Finding a homeschool community

[Reha]

Where do I look to find out which areas of regions of the country have good, strong homeschooling communities?  (or can I find that out here?  )  The region we are wanting is southern colorado/northern new mexico.....

It doesn't need to be a LARGE group, just something strong and steady.  Secular is important, as we aren't really religious. 

I don't even know how to find this info out!!  Where we are at now is seriously lacking in this way, and it an important consideration for our next move.  Where do I go to figure this out??

[SundayCrepes]

I found our homeschooling groups by googling our city's name and the word homeschool. Maybe you can look at cities you're interested in a do the same. Or just start with the state and homeschool. I just did that with colorado and got 830,000 links.

[earthworm]

Try searching Yahoo! Groups too. That's what the HSing groups around here seem to use.

[Reha]

Thanks for the replies.  I've googled lots, it's just hard to wade through all of the non-relevant links, I guess.  I did just think of checking the yahoo groups.

Also, it's hard to google specific town/city names when we really want to turn it around....we aren't looking for groups in one specific town, but rather looking for where this is a good active group, and picking a town based upon that. 

[deditus]

I mainly checked here and on yahoo groups. FWIW - the TwinCities are VERY homeschool friendly if you can handle the cold, lol!

[deditus]

Are there any other limitations - needs to be close to a metro area, good food access, philosophical vax exemptions, raw milk legal, cost of living, poisonous snakes, weather/climate, proximity to family, natural resources? I used a LOT of parameters to define my search when we moved.