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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

That's a tad peculiar.  No one in our town has a street address.  You GET a 
post office box *free* because no one has street addresses and the post 
office doesn't deliver mail.  My driver's license has a P.O. Box on it and 
in the info section that is in the DMV files is "2.5 miles off Hwy 3."  The 
loan on our property simply required a whatever the heck is on a plot map. 
Our credit cards and bank have our P.O. Box.

In fact, to get a phone out here, we had to find the box the phone company 
uses and each box has its own number and that is how they provide you with 
service.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> I looked some more and can't find it. It is possible I got it
> someplace else.
>
> The couple bought some Colorado land accessed only by an unmarked,
> unnamed road that ran through government land. They tried to get a
> post office box but could not because of a law that requires a
> physical address and the county had no address for the property. They
> could not register to vote. There were other things. You will not be
> able to have checking account, credit cards, car registration and
> other things without a legal address. As I recall, they finally in
> desperation got a friend to let them use the friend's house as their
> legal address.
>
> Has it occurred to you that anyone living in seclusion would
> eventually and inevitably attract interest? I think it would cause
> more attention than simply living a low-profile life.
>
> If you want maximal seclusion but still be low-profile, you could buy
> a place with seriously difficult access and build your house at the
> end of that long, rough road.
>
> We get very few unwanted visitors at Heartwood, usually only tourists
> who are lost. They never come up to the house, just turn around and
> leave. This summer a guy drove up to the house. He lives on the other
> side of the river, had heard about me and I had heard about him. He
> had passed my road entrance many times visiting a neighbor a few miles
> further down the ridge road. A friend was visiting him, and the guy
> was showing him the area and finally drove down my steep road into the
> bottom of the hollow to check me out. We had good conversation and
> exchanged promises to get together after Chris and I get there next
> year.