feralmerril
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Thats like a kid going to a hollywood school told another boy, my dad can whup your dad. The other kid said your dad is my dad!
The ideal state for retirement?
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"Western Virginia.'
Hush up. We got enough dang Yankees 'round here.
I drove through there the beginning of last month. It's pretty nice in the Roanoke area, but I think that they get too much snow.
Actually at this point any snow is too much for me.
My kids live in Austin, TX and Baldwin County, AL. My wife and I would like to live somewhere between the two. As it happens W. Monroe, LA is almost exactly halfway between the two.
I doubt we'll be moving there, though. So, the search continues.
I think it really comes down to what you like or maybe don't like. We've both had enough of the snow and politics in the northeast. I'd move to New Hampshire, except for the cold and snow part.
I doubt we'll be moving there, though. So, the search continues.
I think it really comes down to what you like or maybe don't like. We've both had enough of the snow and politics in the northeast. I'd move to New Hampshire, except for the cold and snow part.
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Don't dismiss Florida so quickly because of the humidity in the summer. You'd be surprised how quickly you become climatized after just one summer. The only thing I dislike is the thunderstorm in the evening. There really something to behold!
yashua-p
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I don't consider Pensacola very humid. I do consider Montgomery Alabama humid; as you walk out the door in summer you are immediately wet, go inside you are chilled because of the AC. I like P'cola, we have several indoor and outdoor ranges, CC is no problem,, there are a variety of places where you can feed your habit, ah, habits.
Come on down and take a look. PS, you can find a few good seafood shops in the area, too. Between here and Panama City you will find the most beautiful beaches in the country. Come on down, take a look.
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yashua
Come on down and take a look. PS, you can find a few good seafood shops in the area, too. Between here and Panama City you will find the most beautiful beaches in the country. Come on down, take a look.
Regards,
yashua
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We retired to Arizona and after nearly 9 years we are still loving that choice. The cost and pace of living are much lower/slower (I lived in San Diego for 50 years). We live north of Tucson at 3,400' at the foot of Mt Lemon (9,300'). A recent study ranked Arizona number 4 in the most desirable states for retirees. Hard to imagine a more gun friendly state and if the great outdoors is your thing it does not get any better. Most folks don't realize how mountainous Arizona is, we have 26 peaks over 10,000' and the average elevation is over 4,000'.
The summers are hot but the Monsoon is spectacular, just started the day before yesterday, and the humidity only rises before a thunderstorm. Average humidity is 12 to 20% so anything under 100 is quite pleasant and we have very few bugs. We just spent two months on a cross country, 7,360 mile trip in our RV and you could not pay me to live back east.
The summers are hot but the Monsoon is spectacular, just started the day before yesterday, and the humidity only rises before a thunderstorm. Average humidity is 12 to 20% so anything under 100 is quite pleasant and we have very few bugs. We just spent two months on a cross country, 7,360 mile trip in our RV and you could not pay me to live back east.
I can't fathom why anyone with an outdoorsman bent and already here would ever consider moving elsewhere upon retirement when the great "Up North" is just a short drive away. World-class elk/deer hunting, small game in abundance, more fishing than just about any other state, dirt-cheap real estate, gun-friendly, etc., etc., etc.
Buck the trend and ignore the herd who head south. Go north, I say!
Buck the trend and ignore the herd who head south. Go north, I say!
feralmerril
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Yeah, but how about slapping mesquitos, gnats up your nose, putting chains on your vehicles, the mud everywhere, rust on the vehicles etc. I worked the UP two summers and W. Va, raised in wisconsin and remember it being more miserable with the humidity at 85 degerees than the west at 115. We used to go up around kenora Onterio to fish summers and the gnats made it miserable beyound belief.
Winter kind of loses its appeal after a certain age [emoji57]
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I have been to Pensacola twice, both for Navy reunions at NAS Pensacola, and enjoyed the visit both times. What I remember is driving in a car with AC and then when we stopped and I got out I couldn't see for about 5 minutes because my glasses fogged over from the humidity! Happened every time! Then the Love Bugs completely covered the windshield after driving on the freeway for about 45 minutes...guess they died happy because they always died in pairs. Two months after the reunion the hotel we stayed at on the Gulf Breeze Parkway was destroyed by a hurricane.
We'll go back for another visit someday, but I still prefer the dry heat of Arizona and calmer weather............
You guys are right. Truthfully, the last thing I want is more people moving up north here and driving up real estate prices and spoiling what's left of God's country. I need to go back to discouraging people from staying or coming here and telling them about how wonderful the swamps and deserts of the South/Southwest are instead.
Michigan is a dead-end. Go south, I say!
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feralmerril
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Somewhere I read the east is more lovely and the west more spectacular. My job took me from texas to west virginnia back around the end of winter beginning of summer back in 1964. I had already worked in the west before that, california and wyoming, raised in wisconsin. I was surprised to see mountains back there! Whats different is in the west you might be at already 5,000 feet and looking up at a 10,000 ft peak whereas in the east you might be at close to sea level looking up at 4,000 ft? peak. Also deciduous vs conifer trees.
