[sweetliberty]

You might consider this area. The 4-season climate is as near perfect as I've ever seen, it is a beautiful area and the cost of living is relatively low. There is an abundance of lovely and spacious properties and lots and lots of water. Check into the Baxter and Marion county areas. If you get over as far as Boone County, you're into some white supremacist territory. Any farthur to the west, and you're getting into north Mexico. Tyson brings in countless illegals that settle in the Springdale/Fayetteville area. Go too far to the east, and you get into the delta poverty belt (read: liberalland).

We're not too close to any big city, but accessible to one in every direction (2-2 1/2 hours). There is Little Rock to the south, Fayetteville to the west, Memphis to the east and Springfield to the north. I have talked with several people who came here to visit and fell in love with it and stayed...or came back, and a couple of people who ran across it by accident (browsing real estate ads) and decided to check into it and this is where they ended up.

We have our share of dysfunctional people and democrats (is there a difference?), as my other posts are testament to, but I prefer to think of them as local color, rather than public liability. It's pretty homogenous here though, so if you're big on the diversity thing, you would probably not like it. :-)

[prairiebreeze]

so if you're big on the diversity thing, you would probably not like it.

LOL!! Living around Chi-town for 18 years, I've had plenty of "diversity". Actually, I live in a very established, nice 'burb that actually has a pretty good school system. We're just a couple of farm kids who have had enough of living in proximity to a big city.

Thanks for the info, your area sounds very nice. Certainly something to keep in mind.

Prairie