Places to retire

[arbol]

You live just north of Pheonix, right?

-John

[arbol]

While Puerto Rico is moderated by the seas, I am heading North, as a landlubber.

-John

[Great-Kazoo]

You live just north of Pheonix, right?

-John

No. We're about the same distance from the valley, as Ft. Collins is to Denver. Or as the folks down there say, We're up the hill.

Have all 4 seasons 1.5 hrs from almost every tourist / scenic area of the state. Prescott reminds us of Ft Collins, when it was a small town with no freeloading, dope smoking, give me give me, fuktard liberal.

[Ah Pook]

Prescott reminds us of Ft Collins, when it was a small town with no freeloading, dope smoking, give me give me, fuktard liberal.

Are you talking about me??

This is a fun area. Lots to do, ya just have to look a little harder.

[Great-Kazoo]

Are you talking about me??

This is a fun area. Lots to do, ya just have to look a little harder.

Yeah, i'm talking to you .

[Aloha_Shooter]

I have little choice as the family expects me to return to islands. In fact, my mother is increasing the pressure to make the return soon as she's feeling her age and I guess wants me back while she's still able to enjoy it. I guess that means I'm going to have to trim the collection and store the standard capacity magazines somewhere.

[Ripper]

I've been looking seriously at the Little Rock Area.

[.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.

[BushMasterBoy]

I've been looking seriously at the Little Rock Area.

Little Rock has one of the highest violent crime rates in the nation. I lived there from the late 70's to the middle 80's. A lot of my high school friends died violently. I'd stay out of the city limits.

[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.