Best Lake to Live / Boat on???
 

Anybody know any great lakes to live on for boating (ummm, besides the actual great lakes)? Looking for reasonably priced housing, plus a decent job market. Any input would be appreciated. Thanks!

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Anywhere but Cali..... :D :D

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Eastern or Western?

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loto for sure and I can put you in reasonable housing and a boat. what kind of job do you need. jim lake ozark 636 236-4141

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Heaven when its not frozen :D

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Alton Bay looking toward Wolfeboro(heaven froze over :D )

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Loto

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What kind of work do you do? Does it have to be a lake? The Chesapeake Bay region offers great boating. Good employment opportunities, Wash. DC, Baltimore, Norfolk. You could probably get a nice waterfront house in some areas for less than your average house in So. Cal.

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Lake Travis - Austin, Texas

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LOTO..... but i am biased... :D

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Thanks for the great responses...LOTO does sound amazing, but let me narrow down my search a bit more....At least 6 months of boating, freshwater, at leadt 5 miles long.
My working field is online sales and marketing. I have been handling Kawasaki Motors e-commerce for 5 years (motorcycles, ATV's, utility vehicles and accessories).
My fiance and I have a pretty nice home, but it's soo expensive here in SoCal, we'd think about relocating somewhere a little more laidback, on a lake.
Any more ideas???
Thanks again!
Dave

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I personaly like the mountain lakes ..water stays nice and clear .
Winter activities also rock ..snowmobiling skiing etc.. I think it makes you enjoy summer all the more ..For scenery youd have a hard time beating Tahoe ..But I dont think youl be out in the boat more than 3-4 months ..
Lotto looks amazing to me also if not a bit muddy / warm .. :D

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Depends what's important to you- sounds like you can choose, I like Grand and LOTO for bigger water and more enterttainment. I live on Beaver and it's 32 miles from my house to the Dam but we lack the restaurants and watering holes on the lake.

I like to keep the idiots/sq mile ratio in check:)

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Lake Murary SC. Near Columbia.
I have been here for about 20 years and like it very well.
Very low cost of living compared to what your used to.

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We boat at loto from April thu October. awesome fishing.Your business would be perfect for the area, The schools are excellent. Great shopping facilities. Have been over 100 million spent this year in new commercial, and infrastructure. Best golfing in the midwest. close to Branson, St. louis, and Kansas city. and I'm a builder here . Have 4 specs going in porta Cima , they start at 700k, right on the water all dryvit exteriors, granite tops, 14' ceilings Docks, memberships, in a four seasons development that is appreciating 12-15% a year. I also have a awesome 4 bedroom ranch with finished walkout for under 240k in four seasons with lake view and 3000 sw. ft. plus. Its very affordable. All kings of neat facilities for kids and some of the finest dining in the state. plus 100 mile long lake. only corp lake with homes and commercial facilities on the water, 2 nice airports nearby. people are very laid back and polite. come visit be happy to show you around . Jim Midwest peformance marine. 636 236-4141. dont forget about party cove and the lake shootout.

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jim, what is your building company name?

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Dave,

What exactly do you do for Kawasaki Motors? Web design, hosting, support?

Give me a better idea of what you do and are looking for and maybe I can help point you in a direction.

I work out of Dallas, Texas for a company named Data Return. We provide highly managed hosting for companies critical applications and e-commerce sites that can not go down. We provide a service license agreement at the custom code / application layer unlike other hosting providers.

Is Kawasaki Motors hosting their sites internally or outsourcing to a hosting provider?

ST31
Jim

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I agree that LOTO fits your requirements to a T. And if you want laid back - some of us call it the SLOzarks instead of the Ozarks. But the expansion and new development is incredible.

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Stick to the Ozarks or one of the bigger lakes because like they said....better schools, and just towns in general, plus you'll be able to get a good internet connection in that area also, some of the smaller lakes in Missouri....I doubt it!

