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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Ah, I was stationed in Tyndall in 1957.
That entire Gulf coast was better then than it is now and not a muzzie in thousands of miles.
Ever caught a sea turtle, kill it, roll the meat in batter and deep-fry it and not land in jail?
Ah, I can tell you stories about this country.....
I’d better not because I would probably not be able to stop crying, if I did.
“Costco, Home Depot, Lowes, and Sears, two in-town casinos.”
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No Bloomingdale’s,Saks,or Nordstrom?
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Here is a challenge for all of you...
What location would you recommend for an elderly widow? I have children, but they are spread out all over, and are too busy with their own lives to even remember to call. I do not want to be a whiny old woman, so I let it be.
Presently, I am in Minnesota, because I have a son here, but he has a very demanding job in a tough economy, and I haven’t seen him since the obligatory visit at Christmas. He cares, but his life is too complicated at the present.
I would really like Arkansas - cost of living seems low, which is good for those of us living on very limited incomes, and the climate must be better than Minnesota!
But, I would be alone and without a support system in an emergency.
Should I stay in the frozen north, or take my chances at finding a hospitable community in a state with better weather at this stage of my life?
Agreed. We have dust storms, snow storms, tornados out the wazooo in the Panhandle. We have every poison snake -- rattlesnakes, cotton mouths, copperheads, and corals. Also feral hogs which will stampede you and chew you into bloody bits.
Hurricanes assail the Gulf coast. Did I mention the snakes? Also spiders, mosquitos, hornets, gnats, mayflies, and house flies. Poison ivy hangs from most trees. We even have alligators that swim up the rivers as far north as Dallas.
Naw. You don't even wanna move to Texas. Ever.
Oh sure, Phoenix looks like LA would after that water was turned off for 3 months...The place would be dead, tumble weed city. I went through Phoenix several times, and the place looks like a miniature LA after a nuke hit.
No offense though, I'm sure you live in a nice place.
Plus a short drive to the San Francisco Peaks, White Mountains, Mogollon Rim, Grand Canyon, Painted Desert, Sedona, Monument Valley...and a bit further to Zion and Bryce. God’s Country.
One place I visited in the 90s that I liked was Grenada. No slums, lots of land. The government gives everyone a parcel and a water hookup and they build their own house, and there’s stuff growing everywhere that’s good to eat. No welfare for able bodied people, if you can’t find a job you can work for the government fixing the roads. Most people find something else. And they even had pictures of Ronald Reagan hanging in the stores.
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Thanksgiving Day in Grenada remembers the US invasion and liberation. Reagan took a lot of heat for that, but in the end, he was right.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving#Grenada
best retirement places are places where your family and your friends and your church life is....
STick together....maybe we'll get back to real inter generational families that help each other...
you can't buy that in Costa Rica if all your kids and grandkids are here....
SE Kentucky is VERY insular. If you aren’t from there, not only are you an outsider, you’re also not kin. Such a status could make for a very “interesting” existence. SE Kentucky is probably the LAST place I would ever consider living. Pretty much the entire population lives off of government handouts to some degree (welfare, and LOTS of folks there are on some kind of disability) and lawsuits. It is a very depressing place if you’re not originally from there (and if you’re not originally from there you’ll never be truly welcome there). Really, it is a feudal place.
Some friends!
NE Oklahoma is pretty nice indeed.
I disagree. Payson is terrible, just terrible. You would hate it there. Go to Prescott.
-PJ
We love central Kentucky. 4 seasons (we are former Floridians, could no longer take the endless, sweltering summers). Stay at or below the Bluegrass Parkway and we don’t get very much snow. Nothing like further east.
Extremely gun friendly state. Louisville is a nice city, but rather liberal politically. Lexington is nasty urban sprawl, PITA to get around. But the area in between is quite nice & rural.
Eglin, Ft. Walton Beach, Florida. Right on the white sand turquoise green Gulf. Decent cost of living. Good weather, good gun laws. No state income tax. Lots to do.
Forgot to mention Uruguay. My daughter loved it there. Did a lot of research on the country, said she would certainly live there.
“Idaho.”
California has its eyes on you next. They targeted and really screwed up Colorado, and are trying their damnedest to do the same to Montana.
Drove NW once out of NW South Carolina through the southern Smokies into eastern Tennessee and David Crockett’s birthplace in Limestone.
Wow, that is some beautiful country.
I’d run like hell away from Minnesota. Arkansas would be a good destination. So would Tennessee (but stay away from Memphis). Mississippi is certainly a good choice.
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