Places to retire

[encorehunter]

I'm still about 8 years from retiring, but we are starting to look at places we want to relocate to. I have always wanted to move to the Kenai peninsula Alaska, but dealing with snow and long winters is not looking as inviting. I mentioned Washington to my wife, and she is all about it. She lived there for several years, talks about all the fruit trees and how green it is. She says you can grow almost anything in western Washington.
I am liking the idea of being able to fish a lot, there is deer, elk, bear and cougar hunting, along with small game. We can drive the pickup onto the ferry and be in Alaska in a day or two.
Oregon may be on the list as well, so it is an option. I am ruling out the east coast due to hurricanes and such. Texas taxes are t the greatest. My uncle has a ranch there we can go to whenever we would like. California is out as I have too many of those bad black guns that kill people. I haven't looked into moving out of the US very much.
Any suggestions to look into? We may be buying the house in the next year or two, have a management company rent it out for us to offset some of the costs.

[10x]

Oregon and Washington are green inmany areas. You will find those states as liberal as Cal with nearly as many gun restrictions. That us why we call it the left coast.

[ray1970]

The Pacific Northwest is a beautiful place. I?ve spent weeks in Washington and Oregon and while they are nice places to visit I wouldn't want to live there.

There are places in Arizona that appeal to me so if I could convince my wife to go I'd probably head that way.

[longrange2]

We are about the same number of years out from retirement. We are thinking MT, WY, or ID and then spending a month or two in AZ during the winter, either RV or buy a small condo. I love Alaska in the summer but not sure I’d be in for the winters. WA is a no go for me with their gun control

[Great-Kazoo]

We are about the same number of years out from retirement. We are thinking MT, WY, or ID and then spending a month or two in AZ during the winter, either RV or buy a small condo. I love Alaska in the summer but not sure I’d be in for the winters. WA is a no go for me with their gun control

FYI: The snow birds who move to warmer parts of AZ, for retirement. Later become sun birds, moving to this area (quad cities) for the summer. The funny part is as we get towards the end of aug, 1st part of sept. They migrate back to the valley, or tucson, yuma areas. Saying it's too cold for them up here. Keeping in mind the temps start dropping to the low 70's. overnight .

[bradbn4]

Some of the best looking land I found to live in are in states I don't think I would much more than visit for a few days.
Sometimes it is finding / building the right house for the location. For example; near hurricane / tornado areas I sort of
want a cement "yurt" - that is on high ground to prevent flooding - and can shrug off high winds with ease.

Sometimes I find a place I like, just to find out zero chance for water or power. Other times too many digits. The last one
I spotted was good on price, location, infrastructure. There was just a small problem it was over 10k+ in altitude. Thin air,
with nothing you could grow with out a lot of TLC + green house.

Good choices for MT, WY, ID, and toss in maybe South Dakota as a possible choice...I am still looking at Texas as a possible option when I long for a garden.

[rondog]

Any thoughts about North Carolina?

[Linkless]

Check property taxes as you will never be able to avoid them. A coworkers parents live in western washington and about to relocate as the property taxes are sky rocketing.

[ruthabagah]

Well, I am almost to the 10 year mark where I need to make the decision as to where to retire and I pretty much eliminated every single states... Now looking at canada or Europe.... Cost and quality of Healthcare are pretty much #1 on my list, so not finding this here. I will definitely miss my life here and it will be a different experience for my wife who never lived abroad.

[Gman]

I'm curious to hear about the WA gun control that you think is so bad? In some ways it's less restrictive than CO (no mag restrictions...yet).

The lefties keep trying every year, but the 2A supporters are very organized and the right to keep and bear arms is in the state constitution.

They have managed to restrict the purchase of semiautomatic rifles requiring a proof of training certificate. Due to volunteer efforts (and poor lawmaking skills of politicians), you can watch a video online and print your certificate for free.

There are places that are less restrictive, but this isn't California.

(Edited to fix Tapatalk punctuation issues)