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Hey yall, it's me again... are you sure you really want us there?  I feel like I am asking tons of questions...

I would like to see if our utilities will transfer there or if we will have to open new accounts.

Do you have TXU (atmos) Electric?
Do you have Dish Network?
Do you have US Cellular?

What high-speed internet providers are available?

What home telephone service is available?

Is your trash service included in your water bill or do you have to pay separate monthly for it?  We have IESI trash service here that we have to pay for monthly.

Do most homes there heat with natural gas or propane?

You guys have been so great to answer all our questions!

Most of our grocerys in Texas are taxed also.  The only thing that isn't taxed are produce and meat.

Plus our tax rate is 8.25% where yalls is only 6something.
Thanks though!

Thanks LHendricks!  I sent you an email with some additional questions.

Thanks!  I called and left them a message

Hi!  Another quick question, I remember hearing there's a Bed and Breakfast in Howard (I think)  Can someone tell me the name of it please?  I'd like to call and get the room rates.
Thanks!

I really appreciate all of ya'lls help!  We were thinking about driving up there this weekend or next just to look around (its about 6 hours from here)  Where is the nearest hotel?

Are you going to come for a visit?
In addition to the bed and breakfasts mentioned earlier, there's also the Silver Bell Motel in Longton - (620) 642-6145. Longton is a little bit east of Howard / Moline, but in Elk COunty.

We'd all love to show you around. 

We are going to come look around.  Not sure which weekend it will be.  My sister is due any day now and we can't leave town until she has the baby, but we're looking at the first weekend after.  We will sure let yall know when we come so yall can meet us if you want!

Yeah we noticed that.  How does a state income tax work?  Do they take the taxes out of your refund?

Your sales tax is lower than ours.  Ours is 8.25% and yours is only like 6%

Is there a girl scout troop?

Wow Dan, you might want to get that cough looked at!!  hehehe  If we decide not to join the community, I can assure you the school issues you're having won't be a huge factor in our decision.

Compared to our every day routine here, The kids and I leave the house at 6:10am every morning, drive to town - drop off kids at daycare who then shuttles them to school and picks them up at 3:00pm during the school year.  I go into work at 7am and work until 4pm, drive back to the town they are in and pick them up at 4:30pm then we drive to the town we live in - arriving home around 5:00-5:15pm.  I drive at least 70 miles a day, just commuting from home to school to work to school to home.

So if we move there, and the kids are picked up from the house at 7:15am and dropped back off at 4:00pm, thats 2 hours more per day that they will get to spend at home, not to mention the $50 plus dollars worth gas I'll be saving weekly by letting the bus do the driving.  We don't have a bus that comes by our house, and there aren't any other school kids that are in our area that would be able to carpool.

Also a huge selling point is the size of the classes.  I think someone said 14 3rd graders earlier?  Thats with both schools combined?
Our current elementary school has 5 (yes 5) 3rd grade classes each with 24-25 students.  So thats about 125 3rd grade students, just at our elementary.  Then when they get to 6th grade, our school merges with 2 other area schools for junior high and high school, which adds about another 125 from each school.  So your looking at a graduating class of 375 kids.  Thats about how large my graduating class was also, and I remember it being total chaos.  The noise in the hallways at the high school (9-12th grade  375*4=1500 kids) is deafening, and most teachers walk around oblivious to anything that isn't thrown right in front of them.

Ashley...  Is that the girl in your picture?  What grade will she be in?  She looks about the same age as my youngest who will be in Kindergarten.  Which school houses the Kindergarten?