Reasons to Live in Garrett County

[j8064]

Garrett County is as far west as you can get in Maryland. If I had it to do again I'd have added another 17 miles and reside in West Virginia. I'm here to stay so it is what it is.

There are challenges living in Garrett Co:

• In the winter there's plenty of cold, snow and ice. There are many visiting "ski" Tourons unfamiliar with the area and weather who clog and litter our roads. Typically they complain about the cold, but they come. And they bring many $'s to our economy.
• In the spring, golfers abound. There are several nice courses. They're a different group. Usually they're older, more educated and much more in tune.
• Summer brings the boaters. That's a mixed bag of folks who know what they're doing on the lake and others who. well, shouldn't be.
• When fall arrives, Autumn Glory is spectacular. It's a beautiful time. Many folks who have never seen it don't know what they're missing.

With that said, those of us who live in Garrett year round are thankful we do. We experience the ongoing cycle of season changes and try to anticipate what tomorrow and next week will bring us. Like today, getting snow in late April, is not unusual.

Reasons to live here?

• Making lifelong friends with great people who also live here and share our values is on top of my list. How many "Hooligan" shoot threads have been posted here? Those folks are my friends!
• Snow? It's pretty cool at first. In fact many of us look forward to it when fall is over. We deal with it better here than anywhere else in Maryland. Give it time...it melts.
• Spring? We may be behind the flat lands with our greenery, but sunsets like the pic below remind us another season is upon us.
• And summer? Once again it's just around the corner.
  

One other small, but important, point. Out here in Garrett Co...we got the high ground...

Garrett is a great place to live. Come and enjoy it!

 

[whistlersmother]

Its a slower paced life, that's for sure.

Grew up in Garrett County. In some ways I miss the slower life and less traffic and in some ways having more convenience and employment opportunities are better.

And yes, I knew spring hadn't arrived until that last snow in April.

 

[joppaj]

Shouldn't you be looking for bird's nests?

 

[j8064]

Shouldn't you be looking for bird's nests?

Great minds think alike!
There are plenty of robins around. I just haven't found their nests yet.
Stay tuned!

 

[guthook]

What's wrong with your trees? They don't have leaves up there in Gods Country?

 

[brownspotz]

I have friends that live out that way,I'll agree its beautiful but the only problem is...its still marylandistan.

 

[j8064]

What's wrong with your trees? They don't have leaves up there in Gods Country?

It's not June yet... Give 'em time...
Heck, their plan is to turn bright colors and shed the leaves in September anyway...

 

[traveller]

When are you going to secede ?

There is really no reason for anything west of Frederick to belong to MD.

 

[fidelity]

Imagine what the country would look like if they could Gerrymander states the way they do Congressional districts.

 

[Pretoria78]

Truly God's Country out there.

 

[Boom Boom]

It's as far as away as you can get in MD from the big urban cesspools.

 

[Vile Shadow]

It's as far as away as you can get in MD from the big urban cesspools.

Yet people in Oakland and Crisfield are still subject to the whims of the trash living in those cesspools.

 

[Boom Boom]

Sadly, yes, with near-zero representation.

 

[ktm rider]

Some of the things I enjoy about living in Garrett County are being able to hear birds and/ or crickets and not traffic and sirens.

Sitting in the hot tub on clear nights and seeing vast amounts of stars.

Jumping on the bike and enjoying some of the most scenic back road riding on the east coast.

Going hunting in the fall without ever getting into a vehicle to drive to a hunting spot

Campfires in the evening.

Floating on a tube in the pond in complete silence on hot summer afternoons

ZERO traffic on my 46 mile commute through Garrett County.

 

[outrider58]

It was always a huge culture shock coming home from Garrett after a week of deer hunting. Right where I-68 and I-70 meet was the beginning of a rude awakening that it was time to get back to the rat race. I loved the pace, as others here have said, of Garrett County.

 

[Hippy]

I have a Robin's nest in the Mt Laurel already sitting on Eggs--4 got it was there when leaving at 4 AM Momma came flying off of the Nest SCARED the S%$it out of me- doubt if it did her much good either

Jim

 

[Ben]

We have really good public schools in Garrett County that are mostly financed by those rich tax and spend liberals down east, as well as superb winter road maintenance. If we join WVa, we lose all that.

 

[Vile Shadow]

When are you going to secede ?

There is really no reason for anything west of Frederick to belong to MD.

... Or east of the bay.

 

[outrider58]

... Or east of the bay.

Nah...say east of AA Co, maybe.

 

[august1410]

Before we moved to NC, I had said to my wife that I either wanted to move to Western MD or the Eastern Shore. The 95 corridor had beaten me down for so long.