. out of all of them I'd say Pennsylvania is the best.

I have a friend in Idaho (Moving back this month because it is too expensive to live there) And he has seen wolves, moose, mountain lion, whitetail and mule deer, coyotes, turkeys, and the list goes on and on and on. They have all the neat animals of north America, Wild and living in their back yard. Sounds like a neat place to live to me. I'm going out to Wyoming next summer for a 4-H exchange so I might be able to give a little more detailed answer then.

Always wanted to learn a foreign language so maybe New Jersey. Summers suck but The Heart of Dixie still good enough for me I reckon.

I like Minnesota but the St Cloud area has taken a dive but I have to many ties here to leave. I would like a cabin in either northern MN or western SD to get away from the craziness.

I like right where I'm at. We have pretty liberal trapping laws, good numbers and good quality fur. I am getting tired of the winters, but will put up with it. Maybe only other state would be Montana.

All them gun shoots going off at night up there ain't from folks spotlighting rabbits you know, lol.

I spent three years at Fort Polk, Louisiana and the LA summers are worse than Alaska and Kansas winters and last a lot longer too. I enjoyed the hunting there, but it's too hot for me.

The deep south to hot for us to but if you stay around long enough the sun will burn your brain up and you won't have enough sense to leave, lol.

as long as I can walk out my front door, take a pee, and not have a neighbor within a few hundred yards at least - I would be ok in any state

I'll stay right where I'm at for now LOL.. After I retire, we'll somewhere west of the big creek where the yotes average better. But for the the facts that K-zoo posted I'll live here..