[SamAdams76]

I just don’t understand conservatives living in blue places.

For me it's the job that keeps me in NYC area. The salary I earn here is much higher than I can earn most other places even when weighted for cost of living and other factors. Once my career is done, I'm looking at the Carolinas or perhaps the Tennessee/Northern Alabama area.

That might happen sooner than I planned the way things are going.

[cgbg]

Keep crunching the numbers—lower expenses are an amazing thing...

Retired now—house paid for, cars paid for—rural area with relatively low property taxes and home insurance costs—and this is in CT.

The expense numbers in the mid south should be even lower.

[Dr. Sivana]

I'm looking at the Carolinas or perhaps the Tennessee/Northern Alabama area.

After spending four years in that part of the country, I would recommend Tennessee/northern Alabama (though if you are at Huntsville or north, the southern Alabamans will regard you as a damn Yankee, regardless).

I got better reactions in southern Georgia saying I moved from Wisconsin than if I said I grew up in Connecticut.

Chattanooga is not a bad area, nor is Huntsville (from what little I've seen of it). Stay away from Birmingham. The Kentucky Fried Chicken off the highway there was like a 3rd World Country.