I’m retiring mid November. Mississippi is looking pretty good right now.
Hope it works out for you.
Have you started doing online searches for property?
Visiting an area can give you a good idea of the better places to live, too.
Looking at realtor listings can give you an idea of water quality, too. Here in NH many places have water that is hard and high in iron. Seeing the water softeners and iron treatment tanks in the listings was a big clue. Unfortunately, that doesn’t tell us about arsenic and radon, which can also be a problem here.
However, God blessed us with a place that has fantastic water. We had it tested and could bottle it and sell it.