Places to retire

[.455_Hunter]

I have pretty much determined that I won't do consistent over 100 temps and/or elevated humidity. That eliminates a pretty big chunk of the country. I also like being within reasonable distance of a metro area. Once again, that puts the SE WY, SW SD, Western NE region in good focus.

[Jer]

I have pretty much determined that I won't do consistent over 100 temps and/or elevated humidity. That eliminates a pretty big chunk of the country. I also like being within reasonable distance of a metro area. Once again, that puts the SE WY, SW SD, Western NE region in good focus.

I would encourage you to look elsewhere. Source: I grew up in Western Nebraska and the moment I graduated high school I couldn't get out of that area fast enough. It's far more humid than you might think, it gets hotter in the summer and colder in the winter with nowhere near as many nice weather days in between.

If that weren't already enough there's the added excitement from hail, tornadoes and mass snow storms. On top of that, there's zero commerce. I often thought I would move away, make my money and then move back to a patch of land on the lake. Now, I don't see that happening.

The reality is that whenever we go back it's just a painful reminder of why we left in the first place. We don't even visit often due to how crappy it is. The crime rate is far higher than you would expect for such a low population and density.

SE WY is just as bad but with much more wind. If you're not too far from Cheyenne at least there's some commerce but outside of that it's pretty desolate pretty quickly, which may be what you want.

(I started having deja vu while typing this so I scrolled back and sure enough, said roughly the same thing a year and half ago minus the additional meteorological & crime info)

We considered Arizona (Scottsdale area was the front runner) up until very recently but had begun having concerns. This continuing trend of increasing temps and real estate prices there coupled with the water situation that could get dire as soon as 2 years (depending on what experts you believe) has kind of moved us off of that position.

I tell you what, the more places we travel around the US to interview different locations to buy land/real estate we end up appreciating Northern Colorado more and more. We may just end up moving up in house here and calling it good w/o having two places in different areas to snow bird. We're perfectly content to wait it out where we are and see how things play out and if that takes us up to our final days (hopefully) decades from now... I think that would be alright.

[William]

I would encourage you to look elsewhere. Source: I grew up in Western Nebraska and the moment I graduated high school I couldn't get out of that area fast enough. It's far more humid than you might think, it gets hotter in the summer and colder in the winter with nowhere near as many nice weather days in between.

If that weren't already enough there's the added excitement from hail, tornadoes and mass snow storms. On top of that, there's zero commerce. I often thought I would move away, make my money and then move back to a patch of land on the lake. Now, I don't see that happening.

The reality is that whenever we go back it's just a painful reminder of why we left in the first place. We don't even visit often due to how crappy it is. The crime rate is far higher than you would expect for such a low population and density.

SE WY is just as bad but with much more wind. If you're not too far from Cheyenne at least there's some commerce but outside of that it's pretty desolate pretty quickly, which may be what you want.

(I started having deja vu while typing this so I scrolled back and sure enough, said roughly the same thing a year and half ago minus the additional meteorological & crime info)

We considered Arizona (Scottsdale area was the front runner) up until very recently but had begun having concerns. This continuing trend of increasing temps and real estate prices there coupled with the water situation that could get dire as soon as 2 years (depending on what experts you believe) has kind of moved us off of that position.

I tell you what, the more places we travel around the US to interview different locations to buy land/real estate we end up appreciating Northern Colorado more and more. We may just end up moving up in house here and calling it good w/o having two places in different areas to snow bird. We're perfectly content to wait it out where we are and see how things play out and if that takes us up to our final days (hopefully) decades from now... I think that would be alright.

Kind of my plan but in southern co/mountains. A lot to like still in Colorado.

[colorider]

I would encourage you to look elsewhere. Source: I grew up in Western Nebraska and the moment I graduated high school I couldn't get out of that area fast enough. It's far more humid than you might think, it gets hotter in the summer and colder in the winter with nowhere near as many nice weather days in between.

If that weren't already enough there's the added excitement from hail, tornadoes and mass snow storms. On top of that, there's zero commerce. I often thought I would move away, make my money and then move back to a patch of land on the lake. Now, I don't see that happening.

The reality is that whenever we go back it's just a painful reminder of why we left in the first place. We don't even visit often due to how crappy it is. The crime rate is far higher than you would expect for such a low population and density.

SE WY is just as bad but with much more wind. If you're not too far from Cheyenne at least there's some commerce but outside of that it's pretty desolate pretty quickly, which may be what you want.

(I started having deja vu while typing this so I scrolled back and sure enough, said roughly the same thing a year and half ago minus the additional meteorological & crime info)

We considered Arizona (Scottsdale area was the front runner) up until very recently but had begun having concerns. This continuing trend of increasing temps and real estate prices there coupled with the water situation that could get dire as soon as 2 years (depending on what experts you believe) has kind of moved us off of that position.

I tell you what, the more places we travel around the US to interview different locations to buy land/real estate we end up appreciating Northern Colorado more and more. We may just end up moving up in house here and calling it good w/o having two places in different areas to snow bird. We're perfectly content to wait it out where we are and see how things play out and if that takes us up to our final days (hopefully) decades from now... I think that would be alright.

The water situation in Scottsdale is real. I happen to live next door to a head honcho that is pretty much the expert regarding the Colorado River Basin. He?s been on the national news about has been hired out of retirement to work on the issue. Let?s just say, the Government doesn?t listen and keeps doing things that are a temporary fix. At best. Kind of like Biden and the oil reserves.
Back to retirement. Recently took a trip to St Joseph Missouri and also Lake Of The Ozarks. St. Joe is sleepy and ?historic?, and cheap as hell. Lake of the Ozarks is fun as hell and also not expensive. Hell, gas at the docks is cheaper than Colorado gas stations! Both places are pretty much 95% like minded. The lake is pretty much solid right leaning. Super nice people in both places. We are looking to get a house in St Joe for winter, and a lake house at Lake of Ozarks for the summer.