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

[hattend]

Hi Grampa Dave! I was raised in Redding and spent a lot of time in Crescent City/Ferndale when I was learning to hangglide.

You're right, It's a beautiful region but the downside is it is in California. If I decided to move back to California, I would probably pick Weed, Yreka, ar Weaverville. Small towns but 4 seasons.

No matter how conservative the interior of the state is, the coastal metropoli set the agenda and I don't like that agenda. (I have guns-some illegal in Kali)

[hattend]

But thats why I want all good freepers from Alaska to move here and vote actually :-)

You know, I drove through the northern portions of Arkansas way back when and it was very beautiful but I'm afraid your former governor and his bitch of a wife have spoiled Arkansas for me forever.

Now, Huckabee may just change my opinion, but it's a wait and see thing.

[sayfer bullets]

I am in total agreement. NW and NC Ark is beyond imagination. My sister lives in Siloam Springs. That's like a place out of a story book IMO.

Springdale, Rogers, or any of those in NW would be ideal for retirement. Come to think of it....Isn't BELLA VISTA some huge retirement community?

If'n I didn't have to work,...I'd be movin' and votin' too. ( I live in DFW with 5.2million folks. sheesh.)

[hattend]

I've been all over southern New Mexico and absolutely love it. That is really where I am leaning and I have already contacted some realtors in Cruces and Alamogordo.

Some of the posts about Nevada/Arizona are pulling me back onto the fence...LOL!!!

Based on everything I have read on this thread anyplace is a good place except NY, NJ, Ohio, and Maryland. U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!

:-)

[Grampa Dave]

We love the coastal area, so Crescent City appeals to us. They have become very conservative on the NW coastal areas with the exception of the Eureka/Humboldt area.

I have talked to a lot of Yreka people in the past 5 years, and they love it. It definitely has 4 seasons. Some people are moving to Weed and Dunsmuir for smaller town living, the 4 seasons and not that far from Redding for shopping. Of course if you live in Yreka, Medford is not that far away.

Good luck! Let me know where you decide to move to!

[exmarine]

I would recommend a place where the homosexual agenda and abortion agenda are considered the acceptable social norms; where there is still an objective difference between right and wrong; where Boy Scouts are still revered; where adultery and divorce are still understood to be harmful to the family; where the traditional family is not the oddball household. If you find that place, please let me know and I will go there myself.

[hattend]

If you find that place, please let me know and I will go there myself.

If only that place existed...I wouldn't have had to ask for opinions. [sigh]

[exmarine]

So true...there is no such place in this world. But the U.S. used to be such a place. Too bad we have forgotten God in America (I don't mean the pluralistic "god in god bless america" either). Ahh, to sleep, per chance to dream...

[crystalk]

Try most of south Georgia, also anyplace in Mississippi, somewhere between Hot Coffee, Miss., and Cut and Shoot, Tex. would do...maybe East Texas, east of the Houston-Dallas line...

[crystalk]

California hideaways dept.

Posters have already suggested the chilly, clammy areas that border Oregon and the Pacific, but I don't think most Californians really think that is the climate they would choose to retire in...and they would probably sooner go to Arz, Nev, even Fla, than those places...at least if they are from S. Cal.

My favorite is a little spot called Tehachapi hidden away east of Bakersfield...but that general region has others too. Then there are the not-too-far northern areas, try for elevation over 1000 but not over 3000 ft as the Sierras are ascended, anywhere from Nevada City on the N down to Sonora and on about 40 miles S of that. There is a delightful highway called Calif. 49, just stay within a 10 or 20 miles of that, and don't tell anyone you are from the Central Valley. No, you are from the Sierras or the Sierra foothills, and places like Jackson, Tuolumne,

Really, there is an area between Jackson and San Andreas, called Valley Springs, I think, or Mokolumne or something, that is good...or Auburn and Newcastle over Sacramento on the slope up the mountain.

These lovely Sierra spots can be rainy in the winter, but not snowy, and are wonderful 3 other seasons...Yet, if medical or other necessity threatens, you can quickly be in Stockton, Modesto, Condit land, Fresno, Sacramento, and the like. Costs can be much lower there than in LA or San Francisco...

In N Cal, look at hidden spots like Covelo, Comptche, Angwin, Lucerne, Lakeport, Ukiah etc...the idea is to get far enough inland for some sun and warmth in summer, but not far enough to have that hot central valley climate, much less the cold winters in and east of the Sierras.

If all else fails, just move out to Redlands or Riverside, or a few miles into Mexico ( Baja) inland from Tijuana.

If all else fails, just move to San Andreas and say it is all his fault-- you just couldn't bear to leave CA for good.

[Lurking2Long]

Shenandoah Valley, Virginia, near New Market!

[crystalk]

Yeah, I've lived there too. Heartbreakingly beautiful, but the three worst things about it are January, February, and March.

[crystalk]

If you really HAVE to leave CA, though, look at something on that long, long ole road that stretches from Austin, Tex. westward to El Paso. Fredericksburg, Marfa, Alpine, Kerrville, a dozen or two others. Some of these places are kind of remote, but they are Mexican and inexpensive, very genuine, a little touch of Anglo and German at times.

[Lurking2Long]

Don't live there, but do have occasion to pass through occasionally.

Would just love to buy one of those big old homes and start renovating...!

[southland]

North East Alabama which is close to Huntsville, Chattanooga , TN Central Tennessee, Georgia and Atlanta Yet it is rural with Low taxes inexpensive land. Affordable housing and is growing industry wise. We have a lot of water and very good fishing in the Tennessee river. We also have 4 seasons but the winter is not severe. Summer is not sultry hot like around the coast.

[exmarine]

Would that be the same Mississippi that made gambling the State industry?

[Die_Hard Conservative Lady]

Hey, that's where my husband and I are retiring! We have property in Cherokee Village on a lake, we can't wait! Beautiful area, fishing, hunting, etc.

[LN2Campy]

In general a western attitude about being independent (somewhat spoiled by the people who have moved in from socialist republics).

You know, I am really sick of the snide remarks of some people out west who think they have a lock on being freedom loving. Most Western states would still be nothing but sagebrush blowing in the wind were it not for federal water projects.

[crystalk]

No, no gambling in Hot Coffee. Better yet, try Scooby, a town that has a community college believe it or not, but nobody will ever find you there.