Where to Move? Time to Retire and Find a New Life.

01.15.18 | chickensoup

[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?

[laplata]

Come to Durango. We need more good people.

[Skooz]

bump in case I can ever retire

[bert]

Jefferson City, Tennessee. Small, college town, Easy drive to Morristown or to even larger Knoxville. It is in real farming country. It is tranquil and conservative

There are lots of other East Tennessee locations including where I live in the Tri Cities.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_City,_Tennessee

[Mercat]

Good teams if you’re into that.

[Mercat]

Our neighbors moved here from CA and they love it. Retired.

[TomServo]

TEXAS FOREVER!!!

[SgtHooper]

Utah, Idaho, Western Montana, and Northern Nevada are good choices. Wyoming might be a good pick, but I prefer land with character such as hills, trees, bigger hills, flowing water, etc., which should be there. I believe the politics there are favorable as well.

Texas is hot and has fire ants all over hell. Northeast Texas sucks. If you want to enjoy your yard, grasslands, check on the migration of fire ants, and stay north. Fire ants can make life miserable. Forget about walking your yard in bare feet, or laying on a blanket under a nice shade tree with the dam ants around.

[Kenny500c]

Indiana, outside of South Bend. Close to Lake Michigan (30 miles) low cost of living including real estate, and very conservative.

[hardspunned]

Asheville, Raleigh ,Durham, Charlotte. Maybe I’m a little jaded by Asheville. My wife and I love the blue ridge parkway and Mt Mitchell in particular. We considered moving to Asheville until we checked out the city. Pretty new age if you ask me.

[FatherofFive]

Tulsa Oklahoma

[HotHunt]

My experience is the opposite.

My wife and I lived in the suburbs of KC when she was stationed at Richards-Gebauer AFB before it closed. We had a fire in the house, no air conditioning in a sweltering summer, a tornado ravaged our neighborhood, we had a record rainfall that flooded the Country Club Plaza under 20 feet of water and had a blizzard that dropped 13" of snow on Mother's Day in the middle of May.

I grew up in Arizona and went to my 50th high school reunion last year. We all marveled at how fortunate we were to grow up there before everyone else in the country found out about it and started to ruin it.

Arizona is hot but KC was a rolling disaster the time we lived there.

[KC Burke]

LOL.

What did I say about “all four distinct seasons of the year?”

There are worse and better examples but for all in one, the Kansas City area has the best and worst of each at certain times. I remember that night of the Plaza flood and at about ten the television said that the police were requesting anyone with small boats to make them available for water rescues.

Others should keep in mind that this is one of the oldest, most expensive and most famous shopping districts in the US. When you see famous pictures of Kansas City Christmas Lights and fountains, it is often the Country Club Plaza which is miles from the major rivers. It had a flash flood of epic proportions, hopefully to never happen again.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Although it gets a bad rap at times, I really enjoy being here in New Mexico. Mrs. Slim and I moved from Albuquerque to the East Mountains in 1995 and it's been great. You can live in a rural setting but be 20 minutes from the city.

I've found the people to be friendly, and out here the community is small enough that if you get introduced to folks by a local, you suddenly have a whole ton of friends.

The summer only has a few really hot days, and it's rare it doesn't cool off enough at night to sleep with a light quilt. Winters can have snow, but the New Mexico sun and low humidity keep if from having that "damp" cold, I can probably count below zero days on one hand.

Fire is about the only real danger, but in all my years here, only been evacuated once for about 4 days.

I'm "semi-retired" in that I was able to quit my in-town job and got to work at a nearby ranch/shooting range about 6 miles away.

Here is my "office".

[Bodleian_Girl]

Huntsville, Alabama.

[CIB-173RDABN]

All good advice for those still looking at 10 to 20 years before retiring.

[SgtHooper]

Central Ohio is beautiful! I know.

[jch10]

Please move to Florida! We need conservatives here! No income tax, NE and NW Florida have lower crime rates and are more conservative than the rest of the state. Property taxes are lower too.

They are trying to turn us into a purple state!

[1217Chic]

Eastern NH....Great Bay....Seacost.....Close to Maine....beautiful.....

[SgtHooper]

Never lived in New Mexico, but travelled there on biz extensively. Although a blue bastion politically, filled with rats, it is prolly near the top of the my list for beauty, weather, and food. But I only visit, anymore, as I am already where I want to be. Ohio.

[JimRed]

To quote Tim Russert, “Florida, Florida, Florida”.

When I (now 74) was a kid I first heard Florida called "God's waiting room".