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Location: Small community in the California Sierra Mountains
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Just curious of the demographics of the forum.
What are the benefits to the location you chose?
Our area will be geared towards health-Proximity to trails for riding, clean air & water, accessible organic food, and hopefully, not too far from a small/ large hospital but that's not imperative.
Tennessee. Our criteria was 4 season weather with no snow shoveling or deep south humidity, low taxes, cheaper homes prices (we were from CA), access to beautiful green mountains, lakes, and rivers for hiking, photography, etc, and reasonably priced golf course communities. We wanted to be in a semi-rural area with less than 30 minute access to shopping and medical care. We got all of that and more.
Tennessee. Our criteria was 4 season weather with no snow shoveling or deep south humidity, low taxes, cheaper homes prices (we were from CA), access to beautiful green mountains, lakes, and rivers for hiking, photography, etc, and reasonably priced golf course communities. We wanted to be in a semi-rural area with less than 30 minute access to shopping and medical care. We got all of that and more.
Retired in CA. Most of CA is affordable. Just avoid LA the Bay Area and the coastal counties. We live in east CA in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Why? Beautiful land, four seasons with low humidity, friendly people, low crime, no traffic and we lived here for 14 and 17 years respectively so we got established before retiring. Why move if you like where you live? As a native Californian I saw no reason to leave the state.
We are 8 miles from a town of 5000 which has a good regional hospital plenty of good restaurants and decent shopping. One mile from a National Forest and 25 miles to a ski resort
Tennessee. Our criteria was 4 season weather with no snow shoveling or deep south humidity, low taxes, cheaper homes prices (we were from CA), access to beautiful green mountains, lakes, and rivers for hiking, photography, etc, and reasonably priced golf course communities. We wanted to be in a semi-rural area with less than 30 minute access to shopping and medical care. We got all of that and more.
room on our ranch/farm to raise livestock and veggies for our consumption (and sale at the Farmer's Markets), room for our pets and horses, relatively isolated yet accessible to major medical, an international airport, a local airstrip for our airplane, and a hard-core 4-season climate that we enjoy … even if it does present inconveniences each winter. Regional access to good fishing, trail riding, outdoor recreation of many types, and inland boating. Low humidity and cooler temps for much of the year. We prefer the low population density here, less traffic, less hurried environment … when we need big city attractions, they're not too far away.
It would be interesting to see this as a poll. I bet the most popular states now for retirement are Arizona, Florida and Tennessee, not in any particular order.
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