Places to retire

[battlemidget]

It’s worth a mention that there is a higher than average rate of Hansen’s disease (Leprosy) in Brevard county.

[brutal]

If you can handle the weather - I couldn't take a steady diet of it - my kids love it in San Antonio. Cheap housing, no state income tax (though prop taxes are high).


My pipe dream is to live between GK and OBC in AZ, but that's not likely to happen...

[MarkCO]

The grass is always greener comes to mind.

I don't know about anyone else, but I do want to be within an hour drive of good sporting clays and someplace I can shoot out to 1000 if I can't do it on my own land. I pistol berm is an absolute necessity. Maybe it is just get far enough away from the 1-25 corridor. I am still liking SD though.

[colorider]

All I know is that when I retire, snow is not going to be in the picture. Neither are the cold ass months.

[Great-Kazoo]

All I know is that when I retire, snow is not going to be in the picture. Neither are the cold ass months.

Same thing the spouse said. Which ruled out Emmet ID and other surrounding small ID towns.

SO we moved down here,.

New Years Day 3 years ago. Light snow fall, lasted all day, and night. Woke up to 2-3+ ' of snow. With 3+ drifts along out buildings. It's windy like WY, has 4 seasons and same altitude as it was in NoCo. BUT...I'm not tripping over dope smoking, freeloading bums every 5'. Inundated with leftist mentality, tolerant & diverse hypocrites

10 min tops i'm off road, hunting in the state, from southern border to UT.

Multiple recreation spots for anything. Regarding fishing, not my wheelhouse, BUT Havasu is 3ish hrs from us. Powell 3.5 hrs, too.

Lic plates are paid for in either 1-3 or 5 yr increments. Trailers are a 1 time lic plate purchase. 3 vehicles & 1 trailer cost us less than 1 vehicle in CO.

Gun sales are FTF, same at shows. A CCW gets you in & out of a ffl in under 10 min, if not less. Depending how busy they are.

We live in a small town with minimal amenities. However that's what we looked for. We wanted small town, minimal freeloaders, some space between neighbors (1ac + lots) gun friendly. WIth a hospital within a 30-45 min drive.

Is AZ or some other state for you, who knows? I've found you gravitate to like minded people wherever you go. The only thing that changes is the accent and lic plates.

I suggest one does their homework before relocating. What is the tax rate, how's property taxes, schools, if you have kids, how far away are emergency services, when needed. Water supply, are you on city water & sewage, or well & septic. How deeps the well and what's the recovery rate? We're at 60 gpm, others 10gpm, requiring storage tanks.

. If a small town, how mechanical are you, as compared to someone who's lived in a townhome all their life, with other people for fixing things.

We needed a new well drilled. Learned a lot about the working of it and different pumps. BUT i'm mechanically knowledgeable as the wife, who also picked up a few things too.

As we've seen here. City / urban folks move to rural areas. Expecting paved roads and all the amenities they had in LA, Denver etc. OR buy acreage then wonder. Does anyone know someone who will mow my property?

[.455_Hunter]

We are looking at SD, ID and TN as possible locations. Possibly AZ in the mountains.

I see you are listed as NW of Fort Collins. Roughly how far- 287/Laporte suburbs or back in the hills? Beyond the normal Colorado issues (magazines, UBC, etc.) what is specifically negative about your current area?

[BushMasterBoy]

Last years trend. If it wasn't for the volcano and poison gas, I'd be in Hawaii!

[Gman]

Is AZ or some other state for you, who knows? I've found you gravitate to like minded people wherever you go. The only thing that changes is the accent and lic plates.

Isn't that the truth. In our legislative district, our state senator and both reps are Republicans. Doesn't mean much in the overall scheme, but you know you're not alone.

[Aloha_Shooter]

I have been looking at places like this. Big enough to grow whatever you want, oranges, apples, etc. Close enough to the ocean to use my Boston Whaler. Inland enough, hurricanes won't flood. So many high tech jobs with Spacex, Terran Orbital, etc. and still some reasonable home prices.

https://www.realtor.com/realestatean...6_M53826-78495

Bear in mind that the further inland you go, the less you will get ocean breezes to cool off in the summer. Of course, you're spared the problems of being trapped on the barrier island if/when the bridges are closed. There is a reason that house is on stilts and it's not to give you a great view of the surrounding countryside. Having said that, I liked the attitude of the local sheriff when I was living in Brevard County (NOT to be confused with Broward which was a s--t show) and the afternoon rains helped keep the place cooler than Orlando.

[BlasterBob]

We retired in 1995 and moved from Naperville (Chicago area) to southern Colorado - Trinidad. Back then Trinidad was still a VERY friendly little town where meeting someone on the sidewalk down town, they?d almost always greet us with a smile and a ?Hi?. Had a little 35 acre ?Ranchette? outside of town with NO close by neighbors and CO was very gun friendly back then. After exactly 20 years of real happiness out there, we moved back to Central Illinois (NOT) the Chicago area. Sure glad we got out of Trinidad with all their current crime, Pot shops and Hobos/Panhandlers. Moved back to Illinois (rust belt of the Nation) for health reasons and to be real close to our offspring. Upside here is that we have plenty of excellent medical facilities that Trinidad did not have to offer.and that is important as I am coming up on 86 years old. Another plus of that southern Colorado location was being only 20+ minutes from NRA Whittington Center. WE DO MISS COLORADO.