However, I found it difficult to make a living and support a family there unless you grow up there and have life long connections to the area.
So, I lived there in 1974 and then again after I returned from Hawaii from Hilo with my wife and baby son we lived in Mt. Shasta in 1976 and 1977. Then I left and returned in 1979 to build a house for a friend there the summer of 1979. And pretty much I lived in this area with my family pretty consistently from the summer of 1979 to 1985. IN 1980 we bought 2 1/2 acres of land out past McCloud without electricity gas lines or phone lines and built a house there and home schooled our kids for about 5 years there which saved us about 60,000 to 70,000 dollars in rent at the time because unemployment nationwide was 10% and around 25% or more in the Mt. Shasta area. So, we paid cash from our savings for land and sold one of our vehicles and used the money from that to buy building materials and built an A-Frame on our beautiful 2 1/2 acres with running water and an amazing view of mt. Shasta.
We owned this land and house until 1989 when we sold it while we were living in Hawaii on Maui then.
The last time I lived in Mt. Shasta with my family was 1990 to 1992 when we moved back to the SF Bay area and bought another business where I have lived mostly ever since then. But, I still spend several weeks a year in mt. Shasta visiting friends and skiing in winters from 1976 to 2020 when I had a pacemaker put in at age 72.
LIke I said I still spend several weeks a year in Mt. Shasta because I have many friends there from the old days and it is my favorite place to go to talk with God.
By God's Grace
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