Posted on 02/13/2015 8:22:22 PM PST by TurboZamboni
Looking for a place with moderate climate,stable government,low crime rate, predominantly English speaking and is not anti-gun .Where someone on a fixed lower income can afford to not have to live like a rat.
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I also liked Flagstaff, and you're only an hour from Sedona.
I’ve recommended it before and am going to do so again, the far Upstate of South Carolina, right up against the border of NC. Foothills switching over to mountainous. Ample surface water, low prices on land and houses if you avoid the summer home areas. Low taxes. Red state. High enough elevation that the summers are not intolerable, far enough south that winter is just an occasional visitor rather than a daily or weekly chore. Good soil. Good people. On up into NC in that region isn’t bad either, same for east TN.
I’m retired in South Carolina. Doesn’t have a lot of the ethnic & religious tensions found elsewhere. People of different races are generally polite to each other. Muslims keep to themselves and are very quiet. What few liberals we have are ghettoized in the campuses & mostly carp about how `backward’ S.C. is. Fags can’t even keep a gay bar in business. NAACP boycott over the rebel flag remains in place.
How explain it? The answer in my opinion is that South Carolina is awash in guns. Earning your CWP takes a day. Hunters line the roads during deer drives. Gun manufacturers are relocating here. There is a pro-gun culture & a Castle Doctrine law that makes liberals cringe. A bill to teach the Second Amendment in schools is working its way to the State House.
Criminals don’t know who’s carrying & that’s a good thing. FWIW I have my CWP but have yet to carry concealed (you don’t need one for a handgun in the glovebox).
No plans to move anywhere else. If you want to visit a foreign country, plan a weekend in Charleston (just kidding). If you want to be surrounded by northerners, there’s Hilton Head Island (I go there all the time BTW).
“Why should I travel? I’m already here!”
I like South Carolina, always have. I worked one Summer at a retreat in the North Carolina Mountains. There were 3 girls from S.C. on our crew and all three were babes. One was “Miss Dillon, SC”. They were also nice girls.
The one thing I don’t understand is how Sen. Graham managed to get reelected.
Military retirees. They’re sort of one issue voters, and Graham knows them well. The rest of Graham’s voting record, well, they’re not paying attention.
Thanks, Arlis,
What you wrote is so important. Consistent with conservative principles, each person or organization needs to do what it can do on an individual and personal basis.
Generally speaking, the bigger something is, the more corrupt it is and the less efficient it is.
What we need is a culture of helping others, so that individuals help others because they are compelled to, not by the state, but guided by their own values. If we have a society composed of such individuals, everything else works out... without “big,” and certainly without the state.
When individuals (who can see the results of their actions because they are individually and personally involved) make an assessment of if what they are doing helps or hurts, these individuals will come to the right conclusions. It becomes pretty obvious.
I’m glad to hear this, because I’ve been thinking about Albuquerque too. I love the homes I find on Zillow.
Weather not so moderate.
If Ecuador is so great, why are we letting so many “refugees” in here from there?
I have arthritis also and moved back to TX a few years ago.
But I hate the heat; lowers my BP and get really grouchy. I’d rather be cold and in pain (maybe).
The property tax percentage may be lower but the property valued way higher; of course I lived in the bay area so higher there than in valley.
Everything else is higher too, and the gun laws are not friendly.
You’d need to do more that “pass through several times” to have an informeed opinion.
Sounds like Juarez...
I’m just north of philly in the delaware valley and lived in NC and Spfld, MO. The humidity coming from the gulf in MO was the hardest to get used to because I didn’t use AC until last year in NC. I just soaked my head and had fans going. I get sick to my stomach at 80 and love the cold, too, good thermometer.
Maybe a dry cold or North Dakota cold would be ok, but haven’t been up there yet. I was in south TX around 45 years ago and was shocked at the dry desert heat. I loved it. Like the dry Chicago cold. Loved chicago. I can adapt to anything if I have to, I guess. Just having a choice now and prioritizing the list. My kid and new wife are in NC. ;-)
VA or NC. Take it from a retired NJ guy here at the OBX of NC. Change of seasons and a great place to retire.
Retiring there is one thing. Trying to make a living there is entirely different. The average monthly salary there is around $350. They aren't stupid people. They know, thanks to the Obama administration, that even if they have no skills or education they can come here, get on the dole and send more than $350/month back to Ecuador. If they can actually manage to land a real job, so much better. And if they can stay long enough to qualify for some sort of pension they can go back to the homeland and spend their twilight years living like royalty.
In Honolulu perhaps, there is far more to Hawaii than that.
Payson is close to the rim and the lakes and woods. If you like fishing, the lakes are stocked with trout, and Woods canyon is pretty:)
Prescott’s got Whisky Row, from the old wild west days:)
Trading places. Good deal until U.S. goes broke.
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