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just keep coming east.:drink:

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Dave911, even though there have been some employment cutbacks in west Michigan it's still a great place to live and there are a lot of opportunities here. Let me know if I can help in any way. I can send you some real estate info if you'll let me know basically what you're looking for in housing.

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Have two building companies at the lake. Porta Cima developments are Lake Luxury Homes. Four seasons projects are under Ozark Properties. call me if your looking for anything we have alot of nice homes going up right now. jim 636 236-4141

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How about Lake George N.Y. ? The average shack is 1.5 mil. Boating lasts
about 4 months. Taxes are 8-15 K per year. Pretty much no jobs local.
But the water is crystal clear,the mountains are beautiful,the beer flows
freely and you couldn't meet better people if you tried. I wouldn't want
to be anywhere else.

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Data Return??? I used to work with someone that went to work there several years ago. I think he's since left though. He did prety well with options, but I took a bath in DR stock. :mad: At least it helped when tax time came in the form of a capitol loss. :D

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Looks like we have a couple of things in common. Bob L. just rebuilt my motors as well last winter.

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OK... Let me try this again..

Lake Travis - Austin, Texas

60+ miles long, very deep, rock bottom, very clear, very clean, topless party cove, nude beach/cove, useable all year long, local boat mechanic (Bob Lloyd), great town nearby...

Anything else you're looking for? :D

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I live on a lake that lets out into Lake Michigan

Lift in front of the house and a 35 minute idle to the BIG water

I have the house for sale

shoot me an email and i will get you some great shots of the house and the water

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this is the dock out my back yard

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another

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by the way the lift is out of the water in these pics

(I know someone will ask)

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Very Nice Lake there But!! you have to know the waters there one sec.you can be running in what you think is 50 or 60 ft of water and it's only about 5 or 6 inches lotta shallow places.. and BTW have they repaired the Dam & reraised the Lake.?


Pssstt just another input about low water & rocks cost me over $16.000 for a nice 1 day there once running upon rock's "idleing". you outta see the pictures

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When did this happen? I have not had a problem in twenty years, the lake is clearly maked at normal levels!

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Well apparently you haven't boated very far down the Lake.. There are lots of shallow spots and if you are famular with where they hold the radar runs as you start under the bridge there on both side altho it's clearly marked "shallow" to My stupidy we ran aground & hung it up on the rock's wasn't a pleasant feeling to my pocket book.. And My Question, do you have lots water Now ? Because last summer we were going to venture back there again and was told they would be working on dam for 2 tio 3 years & water was down.. Not Debating the Lake it's a GREAT Lake only Know the Waters you boat in is all I was talking about.

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MovinOn,
I have not been out on the lake but once since the water was dropped, and I agree the lake was very dangerous at the lowered levels. The water is back up and it is actually much higher than normal for this time a year! I sold my boat a couple of years ago because of the lowering of the water. before the boat was sold it had been in almost every part of the lake at one time or another. In 2001 I won best graphics at the outlaw shootout. This season shuld be a great boating season on Lake Murray.

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Come on now Rick. You know that you get get a could tear down house for a little under a million around here.

Well said though. I wouldnt live anyplace else !!

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Great input! My soon-to-be wife and I will look into these options.
We do wanna have kids in next 2 years, so that's a definite consideration.
LOTO sounds more and more appealing, as does the prelimenary research we did on Lake Travis....Any more ideas would be welcome! Research time! Best regards all! Dave

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I have not been to Lotto yet, but I have to say Lake Travis is probably the nicest around. Great city, great people, and good weather except for the heat in August.

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bang for you buck lake Cumberland KY

http://www.lakecumberland.com

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Wiggler, I have a condo at Parkview Bay, LOTO. My wife and I are going to transition into a home in the next 12-24 months. I'm getting tired of the condo scene with the shared dock. I have 2 best friends in Porta Cima, but my wife wants to see if we can find something on the east side first. She is not big on going over the community bridge every time she wants to go to the mall, or wherever. Our favorite cove is Cove 6. Most of it is already built on. Do you do any work in that cove? Not sure if you are doing any realestate work or just building new?