Freeper Suggestions on Where to Retire

Me | 4 Dec 2001 | Me

[hattend]

I am looking for suggestions from FReepers in lower 48 for city/state recommendations on where to retire.

I have pretty much decided on the western US (excluding the Pacific Coast states) and would lean to the southwestern states. I would stay in Alaska but I am tired of the long winter nights.

Would prefer acreage but you can try to convince me to live in town. :-)

If you know of any on-line newspaper links that have the classified, a URL would be appreciated.

Thanks
Don

[LostTribe]

>Prescott Arizona

Owned a townhouse within walking distance of the airport for 10 years. 1:30 flight by Mooney from San Diego. Loved it for 3 seasons, but even winter wasn't too bad.

[Tailback]

whoa, hate to tell you this but Oregon has income taxes. I'm hoping to retire to Nevada or the South when I retire, wherever the shooting is good and there is low or no property tax.

[1 FELLOW FREEPER]

Nevada is IT

[Enough is ENOUGH]

I visited a relative in Tucson. Nice area but just don't lean back against your car unless you want your a$$ fried.

[wtc911]

As I said...no offense taken. I'm certain none was meant. Come visit again....we're still here.

[asneditor]

Port Aransas, Texas. Right on the beautiful Gulf of Mexico!

[Boxsford]

I love their motto: Live Free or Die. Isn't that great??

Are you really from Mt. Vernon? We visited there this past summer. It was great going to Geo.'s homestead.

[Nea Wood]

5. California, I would avoid it unless I already lived there, in which case there are some hideaways.

Please feel free to elaborate on where those hideaways are! I love the weather here in California, but have been fearing I'd have to move, as it is getting more and more unsafe and unlivable here.

[xzins]

I've been out west, but Appalachia (any state) is the most beautiful region in the nation. Property prices, food prices, cost of living in general is the lowest in the nation.

Driving from LA to Texas on I40, it was barren wasteland through Arizona, then quasi desert until Oklahoma. Driving north to south from Las Vegas to Sacramento CA, it was wasteland the entire way. Not having seen the northwest, but hearing that they do have vegetation, then I can only assume that's the part of the west to which you refer.

Can't figure why we fought the Apache's for those deserts.

[LostTribe]

>Can't figure why we fought the Apache's for those deserts.

Gotta get those glasses changed. Must have been looking for the wrong thing.

I once looked at property but did not buy it, even though the price was right, because it didn't look good enough to raise corn and soybeans on. Several years later a hotel/resort went up on the property.

[westmex]

Gringos can own property in Mexico...Fee simple inland and away from border. By bank trust in the restricted zone...

[des]

You mean HILLARY! of course, and I can personally guarantee she won't be back!

[RedBloodedAmerican]

Florida. You get to vote twice.

[SwankyC]

Would prefer acreage but you can try to convince me to live in town. :-)

If you want acreage and 4 good seasons, Middle west New Mexico, south of Albuquerque. Email me If you want more info

[andysandmikesmom]

Thanks a lot for that information...I have seen those escort cars, and just assumed that they worked for the company moving the oversized load....so this is a very useful piece of information...I will be sure to mention it to my husband...it certainly opens up our options...thanks....

[xzins]

Yeah, you're probably right....all in the eye of the beholder. Anyway, I drove from LasVegas up to Reno on something like 93 or 95 (?). Along the way, except for a few extremely small towns, over a journey of maybe 300 miles along a wide well-built road I saw only a handful of houses....maybe 10 at the most.

Why would only 10 families have homes alongside a 300 mile long road?

It was barren desert.

But I guess the folks who lived there loved it. All in the eye of the beholder. But I'll bet a lot more "beholders" would see the beauty of our Appalachian states than would see the beauty of the desert.

[FITZ]

New Mexico has the best weather if you like seasons but none that are too extreme --summers are warm but not hot or muggy, in winter you can always find snow in the mountains and sometimes the deserts too and it's very affordable, Las Cruces is nice if you like bigger cities but there are many nice small towns too.

[nagdt]

Hill Country in South Central Texas. Marble Falls/Burnet/Johnson City. The filet mignon of Texas.

[breakem]

thanx, someone corrected me earlier and said no sales tax.

[LostTribe]

>It was barren desert.

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. But your reaction is a common one among those seeing the desert for the first time. If you think only green is pretty, and are looking for green, it is not pretty.