seniors relocating to Ohio (Youngstown, Warren: home, where to live, prices)

[RetiredTexan]

We moved to Texas from Pennsylvania 20 years ago when my husband retired ... we are now looking to move back to home territory (OH or PA area), and would like to be no farther than an hour away from daughter and granddaughter in Warren, OH. Would like to stay away from as much snow as possible and would like a town/city of no more than 30,000-40,000. Any suggestions?

[Buckeye in SC]

Originally Posted by RetiredTexan

We moved to Texas from Pennsylvania 20 years ago when my husband retired ... we are now looking to move back to home territory (OH or PA area), and would like to be no farther than an hour away from daughter and granddaughter in Warren, OH. Would like to stay away from as much snow as possible and would like a town/city of no more than 30,000-40,000. Any suggestions?

Well, you are going to have snow anywhere you move within an hour of Warren, however, you will want to avoid any point north of there as the closer to the lake you go, the more lake effect snow you will get which is substantially more than areas outside of the snow belt to the south. The farther south you go, the less snow you will get, although any difference will be minimal between those places. You might want to look at a town like Canfield, very quaint and quiet, probably 20 minutes or so south of Warren. Boardman is larger and sits just east of Canfield; Salem is also a pretty nice little town (around 13,000 I think), it's probably 40 minutes or so south of Warren. Those are probably your best bets.

[CortlandGirl79]

Like the other poster said, location isn't going to make much of a difference when it comes to snow. I live in Warren and sometimes we get a lot of snow and Youngstown/Columbiana doesn't and then sometimes they get a lot and we don't. Last winter the Youngstown area had something like 95 or 100 inches of snow which was a record. Normally the Warren/Youngstown metro gets around 50 inches or so. Of course not all of the white stuff comes down at once. Most of the time we get a couple inches here and there, then it melts, then it snows again, the process is ongoing.

As for where to live in the Mahoning or Shenango Valleys, maybe you could answer some questions for us. What is your prices range?? how close to shopping do you want to be?? Would you like a small town, suburb, rural area???? There really aren't many areas that have over 30,000 people around here. Do you want a big yard, sidewalks, etc?

I know a lot of retirees like to live on golf courses and there are plenty of those types of communities in the area too.