Retirement/relocation destination?

Lots of options mentioned in the hurricane thread from people ready to bail on Florida. One another thread one of our distinguished posters mentioned he was close to heading up to the Finger Lakes.

The Micro family is in its retire-in-place home. Paid-off one-story house, small enough we don't have to downsize, great neighbors/community, reasonable property taxes, good political climate, no real weather issues except for the annual winter/spring gloom, Micro Jr. a 2-hour plane ride away, vacation cabin only a 17-hour drive.

If you are thinking about relocating, where are you now (don't have to be too specific if you wish), and where are you thinking about going? Or even, if you could relocate, where would your ideal place be?

 

We are looking at the Traverse City area eventually.

 

Excellent pizza joint in Traverse, along with great smallmouth bass fishing. And, cherries. Nippy in winter.

 

Alabama is cheap, low property taxes, absolutely beautiful natural beauty from beaches to rivers to the foothills of the Appalachians. Lots of really nice people as well.

OTOH, low ranked education. If it's good, Al ranks low, if it's bad probably in the top ten. Politics are bottom of the barrel, although there are a couple of worse states I could name.

Our house is paid for and the neighborhood is decent. We can't figure out where we would go if we sold it and moved. I want no part of snow shovels and plugging in my engine block. Prolly be here till we leave feet first.

I suppose the biggest down side is that you'd be living in Alabama.

 

I have heard very good things about TC. Plus, they have a Northwoods League team, I think!

 

If it were anywhere, chances are it would be for a summer home in the Finger Lakes. As it is, we wind up there about twice a year anyway.

 

Southern Vermont needs some of you.

 

Golden looked like an ideal place when we visited last year.

 

Mountain View, Arkansas. It's a small town right by the White River for world-class trout fishing where they have two different "pickin' parks" where local musicians play on the weekends. Not overrun with tourists - except when the Ozark Folk Center brings in a big bluegrass act. Very affordable as well. Batesville isn't too far away for your D3 football fix at Lyon College. Biggest drawback is the distance to medical specialists, you'd have to drive about an hour for that.

 

A Facebook questionnaire we took a while back said Vermont was the perfect place for my wife. Other than having to drive her to work in the snow, I could learn to love it.