Struggling with Finding Retirement City

[dontbelievehim]

If you want to teach theater then the central valley would be a good choice. Places like Selma and Visalia would love to have you. Selma is a poor farming town that is trying to fix itself up. Nearby kingsburg is a small, safe, and charming farm town. You could live in kingsburg and drive to Selma or Visalia for work.

Here's a model of the theater they built in Selma a few years back



If your goal is to watch high quality theater, stay away. Go to Medford/Ashland immediately if watching is your main goal.
If you want to help a scene grow and leave your mark, consider kingsburg or somewhere nearby.


Some info on that theater
https://www.selmaartscenter.com/


Edit
Kingsburg housing seems to be constricted right now(slow period for sales?). Give it time to build supply up and you'll have a lot more choices to pick from.


Clovis, ca also has some charm, but it's one of the fastest growing cities in California. Not sure if you'd like to be in a place that's quickly growing.
Here's one of the cheaper homes for sale in Clovis


339k
950 sqft
https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/4...18778993_zpid/

Clovis has a brand new cancer center

[TonyaJa]

Originally Posted by CA4Now

I have a cousin who moved there from L.A. several years ago and their family loves Ashland. It looks beautiful from their pictures.

It is beautiful. And even when I lived there, a mental institution across the border was releasing patients who migrated to Ashland and that, combined with vagrancy and homelessness/panhandling made it sometimes quite unpleasant to walk around the small downtown and Lithia Park; even dangerous. I was often out in the evening going to rehearsals and performances and had to watch my back. I don't know if city leadership has cleaned it up. All I can do is check it out, which I probably will. Despite all that, there is a magic about Ashland that's undeniable.