Posted on 01/15/2018 10:57:58 AM PST by Chickensoup
The kids are grown and gone. I live in the Northeast. I am looking to move to a small city or town or village. I am healthy, happy and adaptable.
I would prefer a place that has a conservative base. Every location on the lists of best places to move are leftist s***holes.
I am hoping for a place with four seasons, albeit, not as severe as the northeast. Elevations are fine, beauty is important, and so is the need of good, friendly people.
Any ideas?
But you are still under the commie state laws since the rich populous liberal west swamps the votes of the poor conservative east.
The longer you stay in Spokane, the worse laws you will have oppressing you.
I said I hate how flat the south is generally.
That does NOT apply to SW Arkansas, which is just BEAUTIFUL.
You dont care that the commie libs are turning Virginia into a liberal state?
I had planned to move to Virginia Breach before the recent political bloodbath where the GOP lost their House majority. I never thought I would see the day.
Once Virginia goes solid commie lib, their laws and taxes will be as bad as CA or NY or WA or any of the rest of them. It may take 10 years, but mark my words. It is coming.
Cottonwood is lower in elevation (Prescott is 5100+ ft, Cottonwood around 3500) so it gets pretty hot in summer. Much smaller and spread out, I don’t like it, but that’s just me.
I’m about 8 years away. What my wife and I decided to do is have a permanent residence in a tax free state. We are then going to rent three months at a time in other places. Since we are beach people we are thinking about Florida in the spring, Jersey in the summer and doing the Northeast in the fall so we can be close to our son.
I wanted to do the Winnebago thing but the wife isn’t into it. Just going to get an Escalade or Navigator and drive.
effing dim wit
LOL
Yes, and the Boston Mountains in SE Arkansas are gorgeous too. I love SW MO Ozarks. Good people here
I am still trying to understand the logistics of snow birding or going to a vacation home 4-6 months out of the year.
You can only hold 1 month’s worth of mail, so if you don’t have someone to take in your mail regularly, how do stop 3 months of mail. Forwarding it is not cheap and then you have to revert back.
You pay for utilities, TV and internet you don’t use 3-6 months out of the year.
If you are made of money, I am sure it doesn’t matter. If you are trying not to throw money away, I am baffled how people seal their home one day and don’t come back for 3 months. Even more so, that 3 month place, you are still paying for 150 TV channels and fast internet there all year.
Then there is leaving your place unoccupied. That is a theft magnet if criminals happen to figure out your pattern, but that doesn’t worry me that much if you live in a safe neighborhood. Still, you hate to have those free newspapers pile up in your driveway. They kind of scream to criminals “Nobody has been here a while”.
Are there any other worries about leaving a place unoccupied for months at a time.
I would love to be able to live elsewhere 3 or 4 months at a time but I can’t figure out either the logistics or the funding. It seems expensive with a lot of hassle every time you leave one residence for another with all the coordination it seems you have to do.
Doesn’t Durango get regularly snowed in during winter.
At the least, you have to LOVE snow. I loved Durango in summer and poured over how I could move their in retirement, but I HATE snow and knew it would not work for me. Lucky for those who love snow.
Chiggers.
Winter here is a chance to get out and have fun. Michiganders don't mind winter. We enjoy it. When it is above zero it feels great outside. Hard to come indoors. Averages last week have been about 15 above zero and it is awesome outside. I was outside much of yesterday and loving it.
You are good one to ask then, if you live at Coastal North Carolina.
I have heard wind and flood insurance is just soaring for beach front property. That is my biggest fear. I don’t want to sink $10,000/year into insurance only to have it keep going up.
Is this urban legend or is it the reality? I would love to know.
Say I owned an 800 SQFT 1 bedroom condo on the beach. What would my wind and flood insurance be?
Thanks
Rule #1 — Always rent a year first in your new location, so if you hate it you can leave easily. NEVER buy property in your new location, where you are stuck if you hate it.
Sure, I will get responses from 1000 Freepers who loved the place where they bought in a new place. It happens too. But there is no downside to loving your new place. You would buy eventually anyway.
Ask anybody who regretted their new retirement location home a year or two later and had to completely unwind to move elsewhere.
If you rent the first year and hate it, you just drop the keys off with the landlord. Sure, you have store all your stuff for a year, but that is much cheaper than if you buy, hate it, and then have to sell again.
California used to be a great place to live. The problem is finding that great place today that will still be great 20 years from now when you die, so you don’t have to move 10 years from now because your state has become a liberal hell hole, the new laws are oppressive and the taxes are insane.
That is the trick.
Can I borrow somebody’s crystal ball please?
” Rule #1 — Always rent a year first in your new location-—”
Best advice EVER.
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How much snow do you get?
What is the worst thing about where you live?
How close is the nearest city over 100,000 people?
Well, I have to backtrack now that Virginia is a liberal state. It sucks starting the search over from scratch. Why can’t Conservatives have one of the coasts and the commie libs have the other one. The commie libs have taken all the best places and left the rest for us. We are like the American Indians, fleeing to the conservative Reservations where the commie libs don’t want to be. I hate liberals.
Have you stayed there for any extended length of time. I hear it is pretty isolated as far as surrounding cities, you have to drive for miles and miles to get to the next city.
That’s just what I hear. If you want isolation, I guess that is good. Not that you are isolated neighbor-wise. The lake looks pretty well developed with lots of housing everywhere, even as large as it is.
We rarely get snowed in but when we do it only lasts a few days in town.
This year we have had a total of about two inches in town and the surrounding mountains have way below normal snow pack. The ski areas in the southern and western part of the state are hurting.
It is just one of those rare years. But we usually have the wet spring snows coming up.
Overall, you would enjoy it here. You would be welcomed and appreciated because we need all the good people we can get.
Regards-
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