I never will forget I was following a power line in the boonies. I could see a highway far below and made for it. At one point I came to a spot I had to slide down on my butt to reach. I slid into dogpatch! There was a couple of kids playing in front of a log shack on about a 800 sq ft level spot clinging on the side of a mountain with no road or driveway to it. A very heavy poor dirty uneducated type woman was sitting on the doorstep smoking a pipe. I tried to talk to her but for whatever reason she couldnt answer me but just kept rocking, smiling toothlessly and smoking. It was a school day and the kids weren't in school. I did a little better with a boy. Asked him how do you get down to the road? He showed me a path that I litteraly had to again slide down on my butt to get down. There was no earthly way that woman could have climbed up there. I figured her "man" must have took her up there before she got heavy. I suppose he worked somewhere all week and would come home with a tote sack of groceries bi weekly or so. I wonder if Appalachia and the south still has some of that?
I had a cheap un AC apartment and recall sweating like a hog. No thanks! It was as quaint as could be imagined and similar to deliverance. Is any of that type life left back there like that?
I never will forget I was following a power line in the boonies. I could see a highway far below and made for it. At one point I came to a spot I had to slide down on my butt to reach. I slid into dogpatch! There was a couple of kids playing in front of a log shack on about a 800 sq ft level spot clinging on the side of a mountain with no road or driveway to it. A very heavy poor dirty uneducated type woman was sitting on the doorstep smoking a pipe. I tried to talk to her but for whatever reason she couldnt answer me but just kept rocking, smiling toothlessly and smoking. It was a school day and the kids weren't in school. I did a little better with a boy. Asked him how do you get down to the road? He showed me a path that I litteraly had to again slide down on my butt to get down. There was no earthly way that woman could have climbed up there. I figured her "man" must have took her up there before she got heavy. I suppose he worked somewhere all week and would come home with a tote sack of groceries bi weekly or so. I wonder if Appalachia and the south still has some of that?
I had a cheap un AC apartment and recall sweating like a hog. No thanks! It was as quaint as could be imagined and similar to deliverance. Is any of that type life left back there like that?
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Someone mentioned NH from purely a tax standpoint but otherwise its a beautiful place to live and ranked highly in terms of quality of life, education, healthiness, low crime etc..Politically, there are still many freedom loving patriots there as well.
I'm hoping to follow my parents lead when I retire - somewhere sunny and nice for the winter and back to the coastal summer house in NH for the summer months.
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I'm hoping to follow my parents lead when I retire - somewhere sunny and nice for the winter and back to the coastal summer house in NH for the summer months.
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MOTOR HOME !
If you don't like the region/weather/people of one place--start engine and go elsewhere.
If you don't like the region/weather/people of one place--start engine and go elsewhere.
Home is where you make it...
Appalachian health care: http://abcnews.go.com/Health/mobile-free-clinic-brings-health-care-uss-underserved/story?id=20016498
http://youtu.be/st5mo4siHJ8
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It's all like that. It's best to stay up Nawth!
I gotta recommend Texas. Down by the gulf coast it IS humid but up in the north central part of the state (where I am right now) it's great. It gets a little colder up here than it does down by the coast but you don't have to plug your car in at night to keep your motor oil from freezing. Out west is hot and dry. Mater of fact we have something for every one. Farm country, Hill country, desert, coastal, piny woods...you name it and we got it.
Out west is hot and dry. Mater of fact we have something for every one. Farm country, Hill country, desert, coastal, piny woods...you name it and we got it. feralmerril
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I had 10 acres of raw mountainside land in northern California near Portola and lake davis. It`s 50 miles NW of Reno. I love the area but when push came to shove I sold it. I didnt like california politics and gun laws. Were it not for that northern califonia was and still is my first choice. Too bad a few liberal citys control the rest of california. I am so sick of hearing about "californians dont come here" etc. You couldnt prove it by me. Just about the majority of my friends that I worked with were conservative redneck republicans. But then I was in aircraft security and most that I worked with were retired military and LEO on their second career. I guess water seeks its own level. I just never could believe the state voted liberal from my viewpoint as I didnt know but a couple libs.
Geographically speaking I think its hard to beat the coast and northern california. Politics and property prices makes it far down the list though.
The funny thing was I didnt hardly know any native californians. Most every worker I knew came from someplace else. I like it around carson city too.
Geographically speaking I think its hard to beat the coast and northern california. Politics and property prices makes it far down the list though.
The funny thing was I didnt hardly know any native californians. Most every worker I knew came from someplace else. I like it around carson city too.
Having lived in both places, AZ and FL, I would say there is no place in FL that doesn't have high humidity. Actually there are very few places on the east coast that don't have high humidity. You have to have a desert to have low humidity, I didn't see any of those in my travels in the eastern states. To give an example, some places in AZ have what I consider to be high humidity. Those would be where the desert has turned green and crops are growing.
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