never got there Maggie. I am now thinking of where I will alite eventually.. I think I want the Atlantic coastal area Nag's head south to below Jax.. I really have missed the ocean during my years of caregiving mom. I need to investigate a lot of the laws/rules re: estates, taxation etc before I decide. I love Hilton Head area..and also the rural parts near Emerald Isle. I am not into busy/touristy beach areas
Friends of mine of 33 years live there, Dolly, and its proximity to Jacksonville, NC and Camp LeJeune has resulted in many Marine Corps retirees around them.
Guaranteed to be a patriotic bunch..:))
B. was a Southern Territory Sears in Atlanta type, over me when I was with them in Ft. Pierce, Florida; and he and the Southern Territory Manager (his good friend, who later went to W-S) over me "adopted" me.
My husband was transferred to Winston-Salem to manage a store there, and later we went to Greensboro, and B and his wife, D, let us use their Emerald Isle beach house gratis at the end of the week after I was hospitalized 6 1/2 days with ketoacidosis in 1982.
In 1993 after they'd retired and moved back there permanently, they had us visit them.
Their house is a block up from the beach on a bluff, not subject to a tidal surge - and with wide decks surrounding the house and glass walls on the ocean side, the views are fantastic!!
He is still active in insurance, the community (as is she) - he is on the Board and works without pay in a Medical Clinic in Morehead City for indigent/no insurance folks....both active in church, too.
Friend Pete died 3 years ago, but B and I still exchange email and family and Marine Corps things.
(He was in the Corps, too, during the Korean Conflict, but did not reenlist.)
Hilton Head?
Much too expensive cost of living now!