“possible retirement location”
These days, you have to look very carefully at what might happen to the land during your retirement. The town and surrounding countryside around Colfax, WA is covered in “No Wind Farms” signs. The wind farms are covering the gorgeous and productive agricultural land of the Palouse region in eastern Washington and they are headed toward Colfax. The people have seen these horrendous blights on the landscape, seen the flickering shadows, and heard the thrump-thrump-thrump infrasound from the blades. They don’t want it.
There's even waste processing plants going up and now folks are concerned about them polluting the environment. The locals in Cass County tried to fight the construction of one there but the local government stalled any meetings or votes due to Covid restrictions long enough the developer to finish constructing the facilities even though no formal or legal contracts had been signed. By then, "their hands were tied." The same company who forced this upon Cass County tried to construct a similar facility in another part of the state but were finally told to get lost by the locals and they won the battle in the court of law. But they saw a willing victim here locally and exploited the process long enough to get it done. Totally criminal.
I really don't want to be around this kind of stuff.