Old Yankee needs advice

[Monader]

Maybe I'll try Oklahoma. The only things bad there are that it is flatter than a pool table, and half the state gets blown over the rainbow every summer.

[Gandalara]

Monader -

Take a look at the Show Low/Pinetop/Lakeside area. East and south of Flagstaff.
Better winters than Flagstaff, and less expensive.

Show Low
Pinetop/Lakeside
White Mountain Independent Newspaper

[Monader]

Originally Posted by Gandalara

Monader -

Take a look at the Show Low/Pinetop/Lakeside area. East and south of Flagstaff.
Better winters than Flagstaff, and less expensive.

Thanks for the tip. I did not realize that Flagstaff is a college town. I don't want to leave one college town for another!

[buckeyenative01]

Flagstaff more or less lives and dies by NAU. This is a college town, unfortunately, and the demographics skew heavily toward college students and professors, while the rest of us are a minority.

Winter precipitation is bad, but I'm from Ohio, where it's constantly gray/dreary from November until March. As bad as Flagstaff snowstorms get (the town was established on the wrong side of the San Francisco Peaks...), it usually clears up within a day or two and the city is pretty good about getting the roads cleared. It's cold, but without the constant dreariness commonly found in the Midwest and Northeastern United States, which for many (like myself) is the great equalizer.

[Monader]

That is what I have been told - that there is a winter there, but that it is not as long and harsh as the New England variety.