I think the only thing you will have to worry bout now is the bugs/scorpions that they have there.

 

And drug smugglers, human smugglers and all the trash they bring along.

 

Southern OHIO lots of public and buisness owned trail parks, appalation mountains, and you get all the seasons!

 

I grew up there, and before we had global warming I did not like shoveling snow. But what I'd give for one of the summers there now.

 

Look at Southern California..I live in the Mojave Desert (Barstow, CA), we are on our second month of 100 +/- temps and almost zero humidity.. lots of places to take your ATV's, the people here are alot better here than what is found in the midwest, before everyone gets upset I lived in WI for over 12 years my wifes family is from Green Bay my sister lives in Chicago and I never got used to the living in the midwest.

I'll put it this way the off road riding can be done year around but the real riding season runs full tilt bozo starting in late September through the end of June. In december where your at is snow up to your eyeballs and colder than a well diggers A****, Here in Cali Christmas day started with getting food in the oven and then we jumped on the quads for a two hour ride in 70 degree weather.

We love it here 9 months out of the year is spent wearing shorts, tank tops and sandles....Try that in the midwest..

Good luck making your choice..if you come to Cali look me up and I'll take you out and show you desert riding.

 

I live in Ohio..south of columbus and have ridden a couple thousand miles over the past 4-5 summers...I have yet to find those "lots" of public trails...where are you talking about? The National forest and four state forests are all that I am aware of in southern Ohio.

If I were looking to move somewhere to ATV right now I would head to southern west virginia...Hatfield McCoy Trail System...I think around 25 inches of snow annually...you will see all four seasons and not be trapped in all winter! You could still continue your online business...HMT has sold 35,000 annual passes this year...they should be able to support an ATV shop...if your nurse wife can't find a job she could always become a coal miner!!!

 

With respect here in Southern Cali where I'm at what exactly is snow? oh yah that's that cold white stuff other people get lots of..Been there done that lived in WI, MN and Alaska..Yup never got to shovel that crap again as it would cut into the Quad riding time, what is humidity? oh yah that is the hot sticky crap other people get in the midwest and in the "Down South" summers..Nasty stuff don't miss it one bit. No snow plow needed on your ATV here. Snow in the desert is a couple of inches here today and gone in 12 hrs. The Mojave Desert gets its annual rain fall in about three weeks or so in Jan & Feb. Here in Barstow we are protected by mountains so there is zero LA smog so just about every day you live under crystal clear skys day and night..A three hour drive puts you in Vegas, LA, San Diego, on on just about any sandy beach on the pacific coast you may want to go to. Your wife is a nurse there is Loma Linda Hospital (a teaching hospital) in San Bernadino and here in the desert we are always looking for off road bike shops that give great sales and service for a fair price..If you get into doing desert landscaping called zero scape specializing in Mojave Desert native plants you will do very well out here there are not many landscapers out here that specialize in it and they charge through the nose so many home owners like us did the work ourselves.

Unlike where you're living right now we have all but zero humidity 365 days a year, as I write this its 103 here right now and maybe 10 - 15% humidity if we are lucky

Off roading in the ORV areas here in Cali is free no permits required and you can run on any terrain your heart desires except for mud bogging, There is a registration requirement for your ATV's but that's not much of a pricetag considering living here the wife and I ride year around.

 

Thor, a Norseman going South???? How can this be??? Do you have to turn in your "I'm a Norweigen card??? Say it ain't so.... JK Couldn't resist. I'm opposite of you. I hope to move North someday. Don't care for heat at all. I was in AZ for an uncle's funeral last year and it almost burned out my brain. Wasn't much of a life to me going from AC car to AC house and back.