Where abouts you from? My proposed retirement destinations have always been a small cabin in the Montana wilderness, somewhere in Texas, or a small island out in the middle of the Pacific, not necessarily in that order.
What we call Deep East Texas. A very small town called Sour Lake. Of course that covers a huge swath of Hardin County since your address is determined by which post office handles your mail. If I were moving here new, I would prefer further north along the east side of Texas. Up around Jasper and north it turns to rolling hills (mostly very low hills) as opposed to our rice paddy land here in the deep. If you're looking at more of the hill country though, you must at least see the area around Garner State Park which is west of San Antonio.